{"id":63,"date":"2011-07-11T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/63"},"modified":"2011-07-11T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T05:06:12","slug":"proliferation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/63","title":{"rendered":"Proliferation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/63\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Though I\u2019m certainly not equating Canada with North Korea, there is more than a slight odour coming from Canada when &#8211; on the same day that a major study ranks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/canada-in-afghanistan\/Canada+world+12th+largest+exporter+arms\/5081755\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canada as the world\u2019s 12th largest arms exporter<\/a> &#8211; the country decides to <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/canada-boycott-u-n-arms-talks-headed-north-183651760.html\" target=\"_blank\">boycott the U.N. Conference on Disarmament<\/a> because it is chaired by North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Is the boycott a case of moral righteousness, or a matter of freezing out a competitor?<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I\u2019m certainly not equating Canada with North Korea, there is more than a slight odour coming from Canada when &#8211; on the same day that a major study ranks Canada as the world\u2019s 12th largest arms exporter &#8211; the country decides to boycott the U.N. Conference on Disarmament because it is chaired by North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,11],"tags":[32,33,31],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-politics","category-economic-issues","category-global-issues","tag-canada","tag-disarmament","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}