Reblogged from Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective:

In private, he was a CIA operative, with his own file as a “vetted asset” at the agency’s headquarters, and a mission to build “a unilateral, unattributable capability” to hunt down and kill al-Qaeda militants for the US Government wherever they could be found.

These claims, made by Mr Prince and supported by others who knew of his activities, form part of a potentially explosive investigation into the life of America’s best-known mercenary.

Mr Prince, aside from his work in Iraq, set up America’s closest forward operating base to the Pakistani border in Afghanistan, and helped to train a CIA assassination team that hunted an alleged senior al-Qaeda financier in Germany, and included A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, on its list of targets, according to Vanity Fair magazine.

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“You know who’s guarding Hillary Clinton in Afghanistan right now? Blackwater,” Scahill told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night. “You know who guards members of Congress? Blackwater. They have half a billion dollars in contracts in Afghanistan right now. CIA, State Department, Defense Department. Why is President Obama keeping these guys on the payroll? There has never been a company in recent history that made the case that corporations are corrupt, evil organizations [better] than Blackwater.”

Scahill was on The Rachel Maddow Show discussing the New York Times‘ revelation that senior Blackwater executives allegedly arranged for bribes of up to $1 million for Iraqi politicians in a bid to retain its contracts and silence criticism of the company in the wake of the Nissour Square massacre in 2007, in which 17 Iraqi civilians died after Blackwater guards opened fire.

Though the Times report stated that it’s unknown if the approved bribes ever reached their targets — Iraqi politicians — Scahill drew a connection between the alleged bribes and the fact that, after the Nissour Sqaure massacre, the Iraqi government first decided to bar Blackwater from operating in the country, and then reversed its position.

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“Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees,” the Times reported. “American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

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Let’s nail the bastards.

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”

Sworn statements filed in Federal Court allege that Blackwater founder Erik Prince launched a “crusade” to eliminate Muslims and Islam.

The private security company, facing charges in a US court for killing and injuring Iraqis, is attempting to silence its victims and their lawyers.

In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the men alleges that Prince turned a profit by transporting “illegal” or “unlawful” weapons into the country on Prince’s private planes. They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies. The identities of the two individuals were sealed out of concerns for their safety.

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I had to make some decisions about how to go forward from here.

I have been writing and gathering news for Crazy Rich Guy for about a year, it helped me and I hope it helped you become clearer about the events of 911, and the ensuing wars.

I have spent the last two years of my life fulltime and voluntary, studying the events of 911 and its connections to the military complex, Wall Street, the United States government, and all the other groups complicit in that horrible crime.

Three weeks ago my life moved into new phase, I went to Sydney to meet with members of the 911 truth movement over there and with some of the scientists, film makers, journalists and activists who have spent much longer than I to try to bring the truth about 911 to the rest of the world.

I also had the chance to meet with Yuki Fujita San the Japanese politician, member of the biggest opposition party, who confronted the Japanese prime minister and some of his ministers about the reasons to send more troops to Afghanistan and based his opposition to that on his doubts about the events of 911. He made a televised presentation about to collapse of building 7 and other contradictions in the official version of events. Additionally I met radio presenter an fulltime activist Cosmos, the man who started the 11th of every month movement, and journalist activist Barry Zwicker. The meetings with all of these wonderful people and their call to all out activism has proven irresistible.

So John, Naomi, Nick, Cosmos and all you beautiful 911truthers and activists, I hope you will welcome me and help me to achieve our goal, a new investigation and justice for all the victims of that horrendous crime.

This means I have to rearrange my priorities.

I have only a limited amount of time in the day and a lot of people to reach. People I might add who are very naive, and very resistant in realizing that perhaps a government can actually be a dangerous thing if evil people get elected in. In eight months time there will be an election, and if I’m right then the government that has been governing for the last 12 years might be elected out and a representative of what I might call “the Worldwide Money Party” will be elected in.

In order to use my time the most efficient way I can, I have decided to temporarily merge my two blogs together. Since I want to bring the best and most almost news to the New Zealand population, the people of the country I’ve made into my new home, and whose media have been taken over in the last 15 years by Fairfax which is owned for 10% by Murdoch, and who have absolutely no idea about what is really going on out there.

This means that I will be reporting all the news that I was reporting here and on my other blog on

http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com

The subjects of 911, American empire, wars of aggression and international finance will all be part of the reporting, but the emphasis will be on its connection to New Zealand.

The New Zealand government has recently decided to send more troops to Afghanistan. It has done so, it claims, to help “stabilize” Afghanistan.

This means that Helen Clark(Prime minister) and Phil Goff(minister of defence) are either naive or wilfully complicit in an illegal war of aggression in Afghanistan. Since the opposition doesn’t question the addition of more troops I have to assume that either they are naive too, or are equally complicit. I feel it is my duty to bring knowledge about the genocide that are the two wars that the United States have started based on the events of 911, and the fact that the United States are preparing for the third war against Iran.

Additionally I want to become more of a “real” world activist. I promised Cosmos to start and 11th of every month movement in New Zealand and I intend to keep my promise. This means part of my time will have to be put towards reaching that goal.

Use this blog for now as a resource and for those of you and want to travel with me in this new direction, you are invited to read my Aotaroa blog.

For those of you who living in New Zealand and would like to join me in the new 911, 11th of every month group, please leave a comment on the Aotaroa site with your e-mail address or your telephone number. These will not be published or given to anybody else.

Kaki te a noa, may peace be upon you and until we meet again,

Evelyn Gilbert

Simple prudence — or ominous timing? We noted here last week that an American attack on Iran was far more likely — and more imminent — than most people suspect. We pointed to the mountain of evidence for this case gathered by scholar William R. Polk, one of the top aides to John Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and to other indicators of impending war. The story by Okaz — which would not have appeared in the tightly controlled dictatorship without approval from the top — is yet another, very weighty piece of evidence laid in the scales toward a new, horrendous conflict.

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“They make a desolation and call it peace.” -Tacitus

Was Alan Greenspan really as dumb as he looks in creating the late housing bubble that threatens to bring the entire Western debt-based economy crashing down?

Was something as easy to foresee as this really the trigger for a meltdown that could destroy the world’s financial system? Or was it done, perhaps, “accidentally on purpose”?

And if so, why?

Let’s turn to the U.S. personage that conspiracy theorists most often mention as being at the epicenter of whatever elite plan is reputed to exist. This would be David Rockefeller, the 92-year-old multibillionaire godfather of the world’s financial elite.

The lengthy Wikipedia article on Rockefeller provides the following version of a celebrated statement he allegedly made in an opening speech at the Bilderberg conference in Baden-Baden, Germany, in June 1991:

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again know war, but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in the past centuries.”

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By Daryl Lang

New York Times staff photographer Keith Meyers loved to tackle rigorous assignments, like flying in military jets and scuba diving with astronauts in training.

“He was almost hyper in terms of his energy level,” says friend and fellow Times photographer Fred Conrad. “He could run circles around people.”

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