{"id":8227,"date":"2010-06-13T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2010-06-13T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T01:48:48","slug":"unbelievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you think all the news that is fit to print is bad news – something like this comes across your screen – here a breaking alert from the New York Times:<\/p>\n

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U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits<\/p>\n

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The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in\u00a0untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any\u00a0previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter\u00a0the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,\u00a0according to senior American government officials.<\/p>\n

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The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of\u00a0iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals\u00a0like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that\u00a0are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could\u00a0eventually be transformed into one of the most important\u00a0mining centers in the world, the United States officials\u00a0believe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think all the news that is fit to print is bad news – something like this comes across your screen – here a breaking alert from the New York Times: U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in\u00a0untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any\u00a0previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter\u00a0the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,\u00a0according to senior… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-28H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}