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[The Strata-Sphere] Spring Time in Prague With Iraqis, Opportunities Lost: Over the past several years, as more and more evidence has come out, it has grown more and more difficult for U.S. government officials to sustain the cover story that they had no way of anticipating the attacks. As it turns out, U.S. intelligence agencies and their foreign counterparts were almost tripping over each other as they shadowed the al-Qaeda network across the face of the planet.

[Applied Abstractions] The flat and the unflattened: Flattener #5: Outsourcing (Primarily India - enabled by cheap fiber (as a result of overinvesting), excellent technical education (no corruption in the Indian Institutes of Technology) and strong demand driven first by Y2K and eCommerce, then demand for cheap engineers following the .com bust, eventually evoling to business process outsourcing)

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