{"id":184746,"date":"2012-01-30T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/30\/no-this-is-not-the-onion-3\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T01:45:00","slug":"no-this-is-not-the-onion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/30\/no-this-is-not-the-onion-3\/","title":{"rendered":"No, This is Not The Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simply because <i>The Smew<\/i> is giving its American counterpart a run for its money:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/smew.com\/all-feed\/item\/2127-flush-with-oil-from-alberta-canada-prepares-for-inevitable-us-invasion.html\">Flush With Oil From Alberta, Canada Prepares For Inevitable U.S. Invasion<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, ON\u2014It\u2019s a subject the Canadian military high command doesn\u2019t like to discuss, but one that\u2019s taken on an increasing sense of urgency since the discovery of massive oil reserves in the Alberta tar sands: how to defend Canada from imminent U.S. invasion.<\/p>\n<p>A highly-placed military source in the Harper government, speaking off the record, confirmed that Canada is actively preparing for an American attack. \u201cLook, we can all see the pattern here: if a country has significant oil reserves, the United States will find a pretext to invade. Iraq, Libya\u2014frankly, it\u2019s either us or Iran next,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply because The Smew is giving its American counterpart a run for its money: Flush With Oil From Alberta, Canada Prepares For Inevitable U.S. Invasion OTTAWA, ON\u2014It\u2019s a subject the Canadian military high command doesn\u2019t like to discuss, but one that\u2019s taken on an increasing sense of urgency since the discovery of massive oil reserves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113,1048,1006,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-humor","category-military","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}