{"id":2030,"date":"2010-03-24T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/03\/24\/your-happening-world-11\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:18:08","slug":"your-happening-world-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/03\/24\/your-happening-world-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhat&#8217;s new for Wednesday:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccc.org\/page\/s\/rushfarewell\">Sign a farewell card for Rush Limbaugh<\/a> &#8212; Does Costa Rica actually allow know drugs felons into their country?\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/2010\/03\/24\/refugees-and-torture-new-labour-make-the-case-for-a-tory-government\/\">Justin McKeating&#8217;s summing up<\/a> of Labour&#8217;s horrible human rights record makes for grim reading. How much worse could the Tories really be in this regard?\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marvos\/4457512907\/in\/set-72157623555458345\">Everyday heroism in action in Amsterdam<\/a>. Via <cite>Making Light<\/cite>.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/news\/2010\/03\/100323_israel_uk_expulsion_sl.shtml\">UK expels Israeli diplomat in forged passports row<\/a> &#8212; murdering political opponents? Not a problem. Using our passports &#8211;whoa, hang on a minute!\n<\/li>\n<li>\nIn Australia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/call-to-turn-on-the-lights-20100324-qwr7.html\">a dumb environmental p.r. stunt leads to an even more moronic anti-environment stunt<\/a>. And people wonder why so many are turned off by politics.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nVictory to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/mar\/23\/british-gas-strike-vote\">British Gas strikers<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gQZtWKi7ZHTydbO3JA1mimm27HIQ\">civil servant strikers<\/a>,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/03\/24\/one-in-five-british-airways-flights-cancelled-during-strike-115875-22134893\/\">BA strikers<\/a>. Now if only the news coverage of hese strikes would focus less on the whinging of entitled middleclass consumers being inconvenienced and more on the reasons why workers are striking&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s new for Wednesday: Sign a farewell card for Rush Limbaugh &#8212; Does Costa Rica actually allow know drugs felons into their country? Justin McKeating&#8217;s summing up of Labour&#8217;s horrible human rights record makes for grim reading. How much worse could the Tories really be in this regard? Everyday heroism in action in Amsterdam. Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,14,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-war","category-israelpalestine","category-linky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}