Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Did 22 SDI Researchers Really ALL Commit Suicide?
September 5th, 2007Glad to see this one making the rounds again. Via: fiu.edu: With his death, Beckham’s name was added to a growing list of British scientists who’ve died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances since 1982. Each was a skilled expert in computers, and each was working on a highly classified project for the American Star Wars […]
Bill Clinton ‘Shocked’ Hillary Donor Was a Fugitive
September 3rd, 2007Bill Mena Airport Clinton was shocked by the revelations… Via: Newsday: Former President Bill Clinton said he was “shocked” by revelations that a top fundraiser for his wife is a fugitive from justice and claimed he didn’t even know what “HillRaiser” Norman Hsu did for a living. “You could have knocked me over with a […]
Military Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties: “It Was a Wal-Mart for Guns”
August 25th, 2007I post a lot of stories on Cryptogon, but read this one a bit slower than usual and let this sink in. Then check out the related stories below. Via: Forbes: One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, […]
NASDAQ to Open Unregulated Private Stock Exchange for Investors with a Minimum of $100 Million in Assets
August 15th, 2007I’m sure that this has nothing to do with money laundering, and the fact that Afghanistan now supplies virtually all of the opium in the world. Via: Washington Post: Nasdaq is set to launch tomorrow what its executives are calling one of the most significant developments on Wall Street in decades — a private stock […]
Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal
August 12th, 2007What is it about Italy and weird arms deals involving Iraq? Remember, Iraqi Insurgents Carrying Covert Ops Bump Guns? Via: Yahoo / AP: In a hidden corner of Rome’s busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler’s checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue […]
Citing Four-Day Old Surveillance Law, Bush Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging NSA Spying
August 11th, 2007Via: Wired: Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismisss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program. The lawsuit was brought by lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay prisoners. The lawyers and others alleged […]
DailyKos and the CIA
August 11th, 2007In 2005, “I was content to say, ‘F*ck DailyKOS’ and move on.” As it turns out, there’s a bit more to it. Make sure you listen to him speak for yourself. Some of the weaselly prick effect is lost when you just read the transcript. Via: My Left Wing: You know . . . coughs […]
Surge: Afghanistan Now Responsible for 95% of Global Opium Production
August 5th, 2007The people behind this represent the real Plunge Protection Team. Via: Yahoo / AP: Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world’s near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials […]
U.S. ‘Loses’ 190,000 Weapons in Iraq
August 3rd, 2007Wait a minute, remember Pentagon arms its enemy’s enemies in Iraq: The US military has embarked on a new and risky strategy in Iraq by arming Sunni insurgents in the hope that they will tackle al-Qaida operatives in Iraq. The US high command this month gave permission to its officers on the ground to negotiate […]
Zeitgeist
July 30th, 2007Zeitgeist is an extremely impressive film that delivers a vast amount of fascinating information in a coherent way. It’s definitely worth setting aside a couple of hours of interruption free time to watch this. If you know any people who don’t quite “get it” yet, this will rattle their cages. Who produced this??? They’ve made […]
