I've looked into this before and while there are some intriguing questions it also has to said these alternative theories sometimes have the discreet backing of established oil corporations, ie. any way to sow doubt to stave off finding new energy thus causing their decline. So some entertaining -whatifs- but always look hard at the provenance. Some more open and independent research is needed.
However for lots of reasons oil based economies are bad for the environment and bad geopolitically, regardless of where it comes from better (and more democratically de-centralised) ways of producing energy are required. Although bacterial production in your back yard would require leaps in tech to use it with less polluting results. We will need oil for plastics for ages but it would be better to stop its fuel use as soon as possible.

There aren't any-
Hicham was prepared to contest immigration charges in a court of law, and had a hearing date set for 16th July. The immigration services have since announced that they have dropped charges and intend to deport him on Sunday 1st June. Consequently he has been denied the right to a hearing.

Hich’s MP, Alan Simpson, has written to Liam Byrne Minister of State for Borders and Immigration to express his concerns at what he decribed as an “arbitrary deportation with no right to a proper hearing.” Nick Palmer, MP for Broxtowe said, “I hope that Mr Yezza will have his case fully and fairly considered without any rush to deport him before all the facts are clear.”

http://freehichamyezza.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/press-release-26th-may/#more-20

Thanks for posting on this Cory.
Hicham Yezza known as Hich is the staff member who was rearrested and they are trying to rush through a deportation order before he gets a hearing ie they are attempting to deny legal process.

"Hicham has been resident in the U.K. for 13 years, during which time he has studied for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Nottingham. He is an active member of debating societies, a prominent member of an arts and theatre group, and has written for, and edited, Ceasefire, the Nottingham Student Peace Movement magazine for the last five years."

During the police questioning they spent a lot of time fishing for information on anti-war activists.

"It is worth noticing that in talking to one of my colleagues, a police officer remarked that the incident would never have occurred if the persons involved had been “blonde, Swedish PhD students” (the two men were of British-Pakistani and Algerian backgrounds respectively)."

More here-
http://freehichamyezza.wordpress.com/
or at my blog.

And if you fancy being a dangerous terrorist too here's the US govt. website and the document in question-
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/manualpart1_1.pdf

If you think there is an once of legitimacy to this farrago then I suggest you aquaint yourselves with the facts of this case before making a further fool of yourself.

So the Hela line of human zombie tumour cells is a spring chicken by comparison!

Many millions of people have endured famine and there have been no apocalyptic outbreaks of cannibalism. Apparently that experience does not register for a white wealthy man in America. Sort of explains a lot.

I agree with your characterisation a fine artifact of a good project but...it was very expensive, I saved for a year to buy a ZX Spectrum which was half the price (48 whole K! Blimey!), there was no way me or my family could afford a BBC micro. So bettering Britain... for those who could afford it, very much in keeping with Thatcher's 80's. An early manifestation of a digital divide of sorts.

Congratulations!

This story is quite old, better article and some history
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237
Which appears to be the 'basis' of Jone's wanky article (ahem).
If something is as person's favourite work then I would expect them to know its real history and acknowledge the difference between that and their personal interpretation. I think it does relate to the 'reality based community' meme and the religious preference for faith over reason or facts.

Internet archive:
http://ia360609.us.archive.org/3/items/NO2IDIDUKCoercion/NIS_Options_Analysis_Outcome.pdf

The company also offer a UFO detector-

http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-UFO-02-Detector/dp/B000FVUKKO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1196487991&sr=1-5

which perhaps connects to the need for an anal douche.

Thanks for covering this Xeni, worldwide attention may just stay SLORC's hand.

The submission to violent authority & identification with it displayed by some comments here shows the American police state may be politically debatable but psychologically it has already succesfully colonised some psyches. Still, makes fiddling elections easier and wars. Mmmmm, authoritarianism.