{"id":12742,"date":"2015-09-28T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T22:06:01","slug":"tick-tick-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12742","title":{"rendered":"Tick Tick Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/tick-tick-tick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tick Tick Tick<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Did Charlie Rose look like a fucking idiot last night on\u00a0<em>60-Minutes,<\/em>\u00a0or what, asking Vladimir Putin how he could\u00a0<em>know for sure<\/em>\u00a0that the US was behind the 2014 Ukraine coup against President Viktor Yanukovych? Maybe the idiots are the\u00a0<em>60-Minutes<\/em>\u00a0producers and fluffers who are supposed to prep Charlie\u2019s questions. Putin seemed startled and amused by this one on Ukraine:\u00a0<em>how could he know for sure<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, gosh, because Ukraine was virtually a province of Russia in one form or another for hundreds of years, and Russia has a potent intelligence service (formerly called the KGB) that had assets and connections threaded through Ukrainian society like the rhizomorphs of the fungus\u00a0<em>Armillaria solidipes<\/em>\u00a0through a conifer forest. Gosh, Charlie, it\u2019s like asking Obama whether the NSA might know what\u2019s going on in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>And so there is Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, having to spell it out for the American clodhopper super-journalist. \u201cWe have thousands of contacts with them. We know who and where, and when they met with someone, and who worked with those who ousted Yanukovych, how they were supported, how much they were paid, how they were trained, where, in which country, and who those instructors were. We know everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only thing Vlad left out of course was the now-world-famous panicked yelp by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland crying, \u201cFuck the EU,\u201d when events in Kiev started getting out of hand for US stage-managers. But he probably heard about that, too.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie then voice-overed the following statement: \u201cFor the record, the US has denied any involvement in the removal of the Ukrainian leader.\u201d Right. And your call is important us. And your check is in the mail. And they hate us for our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tick Tick Tick Did Charlie Rose look like a fucking idiot last night on\u00a060-Minutes,\u00a0or what, asking Vladimir Putin how he could\u00a0know for sure\u00a0that the US was behind the 2014 Ukraine coup against President Viktor Yanukovych? Maybe the idiots are the\u00a060-Minutes\u00a0producers and fluffers who are supposed to prep Charlie\u2019s questions. Putin seemed startled and amused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9347,35,9348,449,5633,694,821,1665,857],"class_list":["post-12742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-60-minutes","tag-assad","tag-charlie-rose","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-kgb","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-victoria-nuland","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}