Octafish
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Member since: 2003 before July 6th
Number of posts: 33,943
Member since: 2003 before July 6th
Number of posts: 33,943
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Thank you for putting the situation into words, scarletwoman.
Posted by Octafish | Mon Jun 10, 2013, 12:37 PM (1 replies)
Whaddya think happened in Ohio?
A computer expert who crossed Rove can't tell us...
The Suspicious, Disturbing Death of Election Rigger (and a decent human being) Michael Connell |
Posted by Octafish | Mon Jun 10, 2013, 11:59 AM (0 replies)
Here's who and what I'm talking about.
Most of the wealth in history has, somehow, ended up in the pockets of GOP fatcats and friends. "In 1985, the top five percent of the households, wealthiest five percent, had net worth of $8 trillion, which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five percent have net worth of $40 trillion," he explained. "The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980." -- David Stockman SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/60minutes/main6999906_page4.shtml And to think there are kids in America who would go to bed hungry every night if they had one. |
Posted by Octafish | Mon Jun 10, 2013, 11:50 AM (0 replies)
NSA data could be most useful for connected types on Wall Street.
The "Take" could be very, very, large. And, after it's sifted, make for a very, very large payday.
Gosh, maybe financial success isn't determined by hard work or who you know. It's just what you know and when you learn it. CIA moonlights in corporate world By EAMON JAVERS Politico, 2/1/10 In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned. In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in “deception detection,” the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation. The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to “connect the dots,” this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253. SNIP... But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy. The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of “deception detection.” BIA’s clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms. CONTINUED... http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eIFPhHBh Certainly doesn't seem like a transparent process to 99-percent of us. |
Posted by Octafish | Mon Jun 10, 2013, 11:12 AM (3 replies)
NPR reporter mockingly said Snowden thought CIA might send the MAFIA after him.
"He actually suggested in that interview that the CIA might send the Mafia after him. That seems probably a little far-fetched." -- Tom Gjelten to Linda Wertheimer It's no joke. Doesn't anyone at NPR remember how the CIA hired the Mafia to kill Castro? FTR: That was 1960 when Ike was president, Nixon was veep, and Dulles headed CIA. |
Posted by Octafish | Mon Jun 10, 2013, 09:09 AM (65 replies)
Won't be getting a bonus, it sounds like.
Posted by Octafish | Sun Jun 9, 2013, 06:00 PM (0 replies)
Just remember they're there and let them have it when it they show.
 
Give them the old what's for, for their, um, efforts. |
Posted by Octafish | Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:27 PM (0 replies)
A fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission
Here's a fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission: Two of its members were directly responsible for the rise of post-war fascism. Allen Dulles, as a top official of the OSS and CIA, incorporated NAZI war criminals into the CIA from its founding. John McCloy, as High Commissioner for Germany, allowed Klaus Barbie and who-knows-who-else to escape justice. Of course, both men were also barons of Wall Street and Beltway Insiders, at the heart of the military industrial complex. We all can see what that means for the United States today. |
Posted by Octafish | Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:10 PM (1 replies)