Pipelines

Frozen Conflict

Flimmaker Josh Fox poses for a portrait to promote the film, “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change”, during the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
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Long term readers here were aware in 2011 that there had been multiple meltdowns at Fukushima.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., points to a chart as he questions Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, during Pruitt’s confirmation hearing before the committee. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
(ANALYSIS) — “Environmentalism is out of control.”

Trucks haul contaminated soil and snow away from the site of a diesel fuel spill Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, after a pipeline owned by Magellan Midstream Partners broke near Hanlontown, Iowa, on Wednesday. (Chris Zoeller /AP)

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his recent video “Syria, Assassinations, Wikileaks & the West: The Big Plan Exposed.” We talk about the larger agenda behind NATO’s proxy wars in Libya and Syria and the Anglo-American imperial strategy to destabilize nations.

President Donald Trump shows off his signature on an executive order about the Dakota Access pipeline, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

I’ve been trying to keep tabs on the Cyprus talks. It’s not easy, time constraints etc., It seems to me that Cyprus is being used to provoke Turkey. The media here is pushing the usual “bad Turkey” meme.  That’s not exactly the case. I’ll shed some light on that fact!With one qualifier- I worry for the people, on that beautiful island, what lengths the UK and Greece will go to to further provoke Turkey. Frightening.For more background read the relinked post from earlier in the week. That tiny island has an oversized importance in the region

JPA behind the scenes peek into some wranglings over resource control. Share some thoughts?

Yes, they did! They made a deal on Aleppo and they carried it through to it’s conclusion.