{"id":31007,"date":"2018-02-14T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31007"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:26:16","slug":"the-lies-and-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31007","title":{"rendered":"The Lies and the Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFrank Larson Chrysler reflection, 42nd Street near 5th Ave, New York <\/b>1950s<\/center>Update<\/b>: Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned at 5pm local time, before the parliamentary debate could take place. But that still leaves Rutte in place with his own version of \u201cwhen it gets serious, you have to lie\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/center>There will be a parliamentary debate in Holland (the Netherlands) today about abject lies about Russia and Vladimir Putin that its Foreign Minister, Halbe Zijlstra, has been telling the country for a few years now. Zijlstra is supposed to fly to Russia tomorrow to meet with his Russian peer, Sergey Lavrov. One would suppose Zijlstra will be fired later today, if only to prevent such a meeting from taking place, but that is by no means a given.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what happened: in 2006, there was a \u2018conference\u2019 in Putin\u2019s dacha outside of Moscow. Zijlstra worked for Shell at the time at a lower level. Later, he has pretended he way present at a meeting with Putin in which the latter supposedly talked about his dreams for a \u2018Greater Russia\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now, Zijlstra has revealed he was not at that meeting. He claimed \u2018a source\u2019 was there and told him about it, and he had wanted to protect the source and therefore pretended he himself was present. That source, then-Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, not only never asked for any such protection, he also sent an email to paper De Volkskrant saying that Zijlstra had \u2018misinterpreted\u2019 the story Van der Veer had told him (a diplomatic word for he lied).<\/p>\n

Putin never talked about ambitions for a Greater Russia, and never said Kazachstan was \u2018nice to have\u2019. Zijlstra made that all up. There had been mention of Greater Russia, but in a nostalgic, historical manner. And now Van der Veer, undoubtedly much to his chagrin, gets dragged into this entire false tale.<\/p>\n

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The Lies and the Narrative Frank Larson Chrysler reflection, 42nd Street near 5th Ave, New York 1950sUpdate: Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned at 5pm local time, before the parliamentary debate could take place. But that still leaves Rutte in place with his own version of \u201cwhen it gets serious, you have to lie\u201d. There […]<\/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":[18562,179,11865,3318,518,553,660,13924,694,18563,2100,5177,821,18564],"class_list":["post-31007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-biden","tag-crimea","tag-holland","tag-merkel","tag-mh17","tag-nato","tag-putin","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-russia","tag-rutte","tag-shell","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-ukraine","tag-zijlstra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007","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=31007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31008,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions\/31008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}