"The US Trade Representative has been threatening to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization if they don't shut down AllOfMP3, but nobody in Russia seems to care much about WTO membership. Sitting on one of the world's largest oil reserves makes membership in the WTO somewhat moot -- Russia will always be able to find trading partners."
Article Posted to Boing Boing
Leads me to wonder if having oil is like being veeery good looking - you can get away with anythyhing.
Maybe it's more like, if you have oil and nuclear weapons you can get away with anything.
*Then imagine if you were veeery good looking on top of all that?*
2 comments:
things that make yo go hmmm? nice post. Unfortunately I have nothing witty to say.
sfmd: tanx!
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