See my prenious diary …
○ The Return of Pete Hoekstra to Holland
Hoekstra Can Learn Dutch Moral and Human Values
From Holland, Michigan – founder of Tea Party – against gay rights – opposes women’s rights – loves Geert Wilders and his stance on immigration and Islamophobia. A representative of the other half of America … not our moral compass as we live by in “Old Europe”.
○ Gay rights opponent picked as ambassador to Netherlands by Trump | The Guardian |
○ American Freedom Alliance: Pete Hoekstra and Geert Wilders
In anticipation perhaps of a new U.S. ambassador to The Hague, the Dutch have moved the embassy out of the city center for security reasons to a lovely pasture surrounded by sport fields and across the from the parks where the Dutch Royal family will soon live. Not much of the embassy building can be seen from the outside as the main levels are subterrain in bunker facility. A wise decision. Well, at least it’s a green construction for sustainability. The building is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council and is targeting Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED®) Silver certification.
Peter Hoekstra [1953] – Exploring Dutch Heritage
Hoekstra has been honored by a number of organizations for his work in the U. S. Congress. In 2004 he received the U. S. Chamber of Commerce “Spirit of Enterprise” award. Also in 2004, Americans for Tax Reform, awarded him the “Hero of the Taxpayer” award. Earlier, in 2003, Citizens against Government Waste awarded him the “Tax Payer Super Hero” award. And in the year 2000 Habitat for Humanity named him “Public Official of the Year”.
I guess the Dutch got a worse deal in the past …
Obama nominates bundler Timothy M. Broas
To be the U.S. ambassador to a foreign country, it’s not necessary to speak the native language or even to have visited the place. Like many presidents before him, President Obama has nominated numerous major campaign fundraisers and political allies to represent the United States overseas.
In fact, in his second term in the White House, Obama has nominated 23 so-called bundlers for plum diplomatic posts. This map from the Center for Public Integrity shows where these well-connected figures are headed.
Paul L. Bremer III was U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands from 1983-1986. Bremer had served under Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig in the Reagan administration. He was known as a security and terrorism expert (counterterrorism). He callled Iran a nation funding and supporting terrorists across the globe. Bremer must have loved the Iraq of Saddam Hussein, just as Donald Rumsfeld and CIA’s support for intelligence. Use of poisonous gas in attack on Halabja.
Former Amb. to the Netherlands Paul Bremer security analyst ran CPA office in Baghdad, Iraq
The former diplomat published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, titled, “Only America Can Prevent a Disaster in Iraq.” In the opinion piece, Bremer criticized President Barack Obama for his 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, saying that the U.S. lost considerable political influence over Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and left behind an unprepared Iraqi military.
“Only the Americans can help the Iraqis broker across these sectarian and ethnic lines,” he said on MSNBC. “There is nobody else who can do it.”
Bremer also spoke out against the potential partition of Iraq into three regions based on ethnic lines, a proposal outlined by then-Sen. Joe Biden in 2006.
Where did ISIS come from? The story starts here. | Boston Globe |
Soldiers of Misfortune? | U.S. Army War College |
Another diplomat used similar language to describe what he observed: Blackwater guards “behave like Iraq is the Wild West and Iraqis are like `Injuns,’ to be treated any way they like,” he observed. “They’re better-armed and -armored than the military, but they don’t have to follow military rules, and that makes them dangerous.”
The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) headed by L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer did much to encourage what some have called a “culture of impunity.” In June 2003, Bremer issued CPA General Order No. 17:
1. Coalition contractors and their sub-contractors, as
well as their employees not normally resident in Iraq,
shall not be subject to Iraqi laws or regulations in matters
relating to the terms and conditions of their contracts
in relation to the Coalition Forces or the CPA.
○ Archetypes, Quanta and the new Iran story by geezer in Paris @EuroTrib - Jan. 2007
Betsy De Vos named in Trump’s cabinet …
Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: A Win for the Christian Right
Blackwater Erik Prince and his Dutch heritage (Prins) …
Erik Prince [1969] – Industrial/Commercial Leader
The Blackwater Corporation and its activities as a contractor for the United States military have been widely discussed in the media during the latter part of the Iraq conflict. The major principal in the Blackwater Corporation is its founder Erik Prince.
Erik Prince and Blackwater Worldwide, currently known as the XE Corporation, have been intertwined since Blackwater was founded by Prince in 1997.
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We will conclude the profile with some personal information. Ericks mother remarried following the death of his father. She is now known as Elsa Prince Broekhuizen. One of Prince’s sisters, Betsy, is married to Dick DeVos, a son of one of the founders of the Amway Corporation. Dick DeVos ran as a Republican candidate for the governorship in Michigan, but lost to the Democratic candidate in the 2008 election.
- ○ Mercenaries in the Desert | The New Yorker – May 2011 |
○ Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder
Supporting a Trump Presidency …
○ Erik Prince: Obama and Clinton are Complicit in Creating ISIS | Breitbart – June 2016 |
○ UAE helped establish Trump-Putin back channel in Seychelles meeting plus Erik Prince/Steve Bannon connection
○ The Return of Erik Prince Trump’s Knight in America’s New Crusade?
Read my earlier diary on a black renegade project – Intelligency Agency for rendition and torture centra overseas …
○ Geheimdienste Amyntor – Victor In Chains
