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...Illarionov: By using economic weapons-particularly, energy as a weapon-RAO UES bought a power station in the Transdniester Republic (a breakaway Moldova province, very much under Moscow's influence), and then cut off Moldova from this key power supplier, until Moldova met its terms. Transneft (Russia's state-owned oil pipe monopoly), blocked oil flowing from Kazakhstann to Lithuania, because Russia coveted Lithuania's oil refinery. The latest such case is abruptly raising natural gas prices fourfold for Ukraine...
...Another thing, Russia has made it plain it wants Ukraine's gas transporting system. Then, Gazprom says, the prices will go down. This is the same usage of an energy weapon, as OPEC did in November 1973, when they placed the U.S. and Holland under oil embargo for siding with Israel. Prices skyrocketed; Saudi Arabia enjoyed a couple of years of fat profits. Then, the U.S. and other Western countries improved their economies, and adjusted to new prices, while per capita income in Saudi Arabia has sharply dropped since. A country that is prepared to wield energy weapons must know...
...painstaking account of the making and breaking of an intricate man. Oppenheimer directed the successful U.S. effort to develop an atomic weapon during World War II. But after the war his opposition to the push for an even bigger weapon, the hydrogen bomb, helped set in motion the events that led to his being stripped of his government security clearance. The authors show the ways in which Oppenheimer was complicit in his own destruction, but never lose sight of the ugliness of the process...
...Despite the apparent Democratic win, Republicans are convinced it will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory in an election year. They claim it will be the perfect weapon to beat the Dems with next November. "If they're against this it's going to hurt them politically," says a top GOP aide. "When you side with the American Civil Liberties Union over law enforcement, you got a problem in an election year...
...Fatboy Slim’s music video for “Weapon of Choice”—Unnamed...