Why Can't Our Politicians Be Like This?

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Garry Kasparov was on Real Time last night and said more in 5 minutes than all the candidates for the US presidency have said combined. What Chris Matthews says at the end is spot-on.

I don't feel like any of our candidates are as smart as Kasparov, or maybe they are and they just aren't allowed to show it thanks to the fact that some dumbass hick won two elections in a row. I don't know.

I do know that it's pretty goddamn unfair that we can't have any major candidates who are this forthcoming.

How ya doing, buddy?

We should all really hate people who protect their family when reporters who oppose said government have been shot to death.

And what Brady said. You haven't refuted a single thing in this thread yet. What did you say in your first post..."soundbite nonsense"? Do you have anything more for us?


Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe

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It wasn't the first time the Russian government had been accused of being involved in a large botnet campaign. In fact, just a few weeks earlier, a similar assault had been launched against an alliance of Russian opposition parties led by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The attacks shut down the opposition Web sites just as government authorities announced a change in venue for an upcoming opposition rally. With his Web site down, Kasparov had difficulty informing his followers of the change, and when they massed at the originally announced location, he was arrested for leading an illegal rally.

Part of the botnet that attacked the opposition Web sites was soon redeployed to assault Estonia. (At wired's request, Arbor Networks, a security firm that tracks international DDoS attacks, was able to identify overlap between the networks involved in both attacks.) Denis Bilunov, the executive director of the United Civil Front, Kasparov's party, wasn't surprised. "There is a specific department within the FSB — the successor to the KGB — that specializes in coordinating Internet campaigns against those they consider a threat," he says. "They have attacked Chechen rebel sites, us, and now it appears they have attacked Estonia."

There's nowhere I can't reach.