{"id":33300,"date":"2018-04-10T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33300"},"modified":"2018-04-10T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:24:49","slug":"when-a-government-declares-a-verdict-before-an-investigation-its-because-theres-a-preexisting-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33300","title":{"rendered":"When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It\u2019s Because There\u2019s A Preexisting Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/04\/10\/when-a-government-declares-a-verdict-before-an-investigation-its-because-theres-a-preexisting-agenda\/\">When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It\u2019s Because There\u2019s A Preexisting Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-4388\" class=\"post-4388 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-assad tag-chemical-weapons tag-cold-war tag-douma tag-novichok tag-russia tag-skripal tag-syria\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Hours after an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria, long before any investigation into the matter could have possibly even begun much less been completed, the US State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/state-dept-accuses-russia-and-syria-of-gassing-civilians-before-any-investigation-8921495c83fb\">declared<\/a> that\u00a0\u201cthe Assad regime must be held accountable\u201d and Russia \u201cultimately bears responsibility\u201d for it. Anyone who questioned such proclamations was branded a delusional conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n<p>Days after an alleged poisoning of an ex-spy in Salisbury, the UK\u2019s Foreign Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/mar\/07\/russian-spy-police-appeal-for-witnesses-as-cobra-meeting-takes-place\">was telling reporters<\/a>that the Kremlin would be held responsible. Anyone who questioned such proclamations was branded a delusional conspiracy theorist. Weeks later, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/more-evidence-that-the-uks-russia-narrative-is-a-verdict-in-search-of-a-crime-b2d1e2268c18\">we learned<\/a> that laboratory forensics had still determined no such culpability, and crime scene forensics were all over the map <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/everything-keeps-changing-about-the-skripal-narrative-except-russia-definitely-did-it-80589c52b8df\">positing many contradictory theories<\/a> about what happened and how.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it interesting how just as <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-us-empire-is-acting-like-a-desperate-cornered-animal-because-thats-what-it-is-25308ee10221\">its data begins warning<\/a> that the western empire is approaching post-primacy and will likely lose its dominant position in the world if it doesn\u2019t take drastic action, all this information begins pouring out about a longtime rival of that very empire? It\u2019s almost as if there is a preexisting vendetta to cripple oppositional governments, and then crimes are being discovered which just so happen to advance that preexisting agenda.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward cards-multimedia customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 56.2500%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset MediaCard-mediaPlaceholder NaturalImage NaturalImage--fill js-playableMediaInterstitial\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/983381624212500480\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DaWsXviUMAApyHY?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DaWsXviUMAApyHY\" data-scribe=\"element:poster_image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/983381624212500480\" data-tweet-id=\"983381624212500480\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\">\n<p><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Department of State (screen name: StateDept)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/822487400492339200\/z7Oakire_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/822487400492339200\/z7Oakire_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/822487400492339200\/z7Oakire_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a class=\"PrettyLink profile customisable h-card\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"822215679726100480\" data-scribe=\"element:mention\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value Tweet-prettyLink\">POTUS<\/span><\/a> Trump condemns the heinous attack on innocent Syrians with banned\u00a0chemical weapons. <a class=\"PrettyLink hashtag customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash\" rel=\"tag\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\" data-scribe=\"element:hashtag\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">#<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value Tweet-prettyLink\">Syria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/983381624212500480\" data-datetime=\"2018-04-09T16:30:24+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: April 09, 2018 16:30:24 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-04-09T16:30:24+0000\">12:30 PM &#8211; Apr 9, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>How wild is that?<\/p>\n<p>Hey everyone! You know that WikiLeaks drop everyone\u2019s talking about? Turns out it was Russia. No we can\u2019t show you the evidence. It\u2019s secret evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Oh hey, the election didn\u2019t turn out how it was supposed to, but guess what? Turns out it was Russian Facebook ads that definitely made that happen. No we can\u2019t show you evidence of it. It\u2019s secret evidence. Shut up and give us our sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It\u2019s Because There\u2019s A Preexisting Agenda Hours after an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria, long before any investigation into the matter could have possibly even begun much less been completed, the US State Department declared that\u00a0\u201cthe Assad regime must be held accountable\u201d and [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,10180,2864,1426,19755,655,694,19657,776,827],"class_list":["post-33300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chemical-attack","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-preexisting-agenda","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-skripal-poisoning","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33300","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=33300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33302,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33300\/revisions\/33302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}