{"id":240,"date":"2005-12-09T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=240"},"modified":"2005-12-09T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T13:32:58","slug":"no-war-for-magnetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"No War For Magnetite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I contemplete <a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051209\/ap_on_sc\/earth_magnetic_pole'>this<br \/>\nnews story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEarth&#8217;s north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and<br \/>\ntoward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular<br \/>\nNorthern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story goes on to say &#8220;exactly why this happens is a mystery&#8221;.<br \/>\nNo it isn&#8217;t, or no it won&#8217;t be as soon as the unenlightened masses grasp the<br \/>\ntruth: It&#8217;s all George Bush&#8217;s fault for not ratifying the Kyoto treaty.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Halliburton has plans for making huge profits in the<br \/>\nnavigational-equipment market.  The pole shift is a nefarious<br \/>\nneoconservative plot to make all existing compasses obsolete.  Mwa ha<br \/>\nha.  But you can stop it &mdash; just hook up with your local pathetic<br \/>\nCommunist-remnant organization and take to the streets screaming &#8220;No<br \/>\nwar for magnetite!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The preceding is satire.  Any resemblance to actual moonbat conspiracy<br \/>\ntheories is not coincidental in the slightest.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I contemplete this news story: Earth&#8217;s north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday. The story goes on to say &#8220;exactly why this happens is a mystery&#8221;. No it isn&#8217;t, or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=240\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No War For Magnetite!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}