{"id":54230,"date":"2020-07-17T18:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54230"},"modified":"2020-07-17T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:43:43","slug":"putin-hacked-our-coronavirus-vaccine-is-the-dumbest-story-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54230","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPutin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine\u201d Is The Dumbest Story Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/07\/17\/putin-hacked-our-coronavirus-vaccine-is-the-dumbest-story-yet\/\">\u201cPutin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine\u201d Is The Dumbest Story\u00a0Yet<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/medium-9.jpg?fit=1000%2C693&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRussian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1283756670938742785\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Thursday,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-cyber\/russia-trying-to-hack-and-steal-covid-19-vaccine-data-says-britain-idUSKCN24H236\">Reuters reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRussian news agency RIA cited spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying the Kremlin rejected London\u2019s allegations, which he said were not backed by proper evidence,\u201d adds Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1283787832549691395&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F07%2F17%2Fputin-hacked-our-coronavirus-vaccine-is-the-dumbest-story-yet%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, there are just so many layers of stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, how many more completely unsubstantiated government agency allegations about Russian nefariousness are we the public going to accept from the corporate mass media? Since 2016 it\u2019s been wall-to-wall narrative about evil things Russia is doing to the empire-like cluster of allies loosely centralized around the United States, and they all just happen to be things nobody can actually provide the public with hard verifiable evidence of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/06\/13\/propaganda-is-the-root-of-all-our-problems\/\">shady<\/a>\u00a0cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/05\/13\/hidden_over_2_years_dem_cyber-firms_sworn_testimony_it_had_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html\">admitted that it never actually saw hard proof<\/a>\u00a0of Russia hacking the DNC servers, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/05\/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html\">already shaky and always unsubstantiated<\/a>\u00a0narrative that Russian hackers interfered in the US presidential election in 2016 has been on thinner ice than ever. Yet because the mass media converged on this narrative and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/03\/26\/the-illusory-truth-effect-how-millions-were-duped-by-russiagate\/\">repeated it as fact<\/a>\u00a0over and over again they\u2019ve been able to get the mainstream headline-skimming public to accept it as an established truth, priming them for an increasingly idiotic litany of completely unsubstantiated Russia scandals, culminating most recently in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/07\/07\/pentagon-afghan-bountygate-us-intelligence-agencies\/\">entirely debunked claim<\/a>\u00a0that Russia paid Taliban-linked fighters to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan.<\/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>\u201cPutin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine\u201d Is The Dumbest Story\u00a0Yet OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets! Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. \u201cRussian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus [&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":[64,15605,8807,17039,30032,694,827],"class_list":["post-54230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bbc","tag-british-broadcasting-corporation","tag-british-intelligence","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-coronavirus-vaccine","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54230","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=54230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54232,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54230\/revisions\/54232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}