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		<title>Off Island Perspective Winter 2026</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage.]]></description>
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	A</span>fter a 100 year break, a cargo sail boats are once again crossings the Atlantic. In October 2025 a 136 meter long French built RoRo Neoliner Origin, arrived in port of Baltimore with 5,300 tons of cargo of Renault vehicles and French liqueurs. The<a href="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.offshore-energy.biz/neoliner-origin-the-worlds-first-sailing-roro-vessel-is-finally-here/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Neoliner Origin is equipped with auto sail </a>systems and anti-drift controls. During the stormy crossing the ship suffered damage to its semi-rigid sail. The crew relied on the second sail and auxiliary motor to continue their voyage. The plan is to maintain monthly Trans Atlantic crossings at a speed of 11 knots an hour.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Anglican Schism</h2>



<p>After 491 years after it broke away from Catholic Church the Anglican Church is itself breaking apart. The schism begun with a 2008 warning letter from Anglican’s traditional wing -Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and in October 2025 it became a break, a schism if you will.<a href="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" data-type="link" data-id="https://livingchurch.org/news/news-anglican-communion/gafcon-meeting-could-alter-the-anglican-communion/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Forty-two million, or 85% of all practicing Anglicans are part of the GAFCON</a>. The recent appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, a liberal woman was the final straw for the church’s traditionalists. The GAFCON bishops who hail from outside of Europe have condemned the ever progressing drift of “advocating liberalized sexual or moral teaching” and “abandoning of scriptures” by the Archbishop of Canterbury. GAFCON states that they represent the traditional doctrine of Anglican church and that liberal, Canterbury centered north have strayed into schism. Honduras belongs to IXth Province of the Episcopal Church and is not part of GAFCON.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bye Bye Nuclear</h2>



<p>Germany continues to blow itself up into economic irrelevance, as on October 25, its last two nuclear cooling towers were destroyed in Bavaria. Since 2017 Germany has shut down all of its 10 nuclear reactors. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, in 2023, the<a href="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" data-type="link" data-id="https://militarnyi.com/en/news/man-accused-by-germany-of-blowing-up-nord-stream-and-released-by-poland-gives-his-first-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> US Navy has blew up three of four German-Russian Nord Stream pipelines</a> in a case of biggest since WWII industrial sabotage. This inter NATO sabotage has broke off the inconvenient for NATO German-Russian energy cooperation. This sabotage has helped Germany’s economy to continually contract since 2023 and now its energy costs are the fifth most expensive in the world. At 38-44 US cents/kWh, Germany’s consumer energy prices is around 5% more expensive than Roatan’s.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Trump frees JOH</h2>



<p>On December 1, 2025 the ex-Honduran President<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/01/honduras-human-rights-environment-activists-impunity-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-trump" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by President Trump</a> and few people seem to understand why. The Honduran head of state was arrested in 2021 and extradited to US where he was convicted of drug smuggling charges and sentenced to 45 years in jail JOH, but served just 19 months. JOH was extremely pro Israel in his eight years as Honduran president, to the point that in 2021 he converted to Judaism with his entire family. According to Israeli media JOH received assurances from influential Israeli officials that they would act on his behalf in an event of extradition to the US. It looks like while Israelis couldn’t fight JOH’s extradition during Biden they did secure his pardon during Trump. JOH is one of several Jewish criminals pardoned by Trump, including Joseph Schwartz, Philip Esformes and Joe Lewis. Israel is likely eyeing JOH as someone key<br>in implementing the Isaac Accords in Honduras.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduran Elections Fiasco</h2>



<p>Honduras is no stranger to creative presidential coups and Hondurans were served yet another electoral fiasco in their November 30 elections. After around 12 hours of counting, on December 1, 57% of presidential votes were counted and National Nasry “Tito” Asfura was 515 votes ahead of Liberal Salvador Nasralla. The counting was inexplicably suspended with a “technical tie” and it took another 23 days to finish courting the remaining 43% of the votes. In the end, the Colombian based Grupo ASD [Grupo Asesoría en Sistematización de Datos Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada], which won the election counting bid, counted 3,793,868 cast ballots, with 5.2% of them being blank or null. In recent Honduran elections the invalid votes have been between 6% and 8% in 2013 Honduran elections. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nasry “Tito” Asfura was declared a winner</a> by 27,026 votes, or below 1% of the vote. If the voting inconsistencies weren’t enough there was plenty of foreign interference in 2025 Honduran elections. President Trump meddled in just two days before the vote with a tweet threatening to suspend US aid: “If he [Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad.” Brad Parscale, a former Donald Trump campaign manager and registered Israeli government agent has become part of making sure Tito Asfura won the elections. Nasralla and president Rixi Moncada’s Libre party called it the 2025 elections an “electoral coup.”</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Honduras has now two more discount airlines flying from abroad. In June 2025 JetBlue launched a connection between San Pedro Sula with New York for as little as $80 a seat. In December 2025 Frontier plans to connect SPS with Atlanta for as little as $100. ]]></description>
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	H</span>onduras has now two more discount airlines flying from abroad. In June 2025 JetBlue launched a connection between San Pedro Sula with New York for as little as $80 a seat. In December 2025 Frontier plans to connect SPS with Atlanta for as little as $100. Spirit has been flying passengers from Palmerola International Airport and SPS to Fort Lauderdale for as little as $100. Europe is also becoming more affordable as Palmerola and SPS are now home to two discount airlines <a href="https://tnh.gob.hn/nacional/air-europa-fortalece-conexion-entre-honduras-y-europa-con-nuevo-vuelo-directo-a-san-pedro-sula/" data-type="link" data-id="https://tnh.gob.hn/nacional/air-europa-fortalece-conexion-entre-honduras-y-europa-con-nuevo-vuelo-directo-a-san-pedro-sula/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">flying directly to Madrid and Barcelona</a>. Iberojet connects Honduras with Spain for around $650. Discount Air Europa flies from San Pedro Sula to Madrid for $730. Roatan’s first discount airline is Sun country that can get you to Minnesota for as little as $200.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Healthier in Honduras</h2>



<p>Honduras, while economically poor, is top notch in the Americas in a<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X22001119#:~:text=Overall%20cancer%20burden%20in%20LAC,:%200.75%20and%200.65%2C%20respectively." data-type="link" data-id="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X22001119#:~:text=Overall%20cancer%20burden%20in%20LAC,:%200.75%20and%200.65%2C%20respectively." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> leading health indicator</a>. It is the fourth healthiest country both in North and in South America as far as cancer rates are concerned. Honduras is one of the least affected by cancer countries in the Americas. Here USA leads the sad statistics with 367 annual cancer cases per 100,000, while Honduras has only 128. Only Belize, Guatemala and El Salvador have fewer cancers per person. According to the 2022 study by World Cancer Research Fund, Americans and Canadians have 300% higher cancer rates than Hondurans do. Out of 180 countries tracked, Honduras is number 128. The most infected countries are western, developed countries: Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and USA.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Pre-crime Criminals</h2>



<p>Dozen countries are building a cyber prison control system that effectively will make any dissent or talking-about-dissent a punishable offence. For western societies it is a shift of paradigm from a society where an individual is presumed innocent, to where an individual is an automatic subject of pre-crime investigation by AI, social media monitoring, preventive policing and financial tracking. China already uses a combination of its cameras, social credit system, and snitching to keep their population from voicing any discontent. In Argentina, Javier Milei created an <a href="https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/a-un-ano-de-su-creacion-el-gobierno-oculta-que-funcion-cumple-la-unidad-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-ministerio-de-seguridad.phtml" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/a-un-ano-de-su-creacion-el-gobierno-oculta-que-funcion-cumple-la-unidad-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-ministerio-de-seguridad.phtml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Orwellian Ministry of Security </a>that is supposed to predict the “future crimes” of typically well behaving Argentineans.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Japan turning African</h2>



<p>While European nations have been coerced to import migrant workers since 1970s, and migrants since 2000s, the low birth yet thriving economies of Japan, and South Korea have been given a pass. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has become a tool for globalists to erode the Japanese phenotype. JAICA announced an <a href="https://unseen-japan.com/japan-africa-hometown-protests/" data-type="link" data-id="https://unseen-japan.com/japan-africa-hometown-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Africa Hometown Initiative </a>opening Japan to migrants to immigrants from Africa’s Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. In response Japan’s authorities were contacted by huge amount of concerned Japanese. The controlled media attempted to gaslight the public calling the concerned Japanese “racist” and “xenophobic.” Japan’s population peaked in 2010 with 128 million, but the country is on track to implode to 70 million by 2060, with 40% of those Japanese being over 65 years of age.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">2025 Hurricanes</h2>



<p>It is almost over and the 2025 Hurricane season, June 1 to November 30, has been the lowest in a decade. It should be a bit of a surprise as in May 2025 NOAA predicted that the years hurricane Atlantic hurricane season, had only a<a href="https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/extreme-weather-and-climate-impacts-bite-latin-america-and-caribbean" data-type="link" data-id="https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/extreme-weather-and-climate-impacts-bite-latin-america-and-caribbean"> 10% chance of a below-normal season</a>. The average Hurricane season for the past 10 years had 18 tropical storms through September and so far in 2025 there has been eight. In fact 2025 is only the third time in modern record, after 1968 and 1992, went two weeks leading to peak season without an active named storm.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Digitalized Hondurans</h2>



<p>In April 2025, Honduras <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/tech5-to-provide-decentralized-dpi-for-honduras" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/tech5-to-provide-decentralized-dpi-for-honduras">signed a contract with Tech5</a>, a Swiss technology company, to create a digital ID, digital foreign resident ID, digital driving license, firearms permit and later on digital wallets. These documents are planned to be accessible via a smart phone app on a “secure digital wallet.” In poor, rural Honduras smart phones are expensive, and lost or damaged frequently. Also many Honduran police officers, already used to frequent extrusion, will likely exploit errors on smart phones, apps with bribes. This state surveillance effort, a Honduran effort to do their part in fulfilling the Agenda 2030 plan, will likely become another white elephant paid by Honduran taxpayers.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[After insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. ]]></description>
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	A</span>fter insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, <a href="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" data-type="link" data-id="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin</a> for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. The number of El Salvadorian who used Bitcoin for transactions fell from 26% in 2021 to 8% in 2024.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Greenland’s Shift</h2>



<p>President Trump has repeatedly called for acquiring Greenland to be part of USA. As US pressure mounts Danish rule in Greenland that dates 200 years could be coming to an end. Greenlanders are not happy with their <a href="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Danish government after a policy of forced sterilization of girls </a>without their or their parents consent has come to light. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world, surpassing that of the runner up Guyana by almost a factor of three. If US managed to acquire the world’s biggest island it would jump from being the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometers to being the second largest with 12 million square kilometers. US with Greenland would surpass China and Canada and place just behind Russia with 16.4 million square kilometres.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Solar Disaster</h2>



<p>The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California’s Mojave Desert, is set to close after just 11 years of operation and a cost of $2.2 billion. The facility is the world’s largest thermal solar power plant with 173,000 heliostats that focuses sunrays onto a 459 foot tower. The 4,000 acre folly is proving not only an energy failure by not delivering nearly enough GWh projected, but also as an ecological disaster on a massive scale. The “eco” solar plant had killed turtles by the thousands and insects by the millions. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" data-type="link" data-id="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ivanpah also became world’s biggest animal incinerator</a> as the facility created a death trap for birds with its heliostat mirrors burning to death tens of thousands of falcon, owls and warblers as the flew by its mirrors.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduras Elections</h2>



<p>On Sunday March 9, Honduras held its every four years primary elections. While Liberal party’s Salvador Nasralla beat Jorge Cálix, the ruling Libre party’s Rixi Moncada, w<a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" data-type="link" data-id="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ho is currently Secretary of National Defense</a> and Secretary of Finance, easily beat Rasel Tome. National’s party Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura beat Ana García de Hernández, the wife of US jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández. General elections are scheduled for November 30 to determine the next president and 128 deputies.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">El Salvador’s Prisons</h2>



<p>El Salvador’s prison experiment with its gang members has made a left turn. On February 4, after a one day visit from US’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador’s president Bukele agreed to house violent criminals currently held in US jails regardless of their held nationality. This agreement has little precedent around the world. Some of these criminals will be Salvadorians that are MS-13 gang members, others would be the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and also U.S. citizens and legal residents with no US nationality. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele">They are planed to be housed in El Salvador’s</a> CECOT maximum security mega-prison that houses 15,000 currently, but has a capacity for 40,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Panama Drama</h2>



<p>Upon taking office in January 2025 president Trump criticized Panama for allowing China a growing influence over its strategic waterway canal. According to sources <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/panama-canal-history-trump/index.html">Trump has ordered the military to draw up</a> a plan how it could seize the canal. US acquired the rights to build and operate the canal, but in 1974 sold it to Panama for $1 and its control ceased in 1999. US and Panama agreed however to defend the canal against any threat to its neutrality allowing for a unilateral action to be taken to reestablish it. In March the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. allowed a US based Black Rock-led consortium to purchase Panama Canal ports Port of Cristobal and Port of Balboa for $22 billion.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Satoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. ]]></description>
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	&#8220;S</span>atoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. <a href="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins</a> that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. To surpass the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, with $340 billion, Bitcoin would have to more than triple in price and go to $360,000. Unless it is an unknown introvert living in his mother’s basement, Satoshi’s persona has been attributed to Peter Todd, Len Sassaman or just maybe a small team at the NSA.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Optimism for Optimus</h2>



<p>The race for releasing general-purpose robots for sale is on. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that his Optimus robot “has the potential to be more significant than [Tesla’s] vehicle business over time.” In December 2023, the 5-foot-8, 125-pound <a href="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Optimus 2.0 was shown to do perform complex tasks</a> such as dancing and poaching an egg and was reported to be able to carry objects up to 45 pounds. Musk said he is planning a limited production of Optimus robots to be used first at Tesla facilities in 2025 and other companies in 2026. The robots price is estimated to be at around $30,000. The projected first tasks for Optimus are those that are “dangerous, repetitive and boring.” Tesla’s competitor in the field of humanoid robots is Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA. Its Atlas robot is estimated to be sold for $150,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What after Iran?</h2>



<p>Fall of Iran will not mean the end of wars in the Middle East. According to General Wesley Clark US military had plans for Iranian regime change as early as September 2001. “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” said Gen. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clark about being alerted to the plan</a>. While it took 24 years to completely destroy Syria, Iran regime tippling is well underway. There are signals of plans for continuation of the region’s destabilization. When the Iran regime falls due to US, Israeli and likely Afghani efforts there are other countries that have been moved up on the regime change list. They are Qatar, Pakistan with its nuclear arsenal and Turkey with region’s largest military.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Coincidence of Drones</h2>



<p>Operation Spiderweb and Israeli drone attacks on Iran had some striking similarities in never before seen, surprise military drone warfare operations, suggesting Israel involvement in the <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/" data-type="link" data-id="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/">Ukraine Russian war.</a> The June 1, 2025 Operation Spiderweb utilized quadrocopter drones with explosives that were smuggled in 40 foot containers to the vicinity of Russian long range air force bases. Five bases, some as far as Mongolian border, were targeted and Ukrainians destroyed around 20 Russian airplanes. As many as 117 first-person view drones were used using AI to overcome time delay from such long distances. While president Zelenskyy stated that the preparation took 18 months, only 12 days later, in the night of June 13, Israel’s Mossad launched assassination operations. The drones and quadrocopters launched inside Iran killed estimated 10 Iran senior military commanders and 16 Iranian nuclear scientists as they slept in their homes.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Habemus Papam</h2>



<p>On May 8, 2025, Robert Francis Prevost, a cardinal with US and Peruvian passports, was elected pope and took the name Pope Leo XIV. The election took place on the fourth vote of the conclave to elect the pope after the death of Jorge Bergoglio. Pope Leo XIV is the first pope from North America, the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the second one to speak English as a native. <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/">Prevost was born south of Chicago</a> in 1955, and he is the first baby boomer pope. He has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, a Master of Divinity and a Doctorate of Canon Law. Since the 1980s, he lived and served in Peru when and in 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Chiclayo. In 2023, Prevost was created a cardinal-deacon, and in February 2025, Francis promoted Prevost to be cardinal-bishop.bishop.</p>
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		<title>Off Island Perspective Winter 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Bitcoin price has reached $100,000 Senator Cynthia Lummis has proposed a Bitcoin reserve act for the US federal government. The plan entails the US government to annually acquire 200,000 Bitcoins to total 1 million and hold those for at least 20 years as a strategic reserve. States of Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio have filed similar proposals. ]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Upcoming Bitcoin Reserves?</h2>



<p>As Bitcoin price has reached $100,000 Senator Cynthia Lummis has proposed a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/21/governments-and-banks-once-mocked-bitcoin-now-they-want-in-on-it" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/21/governments-and-banks-once-mocked-bitcoin-now-they-want-in-on-it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bitcoin reserve act for the US federal government.</a> The plan entails the US government to annually acquire 200,000 Bitcoins to total 1 million and hold those for at least 20 years as a strategic reserve. States of Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio have filed similar proposals. The US government holds already 250,000 Bitcoins confiscated from Silk Road and other convicted offenders. With the US debt surpassing $ 33 trillion and possible collapse of the dollar President Trump supports the idea.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Gold and Bitcoin Mining</h2>



<p>El Salvador parliament has voted to again allow mining of its gold deposits valued at around $3 trillion. The country’s gold belt spans its north and borders several Honduran departments: Intibucá, Lempira and La Paz suggesting some gold deposits there. El Salvador was the only country in the world that banned all forms of metal mining in 2017 and has also become the first state, in 2021, to accept <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e3l3xllwo" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e3l3xllwo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bitcoin as legal tender</a>. El Salvador government purchases one Bitcoin daily, and mines hundreds of Bitcoins a year, steadily adding to its Bitcoin reserves estimated to be at around 5,750 Bitcoin, or $600 million.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Syria Collapse</h2>



<p>The US and its proxies have managed to create another failed state in the Middle East. After US military and CIA covert operations costing $ trillions Iraq Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan and now Syria have become another quagmire unsafe for ancient Christians, women and peaceful life in general. Since 2011 CIA coup replace the demonized president <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-10/the-factions-that-overthrew-assad-in-syria-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-a-difficult-fit.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-10/the-factions-that-overthrew-assad-in-syria-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-a-difficult-fit.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bashar al-Assad with a terrorist head of Hay’at Tahrir</a> al-Sham [HTS] Muhammad Al-Jawlani who still holds a $10 million FBI bounty on his head. According to US embassy in Syria statement from 2017 “the core of HTS is Nusra, a designated terrorist organization. (…) HTS is a merger and any group that merges into it becomes part of al-Qa’ida,” incidentally an organization that US government claims killed 3000 Americans in 9/11 attacks. Since December Syria has been partitioned into four parts fighting, or preparing to fight each other: US and Israeli backed Kurds in the East, Turkey’s international terrorists in the North, American Jihadis in the south, and Israeli invading the south West.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Rumania’s Back in Dictature</h2>



<p>Rumania Supreme Court has annulled the November 7, 2024 presidential elections in which Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate, won a relative majority of the vote. The court also cancelled the runoff round of the elections scheduled for December 8 and declared that elections would be dome sometime in the spring of 2025. Georgescu is inconvenient to both Globalist and US Military complex as he opposes Russian –Ukrainian war, he wants to outlaw LGBTQ propaganda in Romania, increase role of Christianity in public life and presents two largest Romanian political parties as corrupt globalist tools. <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/calin-georgescu-the-ex-soil-scientist-who-rose-to-prominence-on-tiktok-and-is-on-course-to-be-romanias-next-president-13267482" data-type="link" data-id="https://news.sky.com/story/calin-georgescu-the-ex-soil-scientist-who-rose-to-prominence-on-tiktok-and-is-on-course-to-be-romanias-next-president-13267482">Georgescu became an uncontrollable factor </a>in advancement of globalist agenda in Europe, especially as US is building its largest military, 10,000 soldier base in Europe on Rumanian coast.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">COVID according to Congress</h2>



<p>Almost five years after the break out of the COVID 19 coronavirus US Congress has concluded its investigation into the matter. The 520 page report states that the SARS-CoV virus most likely was released from <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/ecohealth-daszak-grilled-by-subcommittee/">BSL-4 Wuhan Chinese laboratory</a>. Just so happens the named in the report laboratory that was conducting military gain of function research was funded by US taxpayers. US National Institute of Health has paid $3.7 million to the Wuhan lab that originated the worldwide COVID health operation. Return on investment is impressive as economic toll of the handling COVID operation in the US is estimated have been $14 Trillion.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swan Islands Prison Fraught with scandals president Xiomara Castro has pushed ahead with another white elephant project of building a prison on Swan Islands, an archipelago that was once used as a CIA radio outpost. Honduran government had allocated $72 million for the Swan Islands [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Fraught with scandals president Xiomara Castro has pushed ahead with another white elephant<a href="https://ticotimes.net/2024/06/15/honduras-announces-mega-prison-to-combat-crime-surge" data-type="link" data-id="https://ticotimes.net/2024/06/15/honduras-announces-mega-prison-to-combat-crime-surge" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> project of building a prison on Swan Islands</a>, an archipelago that was once used as a CIA radio outpost. Honduran government had allocated $72 million for the Swan Islands prison in 2025. While over 300 kilometer to the north east, the big and little Swan islands are a part of Roatan municipality and seem to have great tourist potential, if the government doesn’t get there first. If Castro gets her way, Bay Islands will receive a financial boost from families visiting country’s 2000 most dangerous convicts. Some of these prisoners might even get so used to Caribbean weather and Hurricanes that hit the Swan Islands with record frequency and might even decide to stay in the Bay Islands once their sentence is completed. Fortunately for those supporting this Devil Island 2.0 Honduras has a history of unfinished prisons, one of them being abandoned prison in Naco, Cortés.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Exploding Pagers, Radios</h2>



<p>The biggest, most complex, terrorist operation since September 11, 2001 took place on September 17 and 18 in Lebanon and Syria. At 3:30 pm, after receiving a text, over 3000 pagers exploded killing 42 people and injuring 2,800 more. Next day <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hundreds of handheld radios were triggered in other explosions</a>. The pagers were distributed by Hezbollah mostly to its civil servants and medical staff. The pagers used in the attacks were branded by Taiwanese company Gold as Apollo AR924 and made by a company based in Hungary. While Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president denied Israel’s involvement, he also insinuated Druze community could be the culprit. While Booby-trapping harmless devices violates signed by Israel and 126 other entities Conventional Weapons Convention, practically everyone understands that this has be an Israeli operation. Israel is unique in possessing the motive, sophistication and ruthlessness to carry south such an operation. In a rare moment of honesty Leon Panetta, a former CIA director, described the pager attacks as an Israeli “form of terrorism.” The implications for the future of setting a precedent of a mass market consumer object being used in a state terrorist attack could be vast.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Who is El Comandante?</h2>



<p>A bombshell <a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-video-shows-traffickers-discussing-bribes-with-honduras-presidents-brother-in-law/" data-type="link" data-id="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-video-shows-traffickers-discussing-bribes-with-honduras-presidents-brother-in-law/">video was released by InSight Crime.com</a> on 3 September, 2024 of a 2013 meeting of convicted drug traffickers and Olancho Congressman Carlos Zelaya discussing how the criminals will fund the Libre Party’s political campaign. Curiously the video recording surfaced less than a week after president Xiomara Castro had suspended the extradition treaty to US. Fallowing the video release Carlos Zelaya has fled Honduras and renounced his seat in Honduran congress. In the video Carlos Zelaya, AKA Carlón, discuses the $650,000 bribe with several well known narcos. Amongst them Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga “El Cachiro,” Javier Maradiaga and better known on Roatan Carlos “El Negro” Lobo who was recently released from a US prison. In the video Carlos Zelaya states that the 50% of the money has to go to comandante… Presumably his brother Mel, and ex president of Honduras and husband of the current president. No arrests have been made over a month since the video surfaced.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Assange is Free</h2>



<p>After being a scapegoat of the US deep state since he fled to an Ecuadorian embassy in <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee24pvl94o" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee24pvl94o">2012 Julian Assange is finally free</a>. In 2019 Assange was dragged out of the embassy by British authorities. From 2019 till his release in 2024 he was held in top security Belmarsh Prison. While Assange took refuge in Ecuadorian embassy, CIA discussed the ways he could be kidnapped or killed. According cia CIA officials sources Trump’s Mike Pompeo, then CIA director, was trying “to get even with WikiLeaks founder.” That chapter finally ended when in June 2024 Assange signed a plea bargain with US Department of Justice. He pled guilty to one felony count of violating the US Espionage Act in exchange to his immediate release after serving 62 months in British prison. Assange’s plight was meant to give a chilling effect to anyone considering revealing crimes committed by the US government and deep state that controls it. In an act of vindication-of-sorts, on October 2, Council of Europe classified Julian Assange as political prisoner.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gilbert Reyes, an American suspected of killing three Roatan women: Maria Antonia Cruz, Nikendra McCoy and Dione Solórzano, is attempting to fight extradition from Dominican Republic to Honduras. Reyes was arrested on March 31 in Santo Domingo on an INTERPOL warrant related to the murders that took place in José Santos Guardiola. ]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Extradition from DR</h2>



<p>Gilbert Reyes, an American suspected of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-citizen-arrested-dominican-republic-accused-killing-3-women-honduras" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-citizen-arrested-dominican-republic-accused-killing-3-women-honduras" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">killing three Roatan women</a>: Maria Antonia Cruz, Nikendra McCoy and Dione Solórzano, is attempting to fight extradition from Dominican Republic to Honduras. Reyes was arrested on March 31 in Santo Domingo on an INTERPOL warrant related to the murders that took place in José Santos Guardiola. The three women went missing on January 7 and their bodies were found two days later in French Cay, inside a vehicle known to be driven by Bermudez earlier. Bermudez had left the island for US on a flight before the bodies were found.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">BELCO in Crisis</h2>



<p>The management of Bonacca Electric Company [BELCO] <a href="https://hondudiario.com/nacionales/gobierno-de-libre-confisca-empresa-belco-en-guanaja-islas-de-la-bahia/" data-type="link" data-id="https://hondudiario.com/nacionales/gobierno-de-libre-confisca-empresa-belco-en-guanaja-islas-de-la-bahia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">has been taken over by ENEE </a>after Guanajans were left without power for two days on May 17. BELCO was set up in early 1990s as a co-op and was bought out by Desarrollos Energéticos [DESA] several years ago. ENEE is not set up to run a company like BELCO long term and likely BELCO will be placed for an auction sale just like RECO was in 2008. RECO is likely eyeing BELCO’s 8000 customers, located on the undervalued and les developed than Roatan Guanaja Island, for purchase.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Wildfires vs. Airports</h2>



<p>Several of Honduras’ five international airports were closed in May due to low visibility caused to wildfires. As of May 20 there were<a href="https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/worldview/worldview-image-archive/fires-smoke-central-america-21-may-2024" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/worldview/worldview-image-archive/fires-smoke-central-america-21-may-2024" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> 30 wildfires reported burning through the country</a> on an area of half a million acres. Tegucigalpa international airport was closed for five days as air quality caused the authorities to declare a state of emergency in the capital.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[While the Israeli operation in Gaza keeps bearing more ugly fruit, few have analyzed the role Israeli intelligence services played in the October 7 Hamas operation. 
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Just Another False Flag</h2>



<p>While the Israeli operation in Gaza keeps bearing more ugly fruit, few have analyzed the role Israeli intelligence services played in the October 7 Hamas operation.<br>Israeli services had foreknowledge of the Hamas attack from multiple sources. NYT reported on Israeli military having detailed plans of the Hamas attack more than one year before October 7, coincidentally an exact<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/10/yom-kippur-war-defcon-nuclear/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/10/yom-kippur-war-defcon-nuclear/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur war</a>, a date that should have anticipated violence. Also Egyptian military provided Israeli government with repeated warning about the attack days prior. Haaretz reported on Shin Bet and IDF discussing a threat to Nova music festival and hours before the attack. Yet the public was told that IDF was caught by complete surprise on the 50 year anniversary of its Yom Kippur War, a time where all units should be on high alert.<br>While Israel prides itself with having a vast network of spies, informants and fool proof electrical surveillance, yet somehow Shinbet, Mossad, IDF, Israeli Air Force and Navy allowed 3,000 Hamas fighters to breach a secure, electronically monitored fence in 12 places and reach Israeli settlements causing uninterrupted chaos for seven hours: between 6:30am and 1:30pm.<br>We also don’t know why Israeli citizens in communities adjacent to Gaza called out to Israeli forces and family for help, but no help came for seven hours. When it finally did, it resulted in friendly fire deaths. Out of the 1,140 Israelis killed, a sizable percentage have been killed by IDF implementing Hannibal procedure, a policy where Israelis should be sacrificed, killed even as not to allow them to be taken as hostages and taken to Gaza.<br>There is a long tradition of Zionist and later Israeli false flag operations: King David Hotel bombing (1946), The Lavon affair (1954), the USS Liberty attack (1967), Dancing Mossad Agents (2001) to name a few. Increasingly October 7 looks like another false flag operation allowing Israel to perform a land grab action like it did in Golan Heights and is doing in West Bank.<br>Hamas, alongside the ISIS and Al-Qaida is yet another useful golem is the quiver of Israeli intelligence services. A proper investigation of October 7 would lead to some uncomfortable answers and rolling heads in Israel and that current regime there cannot have.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Road Blocking</h2>



<p>On February 8, a group of José Santos Guardiola residents<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&amp;v=2116653852026718&amp;external_log_id=7a26bd3e-b1f4-427e-9329-5b8914e52969&amp;q=toma%20de%20calle%20roatan" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&amp;v=2116653852026718&amp;external_log_id=7a26bd3e-b1f4-427e-9329-5b8914e52969&amp;q=toma%20de%20calle%20roatan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> took to the streets and at 6am blocked the main road</a> connecting the two island municipalities. One of the protesters was holding a sign: “Free NASA driving courses in JSG.” Indeed the main road is ridden with so many potholes it is not only dangerous to drive on it is also reminiscent of a lunar landscape. They were demanding that central government rebuild the damaged road from Oak Ridge to JSG western border. No cars or motorcycles were allowed through the protesters. It seems that the government heard the protester. According to Wendy Carter, one of the protest’s organizers, three companies bid for the rebuilding of the damaged JSG road. “I’m hoping that by the beginning of April they will start the work on the main road,” said Carter.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduran President in Jail </h2>



<p>On March 8, US federal court found the Honduran ex-president (2014-22) Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of a conspiracy of a several decade long smuggling of cocaine to the US.<br>While US presidents enjoy freedom from prosecution for wars started for false pretenses,<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68516822" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68516822" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> importing cocaine to airports in Mena, AR</a>, taking bribes from foreign companies and assassinations, things work differently in Honduras. Not that JOH has not been warned of dangers of his lifestyle by fate of his predecessors: CIA assassin and later president Saddam Hussein, CIA drug runner and spy president Manuel Noriega for example. CIA, the Praetorian guard for the deep state, creates these bad actors, supports them and sacrifices them once their usefulness has run its course.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[The September Roatan Fishing Tournament took place for the twenty third time. In the bill fish category Triple X boat dominated with 2,200 points. The second place Black Indian and third place Wahoo Slayer came in with 1,000 points. The Rodeo Category was won by the Roa Tide with 173 points, Persistence took second place and Adrenaline came in third. The fishing tournament organizers hope to increase more international boats to the 2024 event. Triple X came home with prizes totaling $42,400. ]]></description>
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<p>The September <a href="https://fb.watch/nTUP-ho0sH/" data-type="link" data-id="https://fb.watch/nTUP-ho0sH/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Roatan Fishing Tournament took place for the twenty third time</a>. In the bill fish category Triple X boat dominated with 2,200 points. The second place Black Indian and third place Wahoo Slayer came in with 1,000 points. The Rodeo Category was won by the Roa Tide with 173 points, Persistence took second place and Adrenaline came in third. The fishing tournament organizers hope to increase more international boats to the 2024 event. Triple X came home with prizes totaling $42,400. “This prize can catapult us into another level,” said Devin McNab. “So we can attract international fishing boats.”</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Armenian Genocide 2.0</h3>



<p>On September 30, after living in Nagorno Karabkh for over 2,000 years, Armenian population <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/almost-all-ethnic-armenians-have-left-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/almost-all-ethnic-armenians-have-left-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">had almost entirely left the autonomous region in Azerbaijan</a>. Most of them left with nothing more, but clothes on their backs. They abandoned houses, animals, furniture. This exodus of over 110,000 people was caused by fear of repeat of genocide of 1915 that killed 1.5 Armenians. The sad history could likely repeats itself and only same actors changed. While the Young Turks- Dönme, Turks and Kurds caused the Armenian genocide 108 years ago now it is Azeris, with aid of Turkey and Israel that threaten Armenians with extermination. Meantime controlled media stays silent Israel has provided drone and missile technology that were key in the Azeris defeating Armenians militantly in the recent conflict.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Countdown to Digital Prison</h3>



<p>The attack on family and on personal freedom and promotion of earth worship has been undertaken at the G20 summit in India called “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBULyw_Simc&amp;ab_channel=TheEconomicTimes" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBULyw_Simc&amp;ab_channel=TheEconomicTimes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">One Earth, One Family, One Future</a>.” The 20 world leaders agreed to pushed the agenda of taxation, digitization of proof of vaccination and identification documents. Honduras has embraced the digital idea and from July the country’s transport body has begun issuing digital drivers licenses.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Silencing RFK Jr.</h3>



<p>Robert F Kennedy is scaring living daylights out of the US’s democratic party machine. The Biden administration has refused the candidate a security detail, refused him opportunity to debate and legacy media has dynamic silenced him. Still, his truth bomb shrapnel has gained him as many as 25% of democratic primary votes according to some polls. Here are a few bombs from RFK Jr.: “CIA killed my uncle [president JFK],” “US created ISIS,” “Aluminum accumulated in environment can only come from chemtrails,” and Big Pharma’s children vaccines creating <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/18/fact-check-autism-diagnosis-changes-over-years-account-high-rate/7102414002/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/18/fact-check-autism-diagnosis-changes-over-years-account-high-rate/7102414002/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">30,000% spike in autism in the last 50 years</a>. If someone keeps listening to RFK they might the impression that all of the US institutions don’t have US citizen’s best interest at heart. Now RFK Jr. plans to run as an independent and that could split the democratic vote so much that even the election fraud on the scale of 2020 will not be able to keep Trump from winning.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">15th of September</h3>



<p>Despite rainy weather Roatanians turned out in high numbers to celebrate<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsvp873AZg&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=HCHTelevisi%C3%B3nDigital" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsvp873AZg&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=HCHTelevisi%C3%B3nDigital" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> 202 years of Honduras’ and Central America’s independence</a> from Spain. Dozens of marching bands from schools all around the island took place in parades took place in Coxen Hole and in Oak Ridge.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Germany’s ruling SPD party is ready talk reparations with Poland. The Polish government is demanding 6.6 trillion zlotys, or 1.6 trillion US dollars, in reparations from Germany for material and humanitarian losses during the World War II. ]]></description>
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<p>Germany’s ruling SPD party is ready talk reparations with Poland.<a href="https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/03/poland-formally-demands-13-trillion-from-germany-in-wwii-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> The Polish government is demanding 6.6 trillion zlotys</a>, or 1.6 trillion US dollars, in reparations from Germany for material and humanitarian losses during the World War II. The Polish government states that a 1953 Stalinist era agreement of relinquishing all reparations claims were made under duress from pressures of the Soviet Union and are therefore are null and void. Polish side claims it never received fair compensation for the 1939-1945 war that left the country in ruins. If the compensation is paid, it would amount to $41,000 per Polish citizen, or 230% of the country’s GDP. That amount surpasses the restitution paid out to Holocaust victims and their heirs that Germany paid out in the amount of $87 billion.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Gangs in Honduran Prisons</h3>



<p>On June 20, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65969092" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">46 female inmates were massacred at a Tamara women’s prison</a> outside of Tegucigalpa. The Barrio 16 street members smuggled in guns, grenades, machetes, and flammable liquid before subduing prison guards. The female gang members then attacked a cellblock where a rival gang was housed; victims were shot, hacked with machetes, and set on fire. Honduras, with a network of 21 prisons, is making efforts at replicating neighboring El Salvador’s crackdown against gangs and gang members. El Salvador recently moved 4,000 of its 70,000 jailed gang members to Terrorism Confinement Center, a specially built maximum security prison that can hold 40,000 prisoners.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Nicaragua Distances US for Iran</h3>



<p>In mid June, Iranian president <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/16/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-concludes-visit-to-three-latin-american-countries-with-renewed-focus-on-south-south-cooperation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ebrahim Rainsis visited Latin America’s Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba</a>. “During all these (years?), you resisted against the conspiracies of imperialism and triumphed,” said president Rainsi to the Nicaraguan parliament. “The United States wanted to paralyze our people with threats and sanctions, but it hasn’t been able to do it,” he told Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega. Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Nicaragua in 2007 and this visit is yet another sign of multi polarization of the region and Central America. While the Iranian president visited the most established leftist regimes in the Western Hemisphere, he was not yet invited by the new left governments that took power in Brazil, Colombia, and Chile.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">From Volcanoes to Bitcoins</h3>



<p>El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has presented a plan of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/el-salvador-partnership-build-1-billion-bitcoin-mining-farm-2023-06-05/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">constructing several volcano powered energy plants devoted primarily to bitcoin mining</a>. This is a fast track project. The state owned geothermic company La Geo estimates that the country generates around 200MW, or 22%, of its energy through geothermal power. The estimates also show the capacity of increasing that to 644MW, where around 70% of El Salvador’s energy would come from volcano power. That would make the country one of the biggest bitcoin miners in the Americas. Volcano generated and geothermal energy bitcoin mining operations have been in operation since October 2021. That was just weeks after El Salvador declared bitcoin, alongside the US dollar, to be its legal tender. El Salvador abandoned its Colones for the US dollar in 2001.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">War is good for Business</h3>



<p>The Ukraine-Russia war is providing a great boom to international military manufacturing complex Black Rock and other global players. Many new types of armaments are being manufactured, and development in munitions manufacturing should maintain the war for the next decade or two as the wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. The British government is supplying depleted <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-us-will-send-depleted-uranium-munitions-to-ukraine-a-health-physicist-explains-their-military-health-and-environmental-effects-207699" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Uranium ammunition to Ukraine</a>. The Biden administration is considering providing Ukraine cluster bombs that are banned by the UK, France and Germany for being too dangerous to civilians. Ukraine is deploying scatter mines that the country itself has banned. Russia has developed intercontinental nuclear “vanguard” missiles that can travel at 27 times the speed of sound, and has stationed them near the Finnish border and other locations. Iran is finishing construction of low cost Shahed kamikaze drones outside of Moscow. Iran’s drone technology comes in significant part from a captured US stealth drone, RQ-170 Sentinel.</p>
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