46 US Warships Plus 7000 US Marines in Costa Rica...WHY???

[TheSenator]

Why is the US moving its military assets to Costa Rica?

Is there a war coming?

Does the US government know something we don't???

[IllTestYourGirls]

Any drills planned? But it does sound fishy that Obama would be sending so much fire power there

[Caligari]

thats some interesting news, got a link?

[Ethersync]

Source?

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[BestXXXPorn]

Did you read that doomsday article someone posted last week about the giant methane bubble? LOL

Edit: Found it: http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=977065

[DateDoc]

http://translate.google.com/translat...&sl=auto&tl=en

[Rochard]

A quick search turned up the following:

7,000 U.S. Marines Landing on the Beaches of Costa Rica

A flotilla of 46 United States Navy warships capable of carrying 200 helicopters, along with 10 Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter jets, and 7,000 combat ready marines available for land based operations is on its way to this Central American country with no standing army.

On July 1, 2010 the Costa Rica Legislative Assembly voted 31-8 to grant the U.S. military full in-country access through the end of 2010 to help fight drug trafficking.

As of this writing the new administration of President Laura Chinchilla -- who was previously Costa Rica?s Vice-President, Justice Minister and Minister of Public Security -- has not commented in great detail as to what the U.S. troops will be trying to accomplish with their new right of entry other than to say there will be a combination of anti-drug and humanitarian operations.

This type of deal is a growing trend in Latin American countries.

Columbia has for the last decade been increasing its commitment to full-time anti-narcotic U.S. support.

In September 2009, ten years after the last U.S. troops had ?officially? left Panama soil due to the canal treaties, the United States entered into a new agreement to open 2 new U.S. military bases on their Pacific coast in exchange for $7 million to fight organized crime associated with illicit drugs.

April 2009 Honduras opened a new Navy base near the border of Nicaragua with $2 million from the U.S. and most recently announced July 10, 2010 another new military base will be constructed on the Caribbean with U.S. funding to help fight drug trafficking.
The Switzerland of Central America

As for Costa Rica, it has prided itself as the first country in the world to formally abolish military forces while being known for its stability in a region where other countries often struggle both politically and economically.

And although Costa Rica continues to earn high rankings both regionally and worldwide in areas of health care, education, public safety and equality; the geographic location that makes it so uniquely beautiful is also causing some major security concerns ? often from outside sources.

Illicit drug producers from South America seeking paths of least resistance have found running shipments of cocaine along un-enforced or under-patrolled shorelines, air and land routes of sovereign Central American nations very effective in getting shipments through to their North American customers.

The spread of these drug-trafficking cartels has affected all of the Americas in terms of increased violent crime. In Costa Rica, the murder rate nearly doubled between 2004 and 2008 with mostly foreign drug gangs being attributed to a majority of this increase.

During the 2009-2010 presidential campaign ?security? consistently polled as the number one concern of the Costa Rica people. Then candidate Laura Chinchilla ran on a platform of being tough on crime proposing the hiring of more police, professionalizing the various law enforcement agencies with improved training and increased salaries, and eradicating corruption throughout all levels of government. In one of her first acts, then President-elect Chinchilla created the first Costa Rica anti-drug czar as part of her incoming cabinet.
Show Me the Money

But it takes money to fight a war on drugs, gangs, violence and corruption.

With a large debt burden due to previous president Oscar Arias? borrowing heavily to insulate Costa Rica from a worldwide recession, tourism revenues being down due to reduced discretionary spending by potential travelers and the fruition of aggressive free-trade agreements that exchanged immediate import tariff income for supposed longer-term benefits ? Costa Rica finds itself cash-strapped for even the most necessary of infrastructure improvements, let alone another country?s ?war on drugs?.

In 1999 a U.S.-Costa Rica Counter-Narcotics Maritime Agreement or ?Joint Patrol? accord began the alliance between the two countries in anti-drug enforcement efforts. As part of the arrangement the U.S. donated a retiring Coast Guard ship to the Costa Rica Ministry of Security toward formally establishing the Costa Rica Coast Guard in the year 2000.

Since then both the U.S. Coast Guard and Costa Rica Coast Guard (Guardacostas de Costa Rica) have been publicly working together to patrol Costa Rica waters and airways. Pacific and Caribbean international waters off the coast of Costa Rica have less formally been under the supervision of the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM).

Operational funds for the various Costa Rica law enforcement agencies involved in fighting drug trafficking and its associated organized crime come from a variety of sources, with the largest contributor being the United States via direct funding for Costa Rica?s Public Security Ministry (Ministerio Seguridad Pública ? MSP) who in-turn reallocates funds as needed to its divisions of Coast Guard, Drug Control Police (Policía de Control de Drogas - PCD) and National Public Police (Fuerza Pública ). Other funds provided to the Costa Rica Judiciary (Poder Judicial) are allocated to investigate drug related crimes by the Judicial Investigation Organization (Organismo de Investigación Judicial ? OIJ) and prosecute alleged criminals within the judicial system.

Annual, semi-annual and special need requests for additional monies are made by Costa Rica to the U.S. for continued and increased police narcotics interdiction activities. Although regular requests are made openly, it would be naive to think all resources asked for and received are a matter of public record.
Fact, Conspiracy, or Just Plain B!tching

News of this very public vote by the Costa Rica legislature to invite the United States military into its territory was a bomb unto itself for many, prompting viral Internet coverage and even an anti-military rally or "Gran Manifestación contra la Presencia Militar en Costa Rica" in front of the former San José military fortress (Cuartel Bellavista) that is now the National Museum (Museo Nacional de Costa Rica).

[justinsain]

Shore leave at the Del Ray

[marketsmart]

the US needs to get back into the cocaine trade to fund the upcoming wars...

not that the US ever left the cocaine business, but its definitely not as involved as it was during iran contra...

although most people dont know this but the CIA runs cocaine from peru now while the dea fights the war on drugs in columbia..




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[Rochard]

I don't know anything about Costa Rica. And usually I'm all for the US Marines kicking some ass. But from what little I just read, Costa Rica doesn't have a standing army and hasn't for some time. It's sort of like Switzerland. Sorry, but inviting the US military in without having a huge crisis is just a mistake on their part.

[IllTestYourGirls]

Oh I see so now our Marines are being used as police AGAIN. Great, just fucking great!

[MaDalton]

the US needs to get back into the cocaine trade to fund the upcoming wars...

not that the US ever left the cocaine business, but its definitely not as involved as it was during iran contra...

although most people dont know this but the CIA runs cocaine from peru now while the dea fights the war on drugs in columbia..




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[TheSenator]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/07/nato-...ke-fears-grow/

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America?s a catastrophic earthquake.

As we had previously reported on in our July 4th report titled ?NATO Orders All ?Critical Assets? Moved 100 Miles Inland From Gulf Oil Spill Region?, NATO?s current Chairman of the Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola has taken defacto control over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster from President Obama who continues to this day leaving this unprecedented catastrophe in the hands of his intelligence services and BP.

Admiral Di Paola?s fears, this report continues, lies in the massive amount of abiogenic oil and methane gases being released from the Gulf of Mexico which many experts are warning could destabilize an already weakened earthquake zone and which Russian scientists are holding responsible for the 5.0 magnitude trembler that hit the Great Lakes region barely a fortnight ago and the 4.6 Virgin Island and 4.7 Guatemala quakes occurring during the past 24 hours.

Equally potentially catastrophic for this region is this massive oil spill occurring during a predicted above average hurricane season as another storm begins churning these troubled waters, it occurring during a time of a total solar eclipse due to occur on July 11th, and as our Sun begins throwing off a number of massive flares, all long associated with earthquakes in both modern and ancient lore.

The connection with catastrophic earthquakes upon our Earth and their association with solar eclipses have long been known and was last evidenced by the January 12, 2010 7.0 magnitude quake that destroyed the Caribbean Island of Haiti killing over 250,000 and occurring 3 days before the January 15, 2010 solar eclipse. Hurricane type storms are also said to be cause of earthquakes by scientists as well as solar flares.

Admiral Di Paola?s decision to move these 7,000 US Marines from their American base in North Carolina to Costa Rica, this report continues, is based upon his need to have ?viable forces? positioned on either side of the North American and Caribbean Plate Zones should disaster strike.

Under pressure from NATO, Costa Rica this week granted the US military a six-month window to bring the 7,000 Marines, five planes and 46 warships into its territory by a vote of 31-8 vote by its Legislative Assembly with some lawmakers warning that their Nation was giving up its sovereignty.

And in what could possibly be one of the greatest ironies of all time, (and we?re not making this up, check the links) the American government is saying that its rapid movement of these 7,000 US Marines to Costa Rica is to help this Central American Nation ?fight drugs?, while at the exact same time it not only refuses to protect its own drug infested border with Mexico, it has actually sued one of its own States for trying to protect it themselves.

Though the US government continues to blackout nearly all the news of this historic catastrophe from reaching the American people, the same cannot be said of the hundreds, if not thousands of this beleaguered Nations citizens who continue their brave mission to inform their fellow citizens of the dire straight they are all facing, such as:

The New Orleans families that traveled at great peril to the Gulf dodging roadblocks to gather their own samples of the water which show the waters are totally poisoned.

A small, but very brave, American woman named Marguerite Cravatt who at 4?11? stood up to a 6?4? police officer trying to stop her from filming one of the many workers falling ill and having to be taken to hospital.

The Sea Shepherd environmental group whose pilots have braved flying over the Gulf in fear of being shot down to document the catastrophic extent of this spill from the air.

The Archangel Project which has documented the thousands of buses being secreted into the Gulf region for possible evacuations when the true extent of this disaster becomes known.

The Florida Oil Spill Law website that has documented the hundreds of BP oil spill workers falling ill as well as reporting on the deaths occurring there too.

The anonymous BP contract worker who agreed to be interviewed and explained the meaning of the ?red flags? and ?black flags? being used by cleanup crews.

Though these are but a few of those seeking to tell the truth of these events, there are so many more doing the same thing that it perhaps signals that the power of the propaganda American media that exists only to serve the elite classes of the United States may, in fact, be crumbling as viewership levels have hit record lows among the United States top network newscasts.

But be warned, and as history has proven time and time again, these elite classes will not go down without a fight and care not at all how millions have to die to protect their lives of wealth and privilege.

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[spider_x]

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[Caligari]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/07/nato-...ke-fears-grow/

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America’s a catastrophic earthquake.

thats an amazing report, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was the actual case. it should be obvious to anyone that the press is only getting a partial story of the true extent of the oil spill catastrophe.

[TheSenator]

thats an amazing report, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was the actual case. it should be obvious to anyone that the press is only getting a partial story of the true extent of the oil spill catastrophe.

The "WAR ON DRUGS" excuse smells like bullshit!

[Hornydog4cooter]

the US needs to get back into the cocaine trade to fund the upcoming wars...

not that the US ever left the cocaine business, but its definitely not as involved as it was during iran contra...

although most people dont know this but the CIA runs cocaine from peru now while the dea fights the war on drugs in columbia..




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[MaDalton]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/07/nato-...ke-fears-grow/

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the "EU TIMES" is an evil neonazi propaganda pamphlet, they make Fox News look socialistic

[JFK]

The "WAR ON DRUGS" excuse smells like bullshit!

certainly Does

[Caligari]

the "EU TIMES" is an evil neonazi propaganda pamphlet, they make Fox News look socialistic

or they are psychotic!

at one point they mention Sea Shepherd in a positive note (taking air photos of the disaster) and they are considered terrorists by some countries, and definitely never referred to as right wing.

then they mention the arizona law as the government trying to oppress them, which would be the more right wing sentiment.

but the US gov could be trying to kill two birds with one stone. troops in for the drug war scam and troops in for another potential disaster (or even unrest) caused the the "spill."

[jalami]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America?s a catastrophic earthquake.

Haha that's a new one... these sites are a source of endless entertainment.

[BestXXXPorn]

If anyone here thinks the US would deploy three MEUs for drug trafficking they are very naive...

Seriously, at that count of Marines they likely deployed every MEU AT Camp Lejune... they only have three!

22nd, 24th, and 26th MEUs... they just deployed all of them...

[seeandsee]

voice of america, eu times, etc. propaganda shit

[_Richard_]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/07/nato-...ke-fears-grow/

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America?s a catastrophic earthquake.

As we had previously reported on in our July 4th report titled ?NATO Orders All ?Critical Assets? Moved 100 Miles Inland From Gulf Oil Spill Region?, NATO?s current Chairman of the Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola has taken defacto control over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster from President Obama who continues to this day leaving this unprecedented catastrophe in the hands of his intelligence services and BP.

Admiral Di Paola?s fears, this report continues, lies in the massive amount of abiogenic oil and methane gases being released from the Gulf of Mexico which many experts are warning could destabilize an already weakened earthquake zone and which Russian scientists are holding responsible for the 5.0 magnitude trembler that hit the Great Lakes region barely a fortnight ago and the 4.6 Virgin Island and 4.7 Guatemala quakes occurring during the past 24 hours.

Equally potentially catastrophic for this region is this massive oil spill occurring during a predicted above average hurricane season as another storm begins churning these troubled waters, it occurring during a time of a total solar eclipse due to occur on July 11th, and as our Sun begins throwing off a number of massive flares, all long associated with earthquakes in both modern and ancient lore.

The connection with catastrophic earthquakes upon our Earth and their association with solar eclipses have long been known and was last evidenced by the January 12, 2010 7.0 magnitude quake that destroyed the Caribbean Island of Haiti killing over 250,000 and occurring 3 days before the January 15, 2010 solar eclipse. Hurricane type storms are also said to be cause of earthquakes by scientists as well as solar flares.

Admiral Di Paola?s decision to move these 7,000 US Marines from their American base in North Carolina to Costa Rica, this report continues, is based upon his need to have ?viable forces? positioned on either side of the North American and Caribbean Plate Zones should disaster strike.

Under pressure from NATO, Costa Rica this week granted the US military a six-month window to bring the 7,000 Marines, five planes and 46 warships into its territory by a vote of 31-8 vote by its Legislative Assembly with some lawmakers warning that their Nation was giving up its sovereignty.

And in what could possibly be one of the greatest ironies of all time, (and we?re not making this up, check the links) the American government is saying that its rapid movement of these 7,000 US Marines to Costa Rica is to help this Central American Nation ?fight drugs?, while at the exact same time it not only refuses to protect its own drug infested border with Mexico, it has actually sued one of its own States for trying to protect it themselves.

Though the US government continues to blackout nearly all the news of this historic catastrophe from reaching the American people, the same cannot be said of the hundreds, if not thousands of this beleaguered Nations citizens who continue their brave mission to inform their fellow citizens of the dire straight they are all facing, such as:

The New Orleans families that traveled at great peril to the Gulf dodging roadblocks to gather their own samples of the water which show the waters are totally poisoned.

A small, but very brave, American woman named Marguerite Cravatt who at 4?11? stood up to a 6?4? police officer trying to stop her from filming one of the many workers falling ill and having to be taken to hospital.

The Sea Shepherd environmental group whose pilots have braved flying over the Gulf in fear of being shot down to document the catastrophic extent of this spill from the air.

The Archangel Project which has documented the thousands of buses being secreted into the Gulf region for possible evacuations when the true extent of this disaster becomes known.

The Florida Oil Spill Law website that has documented the hundreds of BP oil spill workers falling ill as well as reporting on the deaths occurring there too.

The anonymous BP contract worker who agreed to be interviewed and explained the meaning of the ?red flags? and ?black flags? being used by cleanup crews.

Though these are but a few of those seeking to tell the truth of these events, there are so many more doing the same thing that it perhaps signals that the power of the propaganda American media that exists only to serve the elite classes of the United States may, in fact, be crumbling as viewership levels have hit record lows among the United States top network newscasts.

But be warned, and as history has proven time and time again, these elite classes will not go down without a fight and care not at all how millions have to die to protect their lives of wealth and privilege.

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got some warnings from that link

[Wizzo]

Chavez is about to get ousted!

[Tanker]

If anyone here thinks the US would deploy three MEUs for drug trafficking they are very naive...

Seriously, at that count of Marines they likely deployed every MEU AT Camp Lejune... they only have three!

22nd, 24th, and 26th MEUs... they just deployed all of them...

22nd MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel
24th MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel
26th MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel

thats just about 7000 Marines!

[NaughtyRob]

War on drugs?

[TheSenator]

22nd MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel
24th MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel
26th MEU has a strength of about 2,200 personnel

thats just about 7000 Marines!

How many forces do we have ready on the ground if the United States gets attacked?

40,000,000 million???

50,000,000 million???

[BestXXXPorn]

How many forces do we have ready on the ground if the United States gets attacked?

40,000,000 million???

50,000,000 million???

LOL...

There are 1.4M total military personnel...

Marines are the smallest of the forces (aside from coast guard) and there are only about 20,000 combat marines out of the 200,000...

So they just sucked up about 1/3rd of the total Marine combat troops for a war on drugs, HAH! That concept is beyond silly to me.

[halfpint]

Wow thats a huge troop movement .. sounds rather strange moving that amount of troops and war ships to fight drugs

[Daddy Big Nuts]

Shore leave at the Del Ray

[Tanker]

Active Military Personnel: 1,385,122 [2008]
Active Military Reserve: 1,458,500 [2008]

[bronco67]

For the surfing? The women?

[Tanker]

7,000 to Costa Rica, 524 to our own border.

[Dead]

The whole concept of fighting "drugs"is futile, Wish those boys could be a little more copacetic! Yaaaay!!!! more wasted time, money, and effort...dog forbid they use this force of power on something that might actually make a fuckin difference in this world....our government is a bunch of incompetent TOOLS!!!!!

[fatfoo]

Why? The answer is simple: to help fight drug trafficking.

[Varius]

Bah, they will need more marines than that to take my secret Jungle fortress!

The official statement is they are authorized to come in and help combat drugs, as Costa Rica can't handle it themselves (they can't handle much of anything, really). CR has become a major gateway for drugs from Colombia heading northwards.

The actual thought is, they are coming to oust Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua).

China has also just recently become extremely pissed off at Costa Rica...so could be CR simply showing them "we sold out to the USA now so back off".

Lastly, they are obviously here to bolster Costa Rica's fading sex tourism industry

[Tanker]

Military.com is reporting this move as well

http://www.military.com/news/article...=1186032310810

[TheSenator]

I wonder how much it is costing the US tax payer to send all these troops over to Costa Rica?

Where are the Teabaggers on this situation?

[Brujah]

We're about to invade Mexico and claim it as a U.S. territory. Then we won't have to sue Arizona. Everyone will suddenly be legal.

[over38]

Best answer !

Chavez is about to get ousted!

[Quagmire]

So Costa Rica invited the USA, a country that has failed miserably with its drug control policy, in to handle the drug trafficking problem?

Okay then...

[Vendzilla]

the "EU TIMES" is an evil neonazi propaganda pamphlet, they make Fox News look socialistic

I've read it a few times, it's a little over the edge

[V_RocKs]

If you posted in this thread there is a very good chance I fucked your mother, son.

[bhutocracy]

This makes more sense ...article from the EU TIMES.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/07/nato-...ke-fears-grow/

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing upon the America?s a catastrophic earthquake.

BAHAHAHahahahahahahhahahah

Jesus. Man, the internets.

[crazytrini85]

7000 to CR and under 1000 to our own borders. Incredible.

[Supz]

They found a coke submarine in Nicaragua or something last week. Costa Rica is right next door. Makes sense.

[fuzebox]

I'm so oblivious to world and local news

[L-Pink]

Federal authorities finally make a move on webby.


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