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The physical infrastructure that makes banking possible is still in the hands of sovereign states. I don't expect Danish banks to help the Danish state repatriate funds from Switzerland out of patriotism. I expect them to do it if there's Danish police sitting in their server rooms with wire cutters, electromagnets and a court order.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 10:23:15 AM EST
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JakeS:
I expect them to do it if there's Danish police sitting in their server rooms with wire cutters, electromagnets and a court order.

LOL

there have doubtless been countless golf games, convention schmoozes and palms stroked to counter that possibility, still i'm with you, it should only be a question of time, it is where the beef is, at the end of the day.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 02:52:19 PM EST
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When we legalise cannabis for private use, there'll be plenty of free prison cells for the palm-greasers...

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 03:05:30 PM EST
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So the right wing media campaigns aboutkeeping the dangerous druggies inside in fear that there might be suddenly space for the finacial page corespondent?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 03:31:35 PM EST
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An interesting hypothesis. Although I think the prison-industrial complex and keeping The People scared (either of all the dangerous loons that have to be locked up, or of being locked up, depending on how perceptive the person in question is) is more compelling as reasons go...

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Feb 22nd, 2009 at 06:37:08 AM EST
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