Cheney in wheel chair on inauguration day
January 20, 2009
The BBC has just reported during their coverage of inauguration day that Dick Cheney is in a wheel chair. Apparently he strained a leg muscle while moving boxes into his new home.
Oh dear, poor Mr Cheney. We really feel for him don’t we …. that evil bastard who not only made sure the Iraq war happened but profited from it too.
He will have his comeuppance.
Is Facebook sharing your info with the CIA?
January 15, 2008
…. the CIA would like you to get one (?)
A very interesting Guardian article by Tom Hodgkinson has come out this week showing possible links between Facebook and the CIA.
Jim Breyer is a board member of Facebook. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
Facebook’s most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock’s senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What’s In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA.
After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which “identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions”.
The US defence department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. “We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries,” defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. “We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts.” In-Q-Tel’s first chairman was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer.
Are you one of the millions that have Facebook? Do you have many friends? Well you might have at least one more … the CIA.
