{"id":51098,"date":"2020-02-11T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51098"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T12:54:24","slug":"the-usas-doll-house-a-vast-tapestry-of-lies-and-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51098","title":{"rendered":"The USA\u2019s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2020\/02\/09\/the-usas-doll-house-a-vast-tapestry-of-lies-and-illusions\/\">The USA\u2019s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn\u2019t happening. It didn\u2019t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It\u2019s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.\u201d<br>Harold Pinter\u2019s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in an illusionary dwelling constructed to reduce them to children afraid of the truth. Or is it the dark?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not new; it has been so for a very long time, but it has become a more sophisticated haunted doll\u2019s house, an electronic one with many bells and whistles and images that move faster than the eye can see. We now inhabit a digital technological nightmare controlled by government and corporate forces intent on dominating every aspect of people\u2019s lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is true despite the valiant efforts of dissidents to use the technology for human liberation. The old wooden doll houses, where you needed small fingers to rearrange the furniture, now only need thumbs that can click you into your cell\u2019s fantasy world. So many dwell there in the fabricated reality otherwise known as propaganda. The result is mass hallucination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA\u2019s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn\u2019t happening. It didn\u2019t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You [&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":[9847,29003,8530,1373,2864,23435,655],"class_list":["post-51098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-jim-garrison","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-kennedy-assassination","tag-lies","tag-off-guardian","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098","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=51098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51100,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51098\/revisions\/51100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}