History of Oil - Robert Newman

[redqueen]

Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at ... all » school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand. Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

[imouttahere]

1. I've watched only half so far.....

but I've already forwarded it on to friends. Highly recommended!

[TahitiNut]

2. Interesting.

:thumbsup:

[Jim Warren]

3. Big thumbs up

My son sent me this about a month ago.........funny, smart, spot-on true. Finally, british humor I can get behind.

[Emit]

4. "And the reason the first WW is not taught in our schools to be the

invasion of Iraq that it was is because your good war, your just war has to always be presented as 'a one of' -- a discreet event, no more connected to other wars in consecutive production in the same musical because otherwise, all the just war, good cause, humanitarian arguments -- they begin to unravel if ever a war is seen to be a part if a continuous foreign policy that has remained absolutely consistent for a decade..."

Thanks for the link -- very interesting.

[Emit]

5. "In the 95 years since Mesopotamian oil was struck....

... Britain has been at war with or occupying Iraq for 45 of them..."

[redqueen]

6. My pleasure.

:hi:

[redqueen]

7. kick n/t

[Emit]

8. kick n/t

[redqueen]

9. Thanks

:)