VICE on HBO Season 2: Crude Awakening and The Enemy of My Enemy (Episode 9)

In the ninth episode of our second season of VICE on HBO, Shane Smith heads to Louisiana to report on the lasting effects of the BP oil spill. Then, VICE investigates why Yemen is at the top of the worry list for President Obama's national security team. The rise of Al Qaeda there is only half the reason-the real trouble is a little-known Houthi rebel movement in the north of the country.
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[@jst4curiosity704]

VICE does some of the best documentary work on the most crucial topics of our times! You should all be very proud.

[@Ethan2Tone]

jst4curiosity thank God you said that, i see people say they aren't for the people. I love the work they do it's very revealing and knowledgable.

[@nothingontv6818]

YES! ITS THE ONLY THING WORTH WATCHING OUT HERE!

[@VICE]

VICE co-founder Shane Smith heads down to Louisiana to see what sort of damage the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still doing to the Gulf of Mexico.

[@justinianrex13]

I hope he walked or rode a bike to Louisiana because he just added to the whole pollution problem if he didn't! Just a thought! :-)

[@hermannkateri2120]

Joel Lopez Ha ha very funny. Do you know how many thousands of fisherman went bankrupt after that act of negligence. Do you realize how many beaches you can walk down, flip over a piece of driftwood and still find oil? Fuck off ass wipe.

[@justinianrex13]

Ok Hermi! I hear you loud and clear! Now breath and relax...there you go...your at about 6 right now so keep it up! ;-)

[@joshualee6536]

this is actually interesting

[@BallstinkBaron]

I was wondering why that huge crowd of people was smiling... Then I realized that they were caught up in the energy of each other, chanting something they truly believed in, something they had longed night and day for, feeling the power of the giant crowd around them, thinking 'It will happen, we are strong'. This scares the shit out of me. If only there was a way to communicate to others without hate rising up as a barrier. It's not their fault that they think that way, but the effects are terrible. They were taught to hate, trained to hate by others taught the same way, by what others yell and chant and whisper and scream... It is branded into them, and becomes a part of these people's personal identities.

[@deaker123]

Thank you Shane Smith, for all your trustworthy journalism. You sir are amazing! Cheers!

[@kingkobra1978]

Today,I saw the beautiful coastline of Louisiana,choked by greed.I saw the heavenly mountains of Yemen,blown away by greed...tomorrow i will see some other part of Gaia destroyed by greed.

[@NICKownsHALO27]

Man, what the fuck. How can humans be so stupid. As humans are the smartest, and most intelligent organism to ever grace this planet, why is this happening? Do we not understand that this is the only planet we will ever be able to call home? How can this exist? I am baffled. Instead of looking for other planets to sustain all walks of life, we need to figure out how the fuck we utilize the only one we have. My frustrations root from the fact that humans are capable of so much good, but choose to do so much bad. The thing is that nobody HAS to go hungry, nobody HAS to be homeless, nobody HAS to be without water. It is possible. We are so close, yet so far. Only time will tell.

[@harrisontamayo401]

Because they can.

[@harrisontamayo401]

And The People aren't going to do anything about it.

[@Hoenir]

all this resume in power and greed.

[@Ph4ntomchaos]

wow, this is my same thought process, glad there's someone out there that thinks like this....sadly, we live in a world where power, and greed rules. I hate to say it because I am not religious, but I wish there's a supreme being just come to our world wipe out all that is evil.

[@NICKownsHALO27]

Ph4ntomchaos Institutionalized religion plays a large part in this chaos.

[@shoegum7362]

"BP is concerned about the perception of any workers wearing respirators would depict..." Zero fawks given to the workers, just worried their image to the public, media, and social media might be worsen.

[@littlegrabbiZZ9PZA]

"I see what looks like an unexploded artillery shell" *touch* Nope, nopenopenope NOPE. BAD reporter! *slap*

[@vatsal9005]

Balls!!!!!

[@JohnBastardSnow]

I was just hoping that VICE would upload another HBO episode and here it is. Thank you God Shane Smith for listening to my prayers.

[@batatibix1743]

My heart goes out to the families destroyed by the oil spill

[@zanetusken]

That was a genius transition at the end...

[@YellOhPanda]

Haha lets give the the upper management of BP a mix of oil and Corex (?) and lets see HOW THEY FEEL.

[@rogerprojector1084]

Why the hell is this the first time I'm hearing about this?!

[@StockHeightChevy603]

I know I’m kinda late but even I knew about this. BP gas? The huge oil spill? That was BP gas. 😆 I remember because that’s when BP started popping up where I’m from. That’s the same time the oil spilled.

[@waty0usay1]

wtf, I go to hbo's website and see Vice on HBO, like fucking 30 episodes, there's only 4 here with atleast 4-5 episodes being skipped and no, I can't fucking watch anything on HBO because its US only.

[@hermannkateri2120]

That sounds messed up.

[@Seelatsee]

Just get a VPN...

[@AutumnDutch]

Download Hola, it's a free Google Chrome "app" just like adblocker. You can change your IP adress to any country if you want.

[@NemoNobody2092]

AutumnDutch Hola is shit. Try ZenMate.

[@AutumnDutch]

NemoNobody2092 Don't have any problems with Hola, what makes ZenMate better than Hola?

[@Int00blivion]

My uncles work for BP. My sister is a lawyer who wanted to practice family law, but instead ended up working for Raytheon selling weapons to countries all over the world so that she could pay off her massive student loans. I am a artist and soils technician in California (keeping soils clean and enforcing building regulations. PEOPLE, REMEMBER THAT YOUR PROFESSION IS MORE THAN JUST A JOB OR A PAYCHECK. They shape the world we live in.

[@benjammin5055]

Corexit: Correct it before you exit.

[@Thebepob]

the one feeling I get after watching vice is that humanity all of us the entire world has like 50 years left on this planet.

[@easilyoffended9535]

"We're deeply sorry... sorry" - BP

[@derekwall200]

you know what sickens me most is that oil companies think profits are bigger than human health and safety, and when they have a spill they do the usual telling lies to the American public and refusing to take responsibility for the environmental damage to fishing, and not helping the public with some of their health issues EVEN AFTER THEY FUCKING HELPED YOU CLEAN UP YOUR FUCKING MESS WHILE UNKNOWINGLY RISKING THEIR OWN HEALTH AND SAFETY.

[@rosesweet1967]

never heard of vice land untill I went to shut my cable off, but ended up with the silver pkg, the cable guy told me about this channel #20... it's a premium channel, it doesn't come with basic cable, but now I'm hooked, going to cancel my silver pkg, all the vice episodes and HBO episodes are on KZbin which I watch more then cable...

[@tombob4002]

Cable is for millionaires and idiots

[@samuelrancoud1716]

why do I feel like Vice is the only trustworthy news source...

[@jaykallionosio1190]

Just leave People "Not what you country can do for you, but what you can do for yourself" 2016

[@slappaho100]

i lack the words to describe how amazing i find vice. Shane Smith is amazing

[@HorstEwald]

Great Doc! Some dark shit I didn't have any clue about. Go Vice!

[@HorstEwald]

Also I had to use a proxy to vier this.

[@73gmiller]

I was a cleanup worker, thank You Vice! BP just came in and Paid off my whole town of Gulf Shores .

[@navtium]

they really need to release the ingredient lists for corexit. Only then will it be possible to determine if it's toxic or not.

[@navtium]

Thanks for this, I'll give it a look!

[@EternallyGod]

***** Good information, i see 2 things wrong with the tests, the samples were given bubbles instead of having them sealed. The more you agitate a sample with bubbles or anything it will lose toxicity...anyone with half a brain knows that in the oilpatch. Secondly, they did the tests on nothing resembling human skin like a pig/rabbit (I think that is the 2 animals that companies destroy to show results).

[@JoeJoeTater]

***** The data sheet says, "ENVIRONMENTAL PRECAUTIONS : Do not contaminate surface water." Weeellllll, fuck.

[@Rakshasa1986]

The company who makes Corexit said themselves the substance is toxic. It's bp who is misusing it.

[@LegendYT931]

great story. i wonder how Louisiana is doing today

[@hughes40]

responsible fisherman

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

When Shane Smith presents it's always good.

[@easilyoffended9535]

Damn, us humans are fucking ourselves over so bad

[@gabrielleferry7933]

Thank you so much for reporting on these subjects.

[@circe801]

no, BP is NOT "just a company". MANY transnationals are SO MUCH MORE. WAKE UP, PEOPLE--THEY are the "owners"--of YOU--in many ways...

[@removedot]

Please don't listen to this person yoU 'MUST' re-a-live da trueth™️ He is a secret purple lizard from Andromeda, he NeEdS you to read that to vampire your power

[@savedbychristsavedbygrace2049]

Such confusion... Sad can't you all see the Lord is coming back soon the book of revelation will be fulfilled like all other books of the bible yet most keep trusting in man yet it says when man says "peace and safety" destruction will befall them suddenly.

[@ed-od9sd]

how insignificant Yemen used to sound like when Chandler from Friends traveled to the place to get away from Janice

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

Your in iran? where youtube is blocked. nice try . i bet your in the Uk . such "rubbish"

[@BruchoSindicate]

How many Muslim countries in our World are living in peace and tolerance today? This is a serious question, because it seems like every Muslim country is at constant war or at least tension. Majority of population of these countries are heavily into Islam and hating on other religions and people/nation. Is there at least one first world level Muslim country?

[@haziqzainal7560]

The fact that you're asking this question only shows how you are only being influenced by the mainstream media. Not all Muslim lives in the middle east. They make up of 23% of the world's population. Even China has a lot of Muslims. You know there are tension, you need to ask why there are tension. Most media don't show why, VICE shows you hands on what's actually happening. Relate that to history and then make your own conclusion.

[@BruchoSindicate]

that is why I said Muslim Countries. I'm aware that there are alot of muslims abroad.

[@dasalekhya]

Brucho Sindicate (1) *70 % of all Muslims* live in 4 nations -- *Indonesia + India + Malaysia + Bangladesh* (2) Muslims in these nations live quite peacefully (& compared to places like _Jewish_ Israel or _Christian_ Ukraine or _Buddhist_ Myanmar ---- very very peacefully) (3) The *Middle / Upper class Muslims* of these 4 nations enjoy 'first world' lifestyles (4) YOU can find all this information on the net --- BUT you love to *be prejudiced* because it justifies your otherwise *pathetic existence*.

[@BruchoSindicate]

***** It was easier to just ask someone on here. And with that said, in the end you poured out of nowhere. Stop judging people, I wasn't even nationalist at all. Yet you attack me...

[@michaelzlprime]

***** huh, but you are wrong, there are a lot of religious tensions in India created by Muslims, Bangladesh is undergoing slow ethnic cleansing of Hindus by Muslims, and Indonesian Islamists were until lately a serious threat(Bali bombing), the only really quiet and normal country is Malaysia (which sometimes flogs women for drinking alcohol). so no, it is quite hard to find a peaceful Muslim nation!

[@directorethxn7135]

My Prayers go out to those kids

[@alski]

What have we learned today ? Money is power

[@JayL781]

Am I the only person that got pissed when I heard that song playing in the car my feeling sorry for them stopped right then and there

[@Youtubecensoredmyusername]

Yeah me too 😕 it’s easy to see propaganda when you don’t believe in it .i think where did this really come from and why? At least we can be the better people until we wipe them off the earth lol. Just keep poking the bear you guys 😤

[@justinvilla6314]

28:21 "Executive Producer" Bill Maher WTF?!

[@takerdust]

He was exec producer for 3 years. He helped bring Vice to HBO which employs him.

[@Freakishd]

Yep. Made me think twice about what was said in this otherwise interesting doc. That guy is a snake

[@nasermubarak1755]

Freakishd I was like, some of these translations seem off ( i speak arabic), and would you look at that BILL FUCKIN' MAHER is the exec produce, unreal.

[@Th3GtgBy3]

Justin Villa Noticed that too, it's like some sick joke. Well, so much for Vice.

[@Ameya274]

doesn't a producer just takes care of the bills ala money...he probably doesn't have any creative input!

[@EvilKaNegro]

Vice is so dope. Thanks

[@iain.]

Everything's so fucked

[@quietdominator666]

Don't know why theses episodes even show up when u can't even watch them in Australia!

[@ritvikmiglani]

Just download the chrome ad on "hola" it's a vpn service. "Access websites blocked or censored in your country, company or school and stream media with the free Hola Unblocker VPN proxy service."

[@m0n3y4h0lic]

Here comes ww3

[@kawythowy867]

Sue BP. Keep them paying until everyone is ok.

[@walperstyle]

Workers were peeing black..... riiight.

[@AureaPersona]

I also call bullshit. Oil in the urine is not a credible explanation, it would have to be because of some other mechanism if it had even occurred.

[@walperstyle]

Vice is known for interviewing activists over engineers.

[@walperstyle]

Look out, we have an internet expert here^

[@walperstyle]

Come back with facts instead of opinions. I've got a lot of oil, drilling fluids, detergents and other pathogens in my body and just got back from a lengthy checkup. I've never pissed blood, let alone black. I guarantee in the 10 years I've worked with this stuff I've taken in a lot more. But hey, I'm sure you know what you are talking about.

[@ritvikmiglani]

walperstyle Actually he came with a better argument than you did. You just gave some vague anecdote that I can't confirm ***** actually came with an opinion that made sense.

[@SuperMathewson]

The audio is really off. Is anybody else experiencing this?

[@9Elano9]

Why is all their mouth full?

[@TheGreekSpawn]

In M.East they have something like a gum that they chew all day. By the end of it, it gets really big.

[@TheGreekSpawn]

***** stop talking bullshit. Its called Khat and its smth like a non-addictive drug. Like marijuana

[@southeastt5460]

It's called khat search on google it's a plant u prepare and chew swallow the juice and gradually spit out the left over plant it's like cocain

[@TheGreekSpawn]

SOUTH EASTT so you basically said what ive said earlier...

[@Fr0stBlade]

***** Everything can be addictive. Mental and physical addiction are two different things though.

[@mywingchunsucks]

everybody should copy and paste the link to this show to Washington DC so that the matter of oil in LA gets the attention it deserves.

[@fightingtiger-mc2tc]

The gulf used to be beautiful, I used to go fishing with my father all the time there, not anymore.

[@TheXBLWoody]

I'm watching this in Baton Rouge right now....

[@SmilezR32GTR]

Ben is such a badass! as always, great work.

[@dinxsy8069]

That HBO intro..Oh the good days that it's gave me..

[@Nerflover10097]

PJ Hahn saved an oiled pelican on Queen Bess Island. Saw it in National Geographic's article.

[@anthonygato407]

Vice: 👐 Chandler Bing: "I guess im going to Yemen.."

[@DuchessandHammer]

Shane's segments are always top class!!

[@Watcher413]

Wow that really is a beautiful mountain range.

[@stirlingmoore]

I have one question I haven't gotten or found an answer to. Why is the oil so bad didn't it come from the ground in the ocean. It's a natural substance. Like a wild fire before human intervention it burned until it stopped life didn't cease. If an earthquake happens in the ocean and cracks the ground over an oil reserve would it not leak until it couldn't?

[@deepthought0189]

When the US Government tells BP only to spray X amount in the Gulf and they say fuck you I'm spray as much as I need to get the oil to the bottom. Anyone remember that? I was FURIOUS!

[@MattBraun]

just a small thing but still...while Ben Anderson is referencing 2004, they are showing much newer footage. Look at 20:55. The ticker shows links for Facebook and Twitter which were certainly not being used by a news network in 2004. Twitter didn't even exist until 2006 and Facebook didn't start really getting used by news companies until at least 2008-09

[@chengduFTW]

shane smith is such a BOSS!!! Love his news coverage

[@HiHello-pl4tj]

Haha that Yemeni gun market reminds me of ammunation in GTA

[@BarryTheElephant]

brilliant reporting, thank you

[@KidWithNoLife21]

unbelievable....fantastic journalism

[@alanchoichang8336]

6:16 workers had a whole range of symptoms, from respiratory problems, central nervous system problems... at the other end of the spectrum, people died... this is very dark spectrum....

[@dieselphiend]

Thank you Vice! Don't ever lose your balls!

[@erikreibel8813]

If only BP had some balls to actually take some action and not try to cover it all up. why does the world have to be so corrupt? ._.

[@F0rce078]

Yay new Vice on HBO episode!

[@kevdog261]

very well done vice I have seen jon stewart interviewing someone on the BP oil spill, but other than that there has been little information on the BP oil spill

[@JJuribe97]

Imagine what's happening under the water, all with these people.

[@Rakshasa1986]

Chernobyl 2 : The BP Cover Up. Coming to a theatre near you.

[@obfuscated3090]

Court data should never be sealed unless to protect witnesses and victims against retaliation.

[@elffrog]

Mr. Presiddent you better do something with these oil people.

[@fitleo]

Why isn’t anybody taking BP to court?

[@royalstarfish17]

Money > Corporations > Government > People

[@kryptocake]

A football field sized area of land isn't really a "vast area".

[@florentino02]

Live Leak loves the guys at the end

[@Fr0stBlade]

Corruption is literally everywhere, don't act so surprised..

[@Freakishd]

This documentary is basically a "two birds one stone" for the support of the Keystone XL pipeline

[@oenskable]

The drums at the end are great

[@thomasrainbow]

Wow amazing episode. Nice work Vice.

[@ThatguyZim]

Damn,@28:20 coulda been one hell of a drone strike...

[@NoahNobody]

That BP shit is depressing. All those people affected should be taken care of.

[@holdencalais1]

so who owns these companys that make these sprays which country?

[@tarundmail]

Who else could be so inhuman and crooked other than British businessmen ( read Government). World knows what they did during colonial period backed by British Government. BP stands for British Petroleum. Head office in London. Do you think BP could ignore American people without direct support from British Government who must have made a deal with American politicians? British businessmen haven't changed a bit since colonial period.

[@PranaChi369]

Damn .......poison on top of poison....destruction of humans and this planet is so evident its chilling to highest degree....

[@loiuhuiygny7guyguiygk]

hope BP doesn't come for you guys! :O good documentary! keep it up :)

[@dacronic1646]

As bad as this oil spill was its minor compared to what the fishing industry does to the Gulf of Mexico and the rest of the ocean.

[@toocoolforu]

Such a shame, making worse damage to the environment to avoid facing consequences. The BP spill was an accident, we get it, yet BP has a responsibility as well as the US who accepted that drill hole. Because BP answers a need : the US and world economy still depend on oil, so both must pay.

[@haziqzainal7560]

"How can anybody put economics before lives and people's health." That pretty much sums up everything doesn't it.

[@leebumble]

Please could someone tell me just how dangerous it was for the reporter to have been in Yemen?

[@Gooddayforaboxofwine]

looks like Dawn needs to make more commercials

[@MrManasMann]

Stop Buying OIL Simple... Go Green - Save Plants and soil more plants.

[@lukassumper9990]

Yemmen reminds me somehow of Far Cry 4's tibet...

[@miker-tank552]

You can tell the government cares. Perfect example of why we should do everything they say

[@mrfaithandphysics]

We we talk about "trashing our planet" or "soiling the nest"? This is it. And this is just one of a few big ones that we know about. There are more. Many more.

[@MrNashy19]

live up large, dont have children, the world will b a dust bowl soon enough

[@Lve691]

Will this also happen on Santa Barbara?

[@yadilybootsman1]

Ok, is it just me or is the person in the right hand of the screen at 14:36 walking backwards?

[@chriss.9398]

This reminds me of the movie "Big Daddy" with adam sandler.. Where his adopted son would spill things on the floor and instead of cleaning it up he would just put newspapers on top of it to cover it up lol. Its sad to think that a multi billion dollar company has the same strategy as a dumb character played by adam sandler.

[@panthermartin7784]

Oohhh course nobody had a problem with the BP cold cash before the blow out ....

[@glenncurtis5071]

Excellent episode!

[@traviswhisman3231]

So how does one get to that gun bazaar? For educational purposes.

[@Jheyliger01]

It's super sad, why doesn't Vice do a series on the big players and government in the game? A lot of these big disasters seem to be on purpose because they can get money through other roots of the system. Like health and treatments cost, that thousands of people will have to go through. It just seems like when the big guys fuck up on a deal they use events like this to pay back debts from bad deals or maybe just for kicks and giggles. (just saying)