Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
CIA Threatened to Kill Detainee Families
August 25th, 2009Until the early 1980s, the U.S. military ran an intelligence training program in Latin America and elsewhere using manuals that taught foreign officers to offer bounties for captured or killed insurgents, spy on nonviolent political opponents, kidnap rebels’ family members and blackmail unwanted informants, according to recently declassified Army and Defense Department documents. The manuals, […]
Goldman Sachs “Trading Huddles”
August 25th, 2009I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: Securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in which research analysts […]
Fed Must Release Reports on Emergency Bank Loans, Judge Says
August 25th, 2009In other news, Obama to Nominate Bernanke for Second Term as Fed Chief. Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve must make records about emergency lending to financial institutions public within five days because it failed to convince a judge the documents should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta […]
Massachusetts: $1,000 Fine Per Day, 30 Days Prison for Refusing to Obey State Officials During Swine Flu “Emergency”
August 24th, 2009Legislation: AN ACT RELATIVE TO PANDEMIC AND DISASTER PREPARATION AND RESPONSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
Madoff Dying of Cancer?
August 24th, 2009Update: Bureau of Prisons Denies Madoff Has Cancer Via: Reuters: Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources. Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence […]
Megrahi Will Accuse an American of Carrying Out Lockerbie Bombing
August 24th, 2009UPDATE: From 2008: Was Lockerbie Suspect Working for US? —End Update— I can’t find any other articles about this latest wrinkle to the story. I don’t know how much of this is credible, but it makes for an interesting read in any event. Via: Daily Express: AN AMERICAN citizen is to be named by the […]
CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassination Program
August 21st, 2009“Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name.” —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency I’ve asserted (for years) that Blackwater was a CIA contractor. Now that Blackwater’s involvement with CIA covert assassination programs has been admitted, my guess is that it’s […]
Arctic Sea Was in Russian Port for Two Weeks Just Before Voyage
August 20th, 2009Via: Reuters: The hijackers of a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of France threatened to blow it up if their ransom demands were not met, Russian news agencies said. Russia has arrested eight people on suspicion of hijacking the Arctic Sea off the Swedish coast and sailing it to the Atlantic Ocean, ending […]
Taliban Funding Comes Primarily from the U.S.
August 17th, 2009Via: Global Post: It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, […]
And Now… “Finland Denies Missing Ship Carries Nuclear Material”
August 17th, 2009Suitable for framing. Via: AFP: Finland denies missing ship carries nuclear material By Orlando Rodrigues (AFP) PRAIA — Finnish authorities dismissed talk Sunday that the Arctic Sea was bearing a cargo of nuclear material, as Russia and NATO joined forces in an international hunt for the missing vessel. Jukka Laaksonen, head of the Finnish Radiation […]
