See also: US Crude Oil Production On-Target for All-Time Record in Early 2016 There! A person in the know has finally said it. Fracking is a game-changer in world politics, depriving Russia and the Islamic world of their greatest strategic asset, control of the oil and gas necessary to the prosperity of advanced countries and the survival itself of the poor. So it would make perfect sense for these forces to oppose fracking on any grounds possible, including the use of environmental groups as cat’s paws. Now, the Secretary-General of NATO has come out and said outright that this is indeed the case with Russia. James Edgar of the UK Telegraph reports: Russia is secretly working with environmental groups campaigning against fracking in an attempt to maintain Europe's dependence on energy imports from Moscow, the secretary-general of Nato has said. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign affairs think-tank in London, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia was mounting...(Read Full Post)