Erik Prince seeking $500m for battery metals fund – report

A war criminal with a private army at his disposal and links to the highest levels of the US Government is attempting to raise $500 million? What could go wrong!

This has been a discussion thread I've heard of before. I.E. the mountains full of rare earth metals, lithium, etc. in Afghanistan, and how we need to secure it ASAP before the Chinese do. Read like Bush-League propaganda and was usually juxtaposed with "China buying all of the rare metals in Africa". Which makes me wonder if this is pure pablum to help Prince ride the propaganda, or if he's looking to corner the market.

Also didn't realize he sold the Acadami/Xe/Blackwater group, and is now beholden to Hong Kong financiers:

> Prince sold Blackwater in 2010 after it was hit with a string of lawsuits. He is currently executive deputy chairman of Frontier Services Group, which provides integrated security, logistics and insurance services in frontier markets and is backed by Hong Kong investor Chun Shun Ko and China’s CITIC Group.

The dollop episode on this scumbag was amazing: https://thedollop.libsyn.com/321-erik-prince-and-blackwater-...