{"id":1683,"date":"2008-01-22T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2008-02-12T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T15:29:38","slug":"and-you-thought-haliburton-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/and-you-thought-haliburton-was-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"And you thought Haliburton was bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than wait until after the elections, Serbia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/22\/business\/22serbgasFW.php\">already signed<\/a> that gas pipeline deal with Russia, effectively scuppering the EU-backed alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re going to end up with a president of Russia, Medvedev, who&#8217;ll not only be the former head of Gazprom (the company that controls 97% of Russia&#8217;s vast gas reserves, and has shown no compunction about using threats of supply cut-offs to gain political advantage &#8211; or to act on them) but also have complete dominance of the supply chain through to continental Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1682\">Time for Europe to say bye bye to independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than wait until after the elections, Serbia&#8217;s already signed that gas pipeline deal with Russia, effectively scuppering the EU-backed alternative. Now we&#8217;re going to end up with a president of Russia, Medvedev, who&#8217;ll not only be the former head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/and-you-thought-haliburton-was-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[40,38,190],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-balkans","tag-energy","tag-russia","tag-the-balkans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}