This guy’s a contender:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nader_(businessman)
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
Betsy DeVos is a greed wraithI am aware she and Erik Prince are part of the same greedy horrible family and yet she distinguishes herself from the war profiteering/misery-based capitalism by actually taking things away from people. She is truly disgusting.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/richard-devos-amway-multi-level-marketing-conservatism
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
i can't possibly read any more about this person or her family
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Okay sorry you're right, it just makes me more infuriated. But so many people in my life want to "humanize" them or praise their philanthropy or get close to their power, I have a sort of compulsion to shout about them into the void.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
i used to and then i realized how much it aggravated me, and that being aggravated to that degree (fairly extreme) was hurting me directly in ways that were harming me and i had to stop. in more peaceful times it seems tenable, but not right now. things are too awful!
no one in my life is trying to humanize/valorize them at all, so it's almost like self-abuse to roll around in their malevolence. for me, i mean.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
Ugh -- this guy! my godi tried to read this and felt like i was drowning
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Yes although my first reax was:
Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.
Sooooo not a very good underground operative then? The Dem candidate won the "important" race AND discovered the mole and fired them? Cool cool. I wonder how much money Erik Prince made out of that? Probably a whole lot.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
I have to hope that being a "former CIA officer" was helpful in that regard.
SCOOP: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine https://t.co/mQFxl3BFK3— Simon Shuster (@shustry) July 7, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
"Erik Prince, the American defense contractor, said he is offering people seats on a chartered plane out of Kabul for $6,500 per person." https://t.co/UwMoZqzgpG— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 25, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
Bout possibly getting sprung in exchange for the basketball player and some supposed spy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3576618-blinken-to-discuss-proposal-to-free-paul-whelan-brittney-griner-with-russian-counterpart/
― peace, man, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
dang did not expect to see this asshead intersect with an embattled WNBA athlete
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - @ksvarnon - has been doing great work on explaining this situation:
http://inkstickmedia.com/why-brittney-griner-is-trapped-in-russia/
― State Planning Committee for Color Revolutions (MoominTrollin), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
From espn:
Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, according to multiple reports.The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and [Paul] Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar the matter told The Associated Press that the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
The visit came as American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and [Paul] Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in July that the U.S. had made a "substantial proposal" to Russia to facilitate a swap. Though he did not detail the terms, a person familiar the matter told The Associated Press that the U.S. had offered to release convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link