{"id":1698,"date":"2008-02-14T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2008-02-14T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:35:08","slug":"links-for-2008-02-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-14\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-02-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/13\/europe\/union.php\">European Commission calls for creation of a European border patrol<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The far-reaching package&#8230; would involve setting up a comprehensive electronic register of travelers&#8217; biometric data.&#8221; Christ &#8211; not another one&#8230; What&#8217;s the betting this idea has been sponsored by the UK?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Civil_Liberties\">Civil_Liberties<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/13\/wpatar413.xml\">Patarkatsishvili death threatens UK Russia ties<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">As if we needed any more reasons to get into spats with Russia, another of (Putin&#8217;s chief billionaire opponent) Boris Berezovsky&#8217;s mates unexpectedly dies. Great&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/13\/business\/ikb.php\">German government backs IKB bailout<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">For UK readers, it&#8217;s not just Northern Rock&#8230; Yet another sign that the economy is increasingly screwed to go along with the collapse of three magazines I freelance for. (Great &#8211; cheers, the economy.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,535086,00.html\">How not to win over the public: make bizarre comments about the war<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Sarkozy&#8217;s new missus is in trouble already<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/en\/main\/news\/7874\/\">&#8216;No Hurdles&#8217; To Kosovo Independence<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;There are no more hurdles to Kosovo&#8217;s independence, a meeting of UN, NATO officials and local politicians concluded Wednesday.&#8221; &#8211; well, except for the fact that Serbia has declared independence illegal and has the backing of Russia&#8230; The fight is about<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/2\/7428e40f-f73a-49cc-8542-fece256ecabd.html\">Kosovo And Serbia Enter A New Era<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very good analysis &#8211; well worth a look<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7d1c5786-da5c-11dc-9bb9-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html?nclick_check=1\">EU confident of peaceful Kosovo birth<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nosemonkey confident of Kosovo causing no end of trouble for years to come<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/14\/nblair114.xml\">Gordon Brown backs Blair&#8217;s run for EU job<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Oh Christ&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3125768,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf\">Future Face of European Union Plagued by Uncertainty<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Tip-top overview of the problems of picking an EU president. (Hint: DON&#8217;T PICK BLAIR)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission calls for creation of a European border patrol &#8220;The far-reaching package&#8230; would involve setting up a comprehensive electronic register of travelers&#8217; biometric data.&#8221; Christ &#8211; not another one&#8230; What&#8217;s the betting this idea has been sponsored by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}