{"id":582,"date":"2010-08-08T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=582"},"modified":"2010-08-08T22:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:30:55","slug":"castro-warns-of-nuclear-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/castro-warns-of-nuclear-holocaust","title":{"rendered":"Castro Warns of Impending Nuclear Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-584\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-584\" title=\"castro-parliament\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/castro-parliament-150x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/castro-parliament-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/castro-parliament-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/castro-parliament.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Galeano\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cuba&#8217;s Fidel Castro took part in his first government function since he nearly died in 2006, repeating his apocalyptic warnings of a nuclear war that only President Barack Obama can avert as he spoke Saturday to a special session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, who will turn 84 on Friday, appeared lucid and healthy during his 90-minute appearance before the National Assembly of People&#8217;s Power, though an aide helped him walk around the stage.<\/p>\n<p>He seemed clear-minded as he urged Assembly members to consider the risks of nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Castro stood at the podium and read from a prepared text on the threat of nuclear war over Iran and North Korea for 11 minutes, then took questions form reporters.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama approves an attack on Iran, he added, he will trigger a war that will spread through the Middle East and Asia and cause &#8220;the instantaneous death of hundreds of millions of people, among them an incalculable number of people in his own country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;established order of the planet&#8230; will inevitably collapse, the reigning social order will disappear abruptly&#8221; and all currencies will be worthless, he added.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]X8pusNlgLpg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba&#8217;s Fidel Castro took part in his first government function since he nearly died in 2006, repeating his apocalyptic warnings of a nuclear war that only President Barack Obama can avert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}