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Mmmm my coffee is good, is your coffee good?
It's going to be a nice day, we should do taco night.
Great !
A little backstory on these guys: These mercenaries are paving the way for some of the worst corporations to rape the land and exploit the people for rare earth metals that they get from no where else as of now, not just cobalt, but coltan. But they've a lot of other mineral wealth in central africa, and companies have not been above hiring mercenaries to wipe out/chase villagers off land so their corporation can exploit it. Most of these mercenary outfits are run out of South Africa. They commit a lot of abuses with impunity, central africa is rather lawless, especially outside of the few cities in the tropical bush there.
Prince here is in the big leagues, running with Republican presidents, untouched by weak democratic presidents administrations, even as he was caught perjuring himself before congress. He is married into the DeVos Clan in west michigan, the prince family were/are industrialists, owning prince machinery and other factories in the dutch craziesland in west michigan where republicans get 70 percent of the county vote. Many are good people, they just trust the worst people, and don't live in reality but that is neither here nor there.
We are all familiar with Betsy Devos, her brother is Eric I believe, she married into the DeVos clan, which started Amway, that person to person pyramid scheme you've probably had bother you to become a sucker for. Her life mission has been to kill public schools and make them all private. She sponsored a constitutional ammendment for referendum in 2001 or so, for vouchers for every student that can take it to public or private school. Her and her religious pals paid for it, 10% of voters have to sign it or something, it's the highest percentage for a ballot referendum in the Union, it's expensive, and the measure went down in flames with like 70% against it. They are surrounded by yes people is my takeaway, and thought it would pass.
Anyway she did to her credit support nailing the president to the wall after january 6, before we all discovered the democrats were going to let the captured federal agencies let them all off the hook and then come back and kill the republic in all but name by fixing elections for their party. How noble of them not to make sure the justice department fulfilled it's most basic statutory duty and fulfilled their oaths to protect and defend the constitution! But that' another story.
Prince is responsible for a lot of abuses, a personally lobbied the US government to start aerial spraying of poppies in afghanistan with more agent orange, round-up special, whatever you want to call it, chemical warfare against a rural population. It's despicable, and it's worth noting the heroin productions skyrocketed after the US invasion, and dropped after we left. That's not a bug, that's a feature, and they utilize black market drug sales to pay for black operations they don't want to sponsor directly and the like, as well as line their own pockets. They being the CIA and their connected parties. So with these types of aerial spraying poison systematically poisoning entire regions, they are just targeting rival production that they aren't profiting from. We are all aware of blackwater, his company, in Iraq, the murdering of reuters journalists from a helicopter, then the murder of emergency personnel in a double tap. The indiscriminate murder of civilians in Fallujah in retaliation for one of their charges they were bodyguarding getting shot, and the rest.
I think they are involved with the saudis and UAE in dirty deals galore as well if I recall, something about assassinations in the broader region for those powers. Probably just the tip of the iceberg too.
Fallujah
Blackwater and Erik Prince make me think of the terrorist attack against the people of Fallujah. I wasn't aware of the rest of these details, but some are familiar. Thank you very much for bringing this to the fore. It's helpful having this context.
The world is out of violins.
We might be able to muster up a sad trombone.