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AN ASIA TIMES ONLINE EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION Insider trading 9/11 ... the facts laid bare
Asia Times ^ | 3/20/2012 | By Lars Schall

Posted on 03/20/2012 4:30:25 PM PDT by combat_boots

Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States?

Arguably, the best place to start is by examining put options, which occurred around Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to an abnormal extent, and at the beginning via software that played a key role: the Prosecutor's Management Information System, abbreviated as PROMIS. [i]

PROMIS is a software program that seems to be fitted with almost "magical" abilities. Furthermore, it is the subject of a decades-long dispute between its inventor, Bill Hamilton, and various people/institutions associated with intelligence agencies, military and security consultancy firms. [1]

One of the "magical" capabilities of PROMIS, one has to assume, is that it is equipped with artificial intelligence and was apparently from the outset “able to simultaneously read and integrate any number of different computer programs or databases, regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written or the operating systems and platforms on which that database was then currently installed." [2]

And then it becomes really interesting

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 911wot
Long read, but good.
1 posted on 03/20/2012 4:30:31 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots
Thanks!
2 posted on 03/20/2012 8:42:31 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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To: Uncle Bill

Wow.. The Octopus.
Blast from the past. I remember listening to Irv Homer interview Hamilton back in the ‘80s.


3 posted on 03/20/2012 8:49:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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