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breakingtheset · Published on Jun 30, 2014
Abby Martin discusses a New York Times revelation concerning officials at Blackwater threatening to murder State Department officials, and how this is just the latest example of Blackwater's criminal, murderous and unaccountable legacy.
- Toward the end, Rome used mercenaries to fight because the corruption at the top of the Patrician class was complete. The mercenaries would do things the professional soldiers of the Roman Legion would not.
Of course that ended well......
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Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)Thanks for the thread, DeSwiss.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)Peace to you.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Gratias%2C%20Amatorem%20Veritatis.
Spanish English
Gratias, Amatorem Veritatis. = Thank you, lover of truth.
It makes me want to do a WillyT jump.
Thanks again, DeSwiss.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Just as one apple contains countless millions more ''potential apples'' within its seeds. But now we live in a ''seedless'' society.....
~George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, - 1905
KoKo
(84,711 posts)with background/history of Blackwater we old time DU'ers remember.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)What was sad was that they were considered a reputable news source even though the were merely spreaders of communist propaganda. Today there is a thing called Putin TV. What is sad is when by using truth they nail it.
To the memory of Walter Cronkite
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)[center]''Who's on first, what's on second, I dunno's on third....''
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wandy
(3,539 posts)Now, who are the good guys?
These folk have been trying to kill each other for, what, 1500 years.
NO. That is not a Muslim slur.
It is why do WE always have to get involved in it.
Maybe if the Chinese inherited that Oil from Iraq that we Liberated, we would get down to buisness, kick some moocher cowboy off a few acres of desert, build some solar panels and start to kick the habit.
Yes. That was a Bundy cow-pie rebellion slur.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)But in any event, the reason we have struggled as a species is because we fail to remember the past. So we keep repeating ourselves. We are easily duped into thinking that fighting wars = freedom. Which is why it makes such a great investment because its a growth industry. There is apparently no limit to our incredulity.
Ultimately TPTB will do anything to keep things the way they are if not worse (worse, of course). And they want to try and keep [sub script]v[/sub script] this [sub script]v[/sub script] under wraps for as long as possible, or as long as they dare. But it's sort of hard to hide physics:
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wandy
(3,539 posts)Could it be that the knowledge was never truly ours, but simply borrowed, then easily forgotten.
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It works out all the same, for so often we dare to blindly follow. We rarely examine the propertys of a thing, verify the links and then seek to Thrive.
You relay didn't think I was just gonna go ahead and click on that, did ya?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...fail to accept the knowledge the past?''
''Failing to remember'' sounds more like a benign or natural act; like when someone stubs their toe because it's dark and they didn't take enough care. Or as something that happens to everyone -- like being subject to the ravages of time and the diminishing of memory as we become elderly.
''Failing to accept'' on the other hand implies making a choice. And act, a decision. And it implies that the knowledge of the past was otherwise known to us in some way, but for some reason we reject its premise(s).
And it further implies that this knowledge is not only superior to our own level of knowledge, but that it is relative to our present existence. When the fact that it is not a part of our everyday lives is evidence to the opposite (not of a lack of its superiority, but of its relevance to our present existence). And yet knowing this, we still seek different explanations for our existence {explanations that are firmly locked into the 3rd dimensional logic and reason}.
However, knowledge is dynamic and ever-changing. It isn't static or a thing that exists as in a book. It is ever-evolving and becoming something else. Both diminishing and adding to it at-once. It is knowledge of the self we must seek. The answers to what we want to know can only be found there.
- And if we seek to gain access to this knowledge, then we too must likewise, ''evolve.''
Please don't click this link either!
wandy
(3,539 posts)To fail to accept is republican.
A long forgotten tribesman sees a bright flash off in the distance. As he walks towards the point of the flash he discovers a pillar of 'salt'. He accepts that it happened but can not understand how it happened. He writes the story of a harlot in his journal for future generations to remember.
The Everlasting Shadows Of Hiroshima
http://www.walltowatch.com/view/32432/The+Everlasting+Shadows+Of+Hiroshima
Yet another tribesman adds the story of how the walls of a mighty fortress came crumbling down at the sound of trumpets. We will go into advanced bass cube acoustic design at a later time.
We marvel at highly polished granite boxes crafted to great precision. We accept it to be the work of ancient Egyptians still we do not understand how they brought it about.
Actually we recently found one way to recreate that craft. It involves computers, high powered lasers and diamond dust. Not exactly something the average Pharaoh had lying about. Well, at least that is what our current thinking leads us to believe.
Egypt Underground The Ancient 100 Ton Stone Boxes Of The Serapeum
I accept what you did there. Currently I have not been able to recreate it. At least on DU. Maybe a high powered laser and some diamond dust might help.
cprise
(8,445 posts)The role of large for-profit "independent" media is to make sure governments are only cast in the light of legitimacy when they are putting the profits of Wall St. banks above everyone else. After all, those financial elite own most of the media along with everything else.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Always good to keep things in perspective.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)is that Ms Abby Martin can actually speak on the subjects that even Rachel Maddow can't. It's time for a rising.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)..and, yeah, I know, time is a factor.
Cool graphics and such...but the LINKS....and the read.......and Watch ....and Follow Up replies with LINKS.....
KoKo
(84,711 posts)It's a "Bookmark Post/Thread" to go back and check out. The "4th of July" is up this weekend. Might be a good time to check out and reflect and read some stuff...
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)mother earth
(6,002 posts)It is truly amazing how history repeats itself on a grand scale, and the same steps seem to play out for a once great society.
(Koko is right, amazing thread!)