{"id":286,"date":"2011-06-06T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-06-06T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:00:21","slug":"arms-firms-rejoice-over-middle-east-uprisings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/arms-firms-rejoice-over-middle-east-uprisings\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms Firms Rejoice over Middle East Uprisings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/060411_0728_armsfirmsre1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As it turns out it wasn&#8217;t just abstract ideals like democracy and human rights that benefitted from the recent revolutions in the Middle East. Arms Manufacturers are expecting a sales bonanza.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Middle East spent $111 billion on arms in 2010, with the bulk of the purchases coming from Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Somewhat surprisingly South America saw the largest increase in military spending in 2010<\/li>\n<li>India was the world&#8217;s largest arms importer in 2010<\/li>\n<li>The US accounts for 41% of the world&#8217;s military spending<\/li>\n<li>The US military budget has increased by 81% since 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about the state of the global arms market <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-13437491\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-13437491\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out it wasn&#8217;t just abstract ideals like democracy and human rights that benefitted from the recent revolutions in the Middle East. Arms Manufacturers are expecting a sales bonanza. The Middle East spent $111 billion on arms in 2010, with the bulk of the purchases coming from Saudi Arabia Somewhat surprisingly South America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}