BLACKWATER : GLOBAL THREAT

You can bet Blackwater is in Korea as we speak...

Oh, and for anyone questioning the sources and legitimacy of Blackwater...go to the site at the bottom, buy the book, read it, and step to the informed side of the argument.

http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Powerful-Mercenary-Revised-Updated/dp/156858394...

It is sooooo hard to figure out where to draw the line on the wrongdoings we let happen in the world. I love how I am able to sit here and watch these videos, and complain about it, and pretty much have no REAL opportunities to change any of it.

Again...Yes oh grand lucid one we shall beware of the media ideas of march...Thanks for the hint ;)

DOES THE MIGHTY WURLITZER SPEW INTELLECTUAL PABULUM UPON.A NATION OF VILLAGE IDIOTS ?..

At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, Oh, sure, all the time !

Check out Carl Bernstein's 1970s Rolling Stone article on the CIA's stranglehold on the US media, which has gotten far worse since then:
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html

CIA Instructions to Media Assets
http://192.220.64.45/collections/assassinations/jfk/cia-inst.htm

"The media is not influenced by the CIA - the media is the CIA." -Robert Lederman http://www.konformist.com/2000/bush-dictator.htm

Look who the corporate media is today. The beneficiaries of 9/11; the biggest beneficiaries have been Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, the Carlyle Group, Boeing, Halliburton, the military industrial contractors, each of those have had 300 to 400 percent increase in their stock value in the last five years, and when we look at those groups and the memberships of their boards, Carlyle has someone sitting on the New York Times board, Bechtel sits on NBC, Boeing sits on ABC, Halliburton sits on ABC, Lockheed Martin sits on Gannett. They're interconnected; - Peter Phillips / Project Censored

TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES FOR 2009
http://current.com/items/89327026_top_25_censored_stories_for_2009

TOP 10 STORIES BIG MEDIA MISSED IN 2008
http://current.com/items/89359517/top_10_stories_big_media_missed_in_2008.htm

The US media has no investigative capability and serves up the lies that serve short-term corporate and political interests. If it were not for the Internet that provides Americans with access to foreign news sources, Americans would live in a world of perfect disinformation. - Paul Craig Roberts

"World War III will be a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
- Marshall McLuhan

My post is more of a reminder to the public that reads this to use their own brains and to be skeptical and critical about ALL things, including this.

If you want to elevate awareness, then give them EVIDENCE, not a propaganda video. (and look up the word propaganda before you object)

The fact that people are influenced by such videos does not bode well for society.

If you can't understand this simple premise, then further dialogue is meaningless.

to: whitenoise

Even an investigative journalist needs to document his verifiable sources just to begin to be taken seriously by a rational person.

Even then, there should be sufficient scrutiny and skepticism to weed out the truth from the possible mistruth.

This is important as there are plenty of "award-winning investigative journalists" that are totally biased and mis-represent the truth. Will Potter with his work surrounding eco-terrorism is an example of one of these "journalists" that I believe grossly distorts the truth to fit his own bias . . . and he testified before congress on the AETA.

This video is just a continuation of the current trend to assemble videos with "some expert" narrating some "incredible" scenario with an overlapping flipbook of emotion inspiring images with a heart racing soundtrack.

Rational minded people turn off when they realize that the proposed "truth" is making a plea on their emotions.

Facts are facts, no emotion inspiring "holy crap" mentality is required. In fact, it is counterproductive to convincing the non-sheep of the world.

So I'm not saying that anything said in the video is actually false, but as a rational mind I have to treat is as false due to the lack of corresponding evidence provided.

It's this "Zeitgeist" and "2012" trend that I criticize. If it's factual, then put it on paper and cite all verifiable sources. The public shouldn't be swallowing up what every "expert" says without looking at the evidence, but sheep will be sheep.

As for the actual facts, I won't have an opinion until I look at this Jeremy Scahill's sources and then decide for myself. As for his book, I would already be going in skeptical, especially since the excerpt on his website is laced with subtle imagery.

The trick is to not simply out right believe what you would want to believe. Skepticism and critical evaluation is needed to separate the truth from any possible distortions of it.

This video holds up to neither.

Dear lucidstone,

I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree !

But you're excused for the more one is ignorant the less one realize it !

Blackwater is pretty much Jeremy Scahill's dossier... He's the video narrator.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Scahill
2) http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/jeremy_scahill
3) http://blackwaterbook.com/

I'm just tagging along for I find his work crucial & a perfect example of everything gone wrong in America.

...& I've got more to upset you if you do insist ;)

BLACKWATER : THE CRUSADE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpRz4CvMqo&feature=channel_page

BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfu44knmLOE&feature=channel

Always a pleasure ;)

Meanwhile...."We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

If you're going to put this much time into making a conspiracy theory video, why don't you write a corresponding paper detailing these ideas with well documented and legitimate sources . . . maybe then rational people "might" take you seriously.

until then, this is just meaningless noise.

great post...

I'm referring to Donkeyfly69's post:
HERE IT IS!. This right here is the attitude that p!sses me right off.. "it was bound to happen..."... So why do anything about it. Right here ladies & gentleman is the thinking drilled into our children over the last 25 years. "it was bound to happen so just accept it, & shut up.. take it up the butt because we say so."..We've created a generation of lazy, stand up for nothing as long as I get what I want, spoiled brats.. OH yeah.. and i want my MTV... Americans use to have some balls & stood for some beliefs. Baby-boomers started the mess & the generation we created will carry on the mess.. Wow.. I can hardly wait to see the F.U.M they create.

It was bad enough when we only had the Government to worry about, but Government is at least theoretically accountable to the People. Government needs to crush this type of activity, and FAST.

"...unchecked power " ... Blackwater, the henchmen of the power hungry, war-mongering, self-serving elitist egoists who treat the rest of the world society like pawns with their brutal war mentality... defiling the innocent and murdering the helpless along the way...meanwhile being exonerated for their efforts... This senseless and unreasonable global direction of the users of society must be changed...

Thanks, WhiteNoise, it's always a pleasure to review your posts... keep fighting to promote all that is good in the world and against the evil...

Excellent! White Noise does it again. Thank-you.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mr. White Noise, your post regarding involving BlackWater, is very relevant and timely, in my eyes. Eric Prince and other neo-cons should be hauled in and prosecuted. They are the true threat to a free society.
If you are ever accused of spewing the rants of a madman, then I stand accused too. There is most certainly something very sinister afoot in this country and abroad. I believe it is something that aims to turn us against one another, yet enslaving all that inhabit the planet ...

I tip my helmet to you sir...

THIS is why the Second Amendment is just as relevant today as it was 230 years ago...THANX WN, great post...oops, time for the reloading bench....

Be careful of Sheperd Fairey he might sue you for using his image in your video (kind of kidding).

The privatization of military was Truman's undoubted warning. The biggest issue is that it's turned into the mapping of a linear economic business plan that is being mimicked by the rest of the world.

The video leaves me feeling overwhelmed, assaulted, and powerless. Maybe if you paced it a bit better relying less on other people's images I would have been more apt to ingest it all.
Keep on fighting the good fight, you've got a fan in me!

Now could it be that the USA as the Zionists's mercenairies in Irak be part of the equation ?

"Political Zionism is an agency of Big Business. It is being used by Jewish and Christian financiers in this country and Great Britain, to make Jews believe that Palestine will be ruled by a descendant of King David who will ultimately rule the world. What delusion! It will lead to war between Arabs and Jews and eventually to war between Muslims and non-Muslims. That will be the turning point of history." (Henry H. Klein, "A Jew Warns Jews," 1947)

The universally accepted definition of INSANITY is to persist in the same behavior but expecting a different outcome.

"The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright

THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
http://freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=135&id=976&wh=1000x720

IDK one of the guys was from my state and here we have alot of mormons, (very racist religion) and I just don't see these balckwater guys using very much discretion. Smart people should be defending us not hate filled racist, they are going to make the U.S. look worse than we already do. I support our troops 100% and also the IDF100%. Kick the shit out of those hate filled Hamas muslims and all the extremists, but don't kill innocent people or torture. gosh

Thanks for keeping up with this WN. One of the biggest problem of the American People;

"Memory, Accountability and Focus."

...it was bound to happen...

the truth hurts and they are making big bucks in the industry of war but both sides have to be looked at and then you can accurately decide how you feel about their operation I personally see the good and bad of blackwater but its looking more bad than good now days

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Albert Einstein

Excellent work WhiteNoise!
This needs to be on TV