lady gaga’s world-historical importance

'At times, he claimed he himself had leaked the material, suggesting that he had taken in blank CDs, labelled as Lady Gaga's music, slotted them into his high-security laptop and lip-synched to nonexistent music to cover his downloading: "I want people to see the truth," he said.'

From the Guardian report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan story. Furthermore, Iceland's role in permitting the free-flow of information through their deliciously lunar landscape makes them once more my favourite country in the world, along with their openly gay PM, their actual, practical sexual equality, their industrial-accident blue lagoon and their volcano that messed the world up, and hopefully will do so again. Plus elves.