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From August this year:

Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord. “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he allegedly said.

Prince Bandar went on to say that Chechens operating in Syria were a pressure tool that could be switched on an off. “These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria’s political future.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilan...

There's definitely a business opportunity out there for someone to come up with DIY laptops, much like the way you can purchase parts from anybody to create your own desktop PC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Lobban

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May

"At the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret, Samantha says she lap danced with one of the terrorists. The Terrorists who hijacked a plane and crashed it are said to have stayed and played in Las Vegas." ... "Some big-man terrorist, huh?" Samantha said this week as she took a breather from the two-dozen lap dances she bestows daily upon the lonely at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret. "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more."

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-of-terror-leave-th...

The Thai government have just dissolved parliament and called new elections due to protests. Can you imagine that happening in many so-called "democratic" Western states? You can't even get a crack-smoking mayor to resign these days!

Imagine this was 1980 and the issue at hand was apartheid.

Jelly-fish CEOs print an open letter in newspapers, asking governments to improve race relations because unhappy black folk don't want to buy their products.

Not once is Nelson Mandela mentioned in the letter, so out of the public eye, his years in prison continue.

Are we supposed to be impressed with this?

These companies have staked out a position, off the back of his endeavors, yet lack the courage and conviction to fully support him.

It makes me cringe to see Larry Page, Marissa Mayer et al posting weasel words on a web-site, as though they are champions of the people.

In the week that Nelson Mandela passed away, the contrast between giants and dwarves could not be clearer.

These companies are simply grand-standing to further their own ambition.

They don't care what happens to Snowden, they deny even his very existence.

> detect that tendency to treachery in advance.

The downvotes might be because you seem to equate whistleblowing, an act of conscience, with treachery.

Full Lancet paper here (paywall): http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

If you prefer to do things differently, a magnet link is available here: http://pastebin.com/6RVSpTAa

http://web.archive.org/web/20121022174605/http://www.indepen...

>An escapology expert tried and failed 300 times to lock himself into an identical bag after being hired to try to crack the mystery of Gareth Williams' death.

...

He said: 'I just cannot do it. This case, I just cannot get it off my mind. It is very difficult. I am an escapologist, I am thinking outside the box here and trying everything I can to find a way.'

Dr Wilcox added: 'With all your trials and failures do you think it would be impossible to padlock this bag from the inside?'

Mr Faulding replied: 'I cannot say it was impossible, but even Houdini would struggle.'

He said Mr Williams could not have survived for more than 30 minutes as the temperature quickly rose and oxygen levels dropped. Mr Faulding said he only lasted five minutes before becoming 'delirious' after zipping himself inside with emergency oxygen and a paramedic outside.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136118/Gareth-Willi...

This is what Nick Leeson did which brought down Barings Bank, and what Jerome Kerviel did to SocGen. I'm sure it happens all the time.