OIL: What Obama has to learn from Thatcher
By The Anglo American | July 17, 2010
The Piper Alpha Memorial, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Deep sea oil drilling can be safe. You only have to look at Britain’s North Sea today to know this. Britain has exploited its oil and gas reserves in the North Sea for over 50 years. But that was not always the case. It took the tragic loss of 167 lives before safety caught up with risk. That and a British Prime Minister who, was less concerned with politics, and squarely focused on solutions.
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BP Oil Spill and the Failed Federal Response Raises the Ghost of Katrina
By The Anglo American | July 13, 2010
BP’s high risk 18ft “three ram capping stack”. BP’s senior Vice President, Kent Wells said “hope and pray.”
US news media reporting from the Gulf is, sadly, disappointing. Their collective failure was never to move beyond being ciphers for a finger-pointing President. Perhaps the word “anchor” is more closely linked to the marine deadweight than all the US news organizations could have realized. All, that is, except one……….
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BP and The Man Who Broke It
By The Anglo American | July 8, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon
No, it is not Tony Haywood, the most vilified man in America. It is now apparent that he is taking the bullet for someone else. That man is Lord Browne, the previous, discredited CEO of BP. And it can now be seen that his tenure as CEO has wrecked the company.
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CIA Guantanamo Bay Intelligence To Be Published in Britain
By The Anglo American | October 20, 2009
The British High Court has rejected the British Government’s argument not to publish sensitive CIA intelligence, but sensitive to who?
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, was an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. US Intelligence links Mr. Mohamed with the Taliban and was detained in Pakistan in 2002. But Mr. Mohamed says he was innocent and that the only evidence against him was obtained from him when he was tortured. Read the rest of this entry »
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! Topics: News | No Comments » By The Anglo American | October 15, 2009 Fitch, the credit ratings agency sees the stabilization of British House prices as a false dawn. The Agency predicts house prices will drop at least 30 % from the 2007 highs. So far prices have dropped just 13%. The Agency’s report focuses on the debts of British house builders’ debts of over $11 Billion that mature in 2011/2012. Read the rest of this entry »
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! Topics: News | No Comments » By The Anglo American | October 11, 2009 Gary McKinnon will not be allowed to appeal against his extradition to the United States. McKinnon, 41, finds himself a victim of imbalanced law between the United States and the UK. President Bush and the, then Prime Minster, Tony Blair agreed a mutual extradition treaty to allow speedy trial of terrorists. While Blair could easily force through such legislation, and did so, he overlooked that it was not in the President’s powers to deliver his side of the agreement. Read the rest of this entry »
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Autistic Pentagon Hacker faces Extradition to US.
Gary McKinnon
