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DoomsdaysCWDammit! I hate to say, "I told you so," but I TOLD YOU SO!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’The group, led by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> veteran <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>, has close Trump ties.<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spetsnaz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spetsnaz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NightWolves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NightWolves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PutinsArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PutinsArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateInterests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a>

Linknation<a href="https://sfba.social/@skykiss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@skykiss</a> because it's a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/coupdetat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coupdetat</a> carried out by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> and their private <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Canopy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Canopy</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nogood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nogood</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackwater</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privatemilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatemilitary</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privatearmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatearmy</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercenaries</a>

DoomsdaysCWHow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Militaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Militaries</a> Are Transforming <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Agricultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Agricultural</a> Tech Into Deadly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weapons</a>By Max Fenton Sept 26, 2022"A subsequent U.N. investigation found that one of [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>’s] modified planes was due for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libya</a>, which has been subject to an international arms embargo since the outbreak of its brutal 2011 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civilwar</a>. Known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectOpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectOpus</a>, Prince and his associates attempted to sell the modified crop-dusters to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KhalidHaftar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KhalidHaftar</a>, a Libyan <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/warlord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warlord</a> and one of the key players in the country’s civil conflict and power vacuum since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi. The plane was thankfully intercepted in Jordan, where authorities demanded its military assets be removed. The plane later made its way to Cyprus, Balkan Insight reports, which is its last known location as of 2021 and where it may be undergoing mechanical servicing."Though largely foiled, Prince’s plans are a reminder of how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cropdusting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cropdusting</a> planes are especially risky pieces of military technology when it comes to international law and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> issues in conflict. Many of the militaries interested in their use are alleged to have committed significant human rights violations in the course of irregular warfare campaigns, and the addition of a highly specialized attack plane to their arsenals may pose grave risks to those caught in the crossfire."<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/crop-duster-agricultural-tech-military-conflict.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/crop-duster-agricultural-tech-military-conflict.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponizedCropDusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponizedCropDusters</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AgentOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AgentOrange</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Full article available via the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a>]The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> Is Investigating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> for Trying to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weaponize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weaponize</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CropDusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CropDusters</a> by Matthew Cole February 20 2020"Last May [May 2019], shortly after Congress accused Erik Prince of lying under oath and referred criminal charges to the Justice Department, an associate approached the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> founder to offer help and commiserate about Prince’s potential legal jeopardy."Prince, who once moved to the United Arab Emirates to avoid being caught up in a federal prosecution, immediately dismissed the associate’s concerns. He was untouchable, he bragged, and would face no legal troubles."'Not under this guy,' Prince said referring to President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange."That assumption is about to be tested."Prince, an heir to a billion-dollar fortune who is widely viewed as a shadow adviser to the president, is under federal investigation for his 2015 attempt to modify two American-made crop-dusting planes into attack aircraft — a violation of arms trafficking regulations — two people familiar with the investigation told The Intercept. The planes became part of private military services Prince proposed to sell or use in mercenary operations in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Azerbaijan</a>, as The Intercept has previously reported."The investigation into the modified crop dusters is one of several ongoing probes targeting Prince. Another focuses on the allegations that he lied to Congress during the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a>’s 2016 presidential election interference; a third concerns a 2017 armed aviation proposal to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAE</a>, according to the Wall Street Journal."<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/20/erik-prince-fbi-investigation-trump-barr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2020/02/20/erik-prince-fbi-investigation-trump-barr/</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200414104709/https://theintercept.com/2020/02/20/erik-prince-fbi-investigation-trump-barr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200414104709/https://theintercept.com/2020/02/20/erik-prince-fbi-investigation-trump-barr/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponizedCropDusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponizedCropDusters</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> Founder <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> Indicted for Arms Sales to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libya</a>By Miriam RafteryJuly 27, 2023 (San Diego) — "The name Erik Prince became familiar to many residents in San Diego’s East County when Blackwater, the private military contracting firm he founded, sought to build a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paramilitary</a> training camp in Potrero."Now Austria has indicted Prince for alleged arms trafficking to Libya in violation of a United Nations arms embargo; at least one shipment of explosives reportedly went through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austria</a> using an Austrian business, BNN reports. Prince is accused of organizing a covert military operation to supply Libyan warlord <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KhalifaHafter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KhalifaHafter</a> with war equipment for rebellion against a government backed by the U.S. and the U.N."If convicted, Prince could face up to five years in prison. However, it is unclear whether or not he will be extradited to Austria; Prince holds residency in both the U.S. and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbuDhabi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuDhabi</a>. Prince has denied UN allegations of arms peddling to Libya."The local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Potrero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Potrero</a> project drew massive opposition on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> grounds as well as the many controversies involving Blackwater, which Prince was CEO and chairman of at the time. The Harris Fire in October 2007 displaced many residents, but that didn’t stop them from showing up to vote and recall all five community planning group members who had voted for the project, which sparked national news headlines."The 2007 firestorms scorched Round Potrero Valley, where Blackwater planned to store <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ammunition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ammunition</a> and a bunkhouse with 200 men in the box valley with only one exit. "Blackwater ultimately dropped plans for the Potrero facility in 2008, ostensibly due to noise mediation requirements, although those had not changed since the project’s inception."Prince, a former Navy Seal before founding Blackwater in 2009, is no stranger to controversy. Three Blackwater guards were convicted in 2014 of manslaughter and another of murder in charges stemming from the massacre of civilians in Baghdad’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NissourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NissourSquare</a> in 2007. In March 2009, Prince resigned as Blackwater’s CEO but remained chairman of the board until the company’s sale in late 2010."Blackwater’s successor company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a>, was accused of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmsTrafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmsTrafficking</a> in 2012 dating back to when Prince served as CEO and Chairman. Then in 2020, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> investigated Prince for arms trafficking involving <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cropduster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cropduster</a> planes converted for military use."He moved to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in 2010, where he was hired by the crown prince to organize foreign troops for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAE</a> and formed a new firm called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReflectResponses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReflectResponses</a>, or R2. He later trained Somalis in anti-piracy operations with UAE funding."Prince also leads a private equity firm, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FrontierResourcesGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrontierResourcesGroup</a> and until April 2021, chaired Frontier Services Group Ltd., which had various business dealings in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a>."Prince also drew controversy over revelations that he lied to the House Intelligence Committee in Nov. 2017 about his involvement in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> transition team and was at a Trump Tower meeting that allegedly had backchannel communications with a representative of Russian President Vladimir <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a>. A Special Counsel in 2018 found evidence contradicting Prince, the Washington Post reported. The House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department which announced in 2020 that it had opened an investigation into Prince’s alleged perjury during his testimony."Politically well connected, Prince is the sister of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDevos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BetsyDevos</a>, former Secretary of Education under President Donald Trump, and has been a major donor to numerous Republican candidates and a Trump-aligned super-pac."<a href="https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-indicted-arms-sales-libya" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-indicted-arms-sales-libya</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a>

DoomsdaysCWICYMI - 2010: From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a>The Nation: Docs Reveals <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a>-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monsanto</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a>September 16, 2010“Blackwater’s Black Ops” — that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> services to a range of powerful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> over the past several years. The companies include <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monsanto</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeutscheBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeutscheBank</a> and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jordan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jordan</a>, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. We speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. [includes rush transcript]"AMY GOODMAN: “Blackwater’s Black Ops” — that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disney</a> Company, Deutsche Bank, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Barclays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barclays</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoyalCaribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoyalCaribbean</a> Cruise Lines."Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including the Kingdom of Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. In 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto worked with Blackwater when she returned to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pakistan</a> to campaign for the general elections. Bhutto was assassinated in December of 2007."The new revelations come from documents obtained by The Nation. They show that Blackwater’s work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TotalIntelligenceSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TotalIntelligenceSolutions</a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TerrorismResearchCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerrorismResearchCenter</a>. Both companies are owned by Blackwater’s owner and founder, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>."Today also marks the third anniversary of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NisourSquare</a> massacre, when Blackwater guards gunned down seventeen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraqi</a> civilians and wounded twenty in a fifteen-minute shooting spree in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baghdad</a>."For more, we’re joined now from New York by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. He’s a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute. He’s a Democracy Now! correspondent and author of the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MercenaryArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercenaryArmy</a>. His new article in online at thenation.com."Listen / Read more: <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Netherlands</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmies</a>

DoomsdaysCWFooting the $15 Million Bill for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DakotaAccessPipeline</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a>Sen. John Hoeven added monies to the Department of Justice’s budget for FY 2017 to reimburse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> for incurred costs.By Ruth Hopkins , IndianCountryTodayMediaNetworkPublished: May 23, 2017 “Last fall, the eyes of the world were fixated on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a>.“Among the images burned into the brains of so many abroad were those of Morton County sheriff’s department, joined by law enforcement officers from across the country, bedecked in military gear and armed to the teeth, brutalizing defenseless water protectors for expressing their first amendment rights and freedom of religion. Eyes were opened when mercs sicced vicious attack dogs on women and children guarding sacred burial grounds with their lives. Folks thousands of miles away watched in horror as they witnessed concussion grenades being thrown into crowds and elders being maced in the midst of sweat lodge raids. People will never forget live stream video picked up by mainstream media, showing hundreds of civilians being shot with water cannons in subzero temperatures by a corporate police state army. Some photos of injuries were judged too graphic to post by social media, as they revealed a young woman with a near severed limb and another who’d been blinded in one eye.“This was not Iraq or Afghanistan. There was no foreign enemy invading our shores. These events occurred in the middle of the United States, on Lakota treaty lands; and the only thing these innocent people had done was dare to stand in the way of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the same one Bismarck, North Dakota residents rejected due to fears it would contaminate their water supply. This war zone created by Dakota Access and Morton County was meant to subdue Standing Rock residents and water protectors and force them to accept an unwarranted risk to their fresh water and the desecration of ancestral graves, under the barrel of a gun.“Here in the states, hundreds of Native Nations and the American public sided with Standing Rock. Scores came to camp along the shores of the Mni Sosa (Missouri River). Others rallied in the local cities, signed petitions, and called the White House. Millions were outraged by the injustice.“Yet who is paying for the corporate police state brutality I just mentioned? You are.“Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), who accepted money from Energy Transfer Partners (the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline) and has been vocal in his support of both the Dakota Access Pipeline as well as the Keystone XL pipeline, has announced that North Dakota will receive $15 million in federal funds to reimburse the state for costs incurred as a result of militarizing Barney Fife and company while they pushed the pipeline through for ETP and engaged in the violent, forced removal of water protectors. Hoeven slid said monies into the Department of Justice’s budget as part of Fiscal 2017 funding legislation.“By the way, Hoeven sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is now the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Welcome to Custer’s wet dream.“The distinguished Senator from North Dakota would have us believe his state was alone in its mission to extinguish <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a>. Nothing could be further from the truth.“When Morton County requested backup, law enforcement officials from across the nation came to North Dakota via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). The Sheriff’s Association also showed up in full force.“New York Daily News writer Shaun King obtained audio where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a> freely admitted that they worked closely with the Sheriff’s Association, and wow, did they ever. They became one and the same.“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterProtectors</a> who lived at camp can attest to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ETP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ETP</a> and law enforcement’s collusion and fraternization, but the record speaks for itself.“The Sheriffs’ Association has a $3.46 million budget, according to tax forms. Some of this funding comes from corporate sources, like TigerSwan. TigerSwan maintains offices in Iraq and Afghanistan. TigerSwan’s CEO is a former adviser to the multinational private security firm, Blackwater. Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince, a Trump campaign donor and the brother of Betsy DeVos, the US Secretary of Education. Besides funding the Sheriff’s Association, TigerSwan is in charge of Dakota Access intelligence and supervising overall security for the company. Tigerswan works for Dakota Access, while funding and partnering with the Sheriffs’ Association.“The Sheriff’s Association purchased military gear from the US Department’s Defense Logistics Agency thanks to the Defense Department’s 1033 program. Think corporate welfare for the defense industry.“Wait, there’s more. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransferPartners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransferPartners</a> CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KelcyWarren</a> offered to reimburse North Dakota and Morton County for costs due to defending the Dakota Access Pipeline.“So why are US taxpayers forking over $15 million to North Dakota?“Despite the fossil fuel industry’s wishes, America is not an oil company with an army. We should not be bankrolling our own oppression.”<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRockSioux</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a>

openDemocracyFrom the archives: Britain is the world centre for private military contractors – and it's almost impossible to find out what they're up to.<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/britain-is-world-centre-for-private-military-contractors/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/britain-is-world-centre-for-private-military-contractors/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/mercenary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercenary</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/privatearmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatearmy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a>

AI6YR BenThe battle between armed security guard at the two hotels in <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/LagunaBeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LagunaBeach</a> apparently is a result of a dispute between between two real estate investors "both parties hiring armed security and attempting to force the other from the businesses". Apparently that dispute included a "20-person physical altercation" between the "security guards" <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/privatearmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privatearmy</a> <a href="https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/civil-disputes-at-hotel-laguna-and-14-west-prompt-forced-closure-by-city/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/civil-disputes-at-hotel-laguna-and-14-west-prompt-forced-closure-by-city/</a>

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