{"id":53927,"date":"2020-06-28T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53927"},"modified":"2020-06-28T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:21:14","slug":"only-idiots-believe-the-cia-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53927","title":{"rendered":"Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/06\/29\/only-idiots-believe-the-cia-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/medium-17.jpg?fit=1200%2C681&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An assertion made by spooks is as far from evidence as you can possibly get. Really dumb that this needs to be said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most influential news outlets in the western world uncritically parrot whatever they\u2019re told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, then tell you that Russia and China are bad because they have state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine if a compulsive liar who you know for a fact constantly deceives people in order to hurt and exploit them told you your neighbor is going to kill you if you don\u2019t kill him first, and you go and kill your neighbor immediately. That\u2019s how dumb believing the CIA is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you were magically transported from a sane world into this one you wouldn\u2019t understand how everyone\u2019s freaking out about claims that Russia paid the Taliban to attack an occupying force instead of the fact that the US empire is an occupying force all around the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonna quit this gig and become one of those experts they bring on MSNBC to look at the camera and solemnly say that whatever\u2019s in the news today is \u201cright out of Putin\u2019s playbook\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInternational law\u201d only exists to the extent that the international community collectively agrees to enforce it, which means it only applies to nations that can\u2019t control the collective narrative. That\u2019s why so much energy goes into these cold war narrative control campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is pretty much the US State Department\u2019s entire job in modern times, by the way. That\u2019s why almost everything that comes out of Mike Pompeo\u2019s mouth&nbsp;is geared toward manipulating the international narrative in some way. It\u2019s literally his entire job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<\/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>Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix An assertion made by spooks is as far from evidence as you can possibly get. Really dumb that this needs to be said. ~ Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press [&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":[17039,512,14545,827,2344],"class_list":["post-53927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-united-states","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927","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=53927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53928,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}