{"id":47120,"date":"2019-07-08T06:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47120"},"modified":"2019-07-08T06:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:52:33","slug":"how-stupid-do-they-think-we-are-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47120","title":{"rendered":"How Stupid Do They Think We Are?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/07\/07\/how-stupid-do-they-think-we-are\/\">How Stupid Do They Think We Are?\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI daresay you haven\u2019t had much practice,\u201d said the Queen. \u201cWhen I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I\u2019ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consumers of the print or electronic output of the League of Copy Typists and their Instructors are expected to believe many impossible things and believe them, not just before breakfast, but all day too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Putin kills his enemies by using spectacular methods that can easily be traced back to Russia and preferably when he\u2019s staging some high-profile event like the Olympics or World Cup.<\/li><li>Russian submarines only fool around in the waterways of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/346287-sweden-russian-submarine-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neutral<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/28\/finland-fires-suspected-russian-submarine-waters-h\/\">countries<\/a>&nbsp;whose elites want to get into NATO, never in NATO ones.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/mar\/28\/skripals-poisoned-from-front-door-of-salisbury-home-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poison is smeared on the front doorknob<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-46792956?intlink_from_url=&amp;link_location=live-reporting-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This requires the roof of the house to be replaced<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to think it, believing any part of the official Skripal story, from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/uk-russia-spy-poisoning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incredibly lethal nerve agent<\/a>&nbsp;that didn\u2019t kill them, to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2019\/01\/coincidence-chief-nurse-of-the-british-army-was-the-first-person-to-arrive-at-the-novichoked-skripal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spectacular coincidence of the British Army\u2019s chief nurse being on the scene<\/a>, to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/jul\/24\/novichok-victim-ill-within-15-minutes-says-partner-charlie-rowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">re-wrapped perfume bottle<\/a>&nbsp;would tax the White Queen\u2019s ability.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblogmire.com\/summing-up-the-official-claims-in-the-salisbury-poisonings-weighed-in-the-balances-and-found-wanting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here\u2019s a list<\/a>. But that\u2019s not to say that we\u2019re finished yet: there always seems to be another absurdity like the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/russiagate_and_the_missing_ducks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dead ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Assad only uses chemical weapons or nerve agents when he\u2019s winning.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/29\/world\/middleeast\/russias-brutal-bombing-of-aleppo-may-be-calculated-and-it-may-be-working.html\">They bomb hospitals on purpose<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/kunduz-hospital-bombing-no-charges-1.3558588\">we bomb them by accident<\/a>.<\/li><li>The USAF bombs with great precision and accuracy. But the cities it bombs are turned into\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/Tomgram-Engelhardt-Bombi-by-Tom-Engelhardt-Bombing_Empire_Military_Wars-170720-864.html\" target=\"_blank\">rubble<\/a>. Its \u201cprecision\u201d is indistinguishable from random carpet bombing.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/fallujah-in-ruins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fallujah<\/a>.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/may\/23\/raqqa-ruins-bombing\" target=\"_blank\">Raqqa<\/a>.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NwAKNkkYmZs\" target=\"_blank\">Mosul<\/a>.<\/li><li>Washington\u2019s enemy-of-the-moment always attacks just when Washington warns it might: vide recent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2019\/06\/13\/oil-tankers-attacked-gulf-oman-off-iran-us-navy-responding\/1441787001\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf of Tonkiran episode<\/a>. Or shoots down innocent drones which are absolutely, positively, in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/20\/us-drone-shot-down-by-iranian-missile-in-international-airspace.html\" target=\"_blank\">international airspace<\/a>. Or\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">perhaps they aren\u2019t<\/a>.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/08\/world\/europe\/russias-rt-network-is-it-more-bbc-or-kgb.html\" target=\"_blank\">RT is tremendously effective at influencing people<\/a>\u00a0even though\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toinformistoinfluence.com\/2017\/01\/13\/if-russia-today-is-moscows-propaganda-arm-its-not-very-good-at-its-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">nobody you know actually watches it<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\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>How Stupid Do They Think We Are?\u00a0 \u201cI daresay you haven\u2019t had much practice,\u201d said the Queen. \u201cWhen I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I\u2019ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.\u201d Consumers of the print or electronic output of the League of Copy Typists [&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],"tags":[93,553,17074,694,8203,857],"class_list":["post-47120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-britain","tag-nato","tag-patrick-armstrong","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120","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=47120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47121,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120\/revisions\/47121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}