Shimmering Silk... and Roads

As you know, there was this Texan guy who supposedly created 'Silk Road' a meant-to-be secure trading platform for the buying and selling of various kinds of contraband, and particularly illegal drugs. He got a life sentence without parole for his efforts.

You can see the 'flow-diagram' (on Wikipedia) presented in the New York court as to how this 'scheme' for opaque trading was meant to take place and I think it's particularly silly.

I mean if this is what the people behind 'Silk Road' really did, and what they thought was some kind of means of keeping such illegal transactions 'secret' maybe he deserved a life sentence - not that anyone does for this kind of thing, really. Ostensibly, it was all about his illegal drug venue, but he was jailed mainly for some claim included in the case that he had hired hitmen to kill people - a claim that was never ever actually proven but sufficiently 'hinted at...'

Really stupid and cannot possibly work

I have said for many years that I am easily the best money launderer and transaction concealer of anyone I know - but outside of my own private clients that I have dealt with for decades, there was only one time someone or some 'group' tried to 'take me up' on the claim and I already had information that these people were from some unsavory English mob located somewhere in Grosvenor Gardens, London... It all became all the funnier when, during the inquiry into what next turned out to be a 'misconceived side-adventure' of the so-called 'Five Eyes' group, two officers in the Australian Federal Police 'posed' a question to me as whether I knew about money laundering and tax dodging, and I said, I admitted really, well yes, I knew A LOT about it.

And they said: 'what, what do you know?'

And I said: 'It's illegal.'

And that was the end of that.

Who can say what 'Silk Road' was really all about - I don't have any inside knowledge about whether or not it may have even been a clever ruse by Federal Authorities to uncover players in the large-scale illegal drugs racket. It doesn't seem to me, however, to have ever been a legitimate means of keeping transactions secret, regardless of what popular opinion holds.

For real examples of the high end, of money laundering, we can consider people like Adnan Khashoggi (pronounced 'Cash-og-ji') who was charged at one point for money laundering in the orders of sums like 300 million dollars, back when that was a lot of money. He never went to jail of course, basically because, just like me, he never actually did any money laundering - because it is illegal.

Interestingly, two months after 9-11, we have one Richard Perle turn up on Khashoggi's Swiss doorstep and have him participate in a small LLP designed to fund some escapade I think, from memory, known nowadays, as the first Iraq War. Khashoggi was this fellow, you might recall, who had a large private jet plane which was later taken over by the Orbis Ophthalmic Charity Foundation, which was used to go around the world doing eye surgery for free for poor people.

I don't know, but I was looking up 'Orbis' the other day, as you do, when you are compiling 'dossiers' and I found the headquarters of them at '9-11 Grosvener Gardens, London.' Might be some different 'Orbis,' though - because as you know, 'Orbis' is a common name, like 'John Smith,' or 'Michael Cohen.'

Hmn, yeah. London... and 'business consultants.' (SMH). 'Shake My Head;' for those who don't know.

The Seeds Are Now Planted

I could say that 'the conditions of vulnerability are there' but the fact is, they have been there for a while and I have this 'sneaking suspicion' that seeds have been sown.

What makes large systems and social structures and government and economic structures vulnerable is the human equation. In the final analysis it's always the human equation.

This car, above - this actual very car -
was reported by Pinkerton's in 2015 as 'stolen' from New York,
and
a $100,000 reward was offered for its return, or info
leading to its return.

You might think this is absurd or silly or breathtakingly naive or impertinent or wildly insolent, but I am going to say to you at this juncture that I have VASTLY more technical and data analysis resources and better information available to me than the US Central Intelligence Agency. And those following here would already know that I have outlined far too many things (that were meant to be secret by governments) over a long time - all of which proved true in the public record - to be 'just' making any kind of sweeping and silly statement. I'm sure I'm the first person in any public record anywhere to say that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. I said that many many years before he was 'found' there. I mean, he was always there! It could be the case that the CIA for some reason wanted to hold secret the fact that they also might have known that he was there. I don't know what the true position in that particular regard is. That is to say, I do, but I won't suggest what it is. It could be perceived to be slanderous. I wouldn't be attempting to be slanderous but the uninformed general public could misunderstand the points being made if I were to suggest what the situation might have been or indeed, was.

When you factor in that today, we all of us, have access to superior computing technology than the entire establishment of NASA and US Military Intelligence during the time in which they managed to get men onto the Moon - then the reality is that, if the human equation, that is, the human input and experience and knowledge base is better, then, indeed the results will also be better. The results, that is, of feeding big data into whatever analytical filters you have and are applying.

For instance, I already know the name of the so-called 'former British Intelligence Operative' who has supposedly 'gone to ground' who produced this infamous Russia-Trump report of the last few days. This is not in any media report anywhere. And that is because they have not been told what his name is because, indeed they DID get the story leaked straight from an 'authoritative' source... 

Who are these fine people? One is Carter Page, but
apart from being too close to Saudi money, he is NOT
the 'former' Brit operative. But this pic tells enough of a story
though...

And I already know who leaked the original DNC emails to Wikileaks too. Wasn't the same person; not the same 'leaker.'

I don't know who specifically hacked anything official in the United States because, that would be a criminal offence to know that, I think. So I don't know. In fact I really don't know, but largely because I'm not interested to know and I haven't ever looked to find out. Otherwise I could know - and so there we have the problem with the senators who have been privy to the complete and 'secret' briefings; they have made an intellectual and logical leap which isn't actually there to make. There is a factual difference between 'capability to, and 'having done.'

There is no evidence of any kind indicating 'the Russians' hacked anything.

What there is, is evidence they may have financed research into hacking - just general high-tech hacking. And that is all there is.

There are other major problems with the bullshit (I have to use this word, it's the only accurate one to apply in this case) that the Russians hacked anything official or high level political in the United States. One of the most basic, most fundamentally basic (tautology, I guess!) rules in real Intelligence practice, is that you cannot use an information stream where your opponent knows that you're there - because of the likelihood of deliberate disinformation.

The Russians DID NOT HACK ANYONE. Period.

And they didn't need to...

So let's get really big-time super professional here for a change. The vulnerability of which I speak in this article does not relate to Lt. General Flynn or Mike Pompeo - these guys are way up to speed on all the issues I'm talking about. No. It's not about what the new CIA and NSA and DHS will do next. It's about the fact that people so widely have such poor knowledge and understanding of history that they CANNOT EVER credit what I'm about to say:

All the large hedge funds are fronts for Middle Eastern money. It's the fact that virtually no one will accept this as the fact that it is, which will result in the massive financial losses that will be realized.

You see, there is a reason why Julian Assange ever went to Sweden. It was because he was maneuvering around people like Securitas Inc., and the Stockholm Exchange to see what this was all about. What it is about is fake 'security' companies (not necessarily Securitas) - albeit very financially large ones, engaging with Russians who come to Scandinavia a lot because that is a 'safe border' for them, in order to achieve some 'aims' with those Russians.

The Swedish Stock Exchange is very small, but it houses - as locations of global head offices - the largest US 'security' and 'corporate risk' companies. The shareholder registers, are, as I have said, nothing but fronts for Middle Eastern money.

And it is from here, that people like the so-called 'FORMER' British Intelligence Operative was tasked, by the wealthy backer of US political elite identities, to 'research and report' on something dynamite, regarding Trump.

As a blog-site which ostensibly deals with financial matters, my point to you is this - when things start to fall apart for these 'fronts,' then the money will retire from the stock registers and those companies' share prices will fall. They are only being kept up at the moment by the outside money which has a particular agenda - not by anyone paying them for 'corporate risk' consultancy!!

If anyone sensible in corporate-land wanted real 'risk management consultancy' they wouldn't pay some dolt from SOAS University atrocious money for cut-and-paste jobs from Apartheid era South African security companies!

People like Rex Tillerson ARE sensible.

And let me tell you another thing -  or at least REMIND you - of what I had said a long time ago. the head of Total Oil, Christophe de Margerie, was most certainly not assassinated by Putin! Or anyone Russian. But if you go by the way US senators have been leaping to conclusions from whiffs of evidence, he was certainly assassinated.

As far as 'corporate risk' goes then, one of the biggest seems to be from insider jobs from 'rogue(?)' people in Western Agencies themselves - who bat for NATO, and Middle Eastern Oil Interests. The whole Ukraine thing is about Middle Eastern entry into the Euro gas and energy for steel refineries markets. de Margerie was posing a serious barrier to all of that. And suddenly, he died in 'an accident.'

A pic to do with fictional matters

The whole trick with the smart-ass Londonistanis is this: they buy out huge branded groups, even industry icons and iconic figures, and then they subvert things from the inside and you never get to see how and when the place suddenly turned into a mosque.

It's been going on for Centuries. How many people out there, do you think, would know off the top of their heads, the connection between the Ottoman Muslims, and Napoleon - or the brutally bloodthirsty Emperor of India - the Muslim Tipu Khan, or Tipu Sultan, as he is known in Wikipedia, and Napoleon? And how many of the same people think the most important conspiracy event of the outcome of Waterloo, are 'the Rothschilds'??!!!!!

The Rothschilds might have benefited from being on the short-term winning side of that 'war,' but they never funded the starting of it.

That was strictly an Islamic affair.

Sadly, today, there is no Pinkerton's Detective Agency as such. But there is a company of the same kind of name working for a lot of rich Middle Eastern punk kids...

A Proper CIA Report

Where the whole thing falls down - as if you properly don't already know (the tragedy being that no one who needs to know, reads blogs like this one) - is that the CIA report of the last couple of days regarding the so-called 'hacking' of emails, is that it is not like an authentic CIA report.

An authentic CIA report - in full - goes something along these lines:

Over the last period of ____ to ____, we analysed data from all sources and commenced surveillance or closer observation of (for example) '350' potential targets. 

Of those, (for example) '75,' were regarded as having cause to scrutinize using a higher level of human resources.

During the said period, we ran '35' group surveillance projects,

...'11' additional surveillance projects targeting sole individuals,

of whom, '7' were within government organizations, and

...'3' were employed in sensitive or mission critical private firms or contractors.

'25' FSA warrants were sought during the period and '25' were subsequently obtained.

Three arrests have been made and several possible interdicts of possible dangerous illegal activities occurred.

The Agency uncovered '5' possible clandestine 'hand-off' events, and closed down '150' possible or potential 'dead drop' sites across the country.

On the basis of a combination of intercepted communications from the targets under surveillance, and digital data gathered from examining various computers and servers, we have determined that, there is a correlation between the organised activities of covert cells acting withing the United States, and the illegal accessing of private or confidential government communications and data archives as and when or within an umbra time frame of movements of finance or possible encrypted 'orders' moving through the covert cell traffic and its communication channels.

The correlation gives us a 'high confidence' that... et cetera.

In summary:

• 350 potential targets
• 75 targets
• 35 group targets
• 11 sole targets
• 3 arrests
• 5 'live' current cells revealed and left intact for further/ on-going action

And then there is often attached, a summarized contrary opinion or minority report.

Finally there might be some word on 'Assembly code' software - or 'Assembler/Assembler' software that was used to uncover indications that computers had been 'peered into' and what those signatures really were in terms of dates of such signatures (old signatures meant off-the-shelf software and were extremely unlikely to be used by serious professional hackers).

Now assume of course the numbers are nowhere near anything that might be an accurate reflection of the levels of actual government counter-espionage activity, and assume that in any de-classified report, the numbers would be modified or blacked-out entirely with only privileged members of the House selected to see them, nevertheless, this will give you an impression of what a true report would look like.

The CIA report was a combination of bizarre, ludicrous, childish, foolish, amateurish, insulting, and in the end, dangerous and reckless.

It was tendentious in the extreme. 

'Expelling Diplomats' Explained

The media has headlined the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US and the closing of a 'compound' - which was a resort owned by the Russian government at which these full-time diplomats and their families spent time during vacations.

What has not received any attention at all as far as I have been able to see, in any of the media reports, is what such expulsion is all about.

The word 'conflate' has been doing the rounds a lot since George Galloway tore strips off the US Senate - IN that Senate where as a member of British Parliament he defended himself - for 'traducing his name' and 'conflating' his various human rights and journalistic efforts around the world with some malignant motivation, without 'the slightest shred of evidence.'

A New York socialite with Anton Fedyashin, the head of Mosfilm,
and multiple award-winning film-maker Karen Shakhnazarov

Here, with the matter of the expelling of diplomats, we have an excellent example of what has become all too common - in that the media has 'conflated' 'spies' with 'diplomats;' or, as in this case Russian diplomats. Apparently, in the common public mind, it is all too easy to say 'Russian' and this immediately makes the link to the Soviet era Cold War of 'Russian spies' of popular myth, entertainment legend, and also at times, fact.

So let's quickly summarize the way it really is:

You know this part, but anyway... diplomats are granted, by mutual legal agreement - by treaty - as well as International Obligation via United Nations' agreements, legal immunity from prosecution in the countries they are working. If it becomes the case where a government believes the individual is say for instance, so individually or characteristically problematic as to pose a danger - for instance, they have become aberrant, done something heinous which could not be explained as merely not having a good enough understanding of local custom and laws - then they can or will be 'expelled.' But that simply means a new diplomat returns to take that individual's place.

People who are actual spies - do not have any kind of immunity from prosecution. And spying is an illegal activity. Spying means taking information that is privileged or belongs to someone else and using it for your own advantage in an illegal way. Breaking patents is a kind of commercial operation that often relies on commercial espionage. Certainly there is also active damaging of State infrastructure or other valuable assets - these kinds of 'spies' are operative agents. Pejoratively, within the CIA, they are sometimes called 'operators' and this can also mean someone who is doing something that 'fucks something up!' Which is not necessarily always an intention!

It is simply not a fact - as the media want to imply - that the US government has said the Russian diplomats were spies.

Amy Pascal, on the right, head of Sony during' the Sony
email hackings - you will recall that. Wasn't done by the Russians.

The tradition is this: where a government thinks there are spies operating, not simply researching in a benign way, but for some reason, maybe they are not certain who these are but are sure they are there - THEN, they expel diplomats to give the signal to that foreign government that IF they caught their spies these people would NOT HAVE LEGAL COVER OF IMMUNITY FROM ARREST AND PROSECUTION.

That is what the whole thing means.

It's not that the diplomats were spies. That would be one of the most ridiculous and illogical things to say. If the diplomats were spies you could stop their activities because you knew who they were, where they were, and where they were working from. You could track every single they were doing. It's ridiculous.

So why is the media saying it? There are only two answers - one, that the media is totally incompetent and ignorant and stupid, or two, that they are saying it on purpose to fool you about something.

"Is It Time, Morgiana?" (revisited)

So the general media is saying that Obama has expelled thirty-odd Russian 'spies.'

But you better not be one of those who believe this kind of rubbish. 

Factually, they are diplomats.

Susan Lehrman - wealthy New York Socialite

Diplomats are the kinds of people who have access to other diplomats and high levels of government - although only in rare cases, exactly the highest levels. And what they do is 'suggest' diplomatically, that you do things like check out the Tsarnaev brothers. And they only suggest because often they can only base their views on educated speculation - it may be very well educated speculation but it will lack the hard forensic evidence to warrant taking the matter directly to say, the FBI. Diplomats do stuff like a 'heads up.' 

Now spies on the other hand, actual spies, be they of those who interfere with what you are doing, or who gather highly sensitive information that may be used against you, will be positioned differently to diplomats.

They will be located in entirely different places to embassy compounds. Theoretically, you will not be able to detect them. Yes, there are trained lawyers who will handle things if an actual 'operative agent' gets into trouble - and those lawyers will be in or close to embassies. But they will not generally have exact knowledge of who the spies are and only 'find out' when the embassy is contacted and the appropriate accreditation is exposed by that individual 'in trouble' for whatever reason. Sometimes, it's just that someone was apprehended in the commission of a real crime, who was supposed to be carrying it out secretly, and didn't - and then, embassy cover begins at which point smart people realize, oh, that wasn't an ordinary 'crook' that was a foreign agent doing something and things went wrong. For instance, he might have been pulled up for speeding, or jay-walking or something, in the middle of well, what he was really up to...

'Karl Rove is a spy.' Who he spies for I have no idea. Well, I don't know that he's a spy, what I'm saying is that he is the type of person who is - he goes where they go, he knows who they like to know, he does what spies do.

Amy Pascal. You remember, from the Sony email
hacking

He gives lectures - free lectures - at places such as the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center. 

And at those lectures, people turn up who shouldn't really be there, and then they talk to others there with the same views and outlooks and so on and an 'association' develops. These things take place over years, decades, even generations. Nobody 'spies' who just turns up one day into a desk job at an embassy, and then a few months later gets turfed out because you have 'discovered' they are a spy!