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...Iran has been supplying arms to Iraq's Sunni insurgency have never made any sense. Coming soon after Washington initially accused Tehran of arming Shi'ite militias, they have seemed like a weak attempt to remake its case tying the country to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq - the vast majority of which are carried out by Sunni, not Shi'a, forces...
...music and amateur web videos, instant notoriety is just an "upload" click away. The sheer volume of user content is staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
...Even if the government pushes through the law, it will take several years of exploration by big companies in Iraq's vast Western Desert before large-scale production begins. These days, Iraq produces about 2 million barrels of oil a day, down from about 3 million before the war. It's lethally dangerous for oil workers, and virtually no international company dares operate outside Kurdistan. For all its promise, the Sunni-dominated al-Anbar province is where insurgents have waged a vicious fight against American and Iraqi forces. Until now it has seen almost no energy production at all. Decades...
...What he created, instead, was a system sometimes called nomenklatura capitalism, in which ex-party apparatchiks emerged as the new capitalists. The vast majority of newly privatized businesses were run and owned by the same coterie of managers who were in place before market reforms began, and by the late 1990s the commanding heights of the economy were owned by a small group of oligarchs, many of whom had parlayed their close ties his Kremlin into vast economic empires. His tenure coincided with a precipitous decline in Russia' s GNP and in the living standards of the majority...
...finale is telling: it looks like he has accomplished his objectives. He has provided security for his physical family - and for the Family, as the whole agglomeration of vast financial and political holdings and interests that has grown around him and his close relatives has become known. He passed into a political oblivion in exchange for letting the Family keep and enlarge their vast assets. In this sense, he has been long dead. But he was a great politician, leader - and he made history...