{"id":462,"date":"2014-10-22T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=462"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:43:07","slug":"what-submarine-in-sweden-counterpunch-tells-the-facts-names-the-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"What Submarine in Sweden? \u00bb CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/10\/22\/what-submarine-in-sweden\/\">What Submarine in Sweden? \u00bb CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Lund, Sweden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">You have heard that Sweden is hunting a \u201dsubmarine\u201d and that it is \u201dpresumed to be Russian\u201d. Here is an example\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #cf1028; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/click.icptrack.com\/icp\/relay.php?r=2048720&amp;msgid=117194&amp;act=ZDWN&amp;c=1432132&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fintl%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F309f0322-590d-11e4-a722-00144feab7de.html%23axzz3GryMiUIi\">Financial Times of October 21<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0which incidentally also announces that the Swedish Prime Minister vows to increase defence spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Not the slightest evidence<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">There are only three problems with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">1) There is not the slightest evidence of there being anything military, neither that it is a submarine nor that, whatever the object might be, it is Russian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">2) Even with CNN, BBC and AlJazeera this is nothing but speculative low-grade yellow press journalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">This is possible in the field of defence, security and peace because much less is required of journalists when they write about these matters than when they write about, say, domestic politics, economics, sports, books or food and wine. In these fields you are expected to have some knowledge and media consumers are able to check.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Submarine in Sweden? \u00bb CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. Lund, Sweden. You have heard that Sweden is hunting a \u201dsubmarine\u201d and that it is \u201dpresumed to be Russian\u201d. Here is an example\u00a0Financial Times of October 21\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0which incidentally also announces that the Swedish Prime Minister vows to increase defence spending. Not the slightest [&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":[22,64,145,296,553,694,757,758,759,771],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-al-jazeera","tag-bbc","tag-cnn","tag-false-flag","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sub-sweden","tag-sub-sweden-russia","tag-submarine","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}