{"id":1751,"date":"2008-04-04T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2008-04-04T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T12:37:07","slug":"links-for-2008-04-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-04\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/03\/europe\/cyprus.php\">&#8216;Historic day&#8217; in Cyprus as another border crossing opens<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Good stuff. But reunification will pose some difficulties without Turkish EU membership&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Cyprus\">Cyprus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,544059,00.html\">Fitna review<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Finally saw this the other day, and agree wholeheartedly with this line from this review: &#8220;There is no new footage&#8221;. It&#8217;s tedious and says nothing new. Polemicists used to be original and entertaining, surely?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Netherlands\">Netherlands<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Culture\">Culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/stories\/2008\/04\/04\/015.html\">Berezovsky Blamed in Politkovskaya Murder<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hardly surprising, as he was also blamed for Litvinenko&#8217;s murder. It&#8217;s highly unlikely that there&#8217;s any basis to the claims, what with Berezovsky being the Kremlin&#8217;s biggest foe, but still. Interesting article.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/europe\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10958589\">The perils of three-legged races<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The futile notion that Europe can be run by its top trio&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurotrib.com\/story\/2008\/4\/1\/6173\/26319\">Italian Elections 2008 &#8211; Coalitions and Parties<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;158 parties with 181 symbols have been admitted to the Italian electoral pageant&#8221; &#8211; yep, it&#8217;s time for yet another attempt to understand the hilariously complex Italian political scene. Great fun!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/brusselsblog\/2008\/04\/power-games-in-brussels\/\">Power games in Brussels<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">On the decline of the current Commission as it enters its final 18 months<\/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>&#8216;Historic day&#8217; in Cyprus as another border crossing opens Good stuff. But reunification will pose some difficulties without Turkish EU membership&#8230; (tags: Cyprus EU Turkey) Fitna review Finally saw this the other day, and agree wholeheartedly with this line from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-04\/\">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-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}