{"id":2688,"date":"2008-08-30T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2008-08-30T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T15:00:06","slug":"2008-8-30-links-for-august-30th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Links for August 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for August 30th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16115\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; EGYPT BANS &lsquo;EYE ON DEMOCRACY&rsquo; TAPING<\/a> &#8211; Al Hurra show on democracy in Egypt banned by security before taping<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5d77f4c8-75e6-11dd-99ce-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Wealth weighs heavily on Gulf Arabs<\/a> &#8211; Rich gulfies = fat bastards<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/307f487a-6ec7-11dd-a80a-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Pegged to a money illusion<\/a> &#8211; An argument for depegging GCC currencies to the dollar<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/15fe1b86-75f0-11dd-99ce-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Viewers fall for soap&rsquo;s Turkish delight<\/a> &#8211; Roula Khalaf on the Noor phenomenon<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/europe\/article\/2008\/08\/30\/l-italie-va-indemniser-la-libye-pour-la-periode-coloniale_1089771_3214.html\">L&#8217;Italie va indemniser la Libye pour la p&eacute;riode coloniale &#8211; Europe &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; Italy pays Lybia $5bn over 25 years in compensation for colonialism. Ask yourself: how much will big Italian energy firms like ENI will make from Lybian oil over the next 25 years?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/08\/25\/080825fa_fact_packer\">Letter from Rangoon: Drowning: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; Don&#39;t miss this excellent piece on Burma by George Packer, which explores many of the dilemnas of what to do about dictatorship<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/28\/washington\/28detain.html?_r=3&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1219932274-243JEgRyAO8HfckDthwDNQ&amp;pagewanted=all\">Military Sending Foreign Fighters to Home Nations &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Program similar to rendition, except prisoners have ICRC access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for August 30th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16115\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; EGYPT BANS &lsquo;EYE ON DEMOCRACY&rsquo; TAPING<\/a> &#8211; Al Hurra show on democracy in Egypt banned by security before taping<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5d77f4c8-75e6-11dd-99ce-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Wealth weighs heavily on Gulf Arabs<\/a> &#8211; Rich gulfies = fat bastards<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/307f487a-6ec7-11dd-a80a-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Pegged to a money illusion<\/a> &#8211; An argument for depegging GCC currencies to the dollar<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/15fe1b86-75f0-11dd-99ce-0000779fd18c.html\">FT.com \/ World &#8211; Viewers fall for soap&rsquo;s Turkish delight<\/a> &#8211; Roula Khalaf on the Noor phenomenon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abonnes.lemonde.fr\/europe\/article\/2008\/08\/30\/l-italie-va-indemniser-la-libye-pour-la-periode-coloniale_1089771_3214.html\">L&#8217;Italie va indemniser la Libye pour la p&eacute;riode coloniale &#8211; Europe &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; Italy pays Lybia $5bn over 25 years in compensation for colonialism. Ask yourself: how much will big Italian energy firms like ENI will make from Lybian oil over the next 25 years?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/08\/25\/080825fa_fact_packer\">Letter from Rangoon: Drowning: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; Don&#39;t miss this excellent piece on Burma by George Packer, which explores many of the dilemnas of what to do about dictatorship<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/28\/washington\/28detain.html?_r=3&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1219932274-243JEgRyAO8HfckDthwDNQ&amp;pagewanted=all\">Military Sending Foreign Fighters to Home Nations &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Program similar to rendition, except prisoners have ICRC access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}