Former intelligence boss Nick Warner joins lobbying firm while working as a consultant for Prime Minister's Department. A career diplomat who headed Australia's intelligence community until last year is working for a corporate lobbying firm while also being paid as a consultant by the Prime Minister's Department.
The ABC can reveal Nick Warner started being paid as a consultant for the Prime Minister's Department in JanuaryThis is despite working for a private lobbying firm with close links to the Middle EastMr Warner is a former director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service Nick Warner completed his term as the first director-general of the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) in December and has recently been hired as a "counsellor" for Dragoman, a Melbourne-based international strategic advisory office with close links to the Middle East. During his lengthy public service career, Mr Warner served as the director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Defence Department secretary and ambassador to several nations, including Iran. If your friends or family have fallen for an internet conspiracy cult, here's what you should do. How do you rescue someone you love from the clutches of an internet conspiracy cult?
Do you maybe tell them that the operator of the “most prominent” website devoted to the unhinged, fact-free QAnon conspiracy theory was recently rumbled as a senior vice-president at Citibank? It’s important to say this is not a step towards a paywall We need more readers to register with us to help sustain our independent, quality journalism. Without you taking this simple step, we miss out on revenues from personalised advertising - a critical source of funding for our future. Through doing so, you'll help ensure that our reporting remains freely available to everyone, and if we recognise you when you come back, we can improve your news experience too. NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others. The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.
The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called Prism, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says. The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims "collection directly from the servers" of major US service providers. Although the presentation claims the program is run with the assistance of the companies, all those who responded to a Guardian request for comment on Thursday denied knowledge of any such program.
Stargate Project. The Stargate Project[1] was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S.
Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly "remote viewing": the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance.[2] These projects were active from the 1970s through 1995 and were primarily handled by the CIA and DIA. They followed up early psychic research done at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), The American Society for Psychical Research, and other psychical research labs.[3] The Stargate Project was terminated in 1995 with the conclusion that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Background[edit] Remote viewing attempts to sense unknown information about places or events.
Operation Northwoods. Operation Northwoods memorandum (13 March 1962)[1] Operation Northwoods was a series of false flag proposals that originated within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962.
The proposals, which called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in US cities and elsewhere, were rejected by the Kennedy administration.[2] At the time of the proposal, Cuba had recently become communist under Fidel Castro. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts.[3] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government.
Power of Nightmares. The Power of Nightmares - The Rise of the Politics of Fear Transcript of Episode 1:"Baby It's Cold Outside" For a transcript of episode 2, click here.
For episode 3, click here. To watch this revealing documentary online, click here. Originally aired on BBC 2, 20 October 2004, 9 pm. Written and Produced by Adam Curtis. British state 'covered up plot to assassinate King Edward VIII' It has all the hallmarks of a 21st-century political thriller, including a plot to assassinate a controversial monarch, an MI5 double agent, and claims of a high-level cover-up.
In 1936, an MI5 informant called George McMahon tried to assassinate King Edward VIII as he rode his horse near Buckingham Palace. Just as he was taking aim with a revolver, a woman in the crowd grabbed his arm and a policeman punched him, causing the weapon to fly into the road and strike the monarch’s mount. At his Old Bailey trial, McMahon insisted that a foreign power had paid him to kill the king and that he had deliberately bungled the assassination. Portrayed as a fantasist, he was convicted on a lesser offence of “unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition to endanger life” and imprisoned for 12 months. Under financial pressure and slipping into conspiracies, why Instagram influencers promote coronavirus lockdown protests - ABC News.
NASA's Skylab met its demise in Australia more than 40 years ago — but was it really an accident? - ABC News. The Philip Cross Affair. UPDATE “Philip Cross” has not had one single day off from editing Wikipedia in almost five years.
“He” has edited every single day from 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018. Including five Christmas Days. No 10 furious at leak of paper predicting shortages after no-deal Brexit. Downing Street has reacted with fury to the leak of an official document predicting that a no-deal Brexit would lead to food, medicine and petrol shortages, with No 10 sources blaming the disclosure on a hostile former minister intent on ruining Boris Johnson’s trip to see EU leaders this week.
The leaked document, detailing preparations under Operation Yellowhammer, argues that the most likely scenario is severe extended delays to medicine supplies and shortages of some fresh foods, combined with price rises, if there is a no-deal Brexit on 31 October. It said there would be a return to a hard border on the island of Ireland before long and a “three-month meltdown” at ports unable to cope with extra checks. Protests could break out across the UK, requiring significant police intervention, and two oil refineries could close, with thousands of job losses, according to the documents.
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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience. Wikipedia list article This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers. Detailed discussion of these topics may be found on their main pages. Conspiracy theory. An explanation of an event or situation that unnecessarily invokes a conspiracy A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful actors, often political in motivation,[2][3] when other explanations are more probable.[4] The term has a pejorative connotation, implying that the appeal to a conspiracy is based on prejudice or insufficient evidence.[5] Conspiracy theories resist falsification and are reinforced by circular reasoning: both evidence against the conspiracy and an absence of evidence for it, are re-interpreted as evidence of its truth,[5][6] and the conspiracy becomes a matter of faith rather than proof.[8] Etymology and definition A conspiracy theory is not simply a conspiracy.
Barkun writes that conspiracies are "actual covert plots planned and/or carried out by two or more persons". Examples A conspiracy theory may take any matter as its subject, but certain subjects attract greater interest than others. Types. Big Pharma conspiracy theory. Big Pharma conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories which claim that the medical establishment in general and pharmaceutical companies in particular, especially the large ones, operate for sinister purposes and against the public good.[1][2] History and definition[edit] The term Big Pharma is used to refer collectively to the global pharmaceutical industry. According to Steve Novella the term has come to connote a demonized form of the pharmaceutical industry.[3] Professor of writing Robert Blaskiewicz has written that conspiracy theorists use the term Big Pharma as "shorthand for an abstract entity comprising corporations, regulators, NGOs, politicians, and often physicians, all with a finger in the trillion-dollar prescription pharmaceutical pie".[1] Manifestations[edit]
[OS] Fwd: MEQ: "Early Warnings Ignored - September 11: A Decade Later" On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency.
The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods. [OS] Fwd: MEQ: "Early Warnings Ignored - September 11: A Decade Later" Early Warnings Ignored September 11: A Decade Later by Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly Fall 2011, pp. 15-26 (view PDF) [IMG] Send [IMG] RSS Share: Facebook Twitter Google +1 Task Force Origins. [Analytical & Intelligence Comments] Assassination of Osama Vin Laden and the U.S. Assisted 911 Trade Center Provocation. On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor.
The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods. [Analytical & Intelligence Comments] Assassination of Osama Vin Laden and the U.S. Assisted 911 Trade Center Provocation William H. Wikileaks Discoveries You Should Know About. From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, Sustainablility, and the events surrounding 9/11. From The Wilderness Publications Stories, Essays, and News by Category. September 11th and The New World We Live In.
List of conspiracy theories. Wikipedia list article. Electromagnetic Energy, the element of Tachion and the Star of David. You are attempting to enter a private internet forum. En. Opinion polls about 9/11 conspiracy theories. Since the September 11 attacks, doubts have been raised about the mainstream account of events. 9/11: The Whole Rotten Saga & the Most Ineffective Cover-Up Ever… 9/11 isn’t going to go away. 9/11 conspiracy theories debunked. Briefing Paper - The Case for Bush Administration Advance Knowledge of 9-11 Attacks. Briefing Paper The Case for Bush Administration Advance Knowledge of 9-11 Attacks.
9/11 report's classified '28 pages' about potential Saudi Arabia ties released. Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig. OSAMA Bin Laden sat in his gold- fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan.
“Chemtrails” not real, say leading atmospheric science experts. Washington, DC— Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or “covert geoengineering,” concludes a new study from Carnegie Science, University of California Irvine, and the nonprofit organization Near Zero. Some groups and individuals erroneously believe that the long-lasting condensation trails, or contrails, left behind aircraft are evidence of a secret large-scale spraying program.
NASA Confesses to Dosing Americans with Air-borne Lithium and Other Chemicals – Awareness Act.