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DoomsdaysCWMichigan native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> proposes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> plan to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElSalvador</a>, report saysBy Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025"Erik Prince, the former CEO of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported."The pitch would attempt to avoid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanTerritory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanTerritory</a>, the report stated." 'It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago,' the Politico report stated. 'But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.'"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NayibBukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NayibBukele</a>, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14."Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Venezuelan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Venezuelan</a> immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so."Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BetsyDeVos</a>, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration."Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seychelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seychelles</a>, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StephenBannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StephenBannon</a>."Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraqi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civilians</a> in Baghdad’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NisourSquare</a> during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas."In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."<a href="https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/michigan-native-erik-prince-proposes-deportation-plan-to-el-salvador-report-says.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/michigan-native-erik-prince-proposes-deportation-plan-to-el-salvador-report-says.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectVeritas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

DoomsdaysCWExclusive- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> supporter <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> reaches deal with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congo</a> to help secure [steal] mineral wealthJessica Donati and Sonia Rolley Thu, April 17, 2025 Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#copper</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cobalt</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lithium</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coltan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coltan</a> - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region."The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory."A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/M23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#M23</a> and its allies." 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said."A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province."One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved."The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state."A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."<a href="https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-supporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-supporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectVeritas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiningPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>: Private sector can help with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassDeportations</a> Leland Vittert Tue, February 25, 2025"Erik Prince, founder of the former security contractor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a>, denied proposing a 'private army' for mass deportations and instead described a logistics plan to help the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> administration fulfill its immigration goals." 'This is not some idea of a private army,' Prince said Tuesday on NewsNation’s On Balance. 'It was a memo generated to describe how to achieve the logistics necessary to move the millions of people that they intend to deport.'"Prince pushed back against a Politico report that described a plan circulated among Trump allies calling for 'processing camps' and a private citizen force to carry out deportations."He said that the memo outlines how to accomplish mass deportations 'in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethical</a> manner” with necessary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DueProcess</a>. [WHAT A JOKE!!!]" 'If people think it’s a huge number, think about how we’ve been invaded. We’ve had millions of people float into the country illegally, actually paying the cartels to smuggle them in,' Prince said."According to the Politico report, Prince and other contractors submitted a 26-page proposal before Trump’s inauguration that included using private aircraft, 'processing camps' on military bases, and deputizing private citizens to make arrests."The plan reportedly carries a $25 billion price tag to deport 12 million people before the 2026 midterms."Prince suggested the government would eventually need the private sector to help achieve Trump’s immigration goals, noting that deportation flights 'for years, even when other administrations are doing it, were largely contractor managed and operated.'Source: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/erik-prince-private-sector-help-044932521.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/erik-prince-private-sector-help-044932521.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectVeritas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

DoomsdaysCWVery often, I find myself wondering, "Is there an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> connection to x, y or z?" And very often, I am right! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleCanopy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectVeritas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a>

DoomsdaysCWFollow the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BloodMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodMoney</a> -- to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>! American billionaire Erik Prince seeks <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israeli</a> investments -- Founder of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> to visit Israel in July. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 16, 2019 "American billionaire Erik Prince, a former US Navy Seal and founder of controversial military contractor Blackwater, will visit Israel next month to search for new investment opportunities. "Prince, who also co-founded Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group (FSG) in 2014, will meet with start-ups and companies in fields including defense technology, intelligence and foodtech. "Drone-maker BlueBird Aero Systems, off-road vehicle developer Tomcar, artificial intelligence defense solutions provider Axon Vision and satellite rescue firm Magnus are among the companies Prince is due to meet during his visit.[...]"Particularly of interest to Prince are the young alumni of elite <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IDF</a> intelligence unit 8200, who have established a reputation for developing innovative hi-tech start-ups after their release from the army." <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/American-billionaire-Erik-Prince-targets-Israeli-investments-592599" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/American-billionaire-Erik-Prince-targets-Israeli-investments-592599</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BibiIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a>

DoomsdaysCWWell, well, well... Connecting the dots! Why am I not surprised to find <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a>'s bloody fingerprints on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israeli</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a>!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> preparing to flood <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hamas</a> tunnels with seawaterStory by Harriet Marsden, 12/7/2023"The Times reported that 'controversial US security contractor' Erik Prince, founder of private military company Blackwater, 'persuaded' Israel 'only days" after the 7 October attacks by Hamas 'to buy his sophisticated mining equipment' to flood the tunnels. A source reportedly told the paper that the involvement of the former US Navy Seal was a 'red flag' to the Joe Biden administration, which 'demanded more study' on the potential impact of flooding on groundwater and sewage facilities."<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-preparing-to-flood-hamas-tunnels-with-seawater/ar-AA1l9DUn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-preparing-to-flood-hamas-tunnels-with-seawater/ar-AA1l9DUn</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BibiIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a>: Inside the Secret, Global, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> Group ChatMilitary contractor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrince</a> started a private <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a> group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWing</a> government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.Ken Silverstein/ May 30, 2024"In his book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a>’s Berlin, Erik Larson cites a cable sent to the State Department in June 1933 by a U.S. diplomat posted in Germany that provided a far more candid assessment of the Nazi leadership than the one that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration was then conveying to the public. 'With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand,' read the cable, which was written five months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. 'Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.'"I’ve thought about that passage from the cable many times over the past several weeks as I’ve been reading excerpts from a private WhatsApp group chat established last December by Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> and younger brother of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BetsyDeVos</a>, the secretary of education during President Donald Trump’s administration, who invited around 650 of his contacts in the United States and around the world to join. Prince, who has a long track record of financing conservative candidates and causes and extensive ties to right-wing regimes around the world, named the group—which currently has around 400 members—'Off Leash,' the same name as the new podcast that he’d launched the month before."Read more: <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/January6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#January6</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristoFascist</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateFascism</a>

MorganHoly crap, y'all. Did you see this article? Where a bunch of highly connected, wealthy, pro-authoritarian weirdos chatted about overthrowing democracy and burning countries they don't like to the ground?<a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/NewRepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewRepublic</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0JeNNiI2wQ_hu2ry1NF3SofCVkZcAvk53-Ba7YgCWNKvRCY1PPbr7arGM_aem_AU5KMOTPB7bK1i_cyqh-lpwtXYvCMjMszTn0-iqGay56dNOloIHR51P67MehuUFJMd6DsVXbjR9oVZSEeSk7XjNU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0JeNNiI2wQ_hu2ry1NF3SofCVkZcAvk53-Ba7YgCWNKvRCY1PPbr7arGM_aem_AU5KMOTPB7bK1i_cyqh-lpwtXYvCMjMszTn0-iqGay56dNOloIHR51P67MehuUFJMd6DsVXbjR9oVZSEeSk7XjNU</a>

Mage Moss (trying it on)I post pics of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogs</a> that I go <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hiking</a> with up in the mountains, over on Pixelfed <a href="https://pixelfed.social/CyrusDotDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@CyrusDotDog</a> . You’ll notice they wear <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/collars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collars</a> with antennas; those are strictly <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/GPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPS</a> trackers, they do not shock or have any other aversive features. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dog</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PositiveReinforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PositiveReinforcement</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/garmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garmin</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffLeash</a>

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