{"id":324722,"date":"2017-09-05T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-has-been-begging-for-war\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T18:27:30","slug":"who-has-been-begging-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/who-has-been-begging-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Has Been \u2018Begging for War\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-29638\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley says North Korea\u2019s tests of increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles amounts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/04\/politics\/haley-north-korea-united-nations\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbegging for war.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So THAT\u2019S what testing increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles is! Thank you for the clarification, Ambassador Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Is that what the US and the other nuclear weapons states have been doing for the past 70 years? Perhaps now we have some inkling of how we have been viewed by the rest of the world as we have brandished weapon after weapon after weapon . . . ?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezfFKajVWw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> (The video above is a 3 minute version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ezfFKajVWw4\" target=\"_blank\">all nuclear detonations since 1945.<\/a> I invite you to watch the unrelenting sequence of thousands of nuclear detonations by the US and other nuclear powers unfold in the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=giqhdDHV5wo\" target=\"_blank\">14 minute version<\/a>, if you have the stomach for it.) <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI think that North Korea has basically slapped everyone in the face in the international community that has asked them to stop,\u201d Haley said. <\/i>Yes, well . . . . <\/p>\n<p>What, then, is the opposite of this way of \u201cbegging for war\u201d? Perhaps becoming a party to the UN <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearban.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">#nuclearban<\/a>? Perhaps that is what countries \u201cinsisting on peace\u201d are doing? <\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/joescarry.blogspot.com\/\">Scarry Thoughts<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/DhuE5rOlhSw\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley says North Korea\u2019s tests of increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles amounts to \u201cbegging for war.\u201d So THAT\u2019S what testing increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapons and missiles is! Thank you for the clarification, Ambassador Haley. Is that what the US and the other nuclear weapons states have been doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}