The Most Popular Show In America Is Basically NSA Propaganda
March 25th, 2014Via: Business Insider:
NCIS and its sibling NCIS: Los Angeles are the top-rated dramas on television, a distinction they have held for several years.
Next season there will be a third iteration, which ones hopes will be titled NCIS: Spinoff. As Quartz’s Jason Lynch notes, viewers love these formulaic procedurals—while critics ignore them.
But what exactly are so many Americans watching—and rooting for—when they tune in for these TV shows? A closer look reveals that both series are uncomfortably akin to a cheering section for the NSA: The shows depict a world in which terrorists planning mass slaughter are under every bed, in which viewers root for the good-looking, wisecracking agents to smash down doors without warrants; in which super-advanced electronic surveillance is used exclusively to protect the public. In the NCIS version of reality, we’ll all die unless powerful government agencies treat the United States Constitution like a big joke.
There are a bunch of shows doing it. Here’s some that we watch.
They all show that intelligence gathering through legal and (sometimes) illegal means, protect the people.
“Intelligence” shows why it’s good to have the government evesdropping on everything, and that they have cameras everywhere.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2693776/?ref_=nv_sr_1
“Burn Notice” shows how spies (even a burned one) help defend the world. The show shifts from him working freelance with his acquired skills and contacts, to working dirty covert ops with agency intel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
“Covert Affairs” shows how the CIA protects us Americans against threats world wide.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495708/?ref_=nv_sr_1
“Criminal Minds” shows how information, even illegally acquired information by their on-team hacker, saves lives.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
“Bones” … well … I haven’t figured out why most of their cases would involve the FBI. But they stop the bad guys.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460627/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Of course, *all* of them do impossible intelligence gathering things, like instantly hacking into unknown databases and correlating data from those sources. Hell, they’ve had scenes where they “hack” into a “mainframe” to get information on paper records.
I’m always particularly annoyed that they can crack a security system in seconds, or throw random tech sounding words out like they mean something.
Hollywood and Wall Street prepare us as well: Earlier this year, in the movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jack uncovers a financial terrorist plot hatched by a drug-addicted Russian sadist with advanced computer skills, who, on orders from sinister Kremlin politician(s), intends to crash the US economy and bomb downtown Manhattan, thus resulting in a Great Depression. All this follows from a U.S. financial provocation at the U.N. Hollywood sending a signal after Putin snubs Israel by stopping the U.S. from Iran and Syria invasions? Wall Street preparing Americans to point blame outside the Fed and Banking Cartel? Was Ukraine (and the inevitable Crimea secession) an elaborate chess board set-up to provoke western sanctions against Russia at just the right time? Are they choosing this moment to pull the NATO trigger and create the illusion that the Crash/False Flag terrorist attack came from the sinister Ruskies? Ahhh…the questions keep rolling in….. like…is it a good time to buy bullion?
Windhorse, gold bullion casts into ammunition fine, but it’s a bit pricy. Lead is a better choice. 🙂
I’m not planning for some socioeconomic collapse. I figure it will happen eventually. I’m just surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
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