Another Historical Turning Point!
Reported from Disassociated Press 2020 (DP) via the Cybertimes Archives dated 2012
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Reported by "Scoop" Johanson
"Mega-corporations began hiring their own private defense contractors in order to, as they claim "protect their corporate assets." This began in 2010 when Monsanto purchased Xe Services (formerly called Blackwater USA, when news of corporate malfeasance caused them to lose some of their government defense contracts).
This in turn set off a landslide of corporations acquiring their own private military companies. Each corporation would later claim this is simply a means of protecting themselves against civil unrest, corporate sabotage, and government interference. This was looked upon with suspicion by local governments, police departments and the common citizen who questioned why a corporation needed a police force in the first place.
This in turn set off a landslide of corporations acquiring their own private military companies. Each corporation would later claim this is simply a means of protecting themselves against civil unrest, corporate sabotage, and government interference. This was looked upon with suspicion by local governments, police departments and the common citizen who questioned why a corporation needed a police force in the first place.
In the year 2016, these corporate defense teams were involved in suppressing riots around Monsanto when it was discovered that seeds purchased from Monsanto were genetically engineered to fail to germinate new seeds. This "failure" would cause people to continue to purchase seeds from Monsanto in the future.
There were other allegations that Monsanto's genetic materials were making their way into the public genome and damaging farmers ability to create seeds from non-Monsanto seed stock. When unhappy farmers protested at the newly moved Monsanto headquarters in Chicago, they were "repelled" by Xe Services. Nearly 300 were injured or killed in the action. No charges were filed against Monsanto by the district attorney. Allegations indicated the district attorney retired under mysterious circumstances soon after.
In 2018, there were other allegations against several other corporations whose defense forces were involved in operations against rival corporations. These actions caused the corporate defense forces to come in conflict with local police forces. The police departments unable to afford to contest with corporate defense groups and were subsumed into the corporation's defense forces. This transition from public servants to corporate servants was sanctioned because local governments were so dependent on the corporate funds raised by the mega-corporations in the midsts of their city centers.
By 2020, corporate warfare was common on any major metropolis that boasted a corporate defense organization. Any corporations unable to afford one were often vulnerable to what was termed "the new hostile takeover." This trend in corporate asset protection, city planning and development have changed the streets of every major city in the United States."
The Real News behind this Headline from the Future:
Monsanto Now "Owns" Blackwater (Xe)?
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) 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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
* The author is a researcher at ETC Group
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