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<h1 class="entry-title">Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER
Mercenary Group!</h1>
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<p>A report by Jeremy Scahill in <em>The Nation</em> revealed that the
largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe
Services and more recently “<b>Academi</b>“) clandestine intelligence
services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed
in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of
abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the
largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security
services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the
opportunity to deny it.</p>
<p>Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related
companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and
make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from
information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and
paramilitary training – for other governments, banks and multinational
corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like
Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche
Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner
of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research
Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.</p>
<p>One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the
directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in
2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with
the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights
activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant.</p>
<p>Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined
to comment, but later confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total
Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track
of “public disclosure” of its opponents. He also said that Total
Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater.”</p>
<p>However, Scahill has copies of emails from Cofer Black 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.” Total Intelligence Monsanto paid $ 127,000 in
2008 and $ 105,000 in 2009.</p>
<p>No wonder that a company engaged in the “science of death” as
Monsanto, which has been dedicated from the outset to produce toxic
poisons spilling from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls),
pesticides, hormones and genetically modified seeds, is associated with
another company of thugs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So why were so many media outlets, editorialists and bloggers
clamoring to say that the purchase was a “hoax”?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/xe-international-blackwater-sold/"
target="_blank">Xe (now <b>Academi</b>) has, indeed, been purchased</a>,
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<a
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iv14RnpjJqraPQCs5aVH9PUXN9Jw?docId=CNG.ee663915284de0064f72d69189fad44d.71"
target="_blank"> company was bought out</a> 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 <a
href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/blackwater-founder-in-deal-to-sell-company/?partner=rss&emc=rss"
target="_blank">$200 million in financing</a> for the deal.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<p>USTC Holdings is an investor consortium led by private equity
firms Forte Capital Advisors and Manhattan Partners.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>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…</p>
<p><strong>Keeping it private</strong></p>
<p>One thing <a
href="http://manhattan-partners.com/pdf/xe_services_acquired.pdf"
target="_blank">that is known</a>: Forte Capital Advisors is the baby
of long-time Blackwater ally Jason De Yonker:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What does that mean? The guy is a <a
href="http://fortenyc.com/bios_jason_deyonker.html" target="_blank">glorified
accountant</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Jason recieved a Bachelor of Business Administration, with a
concentration in finance and accounting, from the Univeristy of
Michigan.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The other investor? It looks like the very junior partner will be <a
href="http://manhattan-partners.com/" target="_blank">Manhattan
Partners</a>, 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.</p>
<p>Manhattan Partners invests in “compelling growth and <a
href="http://manhattan-partners.com/" target="_blank">special
situation transactions</a>,” but this will be their first known foray
into defense industries – <a
href="http://www.warisbusiness.com/features/deal-of-the-month/the-blackwater-vegan-soap-connection/"
target="_blank">WarIsBusiness.com reports</a> (<a
href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/will-blackwater-go-vegan-after-sale-to-hippy-firm/"
target="_blank">via Spencer Ackerman</a>):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Manhattan Growth Partners is led by Dean Bosacki and Patrick
McBride. Bosacki serves on the board of “the world’s largest <a
href="http://www.gradimages.com/">commencement photography</a> 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.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>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 (now <b>Academi</b>) Services group.
The big question now is <em>why</em>?</p>
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