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Ian62

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 04:19 PM Jul 2012

Wall St banks secretly build private army [View all]

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http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/16/guess-buying-americas-firearms-bullet-manufacturers-133981/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/26/923395/-Private-Equity-Firms-Own-War-Contractors-DynCorp

Wall Street banks have secretly taken over US firearms and ammunition manufacturers and the world’s largest mercenary firms in a stealth build up private military force.

A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used private equity firms to acquire and launch a massive stealth takeover of private security firms, US ammo and gun manufacturers, uniforms, silencers and an army of mercenaries to build what amounts to the world’s largest private army.

At the same time the private mercenary companies they now control, which include the likes of Dynacorp and the notorious name changing Blackwater/Xe Services/Academi, have been authorized under Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 3025.18 to actually conduct policing operations inside the United States.

The article reveals Citi Bank, Bank of America, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank have provide huge amounts of funding to two private Wall Street equity firms, Cerebus and Veritas Equity, which in turn have used umbrella companies such as Freedom Corp., to engage in stealth takeovers and weapons stockpiling which has consumed the likes of several gun manufacturers and ammunition manufacturers including Remington, Cobbs, H&R, Marlin, Dakota, and Bushmaker.
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This is some scary shit. ananda Jul 2012 #1
Very well planned out scary shit, at that. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2012 #3
Cyberpunk, no longer fiction nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #2
This smacks of paronoia 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #4
Ooga booga! Ruby the Liberal Jul 2012 #5
Your OP is a conspiracy theory - which violates the SOP of GD. scarletwoman Jul 2012 #6
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