Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Obama’s Economic Team Planning for Global Economic Collapse
December 13th, 2008“There’s going to be a crisis come along on the 21st or 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.” —Colin Powell, October 2008 Mmm hmm. Via: The Atlantic: It’s quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama’s transition teams these days, especially those who are helping with the economics portfolio. […]
Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion in Lending
December 12th, 2008Well, any guesses as to where this $2 trillion went!? Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Bloomberg filed suit Nov. 7 under the U.S. Freedom […]
Former Chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market Ran $50 Billion Hedge Fund as Ponzi Scheme
December 12th, 2008I couldn’t make it up. I routinely use the term Ponzi Scheme to describe financial matters, but this one takes the cake for sure. How many more hedge funds are Ponzi Schemes? I know. I know. The peanut gallery will howl, “All of them.” Seriously, how many of them are no shit, top to bottom, […]
One of Two Indian Men Arrested in Connection to the Mumbai Attacks, “Was a Counterinsurgency Police Officer”
December 7th, 2008Via: AP: One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release. The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first […]
Julius Baer CEO: Suicide
December 5th, 2008Oh sure. See the Wikileaks data on Julius Baer. Via: Reuters: Alex Widmer, the chief executive of Bank Julius Baer and a well respected figure in Swiss private banking, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52, the bank said. A source told Reuters he had been informed by close friends of Widmer’s family that […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
Mexico: Interpol Official Involved with Narcotics Trafficking
November 20th, 2008This reminds me of The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc., which is one of the all-time-must-reads. I managed to find my ancient commentary on that piece. Via: CNN: A vicious turf war between drug cartels and Mexican authorities that has left as many as 4,300 dead so far this year may have caused a breach […]
Federal Reserve Refuses to Identify the Recipients of $2 Trillion Worth of Emergency Loans
November 10th, 2008You gotta prollem wit dat? Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional […]
Bolivian President: DEA Encourages Drug Trafficking
November 10th, 2008Via: AFP: The United States on Friday rejected as “patently absurd” charges by Bolivian President Evo Morales that the US government encouraging drug-trafficking in Bolivia. “The charges that have been made are just patently absurd,” State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told the daily press briefing in Washington. “We reject them categorically.” In La Paz […]
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
November 4th, 2008Via: Clusterstock: In a move that is sure to put to rest the notion that there are no second acts in American life, former Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix has landed a job in the office of the Federal Reserve charged with assessing the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions. We suppose […]
