http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/opec 2008-10-27T16:53:12Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59319-opec-s-oil-price-troubles-24-oct-08 2008-10-27T16:53:12Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KLTIMRXChLQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KLTIMRXChLQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/59319-opec-s-oil-price-troubles-24-oct-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/72867" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>As stock markets plunge again the price of oil is also falling. That is not what the leaders of the cartel were hoping for when they announced a production cut of one and a half million barrels a day. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull is at Opec headquarters in the Austrian capital Vienna.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/59319-opec-s-oil-price-troubles-24-oct-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59098-qatari-oil-minister-discusses-economic-crisis-23-oct-08 2008-10-27T02:52:59Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZoBuCn1jXI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bZoBuCn1jXI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/59098-qatari-oil-minister-discusses-economic-crisis-23-oct-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/72536" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>With the oil price plummeting below $60 barrel, Opec ministers are on their way to Vienna for an emergency meeting.</p> <p>Iran wants OPEC to cut production by 2 million barrels a day - this is a massive cut - the last one was only half a million barrels.</p> <p> Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston spoke to Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar's Opec Minister, about the tumbling price of oil.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/59098-qatari-oil-minister-discusses-economic-crisis-23-oct-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/58303-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-2 2008-10-22T04:50:19Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xhel6NBq_LM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xhel6NBq_LM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/58303-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/71385" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The head of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has said that the organisation must order a "substantial" cut in oil production when the group meets in Vienna next week. </p> <p>Inside Story asks who is responsible for the drop in oil prices and if it is related to the current financial crisis.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/58303-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/58301-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-1 2008-10-22T04:50:19Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lulUr4eTZYw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lulUr4eTZYw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/58301-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/71383" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The head of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has said that the organisation must order a "substantial" cut in oil production when the group meets in Vienna next week. </p> <p>Inside Story asks who is responsible for the drop in oil prices and if it is related to the current financial crisis.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/58301-inside-story-oil-production-to-be-cut-oct-19-part-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/58030-mir-mccain-s-good-oil-bad-oil 2008-12-02T18:44:27Z linktv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YVl04-kYRL8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YVl04-kYRL8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/58030-mir-mccain-s-good-oil-bad-oil"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/70909" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Six years ago Congress granted the president Bush the power to unilaterally attack Iraq. Oil was the main motivator then and is now a topic of discussion in the presidential debates. How much of U.S. oil really comes from the Middle East? And is Arab oil, bad oil? <br /> <br />Answers to these questions and more on Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report.</p> <p>For more info, visit at <a href="http://www.linktv.org/mosaic">www.linktv.org</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/58030-mir-mccain-s-good-oil-bad-oil">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/55463-re-is-texas-senator-john-cornyn-a-puppet-for-big-oil 2008-10-31T21:32:34Z MayorGalvan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/a0NPtT0O0gI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a0NPtT0O0gI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/55463-re-is-texas-senator-john-cornyn-a-puppet-for-big-oil"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/67230" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Video Cam Direct Upload</p> </div> <a href="/blog/55463-re-is-texas-senator-john-cornyn-a-puppet-for-big-oil">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/52430-oil-prices-forecast-to-rise-again-09-september-2008 2008-10-30T15:32:22Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4B0YwGBqoc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G4B0YwGBqoc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/52430-oil-prices-forecast-to-rise-again-09-september-2008"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/63604" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>As global oil prices continue to slide investors want to know whether the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will cut production.</p> <p>Opec members are split on the issue while some economists predict that oil prices will rise again.</p> <p>Dr Mamdouh Salameh, an international oil economist and consultant to the World Bank on energy, shares his view with Al Jazeera</p> </div> <a href="/blog/52430-oil-prices-forecast-to-rise-again-09-september-2008">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/48819-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-max-keiser-about-a-recession-in-japan 2008-10-31T03:29:26Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jHNezVM41GA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jHNezVM41GA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/48819-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-max-keiser-about-a-recession-in-japan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/58847" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about a global recession. <br />TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter at its sharpest rate in seven years, adding to worries that the world's No.2 economy has slipped into a recession as global growth shows more signs of losing steam.</p> <p>Consumers and companies cut spending as they struggle with steep energy and raw material costs, while spreading damage from the U.S. slowdown hurt exports to emerging nations -- possibly marking the end of Japan's longest expansion since World War Two.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/48819-afshin-rattansi-talks-to-max-keiser-about-a-recession-in-japan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45411-flynt-leverett-structural-shifts-in-global-energy-markets 2008-10-28T14:36:12Z Carnegie Council <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVRQygBgPXY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVRQygBgPXY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45411-flynt-leverett-structural-shifts-in-global-energy-markets"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52551" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>National governments and national energy companies own more than 80 percent of the world's proven reserves of crude oil and international energy companies have no major places left to go and drill. <br />This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council Global Policy Innovations event, "The Rise of the Rest," on July 1, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org">www.policyinnovations.org</a> or <a href="http://www.carnegiecouncil.org">www.carnegiecouncil.org</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/45411-flynt-leverett-structural-shifts-in-global-energy-markets">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44279-mccain-u-energy-environment-appetite-for-destruction 2008-11-19T10:25:28Z seeprogress <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L48kxoXcJ-4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L48kxoXcJ-4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44279-mccain-u-energy-environment-appetite-for-destruction"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/50663" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/analyzing_mccain.html</p> <p>“George Bush cannot be the bar against which we measure John McCain,” argued Navin Nayak of the League of Conservation Voters. Nayak provided “McCain 101” for the final panel of the day on energy policy. The panel included Joseph Romm and Bracken Hendricks, both Senior Fellows at CAPAF, and Nayak, who emphasized that while McCain’s energy policies look good compared to President Bush, voters must look at McCain’s policies more broadly.</p> <p>Like Bush, Nayak said, McCain opposes renewable energy, as evidenced by his votes against a renewable electricity standard and tax credits for renewable energy. Nayak also criticized McCain for voting against increasing automobile fuel efficiency, his advisors’ ties to the oil and gas industries, and the fact that McCain’s plan to combat global warming only calls for 60 percent reductions in greenhouse gases by 2050.</p> <p>Romm criticized McCain for what he called a “placebo energy policy,” which would do nothing to resolve the energy crisis, but would still make people feel better. Similarly, Hendricks criticized McCain for supporting energy policies which even McCain acknowledged would only have a “psychological” effect. Attacking McCain’s support of a gas tax holiday, Romm said, “the important thing to realize about the gas tax holiday is that it’s just a holiday for gas and oil companies.” Romm also argued that allowing offshore drilling in sensitive costal areas, as McCain has proposed, would have no effect on oil prices.</p> <p>Romm also attacked McCain’s plan to offer $300 million to the inventor of cheaper, more efficient batteries that could make plug-in hybrids more efficient. “It is completely pointless for the federal government to offer $300 million…there’s no way you could actually award this prize. Nobody invents anything that is much cheaper than existing technology today. That only occurs when you sell a million units a year…this is a complete and ...</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44279-mccain-u-energy-environment-appetite-for-destruction">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42303-countdown-special-report-gas-pain-must-watch 2008-11-14T18:48:38Z HotPotatoMash <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugss-PcNomg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugss-PcNomg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/42303-countdown-special-report-gas-pain-must-watch"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/47743" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This is a great piece of journalism that clearly and effectively explains why Americans are paying thousands of dollars more per year in gas and oil costs. Mainly the Enron Loophole. Other culprits include Morgan Stanley, husband and wife Graham, UBS, lobbyists and just about everyone surrounding John McCains campaign.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/42303-countdown-special-report-gas-pain-must-watch">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41169-indonesia-businesses-struggle-with-oil-prices-06-june-2008 2008-10-17T21:30:18Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JA0Y-IxqGJc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JA0Y-IxqGJc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41169-indonesia-businesses-struggle-with-oil-prices-06-june-2008"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/46415" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Small businessmen are feeling the pinch of rising oil prices in Indonesia. Despite widespread protests, costs have soared by 30 per cent in the last few weeks while the government scraps expensive fuel subsidies. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports on how the country is pulling out of the oil exporters' cartel like OPEC because it cannot produce enough oil to export.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41169-indonesia-businesses-struggle-with-oil-prices-06-june-2008">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39940-frost-over-the-world-oil-prices-myanmar-23-may-08 2008-10-17T03:30:37Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pO0Yx7YxJh4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pO0Yx7YxJh4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/39940-frost-over-the-world-oil-prices-myanmar-23-may-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/45076" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>On Thursday morning oil prices reached a record high - $135 a barrel. Liam Halligan, the chief economist of Prosperity Capital Management, explains the real reasons behind this relentless rise. Also, Matthias Schmale, the international director of the British Red Cross, joins the show to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/39940-frost-over-the-world-oil-prices-myanmar-23-may-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38580-the-energy-crisis-is-real-1979-jimmy-carter 2008-12-02T18:50:44Z Skip Weythman <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABqE0Yl12FY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABqE0Yl12FY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38580-the-energy-crisis-is-real-1979-jimmy-carter"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43565" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>If Only We Had Reelected Him over Arms for the Hostages Reagan we wouldnt be in the Quagmire we are in today and when he left office the national debt was only 995 billion also just some food for thought</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38580-the-energy-crisis-is-real-1979-jimmy-carter">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/37649-thailand-aims-to-create-opec-style-cartel-on-rice 2008-10-20T21:32:24Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5MNwAIixcek&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5MNwAIixcek&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/37649-thailand-aims-to-create-opec-style-cartel-on-rice"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/42435" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Thailand&#39;s rice prices have nearly tripled since January - from about $380 a tonne, to more than $1,000 Despite international opposition, Thailand wants to create an Opec-style cartel to control prices and keep them high. As Selina Downes explains - rice is Thailand&#39;s new cash crop.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/37649-thailand-aims-to-create-opec-style-cartel-on-rice">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/31843-oil-hits-new-high-ahead-of-opec 2008-10-25T09:30:56Z Reuters <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_rxhsiVvWE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d_rxhsiVvWE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/31843-oil-hits-new-high-ahead-of-opec"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/34313" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Mar 3 - Oil nears $104 per barrel ahead of Wednesday's OPEC meeting.OPEC, which pumps more than one-third of the world's oil, last met on February 1st and left its oil output unchanged. </p> <p>Sasha Salama reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/31843-oil-hits-new-high-ahead-of-opec">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/25107-hillary-clinton-s-memorable-moment 2008-02-03T20:08:20Z GottaLaff <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/25107-hillary-clinton-s-memorable-moment"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/27139" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>During last night&#39;s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton popped out with a doozy that I&#39;ve only heard repeated on the <a href="http://www.airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/">Thom Hartmann</a> show. I was struck by it, too, and even <a href="http://cliffschecter.bravenewfilms.org/blog/24932-heckler-these-are-race-based-questions-dem-debate">live blogged it</a>:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Hillary</strong>: &quot;...<strong>Bush begging Saudis to drop oil prices &quot;How pathetic!&quot;</strong>...</p></blockquote><p>Good point, Hill. Bush is now &quot;begging&quot; the Saudis to drop oil prices. How &quot;pathetic&quot;, especially considering this from the very same groveler who <a href="http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/04/con06165.html">said this</a> back in 2000:</p><blockquote><p>While on the campaign trail <strong>in 2000, Bush told President Bill Clinton how to handle OPEC</strong>, in public no less. <strong>&quot;What I think the president ought to do,&quot; he said, &quot;is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots.&quot;</strong></p><p>And in a brilliant, highly educational follow-up comment, Bush informed the audience: <strong>&quot;One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up.</strong>&quot;</p><p>&quot;OPEC has gotten its supply act together,&quot; Bush advised listeners, &quot;and it&#39;s driving the price, like it did in the past.&quot;</p><p><strong>&quot;And,&quot; he said in direct advice to Clinton, &quot;the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the prices.&quot;</strong></p><p>Apparently, Bush has lost the phone numbers for OPEC members, or they are refusing to take his calls, because <strong>I think it&#39;s safe to assume that he did not &quot;jawbone&quot; members of the OPEC cartel.</strong></p></blockquote> <p>It&#39;s 2008 now and he&#39;s begging. I guess all that pull hasn&#39;t convinced his pals to make oil affordable so people here can, you know, live.&nbsp; </p><p>I&#39;m thinkin&#39; it&#39;s also safe to say he&#39;s used up all that <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/11/20041104-5.html">&quot;political capital&quot;</a>, too. And as for that jawbone prowess he might have imagined somewhere in that undersized vacancy he believes is a brain? Like his sobriety, it never existed. </p><p>How pathetic.&nbsp;</p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24749-global-pulse-the-dollar-drops 2008-10-17T21:30:41Z linktv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DBJUPxdjjKk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DBJUPxdjjKk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/24749-global-pulse-the-dollar-drops"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/26779" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More: <a href="http://linktv.org/globalpulse">linktv.org</a> </p> <p>The value of the dollar continues to decrease. With the mortgage mess and high oil prices, Americans are feeling the pinch. But, as the U.S economy struggles, economies and businesses worldwide are also feeling the effects. Will the Euro be the new world currency? Or will the holiday shopping season be just what the dollar needs to bounce back?</p> <p>SOURCES: Al Jazeera English, Qatar; Asia Today, China; KBS News, South Korea; DW, Germany; TV5, France; Once Noticias, Mexico; NBC News, U.S.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/24749-global-pulse-the-dollar-drops">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/24633-frost-over-the-world-ali-zadari-and-ruth-lea-11-jan-08 2008-10-17T13:33:33Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/alx4Aab9qKk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/alx4Aab9qKk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/24633-frost-over-the-world-ali-zadari-and-ruth-lea-11-jan-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/26662" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>With the election now postponed until February Asif Ali Zadari, Bhutto's husband, joins Sir David to discuss what the future holds for Pakistan and the grieving for his late wife. <br />Ruth Lea, economist, analyses the implications of oil reaching the $100 per barrel mark.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/24633-frost-over-the-world-ali-zadari-and-ruth-lea-11-jan-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19130-indonesia-oil 2008-10-22T09:30:04Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHBibOyOU8Y&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHBibOyOU8Y&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/19130-indonesia-oil"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/18802" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Indonesia is the only Asian-Pacific member of OPEC that's meeting in Saudi Arabia this weekend. Much of the country's oil reserve remains undeveloped. </p> <p>Al Jazeera's Step Vassen reports on how it is now attracting foreign investors and how many local communities are uncertain about their future.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/19130-indonesia-oil">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/18923-oil-prices-send-us-military-scrambling-cap-s-korb-on-cnn 2008-10-22T09:30:04Z seeprogress <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/frpEMjAlEvA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/frpEMjAlEvA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/18923-oil-prices-send-us-military-scrambling-cap-s-korb-on-cnn"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/18608" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org <br />As the price of oil approaches $100 a barrel, the US military is scrambling to stretch their budgets to cover soaring energy costs. Dr Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress tells CNN despite a camopaign to "green" the power consumed by the Pentagon, energy costs are outpacing those efforts. </p> <p>www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org</p> </div> <a href="/blog/18923-oil-prices-send-us-military-scrambling-cap-s-korb-on-cnn">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/18508-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-1 2008-10-22T15:29:46Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/stHzKK6Djsc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/stHzKK6Djsc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/18508-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-1"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/18196" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Should Opec, which is meeting next week, do more to bring prices down?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/18508-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-1">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/18507-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-2 2008-10-22T15:29:46Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cdL0dZVVfkw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cdL0dZVVfkw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/18507-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-2"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/18195" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Should Opec, which is meeting next week, do more to bring prices down?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/18507-inside-story-oil-prices-near-100-a-barrel-11nov07-pt-2">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/11931-r-james-woolsey-an-argument-for-energy-independence 2008-10-24T21:31:12Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Spgoo1ScnO4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Spgoo1ScnO4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/11931-r-james-woolsey-an-argument-for-energy-independence"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12056" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1414">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey makes an argument for American energy independence.</p> <p>This excerpt is taken from a discussion recorded in collaboration with the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, and was sponsored in part by Chevron Corporation.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>"A Conversation About Oil: Leaders Respond," with Alexander A. Karsner and R. James Woolsey at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.</p> <p>In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.</p> <p>R. James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice. Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC. Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/11931-r-james-woolsey-an-argument-for-energy-independence">Watch the video</a>