What they need to realise is that those funds will, in the vast majority of cases, be put into investment funds linked to the stock market and government or company bonds.

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Over recent years, computer hackers identifying themselves under the Anonymous umbrella have carried out a series of attacks on US government sites and linked organisations such as the US-based intelligence company Stratfor.

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He found the money by dropping the government's plan to cut company tax by a percentage point, a promise linked to a new tax on mining profits.

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