{"id":43230,"date":"2019-01-28T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43230"},"modified":"2019-01-28T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:57:45","slug":"the-real-enemy-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43230","title":{"rendered":"The real enemy of the people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The real enemy of the people<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWhat\u2019s it like being a traitor?\u201d John Sweeney being just as subtle, unbiased and classy as you expect from the BBC Panorama team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are all familiar with the terms \u2018conspiracy theorist\u2019 and \u2018apologist\u2019 used by the establishment and media to smear independent journalists, experts and other commentators. For some time this has been particularly evident in the debates we see over the Middle East wars and Russia. It\u2019s common knowledge that people who use these terms can\u2019t argue rationally so resort to smears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western government support for terrorism, staged events and spreading disinformation via groups such as Integrity Initiative has come under closer scrutiny recently. As more revelations of wrongdoing by our governments and misreporting by our media have been exposed, the censorship and smears against independent media has intensified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A DISTURBING NEW RHETORIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure some of us have noticed that the language used has been ramped up yet again. I came across one example recently of someone promoting the anti-Russia narrative on Twitter making an analogy between one researcher\u2019s legitimate investigation and criticism of Integrity Initiative and the actions of the World War II traitor, \u2018Lord Haw-Haw\u2019. And I think many readers will be familiar with this post from John Sweeney of the BBC and clip from his programme on Sputnik News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s our @bbcnewsnight<\/a> film on Sputnik News in UK. With tensions between Russian and UK growing I was on my diplomatic best behaviour. 1st Q: “what’s it like being a traitor?” http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxWv7yYhkf4\u00a0\u2026<\/a>
https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46904935\u00a0\u2026<\/a>248<\/a>9:32 AM – Jan 17, 2019<\/a>Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a>Facebook targets Russian fake news sourcesThe pages campaigned for months creating and sharing stories that were fake, said Facebook.bbc.co.uk<\/a>
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To call someone a traitor is probably the most serious accusation you can make so let\u2019s look at its meaning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The real enemy of the people \u201cWhat\u2019s it like being a traitor?\u201d John Sweeney being just as subtle, unbiased and classy as you expect from the BBC Panorama team. We are all familiar with the terms \u2018conspiracy theorist\u2019 and \u2018apologist\u2019 used by the establishment and media to smear independent journalists, experts and other commentators. For […]<\/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":[5241,9315,10726,23264,24165,496,512,23435,694,24166],"class_list":["post-43230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apologist","tag-conspiracy-theorist","tag-establishment","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-kevin-smith","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-off-guardian","tag-russia","tag-western-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230","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=43230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43231,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43230\/revisions\/43231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}