{"id":60768,"date":"2021-12-04T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60768"},"modified":"2021-12-04T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T11:39:16","slug":"the-us-manufactures-weapons-and-consent-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60768","title":{"rendered":"The US Manufactures Weapons And Consent: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/12\/02\/the-us-manufactures-weapons-and-consent-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">The US Manufactures Weapons And Consent: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10840\" class=\"post-10840 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-censorship tag-china tag-covid tag-narrative-matrix tag-nuclear-war tag-propaganda tag-russia tag-vaccines\">\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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-1200x797.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-128x86.jpg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-us-manufactures-weapons-and-consent\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The only manufacturing jobs left in the US are military weapons and consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Gotta keep dropping bombs because they gotta keep making bombs. Gotta keep making bombs because they made the entire economy dependent on bomb-making. This is the only type of system that could possibly work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The goal of internet censorship is to suppress and marginalize unauthorized ideas so much that the internet actually becomes a net negative for ordinary people, because the only ones who will be able to rapidly share ideas of consequence will be the propagandists and their acolytes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Because people who object to US-led imperialist aggressions against their governments are routinely purged from social media, those of us who do not live in nations that are being targeted by those aggressions have a special duty to forcefully speak out against US imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome to our Summit for Democracy,\u201d said the nation whose elections are completely fake and whose intelligence agencies have interfered in scores of foreign elections and which openly works to topple democratically elected governments around the world all the time.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, come on:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1465726036231004160&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F12%2F02%2Fthe-us-manufactures-weapons-and-consent-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=c415b9ad88c3583ab58496008025c2feb12cb993&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1465726036231004160\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism is such a garbage system that news media will shriek all day about \u201ccrime\u201d like it\u2019s this mysterious alien phenomenon being inflicted upon society from the outside instead of a very obvious symptom of economic injustices with very obvious and widely known solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>I was fully expecting Biden to be absolute shit but I will still admit to being disappointed that he just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/biden-lied-about-yemen\">flat-out lied<\/a>\u00a0about ending the war in Yemen. Yes I know it serves me right for getting my hopes up. But it is still horrific that this atrocity\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Daniel_Larison\/2021\/11\/30\/the-world-keeps-yemen-waiting-with-deadly-results\/\">continues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Manufactures Weapons And Consent: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The only manufacturing jobs left in the US are military weapons and consent. \u2756 Gotta keep dropping bombs because they gotta keep making bombs. Gotta keep making bombs because they made the entire [&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":[4745,17039,9163,24234,14545,827,834,3142,862],"class_list":["post-60768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-aggression","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-consent","tag-manufacturing-consent","tag-narrative-control","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-empire","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60768","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=60768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60768\/revisions\/60769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}