{"id":2482,"date":"2014-06-27T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T08:13:09","slug":"rampant-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"Rampant Paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/olegvolk.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/united-states-going-the-way-of-the-ussr\/\">Oleg nails it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-09-20-cabinet-approves-draft-bill-banning-alcohol-ads\">slightly behind<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/new-smoking-laws-even-more-strict-1.1544696#.U60mN7HXX1I\">that curve<\/a> out here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratek.co.za\/.%5Carchive%5Crichardtren3.html\">South Africa<\/a>, except there&#8217;s <a 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