Blackwater (now Xi)

[Jan Klimkowski]

Excellent work - Magda.

There's a tad more info in the thread "Blackwater gets a makeover" here:

http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...blackwater

As we poor preterite ones know, They (in the Pynchonian sense) like Their lil' jokes.

Here's a sidesplitter.



In common parlance, covert mind control programmes seeking to create hypno-programmed assassins are part of the Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

In the 2004 remake, starring Denzel Washington, the company controlling people's minds is known as Manchurian Global.

Blackwater is now known as Xe, pronounced Xi.

The Xí people (習) are an ancient Manchurian people. They were on the Manchurian plain at the same time as the more famous Kumo Xi, who were later called Xi (奚).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%AD

Of course, this is mere, ahem, coincidence....