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News Blog: Documentary Film Turns Black Gold Into Black Death
2006-11-03 00:57:19 (200 weeks ago)
Posted By: Intellpuke
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Intellpuke: The following news blog is by Guardian Unlimited correspondent Mark Oliver, reporting from the 13th International Documentary Film Festival held in Sheffield, England. In it, Mr. Oliver on a Swiss documentary titlled "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash". His news blog begins here:

"Oil is the excrement of the devil ... oil is the bloodstream of the world economy, oil is the blood of the dinosaurs, blood of the earth."

This is from the opening of "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash", a Swiss-made documentary, and one of the most frightening films you are ever likely to see.

A parade of oil industry experts, politicians and academics outline in shocking detail just how badly life could be impacted after the world's oil reserves have peaked - and claim we are just about at the peak now. Standards of living - not just for the developing world but also for the West - could be forced to dramatically shrink.

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Black gold
By: jmw31967
2006-11-03 08:48:14
They missed the point, money is the root evil! It is the basis for every war, and plays a hand in every death, every human worships it some more than others! Yeah thats right, your precious is the real satan!

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