Blackwater Worldwide. Going Full Spectrum

Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
by Jeremy Scahill

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Rather than hiding out and hoping for the scandals to fade, the Bush Administration's preferred mercenary company has launched a major rebranding campaign, changing its name to Blackwater Worldwide and softening its logo: once a bear paw in the site of a sniper scope, it's now a bear claw wrapped in two half ovals--sort of like the outline of a globe with a United Nations feel. Its website boasts of a corporate vision "guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world." Blackwater mercenaries are now referred to as "global stabilization professionals." Blackwater's 38-year-old owner, Erik Prince, was No. 11 in Details magazine's "Power 50," the men "who control your viewing patterns, your buying habits, your anxieties, your lust.... the people who have taken over the space in your head."

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Prince promises that Blackwater "is going to be more of a full spectrum" operation. Amid the cornucopia of scandals, Blackwater is bidding for a share of a five-year, $15 billion contract with the Pentagon to "fight terrorists with drug-trade ties." Perhaps the firm will join the mercenary giant DynCorp in Colombia or Bolivia or be sent into Mexico on a "training" mission. This "war on drugs" contract would put Blackwater in the arena with the godfathers of the war business, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.

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§ Prince's Total Intelligence Solutions, headed by three CIA veterans (among them Blackwater's number two, Cofer Black), puts CIA-type services on the open market for hire by corporations or governments

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§ It recently flight-tested the unmanned Polar 400 airship, which may be marketed to the Department of Homeland Security for use in monitoring the US-Mexico border and to "military, law enforcement, and non-government customers."

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/scahill


The article goes on to state how Blackwater is connected with the Romney campaign (because of Cofer Black). Bottomline, These corporations are getting way too powerful in a country that purports itself to be a democracy. In my opnion, if we are to regain our constitutional government and be free, these private armies need to go, especially since they are branching out into spying.

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:spank:

First, Halliburton moves its World HeadQuarters to Dubai. Then Blackwater revamps itself into Blackwater Worldwide.

Congress is onto the massive corruption and looting of the public treasury under Bush and the NeoCons. They don't want to be subpoenoed to produce documents, evidence, and testify under oath.

What you want to bet that when the next Democratic President is installed you won't find a single Blackwater or Halliburton official who cooperates with Congress and the DOJ?

regulation and many mercenary operations shut down. I would like a President willing to do that.

They need to be closed down with extreme measures if needed.

Maybe the Israelis or Putin can make it happen.

I, however, am talking about our own government.