{"id":7782,"date":"2015-05-02T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2015-05-02T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T00:30:37","slug":"the-greatest-danger-in-the-world-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Danger in the World Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 300%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article41733.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Greatest Danger in the World Today<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">May 01, 2015 &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Information Clearing House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0I am on a journey through Vietnam with a group of American Vietnam War veterans who now live in Vietnam and work to address some of the profound human problems still caused by a war that ended 40 years ago. Known as VFP Hoa Binh Chapter 160, these men work to help people still being maimed by the estimated one and a half billion pounds of bombs (\u201cordnance\u201d) dropped by the United States on Vietnam during the war that did not explode at the time they were released (7 million tons, or 14 billion pounds of bombs were dropped on Vietnam and an estimated 10% of them failed to detonate). In addition these American veterans work to help some of the approximately 1 million people (a Red Cross of Vietnam estimate) people born with genetic defects or otherwise disabled or in poor health due to exposure to the 20 million gallons of toxic herbicides sprayed on South Vietnam\u2019s tropical rainforests food and crops. The primary herbicide used was Agent Orange, which contains the known carcinogen dioxin. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denies that dioxin is a mutagen (causing mutant genes), the rate of birth defects in Vietnam as quadrupled since the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\">We visited a number of the victims of unexploded ordnance and toxic herbicides, which brings home the human dimensions of suffering, misery and death that are the inevitable legacy of war. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greatest Danger in the World Today May 01, 2015 &#8220;Information Clearing House&#8221;\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I am on a journey through Vietnam with a group of American Vietnam War veterans who now live in Vietnam and work to address some of the profound human problems still caused by a war that ended 40 years ago. Known as VFP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5127,2860,525,5128,1492,827,1440],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-agent-orange","tag-authority","tag-military","tag-mindlessness","tag-tyranny","tag-united-states","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}