Archive for December, 2009
Vanity Fair on Blackwater’s Erik Prince
December 3rd, 2009Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name. —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency We get into the Coincidence? category because the article just happens to be written by a “former” CIA attorney. Via: Vanity Fair: The truth about Prince may […]
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
December 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request […]
Warning on U.S. Muni Market Threat
December 2nd, 2009Via: Financial Times: States need to consider permanent budgetary changes to close ballooning deficits or risk “significant cracks” in the municipal bond market, the lieutenant governor of New York said on Monday. Richard Ravitch said New York and other states had historically relied on temporary measures to balance budgets in downturns as a bridge to […]
Gold, the Comex and Exchange for Physical
December 2nd, 2009Via: Jesse’s Café Américain: The conclusion we reach for now is that if one is counting on the ability to receive delivery of physical gold from the Comex for whatever purposes, then don’t. You will wait and fight and stand in queue to obtain the goods from Enron nation. The theme of the day is […]
Israeli Police Arrest Mossad Spy on “Training Exercise” After He Placed “Fake Bomb” Under Car
December 2nd, 2009Mmm hmm. Israel better mobilize the brave Ziofascist Twitbook forces to clear this one up. Via: BBC: A trainee spy for Israel’s secret service agency Mossad was arrested by Tel Aviv police while taking part in a training operation, media reports say. The young trainee was spotted by a female passer-by as he planted a […]
North Korea Implements 100 to 1 Reverse Split on Currency
December 2nd, 2009When a medium of exchange isn’t tied to anything but the whims of psychopaths, this kind of thing is the inevitable result. Thank you, Dear Leader. Via: Telegraph: In an alleged bid to curb inflation and suppress its growing black market, North Korea implemented a currency revaluation on Monday, according to Yonhap, the South Korean […]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN: When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit. Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children. Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law […]
Why Bank Of America Fired Me
December 2nd, 2009Kandahar’s Loch Ness Mystery Plane Returns
December 1st, 2009Via: Flight Global: Kandahar’s Loch Ness monster has been spotted again. This time an actual photo of the beast was published by French journalist Jean-Dominique Merchet, who writes for the Liberation newspaper, on his Secret Defense blog. We last saw the mystery Kandahar aircraft in a drawing by Shephard’s Unmanned Vehicles and a very grainy […]
Sprint Nextel Geotracking Info Given to Law Enforcement Eight Million Times from September 2008 and October 2009
December 1st, 2009My running hypothesis is that MAINCORE targets are geotracked on a persistent basis. Via: Slight Paranoia: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of […]
