Environment

The Rockefeller family, an unfathomably wealthy banking and oil dynasty, has been hijacking governments, media organizations, universities, non-profits, and other power centers to expand its control over the economy and the energy sector in particular, according to a recently released investigation by a watchdog group. The Rockefeller dynasty has largely created, bankrolled, and weaponized what is known as the “green” movement “as a means to expand their empire over the past three decades,” the report found.

Submitted by Dave Forest via OilPrice.com,

With 2016 now closed out, we’re getting the first looks at year-end data. And numbers from one nation in the energy space have been particularly eye-catching this week.

Russia.

Over the last 15 years, Russia vaulted upwards in oil and gas production — challenging for the world’s top producer of crude. A fact that’s especially critical given this big producer is a “rogue” nation that lies outside the purview of OPEC.

Images captured by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft reveal what looks like three huge towers on Mars equally spaced out from one another and symmetrically aligned. The massive structures were spotted in the Terra Meridiani area of Mars located just south of the equator where surface material appear to be constantly in the process of getting stripped away. The towers appear to be artificial and laid out in the same pattern as the famous Giza pyramids of Egypt. The Daily Sheeple reports: Here’s yet another curious find on the surface of the red planet.

Update: sure enough, here comes Trump's twitter victory lap:

"@DanScavino: Ford to scrap Mexico plant, invest in Michigan due to Trump policies"https://t.co/137nUo03Gl

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

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The following dramatic time-lapse video, shows a wall of toxic smog rolling into Beijing over a 20-minute period collapsed into a 10 second video; it gives a glimpse of the pollution problem in China's capital city. Chas Pope, a British engineering consultant working in Beijing, shot the video.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/embed