{"id":178333,"date":"2019-01-02T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/not-sending-a-cake-with-a-file-in-it\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:21:00","slug":"not-sending-a-cake-with-a-file-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/not-sending-a-cake-with-a-file-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Sending a Cake with a File in It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Sarkozy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-43469316\">has been detained by police over illegal campaign donations from Muammar Gaddafi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Mark Ames so pithily stated, There is, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1080543874785914880\">Nothing cynical at all about Sarkozy\u2019s reasons for wanting Gaddafi dead<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But let us not be cynical.  Just because the overthrow of Gadaffi resulted in <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/12\/08\/libya-slave-market-trade-slavery-africa-2017\/\">a hell-hole where slave markets have been established<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mean that it was a failure: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Police are investigating alleged irregularities over the financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Police have questioned him previously as part of the probe. Mr Sarkozy has denied any wrongdoing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The centre-right politician failed to return to power in 2012.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Judicial sources said he was being questioned in Nanterre, a suburb in western Paris.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In 2013, France opened an investigation into allegations that his campaign had benefited from illicit funds from Gaddafi. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, don&#8217;t let him out \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>EVER!!!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained by police over illegal campaign donations from Muammar Gaddafi. As Mark Ames so pithily stated, There is, &#8220;Nothing cynical at all about Sarkozy\u2019s reasons for wanting Gaddafi dead.&#8221; But let us not be cynical. Just because the overthrow of Gadaffi resulted in a hell-hole where slave markets have been established &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[459,513,368,371,486],"class_list":["post-178333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-africa","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-europe","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}