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Blowout

Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

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Blowout

Auteur(s): Rachel Maddow
Narrateur(s): Rachel Maddow
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 2021 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All

“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”—The New York Times Book Review

In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry.

With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. She deftly shows how Russia’s rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia’s rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the West’s most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, “like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can’t really blame the lion. It’s in her nature.”

Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world’s most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.” Affaires mondiales Politique Russie Socialisme Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Union soviétique Afrique
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Incredible book. A must read for everyone who wants to know how the world works.

Incredible Book

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Oil, corruption, and selfishness. Typical Maddow sarcastic smart-assness but well researched. To be read NOW.

Follow the money

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When one reads about oil and gas oligarchs, Russian spies, the Trump election, and the general madness of the past few years, it is hard to imagine that this would be a fun listen. But oh my goodness it is! I feel like you miss out on some of the laughs without Rachel Maddow’s inflections on her statements.

Well researched, well written, well worth delving into natural gas wells with her.

Maddow is “Fracking” hilarious

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By listening to this book I learn so much. I feel that I can join an intelligent conversation,with people who know the political world,or at least think they know it. Thank you Rachel for your performance, you read as if you are right here in the room!
Thank you!

This is a must,to learn where we live!

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Highly recommend this book. As world citizens, we need to stop believing in the retoric most powerful corporations make "we produce jobs for the economy" and ensure proper legislation is created and enforced to make sure citizens are treated fairly and our world respected and cared for. It should be our global purpose to make sure corporations do no corrupt our governments for their gains. If you are a corporate leader reading this, make the effort to ensure your company is a good corporate citizen. This book brings to light the corporate "the end justifies the means" mentality via excellent research and presentation of data and the sad truths we live in today.

Powerful and eye opening.

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