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 Anonymous Launches Investigative Research BranchPosted on Oct 2, 2011
The hacker collective Anonymous launched a division devoted to investigative reporting last month, marking a departure from the group’s traditional practice of exposing corporations through hacking attacks. Anonymous Analytics will bring together “analysts, forensic accountants, statisticians, computer experts and lawyers from various jurisdictions and backgrounds” to reveal corporate corruption through detailed reports, the group said on its website. All research will be fact checked and vetted for authenticity before release, it said, and sources can provide tips via an encrypted drop box. The group published one report already: a lengthy and seemingly well-researched review of Chinese agricultural firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture. With its ostensibly secure, low-profile operation, Anonymous Analytics may be able to attract serious experts, researchers and sources who prefer not to deal with traditional investigative firms. —ARK
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By drbhelthi, October 4, 2011 at 1:05 am Link to this comment
The concept of “homeland terrorism” was defined in the extended version of the Patriot Act, passed by the Obama entourage.
The application of which seems to apply only to Americans who dispute the policies of the USGOV, as put forth by its presidential cabinet-level staff, appointees and former members of both.
One abiding example is the Conspiracy Theory of the GHWBushSr entourage, contained in the official 9-11 report. I have not checked to determine if the collaborators in the fraudulent document, who have pronounced it to be invalid, are still among us, or if they have committed suicide,” if their aircraft have crashed, if they died in weird auto accidents, etc, etc, etc. All of which could be predicted for the leadership of anonymous, if they should reveal themselves.
The anonymous people are simply following the example set by the USGOV since just prior to the end of WWII. Why should any group of people openly reveal themselves, when they are only “following the leader”? Allegedly, Americans still vote by “secret ballot” to avoid identification. Or have the Bush-jimmied voting machine programs changed that procedure also ?
Report thisBy Shenonymous, October 3, 2011 at 10:57 pm Link to this comment
“Better that Anonymous reveal themselves” and be locked up as
a “homeland terrorists”?
Is that what you think they are? Homeland terrorists? Telling the
truth takes courage. With all the whining about guvamint
transparency, it is a bit contradictory not to own up like journalists
do. Why think they would be locked up? First amendment rules.
If anonymous terrorism is the only way to speak directly to truth,
it is a species of cowardice. Too many innocent bystanders. If
you don’t think it is terrorism, then why not imagine those whom
they serve, ostensibly the 99%ers, would not think so either. If
everything that is disclosed is fact-checked and vetted then there
is no imperative for secrecy of authorship.
By the romantic I meant the idea of secrecy or mystery is psychologically
Report thisseductive or adventuresome of the swashbuckling of a masked Zorro
kind! A Robin Hood syndrome. It appeals hugely to those who feel
strapped in their limited world and allows for all kinds of projected
sequence of events.
By drbhelthi, October 3, 2011 at 12:34 pm Link to this comment
“There is something repugnant in sneaky whatever the cause. Of course the romance might be pruned down a bit.” Shenonymous
Romance?
I assume you are describing the secretive activities of the USGOV since 1945, the carrying out of “Operation Paper Clip” until 1952, plus CIA and NSA activities?
Perhaps also the 9-11 GHWBushSr “Conspiracy Theory”, official report ?
Recently released info from a former NAZI source reports that twenty thousand, not two thousand as has been reported since 1952, NAZI and family members were secreted into the US, 1945-1952. Not to mention the continuous falsifications by NASA, since its formation, and NASA involvement in Area 51.
The secretive measures within the USCongress that the current occupant of the USPresidency has conducted, plus Federal Reserve counterfeit loans and juggling of the US Treasury and Pentagon books don´t count, I guess?
“Better that Anonymous reveal themselves- ” and be locked up as a “homeland terrorists”?
Report thisMaybe you are trying to provide a laugh for a bit of relief - - ?
By Shenonymous, October 3, 2011 at 2:52 am Link to this comment
One step away from falling into anarchy, Anonymous is taking
political matters into its own hands, and while at the moment
the intention appears morally transcendent, and we the people
certainly need a way to oppose the leviathan corporatocrats,
The Age of the Informer is upon us and caution is given to not
get too caught up in the euphoria of group therapy. Better that
Anonymous reveal themselves and do battle face-to-face. There
is something repugnant in sneaky whatever the cause. Of course
the romance might be pruned down a bit.
On another thread we see that billionaire Nicolas Berggruen is sneakily
Report thistaking world economic matters into his own hands. This is tyranny and
are we on the road to Perdition because of unseen forces?
By EmileZ, October 2, 2011 at 10:47 pm Link to this comment
Anonymous is growing up!!!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, October 2, 2011 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment
Investigative journalism has long since passed with shows like ‘60 minutes’ being only a shadow of its former self.
The MSM has ruined it with censorship directed at the behest of the Government, corporations and their monied interests and not the publics interest.
Power to Anonymous, wikileaks and the free flow of information.
Report thisBy gerard, October 2, 2011 at 11:49 am Link to this comment
As in everything else that has “gone to pot” without it, integrity is vital. May all people working for
Report thistomorrow’s world maintain the highest possible level of honesty and social consciousness as they move forward step by step together. Nothing is more important than that. Keep in touch—hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart.
By Ulyanov, October 2, 2011 at 11:42 am Link to this comment
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Thank God for the people at Anonymous.
It’s a shame that an anonymous group of citizens has to do the job that the American government was empowered and entrusted by its people to do, and has failed so miserably to carry out.
We see Anonymous as nothing less than true freedom fighters against a protofascist state.
“Evil is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.”
Report thisShakti Gawain
By John R., October 2, 2011 at 11:16 am Link to this comment
In Bradley Manning we trust. In Wikileaks we trust. In revealing truth we trust. In
revealing the identities of Anon workers…. well I think you might understand that
may be the wrong thing to reveal since… Anonymous is you, is me, is the broken
woman/man that has divorced, lost their job, lost their home, a returned solder
from Iraq, is the five year old, sent to live in a string of foster homes. The list is
endless. You know the bottom line. The time has come for empathy and love to be
lifted up above all corporate influence. Only the human race in all countries can
make this happen.
Please join OccupyWallStreet, OccupyLA, OccupyAmerica.
Report thisWe love you. I know, it may sound corny, but it is sincere.