Energy War (IJsbrand van Veelen, VPRO 2006)

[aviomaster]

FIRST USA is not a democracy dumb  fucks. RUSSIA is angel compared to the USA the Satan.

[unomnacajit111]

there is absolutely NO WAY modern civilization can be maintained indefinitely, unless we find a way to make stuff out of thin air. Sooner or later, we will return to the dark ages, no matter what.

[unomnacajit111]

20 years from now oil will not be needed for energy production. 20 years from Saudi Arabia will produce everything that other countries produce, except food? What will Saudi Arabia give to the world to stay alive?

[unomnacajit111]

"no taxation without representation" works when you actually HAVE a country and are independent, not when you get money from the FED and your country is being un from London...

[unomnacajit111]

@0:55 Democracy??? Shit, not even 1 minute in and it already sounds like a western propaganda movie, or one of those documentaries meant to "enlighten" americans and british and prepare them for some coming war and distruction... Democracy is just a tool of the elite. Meritocracy is the only workable solution to governance

[ENDOFANAGEMUSIC]

What leftist commie bull shit?

[dimvoly]

58:59 Burning the unusable part produces CO2? and burning the usable part doesn't? Because you'll get more CO2 emissions depending on whether the part that you burnt was usable (burnt in engine) or unusable (the waste). The plant soaked up all of that CO2 in the beginning, net effect is zero, even if you burn the whole thing.

[Matier2064]

$50 to $70? Try $100 to $150 to $200. Then there will be no oil at any price. The price may have set backs along the way but the long term view remains very bullish.

[io007a]

@Matier2064 there will always be oil we didn't get out of stone age because we ran out of stones :)) nowone is going to get all the oil out of the grund actualy the last 30% resources can't even be extracted with today technology ,oil will get more expensive and then the economic sistem crashes so nowone will use oil anymore but not because it isn't there because the economy is gone.

[SundeepMKurup521974]

Why is the guy not even mentioning the Iraq invasion of Iraq!

[SundeepMKurup521974]

Wonder why he isn't talking anything about the Americans sitting on Iraq's oil!

[pressureGM]

look up The Venus Project for a solution to the global energy crisis.

[ilynnad]

How on earth is Friedman a three-time Pulitzer winner? One cannot simply say free markets for gas will equal democracy, rights and freedom. Or that protectionist policies on a nation's key resource equals tyranny. Some good old neoliberal rhetoric right there. Its like these oil-rich countries do not have a past history, a culture, a religion or ideology which would in any way lead to an authoritarian regime. Take this a55holes Pulitzers back...

[karelcranberry]

where is the dutch version? can't find it anywhere

[karelcranberry]

where is the dutch version? can't find it anywhere

[AlexanderFrolov2509]

it is very right ideas! Alexander V. Frolov w w w . faraday. ru 

[LusoCMD]

and we all know who the biggest addicts are

just keep ridding those huge SUVs and all will go well (for Venezuela, Iran, etc, etc)

[rock3tcat]

That Thomas Freedman guy is annoying!!!!

[And1Calvin]

what a way to end, FROM RADIO TO TV TO CABLE TO INTERNET,

THE ENDING WAS PRICELESS

[TENNSUMITSUMA]

1:04 CHAVEZ, thats ma boy

[freethinker17]

Thomas freedman is the most pompous person on the planet.

[rmduni]

@freethinker17 He might appear ostensibly pompous, but he made very good points.

[MultipleEFP]

VPROinternational is the organization interesting in only one thing

REGIME CHANGE and russophobia !

Nothing moore !

[MultipleEFP]

What a disgussting american neoconservative propaganda...

They used words only as autocratic regimes, dictatorship, fanatics, Putin, KGB...

Whille the United States of America are massacring millions and millions of inocente people only for thier own interests !

The corporate regime is the only dictatorship and it is based in Washington D.C. !!!

US is the biggest civil rights abbuser today !!!

[MultipleEFP]

Sakashvili is the war criminal who has moore than 2000 inocente Ossetians on his black soul !

And he has completelly destroyed democracy and opposition in Georgia !

[xxxrrrxxxrrr]

Georgia never rised they're foot on foreign land. Ossetia was then recognised as part of Georgia even by Russia. But what did Russia? Russia invaded lots of foreign land, even went further then the breakaway republics. What they did then. They stoled, blew up infrastructure, factories, bombed towns and even burned down georgian nat. park. Russians are just barbarians.

[io007a]

@xxxrrrxxxrrr agree man i'm from romania we fear and hate the russians at the same time nowone will forget them for what they did to our part of the country moldova .

[MultipleEFP]

THERE IS NO DEMOCRASY IN GEORGIA !!!!

Fucking western propaganda !

[xxxrrrxxxrrr]

Alot more then in Russia for sure.

[MultipleEFP]

Complete noossens !

Ecconomy of Russia in 2008 consists only 11% from oil and gas sector.

I really take pitty on those "democratic" western propaganda!

[xxxrrrxxxrrr]

Your talking about GDP of Russia, but what about budget of Russia? Is it also just 11%?

[paulsviplist]

Walk, ride a bike, carpool, and start a world boycot on oil.

The more oil & gas you people use the more you make the price go up.

[morskisrle]

THere is a solution for all that. Use the American strategy. Impose sanctions, destruct the economy and them pay for political freinds to take over the power and than lift the sanctions so people think they accomplieshed a change. And then invade the rest who is resisting and not listening a threatining the oil supply to US...If US didn't spoil so much oil and natural resourses, we would not have the energy crisis like this....

[Garcia0384]

Friedmans contribution is a condescending diatribe. I GET IT, stop talking down to me and put the fake outrage on the back burner..

[dude3sasha]

i am sorry did he just call India a good and real democracy - seems to much of a biased propagandistic approach (although as with all propoganda there are elements of truth in this movie)

[tubebunny7]

Propaganda? Propaganda as in not yielding to something that is close to your own ideas? What is the bias and what is the propaganda. Let's discuss it in specifics?

You don't buy the correlation between pace of freedom and price of oil? It seem plausible, if a government relatively relies less on its people for revenue it will not be "serving" the people as much and something that the people want, i.e. freedom, suffers.

[tubebunny7]

Again why is it biased? You do know that this isn't Friedman's documentary? He is only an actor that the documentary maker gave a chance to state his views and arguments. You probably aren't used to this kind of approach were there is not much involvement of the narrator.

[dude3sasha]

i am sorry but the correlation between freedom and oil price is simply BULLSHIT how can u define freedoms in the first place (freedom is in so many forms and shapes and is evaluated differently dependent upon evaluator's own perceptions) and no one in the right mind would even try and compare freedoms in between different states in different times in history, logically its impossible simply due to infinite number of factors affecting the difintion of freedom. sorry if my english wasnt perfect.

[tubebunny7]

How about you look at the Freedom House index before dismissing anything. I don't buy that you actually looked at Friedman's research nor the Free House index. The Free House index is an attempt to measure freedom.

[profpurcell]

and a very bad one at that.

[tubebunny7]

There is no good one but it's at least methodological.

[nemsison]

I sure hope we could solve the coming world crisis.