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Guest Post: Exposing Top Secret America
Submitted By Wall St. Cheat Sheet
The Washington Post recently did some excellent journalism about the expanding new industry Top Secret America.
This new industry is unprecedented in American history and raises some
critical questions about who reigns over our nation’s security and
deepest secrets.
Which services are too important to outsource? Which services are “inherently government functions“?
At the moment, there’s a bull market in the private contracting of national intelligence. Here are some of the basic stats:
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Lets not forget FinReg, which makes everything the SEC does a secret, knowable only to the Congress.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/07/28/sec-says-new-finreg-law-exempts-public-disclosure/?test=latestnews
ah let me guess, when criminals cook the books and you go out for the short, the only people who can make that trade will be the CONgress now? isn't they're something about them and being aloud to trade on inside info?
how about we make a deal, they stop trading if you can spell words correctly
I know a guy in the Guard who has a security clearance and his IQ is room temperature. Top secret clearance must be the new FICO score.
No shit. If that many people have access to the "seekrits," they ain't very secret to anyone that wants to find something out.
It's all make-work. They're building paper mountains and little else.
yeah, our whole job is more or less to waste your money.
There's no doubt that the intel bureaucracy is way too big. But I think this stat about top secret clearances is a bit misleading (and the authors of the piece surely know it). Realistically, TS clearance doesn't mean much. There are higher levels of access reserved for those that are deeply involved in the highly classified shit.
Well, that's your opinion. I find this disturbing because each TS clearance equates to "we the taxpayer" paying big bucks for a supporting SSBI investigation. Once the TS is awarded all higher levels of access are pretty much nothing but questionaires, sign-offs and paper trails.
security clearance or not, his information is still compartmentalized
It's not his IQ they look at, it's the spotlessness of his mind. Did he ever read newpapers beyound the sports section? If so, did he ever express doubt over official statements, or question the wisdom of government policy -- or just say "whatever" and turn the page. Same with TV, web surfing, or even barroom conversation. Someone who lacks curiosity, and is not given to a lot of original thinking, is a citizen who can be trusted.
+1. Having smarts or critical thinking skills will land you in a lot of trouble these days.
The irony is that most of these guys are just masturbating all day long to tapped phone conversations.
Good enough for government work.
LOL.
"Frank, we need you to fill your quota for persecuting Americans that just want the Constitution followed. You're gonna have to stop listening to so many 1-900 calls."
Great, I have a dot on my city shwrishneesh, and in the fallout zone of orange.
I guess I'll need to close the window while I wipe my ass with the funny money.
Go figure.....all that "intelligence" and Amerika's more fucked up now than it's ever been.
Dogs chasing tails.
Looks like this administration is hiring more than census workers to help with the BLS numbers...
Funny how this was released just before whe new WIKILEAKS dump.
http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-zero.htm
Subject: WikiLeaks support, etc.
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:07:13 -0500
Dear Cryptome:
We at Zero Hedge have watched with interest (and some horror) the Wikievents of the last several weeks. Of particular notice to us recently has been the complete inability (or unwillingness) of Wikileaks to release any new material not related to the self-promotion of its ubiquitous figurehead "Julian Assange." Despite a massive budget, it would seem more than an order of magnitude larger than ours, the Wikileaks enterprise seems totally unable to do more than tweet pleas for patience while sending Mr. Assange to, e.g., Brussels to debate freedom of expression. Where are the millions of documents leakers risked to liberate? This is quite sad for us to see, as we were some of the earliest and most enthusiastic supporters of Wikileaks, as individuals as well as under the umbrella of "Zero Hedge."
We currently run and maintain our own servers for Zero Hedge and see in excess of 500,000 hits per day on normal days, with spikes to nearly a million if something interesting is going on. We've recently upgraded our infrastructure (multi-homed in some of the same jurisdictions Wikileaks uses, as it happens) to deal with our own growth. Consequently, we have quite a bit of spare capacity and bandwidth right now, as well as sufficient financial means to secure same for the foreseeable future. We are long time Cryptome readers, and fairly crypto and INFOSEC savvy (we even have an early member or two from the original cypherpunks list among our senior staff, though none connected with Wikileaks). We manage sensitive sources on a nearly daily basis.
We fight any number of frivolous takedown and legal challenges from well resourced institutions (investment banks, hedge funds, etc.) monthly. As individuals and an organization, we seek to avoid, rather than ravenously pursue, press of any kind. (We get enough headaches from the media without even trying, thank you very much). Moreover, while we are focused on finance, we are philosophically aligned with the ORIGINAL premise and mission of Wikileaks: The liberation of raw data. Our "manifesto" might give you an idea of the sorts of goals that drive us:
http://www.zerohedge.com/about
We have no doubt that directly contacting Mr. Assange would serve no real purpose, as it would seem control of even an inactive Wikileaks is something Assange would never willingly relinquish. Nor, given the allegations about the personal use of donor funds, would we be willing to associate ourselves with Mr. Assange until a full accounting were made. We seriously doubt this will ever come to pass. The figures currently claimed by the organization as needed funds are FAR in excess of what is even plausibly required for such a firm- given our experience running what is now a "Top 100" Technorati site (and consistently Top 1 or Top 2 in the Business category) for the last 18 months.
Unfortunately, it seems impossible to contact Wikileaks directly without passing an Assange filter first, so we have not bothered to offer our help directly to Wikileaks. We would, however, be quite interested in hearing from other members of the organization how we could help return Wikileaks to its roots. At the moment we aren't sure what form that might take. Clearing house for data? Secure submission node? Research and analysis? Managing sources and source material? Whatever the case, it is a huge pity to watch the continued squandering of Wikileaks, both as a concept and an execution. Perhaps, given your apparent status as an interim contact point for the Wikileaks rank-and-file, this note might be helpful.
Please feel free to post this material as you see fit under the header "An Open Letter to Wikileaks Insiders."
"Marla Singer"
co-founder
Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com
marla[at]zerohedge.com
Also very strange that ZH, well Marla, was one of the few ( outside the IDF) to espouse the laughable Paintball gun scenario. It looked to be a Psyop designed to demean the unjustified killing of innocents in the flotilla.
Makes one wonder what the REAL reasoning is behind ZH. Could it be a trap for those who question BIGOV? Don't the police do that with criminals having outstanding warrants, draw them all to one place then make a group arrest.
Maybe some people should think before they post subversive shit, or admit to owning Gold and an arsenal for defense.
I may be paranoid. I have no problem admitting it. But what if I'm even partially correct.
In light of this topic, is it so far fetched?
ur fuckin whacked dude
Jake Green
Considering the topic is about the vast spread of intelligence operatives, and considering that paid posters have been here bofore ( read the BP topics) how is it crazy to assume that at least one founding member of ZH is on someones payroll?
Kos was CIA, Anderson Cooper was CIA. Those are two off the top of my head. They admitted as much.
We all know about Sunsteins plan to have paid operatives nudge public opinion. We know Israel actively does that now.
If anything I'm less paranoid than I should be.
First, are you certain that Marla is the one that actually penned that comment you keep plastering over and over again.
Secondly, once you allow conspiratorial ideas to control your thinking, you will start seeing them everywhere.
"Imagination makes a great slave, but a terrible master"
"the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked"
it does read like Marla.. she comes off as a bitter cunt most of the time..that is her writing style. tyler really needs to spend more quality time with her
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is ‘annoyed’ by 9/11 truth
Well, Mr. Assange, ‘annoyed’ you and Howard Zinn, and Noam Chumpsky, and Amy Goodblow are, the reality seems to bear out the THERMITE took the ’3′ WTC towers down, because, as even a shill like yourself must be able to figure out, the asymetrical collapse of the towers ‘might’ have been a lot more likely than the ‘free fall, into their own footprints’ physics that did take place, in light of the center support columns of the ’2′ WTC towers, would have prevented.
And, Julian, don’t you have a fucking problem with the lack of engine entry points at the Pornogon?
Or the impossible flight physics of hitting those ’5′ poles while the aircraft was in a 4,400 foot per minute ‘dive’, then level’s off at knat’s dick height, and flies into the building, and leaves no fuselage, wing, or vertical or horizontal stabilizer wreckage, or for that matter, human corpses on the lawn in front of a HEAVILY REINFORCED part of a specific part of the building called CATCHER’S MIT?
Surely, Julian, you are full of goddamned crap, aren’t you?
You lost all credibility with me, bub.
As ‘problematic’ as 9/11 events were on day ‘three’ after it took place, to some of you, now 9 years later, don’t give me this hog shit that it’s vexing you and making you ‘angry’ we are barking up the WRONG ZIONIST MOSSAD / CIA TREE!!
You’re a DISINFORMATION SHILL, Julian. I’m calling you the f*ck out on that. You’re a fraud. A ‘fake’ and another Noam Chumpsky and Amy Goodblow and Howard Zimpledon.
For the past 9 years, 9/11 truth has been the acid test for anyone who claims to be speaking "truth" or seeking "justice" of any sort at any time. It's a pass/fail test folks. Either you buy the official conspiracy story of Bin Laden etc (with all the back peddling, rationalizations, justifications and excuse mongering you need in order to swallow it hook line and sinker) or you decide that the rabbit hole needs a closer look. And then you don't turn back at the first sighting of ugliness.
i didn't find peace with the last decade of lies until i saw the timing of Saddam switching to sell oil in Euros and empty his reserves of $USD$. Then we take him out, let big oil in as a bonus, and Bush call victory after Iraq filled its currency reserves back to $USD$ and sold oil for $USD$ again..
and the most ironic part is, if they would of just said THAT was the whole reason most of the public would of been ok with it.. no need for 9/11 etc... but I guess they wanted to profit more and make it into a total gang bang of corporate theft
I'd say that it's your well-intentioned paranoia.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Marla is Jewish and has family in Israel. It doesn't make her a bad person, but obviously she has a strong emotional identification with the Israeli state, or at least the Israeli people.
Assange seeks press because Wikileaks is just as much a PR operation as a leaking outlet.
Obviously, some of his press-seeking has borne much fruit. It's forced the political press to be more accurate in the same way that ZH has damaged the ability of the financial press to lie brazenly.
If ZH is having legal or financial issues, perhaps it shows the wisdom of raising major funds.
Generally, the powers think little about what random blog commenters think.
I don't think divisiveness in any anti-government/ponzi/etc. community is particularly healthy at this point.
It's hang together or hang separately time.
Apostate
Cryptome started bad moutnhing Wikileaks when the government announced they were tracking Assange. That was when rumors of big revelations started floating around.
I think it is healthy to question the motivations of anyone in a public forum today.
Use Hal Turner as an example
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FBI InformantTurner was a paid FBI informant for several years, supplying information about right-wing groups to federal agents.[23] The original allegations that Turner acted as an informant for the FBI surfaced in 2008 after unidentified hackers claimed on Turner's website's forums that they had read email correspondence between him and an FBI agent, apparently his handler.[24] This led to a discussion on a neo-Nazi website on January 10, 2008, in which Turner revealed he was quitting political work, was ending his radio show and that he was separating "from the 'pro-White' movement".[24] The FBI has declined to comment on the matter.[24] The Southern Poverty Law Center[25] and the Anti-Defamation League reported on the emails that "a neo-Nazi Website had posted material reportedly found by the hackers, including alleged exchanges between himself and law enforcement agents which indicated that Turner had been providing information to them."[26]
On July 28, 2009 in a Chicago courtroom, Turner's defense lawyer said that Turner worked as a paid informant for the FBI.[27] In December 2009, The Record published an investigative report on Turner's "complex" relationship with the FBI and Federal Marshalls, noting that all parties broke off contact at several points.[28]
http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com/2010/03/hal-turners-first-missi...
Hey, I like this game!
"The Stars My Destination is, in one sense, a science-fiction adaption of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. It is the study of a man completely lacking in imagination or ambition, Gulliver Foyle. Fate transforms "Gully" Foyle in an instant; shipwrecked in space, then abandoned by a passing luxury liner, Foyle becomes a monomaniacal and sophisticated monster bent upon revenge. Wearing many masks, learning many skills, this "worthless" man pursues his goals relentlessly; no price is too high to pay...Foyle is a cipher, a man with potential but no motivation, who is suddenly marooned in space."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination
WaterWings
You should read it sometime. You can read right?
Of course the story, and evolution of character, much more than your plebian quote.
But I imagine you just don't understand nuance all that well. Or character growth.
In the end Foyle holds the destiny of mankind.
"Finding himself in nothingness at first, he must discover the secret inside himself. Eventually he realizes that it is faith: not the certainty of an answer, but the conviction that somewhere an answer exists. He then jauntes from one nearby star to another. In the course of his star-hopping, Foyle locates the answer for the future - new worlds suitable for colonization reachable only if he can share the gift of space-jaunting. Finally he comes to rest in the locker on Nomad, where he spent his time before being reborn the first time. The Scientific People recognize that he is now a holy man, and take up vigil to await his Revelation."
We Await Silent Tristero's (aka Gully Foyle's, aka etc.) Empire.
A lot of these guys are pretty creepy, so I wouldn't put it past them.
SLPC doesn't always release accurate reports. COINTELPRO and its descendants are indeed all over the place. After all, the FBI employs many people.
In my experience, it's best to stick with what you know rather than spending oodles of time theorizing about what you lack evidence to know.
My own view is that if you live by philosophical principles, the details of what the state and what other ugly actors are up to are fairly irrelevant. If I know through reason that something is immoral, it's not nearly as important to have the evidence of the acts themselves.
That sort of approach also makes an organization resilient against outside disruption or internal discord. Principles transcend the individual.
Apostate
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action."
-- Auric Goldfinger
We do know for a fact that these programs exist.
also Assange doesn't hide behind any avatars.. he is a known target. Let's see Marla walk that talk
The press outed her and one Tyler, IIRC, at least allegedly.
No big secret, Israel runs our government via AIPAC and the other lobbies, while ADL writes the legislation before handing it to Congress.
I don't think they hold as many of our treasuries as some other countries...
Why bother to hold the (US) treasuries when you run the Fed and almost every other central bank directly or via paid stooge.
Also, Ben Shalom Bernanke is a Bilderbergerer
http://www.nndb.com/people/447/000094165/
PS: 911 Inside Job
...talk about your paranoia.
Once stuck to the givermint teat, addiction is mutual. They need your wasteful ways to grow budgets, you need their crony capitalist model to succeed.
Simple.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
I will play Devil's Advocate. You preach that government is rattled with bureaucracy, inefficiency, and corruption and today's government is only getting bigger. Now you are preaching that when it comes to intelligence all of this needs to be consolidated under a tight watch of an all-knowing super-duper secret bigger government? I think there is an answer to this but I'd like to see Tyler explain his reasoning.
Riddled perhaps?
The issue I have not seen discussed is that the Pakistan Intelligence service is getting rich off of the idiot US by acting as a double agent. Taking money from the US and helping the Taliban/Osama to keep the whole game going. The longer they keep it going the richer some spymaster becomes.
It's the US that wants "to keep the whole game going" and the Pakistan Intelligence Service is more than happy to accommodate as long as plenty of goodies are included in the package. The US "fools" are playing an old game very very well.
the dirty secret is that if the tap for the MIC starts to run dry, the entire US-centric economy (as currently conceived & maintained & managed) implodes. sorta like how drug money was the only thing that saved a couple banks from going down in fall 08 (supposedly of course).
waste not, want not. want it all, waste it all.
Interesting that you say that - 'everything done has a reason'? I'm learning about this double/triple motive-type stuff.
Jon Stewart had a segment on the Afgan papers last night. I don't watch him that often, but he seemed (rightly so) somewhat upset that we are essentially funding our enemy - and that no one seemed to care.
It's an old game to fund both sides. Do some research on the Bush family going back a few generations (to well before WWII) if you want to get your shorts into a bunch.
Of course, the masters of the game, the ultimate power in these power games, are the central banks. They use families like Bush etc to play the game, but the masters of disaster behind them are the central banks. Then let's look at who's behind the banks.
Bush and his co-thinkers were confident that they could subjugate the planet for a full century.
But they had to hurry. Unless the Soviets, Chinese, Germans, Japanese, and third world powers could be rapidly dealt with, the Anglo-Americans might be overtaken by their own accelerating economic collapse, and they might soon find themselves too weak to extend their yoke over the world.
The military machine that attacked Iraq was in the process of shrinking by more than 25% because of growing American economic weakness, so it was important to act fast.
The Anglo-American system depended on squeezing enough wealth out of the world economy to feed the insatiable demands of the debt and capital structures in London and New York.
During the 1980’s, those capital structures had swelled like malignant tumors, while the depleted world economy was bled white.
Now, crazed after their October 1987 and October 1989 brushes with bottomless financial and currency panic, the masters of usury in London and New York demanded that the rate of primitive accumulation be stepped up all over the world.
Chapter 24 – The New World Order
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/
Thanks for the link to the online version. I have an autographed hard copy on my bookcase, next to the Obama one. Tarpley for all his faults is one of the most through and competent investigators I've ever come across. His knowledge of European history and of the German/English royal family connections is priceless. Every time I take some time to check his facts (and I trust no one without checking first) I find he's right on.
You are sooooo right, CD. The important historical question is when haven't they not funded both (or all) sides, if such a case ever existed?
The Walker money comes from munitions, Cuban sugar plantations and other such sources. Geo. W. Bush's great-grandfather was the first president, and a founding member of the National Association of Manufacturers (a little-known fact).
and the BIS which is the central banks central bank... all these private entities running countries like franchises
What old game is it that you believe the US is playing "very very well"?
War profiteering, redistributing money from the US population to the military industry. Budgets expand during war, so, forever wars.
Chaos and confusion, divide and conquer, covert and overt warfare. And so on. Why don't you sit in on a few classes at the School of the Americas for a look see. And this was just for the Americas. There are other schools for the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation#Graduates_of_the_School_Of_The_Americas
We spread the wealth and knowledge because we're a democracy. It's what we do. <sarcasm>
hard to believe that both sides have more than one agenda
Here's an interesting take from the Daily Bell. In a world full of propaganda, one can never be sure.
http://www.thedailybell.com/1246/Comes-a-Blond-Stranger.html
You give our government WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to much credibility.
Perhaps, but see below post by caconhma.
CIA, Mossad and Soros behind Wikileaks
March 25-26, 2010
Suspicions abound that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations
WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
Wikileaks claims it is "a multi-jurisdictional organization to protect internal dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers who face legal or other threats related to publishing" [whose] primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of all nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact. We have received over 1.2 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."
In China, Wikileaks is suspected of having Mossad connections. It is pointed out that its first "leak" was from an Al Shabbab "insider" in Somalia. Al Shabbab is the Muslim insurgent group that the neocons have linked to "Al Qaeda."
Asian intelligence sources also point out that Assange's "PhD" is from Moffett University, an on-line diploma mill and that while he is said to hail from Nairobi, Kenya, he actually in from Australia where his exploits have included computer hacking and software piracy.
WMR has confirmed Young's contention that Wikileaks is a CIA front operation. Wikileaks is intimately involved in a $20 million CIA operation that U.S.-based Chinese dissidents that hack into computers in China. Some of the Chinese hackers route special hacking program through Chinese computers that then target U.S. government and military computer systems. After this hacking is accomplished, the U.S. government announces through friendly media outlets that U.S. computers have been subjected to a Chinese cyber-attack. The "threat" increases an already-bloated cyber-defense and offense budget and plays into the fears of the American public and businesses that heavily rely on information technology.
It is also pointed out that on Wikileaks advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a U.S. cyber-espionage campaign against China. Other Wikileaks advisory members are leading Chinese dissidents, including Wan Dan, who won the 1998 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Award; Wang Youcai, founder of the Chinese Democracy Party; Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley, member of the advisory board of the International Campaign for Tibet, and commentator on the George Soros-affiliated Radio Free Asia; and Tibetan exile and activist Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang.
Our sources in Asia believe that Wikileaks ran afoul of their CIA paymasters after it was discovered that some of Wikileaks's "take" was being diverted to Mossad instead of to their benefactors at Langley. After a CIA cur-off in funding, "Daniel Schmitt" took over and moved the Wikileaks operation to Belgium and Sweden with hopes of making a more secure base in Iceland.
There are strong suspicions that Wikileaks is yet another Soros-funded "false flag" operation on the left side of the political spectrum. WMR has learned that after former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) decided to oppose Soros's choice of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy Mark Malloch Brown as President of the World Bank, succedding the disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, Soros put the Wikileaks operation into high gear. "Daniel Schmitt" hacked into Coleman's supporters list, stealing credit card info, addresses, and publishing the "take" on Wikileaks. Democrat Al Franken, who was strongly backed by Soros, defeated Coleman in a legally-contested and very close election.
It is also believed by informed sources that Soros is behind the operation to move Wikileaks to Iceland. By becoming a power in Iceland, Soros can prevent Icelanders from paying back the British and Dutch investors in Icelandic online Ponzi scheme banking and continue his all-out war against British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has, in turn, targeted Soros for betting against pound sterling.
Iceland is classic prey for Soros. The Icelandic krona has been decimated as a currency and has no where to go but up in value, especially if the British pound and the euro depreciate. Soros is currently talking down the euro, planning its fall and shorting it, just like he did versus the pound in London in the 1980s. After the UK's and Europe's currencies are devalued, Soros will buy every euro note in sight, thus making trillions.
Soros and his Wikileaks friends have in Iceland a practically unregulated banking system desperate for an influx of capital -- money that will come from the exiled Russian tycoons in Israel, London and the United States. Israeli investors like Bank Leumi, and awash in siphoned-off Bernard Madoff cash, will do their bit for this smash-and-grab operation by Soros's Quantum-linked hedge funds.
With Wikileaks firmly ensconced in Iceland, the "brave" and much-heralded information leakers will run an international blackmail operation against Soros's foes and launch computer break-ins against Soros's business rivals and non-Quantum banks. Wikileaks will be used as the info-hitmen against President Obama's and Rahm Emanuel's enemies in the 2012 re-election campaign.
From Iceland, Soros will be well-positioned to gain control over the massive mineral resources under the melting ice sheet of Greenland. Under the ice are the only major rare-earth deposits outside of China and with such minerals at his disposal, Soros can control the world's electronics industries. This past week's volcanic activity in Iceland could, however, disrupt or destroy Soros's plans to establish and control a North American-European gateway in Iceland.
The following are some of the emails Young revealed in his exposure of Wikileaks's CIA connections (as well as to the Russian "phishing" Mafia, an operation run by Russian-Israeli Jews using Israel as a base) [Note: in the second email, "JYA" is a reference to John Young Associates]:
To: John Young
From: Wikileaks
Subject: martha stuart pgp
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:20:25 -0500
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J. We are going to fuck them all. Chinese mostly, but not entirely a feint. Invention
abounds. Lies, twists and distorts everywhere needed for protection. Hackers monitor
chinese and other intel as they burrow into their targets, when they pull, so do we.
Inxhaustible supply of material. Near 100,000 documents/emails a day. We're going to crack the world open and let it flower into something new. If fleecing the CIA will assist us, then fleece we will. We have pullbacks from NED, CFR, Freedomhouse and other CIA teats. We have all of pre 2005 afghanistan. Almost all of india fed. Half a dozen foreign ministries. Dozens of political parties and consulates, worldbank, apec, UN sections, trade groups, tibet and fulan dafa associations and... russian phishing mafia who pull data everywhere. We're drowing. We don't even know a tenth
of what we have or who it belongs to. We stopped storing it at 1Tb.
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Well America yawned as usual. So what. It's bad in the sandbox wars. We know. If anything they will use it to build support for invading Pakistan.
Jump! you fuckers.
We can't invade Pakistan. Nor can we interfere directly any official Afghanistan policies. Both of these governments are held up as examples of America's gift of democracy to the middle east. This is why Karzai can spit in Obama's eye and get away with it. It is why Pakistan can supply arms to kill our troops with no more than a verbal rebuke. And lastly, it is why Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Taliban can work out a 3-way deal that will render moot the supposed plan to exit the conflict by 2014. By then we'll be reduced to fighting Al Quaeda splinters that wouldn't go along (who are just a nuisance to the major pleyers anyway).
+1000 hits of opium. I was laughing from beginning to end. Here's your hat, and here's the door:
www.huffpost.com
You can have the drugs back if you would briefly outline your points of dispute. I look forward to this because I have generally found your comments to be well-reasoned and useful (seriously). So I am somewhat bemused by the tone of contemptuous dismissal.
Totally bewildered by the opium reference -- was that meant to imply Obama (hopium) support? And the HufPo link, a suggestion of liberal bias? Where did you find any of that in my comment? Tell me my opinion is shit if you want (I'm not right all the time) but let's see some argument.
seventree,
An apology is in order. It was a cheap swipe. I believe there is more going on behind the scenes in the sandboxes and I didn't take the time to refute. Opium as in the massive amount our military has allowed to be cultivated for worldwide distribution and HuffPost for a narrow view of reality - such as what most people over at HuffPo choose to believe.
I agree about the facade of our "gift of democracy" to the middle east. I believe that the neo-cons could/would assassinate anyone in power over there if so desired - and that the USA will never leave the sandboxes until the homeland has collapsed by attack/currency failure/general unrest/whatever. I also don't believe that there is any real Al Qaeda - splinters, sure. But because I am no real expert or academic (don't even live there - an "armchair" amateur surfing the interwebs) we are on even ground when it comes to imagining what will happen. My mood was off yesterday, so, no excuses, sorry about that.
I thank you for your reasoned reply. Have a nice day.
...cry out all you want!! When the candle finishes burning the rope holding that 2000lbs weight dangling above you, then you will be FINISHED!!
I have to leave you for now.. for no apparent reason.. don't try to get loose!
Wikileaks is actually a CIA operation? Interesting premise, and I concur that this story could easily be diseminated by the CIA. What better way to divert attention away from Wikileaks than to frighten possible submitters with "Don't send your leaks there, it's really the CIA"! +1 paranoias
It follows that if Wikileaks originates from CIA servers, implications are that Wikileak submissions won't be published because Wikileaks is actually CIA. This bit doesn't fly well because digitally transmitted docs allow retention by submitters of all originals which may then be redistributed as desired. However, perhaps the actually set-up is that submitted documents to "CIA Wikileaks" will be published, but now the CIA has a chance to both delay publishing and also track the submitter down? Hooah! Now the documents are only released after a long lead time to prevent damages while also bolstering the "reality" aspect of the site. So, can anyone verify that has this been happening? It's at least something to think about. (This idea, although not stated outright in the provided story, actually makes sense even if Wikileaks proper isn't affilitated with the CIA. I'm guessing that CIA mirrors of Wikileaks, even if Wikileaks originated elsewhere and Assange isn't in on it, are a done deal. Honeypot city for certain.) +2 paranoias
The only additional problem with this idea (that I can think of off the bat -- I sure there are more.) is that Wikileaks CIA mirrors would only last a short amount of time before being tagged as document black holes. This difficulty is mitigated by the "real Wikileaks" rotation of its own mirrors. Another +1 for paranoia.
The story does fall apart a bit with a silly idea that Wikileaks is CIA "because Chinese hackers say they are". Sigh. Does this need additional argument? The CIA, however, would still be safe publishing this idea because how does one verify a story backed by "Chinese hackers". As silly as it reads to intelligent users, a knee-jerk scarifying response may push it into the useful propaganda arena. -2 +1. At the moment, paranoia is winning on my scoreboard 3-0.
Perhaps the moral of this story is "Leak to Wikileaks, spambots, and the entire torrent just to be certain".
That looked like pure chinese and asian-authoritarian whitewash; chinese cybercrime is not perpetrated them but actually by CIA as a false flag operation....LOL :)
Including "Tibet" and Soros, who is a big name in Asia, widely blamed and hated for the Asian Currency Crisis because the governments wanted a scapegoat for the crisis and Soros proved suitable; blame the evil speculator, not the asians themselves who took all that hard currency loan. Soros is especially the name and face of the Asian Crisis in Thailand and Malaysia, in case of the latter even personal between ex pm Mahathir Mohamad and Soros.
Or then it was the ultimate disinfo piece itself, written superbly from an asian-authoritarian viewpoint trying to deflect attention from itself.
The billions used after 9/11 is probably the biggest stimuli ever. The old Keynes joke was about putting truck loads of money in a mine shaft, fill it, and let the privat sector dig it out. Now it is about banning water bottles on airplanes and engaging the privat sector in collecting them. Imagin the unemployment without the terror scare.
Yep, imagine the unemployment without the Afghan/Iraq wars.
black ops, dark pools & all-seeing eyes
"The billions used after 9/11 is probably the biggest stimuli ever."
I don't think so....I suspect they were used as investment in those hedge funds, which skyrocketed in the 2002-2003 period. These in turn, along with the various other bankster schemes, are being used for a leveraged buyout of America.
If one ponders the overall financial and economics scheme, this does appear to be the case.
(Although I would disagree with billions, and instead insert "trillions".)
“Special forces wound two, kill six, including young girl, plus donkey and chickens.” There’s suspicion of Pakistan as an ally; Afghan corruption is rampant… "practice shell kills children and ten sheep, injures shepherd,” and: ”56 civilians killed in NATO bombing.”
This is the world’s superpower, busy at work on routine Empire maintenance…part of its new all-war-all-the-time-everywhere philosophy, as revealed in WikiLeaks' huge release of secret Afghanistan war materials Sunday. America, once on its way to achieving the Puritans’ shining “City upon a hill for all to see”…has lost its way and at this point in history is due for a substantial course correction.
Where do the fuzzy aims of Afghanistan fit our national interests, why do we blockade Gaza (through the auspices of our “special” partner), why do we seek yet another war in the Middle East (Iran) and threaten thousands more innocent villagers who have yet to see the fire birds of a superpower?
And why, in Alexander Cockburn’s new frightening report, Human Price of Sanctions: Worth It?, does the U.S. use Sanctions to fight enemies…killing thousands of innocents and leaving rulers untouched…before or after making war? Is it just to mollify antiwar Americans?
Here are the answers in a few selected paragraphs:
“The multiple disasters inflicted on Iraq since the 2003 Anglo-American invasion have tended to overshadow the lethally effective ‘invisible war’ waged against Iraqi civilians between August 1990 and May 2003 with the full authority of the United Nations and the tireless attention of the US and British governments. As an example of carefully crafted callousness this story offers a close parallel to Britain’s German exercise.( For many months after the First World War ended in November 1918 the blockade of Germany, where the population was already on the edge of starvation, was maintained with full rigour. By the following spring, the German authorities were projecting a 50 per cent increase in the infant mortality rate.) In both cases, sanctions were retained after their original purpose – the military defeat of the blockaded nation – had been achieved, and in both cases they targeted civilians while leaving their rulers relatively unscathed. Those implementing the blockades argued vehemently that their suspension would mean a reversal of the victory on the battlefield and the defeated power’s return to its bellicose ways.
“Even at the time, the sanctions against Iraq drew only sporadic public comment, and even less attention was paid to the bureaucratic manoeuvres in Washington, always with the dutiful assistance of London, which ensured the deaths of half a million children, among other consequences. In her excellent book Invisible War: the United States and the Iraq Sanctions, Joy Gordon charts these in horrifying detail, while providing a rigorous examination of the alibis and excuses given by sanctioneers at the time and since: the suffering was entirely due to Saddam Hussein’s obduracy; supplies of food and medicine were available but withheld by the regime in the interests of propaganda; the Oil For Food programme was corrupt and enabled Saddam to evade the impact of sanctions, and so on.
“The legal foundation for the campaign rested on Security Council Resolution 661, passed in August 1990 shortly after Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait. This prohibited all UN member states from trading with Iraq: the ban crucially included all oil purchases. Leaving nothing to chance, the US proffered douceurs of economic aid prior to the vote to impoverished countries such as Ethiopia and Zaire, which were then serving as temporary members of the Security Council. After voting against the resolution, the Yemeni ambassador to the UN was tersely informed: ‘That will be the most expensive “no” vote you ever cast.’ Three days later the US cancelled its entire aid programme to his country.”
"Almost all of india fed."
Hey! I want to know more about that Mr. Dr. Assange!
Please and thanks. I'm sure you crawl ZH.
Regards,
ORI
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It's simple really; trust no one, divulge nothing.
It's simple really; trust no one, divulge nothing.
Words to live by, Uncle Remus.
Occam Razor. ZH is sponsored by Arab Gulf money--ie Al-Jazeera, Gulf News etc.
double post
A big red "Yes." It's been sometime since anyone's posted about our current fascist state, but it's thriving.
The kickstand just folded on the markets today.
“The [Post] series has just enough tantalizing information to sell a lot of papers, but almost nothing that exposes the illicit side of US operations–a large portion of which is involved in recruiting, training, and running covert agents–only a small portion of which are spying on real enemies. A lot of spying targets our allies and patriotic Americans who the government worries could someday provide a source of rebellion against the growing totalitarian state.”
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1926
Great point, tamboo, great point!
The salient fact is they basically confused and bewildered readers with their flagrant reframing of the real story.
Like that other WaPo stooge, Eamon Javers (recent book: Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy), who curiously writes about the haphazard "moonlighting" of CIA analysts, completely ignoring the privatization of the American intelligence establishment.
Or perhaps Javers is brain dead? On the bottom of page 191, continuing to the top of page 192, Javers (I assume accidentally) unleashes a most important -- and by him overlooked -- item that one of the top guys at the Department of Defense intel area, Jeffrey Starr, is "on loan" to Goldman Sachs as an employee.
What those WaPo whores would have written had they really been honest reporters and journalists:
The Financial-Intelligence Complex, which was created during WWII by Wall Street financial honchos, has now been fully privatized, with 95% of the National Reconnaissance Office nothing but private contractors, with the majority of the CIA, NSA, DIA and CIFA privatized.
Where once the Wall Streeters bounced back and forth between management positions at the intel agencies and Wall Street, now with the privatization everything has become seamless.
Booz-Allen Hamilton functions as the private management control element, with SAIC functioning as the operational control element.
But that would have required integrity to report the truth for a change.....
i hear a buzz lurking somewhere in the shadows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Krongard
The republicans and democrat stranglehold on political and fiscal power is secured by creating more government jobs. These Sad sack employees an d institutions get a salary and henceforth will vote for one of the 2 party candidates that the system puts forth. government grows,corporations control them and public unions and g-men hacks totally kill the choice of a better government.
Hiring a bunch of contractors to do intel and skunkworks off the payroll of the federal government is away for them to pretend they are helping the private sector.
The whole country has been heisted. Everytime the economy shits the Keynesians step in and take more work away from the private sector. They never give it back, so Keynesian economics is a peaceful transfer of capital and work to a main Federal entity. Keyneswas a Fabian socialist.
Donal E. Graham is the CEO and Chair of the Washington Post and he is a Bilderberger.
http://www.nndb.com/people/538/000052382/
The Washington (CIA/Zionist/Bilderberg/Bankster) Post runs "expose" articles now and then to make the sheeple think there is political oppossition in the USA.
PS: 911 Inside job
One thing that occurred to me when I first started reading the "Top Secret America" Web site...if the govt was truly concerned about the integrity of their intel data, they wouldn't have however many thousands of different entities collecting information, they'd have maybe 10 or 20. Managing data integrity across 20 different organizations is difficult, but it's possible. Managing data integrity across thousands of organizations is quite literally impossible. If the govt thought Wikileaks intel disclosure was bad...they clearly have no fucking idea what they are doing.
Having been a spook this is much to do about nothing. The first thing is that TS clearances are compartmentalized. There were more than 25 different types of security clearances in my work place alone. You could not freely roam about to other vaults and see what was going on. You also have to have 'a need to know.' Also, diverse agencies wouldn't necessarily know what the other was up to. Do all roads lead to Rome? Having different agencies trying to find the way 'there' is good. My only hope is that some group of super spooks are reading all the reports and acting accordingly.
Who controls a state within a state ?