{"id":82,"date":"2003-08-05T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2003-08-05T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T14:21:52","slug":"terror-alerts-manufactured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Terror Alerts Manufactured?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember that article<\/a> that came out in January? I revisit it now and again. Freddie Mac <\/a> aftershock aside, the article has stood the test of time.<\/p>\n

There was the ‘dirty bomb alert’<\/a> based on fabricated information that oh so conveniently came out just before the February antiwar demos.<\/p>\n

The duct tape scandal<\/a> that helped no one but the Republican campaign contributers who manufactured the products.<\/p>\n

And now Ashcroft is warning airlines<\/a> to be suspicious of small electronics and children’s toys. Okay. Let’s assume the screeners weren’t suspicious of them before and this alert serves a useful purpose in that respect.<\/p>\n

But where’s the story in USA Today<\/i> about Australia’s reaction<\/a> to this new advisory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember that article that came out in January? I revisit it now and again. Freddie Mac aftershock aside, the article has stood the test of time. There was the ‘dirty bomb alert’ based on fabricated information that oh … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}