Sunday, October 2, 2011

Anonymous launches into investigative reporting


It's the career move no-one was expecting from Anonymous: going from faceless hackers to investigative journalists exposing corporate corruption via a specially-created website. Okay, alright...maybe it's not that unexpected from a headless collective with a propensity for resetting expectations.

The site, Anonymous Analytics, launched on Monday and seeks to, in its words, "provide the public with investigative reports exposing corrupt companies" using a team that includes "analysts, forensic accountants, statisticians, computer experts, and lawyers from various jurisdictions and backgrounds."

Read the rest at Techland, Hackers Turned Journalists? Anonymous Launches 'Analytics' Site by Graeme McMillan

Upping the ante.

Again, right in line with Ravi Batra's prediction in The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos (2007). There is a pattern building and the trend is gathering steam.

2 comments:

wilwon32 said...

I have been interested in reading of instances of domestic fraud which appears dependent on behavior and/or policies which involve federal regulators such as the 'naked' shorting posted by several authors at the DeepCapture.com website and which appears to depend upon lack of oversight by the SEC and/or other agencies. [My original interest involved learning more about the mechanics actually employed to facilitate "naked" shorting of securities. The writings of Mark Mitchell are rather difficult to follow because of his redundant focus on personality defects of some of the crooks; this aside, the information dispensed seems to have some veracity. Judd Bagley has an interesting story on the efforts of a number of urologists who seemed to be involved in preventing Dendron from marketing a drug to prolong life with their drug Provenge.]

Many, if not most, of the commenters at the various MMT blog sites tend to focus on items of academic interest in the general areas of economics, banking, and finance with an emphasis on MMT. However, we continually find that even though such a set of procedures which are integral to modern money economics as propounded by MMT advocates seem to have no chance of ever being embraced by any of the power centers in our society.
LR Wray writes occasionally about these problems, while he and others point out that the principles of MMT can be employed by illegitimate, as well as legitimate, power groups who act in decision-making positions. With the exception of Wm K Black, I get the impression that many MMT enthusiasts appear to think that the political leadership in this country might ever be persuaded to consider ideas promoted by Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, LR Wray, and/or many of their like-minded associates.

wilwon32 said...

The NY Times today reported today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/science/04nobel.html

on an article in Science -
SCIENCE | October 04, 2011
One of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and NICHOLAS WADE

which appears to add to some extent to the significance of Judd Bagley's report on the criminal 'naked' short selling of Dendron's stock in the mid-2000 naughts:

http://www.deepcapture.com/wp-content/uploads/story-of-dendreon.pdf

In 2009, Dendron was finally allowed to market the drug - Provenge - which had been designed to model/mimic response/behavior in dendritic cells used by Dr R M Steinman. While Provenge was designed to delay/partially relieve the consequence of prostatic (not, pancreatic) cancer, the model in each case was designed to take advantage of an affected individual's immune system function and this was a unique strategy for design of this type of drug.