{"id":4701,"date":"2011-02-03T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2011-02-03T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:35:00","slug":"the-egyptian-inkblot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Inkblot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/plumbing-repair/"></a> The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt continue to be a fascinating ink blot. Peak oil is now another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/02\/peak-oil-poverty-background-egypt-uprising.php\" target=\"_blank\">instigator<\/a> being thrown into the volatile mix. (It&#8217;s not clear to me if declining oil reserves would count as as trigger or underlying cause.)<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/about/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/about/</a> As Andrew Revkin <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/01\/explaining-egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> earlier this week, &#8220;everyone with an agenda seems to be able to find it reflected&#8221; in the unrest sweeping through the Arab world. However, one of the catalysts being claimed that didn&#8217;t make his list are the recent WikiLeaks embassy cables, which the New York Times and several other publications <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/w\/wikileaks\/index.html?scp=8&amp;sq=wikilieaks embassy cables&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">mined<\/a> for revealing and titilating nuggets. In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/30\/magazine\/30Wikileaks-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;sq=bill keller&amp;st=cse&amp;scp=2\" target=\"_blank\">cover story<\/a> for last week&#8217;s NYT magazine, Bill Keller, the top editor at the Times, asserted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/peru/"></a> WikiLeaks cables in which American diplomats recount the extravagant  corruption of Tunisia&#8217;s rulers helped fuel a popular uprising that has  overthrown the government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/business-plan/"></a> The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt continue to be a fascinating ink blot. Peak oil is now another instigator being thrown into the volatile mix. (It&#8217;s not clear to me if declining oil reserves would count as as trigger or underlying cause.) As Andrew Revkin noted earlier this week, &#8220;everyone with an agenda seems to&#8230;<span>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4701\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2634],"tags":[980,1111,1455],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","tag-egypt","tag-glen-beck","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}