{"id":4659,"date":"2011-01-20T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:17:55","slug":"erik-prince-true-to-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/erik-prince-true-to-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Prince, True To Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>T<\/b>he NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/21\/world\/africa\/21intel.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">discovers Prince is trying to insert himself into the Somalian civil war<\/a> even as he exits Blackwater\/Xe.  Of course, the Times gets only part of the story.  Prince the past 18 months or so has been prospecting a whole host of African conflicts to use in his search for new financial sponsors.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Makin_It_Rain_For_A_Prince.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Makin_It_Rain_For_A_Prince.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Prince&#039;s Rain . . . But It&#039;s Definitely Into Making Dove's Cry\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4661\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Makin_It_Rain_For_A_Prince.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Makin_It_Rain_For_A_Prince-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>T<\/b>here&#8217;s the old business phrase &#8216;turn around meeting&#8217;.  It&#8217;s where a party goes in expecting to discuss X but finds the other party surprisingly make it all about the opposite,  discussing er, Z.  Prince inflicted that on one unsuspecting non-governmental but supremely influential institutional figure.  This figure thought the meeting would be about Prince making charitable contributions.  Instead, Prince made the meeting about this non-governmental entity funding him to &#8216;solve&#8217; a human crisis in Africa by killing any identified bad guys.  Just one example of many.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all for the Times keeping an eye on Prince.  But if the Stiftung knows all this, then surely an intern at the Times could put it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT discovers Prince is trying to insert himself into the Somalian civil war even as he exits Blackwater\/Xe. Of course, the Times gets only part of the story. Prince the past 18 months or so has been prospecting a whole host of African conflicts to use in his search for new financial sponsors. There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[263,122,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-4659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acolytes-in-aktion","7":"tag-american-empire","8":"tag-imperial-city","9":"tag-war","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}