Monday, January 17, 2011

This Week In WikiLeaks: A Little Morsel Of Delicious UFO -and- Banking's Symphony Of Whistles Warms Up..

Report: State Dept Warned Embassy Staff Not to Mention Pentagon’s UFO Concerns I can't wait to see this one.. Excerpts:


According to the site, the cable is dated November 9, 2005 and is connected to the Kiev embassy. It admonishes embassy officials not to discuss “under any circumstances” the military’s policy toward UFOs.

The report also says that the cable specifically mentions Department of Defense “concerns” related to the possibility of UFOs entering orbit and warns officials not to confirm that the US commits resources to the possibility.
And:
The more interesting aspect is that the State Department was so obsessed with secrecy that they actually took time to caution officials not to “confirm” it in off-the-record conversations.

Juicy. In almost any situation, the more one insists a point, the more the others know otherwise. Meanwhile, another whistle blower handed over more data in a very public news conference.

A former senior Swiss bank executive said Monday that he had given
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity.

Rudolf Elmer, who ran the Caribbean
operations of the Swiss bank
Julius Baer for eight years until he was
dismissed in 2002, refused to
identify any of the individuals or companies,
but he told reporters at a news conference that about 40 politicians and
"pillars of society" were among them.

He told The Observer newspaper over the weekend that those named in the
documents come from "the U.S., Britain, Germany, Austria and Asia -- from all
over," and include "business people, politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates -- from both sides of the Atlantic."

Elmer handed two computer disks to Assange at the news conference..

And:

WikiLeaks and Bank Julius Baer previously clashed in early 2008 when the anti-secrecy organization published hundreds of documents pertaining to its offshore activities. The bank succeeded, briefly, in gaining a court order to shut down the WikiLeaks.org website. The injunction was subsequently overturned and the case dropped.
The offshore banking industry has come under increasing pressure amid accusations that places like the Caribbean, with looser financial laws, allowed investors to avoid taxes and that some banks helped to create complex webs of companies and trust funds there to confuse tax authorities abroad.

And still, no cables about Bank of America. Yet. Which shoe drops first?

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