Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Who Is Going to Lend the U.S. $2 Trillion?
January 23rd, 2009Guys, I dunno. There are far more questions than answers here. On the one hand, you might think, “Who would be stupid enough to lend the U.S. any more money?” But, the answer might be, “The countries that have already strapped themselves to the mast of the United States.” The U.S. appears to be running […]
Obama Orders Closure of CIA’s Secret Prisons
January 23rd, 2009When I read Obama’s executive order to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, I just laughed the thing off as window dressing on a network of an unknown number of secret CIA prisons and torture facilities. In short, I felt that it was so ridiculous that I didn’t even bother mentioning it. Now, however, we […]
Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists
January 22nd, 2009Via: Rawstory: Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The […]
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and Naked Short Selling
January 21st, 2009“One wrong word and he’s dead, his family is dead, etc. He knows it. He’s sticking to a script. …People involved with this, at the levels we don’t even know about yet, mainly, the management of day-to-day operations, are probably already dead.” —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud “At some […]
Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
January 20th, 2009Via: Wired: The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program. That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]
And Now… Plague Sweeps Through al Qaeda Terror Training Camp, Killing 40
January 19th, 2009Well, let’s take a quick walk down Cryptogon memory lane: Plague-Infested Mice Missing from Bioterror Research Lab World of Warcraft Disease Model U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu Researchers Have Isolated the Genes that Made the 1918 Flu Pandemic So Deadly, and Spliced Those Genes Into Modern Flu Viruses Via: Telegraph: The Black […]
Crook Hands Out Presidential Medals of Freedom to a Bunch of Other Crooks
January 14th, 2009It’s not the Onion. Via: CNN: Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time on Tuesday when President George W. Bush awarded America’s top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia. In his last days in office Bush presented Tony Blair and John Howard with […]
Iran Moved Billions via U.S. Banks
January 12th, 2009Via: New York Times: Iranian banks illegally shifted billions of dollars through American financial institutions in recent years, and authorities suspect some of the money may have been used to finance Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. Details of the illicit transfers came to light on Friday when New York State and federal authorities announced that […]
Holocaust Denied: The Lying Silence of Those Who Know
January 9th, 2009Full text. Via: John Pilger: Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the ‘why’ of Israel’s bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza – an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel’s right to exist. “When the truth is replaced […]
Austrian Banker, Who Placed Billions of Dollars with Madoff, Vanishes
January 9th, 2009Fuggetaboutit. Via: New York Times: With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now, she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out […]
