{"id":1609,"date":"2017-02-24T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:03:30","slug":"china-energy-american-embassy-in-israel-trade-deficit-peace-through-technology-philippine-drug-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"China energy; American embassy in Israel; trade deficit; Peace Through Technology; Philippine drug fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes from my research the past few weeks: \u00a0China has recently allocated some $360 billion dollars for the development of more green energy. \u00a0Meanwhile, Scott Pruitt &#8212; who apparently has close ties to the fossil fuels industry &#8212; has just been appointed the head of the EPA in America&#8230; \u00a0There&#8217;s talk in the Trump administration about moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. \u00a0The Palestinians want East Jerusalem for their capitol, if they ever have their own state there. \u00a0America moving it&#8217;s embassy to Jerusalem could create quite a firestorm&#8230; \u00a0A Pat Buchanan column noted that in 2016, the U.S. had a trade deficit in goods of nearly $700 billion. \u00a0&#8220;For an advanced economy like the U.S., such deficits are milestones of national decline,&#8221; he wrote&#8230;. \u00a0In a George Will column in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, he advocates for a &#8220;Peace Through Technology&#8221; doctrine at this point. \u00a0Will, for instance, advocates for much more drone use. \u00a0He notes drones have already logged more than 4 million flight hours and can deliver &#8220;precision strikes with minimal collateral damage&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0A <em>Time Magazine<\/em> article notes that since Philippine President Rodrigo Duertes took office, more than 6,000 people had been killed (in the first six months) in his campaign to purge the Philippines of illegal drugs and those who are associated with them. \u00a0The article noted that while there has been some international outcry in regard to the brutality (and lack of due process), some 77% of Philippine people give Duertes a favorable rating. \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0Our administration would come at illegal drug use in a much different, and much more systemic way. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joe-the-counselor\">See&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes from my research the past few weeks: \u00a0China has recently allocated some $360 billion dollars for the development of more green energy. \u00a0Meanwhile, Scott Pruitt &#8212; who apparently has close ties to the fossil fuels industry &#8212; has <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1609\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}