Archive for June, 2011
Kitco Named By Revenue Quebec In Massive Tax Fraud Investigation, Seeks Receivership
June 14th, 2011I meant to post this a couple of days ago, but it was stuck in ‘draft’ status. Via: Jesse’s Café Américain: Here is a translation of the Revenue Quebec press release from The Financial Post. The Post has also reported that Kitco has asked the court to appoint a receiver. “Kitco Metals Inc. has never […]
Greek Parliament Preparing Evacuation Tunnel Ahead of Austerity Vote [???]
June 13th, 2011Via: Covering Delta: I just became aware of this report from Kontra channel here in Greece. Apparently, a tunnel that leads from Lykavitos to the Greek parliament, and from there to the sea port of Piraeus, is being cleaned out by foreign workers in preparation for the possible evacuation of Greek MP’s in the event […]
Blackwater Hires Former AIG Regulatory Compliance Chief
June 13th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Wired: Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. Blackwater — sorry, Xe Services — really wants to turn the PR page from the bad old days of Nisour Square, when the infamous private […]
New And Improved FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, Now With Even Fewer 4th Amendment Protections
June 13th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. … Some of the most notable changes apply to the […]
CopBlock: Manchester PD
June 13th, 2011Via: Cop Block:
NSA Style Guide
June 13th, 2011Via: Government Attic: National Security Agency (NSA) SIGINT Reporter’s Style and Usage Manual, 2010 – [13-Jun-2011] NSA SIGINT Style Manual 2010
In Greece, Some See a New Lehman
June 13th, 2011Via: New York Times: Bond traders and officials at the European Central Bank have been unified in their warnings that a restructuring of Greece’s debt would set off an investor panic similar to the one that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Others, however, have argued that Greece’s debt of 330 billion euros, or $473 […]
U.S. Government Finally Declassifies Pentagon Papers: Complete Archive Posted Today
June 13th, 201134% of this is newly declassified information. Via: U.S. National Archives: The Pentagon Papers, officially titled “Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force”, was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed. […]
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
June 13th, 2011Mmm hmm. See: The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and […]
‘The War You Don’t See’: A Film You Won’t See — An Open Letter to Noam Chomsky and the General Public
June 13th, 2011Via: Common Dreams: Dear Noam, I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See‘, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in […]
