Here's one for all those "experts" who were telling us for 50 years that North Sea oil (and gas) would run out "before the end of the century". By the way, they meant the end of the last century.

In a key example of how new technology and new discoveries just keep 'right-on-a-comin' however a new North Sea oil boom is taking place.

For the full published article at Energy Tribune go here.

The above title is my latest article just published here by Troy Media (Canada). Here's an excerpt:

Is it the irony of ironies? While ‘socialist’ Europe increasingly adopts economic austerity measures, the Obama White House continues to pursue a diametrically opposed economic trajectory, taking ‘capitalist’ America further down the path of Keynesian high public spending and further market intervention.  

As Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the president’s debt and deficit commission, was calling the current US budgetary trends a “fiscal cancer” that “will destroy the country from within”, the major EU economies were queuing up to raise taxes and pull the plug on national public spending programs.

Also did a 10-minute radio interview this afternoon for the Gary Doyle Show on something called 570News in Canada based on my previous piece 'BP and Union Carbide: A Tale of Two Moralities" (see Articles).

This photograph was featured in today's Daily Telegraph "Planck telescope reveal universe image".  According to this accompanying article, it purports to be the first ever picture of the entire universe.

Wow. Shows what I know. Thought they'd discovered a missing Marc Chagall.

Fascinating. But it does throw up a number of questions not answered in the article. 1. Where was the photographer standing? 2. How did he/she get up a flash to work from that distance? 3. Should there be a close examination of his/her expenses form when lodged?

Oh look! That's me, just right of centre! I'm standing waving one of my neighbour Tim's burnt sausages at his weekend barbecue. 

And a few more things.

Just how do we know this is a picture of the right universe?  It could be any old universe. And where's Blake's naked bearded chappie...you know, the one that points his finger at the universe?

See what I mean  the veracity of the press? You have to keep a close eye on them - otherwise they'll just think we're thick as two short plancks.

And great to know the pic was care of the European Space Agency, too. Good to know the EU is putting our taxes to such productive use.   

A second, and very different version (with co-writer Michael Economides this one) of the story in the previous post. This - as titled above - published at Energy Tribune.com

Here's a taster (for those that an extra click (above) is just a click too far:

Even before Wednesday’s White House summit with BP executives, BP directors had taken the decision not to pay out shareholder dividends this year and to put in $20 billion to a compensation fund. In the light of the president eliciting a prior commitment from BP to apparently unlimited liability, the Daily Mail declared the TV address a “day of BP-bashing” by a president who “bullied the firm into capitulation.” Even the strongly leftwing Guardian saw BP’s $20 billion compensation fund as Obama’s “pound of flesh.”

The Daily Telegraph saw the TV speech through the eyes of “83,000 Twitter and Facebook comments made during and after the speech”. The Telegraph headline claimed users were “not impressed” in the aftermath of the address.

Speaking the day after President Obama’s speech, Prime Minister David Cameron made it clear that BP should not be exposed to a string of lawsuits from individuals and from the states and, in effect, to “unlimited damages.” Cameron said, “BP is an important company. It is an important company for people’s pensions, it employs thousands of people in the UK and it pays a lot of tax.” He could easily have added, “It is important for Americans, too,” given that 40% of BP shareholders live in the US.

But perhaps the most telling press reference was in the UK’s The Week magazine (June 19, 2010) which alluded to an Indian press article (in The Outlook, New Delhi) demanding: “How dare the Americans bleat about BP?” Both articles focused on the moral outrage still being felt by the people of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, 26 years after the Bhopal chemical disaster. In particular, the abject failure of fire-breathing US politicians and press moralists to feel a similar outrage over their plight as perpetrated by a US company on their soil; a humanitarian scale way beyond that being experienced in the Gulf of Mexico.

Any Brits fed up with the anti-British sentiment and general BP-bashing currently eminating from some US rage-aholics might like to read this piece from me just published here over at Troy Media.

At the very least, it might make some of my English friends feel just a bit better about their 'homegrown talent' after yesterday's ignominous defeat to Germany in South Africa.

Rubbishing your Commander-in-Chief and his close aides in public is rarely the best strategy. Sadly, General Stanley McChrsytal will, today, no doubt get his "marching orders" from the Afghan theatre.

Shame. McChrystal is clearly a fine soldier and leader. The allied side in the Afghan theatre of war will be the loser.

But one cannot help but wonder whether the loss of the actual US Commander-in-Chief President Obama himself would be felt as keenly? I have no doubt it would - but for a whole bunch of positive reasons. In an age when speaking the truth publicly is becoming increasingly difficult to do - especially if you want to keep your job - a man needs to have "options".

I therefore have a suggestion. If the 'unemployed' Stanley might care to go into politics and stand against any of the crew of the Chicago-mafia 'close aides' (bar Robert Gates) that currently run the White House administration, my guess is victory would be assured.

Here's a piece by the excellent Michael Barone of the Washington Examiner on the whole incident and how it might make "kick ass" Obama start providing real leadership "whether he likes it or not".

Sorry Michael, but (as I suspect you know), never gonna happen.

While the world and his brother watch BP's oil spill in the north Atlantic, we Brits have struck oil in the south Atlantic - which should interest the Argies.

For more on the dramatic implications and some facinating investor matters click here to read the whole article just published over at Energy Tribune. Also published at Troy Media on June 17.

If you believe the Turkish flotilla being touted by the gullible mass media as 'humanitarian' was ill-served by being boarded for security checks by Israeli commandoes yesterday, you ought to grasp what is really going on here.

As Andrew McCarthy's new book The Grand Jihad reveals, Hamas - a terrorist organisation that refuses to recognise the right of Israel to exist, is committed to murdering Jews and to Israel's destruction - controls ALL of the 'humanitarian' aid in to Gaza, distributing to its cronies as it sees fit. 

Humanitarian aid has long been a cover for smuggling arms into Gaza; arms that end up being used against Israel. As I have said before, there is a price to voting in a terrorist government in Gaza and that is that the government ought to be treated as what it is: a terrorist-sponsoring government.  Given the facts, wjat on earth does the world expect Israel to do, other than thoroughly check out every alleged humanitarian cargo?

What happened aboard the flotilla off the Gazan coast was that the pro-Palestinian activists (odd how they often turn out to be thugs?) in numbers ambushed the Israelis sent to clear their 'innocent' cargo. Guns or no guns, being outnumbered and with their lives were at stake the Israeli commandoes did what any of us would have done in similar circumstances. What is the difference between someone trying to kill with a gun or with an iron bar or knife?

Here's yesterday's blog (for more go here) from McCarthy linking the revelations in his book to what happened at the flotilla yesterday.

Before the confrontation on the Mediterranean, Palestinian political scientist Talal Okal told the Christian Science Monitor that Hamas controls anything that comes in from the relief efforts. Hamas activists were even seen driving ambulances the convoy left behind:

"They want to show that they dominate everything, and that everything in Gaza passes under their eyes. So, if these boats arrive, Hamas will receive it [the aid] and distribute it how they want, to their supporters and according to their policies."

With that in mind, Israel's concern that the flotilla might carry goods Hamas could use in weapons and explosives isn't so far-fetched.

The "world" can be as pompously self-righteous as it likes over this incident, but facts are facts. One can only wonder at what else Israel is supposed to do to stop its terrorist neighbours behave like decent human beings?

If we ever wanted to stick a thermometer between the buttocks of our ailing civilisation, TV would be the place to do it.

And what do we learn? That our values have sunk so low TV is about to circumvent the advertising laws and allow its first 'come and have an abortion' ad. Telegraph journalist Ed West rights a fine piece on this development here on his blog. Foetus, by the way, is only the Latin word for 'baby'. It is amazing how people will go out of their way to deny that an unborn baby in the womb is a baby. Yet how often do you hear a mother-to-be declare excitedly, "I'm having a baby" or "Put your hand here and feel the baby kick!"

At what stage then does that 'baby' become a foetus extaclty, in common parlance, that is?

Did you know also that Brits are all contributing to this silent holocaust? Here's an excerpt from West's piece:

Almost 90 per cent of social abortions carried out on healthy foetuses in Britain are paid for by the taxpayers, as are the majority of Marie Stopes’ operations, which is why they are now able to advertise on television (on a taxpayer-subsidised station to boot).

It’s good to know that, while we face the “demographic timebomb” of an ageing population and a shrinking base of taxpayers, those same taxpayers are paying to cull the next generation out of their dwindling supply of money. Future historians will marvel at the European social model.

Pro-abortionists should do what Michael Caine's character in Alfie did...see what it means to 'dismantle' (no other word is suitable) a perfectly formed child in the womb by tearing off its arms and legs (which is what actually happens). Pro-abortionists need to live in the real world.

Women's rights are one thing. But so to are the rights of someone far smaller who is incredibly vulnerable and needs someone to speak up and protect him-her. Wouldn't you say?

The new Con-Lib Dim (sic) coalition has a real conundrum - not helped by virtue of giving the energy-climate brief to an anti-nuclear activist and Europhile (Chris Huhne).

Here's the conundrum in a nutshell: Britain has to replace its aging power stations - and fast. At the same time, the EU is insisting we close some early to cut CO2 emissions. If we do that, Britain is headed, in around four or five years (election time) for a period of major power blackouts across the country. There's a power gap in our energy plans that could easily see blackouts in the UK for the first time since 1973.

And just for good measure, did you know that four of the six power providers in the UK are keeping their prices artificially high while keeping them lower in the country from which they hail? In other words, Brits are subsidising European energy users.

For the full story and for Cameron's stark choice go to my article Britain's Power Conundrum published today at Energy Tribune. Also run out at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Canada Free Press.

Though a 'real conservative' in exile (UKIP member) I still genuinely wish David Cameron and his team (especially the impressive William Hague) well.

Let's face it, after what Brown has done in turning is into more of a handout culture nation, the cast of Looney Tunes would be preferable.

Though I see David Cameron as 'Conservative-lite' it is easy to understand that his personal likeability could just make the new arrangement in British politics work, at least for a while. It is good to hear that the new coalition will restate the UK's commitment NOT to join the (doomed) Euro, to keep an independent nuclear deterrent and cut £6 billion from public spending (lunatically out of control currently) and cap non-EU immigration (although EU immigration needs capping too).

Though I do lament the ditching of policies to give tax credits to married couples (a sop to Lib Dim amoral values) and to up the inheritance tax threshold (pure theft by any standards).

Even so, for us all in these isles, it is a new political experience. Could be fun. One thing's for sure, we are no longer run by a man who beleives that a woman raising the issue of "uncapped immigration" and the loss of our border controls as a "bigoted woman". I doubt if even a conservative-lite Cameron could ever be that arrogant or out of touch with real life.

I really don't mean this in any demeaning way, but why is it that whenever I think of David Cameron...'Tweedie-Pie' comes to mind?

So here is a first look at the newly designed cover for our book Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate (Continuum Books).

What think ye? Personally, I like it.

Should any of you, thrilled at the sight of such well-creafted artistry be so moved as to want to have (and lovingly hold) a book that spells out the facts - debunking the speculation - about the vital energy and climate basics, then here it is!

For the chapter headings, (glowing!) endorsements and to buy go here (UK) or here (US). 

A trip to see 'Robin Hood' probably meant taking a London tour and stopping off to see 10 Downing Street a few weeks ago. You remember the Brown Man, don't you?

He's the man who robbed just about everyone in the country (including plundering their pension funds and sold off the nation's - that's our - gold reserves at rock-bottom prices) and gave the proceeds, via the handout culture, to the nation's economic migrants and assorted layabouts.

Anyway, I am genuinely off, with our neighbours, to see the marvellous Russell Crowe do his 'Robin' thing this weekend. I'll let you know how Little Dave and Nick Scarlett get on...once they've finally ousted the Sherriff of Bigoted-ham and Prudence from from their current home.

Don't you just love tells of yore, where the villain FINALLY gets his comeuppance?

As an energy writer I was intrigued by this. It seems that BP "may stem the oil using golf balls". If they go down to my local club they'll find more than enough from the ones I lost from two rounds a couple of weeks ago. 

As Tesco put it: "Every little helps". 

Brown, awaits pensively at No 10 as Cameron and Clegg attempt to sack him I've been quiet during the election for one good reason. I've been in Greece (northern not Athens avoiding the baseball bats) soaking up the sun and only got back Sunday just avoiding the volcanic ash.

No reason not to be out of the country during this particular election of course - given its pointlessness. Not that I failed to vote (postal vote).

In fact, I voted (as all real conservatives should) with the almost 1 million others who went with the UKIP (along, it seems, with my entire family) and making it the fourth largest supported party in the country. (The UKIP blew away the Greens, BNP and other assorted flotsam.)

Having returned to Albion however, what do I find? I find that the 3 stooges (Cameron, Clegg and Brown) are still discussing who is to become the new PM - Point Man, that is, for the European Union.