Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
MI6 Scrapped Major Drug Operation After Data Loss
April 28th, 2009Via: IT News: The UK’s MI6 had to abandon a multimillion pound covert anti-drugs operation after it lost a memory stick containing the project’s top secret information. The data was lost in 2006 by a female agent, known only as ‘T’, but was only confirmed by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on Saturday. MI6 […]
Dozens of CIA “Ghost Prisoners” Missing
April 27th, 2009Via: IPS: At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful. The story of these “ghost prisoners” was comprehensively documented last week by Pro Publica, an online investigative journalism group. In September […]
NSA Wiretap Recorded Jane Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC; Gonzales Intervened
April 20th, 2009The most remarkable thing, in my opinion, is that everyone concerned was talking about this stuff over the phone?! But wait for it… Alberto Gonzales intervened. Oh man, this is fantastic. True bipartisanship! Via: Congressional Quarterly: Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap […]
Obama Exempts CIA Torture Staff from Prosecution
April 17th, 2009Just following orders. Via: BBC: US President Barack Obama says CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted. Mr Obama banned the use of methods such as sleep deprivation and simulated drowning in his first week in office. He has now released four memos detailing […]
And the Black World Said: Let There Be Light and PG&E Agreed to Buy Orbit-Generated Electricity from Solaren in 2016
April 14th, 2009Ah yes, large satellites will beam vast amounts of clean energy from the sun to earth, 24/7, base load style. Let’s try to look past the headlines… First of all, this idea isn’t quite as old as the hills, but it’s at least several decades old, depending on what you consider to be the origin […]
U.S. Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
April 6th, 2009Via: The Nation: In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an “Israeli lobby,” a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate. The ambassador, John Gunther Dean, writes that over the years he not only came […]
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 5th, 2009Via: Global Research: We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample […]
Bill Moyers with William K. Black
April 5th, 2009Via: PBS: BILL MOYERS: Is it possible that these complex instruments were deliberately created so swindlers could exploit them? WILLIAM K. BLACK: Oh, absolutely. This stuff, the exotic stuff that you’re talking about was created out of things like liars’ loans, that were known to be extraordinarily bad. And now it was getting triple-A ratings. […]
Art Nadel’s ‘Ponzi Pal’ Linked to 5-Ton Coke Bust
April 3rd, 2009Via: Mad Cow Productions: A hedge fund partner of accused Ponzi Fraudster Arthur G. Nadel, the current owner of what used to be terror flight school Huffman Aviation, was well-known in the New York Tri-State area as the “Garbage King of New Jersey,” the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Louis D. Paolino is also involved in the […]
Max Keiser on Bankers Bonuses… And Heroin
April 1st, 2009You guys will love this. Via: Solari: Max Keiser: ….they (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan et al) are systematically undermining the entire system. They are creating a mechanism to carve out equity and capital for themselves at the expense of society at large. So in the United States, unemployment is skyrocketing. The uninsured is skyrocketing. The […]
