{"id":1766,"date":"2008-04-21T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2008-04-21T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T12:37:56","slug":"links-for-2008-04-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-21\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/numero57.net\/?p=251\">The Lisbon Treaty &#8211; 6 questions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;My confusion exists on a whole bunch of levels. So bear with me as I try to disentangle them and lay them before you in a discrete manner, as opposed to the Escher-designed gordian knot made entirely of pan-dimensional moebius strips in which they curren<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbpost.ie\/post\/pages\/p\/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=32238-qqqx=1.asp\">Interesting interview with a pro-multi-tier Barroso<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Spun to make it sound nasty and capture attention from the Eurosceptics whose eyes are now all on Ireland (&#8220;Irish veto could be ignored!&#8221; etc.), but it&#8217;s more interesting for confirmation that the EU is heading towards a multi-speed system<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/04\/21\/ncherie121.xml\"> Cherie Blair&#8217;s firm hired to stop EU treaty<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yawn&#8230; Maybe I should hire a lawyer to take the government to court for not implementing any number of other manifesto pledges? A pointless waste of time with no chance of success. Why do rich people waste taxpayers money on such things?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Euroscepticism\">Euroscepticism<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newspaper.tmt.imedia.ru\/articles\/detail.php?ID=362152\">Putin&#8217;s affair with a woman young enough to be his daughter: the newspaper that broke the story is shut down<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Well THERE&#8217;s a surprise.<\/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.independent.co.uk\/news\/europe\/brown-deal-bars-blair-from-top-eu-job-812170.html\">Brown deal bars Blair from top EU job<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Ah! Petty personal rivalries between grown men! Don&#8217;t you just love &#8217;em?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/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.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1910e72e-0f00-11dd-9646-0000779fd2ac.html\">Breaking the grip of Gazprom<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nicely balanced, short and snappy overview of the single biggest challenge currently facing the European Union &#8211; Russia&#8217;s ever-growing dominance of European gas supplies. Read. Now.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/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.setimes.com\/cocoon\/setimes\/xhtml\/en_GB\/newsbriefs\/setimes\/newsbriefs\/2008\/04\/20\/nb-05\">Serbia&#8217;s Tadic says he would choose Kosovo over EU membership<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Why are people such idiots? A tiny region with no economic worth vs. access to one of the world&#8217;s most successful markets. Can someone please explain?<\/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\/idiocy\">idiocy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lisbon Treaty &#8211; 6 questions &#8220;My confusion exists on a whole bunch of levels. So bear with me as I try to disentangle them and lay them before you in a discrete manner, as opposed to the Escher-designed gordian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-21\/\">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-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}