MUST WATCH video: Robert Newman's History of Oil (Iraq, peak oil & more)

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The comedian and author gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion. Excellent and factual, Newman tells it how it is

download: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/history_of_oil.rm <- 29 megs
stream: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/history_of_oil.ram

This aired last night in the UK.

Newman's site: http://www.robnewman.com/

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Pick of the week is ``Robert Newman's History of Oil.'' Written and performed by the clever one from ``Newman and Baddiel,'' it's an entertaining attempt to join the dots between oil and arms.
Newman traces the murky relationship between oil fields and battlefields from the 1914 deployment of a British battalion to Basra -- intercepting a German extension of the Orient Express from Constantinople to Baghdad -- to the present day.

Viewers will be relieved that there are plenty of belly laughs to offset the browbeating. Newman's asides about Salvador Dali's ``magic checkbook'' and battalions manned solely by war poets are hilarious. A sketch about ``Axis of Evil'' gang members toughing it out in a garage forecourt is brilliantly satirical. Though much of his message is scary, this is a sharp analysis.