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Australian journalism rediscovers its backbone. Via Road to Surfdom.

(a little later)

The IMF and World Bank meet in Singapore, the Singaporean authorities ban several NGO observers. No surprises there, that what the authorities of authoritarian states do. What grabbed my attention though was this: 16000 delegates? WTF? How many countries are members of those two august bodies? FFS, what on earth are all those people going to do?