Preston: Bravo! Another good one. FYI---on defense profits--particularly STOCK VALUE CREATION...OR SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS CAPITAL GAINS...OR POP. I spent about 20 hours going through the Proxy and SEC materials for DynCorp when Kelly did the asset forfeiture story (DYNCORP has a $60MM a year contract supporting the knowledge management for seizures here in US). Their current proxy shows that they value their stock (they buy and sell internally) at approximately 30X earnings. So, if a contract has a 5-10% profit, then per $100MM of contract, DynCorp makes about $5-10MM and that transates into $150MM-300MM of stock value. The real profit is in the capital gains on the stock. That means for a $200MM contract, with average earnings of 5-10%, or $10-20MM, DynCorp is generating $300MM-600MM of STOCK VALUE. That is what Ruppert and I call the Pop. Pug Winokur of Capricorn Holdings appears to have about 5% ownership. That means that his partnerships' stock value increases $15MM-30MM from the War in Columbia. OK, now that means if the Dyncorp team kills 100 people (I have no idea what the numbers are will be, so this is just an example), than they make $1.5MM-3.MM per death...etc...whatever the body count is, we should be able to estimate the POP PER DEAD COLUMBIAN---that is how much capital gains can be killed from killing one Columbian (since DynCorp was in the Gulf and Kosovo, we should be able to calculate the relative value of killing various cultures and nationalities). Pug's partnership under these assumptions could make $75,000-150,000 of POP PER DEAD COLUMBIAN. Indeed, the prison companies stock trades on a PER BED basis. My guess is that the defense stocks are going to evolve more towards per person expenditures and other similar performance rule of thumb for profit opportunity. One of my expectations is that the numbers for the Columbian war will be a very high per death cost. That means lots of shareholder's profit, but probably suprisingly few American jobs created PER DEAD COLUMBIAN. That is because the big money is not made on labor intensive contracts...the big money is switching the ownership of the land, natural resources and other resources, including control of the drug markets and their reinvestment in our stock market and university endowments as opposed to local Columbian investment, to "our friends"...namely the insider trading cabal....is where the real money is. That is why DynCorp's role as a KNOWLEDGE MANAGER is so important...and worth far far more money than the straight up government contract that they get. The profit will not show up for the insider trading on DynCorp's portfolio, but in the other capital gains that flow to the players in the Chase/Council For Foreign Relations syndicates.... and their private and institutional portfolios... For more, see NarcoNews' upcoming series on WHO RUNS AMERICA? Good sources to help estimate who is who on the GROSS DEAD COLUMBIAN POP are Edgar On Line (A lot can be found in SEC documents), the various contracting offices (this is supposed to be publically available information), the defense stock analysts on Wall Street (they are watching this kind of profit closely while they trade the stocks), as well as Alexander Cockburn's website listing the top 50 defense contractors. The Carlyle Group in Washington has invested in numerous defense operations. They are also active in CFR (Council for Foreign Relations) with Pug Winokur of DynCorp and Harvard. It would not suprise me if Harvard Endowment is an investor in Carlyle. A cross cutting look at all the investments in the Carlyle portfolio will probably show that they stand to make big profits on Columbia and how that flows back to their various investors....which may include the pension funds or 401k's of people on this e-mail list. The story that could help us achieve breakthrough if we could synthesize it with the Columbian War story is that of PROMIS. If the FBI and the intelligence agencies have had--as is alleged--- the ability through Promis to ---for example---search through the Swiss banks to identify Nazi gold and assets stolen from the Jews...then they can go through all the bank accounts in the world to stop drug trafficking. The ability for years now to see all banking balances and to effect seizures globally, then there is no need for a War on Drugs...unless the purpose is to generate profits and grab assets for a small group of people. If we can integrate the Promis story into what is happening in drug and arms trafficking, we will have made a real breakthrough.... Again, good going...thanks. Catherine Austin Fitts Solari > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: War is Hellishly Profitable > > > Hi all, > This was just posted this morning at disinfo.com. If you go to > the URL, you > can read lots and lots of other articles on this subject. > Enjoy. > Peace, > Preston > > http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=War+Is+Hellishly+Profitable > > War Is Hellishly Profitable > There is a new breed of cold-blooded soldier-of-fortune fighting in a > multitude of countries in Africa and other hot war-zones around > the world, a > corporate version, which kills for a much higher, somewhat legal > price tag. > > The career choice of 'mercenary' has a long and colorful history. > What does > one do after being trained to kill a thousand different ways, > blow things up, > use anything as a weapon, then retires from military service? > There aren't > many job opportunities for someone like that. Luckily for these killers, > rulers throughout history have hired soldiers-of-fortune to > defend them, or > do their dirty work, or when he/she simply didn't want too many subjects > killed, and/or not paying taxes while campaigning. > > Alexander the Great hired Phoenicians, 224 ships in all, to help destroy > ancient island Tyre, in 322 BC. In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries AD, the > Roman military was made up in large part of Barbarian mercenaries. > > During the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin hired Prussian > Friedrich von Steuben to train Colonial troops. Chennault's famous Flying > Tigers in China at the beginning of World War II were > mercenaries. There is > the infamous French Foreign Legion, which still takes any and all > comers with > or without identity. > > The CIA has hired plenty of mercenaries, from Cuban exiles for > the bungled > 'Bay of Pigs' affair and the 'Air America' operations in > South-east Asia in > the 1960s and 1970s, to spending over US$1 million in 1975 in > Angola to put > together mercenary forces. > > According to William Blum in his brilliant and disturbing Killing Hope > (Common Courage Press, 1995), the CIA also financed British > mercenaries in > Angola, including the psychopath Costas Georgfou (Colonel Tony > Callan), who > once lined up and shot fourteen of his own men for attacking the > wrong side. > > In the Congo in 1960-64, the CIA had an army of mercenaries made up of > Americans, Cuban-exile Bay of Pigs veterans, South Africans and > Rhodesians, > both grunts and pilots. > > It was in mercenary 'Mad Mike' Hoare's South African home that CIA agent > Donald Rickard spoke of turning in Nelson Mandela in August of > 1962, a year > after the great activist and freedom fighter's arrest and incarceration, > resulting in Mandela's 28-year prison sentence. Blum calls Hoare > a "long-time > CIA mercenary." CIA-hired mercenaries have seen action in Guatemala, El > Salvador, Indonesia, Seychelles, Zaire as well. > > The days of Hoare, and Colonel Bob Denard, two of the most > infamous of the > white mercenaries that fought throughout the world's conflicts, > are now for > the most part over. Private military companies such as Executive > Outcomes, > Sandline, Dyncorp, and Military Professional Resources, Inc have eclipsed > them. These companies offer insurance and benefits for their > employees, often > operating under contract from corporations and governments, training and > equipping troops, protecting potentates, crushing rebellions, and > doing some > intelligence work on the side, in exchange for cash, and/or shares in > national natural resources, oil and diamonds and the like. > > While the South African office of Executive Actions was closed down in > January 1999, the others are still going strong, with the US > using MPRI and > Dyncorp in the Balkans, and in Latin America. > > MPRI actually helped draw up the US$1.3 billion military aid > package, 'Plan > Colombia,' from which they will profit by providing logistical > support, and > training. > > Dyncorp currently has in excess of US$200 million with over 900 full time > employees. MPRI is made up of retired military officers, with 160 > full-time > employees, a database of 11 000 former American military > officers, and its > spokesman, Ret. Lieutenant Harry Soyster, is the former head of the US > Defense Intelligence Agency. > > If there is one lesson learned from history both modern and > ancient, it is > not that "war is hell," but that "war is hellishly profitable." > > Research by Preston Peet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
