{"id":11847,"date":"2011-01-20T01:42:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11847\/time-invade-chocolate-coast\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T06:42:18","slug":"time-invade-chocolate-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11847\/time-invade-chocolate-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Invade the Chocolate Coast!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t do many political blogs, but there’s something going on in West Africa that seemingly no one cares about because I sure haven’t heard about it on either of my two main sources of news:\u00a0 The Rachel Maddow Show and The Daily Show. <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
The situation in Ivory Coast has gone on long enough!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
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Doesn’t the world community understand that 75% of the world’s chocolate supply comes from the cocoa in this country?!?! <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

The basic story is that the sitting president, Laurent Gbagbo, lost the recent election.\u00a0 He doesn’t want to step down despite there being no real legitimacy to him holding onto power.\u00a0 How is he staying in power?\u00a0 According to this article<\/a> from earlier today: <\/span><\/span>He maintains control of the security forces<\/span><\/a>, much of the cocoa sector <\/strong>and state institutions. <\/em> I think it was Machiavelli who first noted:\u00a0 HE WHO CONTROLS THE COCOA, CONTROLS THE POWER. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WORLD CHOCOLATE SUPPLIES ARE AT STAKE!!<\/span><\/span>
\nTIME TO INVADE! <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

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We invade Iraq for oil, but won’t invade for some little country for chocolate?? Double standard!! <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
I bet if the country changed their name to “The Chocolate Coast”, I bet people would care then!!! <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

Child labor, anyone? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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WE’VE HEARD THE PROTESTS:\u00a0 NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

well….\u00a0 exactly how much blood are we talking about here? <\/span>
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I don’t do many political blogs, but there’s something going on in West Africa that seemingly no one cares about because I sure haven’t heard about it on either of my two main sources of news:\u00a0 The Rachel Maddow Show and The Daily Show. The situation in Ivory Coast has gone on long enough!! Doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[147,315,1429,81,234],"class_list":["post-11847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-food","tag-humor","tag-ivory-coast","tag-joko","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}