{"id":311,"date":"2002-11-17T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-18T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycheese.dreamhosters.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2002-11-17T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-18T04:42:00","slug":"armed-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Armed Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8220;The road to hell is paved with good intentions&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now&#8211;right now, today, this minute in fact&#8211;if you were in charge of a starving population that relied on international goodwill to ship in free food, what would you make your highest priority?  Let&#8217;s take it a step further and assume that your country supplies a big fat zero to the rest of the world in return for all that aid.  Okay, let&#8217;s take a look at, oh, I don&#8217;t know&#8230; how about North Korea?<\/p>\n<p>North Korea:<br \/>\n<i>After decades of mismanagement, the North relies heavily on international food aid to feed its population, while continuing to expend resources to maintain an army of about 1 million. North Korea&#8217;s long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.<\/i><br \/>\nsource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/kn.html\">The CIA World Factbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today it&#8217;s reported that the country has officially announced it has nuclear weapons:<br \/>\n<i>A commentary broadcast on state radio said North Korea had developed &#8220;powerful military counter-measures, including nuclear weapons&#8221; to cope with what it called mounting nuclear threats from the United States.<\/i><br \/>\nsource: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/2485829.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting use of the word &#8216;developed&#8217;.  I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;bought&#8217; would be more appropriate.  Bought using money saved on buying food and power because charitable suckers sent it to them for nothing.  I bet everyone just sleeps so much more soundly in their beds at night at the thought of all the good humanitarian work they&#8217;ve done.  I certainly feel much fuzzier if not warmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The road to hell is paved with good intentions&#8221; Now&#8211;right now, today, this minute in fact&#8211;if you were in charge of a starving population that relied on international goodwill to ship in free food, what would you make your highest priority? Let&#8217;s take it a step further and assume that your country supplies a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/?p=311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed Parasites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-and-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycheeselovestuesdays.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}