{"id":46619,"date":"2019-06-13T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46619"},"modified":"2019-06-13T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:35:15","slug":"propaganda-is-the-root-of-all-our-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46619","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/06\/13\/propaganda-is-the-root-of-all-our-problems\/\">Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-2.png?fit=720%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kerryadolan\/2019\/06\/12\/as-crowdstrike-shares-soar-on-its-ipo-day-ceo-george-kurtz-joins-the-billionaire-ranks\/#6a8a17903d69\">new article by&nbsp;<em>Forbes<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;reports that the CEO of Crowdstrike, the extremely shady cybersecurity corporation which was foundational in the construction of the official CIA\/CNN Russian hacking narrative, is now a billionaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Kurtz ascended to the billionaire rankings on the back of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/crowdstrike-stock-jumps-as-software-ipo-frenzy-continues-2019-06-12\">soaring stocks<\/a>&nbsp;immediately after the company went public, carried no doubt on the winds of the international fame it gained from its central protagonistic role in the most well-known hacking news story of all time. A loyal servant of empire well-rewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never mind that US government insiders like Hillary Clinton&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/hillary-clinton-ukraine-aid-military-financial-114462\">had been prepping for escalations against Russia<\/a>&nbsp;well in advance of the 2016 elections, and that their preexisting agendas to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/01\/28\/russiagate-isnt-about-trump-and-it-isnt-even-ultimately-about-russia\/\">shove a geostrategic obstacle off the world stage<\/a>&nbsp;benefitted from the hacking narrative as much as George Kurtz did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never mind that Crowdstrike&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/03\/23\/cybersecurity-firm-that-attributed-dnc-hacks-to-russia-may-have-fabricated-russia-hacking-in-ukraine\/\">is tied to<\/a>&nbsp;the NATO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/05\/04\/atlantic-council-explains-why-we-need-to-be-propagandized-for-our-own-good\/\">narrative management firm<\/a>&nbsp;known as the Atlantic Council,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/support\/supporters\">which receives funding<\/a>&nbsp;from the US government, the EU, NATO, Gulf states and powerful international oligarchs. Never mind either that Crowdstrike was financed with a whopping&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/06\/dnc-russian-hacking-conclusion-comes-google-linked-firm\/\">$100 million from Google<\/a>, which has&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/5\/6\/nsa-chief-google.html\">had a cozy relationship<\/a>&nbsp;with US intelligence agencies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1145669\/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance\/\">since its very inception<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never mind that to this day the DNC servers have not been examined by the FBI,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/01\/mueller-report-special-counsel-didnt-examine-dnc-servers-based-on-fbi-investigation-that-didnt-examine-dnc-servers\/\">nor indeed were they examined<\/a>\u00a0by the Special Counsel of Robert \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uTDO-kuOGTQ\">Iraq has WMD<\/a>\u201d Mueller, preferring instead to go with the analyses of this extremely shady outfit with extensive and well-documented ties with the oligarchic leaders of the US-centralized empire. Also never mind that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newspunch.com\/crowdstrike-analyst-dnc-servers-mueller\/\">Crowdstrike analyst<\/a>\u00a0who led forensics on those DNC servers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archives.fbi.gov\/archives\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/shawn-henry-named-assistant-director-of-fbi-cyber-division\">had in fact worked for and was promoted by Robert Mueller<\/a>\u00a0while the two were in the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems A&nbsp;new article by&nbsp;Forbes&nbsp;reports that the CEO of Crowdstrike, the extremely shady cybersecurity corporation which was foundational in the construction of the official CIA\/CNN Russian hacking narrative, is now a billionaire. George Kurtz ascended to the billionaire rankings on the back of&nbsp;soaring stocks&nbsp;immediately after the company went public, [&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":[17039,14680,26041,553,655,26040],"class_list":["post-46619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-crowdstrike","tag-george-kurtz","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619","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=46619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46621,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619\/revisions\/46621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}