{"id":1763,"date":"2008-04-17T12:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2008-04-17T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:37:32","slug":"links-for-2008-04-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-17\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7351399.stm\">Coolest thing ever<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Not least because one of the engineers has the gloriously Pynchonian name Wayco Scroggin&#8230; (Yes US army prototype-Gundam robosuits have nothing to do with the EU, but I want one.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Random\">Random<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/future-eu\/eu-parliament-fire-lack-transparency\/article-171648\">EU parliament under fire for lack of transparency<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;If the two largest political groups oppose enhanced transparency arrangements it must be because they have something to hide&#8221;. Nice one, MEPs. Way to inspire confidence.<\/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.structures.se\/?p=40\">National positions on EU budget reform<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">It&#8217;s up there with the CAP (largely because of the CAP) as one of the most difficult areas of the EU to reform, so what&#8217;s the current thinking on the way forward, and is there any chance of agreement?<\/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.anglican-mainstream.net\/index.php\/2008\/04\/17\/council-of-europe-declares-unlimited-abortion-an-unconditional-right-for-all-of-europe\/\">Council of Europe Declares Unlimited Abortion an Unconditional Right for all of Europe<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">At least, so claims an anti-abortion Christian group. Doubtless not quite that simple &#8211; but would be an important and overdue step in the right direction, towards overturning the outmoded dominance of medievalist Catholic doctrine<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Religion\">Religion<\/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.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/17\/world\/europe\/17georgia.html\">Russia Expands Support for Breakaway Regions in Georgia<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Ah.. The Kosovo precedent! Looks like politics is being played in the Caucasus with South Ossetia and Abkhazia gaining support from Moscow &#8211; but Russian eyes are firmly on the Balkans and the planned new gas pipeline through Serbia<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Georgia\">Georgia<\/a> <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\/Energy\">Energy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/4\/ff3f4891-5763-4b5d-8a7f-803070c9c212.html\">How Will Berlusconi&#8217;s Return Affect EU, NATO, Trans-Atlantic Relations?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Is Silvio planning to cozy up to Russia? It rather looks like it, what with Putin being the first foreign leader Berlusconi&#8217;s meeting with (today) since regaining the office of Prime Minister. A potentially very interesting development&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolest thing ever Not least because one of the engineers has the gloriously Pynchonian name Wayco Scroggin&#8230; (Yes US army prototype-Gundam robosuits have nothing to do with the EU, but I want one.) (tags: Random) EU parliament under fire for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-17\/\">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-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}