A few good insights into the Russian economy and the handy advise of US dominated robber barons.
After communism in the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia was told to go for it - a market economy.
Many economists, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States, and others advised Russia to take the “big [...]
Continue Reading July 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Very interesting indeed.
Will the jailing of New York Times reporter Judy Miller scare people off from risking careers to tell reporters about government misdeeds? Or will Miller’s willingness to sit behind bars rather than name a confidential source embolden such whistleblowers?
Well, as the AP writer points out a couple of paragraphs down, this is not [...]
Continue Reading July 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Just a quick note from Defense Tech. It seems the US military has put out a new sort of “lie detector” that allegedly is used at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. Marketed by a private company with the ominous name “National Institute For Truth Verification.” Voice stress analysis is essentially letting computer algorithms process speech [...]
Continue Reading July 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Now that was a more ballsy protest. Even if these radical groups often are a bit full of themselves, come up with seriously corny names. Whatever happened to nice abbreviations and acronyms like “RAF?” Or actually attacking the summit at Gleneagles. I must say radicals these days are pretty lame, not as sturdy as they [...]
Continue Reading July 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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