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Crank Call Almost Starts WWIII

December 8th, 2008

Add this one to the list of stories we could not make up. It appears that a crank call made to the Pakistani President lead Pakistan to move to an offensive war footing with an intended invasion of India.
Hoax Highlights Fragile Peace Between India, Pakistan

So let’s say you just moved all your back office processing and development work to India. You’ve let go all your programmers, IT support, etc… So what happens when this shit pops off? For years now the risk appetite of large multinationals has severely dropped. Failure to account for geopolitical risk and its corresponding operational risk to your business is going to end up being a real “black swan” for a number of companies. Good luck, you’re fucked.

Love,

Douche la Rue

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