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Thursday, July 25, 2013

RUDD GIVEN G20 INDON SPY REPORT

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was the beneficiary of British spying on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the 2009 G20 summit meeting in London, according to Australian intelligence and foreign affairs sources.
Officials familiar with Australia's participation in the April 2009 heads of government meeting said the Australian delegation received ''excellent intelligence support'' including ''much information'' shared by the United Kingdom and the US.
''[Prime Minister] Rudd had a keen appetite for intelligence, especially on the Asia-Pacific leaders - Yudhoyono, [Indian Prime Minister] Manmoham Singh, and [former Chinese president] Hu Jintao,'' one intelligence source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Intelligence and foreign affairs sources have told Fairfax Media of the importance of intelligence received from US and British agencies to support Australia's diplomatic objectives including the campaign to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
''Without intelligence support, overwhelmingly provided by US capabilities, we would not have won the seat,'' a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officer said on the basis of confidentiality.
Documents released to Fairfax Media under freedom of information laws show former prime minister Julia Gillard was briefed on last month's disclosures by US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden that British and American intelligence targeted foreign leaders and officials attending the 2009 G20 meetings in London.
Defence, Intelligence and Information Sharing Division head Richard Sadleir briefed Ms Gillard on June 17, immediately after The Guardian newspaper reported that documents leaked by Mr Snowden had revealed the British signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), had employed ''ground-breaking intelligence capabilities'' to intercept the communications.
GCHQ's intelligence collection capabilities at the summit included penetrating the security of delegates' BlackBerry smartphones to monitor emails and phone calls, and setting up internet cafes where an email interception program and key-logging software spied on delegates' computer use.
The documents disclosed by Mr Snowden revealed GCHQ analysts were able to produce ''a live picture of who was talking to who that updated constantly and automatically'' and that British ministers and officials were briefed so intelligence could be used ''to influence events on the ground taking place just minutes or hours later''.
Although The Guardian's report focused on intelligence collection on Turkey and South Africa and did not identify Indonesia as a target, Australian sources have said Australia's neighbour was ''a priority for us, always''.
The declassified text of Mr Sadleir's briefing for Ms Gillard does not dispute the The Guardian's report.
Parts of the briefing have been redacted to prevent disclosure of information from an Australian intelligence agency exempt from freedom of information laws, and information ''about the collection of intelligence information'' that would ''cause damage to the international relations of the Commonwealth''.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rudd-given-g20-indon-spy-report-20130725-2qneu.html#ixzz2a43T8laR

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MONSANTO BUYS BLACKWATER THE LARGEST MERCENARY ARMY IN THE WORLD

Added by admin on July 20, 2013.

Cross Posted from Political Blindspot
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (later called Xe Services and more recently “Academi”) 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.
So why were so many media outlets, editorialists and bloggers clamoring to say that the purchase was a “hoax”?
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.
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.
Xe (now Academi) has, indeed, been purchased, 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 company was bought out 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 $200 million in financing for the deal.

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.
USTC Holdings is an investor consortium led by private equity firms Forte Capital Advisors and Manhattan Partners.

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…
Keeping it private
One thing that is known: Forte Capital Advisors is the baby of long-time Blackwater ally Jason De Yonker:

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.

What does that mean? The guy is a glorified accountant.

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.
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.
Jason recieved a Bachelor of Business Administration, with a concentration in finance and accounting, from the Univeristy of Michigan.

The other investor? It looks like the very junior partner will be Manhattan Partners, 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.
Manhattan Partners invests in “compelling growth and special situation transactions,” but this will be their first known foray into defense industries – WarIsBusiness.com reports (via Spencer Ackerman):

Manhattan Growth Partners is led by Dean Bosacki and Patrick McBride. Bosacki serves on the board of “the world’s largest commencement photography 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.

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 Academi) Services group. The big question now is why?
http://southweb.org/blog/monsanto-buys-blackwater-the-largest-mercenary-army-in-the-world/

RUDD SET TO CALL AUGUST 31 ELECTION DATE: QUEENSLAND MPS

Tony Moore Published: July 22, 2013

Southeast Queensland Labor backbenchers have circled August 31 as the most likely date of the federal election.
But if the election is not held then, they predict Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will avoid the September school holidays and football finals and run for office in October.
This is a flawed piece of logic given that there is a referendum presently set down for September 14.
That gives Mr Rudd just this week to sort out important issues arising from today's special caucus in Sydney such as ALP membership and the stability of Labor's leadership, the MPs say.
The minimum campaign period for an Australian election is 33 days, meaning election writs are normally issued on the Monday after the weekend, five weeks before polling day.
With that timetable, Queensland backbenchers are predicting Mr Rudd to use this week to finalise his strategy and call an election next weekend with a short-election campaign on August 31.
Moreton, Oxley and Blair MPs; Graham Perrett, Bernie Ripoll and Shayne Neumann say the final decision is up to Mr Rudd.
"I'd put a lazy $10 on August 24th, and then a bit more on the 31st," Graham Perrett said yesterday.
Labor's Oxley MP Bernie Ripoll, first elected in 1998, said he believed only three dates were realistically possible.
"August 31 - which I think right now is a 33 per cent chance - or October 19th or October 26th," he said.
Mr Ripoll said he believed September was too complicated for families.
"September is a difficult month because you have school holidays and football finals," he said.
There it is again.
Mr Ripoll said he did not think Mr Rudd will call the election on Monday.
"I could not see a reason why he would call it tomorrow, because he does not need to," he said on Sunday.
He rated calling an election today as "5 per cent".
Blair MP Shayne Neumann, also elected in 2007, said he believed an election would be held "sooner, rather than later."
He said August 31 was a "good date" but declined to say whether he though it could be the election date.
Other informed Labor sources believed August 31 was firming up as 2013's likely election date.
Mr Neumann also said Mr Rudd's plan to resettle asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea was all people wanted to talk to him on Saturday.
"I went to four meetings at Redbank Plains, at Esk, to West Moreton Anglican College and to my local church and every place I went to people spoke to me about the asylum seeker plan," he said.
"And they all thought Rudd had done a good job on it. People genuinely don't want to see people die on the high seas."
Mr Perrett, first elected in 2007, described Mr Rudd's Papua New Guinea asylum settlement plan announced on Friday as a "masterstroke."
Mr Perrett's Moreton electorate contains the suburb of Moorooka which is home to a large percentage of people re-settled from African countries.
"It has been a topic with one in three, one in four people that I have spoken to," Mr Perrett said.
"It just seems logical that we have achieved something with our regional neighbours that will stop the 1 in 20 people who have been drowning on these dangerous maritime journeys."
Labor's decision to return Mr Rudd to the Prime Ministership has re-energised the party base.
Mr Neuman on Sunday night said a recent meeting to recruit new party members at the Ipswich Trades Hall was been packed.
"We had the Trades Hall rooms on level three packed - I have never seen that many workers on a campaign in nearly 30 years of Labor campaigning," he said.
AAP reported that 500 of the 1650 new ALP members since Mr Rudd took over Labor's leadership were from Queensland and 440 from New South Wales.
- with AAP

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/rudd-set-to-call-august-31-election-date-queensland-mps-20130721-2qcd3.html

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