Tempora Mutantur posted:

I haven't been following closely but I legit thought there have been no in-person sightings of her in a looooong time, is that not the case?

gh0stpinballa posted:

tfw E-TEAM and GELATIN art students spend the summer before 9/11 doing art installations in wtc

Mola Yam posted:

I often wonder what the ones we never hear about are up to.

Ham Cheeks posted:

What do you mean? I know literally nothing and find this stuff fascinating

https://web.archive.org/web/20150918031127/https://money.cnn.com/2010/02/16/news/international/Treasury_intelligence_office/ posted:

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- You probably know the Treasury Department as the agency that brought you the bank bailout, the AIG rescue and, of course, the IRS.

But Treasury is also one of the key players in the war on terrorism and smack in the middle of nearly every major international conflict in which the United States is involved. The office is also playing an increasingly critical role at the center of U.S. foreign policy strategy in Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East.

In particular, Treasury has been waging a quiet economic war against Iran.

The department this month expanded sanctions on Iran to include several companies and others affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for alleged involvement in nuclear and missile programs.

Inside Treasury, the work is done by a low-profile but high-impact unit known as the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

"Years ago, if anybody had said that Treasury would be at the center of all these national security issues, we wouldn't have believed you," said Matthew Levitt, who used to help run the department and now directs the Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Treasury is the world's only government finance agency with its own in-house intelligence unit. It has offices as far flung as Riyadh, Islamabad, Kabul and Abu Dhabi.

They're the ones seizing or freezing assets of suspected bad guys -- from terrorists to drug runners. They're a part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, sharing information with the CIA and the FBI, among others.

"Treasury is the only finance ministry in the world to have an intel shop that is very much focused on financial intelligence, getting access to information about the networks that support terrorists, weapons proliferation or narcotics traffickers," said David Cohen, assistant secretary for terrorist financing.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/weinbergersa/status/1384910762192297984?s=19

nomad2020 posted:

You ever notice your computer do something weird? The screen will blink, maybe WoW takes a bit longer to load than you're used to?

RIP

ymgve posted:

also using a sealed toilet in a house under construction is a huge gamble, who the hell knows if it's even properly hooked up to a sewer line yet

TrixRabbi posted:

Sure, but in what specific sense?

TrixRabbi posted:

I don't know about that. If anything, the Trump admin would have been more favorable to an all out assault on Palestine like this. I think timing just didn't line up is all.

quote:

Unocal seems to have had a deeper role. Intelligence "whistleblower" Julie Sirrs claimed that anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud told her he had "proof that Unocal had provided money that helped the Taliban take Kabul [in 1996]".[17] And French journalist Richard Labeviere said, referring to the later 1990s, "The CIA and Unocal's security forces ... provided military weapons and instructors to several Taleban militia[s] ..."[18] US State Department officials openly promoted the pipeline, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger served as a Unocal consultant.[17]

Jose posted:

Today I learned that Jeff bezos grandfather founded DARPA

Excelzior posted:

the future is going to own so much

papa horny michael posted:

Real hurthling! posted:

this guy is totally going to be suicided for restoring mysteriously deleted nih data about the earliest strains of covid

multistability posted:

Quietly lolling to myself thinking about how Intel's name is Intel. I'm sure it's nothing

Excelzior posted:

lots of unknowns, both known and unknown

Shear Modulus posted:

i don't quite get how the pop psychiatry canard where geniuses are more mysterious and geniusy if they're depressed or bipolar or autistic or whatever is the worst possible world. i feel like i'm missing something here.

ram dass in hell posted:

lol that's completely insane and i have no idea how to have a conversation with a normie about the boston marathon at all anymore. like what the gently caress.

quote:

[interim Premier] Joseph condemned the assassination as a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.” In the statement, he said some of the attackers spoke in Spanish but offered no further explanation. He later said in a radio address that they spoke Spanish or English, again offering no details.

The White House described the attack as “horrific” and “tragic” and said it was still gathering information on what happened. U.S. President Joe Biden will be briefed later Wednesday by his national security team, spokesperson Jen Psaki said during an interview on MSNBC.

“The message to the people of Haiti is this is a tragic tragedy,” Psaki said during a previously scheduled interview on CNN. “It’s a horrific crime and we’re so sorry for the loss that they are all suffering and going through as many of them are waking up this morning and hearing this news. And we stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that’s needed.” [lol, lmao]

gh0stpinballa posted:

been reading about heroin trafficking and the middle east.

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/afghan-heroin-the-cia-519/

quote:

A few years after the Taliban came to power they began a campaign to eradicate Afghanistan’s opium crops, and “The success of Afghanistan’s 2000 drug eradication program under the Taliban government was recognized by the United Nations” as a monumental feat, in that “no other country was able to implement a comparable program.”[12] In October of 2001, the UN acknowledged that the Taliban reduced opium production in Afghanistan from 3300 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001.[13]

In June of 2001, a few months before 9/11, it was reported that a “recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan” was announced “by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, [which] made the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban.”[14]

...

Drug trafficking is the largest global commodity in profits after the oil and arms trade, consequently, “immediately following the October 2001 invasion opium markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the domestic price of opium in Afghanistan (in dollars/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.”[15] The Anglo-American invasion of Afghanistan successfully restored the drug trade. The Guardian recently reported that, “In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined.”[16].

nut posted:

Only just listened to the Gretchen TrueAnon recent episode and I dunno what Guardian article they were talking about but I'd love to find it to get the quote of the informant saying how liberated he felt as a criminal knowing he couldn't get arrested because of his informant status. Feel like that kinda freedom is shared by some thread favs

Fried Watermelon posted:

We trained an AI to become obsessed with child porn

inferis posted:

what gave you the idea that dementia ever discredited anyone in this country?