The report to the UN Security Council said bombings and assassinations have soared in the past four months amid ramped-up military operations in the Taliban-dominated south.
The number of attacks involving improvised explosive devices increased by 94 per cent over the same period in 2009, while
rose by 45 per cent.
Dudley, who was raised in Mississippi and currently oversees BP operations in the Americas and Asia, will take over daily operations related to closing the leak at BP's oil well off the coast of Louisiana, company chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Sky News in an interview.
BP CEO Tony Hayward, centre, managing director Bob Dudley, right, and BP America Inc. chair Lamar McKay leave their meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday. (Jim Young/Reuters) The company had already announced June 4 that Dudley would lead the long-term response to the oil spill once the leak had been stopped.
Svanberg's statement appeared to accelerate that timeline, as millions of litres of crude continue to gush into the Gulf.
"[Hayward] has been out there for eight weeks, and he is now handing over the … daily operations to Bob Dudley, and he will be more home [the U.K.] and be there and be here," Svanberg told Sky News.
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brazeau boy wrote:Posted 2010/06/19
at 9:17 AM ETGood political move. Put a U.S. citizen in charge and that should appease the British who are getting quite perturbed by the way the U.S. politicians are playing their cards.
It is typical U.S.( I do not use the word Americans because we are all Americans, from the north of Canada to the south of Argentina) hypocrisy to over emphasize blame when it is towards another nation.
U.S. oil piggies are in the process of making one of the world's worst environmental disasters in Alberta, but that is OK with them. They get cheap gasoline and the mess does not affect them.
They have exploited countries throughout the world for oil, but that is alright with them, as long as they get their cheap gasoline.
The people in the States seem to thrive on putting other nations down and have no idea of what their own nation has done or is doing on the global stage.
dazhbog wrote:Posted 2010/06/19
at 5:26 AM ET
This was always bound to happen due to 2 large issues. The Oil lobby in washigton is huge just look at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Lobby or google it if needs be. What do you get when the energy compaies are splashing cash at policy makers? You get regulations for an industry thats members are the worst poulluters in the country and some of the largest cash donors to the ruling elite and you get lax regulations for that industry. Regluations cost money costs reduce the bottom line. You have Transnational corporations in charge of these industries and there total focus is not going to be on saftey but on the bottom line. Eventually with this kind of structure in place events like this will be figured into their cash flow forecasts and with the size of their profits, become just another cost of doing business. Ceretain areas should never be run by the private sector becaus they will always be driven by the bottom line. Energy, Raw Materials,Defence, Communications, Transport & Infrastucture should be run for the benefit of the people by the people. I am not a communist I belive in free enterprise and the free market but these disasters keep hapening and they keep getting bigger. The market should be restricted to value added activities, like manufacturing, refining, construction, retail, teritary activities etc. We must start to curb the influence of these TNC's and allow local business to run the local economies these businesses operate in the community and are situated there hopefully less likely to play fast and loose in their own home. Economic localisation is a start in the right direction. TNC's have to much power and influence and in this day and age money is power.
Russia has begun its previously stated plan to buy Canadian dollars, adding credence to the loonie's status as a second-tier reserve currency.
Russia has been adding loonies to its vast foreign currency reserves. (Canadian Press) "We have added the Canadian dollar but haven't yet begun operations [with the currency]," said Alexei Ulyukayev, deputy chairman of Russia's central bank, Bank Rossii, was quoted as saying in Moscow on Tuesday by Bloomberg.
Environmentalism may be the world's fastest- growing religion.
If even half the sins exposed in "Climate Cover-Up" are true (and I suspect more than half are), the contrarian camp has some serious penance to deal with. However, the authors imply that such conditions (like Big Energy funding, shaky credentials and Orwellian language games) make the contrarian position a weak one. Note, though, such arguments go both ways. Volumes have been written wedding the same faults to the "consensus" position.
But some of these foibles, as identified by "Climategate" for instance, are actually defended or mitigated by "Climate Cover-Up" and DeSmogBlog. And, what about funding? Because "Climate Cover-Up" looks at Big Energy as something akin to inherent evil, Big Energy's money is dirty. However, its contributions to its causes are quite small by comparison with that of say "Big Government" largesse, which "Climate Cover-Up" seems to favor, at least when it comes to IPCC research and forcing people to cut their carbon emissions.
Regarding the IPCC, note that its role is "to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation." Thus, as Mr. Gore has referenced Upton Sinclair's quote, so do his disciples in "Climate Cover-Up," proclaiming "It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on him not understanding it."
We can prophesize stepped-up and even more-bizarre PR spins in hyperdrive for impertinent skeptics of the consensus view.
The exit of governments from the renewable subsidy field follows a collapse in public support for the theory that manmade global warming is a serious problem. Because the public no longer buys it, the politicians no longer fund it.
( There's an entry from the department of wishful thinking. Because the governments are broke is at least as plausible : else all these stories of global economic crisis are wasted on the unemployed. )
I am Professor of Climate Change in the
School of Environmental Sciences at the
University of East Anglia (UEA). My work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. I believe it is important to understand and describe the varied ideological, political and ethical work that the idea of climate change is currently performing across different social worlds.
My
research interests are therefore concerned with
representations of climate change in history, culture and the media; with how knowledge of climate change is constructed (especially through the IPCC) and the interactions between climate change knowledge and policy; and with the
construction, application and evaluation of climate scenarios for impacts, adaptation and integrated assessments.* I welcome approaches from graduate students seeking to
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I was the founding Director (2000-2007) of the
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. A longer bio and full CV – including a statement of my financial interests and research funders – can be found
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a personal statement about climate change.
( * There's where the 'rubber meets the road.' In fact, 'denialism' mostly disputes the position that reliable/provable projections are achievable from analysis which simplifies the situation down to available informational data, techniques and theories. Nor is there a reliable arbiter of when or if such much might be achieved. )
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Utah firing squad executes U.S. killer
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/18/utah-death-row.html
A U.S. man who spent 25 years on death row was executed early Friday by firing squad, the Utah Department of Corrections says.
Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, was the first person to be executed by firing squad in 14 years in the United States.
He was convicted of murder in 1985 for killing lawyer Michael Buddell during a failed attempt to escape a courthouse in which he was being tried on another murder charge.
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