{"id":602,"date":"2006-07-24T08:24:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=602"},"modified":"2006-07-24T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:34:44","slug":"from-sun-tzu-to-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/07\/24\/from-sun-tzu-to-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sun Tzu to Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_07_24_halter.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_07_24_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1560256818.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SL160_V65623000_.jpg\" alt=\"From Sun Tzu to Xbox\" \/><em>GUEST: Ed Halter, contributing critic for The Village Voice, a graduate of Yale and New York University, author of &#8220;From Sun Tzu to Xbox&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The LA based Pandemic\/Bioware Studios are developing a new videogame simulating an invasion of Venezuela set in 2007. According to the game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercenaries 2: World in Flames,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is based on the premise that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela&#8217;s oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a war zone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Venezuelan Solidarity Network, concerned about the game, is seeking to halt the manufacturing and distribution of the game. Pandemic Studios claims that &#8220;Venezuela was chosen for the setting of Mercenaries 2 [because it] is a fascinating and colorful country full of wonderful architecture, geography and culture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The U.S. Army and C.I.A.-funded Institute for Creative Technologies has subcontracted Pandemic studios in the past. The target market of the game will be young men of military age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Ed Halter, contributing critic for The Village Voice, a graduate of Yale and New York University, author of &#8220;From Sun Tzu to Xbox&#8221; The LA based Pandemic\/Bioware Studios are developing a new videogame simulating an invasion of Venezuela set in 2007. According to the game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercenaries 2: World in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}