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It’s sad the trolls seem to have gotten hold of this.

Torrent Freak has not even gone close to saying Sweden has bought him.

When countries give foreign aid, it is often, at least in part, for power plays.

Japan regularly does this in the pacific islands and uses their support to continue whaling. To argue the amount of money they give (quite large) is so they can continue whaling is also ridiculous. In fact most Japanese don’t even eat whale or care about the issue. It’s mostly political.

Sweden is owed a few favours and it seems they have called one in. The story here is why they have chosen this as one of them.



> The story here is why they have chosen this as one of them.

I suppose they would have preferred to obtain Assange, but he wasn't in Cambodia? ;-)




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