{"id":1034,"date":"2011-05-30T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-05-30T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:35:10","slug":"drifting-in-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Drifting in Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/30\/world\/africa\/30benghazi.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of those news stories that doesn’t say anything, but also says everything.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The meaning is found in between the lines and what isn’t said.<\/p>\n

The male youth of Benghazi are frustrated.\u00a0\u00a0 “Drifting” cars is a long standing pasttime in the Middle East, and has resumed being the way the young men get rid of their angst.\u00a0\u00a0 They are being kept away from the “front” as they don’t know what they’re doing.\u00a0\u00a0 They have no jobs as there is no work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So they sit around smoking hashish and thinking about the day that Free Libya will give them their free BMW.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, the government of Free Libya is broke.\u00a0 Production from the oil fields that feed the small refinery in Tubruk has ceased due to the government forces controlling the surrounding towns using 4×4 trucks that NATO can’t attack from the air.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The last of the crude oil has been shipped and the refinery stands empty.\u00a0\u00a0 The exported oil doesn’t even cover the cost of the refined oil being imported.<\/p>\n

It’s much easier to destroy a country than to run one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/30\/world\/africa\/30benghazi.html This is one of those news stories that doesn’t say anything, but also says everything.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The meaning is found in between the lines and what isn’t said. The male youth of Benghazi are frustrated.\u00a0\u00a0 “Drifting” cars is a long … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}