{"id":34430,"date":"2018-05-22T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2018-05-22T05:47:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:47:51","slug":"the-friendly-mask-of-the-orwellian-oligarchy-is-slipping-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34430","title":{"rendered":"The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping\u00a0Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"2a09\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf--leading graf--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-friendly-mask-of-the-orwellian-oligarchy-is-slipping-off-b896a0a25b5f\">The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping\u00a0Off<\/a><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"2d78\" class=\"graf graf--figure graf-after--h3\">\n<div class=\"aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked\">\n<div class=\"progressiveMedia js-progressiveMedia graf-image is-canvasLoaded is-imageLoaded\" data-image-id=\"1*GVrMpbPrGb7FJ0nRoS2WIQ.png\" data-width=\"700\" data-height=\"394\" data-scroll=\"native\"><canvas class=\"progressiveMedia-canvas js-progressiveMedia-canvas\" width=\"75\" height=\"40\"><\/canvas><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressiveMedia-image js-progressiveMedia-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/1*GVrMpbPrGb7FJ0nRoS2WIQ.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/1*GVrMpbPrGb7FJ0nRoS2WIQ.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"9b32\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Gina Haspel <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/work\/leaders\/gina-haspel-confirmed-as-next-cia-director-despite-her-links-to-brutal-torture-tactics\/news-story\/17714b9c969baaf0746b5cdfb77ee43b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/work\/leaders\/gina-haspel-confirmed-as-next-cia-director-despite-her-links-to-brutal-torture-tactics\/news-story\/17714b9c969baaf0746b5cdfb77ee43b\">has been confirmed<\/a> as America\u2019s new CIA Director, fulfilling her predecessor <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/great-news-everyone-the-cia-has-promised-to-become-much-more-vicious-a822786684d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/great-news-everyone-the-cia-has-promised-to-become-much-more-vicious-a822786684d\">Mike Pompeo\u2019s pledge<\/a> to turn the CIA into \u201ca much more vicious agency\u201d. <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/QrLWY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/QrLWY\">\u201cBloody Gina\u201d has reportedly been directly involved<\/a> in both <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpDc1hscfeQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpDc1hscfeQ\">torturing people<\/a> and destroying evidence of torture in her long and depraved career, which some say hurts the CIA\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1fc3\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Others say it just makes it more honest.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8aa8\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/12\/9\/7361295\/biggest-lies-the-cia-told-about-the-torture-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/12\/9\/7361295\/biggest-lies-the-cia-told-about-the-torture-program\">lying, torturing<\/a>, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307\">propagandizing<\/a>, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking\">drug trafficking<\/a>, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachJCarter\/status\/885526254149095424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachJCarter\/status\/885526254149095424\">coup-staging<\/a>, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" title=\"This link will take you away from steemit.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y\">warmongering<\/a> Central Intelligence Agency has done some of the most unspeakably horrific things to human beings that have ever happened in the history of our species. If you think I\u2019m exaggerating, do your own research into into some of the CIA\u2019s activities like <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Program#Reported_torture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Program#Reported_torture\">the Phoenix Program<\/a>, which used \u201cRape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock (\u2018the Bell Telephone Hour\u2019) rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the \u2018water treatment\u2019; the \u2018airplane\u2019 in which the prisoner\u2019s arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners,\u201d and \u201cThe use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee\u2019s ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages\u2026The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to\u2026both the women\u2019s vaginas and men\u2019s testicles [to] shock them into submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping\u00a0Off Gina Haspel has been confirmed as America\u2019s new CIA Director, fulfilling her predecessor Mike Pompeo\u2019s pledge to turn the CIA into \u201ca much more vicious agency\u201d. \u201cBloody Gina\u201d has reportedly been directly involved in both torturing people and destroying evidence of torture in her long 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":[6],"tags":[17039,135,1211,20198,1092],"class_list":["post-34430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-cia","tag-george-orwell","tag-gina-haspel","tag-oligarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430","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=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34431,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions\/34431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}