[MacG]

In short, he seem to be covering all bases. It's very British, so those who cant handle sarkasm and irony should avoid watching. Instead of writing a review, I submit a a bittorrent link to the show in DVD quality.

http://www.fulldls.com/downloading_movies_26694

If considered improper, please, mods move or remove.

[MyOtherID]

Ta, d/loading now.

Edit: started watching it: excellent, thanks

[some_guy282]

I'll have to check it out too...

[MyOtherID]

[font=Georgia]Seen it.

This is a brilliant piece of work. Everyone here should see this.

Out of 5, my score is [/font]

[CrudeAwakening]

Very good, very funny, and well-informed. I got the impression he'd just read Engdahl's "Century of War".

I wonder if the audience got what they were expecting to see..

[skiwi]

Yep just happened to pick it up at conspiracycentral and it's hilarious
Be dropping it on the teachers staffroom table after the school holidays

Liked the World War 1 Iraqi oil angle

[killJOY]

Very good show.

Americans will find the accents and literary references a bit trying, though.

Owen and Sassoon were world war one poets. How many Americans still study them?

Brilliant stuff here.

[JustinFrankl]

Good piece. Short, funny, to the point. Much was intended to be funny but the truth hits a little too close to home, and you can hear it in the audience's nervous laughter. I enjoyed the explanation of WWI as well.

[SoothSayer]

A Real Media link is here

[JustinFrankl]

It is also available on Usenet, assuming you have decent article retention.

[UIUCstudent01]

Funny and informative!

It gets 15 out of 5 stars!

Acquire and watch it any way you can!

(I had to rewatch some stuff because of the accent...)

[Jellric]

Very, very nice. Thank you posting this.

[da23]

The real media link above doesn't work anymore, this link works.

[Cobra_Strike]

Curse my 56K....

[GreyGhost]

You can also see this on Google Video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=History+of+Oil

It's brilliant. The title "History of Oil" makes it sound bland, but there's actually a lot more too it than that.

He alternates between standup comedy and quick history lessons, with reasons behind wars in the middle east, past and present (including World War I). Mentions Peak Oil, and is also sprinkled with some cool ideas like eating fruit out of season should be a criminal offence.

And remember, "The G8 today endorsed an American-led plan to bring democracy to the middle east..."

[frood]

This is a brilliant show. What better way of getting a serious point across than to lampoon widely held beliefs. If anyone tried to do this seriously on a live stage they would find a slumbering audience. Good to see Newman back on the map doing a hilarious turn on this subject.

Hope he goes on tour and I can see this live.

[nemo]

I just stubled upon this brilliant performance from a different source. Watching the video comfirms my beliefs that humor may well be the most effective way to confront and educate. Robert Newman doesn't come across as a shrill conspiracy nut, but rather an extremely well informed funny with a solid foundation for his position.

I really enjoyed the whole WWI imperial background (much neglected) and his geopolitics-as-a-street brawl analogy: "Therefore I believe we may begin to imagine the war in Iraq as a very public punishment beating. You have to imagine the world is a Bronx housing project..."
Oh, his Tony Blair impression was great too

He comes across as rather doomerish at the end, but unfortunately I can't say I disagree with him...

[matt21811]

I've seen it before. It is funny and clever. Some of his political jokes feel spot on. He idid have one arguement that seemed a bit thin.

His arguement as to why we can't switch to nuclear.

It produces less polution than coal.

[JustinFrankl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('matt21811', 'I')'ve seen it before. It is funny and clever. Some of his political jokes feel spot on. He idid have one arguement that seemed a bit thin.

His arguement as to why we can't switch to nuclear.

It produces less polution than coal.

[matt21811]

The 75% figure is miles above what other people are saying.
A more realistice figure is 3%.
I think you can come up the 75% figure if you use very ineffecient methods (that havent been used since 1950) to enrich your uranium and you use coal power to to it.

He did a good job of making a dry subject funny though.