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Our industry is now facing huge challenges along multiple fronts and these threaten our investment potential now and in the longer term. To put it bluntly, the oil and gas industry is under siege.In December 2018 for the first time in 75 years, the United States became a net oil exporter. But once imposter Biden took over in January 2021, his first day in office he revoked construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and is now in the process of illegally depleting America's strategic oil reserve, sending it to places like China. The Biden crime show has been demanding, then begging OPEC to boost production. OPEC's answer: "if you want more oil, pump it yourself." Meanwhile, UAE and Saudi leaders snubbed Uncle Joe, refusing to either take his calls or host his visit. Within just hours after the OPEC head's final words making it clear that continued oil and gas development is absolutely essential over the long haul, amidst the elite's rush for the world to run on alternative green fuel sources, the 63-year old Nigerian OPEC leader in previous good health suddenly wound up suspiciously dead.
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Rear Admiral Christopher John Parry told Newsnight the programme aired 'serious allegations' that 'need to be investigated if there's new evidence'."The Guardian wrote:
The government closed down its investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, known as Operation Northmoor, before any soldier was prosecuted. But the BBC's Panorama has unearthed shocking evidence that Britain's special forces executed detainees and murdered unarmed people in cold blood in Afghanistan.
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In 2014, the RMP launched Northmoor, a wide-ranging investigation into 675 criminal allegations in Afghanistan, including a number of killings by the SAS squadron. Six years later, Northmoor was shut down. No UK soldier faced prosecution. But investigators told the BBC that they were obstructed by British military in their efforts to gather evidence - which may explain why there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone. At the time Johnny Mercer, the minister for veterans' affairs, blamed human rights lawyers for bringing claims against the Ministry of Defence. The allegations of death and deceit never went away. Rather than deal with the message, the MoD has shot the messenger, claiming the BBC reached "unjustified" conclusions.
There is prima facie evidence that Britain's soldiers have committed war crimes in Afghanistan. This is unsurprising, given that in 2020 the international criminal court found evidence that British troops committed war crimes in Iraq. The MoD breathed a sigh of relief back then as the ICC declined to prosecute. But it ill behoves the country to reserve justice only for its enemies. Attempts to prosecute claims in the courts have engendered a hostile environment for legal redress. The UK government tried to make it almost impossible to prosecute war crimes with legislation last year. Labour did not do enough to oppose that bill. Despite a history of championing the laws of war, the UK has been reluctant to prosecute its own personnel. This suggests British ministers think foreign lives don't matter. Other nations have faced up to the brutal fact that their soldiers committed atrocities. The first step to doing so would be for Britain, like Australia, to set up a statutory judge-led inquiry into war crimes.
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