Where Nobody Knows You're a Music Thief. What's remarkable about the controversy over music sharing is not how many people are involved, but rather their fervent rationalizing. By Daniel Akst. [New York Times: Technology]

Clueless opinion. Most creators of intellectual property do not profit from it and would do it even if they knew before hand they wouldn't profit. Only noncreative minds think art, science and innovation is done for the money.

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Stratfor on Venezuelan oil.

 

Fairly good article in Stratfor about Venezuela and world oil

The Saudi Connection

 

Stratfor does not believe Saudi Arabia worked through individuals like Mommer to cripple Venezuela's oil industry and diminish the threat it posed to Saudi hegemony. This was not a conspiracy, but rather a coincidental convergence of commercial, ideological and geopolitical interests that Saudi Arabia likely quietly manipulated to advance its national interests.

[The Devil's Excrement]

Bad news: In less than ten years there will be no national oil industry in Venezuela. Good news: That's, actually, good news...

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