{"id":24645,"date":"2017-09-27T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24645"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T03:17:21","slug":"america-denies-puerto-rico-request-for-waiver-to-bring-vital-fuel-and-supplies-to-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/09\/27\/america-denies-puerto-rico-request-for-waiver-to-bring-vital-fuel-and-supplies-to-island\/","title":{"rendered":"America denies Puerto Rico request for waiver to bring vital fuel and supplies to island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Independent<\/em> has the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/puerto-rico-maria-irma-hurricane-waiver-to-bring-vital-fuel-and-supplies-to-island-a7969156.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America denies Puerto Rico request for waiver to bring vital fuel and supplies to island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Trump administration on Tuesday denied a request to waive shipping restrictions to help get fuel and supplies to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, saying it would do nothing to address the island&#8217;s main impediment to shipping, damaged ports.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naomi Klein has written a book to describe the type of thing Trump is doing.  The book is titles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism\/dp\/0312427999\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have written a number of posts about this book as far back as 2008 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/30\/the-shock-doctrine-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shock Doctrine<\/a> in 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/10\/12\/the-shock-doctrine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shock Doctrine<\/a> in 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/30\/trumps-shock-doctrine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Shock Doctrine<\/a> in 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/29\/harvey-didnt-come-out-of-the-blue-now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Didn\u2019t Come Out of the Blue. Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change<\/a> in 2017.  You can s<a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=Naomi+Klein\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earch this site for Naomi Klein<\/a> to find more posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent has the story America denies Puerto Rico request for waiver to bring vital fuel and supplies to island. The Trump administration on Tuesday denied a request to waive shipping restrictions to help get fuel and supplies to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, saying it would do nothing to address the island&#8217;s main impediment to shipping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24646,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/24646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}