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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:51 PM Jun 2014

Why Even the US Government is Afraid of Blackwater's Mercenaries | Brainwash Update



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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Why Even the US Government is Afraid of Blackwater's Mercenaries | Brainwash Update (Original Post) DeSwiss Jun 2014 OP
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #1
De nada. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #6
I would recommend your post if I could. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #7
It's the THOUGHT that counts! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #11
Good thoughts, DeSwiss. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #12
Gratias, Amatorem Veritatis. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #15
Now this is just one of the things I love about the Internet. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #16
+1! Enthusiast Jul 2014 #22
Despicable cantbeserious Jun 2014 #2
Yet predictable. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #9
That show was a great watch! She was all over it...and good reporting beyond Risen's article KoKo Jun 2014 #3
Abby cuts no slack. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #10
Once upon a time there was a thing called Pravda........... wandy Jun 2014 #4
And that's the way it is..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #5
Well, you sort of identified the bad guys........... wandy Jun 2014 #8
The killings have gone one since the ''dawn of civilization.'' DeSwiss Jun 2014 #14
Is it that we fail to remember the past.......... wandy Jul 2014 #19
''...fail to remember the past or..... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #20
To forget or not know is human.............. wandy Jul 2014 #21
Excellent! DeSwiss Jul 2014 #28
That is what is has come to... cprise Jun 2014 #13
Great Map...Thanks! KoKo Jul 2014 #24
What is good here... DAMANgoldberg Jun 2014 #17
Well, Rachel could do it...... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #18
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Jul 2014 #23
There's lots of good LINKS in this Thread......Needs to have serious folks reading...... KoKo Jul 2014 #25
Kick for Great Links, Graphics and Cartoon...from some incredible DU'ers... KoKo Jul 2014 #26
''Sodalis autem et amicus ad veritatem'' DeSwiss Jul 2014 #27
K & R, lately I just have to stop and pinch myself... mother earth Jul 2014 #29
Spontaneous Order is Spontaneous. DeSwiss Jul 2014 #30

Uncle Joe

(58,298 posts)
16. Now this is just one of the things I love about the Internet.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:27 PM
Jun 2014


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.
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
9. Yet predictable.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:52 PM
Jun 2014
- In 1984, Orwell sought to demonstrate that the purpose behind the drudgery of life was to maintain society intact -- just as it was -- with Big Brother in control of everything. ''The War'' was not against an outside enemy, but by TPTB against their own subjects. It's central tenant being that: Wars are necessary to destroy the surplus that nature gives to anyone freely and automatically.

Just as one apple contains countless millions more ''potential apples'' within its seeds. But now we live in a ''seedless'' society.....

''Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.''

~George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, - 1905

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
3. That show was a great watch! She was all over it...and good reporting beyond Risen's article
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:43 PM
Jun 2014

with background/history of Blackwater we old time DU'ers remember.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
4. Once upon a time there was a thing called Pravda...........
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:58 PM
Jun 2014

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)
5. And that's the way it is.....
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:30 PM
Jun 2014
- For better or worse.

[center]''Who's on first, what's on second, I dunno's on third....''

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wandy

(3,539 posts)
8. Well, you sort of identified the bad guys...........
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:51 PM
Jun 2014

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)
14. The killings have gone one since the ''dawn of civilization.''
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:15 PM
Jun 2014
- Which is of course, the central core of all ironies to call what this is in any way, ''civilized.''

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)
19. Is it that we fail to remember the past..........
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 12:37 AM
Jul 2014
or is it that we fail to accept the knowledge the past has earned us.

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)
20. ''...fail to remember the past or.....
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 01:19 AM
Jul 2014

...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)
21. To forget or not know is human..............
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 03:36 AM
Jul 2014

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

This impressive photo series shows the everlasting shadows of Hiroshima which were caused by the nuclear bomb. The shadows are caused by the atomic blast. When the heat of the bomb hit a person that was standing close to a wall, the person's body 'protected' the wall. So what you see in the series is an opposite of a burned in image. The enormous heat of the bomb made it to the wall, the curb, building etc. and changed the color of it. The body stopped some of the heat and it created what appears to be a shadow. The person died, horribly of course, but his or her image was left behind to remind us of how terrible the explosion was.

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)
13. That is what is has come to...
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:11 PM
Jun 2014

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.

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts)
17. What is good here...
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:50 PM
Jun 2014

is that Ms Abby Martin can actually speak on the subjects that even Rachel Maddow can't. It's time for a rising.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
25. There's lots of good LINKS in this Thread......Needs to have serious folks reading......
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 06:54 PM
Jul 2014

..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)
26. Kick for Great Links, Graphics and Cartoon...from some incredible DU'ers...
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 07:04 PM
Jul 2014

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...

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
29. K & R, lately I just have to stop and pinch myself...
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 08:53 PM
Jul 2014




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!)
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