WARNING: NAUGHTY LANGUAGE
Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, spoofs the misleading television propaganda ads by Big Oil, which attempt to make America feel comfy and cozy about being financially raped. Shill, baby, shill!
MUSIC: (c) Joni Mitchell from the CD “Shine”
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Texas Oil - Landscape of an Industry
at Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston
January 17 - March 29, 2009
Opening Reception: January 16, 6 – 8 p.m.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization based in Culver City, California, involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry will be the culmination of the CLUI’s study of Texas and will show how the extraction and refining of oil has sculpted the state’s terrain. The exhibition will open with a “landscan” video, an extended aerial shot of petroleum refineries and shipping yards that shows the massive scale of these places. (more…)
Forgotten in this new scramble for African resources are the people of the Niger Delta, who have received little benefit from 50 years of oil production in their midst. They continue to suffer from dire environmental pollution and human rights abuses. Exploiting the oil are multinational oil companies – which have been complicit over the years in creating the situation in the Delta today. Governments in Europe and North America have also played a role through supporting the activities of their oil companies and by creating and maintaining the tax haven system, which has facilitated the theft of billions of dollars in oil revenues by Nigeria’s elites.
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