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Washington’s “Two Track Policy” to Latin America: Marines to Central America and Diplomats to Cuba
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Everyone, from political pundits in Washington to the Pope in Rome, including most journalists in the mass media and in the alternative press, have focused on the US moves toward ending the economic blockade of Cuba and gradually opening diplomatic relations. Talk is rife of a ‘major shift’ in US policy toward Latin America with the emphasis on diplomacyand reconciliation. Even most progressive writers and journals have ceased writing about US imperialism.
However, there is mounting evidence that Washington’s negotiations with Cuba are merely one part of a two-track policy. There is clearly a major US build-up in Latin America, with increasing reliance on ‘military platforms’, designed to launch direct military interventions in strategic countries.
Moreover, US policymakers are actively involved in promoting ‘client’ opposition parties, movements and personalities to destabilize independent governments and are intent on re-imposing US domination.
In this essay we will start our discussion with the origins and unfolding of this ‘two track’ policy, its current manifestations, and projections into the future. We will conclude by evaluating the possibilities of re-establishing US imperial domination in the region.
Origins of the Two Track Policy
Washington’s pursuit of a ‘two-track policy’, based on combining ‘reformist policies’ toward some political formations, while working to overthrow other regimes and movements by force and military intervention, was practiced by the early Kennedy Administration following the Cuban revolution. Kennedy announced a vast new economic program of aid, loans and investments – dubbed the ‘Alliance for Progress’ – to promote development and social reform in Latin American countries willing to align with the US. At the same time the Kennedy regime escalated US military aid and joint exercises in the region. Kennedy sponsored a large contingent of Special Forces – ‘Green Berets’ – to engage in counter-insurgency warfare. The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was designed to counter the mass appeal of the social-revolutionary changes underway in Cuba with its own program of ‘social reform’. While Kennedy promoted watered-down reforms in Latin America, he launched the ‘secret’ CIA (‘Bay of Pigs’) invasion of Cuba in 1961and naval blockade in 1962 (the so-called ‘missile crises’). The two-track policy ended up sacrificing social reforms and strengthening military repression. By the mid-1970’s the ‘two-tracks’ became one – force. The US invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965. It backed a series of military coups throughout the region, effectively isolating Cuba. As a result, Latin America’s labor force experienced nearly a quarter century of declining living standards.
By the 1980’s US client-dictators had lost their usefulness and Washington once again took up a dual strategy: On one track, the White House wholeheartedly backed their military-client rulers’ neo-liberal agenda and sponsored them as junior partners in Washington’s regional hegemony. On the other track, they promoted a shift to highly controlled electoral politics, which they described as a ‘democratic transition’, in order to ‘decompress’ mass social pressures against its military clients. Washington secured the introduction of elections and promoted client politicians willing to continue the neo-liberal socio-economic framework established by the military regimes.
By the turn of the new century, the cumulative grievances of thirty years of repressive rule, regressive neo-liberal socio-economic policies and the denationalization and privatization of the national patrimony had caused an explosion of mass social discontent. This led to the overthrow and electoral defeat of Washington’s neo-liberal client regimes.
Throughout most of Latin America, mass movements were demanding a break with US-centered ‘integration’ programs. Overt anti-imperialism grew and intensified. The period saw the emergence of numerous center-left governments in Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Honduras and Nicaragua. Beyond the regime changes , world economic forces had altered: growing Asian markets, their demand for Latin American raw materials and the global rise of commodity prices helped to stimulate the development of Latin American-centered regional organizations – outside of Washington’s control.
Washington was still embedded in its 25 year ‘single-track’ policy of backing civil-military authoritarian and imposing neo-liberal policies and was unable to respond and present a reform alternative to the anti-imperialist, center-left challenge to its dominance. Instead, Washington worked to reverse the new party- power configuration. Its overseas agencies, the Agency for International Development (AID), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and embassies worked to destabilize the new governments in Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay and Honduras. The US ‘single-track’ of intervention and destabilization failed throughout the first decade of the new century (with the exception of Honduras and Paraguay.
In the end Washington remained politically isolated. Its integration schemes were rejected. Its market shares in Latin America declined. Washington not only lost its automatic majority in the Organization of American States (OAS), but it became a distinct minority.
Washington’s ‘single track’ policy of relying on the ‘stick’ and holding back on the ‘carrot’ was based on several considerations: The Bush and Obama regimes were deeply influenced by the US’s twenty-five year domination of the region (1975-2000) and the notion that the uprisings and political changes in Latin America in the subsequent decade were ephemeral, vulnerable and easily reversed. Moreover, Washington, accustomed to over a century of economic domination of markets, resources and labor, took for granted that its hegemony was unalterable. The White House failed to recognize the power of China’s growing share of the Latin American market. The State Department ignored the capacity of Latin American governments to integrate their markets and exclude the US.
US State Department officials never moved beyond the discredited neo-liberal doctrine that they had successfully promoted in the 1990’s. The White House failed to adopt a ‘reformist’ turn to counter the appeal of radical reformers like Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President. This was most evident in the Caribbean and the Andean countries where President Chavez launched his two ‘alliances for progress’: ‘Petro-Caribe’ (Venezuela’s program of supplying cheap, heavily subsidized, fuel to poor Central American and Caribbean countries and heating oil to poor neighborhoods in the US) and ‘ALBA’ (Chavez’ political-economic union of Andean states, plus Cuba and Nicaragua, designed to promote regional political solidarity and economic ties.) Both programs were heavily financed by Caracas. Washington failed to come up with a successful alternative plan.
Unable to win diplomatically or in the ‘battle of ideas’, Washington resorted to the ‘big stick’ and sought to disrupt Venezuela’s regional economic program rather than compete with Chavez’ generous and beneficial aid packages. The US’ ‘spoiler tactics’ backfired: In 2009, the Obama regime backed a military coup in Honduras, ousting the elected liberal reformist President Zelaya and installed a bloody tyrant, a throwback to the 1970s when the US backed Chilean coup brought General Pinochet to power. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, in an act of pure political buffoonery, refused to call Zelaya’s violent ouster a coup and moved swiftly to recognize the dictatorship. No other government backed the US in its Honduras policy. There was universal condemnation of the coup, highlighting Washington’s isolation.
Repeatedly, Washington tried to use its ‘hegemonic card’ but it was roundly outvoted at regional meetings. At the Summit of the Americas in 2010, Latin American countries overrode US objections and voted to invite Cuba to its next meeting, defying a 50-year old US veto. The US was left alone in its opposition.
The position of Washington was further weakened by the decade-long commodity boom (spurred by China’s voracious demand for agro-mineral products). The ‘mega-cycle’ undermined US Treasury and State Department’s anticipation of a price collapse. In previous cycles, commodity ‘busts’ had forced center-left governments to run to the US controlled International Monetary Fund (IMF) for highly conditioned balance of payment loans, which the White House used to impose its neo-liberal policies and political dominance. The ‘mega-cycle’ generated rising revenues and incomes. This gave the center-left governments enormous leverage to avoid the ‘debt traps’ and to marginalize the IMF. This virtually eliminated US-imposed conditionality and allowed Latin governments to pursue populist-nationalist policies. These policies decreased poverty and unemployment. Washington played the ‘crisis card’ and lost. Nevertheless Washington continued working with extreme rightwing opposition groups to destabilize the progressive governments, in the hope that ‘come the crash’, Washington’s proxies would ‘waltz right in’ and take over.
The Re-Introduction of the ‘Two Track’ Policy
After a decade and a half of hard knocks, repeated failures of its ‘big stick’ policies, rejection of US-centered integration schemes and multiple resounding defeats of its client-politicians at the ballot box, Washington finally began to ‘rethink’ its ‘one track’ policy and tentatively explore a limited ‘two track’ approach.
The ‘two-tracks’, however, encompass polarities clearly marked by the recent past. While the Obama regime opened negotiations and moved toward establishing relations with Cuba, it escalated the military threats toward Venezuela by absurdly labeling Caracas as a ‘national security threat to the US.’
Washington had woken up to the fact that its bellicose policy toward Cuba had been universally rejected and had left the US isolated from Latin America. The Obama regime decided to claim some ‘reformist credentials’ by showcasing its opening to Cuba. The ‘opening to Cuba’ is really part of a wider policy of a more active political intervention in Latin America. Washington will take full advantage of the increased vulnerability of the center-left governments as the commodity mega-cycle comes to an end and prices collapse. Washington applauds the fiscal austerity program pursued by Dilma Rousseff’s regime in Brazil. It wholeheartedly backs newly elected Tabaré Vázquez’s “Broad Front” regime in Uruguay with its free market policies and structural adjustment. It publicly supports Chilean President Bachelet’s recent appointment of center-right, Christian Democrats to Cabinet posts to accommodate big business.
These changes within Latin America provide an ‘opening’ for Washington to pursue a ‘dual track’ policy: On the one hand Washington is increasing political and economic pressure and intensifying its propaganda campaign against ‘state interventionist’ policies and regimes in the immediate period. On the other hand, the Pentagon is intensifying and escalating its presence in Central America and its immediate vicinity. The goal is ultimately to regain leverage over the military command in the rest of the South American continent.
The Miami Herald (5/10/15) reported that the Obama Administration had sent 280 US marines to Central America without any specific mission or pretext. Coming so soon after the Summit of the Americas in Panama (April 10 -11, 2015), this action has great symbolic importance. While the presence of Cuba at the Summit may have been hailed as a diplomatic victory for reconciliation within the Americas, the dispatch of hundreds of US marines to Central America suggests another scenario in the making.
Ironically, at the Summit meeting, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), former Colombian president (1994-98) Ernesto Samper, called for the US to remove all its military bases from Latin America, including Guantanamo: “A good point in the new agenda of relations in Latin America would be the elimination of the US military bases”.
The point of the US ‘opening’ to Cuba is precisely to signal its greater involvement in Latin America, one that includes a return to more robust US military intervention. The strategic intent is to restore neo-liberal client regimes, by ballots or bullets.
Conclusion
Washington’s current adoption of a two-track policy is a ‘cheap version’ of the John F. Kennedy policy of combining the ‘Alliance for Progress’ with the ‘Green Berets’. However, Obama offers little in the way of financial support for modernization and reform to complement his drive to restore neo-liberal dominance.
After a decade and a half of political retreat, diplomatic isolation and relative loss of military leverage, the Obama regime has taken over six years to recognize the depth of its isolation. When Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, claimed she was ‘surprised and disappointed’ when every Latin American country opposed Obama’s claim that Venezuela represented a ‘national security threat to the United States’, she exposed just how ignorant and out-of-touch the State Department has become with regard to Washington’s capacity to influence Latin America in support of its imperial agenda of intervention.
With the decline and retreat of the center-left, the Obama regime has been eager to exploit the two-track strategy. As long as the FARC-President Santos peace talks in Colombia advance, Washington is likely to recalibrate its military presence in Colombia to emphasize its destabilization campaign against Venezuela. The State Department will increase diplomatic overtures to Bolivia. The National Endowment for Democracy will intensify its intervention in this year’s Argentine elections.
Varied and changing circumstances dictate flexible tactics. Hovering over Washington’s tactical shifts is an ominous strategic outlook directed toward increasing military leverage. As the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas advance toward an accord, the pretext for maintaining seven US military bases and several thousand US military and Special Forces troops diminishes. However, Colombian President Santos has given no indication that a ‘peace agreement’ would be conditioned on the withdrawal of US troops or closing of its bases. In other words, the US Southern Command would retain a vital military platform and infrastructure capable of launching attacks against Venezuela, Ecuador, Central America and the Caribbean. With military bases throughout the region, in Colombia, Cuba (Guantanamo), Honduras (Soto Cano in Palmerola), Curacao, Aruba and Peru, Washington can quickly mobilize interventionary forces. Military ties with the armed forces of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile ensure continued joint exercises and close co-ordination of so-called ‘security’ policies in the ‘Southern Cone’ of Latin America. This strategy is specifically designed to prepare for internal repression against popular movements, whenever and wherever class struggle intensifies in Latin America. The two-track policy, in force today, plays out through political-diplomatic and military strategies.
In the immediate period throughout most of the region, Washington pursues a policy of political, diplomatic and economic intervention and pressure. The White House is counting on the ‘rightwing swing’ of former center-left governments to facilitate the return to power of unabashedly neo-liberal client-regimes in future elections. This is especially true with regard to Brazil and Argentina.
The ‘political-diplomatic track’ is evident in Washington’s moves to re-establish relations with Bolivia and to strengthen allies elsewhere in order to leverage favorable policies in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba. Washington proposes to offer diplomatic and trade agreements in exchange for a ‘toning down’ of anti-imperialist criticism and weakening the ‘Chavez-era’ programs of regional integration.
The ‘two-track approach’, as applied to Venezuela, has a more overt military component than elsewhere. Washington will continue to subsidize violent paramilitary border crossings from Colombia. It will continue to encourage domestic terrorist sabotage of the power grid and food distribution system. The strategic goal is to erode the electoral base of the Maduro government, in preparation for the legislative elections in the fall of 2015. When it comes to Venezuela, Washington is pursuing a ‘four step’ strategy:
(1) Indirect violent intervention to erode the electoral support of the government
(2) Large-scale financing of the electoral campaign of the legislative opposition to secure a majority in Congress
(3) A massive media campaign in favor of a Congressional vote for a referendum impeaching the President
(4) A large-scale financial, political and media campaign to secure a majority vote for impeachment by referendum.
In the likelihood of a close vote, the Pentagon would prepare a rapid military intervention with its domestic collaborators – seeking a ‘Honduras-style’ overthrow of Maduro.
The strategic and tactical weakness of the two-track policy is the absence of any sustained and comprehensive economic aid, trade and investment program that would attract and hold middle class voters. Washington is counting more on the negative effects of the crisis to restore its neo-liberal clients. The problem with this approach is that the pro-US forces can only promise a return to orthodox austerity programs, reversing social and public welfare programs , while making large-scale economic concessions to major foreign investors and bankers. The implementation of such regressive programs are going to ignite and intensify class, community-based and ethnic conflicts.
The ‘electoral transition’ strategy of the US is a temporary expedient, in light of the highly unpopular economic policies, which it would surely implement. The complete absence of any substantial US socio-economic aid to cushion the adverse effects on working families means that the US client-electoral victories will not last long. That is why and where the US strategic military build-up comes into play: The success of track-one, the pursuit of political-diplomatic tactics, will inevitably polarize Latin American society and heighten prospects for class struggle. Washington hopes that it will have its political-military client-allies ready to respond with violent repression. Direct intervention and heightened domestic repression will come into play to secure US dominance.
The ‘two-track strategy’ will, once again, evolve into a ‘one-track strategy’ designed to return Latin America as a satellite region, ripe for pillage by extractive multi-nationals and financial speculators.
As we have seen over the past decade and a half, ‘one-track policies’ lead to social upheavals. And the next time around the results may go far beyond progressive center-left regimes toward truly social-revolutionary governments!
Epilogue
US empire-builders have clearly demonstrated throughout the world their inability to intervene and produce stable, prosperous and productive client states (Iraq and Libya are prime examples). There is no reason to believe, even if the US ‘two-track policy’ leads to temporary electoral victories, that Washington’s efforts to restore dominance will succeed in Latin America, least of all because its strategy lacks any mechanism for economic aid and social reforms that could maintain a pro-US elite in power. For example, how could the US possibly offset China’s $50 billion aid package to Brazil – except through violence and repression.
It is important to analyze how the rise of China, Russia, strong regional markets and new centers of finance have severely weakened the efforts by client regimes to realign with the US. Military coups and free markets are no longer guaranteed formulas for success in Latin America: Their past failures are too recent to forget.
Finally the ‘financialization’ of the US economy, what even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) describes as the negative impact of ‘too much finance’ (Financial Times 5/13/15, p 4), means that the US cannot allocate capital resources to develop productive activity in Latin America. The imperial state can only serve as a violent debt collector for its banks in the context of large-scale unemployment. Financial and extractive imperialism is a politico-economic cocktail for detonating social revolution on a continent-wide basis – far beyond the capacity of the US marines to prevent or suppress.
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You forgot what the rest of what my informant said:
Treatment for NSU (Non-specific urethritis) and the Clap ( Gonorrhea) only required Penicillin and restriction to the ship (no liberty).
In order for the medical staff on board the Skagit to differentiate between NSU and "the clap", they had to be able to do the lab work.
And are you seriously suggesting that the Australian Navy during WWII was better equipped than the mighty US Navy in the 1950's? // PARKER
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SAID INFORMANT DID LAB WORK ?? NO ? Well lab work could be done in port and MEDICAL SHIPS COULD TAKE SHIP TO SHIP LINE TRANFER OF PEOPLE AND MATERIAL (LIKE LAB SPECIMENS ) . He isn't even an eye witness and Mr. PARKER only accepts some eye witness testimony. (NO HAVEY/LEE CONFIRMING TESTIMONY) // Gaal
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Steve, are you trying to turn this into a battle of fonts, sizes and colors? You know that's not fair? You've had far more practice than I have. You're a pro. Plus, as I understand it, you have the Lord Jesus on your side.
All I have are the lousy facts.// PARKER
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Pardon me Jesus is LORD and fact.
BTW YOU DIDNT ADDRESS WHAT I ASSERTED IN POST # 370 YES, I agree with you, YOUR FACTS ARE LOUSY. // Gaal
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repost # 370 below no color
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Mrs. ODIO. Before they left I asked their names again, and he mentioned their names again.
[but she does NOT say BOTH names were mentioned - she realizes her fantasy is unraveling] // Parker ( a interpretation = not fact,GAAL)
SHE SAID NAMES , THATS FIRST AND LAST. YES,GOOD DIRECT HONEST ANSWER // Gaal
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Mr. LIEBELER. But he did not mention Oswald's name except as Leon?
Mrs. ODIO. On the telephone conversation he referred to him as Leon or American.
[Liebeler can see she is not answering a direct question with a direct answer and pushes the point] // Parker (a interpretation = not fact,GAAL)
On the telephone he was called Leon. Yes, good direct honest answer to :name except as Leon? On the telephone only one name used . SHE IS ANSWERING WHEN ONE NAMED USED = ON TELEPHONE. GAAL
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Good gravy! Does anybody in this place (except me) ever say anything that isn't covered with a thick layer of myth and misinformation? It's unbelievable---even for a mostly "CT" forum.//DVP
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Dear Sir, science and fact presented to you and you don't address the Mantik article and just say "MYTH". DVP not ready for debate. // Gaal
http://www.ctka.net/2014-mantik/essay/Harper4.html
see Appendix K. The Three Headshot Scenario
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SPARKS BEHIND LIMO.
Golly even if someone shot from 6th floor TSBD. No proof any hit POTUS. No proof LHO did any shooting.
You know if only you could have place LHO in the Dal-Tex building. /// Gaal
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http://www.ctka.net/2014-mantik/essay/Harper4.html
see Appendix K. The Three Headshot Scenario
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SPARKS BEHIND LIMO.
Golly even if someone shot from 6th floor TSBD. No proof any hit POTUS. No proof LHO did any shooting.
You know if only you could have place LHO in the Dal-Tex building. /// Gaal
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You and Armstrong can shove you phony "thank-you's" where the sun don't shine PARKER
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Will your kindle come with a disclaimer X RATED NO CHILDREN ALLOWED ?? Gaal
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Mrs. ODIO. Before they left I asked their names again, and he mentioned their names again.
[but she does NOT say BOTH names were mentioned - she realizes her fantasy is unraveling] // Parker ( a interpretation = not fact,GAAL)
SHE SAID NAMES , THATS FIRST AND LAST. YES,GOOD DIRECT HONEST ANSWER // Gaal
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Mr. LIEBELER. But he did not mention Oswald's name except as Leon?
Mrs. ODIO. On the telephone conversation he referred to him as Leon or American.
[Liebeler can see she is not answering a direct question with a direct answer and pushes the point] // Parker (a interpretation = not fact,GAAL)
On the telephone he was called Leon. Yes, good direct honest answer to :name except as Leon? On the telephone only one name used . SHE IS ANSWERING WHEN ONE NAMED USED = ON TELEPHONE. GAAL
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Mr. DVP If the company never got any money they would not send rifle. GAAL
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++That "No Stamps" argument, it seems to me, is a weak one. Why? Because we know (and can prove via Waldman 7 AND William Waldman's testimony) that Klein's in Chicago positively DID have that $21.45 money order in their hands on March 13, 1963 (the date stamped at the top of Waldman 7) because of the mere EXISTENCE of that document--Waldman Exhibit No. 7.... DVP
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AFTER THE FACT FORGERY. JUST GOOGLE FBI FABRICATED EVIDENCE (14 were executed after Trails with FBI Fabricated EVIDENCE)
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Scholarly articles for fbi fabricated evidence
FBI Secrets: An Agents Exposé - Swearingen - Cited by 23
Agents Of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against … - Churchill - Cited by 366
Foreword: Novel Scientific Evidence in Criminal Cases: … - Moenssens - Cited by 95
Search Results
FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades - The ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../fbi.../39c8d8c6-e515-11...
The Washington Post
Apr 18, 2015 - The FBI errors alone do not mean there was not other evidence of a ... have relied on fabricated and false evidence despite their intentions to ...
FBI fabricated evidence that led to death penalty | The Times
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/.../article4416395.ece
The Times
Apr 20, 2015 - Scientists from an elite FBI forensic unit exaggerated evidence that helped to incriminate defendants in hundreds of trials, the bureau has ...
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If you have not ...please read post # 1 this thread ,thank you Steven Gaal
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DARPA Commissions Autonomous Killer Robots
http://www.theufochronicles.com/2015/05/darpa-commissions-autonomous-killer.html
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(CAN DOCK AT JAPAN PORTS VIA CURRENT TRATY IS MY UNDERSTANDING) GAAL
++++++++++++++++++US planning to deploy advanced weapons near China: Carter
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http://rinf.com/alt-news/usa-news/us-planning-deploy-advanced-weapons-near-china-carter/
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VIDEO: DUI Checkpoint Cop Claims First Amendment Doesn’t Allow People to Question Police
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"You don’t have the right to question me about what we’re doing out here… Freedom of speech does not include questioning me, it doesn’t work like that." -
Officials: ‘Nuclear fuel material’ leak at Fukushima — Japan TV: Record levels of radioactivity detected in seawater — Spiked “more than 200 times” at sampling location — Highest concentrations ever measured in 11 different areas (VIDEO)
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MAY 31 2015
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UK – Police failing children forced into ‘Oliver Twist’ street crime, says anti-slavery charity
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/uk-police-failing-children-forced-into-oliver-twist-street-crime-says-anti-slavery-charity/ (READ MORE & SEE VIDEO via LINK)
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An anti-slavery charity has accused British police of failing trafficked children who are forced into petty crime after the UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner warned Oliver Twist type scenarios still exist in London.Anti-Slavery International (ASI) said British police rarely protect children being exploited by gangs, adding that teenagers from overseas are often arrested and deported while criminals enjoy impunity.
ASI’s condemnation follows comments by the UK’s Anti-Slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland, who warned children are being forced to commit petty crimes such as begging and pickpocketing. == read more/video see link above
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Rule Britannia (With lyric annotations) (nvevvvevevevery be salves la de de da da bump bump ect)
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NASA LIES !!! GAAL LIE LIE LIE ASK ASK ASK YOUR SELF WHY ?????????????????????????????
NASA Has Quadrupled 1955-1980 Sea Level Rise Since 1982
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Jim,
A question-this is for the list of who was involved in the H&L plot that I am working on. Who was responsible for getting the photo to the FWST? Did the plotters have someone inside the newspaper or was it the CIA or FBI? // PARNELL
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PARKER HAS BROTHER ROBERT DO DOCK INVESTIGATION WORK THUS PUTTING HIM IN POTENTIAL CONTACT WITH ONI (you may have seen my Ferrie -Navy connections).
Ferrie's first CAP base was a Navy base, post assassination Ferrie connected to 'private' firm doing Marine personnel transport.
== PARKER THEORY >>>>>>>> BROTHER ROBERT GAVE PHOTO TO NEWSPAPER, GAAL (DID ONI HAVE A AP CONNECTION ?? Ft. Worth had General Dynamics and Navy very large contracts)
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Financial Coup in Greece
By Stelios Kouloglou
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A Homeless Man Walks into a Church, What He Did Next SHOCKED Everyone
http://www.newsforage.com/2015/05/a-homeless-man-walks-into-church-what.html
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posted in fair use
Honolulu's Homelessness Crackdown Backfires On Tourists
HONOLULU (AP) -- As Honolulu tries to brush up its image for tourists by cracking down on homelessness in Waikiki, it is causing legal problems for some visitors.
Hawaii News Now reported (http://bit.ly/1eGRoKr ) that one in five of the citations issued for nighttime beach visits have gone to tourists, according to city prosecutors.
Honolulu began closing popular Waikiki beachfront parks at midnight to stop homeless people from settling. Violators receive a criminal citation, which could become a warrant if they do not show up in court.
Those who pay the fine will have a criminal mark on their record, and that could cause non-citizens to be refused entry to the U.S. if they return.
The morning after her 21st birthday in late March, Jalisa Jose and several friends from Idaho were on Waikiki Beach around 2 a.m., during their spring break from college. Police officers approached the group and wrote citations, she said.
Jose said they didn't realize they were breaking the law by sitting on the world-renowned beach, even though there are signs posted about every 50 yards along the sidewalk.
"A couple nights before we were on a beach where it was OK to be on late at night, so we didn't really know," Jose told Hawaii News Now from her home in Lewiston, Idaho.
The citation set a court date of May 27, which she missed. That could lead to a criminal warrant.
Tourists hit with citations have no easy out. They can hire an attorney or request permission to plead guilty by mail, but fighting the citation is more difficult, because you must be present in court for trial. One Toronto woman ended up with a criminal warrant after missing her court date.
Police officers do issue warnings, but they can't make exceptions just for visitors, the department said.
The police may be worried about being sued by advocates for the homeless, said attorney Victor Bakke, who has helped several visitors who received citations. "They don't want to look like they are discriminating against the homeless people," Bakke said.
The mayor's office confirmed the police can't just give visitors a break.
"Police have to enforce the laws equally against everyone," spokesman Jesse Broder Van Dyke said. "They don't target homeless in park-closure enforcements."
Some tourists have told attorneys and court workers that they are so upset they vow never to return.
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Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
By Glenn Greenwald
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Skagit had a fully equiped and staffed sick bay // PARKER
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No one has ever said it didn't have a sick bay. Ive seen a skematic of said ship I know its length and that 80 % is storage area (that's what it did "cargo"). When you add motor,fuel,bridge control,communications and sleep/eating facilities the space for sickbay is small. The idea of a lab that would do the bacterial work is small possibility. On file they had blood types and Im sure they could remove small shrapnel and stitch/close wounds and also do seaman to seaman transfusion. Dispensing antibiotics would be part of sick bay function (not to put down the service but Navy and STDs are closely associated). BUT grow/type a bacterial culture ??... seem a low probability ..less than 6.1 % (to throw out a figure) gaal
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To Steven Gaal....
I tried to PM you via this forum's software, but it said you couldn't receive private messages. So... here's what I tried to send.// Hargrove
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Well Im not blocking anyone. I have received a message from Don Jeffries recently. I don't understand why you (and maybe others) cant PM me. THANKS S Gaal
PS Thanks for the Tujague info.
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Two Oswalds: Marine Years, Part 1
The following is adapted from John Armstrong's "Harvey and Lee."
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Oswald had taken up a new hobby in Japan; he was now frequently making use of a
35 mm Imperial Reflex camera, taking "souvenir" snapshots of buildings at the
base, radar antennae and other scenes. He was also quickly becoming unusually
popular with the Japanese locals. "Oswald seemed to associate more than ever
with his Japanese friends and less with Marines" (Epstein, 367). Lee had been a
bashful virgin upon his arrival at Atsugi. Suddenly he'd found himself a
Japanese girlfriend. "He frequently went to Tokyo or otherwise disappeared on
his passes. One of Oswald's Marine friends recalls meeting him at a house in
Yamato with a woman who was working there as a housekeeper for a naval officer.
He was impressed that Oswald had found a girlfriend who was not a bar girl or
prostitute. In the house was also a handsome young Japanese man for whom Oswald
had apparently bought a T-shirt from the PX on base. While the girls cooked
sukiyaki on a hibachi grill, the men talked, but the Marine was unable to
understand exactly what Oswald's relation was to the group" (Epstein, 367-68).
"Two lawyers for the Warren Commission, W. David Slawson and William T.
Coleman, Jr., suggested in a report which was released under the Freedom of
Information Act: that '. . . there is a possibility that Oswald came into
contact with Communist agents at that time . . ." (Epstein, 367). On February
23, 1975, as evidence of someone impersonating Oswald was being discussed
openly for the first time, David Slawson told the New York Times he advocated
reopening the investigation, saying, "I don't know where the impostor notion
would have led us, perhaps nowhere, like a lot of other leads. But the point
is, we didn't know about it." He was wrong about this, a victim of the
Commission's highly compartmentalized operation, the same sort of system that
HSCA advisor Robert Canning would personally inform HSCA Chief Counsel Robert
Blakey "made it impossible to good work at a reasonable cost" in the allotted
time four years later. Maybe that was the point.
"[An Oswald impersonation plot] could have been something related to the CIA,"
Slawson told the Times. "I can only speculate now, but a general CIA effort to (Slawson part of Armstrong cult before Armstrong,Gaal)
take out everything that reflected on them may have covered this up" (Summers,
Conspiracy, 386).
"Years later in Dallas [Oswald] confided to a close associate [George De
Mohrenschildt] that he had become involved with a small circle of Japanese
Communists in Tokyo while in the Marines. . . . Zack Stout knew of only one (TOKYO ?? sounds like Harvey & LEE time ,Gaal)
possible piece in the puzzle of Oswald's absences [from the base]: He seemed to
have fallen in love, perhaps for the first time in his life, with a Japanese
girl. When Stout asked where she worked, Oswald told him that she was a hostess
at the Queen Bee in Tokyo (Epstein, 359-60).
"This in itself was extraordinary. The Queen Bee, known for its more than 100
strikingly beautiful hostesses, was then one of the three most expensive
nightclubs in Tokyo. It catered to an elite clientele -- field-grade officers,
pilots (including U-2 pilots) and a few junior officers with private incomes --
not to impoverished Marine privates. To take a hostess out of a nightclub
customarily required paying not only the girl, but the nightclub as well for
the bar business it lost during her absence. The man also had to pay for the
accommodations for the evening. For an evening at the Queen Bee, a date could
cost anywhere from $60 to $100 (Epstein, 360).
"Yet Oswald, who was earning less than $85 a month take-home pay, went out with (HOW IN THE WORLD DID HE PAY FOR RUSSIA TRIP ?,Gaal)
this woman from the Queen Bee with surprising regularity, even bringing her
back to the base area several times. . . . Other Marines . . . were astonished
that someone of her 'class' would go out with Oswald at all" (Epstein, 360).
Marine Peter Connor distinctly recalled the woman: "I don't know what she was
doing with Oswald, unless he had a few extra bucks" (Epstein, 620-21fn.).
"According to one source, Navy intelligence was also interested in the
possibility that hostesses from the Queen Bee were being used at the time to
gather intelligence and that Oswald was receiving money from someone at the
Queen Bee" (Epstein, 360).
The Commission at least considered the possibility that Oswald was spying for
Japanese Communists. They did not consider a reasonable alternative: that when
Oswald took photographs of the Atsugi installation in broad daylight, he was
creating innocuous material to pass along to the Japanese as part of a possible
"cover" as a double agent. By doing so, he could become accepted by the
Communists, and find himself in a position to discover information otherwise
unavailable to a loyal US Marine. Would even the bumbling Oswald of the Warren
Report be so foolish as to bring one of his Communist "contacts" back to his
Marine base?
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“The Ocean is Dying”: Marine and Animal Life Die Offs, California Coast
Pacific Ocean is “Turning Into a Desert”
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The ocean is dying, by all accounts – and if so, the food supply along with it. The causes are numerous, and overlapping. And massive numbers of wild animal populations are dying as a result of it.
Natural causes in the environment are partly to blame; so too are the corporations of man; the effects of Fukushima, unleashing untold levels of radiation into the ocean and onto Pacific shores; the cumulative effect of modern chemicals and agricultural waste tainting the water and disrupting reproduction.
A startling new report says in no uncertain terms that the Pacific Ocean off the California coast is turning into a desert. Once full of life, it is now becoming barren, and marine mammals, seabirds and fish are starving as a result. According to Ocean Health:
The waters of the Pacific off the coast of California are a clear, shimmering blue today, so transparent it’s possible to see the sandy bottom below […] clear water is a sign that the ocean is turning into a desert, and the chain reaction that causes that bitter clarity is perhaps most obvious on the beaches of the Golden State, where thousands of emaciated sea lion pups are stranded.
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Over the last three years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has noticed a growing number of strandings on the beaches of California and up into the Pacific north-west. In 2013, 1,171 sea lions were stranded, and 2,700 have already stranded in 2015 – a sign that something is seriously wrong, as pups don’t normally wind up on their own until later in the spring and early summer.
“[An unusually large number of sea lions stranding in 2013 was a red flag] there was a food availability problem even before the ocean got warm.”Johnson: This has never happened before… It’s incredible. It’s so unusual, and there’s no really good explanation for it. There’s also a good chance that the problem will continue, said a NOAA research scientist in climatology, Nate Mantua.
Experts blame a lack of food due to unusually warm ocean waters. NOAA declared an El Nino, the weather pattern that warms the Pacific, a few weeks ago. The water is three and a half to six degrees warmer than the average, according to Mantua, because of a lack of north wind on the West Coast. Ordinarily, the north wind drives the current, creating upwelling that brings forth the nutrients that feed the sardines, anchovies and other fish that adult sea lions feed on.
Fox News added:
The warm water is likely pushing prime sea lion foods — market squid, sardines and anchovies — further north, forcing the mothers to abandon their pups for up to eight days at a time in search of sustenance.
The pups, scientists believe, are weaning themselves early out of desperation and setting out on their own despite being underweight and ill-prepared to hunt.
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“These animals are coming in really desperate. They’re at the end of life. They’re in a crisis … and not all animals are going to make it,” said Keith A. Matassa, executive director at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, which is currently rehabilitating 115 sea lion pups.
The same is true of seabirds on the Washington State coast:
In the storm debris littering a Washington State shoreline, Bonnie Wood saw something grisly: the mangled bodies of dozens of scraggly young seabirds. Walking half a mile along the beach at Twin Harbors State Park on Wednesday, Wood spotted more than 130 carcasses of juvenile Cassin’s auklets—the blue-footed, palm-size victims of what is becoming one of the largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded. “It was so distressing,” recalled Wood, a volunteer who patrols Pacific Northwest beaches looking for dead or stranded birds. “They were just everywhere. Every ten yards we’d find another ten bodies of these sweet little things.”
“This is just massive, massive, unprecedented,” said Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths for almost 20 years. “We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths. So far.” (source)
100,000 doesn’t necessarily sound large, statistically speaking, but precedent in the history of recorded animal deaths suggests that it is, in fact massive. Even National Geographic is noting that these die off events are “unprecedented.” Warmer water is indicated for much of the starvation faced by many of the dead animals.
Last year, scientists sounded the alarm over the death of millions of star fish, blamed on warmer waters and ‘mystery virus’:
Starfish are dying by the millions up and down the West Coast, leading scientists to warn of the possibility of localized extinction of some species. As the disease spreads, researchers may be zeroing in on a link between warming waters and the rising starfish body count. (source)
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The epidemic, which threatens to reshape the coastal food web and change the makeup of tide pools for years to come, appears to be driven by a previously unidentified virus, a team of more than a dozen researchers from Cornell University, UC Santa Cruz, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and other institutions reported Monday. (source)
Changing temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, driven by the natural cycle of gyres over decades, shifts wildlife populations, decimating the populations of species throughout the food chain, proving how fragile the balance of life in the ocean really is.
Recently, the collapse of the sardine population has created a crisis for fisheries and marine wildlife alike on the West Coast:
Commercial fishing for sardines off of Canada’s West Coast is worth an estimated $32 million – but now they are suddenly gone. Back in October, fisherman reported that they came back empty-handed without a single fish after 12 hours of trolling and some $1000 spent on fuel.
Sandy Mazza, for the Daily Breeze, reported a similar phenomenon in central California: “[T]he fickle sardines have been so abundant for so many years – sometimes holding court as the most plentiful fish in coastal waters – that it was a shock when he couldn’t find one of the shiny silver-blue coastal fish all summer, even though this isn’t the first time they’ve vanished.” [emphasis added]
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“Is it El Nino? Pacific Decadal Oscillation? [La] Nina? Long-term climate change? More marine mammals eating sardines? Did they all go to Mexico or farther offshore? We don’t know. We’re pretty sure the overall population has declined. We manage them pretty conservatively because we don’t want to end up with another Cannery Row so, as the population declines, we curb fishing.” said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) official Kerry Griffin. (source)According to a report in the Daily Mail, the worst events have wiped out 90% of animal populations, falling short of extinction, but creating a rupture in food chains and ecosystems.
And environmental factors are known to be a factor, with pollution from chemicals dumped by factories clearly tied to at least 20% of the mass die off events of wildlife populations that have been investigated, and many die offs implicated by a number of overlapping factors. TheDaily Mail reported:
Mass die-offs of certain animals has increased in frequency every year for seven decades, according to a new study.
Researchers found that such events, which can kill more than 90 per cent of a population, are increasing among birds, fish and marine invertebrates.
The reasons for the die-offs are diverse, with effects tied to humans such as environmental contamination accounting for about a fifth of them.
Farm runoff from Big Agra introduces high levels of fertilizers and pesticides which createoxygen-starved dead zones which fish and aquatic live is killed off. Also preset in agriculture waste are gender bending chemicals like those found in Atrazine, used in staple crop production, and antibiotics and hormones, used in livestock production, which creates hazardous runoff for fish populations:
Livestock excrete natural hormones – estrogens and testosterones – as well as synthetic ones used to bolster their growth. Depending on concentrations and fish sensitivity, these hormones and hormone mimics might impair wild fish reproduction or skew their sex ratios. (source)
Pharmaceutical contaminants are also to blame for changing the sex of fish and disrupting population numbers, while a study found that the chemicals in Prozac changed the behavior of marine life, and made shrimp many times more likely to “commit suicide” and swim towards the light where they became easy prey.
Fish farms also introduce a large volume of antibiotic and chemical pollution into oceans and waterways:
The close quarters where farmed fish are raised (combined with their unnatural diets) means disease occurs often and can spread quickly. On fish farms, which are basically “CAFOs of the sea,” antibiotics are dispersed into the water, and sometimes injected directly into the fish.
Unfortunately, farmed fish are often raised in pens in the ocean, which means not only that pathogens can spread like wildfire and contaminate any wild fish swimming past – but the antibiotics can also spread to wild fish (via aquaculture and wastewater runoff) – and that’s exactly what recent research revealed. (source)
Mass die offs of fish on the Brazilian coastline have linked to pollution from the dumping of raw sewage and garbage.
In the last few days it was reported that a massive die off of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico was connected by researchers to BP’s Deep Water Horizon oil spill. Evidence was found in a third of the cases of lesions in the adrenal gland, an otherwise rare condition linked with petroleum exposure. More than a fifth of the dolphins also suffered bacterial pneumonia, causing deadly lung infection that is likewise rarely seen in dolphin populations.
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"All officers and air controllers, including Oswald, lived on the west or main side of the base". The Missing Chapter Lee Harvey Oswald in the Far East, p105
"Buses were used to transport personnel from the West to the East Camp and vice versa" p66 // PARKER
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VIDEO OF AUTHOR OF BOOK PARKER QUOTES GAALAuthor Jack Swike discusses his book, The Missing Chapter: Lee Harvey Oswald in the Far East
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MAYBE Mr. Parker should not rely on Mr. Swike for data ,NO ?? GAAL
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