{"id":3057,"date":"2009-04-15T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2009-04-15T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:00:01","slug":"2009-4-15-links-april-14th-to-april-15th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Links April 14th to April 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for April 14th through April 15th:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1078499.html\">Jordan convicts three Hamas militants who operated in country &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; More closing in on Hamas.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/going-down-the-rabbit-hole\/\">Going Down The Rabbit Hole | GOOD<\/a> &#8211; Cool: &quot;By the late 2020s, nanobots in our brain (that will get there noninvasively, through the capillaries) will create full-immersion virtual-reality environments from within the nervous system&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qifanabki.com\/2009\/04\/13\/the-age-of-nasrallah\/\">The Age of Nasrallah &laquo; Qifa Nabki<\/a> &#8211; On the Hizbullah leader&#39;s impact.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20090414\/FOREIGN\/140596105&amp;SearchID=73351151566721\">Drug barons face off Lebanese army &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Drug barons, Hizbullah, the Lebanese army and Emad Mughniyeh&#39;s son.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/feb\/16\/tony-blair-prize\">Tony Blair wins million-dollar prize for global leadership | Politics | guardian.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; From Israeli foundation. Tony Blair is on the world stage what he was as PM: corrupt and easily bought.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2009\/04\/egypt-iran-the-united-states-all-politics-is-local\/\">&raquo; Egypt, Iran, the United States: All politics is local Middle East Strategy at Harvard<\/a> &#8211; Michele Dunne on the strategic context of the Egypt-Hizbullah affair.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/59a9da3a-2920-11de-bc5e-00144feabdc0.html\">Saudis set aside $800m for foreign food<\/a> &#8211; More Saudi agro-business in the Third World.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/04\/25-gays-killed-in-iraq-broad-trends.html\">Informed Comment: 25 Gays Killed in Iraq; &lt;br&gt; Broad Trends against Human Rights Disturbing<\/a> &#8211; Juan Cole on trend against minorities including gays, a cartoonist critical of Malaki, journalists and other govt critics.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1078474.html\">&#8216;Europe won&#8217;t accept Israel shirking peace commitments&#8217; &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Let&#39;s see some substance behind that statement: freeze the Advanced Status talks and impose trade  penalties for settlement expansion.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7995865.stm\">Saudis ban &#8216;lewd&#8217; number plates<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Saudi Arabia has banned vehicle number plates which are seen as &quot;offensive&quot; in English when Arabic letters are given in the Latin alphabet, reports say. Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the banned words included &quot;sex&quot; and &quot;ass&quot;, but the list was topped by &quot;USA&quot;.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for April 14th through April 15th:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1078499.html\">Jordan convicts three Hamas militants who operated in country &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; More closing in on Hamas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/going-down-the-rabbit-hole\/\">Going Down The Rabbit Hole | GOOD<\/a> &#8211; Cool: &quot;By the late 2020s, nanobots in our brain (that will get there noninvasively, through the capillaries) will create full-immersion virtual-reality environments from within the nervous system&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qifanabki.com\/2009\/04\/13\/the-age-of-nasrallah\/\">The Age of Nasrallah &laquo; Qifa Nabki<\/a> &#8211; On the Hizbullah leader&#39;s impact.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20090414\/FOREIGN\/140596105&amp;SearchID=73351151566721\">Drug barons face off Lebanese army &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Drug barons, Hizbullah, the Lebanese army and Emad Mughniyeh&#39;s son.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2009\/feb\/16\/tony-blair-prize\">Tony Blair wins million-dollar prize for global leadership | Politics | guardian.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; From Israeli foundation. Tony Blair is on the world stage what he was as PM: corrupt and easily bought.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2009\/04\/egypt-iran-the-united-states-all-politics-is-local\/\">&raquo; Egypt, Iran, the United States: All politics is local Middle East Strategy at Harvard<\/a> &#8211; Michele Dunne on the strategic context of the Egypt-Hizbullah affair.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/59a9da3a-2920-11de-bc5e-00144feabdc0.html\">Saudis set aside $800m for foreign food<\/a> &#8211; More Saudi agro-business in the Third World.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2009\/04\/25-gays-killed-in-iraq-broad-trends.html\">Informed Comment: 25 Gays Killed in Iraq; &lt;br&gt; Broad Trends against Human Rights Disturbing<\/a> &#8211; Juan Cole on trend against minorities including gays, a cartoonist critical of Malaki, journalists and other govt critics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1078474.html\">&#8216;Europe won&#8217;t accept Israel shirking peace commitments&#8217; &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Let&#39;s see some substance behind that statement: freeze the Advanced Status talks and impose trade  penalties for settlement expansion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7995865.stm\">Saudis ban &#8216;lewd&#8217; number plates<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Saudi Arabia has banned vehicle number plates which are seen as &quot;offensive&quot; in English when Arabic letters are given in the Latin alphabet, reports say. Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the banned words included &quot;sex&quot; and &quot;ass&quot;, but the list was topped by &quot;USA&quot;.&quot;<\/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\/3057"}],"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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}