Luyện nghe bài hát A Public Dis-Service Announcement from Shell

("Clear in Troubled Times": Winnipeg Free Press, Nov 21st, 1995)
"People the right to the truth.
Unvarnished. uncomfortable.
But never subjugated to a cause, however or well-meaning.
have the right to clear thinking.
Slogans, boycotts and protests offer answers...
(I)t has been suggested that Shell should pull out of developing altogether.
The oil would certainly flowing.
The would continue operating.
The vast of the employees would remain in place.
But the and ethical business practices synonymous with Shell,
the investment,
and the tens of millions of dollars spent on community would all be lost.
Again, it's the people of nations that you would hurt.
It's easy enough to sit in comfortable homes in the West,
calling for sanctions and boycotts a developing country.
But you have to be sure that knee-jerk reactions do more harm than good.
Some campaigning groups say that we intervene in the political process in developing nations.
But even if we could, we must do so.
Politics is the of governments and politicians.
The world where companies use their economic influence to prop up or bring governments
would be a and bleak one indeed."(ha. ha.)