Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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 […]
Deep Throat: Mark Felt Dies
December 22nd, 2008Via: AP: W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he helped The Washington Post unravel the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 95. Felt died Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa under hospice care after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family […]
‘The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History’
December 22nd, 2008The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray Ponzi schemes? Check. Aircraft leasing? Check. Questionable activities with young boys? Check. Florida? Check. It’s an unfortunate choice for a title, with the Madoff situation just coming into view… Via: Orlando Sentinel: Credit for the biggest American […]
And Now… A New Star Will Appear in the Sky and Maitreya Will Unfurl???
December 21st, 2008Benjamin Creme has been shoveling the same bullshit since 1982. What’s fascinating to me is that this somehow garners straight laced treatment from the mainstream press, even now!? For years, I’ve been expecting some kind of Jim Jones style Maitreya mind control operation to commence, but it never happens. Does the balloon finally go up […]
Madoff Can’t Leave Apartment, Prosecutors Fear ‘Harm or Flight’
December 20th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff, accused in a $50 billion investment fraud, was placed under 24-hour house arrest in his $7 million New York City apartment after prosecutors warned of his “harm or flight.” Madoff, 70, had been subject to electronic monitoring and a 7 p.m. curfew under a Dec. 17 court order. Now […]
Madoff’s Auditor… Doesn’t Audit?
December 18th, 2008Via: Fortune: The three-person auditing firm that apparently certified the books of Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, the shuttered home of an alleged multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is drawing new scrutiny. Already under investigation by local prosecutors for its potential role in the scandal, the firm, Friehling & Horowitz, is now also being investigated by the American […]
