{"id":54997,"date":"2020-09-13T06:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54997"},"modified":"2020-09-13T06:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T11:59:04","slug":"the-assange-trial-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54997","title":{"rendered":"The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/09\/11\/the-assange-trial-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-8844\" class=\"post-8844 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-assange tag-narrative-matrix tag-politics tag-propaganda tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/medium-2-6.jpg?fit=1000%2C556&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/medium-2-6.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/medium-2-6.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/medium-2-6.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"556\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The most powerful government in the world is currently conducting a prosecution to protect its right to lie to the public about the evil things that it does, and somehow the public isn\u2019t shaking the earth with unmitigated rage about this.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssange isn\u2019t a journalist! He has an agenda!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every journalist in the world has an agenda. It just happens that most journalists have fame, wealth and esteem as their agenda while Assange\u2019s agenda is, in his own words, \u201ccrushing bastards\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crazy how there are still people who try to claim Assange isn\u2019t a journalist. He is, and it\u2019s not even debatable. Publishing information that informs the public about what\u2019s going on in the world is exactly the thing that journalism is.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream press have been far, far less critical of immensely powerful world-dominating government agencies than they\u2019ve been of one thin, frail man locked in a cage who published inconvenient facts about those agencies.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>The very worst fringe conspiracy theories do far less damage than mainstream, establishment-promoted conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>If I died today my one regret would be that I wasn\u2019t mean enough to shitty MSM reporters.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Destroy nations and displace tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Wait for some of those people to hate you and want to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Use their desire to fight back as justification to repeat Step 1.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Ask someone how much a dollar bill is worth and they\u2019ll tell you a dollar. Put a gun to their head and ask \u201cAre you sure it\u2019s not worth 100 dollars?\u201d and they\u2019ll say \u201cAh yes you\u2019re right, my mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the economy under the US empire.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is Novichok?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assange Trial, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The most powerful government in the world is currently conducting a prosecution to protect its right to lie to the public about the evil things that it does, and somehow the public isn\u2019t shaking the earth with unmitigated rage about this. ~ [&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":[17039,462,2001,827,880],"class_list":["post-54997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-journalism","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997","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=54997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54998,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997\/revisions\/54998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}