{"id":7032,"date":"2015-04-02T05:49:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2015-04-02T05:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:49:46","slug":"germanys-merkel-comes-out-as-basically-a-u-s-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7032","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Merkel Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/germanys-merkel-comes-basically-u-s-agent.html\" target=\"_blank\">Germany\u2019s Merkel Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Wednesday, April 1st, German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s cabinet approved a measure to bring fracking (the patents for which are owned mainly by\u00a0<a title=\"\u201clarge American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2014\/may\/fracking-patents.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201clarge American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger\u201d<\/span><\/a>) into Germany. This is a prelude not only to U.S. President\u00a0<a title=\"Obama\u2019s secret Trans-Atlantic Trade &amp;amp; Investment Partnership (TTIP) pact with Europe to subordinate national laws and regulations to trans-national mega-corporate panels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/zuesse230215.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">Obama\u2019s secret Trans-Atlantic Trade &amp; Investment Partnership (TTIP) pact with Europe to subordinate national laws and regulations to trans-national mega-corporate panels<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that will be dominated by U.S. firms and that will override the participating nations\u2019 environmental and labor regulations and consumer protections (<a title=\"and harm European economies generally\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/obamas-ttip-trade-deal-w-europe-disastrous-europe-says-first-independent-study.html\"><span class=\"s2\">and harm European economies generally<\/span><\/a>), but it is also a major step toward removing Europe from Russia\u2019s energy-market, and bringing U.S. and European oil companies to dominate there instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\"><i>German Economic News<\/i>\u00a0headlined on April 1st,\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cPrecursor to TTIP: Federal Government&amp;nbsp;brings Fracking to Germany,\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/2015\/04\/01\/vorstufe-zum-ttip-bundesregierung-bringt-fracking-nach-deutschland\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cPrecursor to TTIP: Federal Government\u00a0brings Fracking to Germany,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The controversial shale gas extraction (fracking) process is coming to Germany: In order not to provoke excessively large protests at home, the federal government highlighted that fracking is initially allowed only for testing purposes. But in fact, the draft law of the Federal Environment and the Federal Ministry of\u00a0Economics, approved today by the the Cabinet, also allows subsequent large-scale extraction of shale gas\u2026.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>The American interest in a\u00a0continuing conflict simmering in Ukraine also causes Europeans to fear that Russian gas could stop and\u00a0thus drive Europe\u00a0to\u00a0give up our still considerable resistance against fracking.\u00a0Some US politicians have personal interests, such as the\u00a0US Vice\u00a0President Biden, whose son works for a Ukrainian fracking company.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s Merkel Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent On Wednesday, April 1st, German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s cabinet approved a measure to bring fracking (the patents for which are owned mainly by\u00a0\u201clarge American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger\u201d) into Germany. This is a prelude not only to U.S. President\u00a0Obama\u2019s secret Trans-Atlantic Trade &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[1890,281,331,412,722,723,4570,1132],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-angela-merkel","tag-europe","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-shale-gas","tag-shale-oil","tag-trans-atlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership","tag-ttip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}