○ The Latest: Cambridge Analytica links to Blackwater founder | The Washington Post |
Of course Cambridge Analytica was in a way linked to Cambridge and Alexander Nix … with new corporate change to Emerdata, do the Mercers give recognition to Abu Dhabi Sheikh of the Emirates? Should we ask Erik Prince?
Cambridge Analytica founders have set up a new London-based Data Company Emerdata
The founders and funders of controversial election consultants Cambridge Analytica are behind a new company registered in London appearing to offer similar services.
Executives at Cambridge Analytica (CA) and parent company SCL Group registered Emerdata Limited as a data processing company last summer but they have since listed directors linked to private military contractors, secretive political meetings and the Trump administration.
Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of the billionaire Robert Mercer who funded Cambridge Analytica, its parent company SCL Group and Donald Trump’s election campaign, were officially registered as directors of the company on Tuesday, the same day CA chief executive Alexander Nix was suspended from his role for comments made to journalists posing as prospective clients.
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Also named as a director of Emerdata is 66-year-old Hong Kong businessman Johnson Chun Shun Ko, a close associate of Erik Prince, founder of private military contractor Blackwater, which secured hundreds of millions in government contracts for private military operations during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Ko serves as deputy chairman for Frontier Services Group Limited, a company which describes itself as a ‘Africa-focused security, aviation and logistics company’ and is led by Mr Prince, its chairman.
Mr Prince is the brother of Donald Trump’s secretary of education Betsy DeVos, and is alleged to have met an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles in January 2017, nine days before the Mr Trump’s inauguration. The Washington Post described the meeting as ‘an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication’ between Moscow and the then president-elect.
Mr Prince and the White House deny he was representing the Trump transition team in any way. Mr Prince described the meeting as a chance encounter that had nothing to do with the president.
Two other directors with apparent links to the UK were also listed.
One, 29-year-old Ahmad Al-Khatib, was described as a citizen of the Seychelles living in England, who joined the company at the same time as Mr Ko.
The other was a 30-year-old woman with British citizenship living in Hong Kong called Cheng Peng (?).
Little is known about either Mr Al-Khatib’s or Ms Peng’s role or background.
Mr Nix, Mr Ko, Mr Al-Khatib and Ms Peng were all appointed directors of the company on January 23, 2018. Companies House records also show there was an allotment of shares to the value of almost £2 million on the same day.
○ Omri Cohen serves as the Head of East Africa at Frontier Services Group Limited, based in Nairobi
Erik Prince of Blackwater fame, name change to XE and Academia has his new headquarters in the Arab Emirates.
The UAE is ’employing’ Blackwater to run its army
The top officer in the Presidential Guard is an Australian citizen called Mike Hindmarsh, while responsibility for recruitment was delegated to a UAE firm called Reflex Responses Company, also known as R2.
R2 was founded in 2010 by a United States military contractor called Erik Prince, the same year the former US Navy SEAL officer moved to the UAE – and only months after he sold his stake in the `controversial’ mercenary firm, Blackwater.
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Frontier Services Group (FSG)In Libya, foreign mercenaries, employed by Prince, were being used to fly UAE ally, General Khalifa Haftar`s war-planes. [Gen. Haftar was CIA’s asset in Libya]
In Somalia, the same firm is responsible for `security services’ for western development services near Mogadishu.
And in South Sudan, FSG is hired to fly warplanes over the world’s newest country’s oil fields to provide protection.
Wherever the UAE seeks to push its foreign policy abroad, FSG can be found, time and again, to provide `security’ in those countries.
The two Princes
It had been thought that Erik Prince had given up interest in the UAE, following excessive media interest in his role in Middle Eastern conflicts.
Prince moved his company’s offices to Hong Kong to work with the Chinese government in providing security contracts in Africa.
Yet despite this shift, it appears that with a new President ally in the White House, Erik Prince has found an ideological partner in Abu Dhabi.
Prince and Nayhan are looking together to Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan and few, if any, UAE nationals will ever be involved.
UAE resorted to back-channel line to mar Russia-Iran ties in Seychelles meeting
○ Blackwater founder’s FSG buys stake in Chinese security school
○ Boss of security firm backed by China gets Trump inauguration invite amid speculation about links | SCMP |
Re: Does a Russian’s Confession Fit What We Know? (4.00 / 2)
Excellent piece, Booman.
Earlier this year, I made an experimental film about micro-targeting and the 2016 Presidential election that focuses primarily on the words of Alexander Nix. I’m of the opinion that Cambridge Analytica played a pivotal role in the outcome, helping to bridge the Russian attack with the treasonous Trumpistas. The film includes contributions from the likes of Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Julian Assange and Tristan Harris.
Password: Conflict
It’s long at 33 minutes but it may be of interest to a few here.by Fighting Bill on Tue Nov 28th, 2017 at 09:24:31 PM MEST
