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Forget the axis of evil, its the axis of oil The Cold War and the War on Terror were about ideology and globalization. The 21st century will be dominated by the struggle for energy: It will be every man for himself and it's going to get dirty. In the two-part documentary Energy War, VPRO's Backlight investigates the major developments with regards to energy sources. Featuring NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman. The film describes the geopolitical consequences of the dependency on fossil fuels. In the struggle for the last sources of fossil fuels, countries all over the world are forced to take new political and moral decisions and have to enter into awkward alliances: rogue regimes must be tolerated and befriended. With a special focus on the gas conflict between Georgia and Russia and the position of Saudi Arabia. Featuring ao Thomas Friedman, author of international bestseller The World is Flat. Friedman sheds his light on the inverse connection between rising oil prices and the establishment of free democracies. The film then moves on to take a look at the international markets for alternative energy. If oil and gas are scarce and expensive in the future, where will countries turn to keep their economy going and their population warm and happy? Could solar energy or bio fuels become the main energy sources of the post-fossil fuel era? Will governments, multinationals or small producers be the motor of the green race?
July 17th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
That Thomas Freedman guy is annoying!!!!
July 18th, 2010 at 12:00 am
what a way to end, FROM RADIO TO TV TO CABLE TO INTERNET,
THE ENDING WAS PRICELESS
July 18th, 2010 at 12:17 am
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July 18th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Your talking about GDP of Russia, but what about budget of Russia? Is it also just 11%?
July 18th, 2010 at 1:25 am
Alot more then in Russia for sure.
July 18th, 2010 at 1:41 am
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.
July 18th, 2010 at 1:50 am
There is good but at least methodologically.
July 18th, 2010 at 1:55 am
and a very wrong with that.
July 18th, 2010 at 2:30 am
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:23 am
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 !!!
July 18th, 2010 at 3:48 am
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 !
July 18th, 2010 at 3:52 am
There Is Not Democracy IN GEORGIA! Fucking western propaganda!
July 18th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Complete noossens !
Ecconomy of Russia in 2008 consists only 11% from oil and gas sector.
I really take pitty on those “democratic” western propaganda!
July 18th, 2010 at 4:27 am
To walk, to ride bicycle, car pooling, and to begin to boycott world-wide from the oil. pi
July 18th, 2010 at 4:36 am
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. . . .
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July 18th, 2010 at 6:28 am
Also in this case perché è of part? You know that this not è a documentary of Friedman? He è only an actor who the documentary director given the possibilità to express own opinions and arguments. Probably an involvement a lot pià ¹ of the narrator is not accustomed to this type of approach has been not you è.
July 18th, 2010 at 6:48 am
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.
July 18th, 2010 at 7:24 am
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)
July 18th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Me dispiace but the correlation between libertà and of the price of the oil è simply BULLSHIT like puà ² u defining itself of the libertà to the first place (the libertà è in many forms and the figures and comes estimated in various way depends upon perceptions valutatore) and nobody to the healthy one of mind would have also to try and to confront in libertà between various states in various moments in the history, its impossible one logically simply had to the number infinitely of factors that influence the difintion of the libertÃ. spiacente if perfect English mine wasnt.
July 18th, 2010 at 8:39 am
I hope just of could be resolved the come crisis world.