Het laat zich raden waarom Monsanto een bedrijf als Blackwater opkocht, immers het bedrijf heeft er belang bij, dat haar zaden overal worden verkocht en dat regeringen de boeren houden aan hun contracten met Monsanto. Zo heeft een groot aantal boeren in India zich het leven benomen, daar ze volkomen failliet gingen door hun contract met Monsanto. Dat zit zo: Monsanto verkoopt zaden aan boeren, waarbij die boeren ervoor tekenen, dat zij niet zelf de zaden vermeerderen (zoals ze al duizenden jaren hebben gedaan en doen). Monsanto belooft die boeren gouden bergen, als zij hun zaden afnemen, echter als het tegenzit, bijvoorbeeld door grote droogte, of slecht weer, houden de boeren geen geld over om zaden te kopen voor het volgende seizoen..... Uiteraard geeft Monsanto grote kortingen op de eerste levering, zoals een heroïne dealer dat doet met zijn klanten......
Het laat zich raden, dat er ontwikkelingslanden zijn, die hun boeren niet gaan lastigvallen met de claims van Monsanto, dan is het uiteraard erg handig, als je een goedgetrainde ploeg psychopaten achter de hand hebben, om hun claims 'wat meer kracht' bij te zetten...........
Naast dit alles heeft Monsanto nog te maken met milieugroepen, die (volkomen terecht) tegen gentech zijn en bovendien tegen het op grote schaal verspreiden van zwaar gif over de aarde, door dit klote bedrijf......... Altijd handig om een stel psychopaten achter de hand te hebben, om je belangen veilig te stellen, ja toch....???
Monsanto and Blackwater
Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group!
February
2, 2013 2:39 pm·
Reports
that the huge multinational corporation
Monsanto bought the largest mercenary army in the world might have
seemed ridiculous on the surface. But it turns out
that’s exactly what
happened.
A
report authored by Jeremy Scahill for The
Nation revealed
that Blackwater, later called Xe Services and more recently
“Academi”, had been sold to Monsanto.
The
clandestine intelligence service was renamed in 2009 after it
became notorious and synonymous with numerous reports of
abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians.
The
group, originally founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer
Erik Prince, remains the largest private contractor of the
U.S. Department of State “security
services.” It exists in its functional capacity, so that the
state may engage in
terrorism while giving the government the opportunity to deny
it, because those carrying out the war crimes are not directly
reporting to members of the U.S. military hierarchy.
A
number of military and former CIA officers are said to work
for the mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater. The
purpose has always been to increase profit
selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and
intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary
training – for other governments, banks
and multinational corporations.
Scahill
indicates that the group does business with multinationals,
like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and
Deutsche Bank, but that this is done through two companies owned by
Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and
Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share the
group.
One
of those partners is Cofer Black, who was known for his brutality
as one of the directors of the CIA.
He
is alleged to have been the one who made contact with Monsanto back
in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence. Black entered into
the contract with the company in order to spy on and
infiltrate organizations of animal
rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty
activities of the biotech giant, according to sources close to
Academi.
Monsanto
executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, when asked directly by
Scahill about this. But he later confirmed to The
Nation that
the company had in fact hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and
2009.
According
to Monsanto, this was only to keep track of “public
disclosure” of its opponents. He asserted, however, that Total
Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater,”
even though it is just one of the myriad of names and forms the
massive mercenary group has adopted over the years.
Scahill
himself, however, says that he has copies of emails from Cofer
Black. They explain that after the meeting with Wilson for
Monsanto, where he explains to other former CIA agents, using their
Blackwater e-mails, that the discussion with Wilson was that Total
Intelligence had become “Monsanto’s intelligence arm,” spying
on activists and other actions, including “our people to legally
integrate these groups.”
In
all, Monsanto paid Total Intelligence $ 127,000 in 2008 and $
105,000 in 2009. After these details began to leak out, they seem
to have buried the paper trail, and perhaps utilized yet another
front for Blackwater to provide the same services.
Activists
have claimed to have confronted agents of Monsanto who roughly fit
the description of mercenaries with the group. Whatever name they
are utilizing at this point, it seems reasonable that if they have
been used in the past – and if they have repeatedly changed their
names and added sub-groups to their organization –
that they have only done the same thing once again.
Monsanto
has been criticized by an array of environmental, peace and even
health activists for their production of toxic poisons spilling
from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), as well as
their more common business in selling pesticides, hormones and
genetically modified seeds.
Almost
simultaneously with the publication of
this article in The Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase
of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed
the outing of the mask of “philanthropy.” Another association
that is not surprising.
It
is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history
of industrialism: Bill Gates controls more than 90 percent of the
market share of proprietary computing and Monsanto about 90 percent
of the global transgenic seed market and most global commercial
seed. There does not exist in any other industrial sector
monopolies so vast, whose very existence is a negation of the
vaunted principle of “market competition” of capitalism. Both
Gates and Monsanto are very aggressive in defending their
ill-gotten monopolies.
Although
Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to
his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their
donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon,
not really “donating” anything, but instead of paying taxes to
the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable
to him economically, including propaganda from their
supposed good intentions.
On the contrary, their “donations” finance projects as
destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community
medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of
the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio
Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation.
Like
Monsanto, Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming
worldwide, mainly through the “Alliance for a Green Revolution in
Africa” (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor
African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the
seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified
(GM). To this end, the Foundation hired Robert Horsch in 2006, the
director of Monsanto. Now Gates, airing major profits, went
straight to the source.
Blackwater,
Monsanto and Gates are three sides of the same figure: the
war machine on the
planet and most people who inhabit it, are peasants, indigenous
communities, people who want to share information and
knowledge or any other who does not want to be in the aegis of
profit and the destructiveness of capitalism.
So
why were so many media outlets, editorialists and bloggers
clamoring to say that the purchase was a “hoax”?
That’s
a good question. The more cynical among us might suspect
a financial incentive from Monsanto itself to such “journalists.”
Monsanto indeed has hired a public relations team to seek out
critical blogs and
websites reporting on their crimes against both Nature and
humankind. We have seen this first hand in comments on
PoliticalBlindSpot.com articles on Monsanto. It is not beyond the
realm of possibilities that they have created blogs where
seemingly legitimate authors write organic thoughts, observations
and rebuttals. The public presumes these are real-world people,
when in fact they are working PR for the company.
But
the core argument of those who claim that the Monsanto purchase of
Blackwater is not true lies in the fact that we can only officially
document Blackwater being hired by Monsanto for years. Immediately
following this extensive work that Blackwater did for Monsanto,
they sold the company. Because of the nature of how the sale
transpired, it is impossible to document who the sale was to. The
obvious and logical conclusion to insiders (particularly in the
private security industry), however, is that the sale was in fact
to Monsanto who had been employing the group.
Xe
(now Academi)
has, indeed, been purchased,
and while there’s no way of DOCUMENTING who the new owners really
are, the logical conclusion would be that Monsanto, who had been
employing them prior to the sale are the new owners. This, of
course, would also make sense of the secrecy surrounding the deal
and the identity of the new owners. The company
was bought out by
private investors via private equity companies that don’t have to
divulge any of their dealings, with Bank of America providing much
of the $200
million in financing for
the deal.
New York-based USTC Holdings said it will acquire Xe and its core operating subsidiaries, but did not disclose the price or terms of the agreement in a statement.
USTC Holdings is an investor consortium led by private equity firms Forte Capital Advisors and Manhattan Partners.
Various
researchers have been trying to document the buy via a paper trail,
but so far without much luck. That, of course, is the point.
One
thing that
is known:
Forte Capital Advisors is the baby of long-time Blackwater ally
Jason De Yonker:
DeYonker has unique experience with the Company that dates back to its founding in the late 1990s. He advised the Company through development of its early business plan and expansion of the Moyock training facility as well as supporting negotiations of its first training contracts with U.S. government agencies. Between 1998 and 2002, Mr. DeYonker co-managed Xe founder, Erik Prince’s family office which included management of Mr. Prince’s portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Forté, Jason co-managed a +$100 million family office. In addition to actively managing various platform companies, Jason was a part of the executive team responsible for family wealth management.
Jason has spent the last 18 years advising on various mergers, acquistions and divestitures with an aggregate transaction value greater than $1 billion. Jason’s experience include: transaction advisory, portfolio management, real estate development, venture capital and cross border dealings. Jason began his career with Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance Group, and was a Director in Deloitte & Touche’s Corporate Finance Group. He also was the Finance Director for the West Family Trust, a venture capital group focused on cross-border transactons.
Jason recieved a Bachelor of Business Administration, with a concentration in finance and accounting, from the Univeristy of Michigan.
The
other investor? It looks like the very junior partner will
be Manhattan
Partners,
a private equity company – a shop that gathers money
from anonymous rich investors and uses the pool of cash
to leverage buyouts of big companies they wouldn’t have
been able to take over on their own.
Manhattan
Partners invests in “compelling growth and special
situation transactions,”
but this will be their first known foray into defense industries
– WarIsBusiness.com
reports (via
Spencer Ackerman):
Manhattan Growth Partners is led by Dean Bosacki and Patrick McBride. Bosacki serves on the board of “the world’s largest commencement photography business,” among other companies. Manhattan Growth Partners, which describes itself as “a progressive thinking private equity firm,” also holds a majority interest in Hugo Naturals, a line of organic, vegan-friendly soaps, lotions, scents and soy candles sold at Whole Foods and other greenwashed retailers.
So
what does this all mean? Did Monsanto actually buy Blackwater? The
answer is yes, but indirectly. The purchase was made through shell
company and a pair of private equity firms. At the end of the
day, it would seem the logical conclusion is that in spite of
arguments to the contrary, Monsanto in fact did by the Blackwater
mercenary group… or at least the renamed Blackwater Xe, and
now Academi Services group. The big question, now
is why?
(Article
by M. David, Jackson Marciana and I.A. Jamal; image via #Op309
Media)
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