{"id":73657,"date":"2017-07-28T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73657"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:55:39","slug":"friday-morning-foreign-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73657","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Foreign News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are we heading for another war in Southeast Asia?\u00a0 https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southchinasea-vietnam-china-idUSKBN1AD1FB<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope not. China and Vietnam are in a dispute over Vietnam\u2019s right to drill for oil in its own territorial waters.<\/p>\n

This is silly. Oil is in a \u2018glut\u2019 state now, and some auto companies like Volvo and Tesla are planning to go all-electric within a decade or two. The UK has announced it will ban all diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles by 2040. \u00a0http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/07\/25\/new-diesel-petrol-cars-banned-uk-roads-2040-government-unveils\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The practical factors involved in something like this aren\u2019t being addressed, but that is not my problem or yours. It\u2019s theirs. Idealism is a wunnafulla thing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Meantime, the US government has ordered family members of its embassy employees in Venezuela to leave that country, while violence in the streets increases as the elections draw near.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN1AC1S9<\/a><\/p>\n

Caracas is possibly the worst hit by more and more crowd violence. That rogue police officer firing at government buildings a week or so is a mere symptom of what is going on down there. Maduro has raised the minimum wage by 50%, but if the bolivar is worthless, well\u2026. That entire country is imploding. \u00a0The coming election is meant to revoke Venezuela’s constitution and install Maduro as dictator, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

I think we should get all of our people out, not just their families. Remember Carter\u2019s Iranian fiasco? I don\u2019t think we need to be forced to ransom our own people. Just get them out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are we heading for another war in Southeast Asia?\u00a0 https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southchinasea-vietnam-china-idUSKBN1AD1FB I hope not. China and Vietnam … Friday Morning Foreign News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}