The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 4th May 2017

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1. This could happen in NZ as fracking for oil progresses.

   http://wakingtimesmedia.com/buffalo-pipeline-leaks-19000-gallons-crude-oil-farmland-oklahoma/?utm_source=Waking+Times+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ed06656323-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_25f1e048c1-ed06656323-54537521

   ENVIRONMENT
   Buffalo Pipeline Leaks 19,000 Gallons of Crude Oil on Farmland in Oklahoma

   ByWaking Times Media
   Posted on May 1, 2017

   Wheat farmer and cattle rancher Steve Pope told local TV station KFOR that he has lost an estimated 120 acres of pasture and wheat crop from the spill.

   Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
   Waking Times Media

   The Buffalo Pipeline, owned by Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., leaked approximately 450 barrels, or roughly 18,900 gallons, of crude oil onto farmland in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma last week.

   Wheat farmer and cattle rancher Steve Pope told local TV station KFOR that he has lost an estimated 120 acres of pasture and wheat crop from the spill.

   1. it certainly could have happened under TPPA… NZers would have had very little environmental protection or environmental say so under TPPA

      …one thing we have Donald Trump to thank for….he killed TPPA!…lets hope it is not resurrected

2. ‘Assange brands Clinton ‘butcher of Libya’ & requests Sweden scrap detention order’

   https://www.rt.com/news/386982-assange-clinton-butcher-libya/

   …and

   ‘100 days’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/386700-100-days-trump-president/

   “A lack of clarity combined with heightened global tensions. One hundred days in, Donald Trump’s presidency has stunned, disappointed, and even befuddled many, if not most. Watching the US president in action has turned into a spectator sport.

   CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich, Mark Sleboda, and Nicolai Petro”

3. ‘US intel agencies deliberately sank Flynn, don’t care about national security – ex-CIA officer’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/378702-trump-media-cia-influence/

   “There’s a war in Washington – Donald Trump is facing a conflict not just with the media, but also with his own intelligence community.

   Now that the military lobby is infiltrating positions of power, and as the CIA struggles to get its influence back, what kind of shift are we going to see in the corridors of power? Will the intelligence community keep leaking data, or will they rally behind the new leader?

   We ask former CIA intelligence officer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit – Michael Scheuer…

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