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

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