Blackwater Working for Monsanto Company and Canada

[ilaughatrightwingers]

http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2010/09/blackwater-working-for-monsanto-company.html

Blackwater, now called Xe, is back in the news again after it was reported that they have provided services to the Canadian Military, the Netherlands Police, and Monsanto Company.

Blackwater/Xe is a mercenary force most famous for its controversial run in Iraq under the Bush administration. Jeremy Scahill, a journalist who wrote a book on the soldiers of fortune, said:

"... entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation. Blackwater's work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater's owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC). Prince is listed as the chairman of both companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of companies functions as a highly coordinated operation."

A spokesperson for Monsanto said his company paid Total Intelligence for reports on groups and individuals that could pose a threat to the company wherever it operates. Total Intelligence worked on this by monitoring local news reports and searching the pages of activist blogs and websites. It didn't stop there, Blackwater's puppet company also infiltrated anti-Monsanto activist groups.

This is no surprise, given the fact that Monsanto is the same company that gave the world Agent Orange.

Another one of Blackwater/Xe's subsidiaries, the Terrorism Research Center, was paid over $1.6 million by Canada to provide training to its soldiers. This violation of the US export control laws, as well as other violations by the private death squad, incurred a fine of only $42 million. This is a mere slap on the wrist given the fact that Xe is raking in billions and has grown enormously over the past few years.

Blackwater is famous for killing 17 Iraqis and wounding 22 others in an unprovoked attack in 2007. It changed its name to Xe in 2009 as part of a public image makeover. Its founder Erik Prince is a known radical Christian fundamentalist.

[RandomThoughts]

1. That is where the government is corrupt.

To pay a private company instead of a governmental army is corruption.

The soldiers training gets paid by tax payers, then they go to a mercenary army where they can serve money, and the government gives them contracts way above pay for soldiers.

Why is the pay unequal, so people will go to the mercenaries, why are the mercenaries hired, so people will not see what they are doing by government audits of public sector.

It is intel shadow group.

[ilaughatrightwingers]

2. Exactly

This kind of behavior needs to be exposed. I would suggest publicizing this article.

[RandomThoughts]

3. Or posting about it on an internet?

[fasttense]

4. Typical corporate behavior.

Once they found their honey pot by selling poisons to consumers, they have to protect that honey pot. Monsanto has been known to hire black shirts to beat up on groups of people who were attending a lecture about the results of Monsanto's poisons.

Corporations are like little kingdoms. They have their armies and spies. Each corporation thinks it has sovereign rights to abuse and control citizens. We don't need any warlords like Afghanistan. We have them already in vast, never ending corporate entities.

These are the people the tea-baggers want in control.

[ilaughatrightwingers]

7. Can't argue with that

More of a reason why we need to end the market and capitalism.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Remniscent of how companies had private police to beat up union activists.

[ilaughatrightwingers]

6. It's identical

to all the union-busting throughout history, sadly.

[Kat45]

8. I knew Monsanto was evil but I didn't know they made Agent Orange.

Wow.