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Comment Re:Iceland??? (Score 5, Interesting) 130

Icelands economy has recovered nicely. So well in fact that it is making Ireland, Portugal, and Greece jealous.

Quote from last link:

ICELAND pursued better policies than Ireland or Latvia when the three countries' economies collapsed in 2007 because the Reykjavik government allowed banks to fail, according to a new report by the influential Bruegel think tank." ... "The experience with the collapse of the gigantic Icelandic banking system suggests that letting banks fail when they had a faulty business model can be the right choice," the report notes.

Comment Re:The mysterious command (Score 0, Troll) 49

Perhaps, just perhaps, Cryptome is infecting its visitors on purpose. You dont publish "thousands of documents, including many related to national security, law enforcement and military" without breaking a few eggs.

Now that the common rabbles antivirus software has caught up, they are in the process of "cleaning up" the code so it wont happen again for a bit... watch this space.

Comment Re:"Clean" coverage of casualties is relatively ne (Score 2) 591

"Everyone" may have the tools to broadcast details, but if the mainstream media do not bring it to attention of the masses and takedown notices can keep it out of the online limelight, then only the "fringe" will every hear about it - and so no meaningful political consequences. This latest news about urinating on dead Taliban smells like textbook spin to hide even worse news in its shadow. Control of the news re: war is exactly why the government and pro-goverment media is coming down so hard on the foremost US political prisoner of conscience, Bradley Manning and the rouge publishing site Wikileaks. They are successfully influencing the majority public opinion against the first bit of real solid news to escape the lockdown control of public debate since the Vietnam war. Note: Leaking of sensitive information is obviously NOT why he is being persecuted - more sensitive leaks go without investigation all the time. There is some hope however, with some new professional investigative news channels springing up funded by viewer donations... just need to build their audience - if possible.

Comment Chamber of Commerce Smear Campaign King and Irony (Score 5, Informative) 173

The US Chamber of Commerce is a lobbying organization -- it's not like they have Industrial Super Secrets. Besides, a high proportion of their clients are Chinese anyway and presumably have pretty good access to the organization already.

True, The Chamber Of commerce also hacks anyone who criticizes their illegal and immoral behaviour. HBGary Federal payback perhaps?

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