{"id":55416,"date":"2020-10-24T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55416"},"modified":"2020-10-24T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:36:14","slug":"no-matter-who-wins-the-war-machine-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55416","title":{"rendered":"No Matter Who Wins, The War Machine Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/10\/23\/no-matter-who-wins-the-war-machine-wins\/\">No Matter Who Wins, The War Machine Wins<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9038\" class=\"post-9038 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-biden tag-china tag-cold-war tag-election tag-iran tag-politics tag-propaganda tag-russia\">\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:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?fit=1200%2C849&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?resize=768%2C543&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?resize=1024%2C724&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?resize=1200%2C849&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medium-15.jpg?w=2120&amp;ssl=1 2120w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"849\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The US government is pushing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2020\/10\/silly-season.html\">yet another unproven election meddling narrative<\/a>\u00a0about yet another disobedient government, this time targeting Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>This is exhausting. Do I really need to type this bullshit out?<\/p>\n<p>Fine. Okay. Here we go again:<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wray it was announced that Iran and Russia have separately obtained some voter registration information, and that Iran has been using its information to send bizarre threatening emails to Democratic voters with the goal of swaying the election.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, no evidence of these allegations has been provided.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/1319112891132309504\">Democrats are saying<\/a>\u00a0this completely unsubstantiated claim proves the Iranians want to help Trump,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1319096626690940928?s=20\">Republicans are saying<\/a>\u00a0it proves they\u2019re trying to help Biden. Both are ridiculous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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=1319117769854640128&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Fno-matter-who-wins-the-war-machine-wins%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1319117769854640128\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-security\/u-s-intelligence-agencies-say-iran-russia-have-tried-to-interfere-in-2020-election-idUSKBN2763E3\"><em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0write-up<\/a>\u00a0on the allegations cites one source who says it\u2019s unclear who was actually behind the threatening emails, and that \u201cthe evidence remains inconclusive\u201d that Iran had anything to do with them.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/pI9al\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s report<\/a>\u00a0notes that the allegation against Iran \u201cwas leveled without specific evidence\u201d, and that metadata gathered from the emails points to \u201cthe use of servers in Saudi Arabia, Estonia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, according to numerous analysts.\u201d No attempt is made to address this discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>If the US government held a press conference announcing that Iran is in the Middle East I\u2019d have to check a map just to make sure it\u2019s not an island in the South Pacific or something, that\u2019s how much\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/pompeos-constant-shameless-lying-about-iran\/\">constant, shameless lying<\/a>\u00a0they\u2019ve been doing about that nation lately. There is no reason whatsoever to believe unproven assertions by opaque government agencies who have an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Yw0-ASR4sr8\">extensive and well-documented history<\/a>\u00a0of lying about governments they want to target.<\/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>No Matter Who Wins, The War Machine Wins The US government is pushing\u00a0yet another unproven election meddling narrative\u00a0about yet another disobedient government, this time targeting Iran and Russia. This is exhausting. Do I really need to type this bullshit out? Fine. Okay. Here we go again: At a press conference with Director of National Intelligence [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,441,3977,694,827,25677,843,30499,19790,6399],"class_list":["post-55416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-iran","tag-lying","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-us-government","tag-us-national-intelligence","tag-war-machine","tag-war-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416","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=55416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55417,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416\/revisions\/55417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}