Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Oil Traders Seek Another 10 Tankers, Frontline Says
January 8th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’m pre-emptively adding this to Covert Operations and False Flag Operations so I’ll be able to find it in the aftermath phase of whatever these maniacs have planned to turn a profit on this oil. As much of the of the […]
Madoff: If Wall Street Knew, The U.S. Government Knew
January 5th, 2009There is a revolving door between the U.S. Government and the Wall Street firms mentioned below. Maybe someone should ask Hank what he knows about Madoff. Via: Financial Times: Large Wall Street firms privately harboured suspicions about Bernard Madoff’s investment business, in some cases steering clients away from dealing with him, but were reluctant to […]
MADOFF’S ASSETS TO BE KEPT SECRET
January 4th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: THE US Securities and Exchange Commission, which sued Bernard Madoff last month for allegedly directing a $US50 billion ($71 billion) fraud, is to withhold public access to a list of his assets filed on Wednesday. A federal judge ordered Madoff to provide the commission with an account of all investments, loans, lines of […]
Mexican Federal Agents Arrested in Covina
January 2nd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: The residents of North Monte Verde Drive, a stretch of oak-shaded suburban calm in the Covina area, normally would feel safe knowing that two off-duty police officers were visiting the neighborhood. Not this time. These officers were far from home — agents of the Mexican federal police — and they ended […]
Which Texan Was Going to Buy a Young Girl for Three Hundred Thousand Dollars?
December 30th, 2008I used to think that I could mentally handle any subject matter, no matter how horrible. What could be worse than what happened to Native Americans? The Soviet Union under Stalin and then what the Russians went through during World War II (estimates of the number of dead vary by millions)? The extermination programs of […]
Madoff Probe Focuses on Tax Havens
December 28th, 2008Via: Guardian: The hunt for funds allegedly cheated out of investors by Bernard Madoff, who faces fraud charges in New York, has turned to offshore tax havens where investigators believe he may have salted away hundreds of millions of dollars. Stephen Harbeck, chief executive of America’s Securities Investor Protection Corporation (Sipc) and official receiver of […]
Israel Attacks Gaza, Hundreds Dead: Who Made a Killing?
December 27th, 2008What did the Benazir Bhutto assassination and the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have in common? There was a strong move higher on gold immediately preceding both incidents, which were spaced one year apart, to the day. Remember how gold moved before Bhutto was killed? Check out this Bloomberg piece from yesterday (a day before […]
CIA Buys Off Afghan Warlords with Viagra
December 27th, 2008The Washington Post didn’t interview any of the child brides/rape victims for this story. Via: Washington Post: The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an […]
Fund Manager Tied to Madoff Case Found Dead
December 24th, 2008For the first time, I’m preemptively adding a story, this story, to the Assassination category. —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud Via: AP: A fund manager who lost more than $1 billion of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Manhattan office, […]
Germany: Head of BND Threatens Wikileaks
December 23rd, 2008Via: Raw Story: In the latest twist in a scandal involving the presence of the German intelligence service or Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in the Balkan nation of Kosovo, the head of the BND has ordered whistleblower website Wikileaks to remove all BND-related files under threat of “immediate prosecution.” Wikileaks has responded with a press release noting […]
