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General Category => News & Politics => Topic started by: Skippy00004 on December 12, 2011, 05:53:24 PM

Title: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: Skippy00004 on December 12, 2011, 05:53:24 PM: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/former-blackwater-security-firm-changes-name-again-from-xe-to-academi-focusing-on-future/2011/12/12/gIQAZidepO_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/former-blackwater-security-firm-changes-name-again-from-xe-to-academi-focusing-on-future/2011/12/12/gIQAZidepO_story.html)

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ARLINGTON, Va. ? The security firm once known as Blackwater is changing its name again ? this time from Xe (ZEE) Services to Academi ? a move it hopes will reflect the changes the company has undergone.

The company has changed significantly in the last year. A new investor group, USTC Holdings, bought the company in December 2010. The former chief executive, Erik Prince, who aggressively defended Blackwater from accusations that its employees were trigger happy, has left the company. And earlier this year, it relocated its headquarters from North Carolina to northern Virginia, where a large number of security contractors are based.

Academi says its new name is based on Plato?s Akademia, an institution it says developed its nation?s best thinkers and warriors dating back to the third century B.C.

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Title: Re: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: CrystalHunter1989 on December 12, 2011, 06:37:44 PM: Academi? As in, a place for smart people? Let's see them explain Plato's Cave Algorithm, then we'll talk.
Title: Re: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: rah45 on December 12, 2011, 08:11:23 PM: Quote from: CrystalHunter1989 on December 12, 2011, 06:37:44 PM
Academi? As in, a place for smart people? Let's see them explain Plato's Cave Algorithm, then we'll talk.

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Title: Re: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: Skippy00004 on December 12, 2011, 08:12:36 PM: Quote from: CrystalHunter1989 on December 12, 2011, 06:37:44 PM
Academi? As in, a place for smart people? Let's see them explain Plato's Cave Algorithm, then we'll talk.

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I love the allegory of the cave!!!
Title: Re: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: WhiskeyJack on December 13, 2011, 12:26:17 PM: Quote from: CrystalHunter1989 on December 12, 2011, 06:37:44 PM
Academi? As in, a place for smart people? Let's see them explain Plato's Cave Algorithm, then we'll talk.

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Title: Re: Former Blackwater security firm changes name again
Post by: JohnyMac on December 13, 2011, 12:40:38 PM: Yeah. One of the VP's was on Fox and Friends this AM.

Lets see: Leftists were called Progressives until the early 60's then they were liberals. Now Barry is back to calling himself and his ilk Progressives again.

They were Blackwater then... then...I wonder when they will call themselves Backwater again. :))