Iranians have been burring not only Israeli and American flags, but statues of Baal, the Satanic demon appeased by child sacrifice, usually by burning. On February 11, on the 47th anniversary of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Iranians burned Baal effigies across several cities. This attitude is in a stark contrast with the UK and USA where in 2016 Arch of Triumph of the Temple of Baal from Syria was erected and celebrated by high UK officials in London’s Trafalgar square. The Iranian Baal effigy carried a slogan: “We, the monotheists of the world, by the help of God, will bring down the worshipers of Baal, the worshipers of Satan, and the arrogant oppressors.” Thirteen days later, the Israel-US attack on Iran begun by perfidious assassinations of its 84-year-old religious leader meeting to discuss a response to US demands. Bombings begun on February 28, the eve of Jewish holiday of Purim – celebrating Jews killing 75,000 Persians in 355 BC. In another assassination that day 176 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7 to 12, were killed by US jets in a “double-tap” missile strike that also killed first responders who came to help the survivors 40 minutes later. While US public is confused about why their armed forces attacked Iran, many Iranians believe the true nature of their struggle is spiritual and eschatological in nature.

Isaac Coming to Honduras

In June 2025, President Milei’s personal Rabbi launched the Isaac Accords – Israel’s diplomatic initiative to spread its influence across Latin America. The Isaac Accords are modeled after the 2020 Abraham Accords that served as a prelude in spreading Israel’s sway in the Middle East and its war on Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran- countries that were not part of the accord. The original signatories of the Isaac Accords were Uruguay, Panama and Costa Rica and in 2026 Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and potentially El Salvador could join in. As Honduras’ president Asfura owes a debt to Israel for his controversial 2025 election win, it is likely Honduras could be signing the accords in not too distant future. The cooperation proposed in the accords focuses on forming intelligence-sharing alliances, economy and security.

Drones in Haiti

XXI century technologies XXI century technologies have arrived in Haiti – Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. Since March 2025 over 1,200 Haitians have been killed by quad copter explosive drones. The killer drones are manned by private military contractors Vectus Global, which is led by Blackwater founder Erik Prince. According to human Rights Watch the “gang member” assassinated by the drone strikes were not directly threading any civilians. The most lethal of those drone assassinations killed 57 Haitians in one explosion. These strikes not only kill suspected “gang members,” but many civilians and until now 17 children. The so-far $52 million cost of the drone assassinations comes out to $42,000 per person killed and is paid by Haitian government. Haiti is providing a glimpse at the future of surveillance and punishment systems that are being implemented across the world.

More SSPX Bishops

The Catholic Priestly Society of San Pius X [SSPX] has announced that it will move forward with consecrating a number of bishops after Vatican refused their approval. The consecrations are scheduled for July 1, 38 years to the day after SSPX consecrated its four bishops, also without Papal approval. Two of its four consecrated in Écône in 1988 bishops have died in 2025. Vatican has stated that these consecrations would form “decisive rupture of ecclesial communion (schism)” and carry “grave consequences.” While both the consecrating bishops, and consecrated bishops face an automatic excommunication (latae sententiae), SSPX argues that the “grave state of necessity” that exists in the Catholic Church allows them to proceed to with consecrations as the paramount Catholic goal is saving souls. Without new bishops SSPX faces a risk that the communities it tends to lose the ability to receive new ordained priests and receive bestowed by bishops sacraments of confirmation. SSPX was funded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 and grew from around 60,000 followers in 1988 to include 700 priests, 134 schools, six seminaries and well over 600,000 followers today.

Allan finished high school in Orlando, Florida first and studied engineering from Caterpillar in Tampa. The young Allan returned home to Roatan to work with his dad in his growing business. They built a bigger boat in 1958 and named her M/V Judy. The boat was built to run coconuts from the Bay Islands to the USA.

Allan’s uncle, Hersel Elwin, also had a boat, which he later turned control over to Allan to operate. Allan named this boat the Altear and put it to work running coconuts to Miami. On one of his trips picking up coconuts in Bonacca, he saw a beautiful girl named Yvette Kirkconnell. He decided it was time for him to get a wife – not long thereafter, couple were married.

At that time, the first shrimp boats had arrived from the USA and were operating out of Bonacca. Allan saw this as a new business opportunity, and in June 1963 he brought the first Roatan shrimp boat named Lady E to French Harbour.

Two years later, the three Hyde brothers purchased a second boat named Mr. B. The three brothers purchased a few more shrimp boats, and Allan decided it was time to build their seafood packing plant. They broke ground in 1968, and the building was due to open for operations in September 1969.

His strength was not only physical but was from within.

Unfortunately, a few days before the scheduled opening, Hurricane Francelia hit the Bay Islands on September 1, 1969, and destroyed the nearly- ready packing plant. The day after the hurricane, I accompanied Allan as he walked around and assessed the wreckage that was left. With tears in his eyes, he said to me: “Truman, the only thing I can do is to start all over again and rebuild.” As I looked at him, I realized that his strength was not only physical but was from within, the strength of determination and resilience. The seafood packing plant was rebuilt, and a year later, in 1970, it opened. At the height of the seafood industry in Roatan, he employed about three hundred people.

Allan Hyde was the pioneer who started the seafood business in Roatan. The industry was our largest employer for many years.

Allan’s accomplishments spanned a broad range. The Hyde family brought the first refrigerated ship to the Bay Islands to transport frozen seafood to the USA. This was the beginning of what is now Hybur and Hyde Shipping. Today, the companies operate a fleet of container ships that sail from Florida to four countries in the Western Caribbean.

Allan brought the first well drilling equipment to Roatan to drill deep wells, enabling the island to have a more reliable water supply. Before that, the population relied on rainwater cisterns, shallow wells, and gullies for their water supply. After drilling some personal wells, he asked for donations to install windmills to operate the wells around the island. At the time, the road to Flowers Bay was so bad that he had to walk barefoot in knee-deep mud to get to the area where the well was to be drilled.

Allan donated free electricity for many years to operate the well for the town of French Harbour. He also owned a small bulldozer and maintained the road to French Harbour whenever it got washed out from heavy rains, ensuring that it always remained drivable.

For many years, he was instrumental in providing 24-hour electricity to the town of French Harbour. Later on, during the presidential term of Rafael Leonardo Callejas, he was instrumental in getting island-wide 24-hour electricity generated with the installation of RECO.

He went on to become mayor of Roatan, and a congressman for the Bay Islands. While serving in these roles, he tried hard to get many projects approved that would modernize the islands. This was key in bringing in the first cruise ships to Roatan. To accomplish this, he took several Honduran politicians to Cozumel, Mexico, and Grand Cayman at his own expense, aiming to impress upon them the need to develop the islands for tourism. He told me that if you asked a politician something, you might get it, but if you demonstrated it to them, you stood a better chance of getting it accomplished.

Allan was the driving force of the National Party in the Bay Islands, where he met all of the incoming presidents. It started with General Oswaldo López, and he continued lifelong relations with many of these men. These relationships had lead directly to getting a modern airport and cruise ship dock built in Roatan during the presidency of Leonardo Rafael Callejas.

One of Allan’s employees, Sammy Gayle, started calling Allan ‘The Colonel’ back in 1963. I asked Sammy why he called him that. Sammy replied that whatever Allan set out to do, he accomplished. I, along with many of his friends, continued to call Allan ‘The Colonel’ throughout his life.

Allan Hyde passed away in December 2023, and during his lifetime he was truly a patriot of Roatan. He accomplished many things that we enjoy and take for granted. He left some big shoes to fill, and I hope that in the future we will have many more Roatan patriots like him – men of vision and determination who work to make their lives and our communities a better place to live.

Bay Islands’ Only Children Home

After decades of service, Majken Broby Children’s Home in Gravel’s Bay closed its doors in 2023.  Bay Islands now has only one children’s home – Greenfields Children’s Home in Sandy Bay, and it’s easy to miss. 
Its signage and a steep driveway are located on a curve, and usually marked by two orange cones placed on the dividing line of the main road in Sandy Bay. It has a sign next to a metal gate that’s says “Sandy Bay Lighthouse Ministries.” The site consists of three parts: there is the Greenfield’s Children’s Home, a Beacon Christian School, and a mission center for volunteer groups.
Most of the children at the children’s home come from complicated, sad, and sometimes tragic backgrounds. 

“When kids come to us, they come through bad situations – all kinds of abuse,” said Orsy Cruz, the onsite director of the home. “We see the families split and neither the mother nor the father wants to be responsible for the kids.”
Orsy, originally from Sandy Bay, has been involved in the ministry since 2005. In 2008, he became the onsite director, while his wife Vanessa took on the role of administrator.
The garden around the school is full of fruit trees: breadfruits, mangoes, and bananas. It is a like an island sanctuary where a child can heal, grow, and experience their first steps 
in life. 

Childrens Home

When the project began, there were a couple mishaps. From 2002-2004 it was a run by Brad Warren, an American who operated child sponsorship international from the site. Eventually, after a scandal, Warren left the island in 2004 for Kenya where he became involved in another child sponsorship international operation. “When we started, we had to start all over again. We had to pay for the property,” said Orsy. “It was a bad start.” Orsy believes that God eventually helped things to settle down and thrive.

Currently, there are 24 people working at the Sandy Bay Lighthouse: 11 staff working at the Children’s home, 12 teachers, a dentist, and a part time psychologist.

Sandy Bay Lighthouse Ministries provides opportunities for children and the community in general. Greenfields Children’s Home also helps children transition to independent young adulthood. At 14-15 years of age they can go to a high school, and Orsy has an agreement with Methodist High School in Coxen Hole. Typically, they spend two-three years studying at Methodist High School in Coxen Hole. The home also helps with arranging internships for the teenagers and getting them valuable work experience.

Another program at the orphanage is called 18 plus, and gives the young adults an opportunity to pursue studies at a university. In 2025, two young adults are enrolled in the program and attending university.
The children’s home has a capacity to accommodate 24 boys and 24 girls. “We have always between 20 and 30 kids,” say Orsy.

“We have helped over 400 kids since we have been here.” Some of these children spent a day or two at the home, others spent many years.

While the only children’s home in the Bay Islands is in Sandy Bay, La Ceiba has three private children’s homes. Secretaría de la Niñez, Adolescencia y Familia [SENAF] runs a children’s center in La Mosquitia. SENAF is the entity in charge of children’s welfare in Honduras. “Government has a few children homes, but they are the worst,” says Orsy. “They are always involved in corruption.”

The whole island benefits from this place.

The Honduran government is the watchdog – in principle at least – who looks after the welfare of children in the country. It makes sure the accredited children facilities fulfill certain requirements and keep minimum standards. The Honduran government typically doesn’t provide funding for children in private children’s homes.

The Greenfields Children’s Home has outlived two government agencies responsible for child welfare in Honduras. In the early 2000s, INFA was in operation, later replaced by DINAF, and today the government entity is known as CENAF… In Honduras, CENAF is the legal authority that can move children away from a family’s custody, based on documented abuse or neglect

Private children’s homes in Honduras typically do not receive monetary support from the government, with one exception during Juan Orlando Hernández’s several-year presidency During 2014-2022, the Sandy Bay children’s homes were receiving around 8% of their budget from the government. “As soon as this government [Xiomara Castro] took over, they eliminated [the support],” said Orsy.

Beacon School

The school attended by the children of the home is just a few meters away. It is a smart, two-story concrete building located just below the children’s home. The Christian school is called Beacon and is run by 13 teachers.

Approximately 140 to 150 children from Sandy Bay attend the Beacon School, where they each receive a scholarship that makes education more affordable. “They pay 30-35% of what they would be pay at a regular private school,” says Orsy.

The Beacon school has opportunities for the children to learn about the environment around them and business skills. One of these projects is tilapia farm. The 12 tilapia pools are located above the school and produce fish that are then sold to locals. “It’s a project that teaches older girls and boys how to run a business,” says Orsy. The fish are grown, fed, and harvested, and then sold to buyers in the community. It is a bilingual Christian school, and 13 teachers work here.

Outreach Ministries

Now in early March, the grounds of the orphanage are humming with the enthusiasm of the volunteers who made their way here to help for a week. One such volunteer and board member is Don Shire, a professional musician from the United States. Shire’s adventure with Roatan began almost by accident, in 2002. “I came here on a cruise ship looking to do mission work with a group,” said Shire. “I was looking for opportunities to serve.” During his island visit, Shire visited Glenn Solomon Children’s home in Gravels Bay. It was there he learned that the island needed another place for neglected children.

Honduran government typically doesn’t provide funding.

He is a professional trumpet player who does concerts in churches all over the world. He sometimes meets people after his concerts who want to serve. “I recruit in my concerts people who want to come serve,” says Shire.

Shire makes a statement that can sum up the entire project. “The whole island benefits from this place being here,” he says. Shire is one of eleven board of directors members, most of them American and Canadian. He also helps in orphanages in India, Haiti, and Ukraine.

The whole island benefits from this place.

A team of volunteers will typically spend a week on the island. They often help out with construction projects or in the gardens. Other times, they drive to outlying communities to evangelize and visit poor communities around Roatan, giving away bags of groceries to those in need… The master plan is to have one mission group per community, all the way to Oak Ridge. In 2025, the organization is expecting 20 volunteer groups that come for a week to contribute their skills and enthusiasm.

The intention is to help, and the mission groups do so by donating groceries, building bunk beds, repairing roofs, and doing general home repairs for those in dire need. The volunteer program is affiliated with three Protestant churches in the United States along with individual donors who provide the much needed donations that keep the place operating.

The baseball field portion of the property was turned into mission housing, and there is an adjacent dental clinic that not only tends to the children but offers affordable dental care service to islanders. “We are not a business. We are interested in serving the community,” says Orsy.

In the 1990s and 2000s, the quality evolved still and became more about clean air, clean water, and a nice reef. Starting in the 2010s and 20s, the economy and island population has exploded. There are hundreds of well-stocked stores, strangers, and foreign languages all around. All in all, however, life on the island is still fun, healthy, and exciting. There are several things that contribute to a quality of life on Roatan, and I list them below:

The Basics

Good, year-round climate is the reason why many foreigners come to move to or retire on Roatan. They escape the cold, wet winters of Maine, Minnesota, and Manitoba.

Roatan is blessed with good, clean air, far away from polluted urban centers. Island residents should feel blessed, as there are billions of people living in places filled with dirty, obscure, and toxic air. Except for a few weeks of Central American June grass burning season, the island’s air is clean.

The island’s water comes from a subterranean aquifer that while diminishing, still provides us with quality H2O. The drinking water companies like Sun Water and Ramirez pump the water and purify it through reverse osmosis filters. To the benefit of us all, they do not add fluoride or chlorine.

Culinary Delights

Honduras is also a serious quality food exporter, and this good food is quite affordable on Roatan. The supermarket shelves are filled with great Honduran, shade-grown coffee of various kinds – Honduran beans, seafood, and meats. Eldon’s Supermarket is the best-stocked supermarket in Honduras, if not Central America.

Over the last 20 years, the island exploded with quality and diverse restaurants. For example, in 2003, Atlantic Chinese restaurant in Los Fuertes was the only place on the island to serve oriental cuisine. When Atlantic closed its doors, there was nothing for several years. Now, there are three Chinese restaurants, four to five places that serve sushi, a Thai restaurant, and even an Indian restaurant.

Education

Private primary education on the island began in the 19th century with Royal Readers textbooks being taught to children in private homes. Private secondary education started with ESBIR in 1983, and continued with Roatan Alternative School in Sandy Bay in 2003. Now there are seven private schools: ESBIR, several Christian schools, and a Montessori. There are even two universities, and one of them, UTH, is finishing a campus in French Cay.

Island is still fun, healthy and exciting.

Fast Internet

In 2003, many customers still used telephone dial up for their internet needs. The island connectivity – along with the rest of the planet – has come a long way since then. There are now several companies competing for internet customers, and a fiber optic internet cable connected the island to the mainland and beyond in 2020. Internet speeds, reliability, and costs are now matching what is available in the USA or Canada.

Government Offices

In 1980, there were just a few government agencies on Roatan: customs officer, a port captain, and a police chief. Even in 2000s, if you needed something, you had to go to Tegucigalpa, or at least to La Ceiba to have it done. There is the immigration office and a tax office. In the 2020s, Roatan is booming, and a central government helping you to hand over your money.

Small Community, For Now

Life in cities or big towns can be hectic, stressful, and unsafe. The Greeks said life in a city of over 100,000 becomes unlivable and filled with crime.

Island life keeps one more connected to people that you see over and over again. People are friendly here. Your neighbors are ready to help in an emergency, and those emergencies do keep coming. Life in a big city, on the other hand, gives you a certain level of anonymity and insulation from people you don’t want to see. In a big enough city, you can cut someone off on the road, show him the finger, and expect to never to see them again. These type of actions have consequences on Roatan, so you see them rarely.

If you offend someone on the island, you are likely to see them the next day at a store, or stuck in traffic in Coxen Hole. You cannot count on anonymity on an island that is only 54 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide. Actions have consequences here, and that is a chief reason that Roatanians behave nicely to each other still.

Nature Above and Below Water

Today, the island is still green and relatively undeveloped. Out of 20,000 acres of Roatan’s surface, about 75% is still undeveloped forest or grassland. That number, however, was 90% just 25 years ago, and it is no doubt the island’s urban centers and gated communities that are growing in leaps and bounds.

As a warning to those who care, there are examples of many other Caribbean islands which were once just as beautiful as Roatan. These islands have overdeveloped, their resources were exploited, their trees were cut down, and their landscape became a jungle of concrete. Roatan is not that way yet, and hopefully never will.

Energy of Ideas

Roatan attracts energetic, entrepreneurial people with ideas. Some individuals arrive with novel ideas like charter cities and Bitcoin. Others come here with classical ideas that have been around for millennia, but need to be periodically rediscovered. Those people are about hard work, healthy food, dependability, and appreciation for small, tight communities that support one another.

Roatan has plenty of the free stuff.

Healthcare

Foreign expats retired on Roatan in their 60s, and as their health gets worse, a few years or decades later and in their 70 and 80s, they move back to the USA. They are typically in need of specialized health care and ease of care. These days they are on their way out, and a few people are even talking of an assisted living home being built on the island.
There are now small and large private health clinics all over the island that make life for the elderly much easier. There are dozens of medical specialists living on the island, and their services cost a fraction of what they would in USA or Canada.

Ease of Travel

Maritime travel to and from the island has gotten easier, quicker, and more affordable. You can head off the island on a fast catamaran five times a day. A weekend gateway to Utila or Guanaja is super easy to arrange. Dream Ferries has done a run connecting Roatan with Puerto Cortés via Utila.

That ease of travel wasn’t always the case. Back in the 1970s and 80s, the only way to travel to Roatan was via a dory, or a rickety airplane from La Ceiba. Things have changed greatly, and the island is not only accessible, it is also a hub for hopping to nearby Utila and Guanaja. There are regular flights to El Salvador, Belize, Cayman Islands, and Guatemala. Once a second airport terminal opens, that should get better still.

That is the great advantage of living 20 minutes from an international airport, which Roatan has. The island is separated by two flights from thousands of places around the globe. Islanders are just one flight away from Miami, Dallas, or Houston, and after a change of terminals, you could be on your way to Timbuktu.

Music Scene

Roatan has been alive with the sounds of music since the Garifuna arrived here in 1797. Today, there are a couple dozen bands and musicians that play and perform all around the island. The island musical scale ranges from Garifuna dancers to Country and Western music, with Bobbie Rieman, Muddy, The Happy Boys, and Londoners, to name a few.

Value

In the end, it all comes down to the bang for the buck. In 2025, things on Roatan are still affordable, and land and many homes can be purchased for a reasonable price. While you might have to fork over a hefty $9 million for a three bedroom villa in Saint Barts, you can own a mansion for 5% of that, or $400,000, on Roatan’s east end.

As many of us tend to forget: the best things in life are free, and Roatan has plenty of the free stuff. So let us
appreciate and enjoy the things we have.

Is the Honduran Court system corrupt? Yes. Is the Honduran Military penetrated by freemasons and incompetent? Yes. Is the Honduran Congress filled with inept and self-serving psychopaths? Yes.

The thing is that the Honduran public inherently knows that as it has kept an innate ability to discern fact from illusion. An average Honduran knows the government steals from him and tries to exploit him to one degree or another. The American public on other hand has been gradually deprived of that commonsense understanding over the last century or so. Most Americans live convinced that their government is a “great country” and that it and its many agencies: military, espionage, education “represents their interest.” That unfortunately is an illusion.

There are plenty of Honduran neighbors are noticing that. In March 2023, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated that “in Mexico there is more Democracy than in the US. Here people govern, there oligarchy governs.” He spoke of US military blowing up a Russian-German gas pipeline, with Germany being US’s NATO partner US should actually be protecting. He spoke of truth telling Journalist Julian Assange being viciously persecuted by the US government regardless if Obama, Trump or Biden is “in power.”

In November 2022, El Salvador’s president Bukele said: “America is being destroyed by design from within because it cannot be destroyed from the outside. There is no other logical explanation.” While a Mexican president, and El Salvadors president, can afford to a degree to speak truth to power, Honduran presidents have proven themselves more of peripheral agents of the New World Order and stay silent.

An average Honduran knows the government steals from him and tries to exploit him.

Honduras’ oligarchy is transient, fortunately. Neither of the Ricardo Maduro, Mel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Pepe Lobo or JOH were able to establish an apparatus that was able to survive them. One week they can be Honduran presidents, the next they are arrested and sent to jail. While to some people this reflects that Honduras is sometimes run by criminals, to others it means that even the most powerful criminals in Honduras meet their justice. That unfortunately is not the case with the US justice system and the senior deep state managers.

The US presidents, secretaries of State and NIH chiefs for over the century have been managers of the American Empire for supranational entities. For that, they are given lifelong protection. The US’s legal system and political system protects its deep state “senior manger,” like Kissinger, Clinton(s) or Fauci.

Honduras is on the peripheries of the coming new order and remains relatively free for the average citizen. Freedom in Honduras lives in the wide cracks of the Honduran government’s incompetence, inefficiency and self-service. These cracks are wide enough that many people enjoy freedom of everyday life, raising a family, running a business.

Freedom in Honduras comes from the inefficiency of its media, education system and the government itself. The media in Honduras is relatively small. While they fall in line with most of globalist agendas, they are more similar to local news media in US counties that occasionally get away with telling the truth.

The US government is not run by the American people, nor does this government have the best interest of the American people in mind. The great part of the successful capture of the American mind came via the county’s controlled media and thanks to US’s debased educational system.

The sad reality is that after a decade long process, practically all US institutions, from CIA and Military to USPS have been captured by interests that are not those of the American people. Who captured them is up for contention. Some people call this the deep state, the military industrial complex, the Big Pharma, international banksters, ZOG, Black Rock or family cartels of the central banks. In fact, it could be any of them, or it could be a mixture of any of them colluding, using similar strategies, sharing same owners and striving for same goals.

The control of the US media has a 100 year history. Texas Congressman Callaway entered into congressional record about JP Morgan interests planning and buying out 25 of the US’s leading newspapers in order to take control of the opinion of US public. In March 1915 newspaper men were employed to analyzed 179 newspapers for the purpose of “controlling the general policy of the daily press” and eventually it was decided that only the most influential 25 newspapers needed to be purchased and with it their editors and editorial policy.

The control of the US media grew as the media expanded into radio and television. CIA’s Operation mockingbird began in 1950 and the CIA agency has placed it agents in every major US and some international news outlets. The CIA, a praetorian guard of the deep state, has evolved from controlling the media to being the media.

In XXI century yet another control mechanism has entered the sway as Blackrock and Vanguard control board of directors that won media companies. “Freedom is predicated on privacy. If you have no privacy, you have no freedom,” said Fox’s News Tucker Carlson about NSA intercepting his communication about interviewing Putin before 2022 Ukraine-Russia war escalation. “Democrats are in it like Republicans.”

Honduras is also freer than the US as far as its military is concerned. While indeed Honduras Military has found itself a puppet of the US Military in WWII declaring War on Germany in 1941 and sending troops to Iraq (2003-2004) in that fiasco. Still, the military misadventures of the Honduran Military, compared to the US, have been limited to an occasional internal coup. Every 20 years on average.

Freedom in Honduras comes from the inefficiency of its media, education system and the government itself.

The US on the other hand has become an unwilling party, engulfed in other nations quagmires at expense of blood and treasure of the average American citizen. These decisions have been made by the US not for its own sake but for the sake of another entity. US has become a vassal state waging endless and expensive wars from Libya to Syria to Iraq, allowing Israel to prosper while its enemies live in quagmires.

The 1998 policy report named “Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” prepared for Benjamin Netanyahu by Richard Perle outlined an approach on how to solve Israel’s security problems in Middle East. What fallowed were the CIA and US military wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and coups that led to destabilization of Libya, Egypt and Sudan. Israel benefits while US pays and risks it all.

The only way US is perceived less corrupt than Honduras is that the US has managed to legalize corruption and call it another name. US have 13,000 such corruptors disguising as “lobbyists.” Each year these lobbyists spend four billion dollars “influencing government officials.” That influence translates to de facto control. While in Honduras bribery is defined as an effort to buy power, in US’s lobbying is defined as an effort to influence it. In fact is there is little distinction between the two.

Often the US lobbyists go back and forth between government service and jobs at corporations which leads to a gigantic and debasing conflict of interest. There are foreign governments corrupting US officials against the interest of US citizens. There are Chinese lobbyists, Israeli lobbyists, Big Pharma and Military lobbyists. In Honduras there are no such things as registered lobbyist and things are much clearer. You either bribe someone or you don’t.

Transparency International ranks 180 counties in an annual Corruption Perceptions Index. The US is ranked number 24, while Honduras is 157 and tying in with Burma. That is not the reality, that is only an illusion of reality.

However, as the war escalated, on the 1st of March 1917, America began taking the threat of underwater warfare seriously enough to purchase the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million. This was to preempt a possible German purchase for the purpose of installing a naval base there.

The decision of British Honduras (Belize) to send 450 soldiers to fight in the war on the Allied side further increased tensions in the region. In response, a plan was conceived by the exiled Guatemalan General Isidoro Valdez and it proposed to Heinrich Von Eckhart, the senior German diplomat, the general spymaster serving in Mexico City.

The “Valdez Proposal,” as it came to be known, was to muster an army of 5,000 Germans in Mexico, provoke a coup d’état in Guatemala to oust its pro-American president, Manuel Estrada Cabrera. The plan included an invasion of Belize with an army of Honduran opposition liberals to establish a U-boat base. Once a pro-German government had been installed in Honduras as well as in its major ports, then tire Mosquito Coast could also be used for naval bases.

Upon learning of these plans, U.S. naval intelligence sent the esteemed Harvard-educated Mayanologist Sylvanus Morley to Belize on a United Fruit Company ship. He travelled on the pretext of conducting archaeological research in the area.

Working as a secret agent from his headquarters in the American legation compound in Tegucigalpa, he would spend the next 20 months putting together an espionage ring in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras to spy on and compile blacklists of German-owned businesses and diplomats. Ironically, his agents in Honduras had to collect their monthly pay of $25 from the German-owned Banco de Honduras, the only bank in Tegucigalpa.

Honduras also closed all of Germany’s consulates.

Morley would also travel over 2,000 miles of Central American coastline, including the Bay Islands of Honduras, looking for clandestine U-boat sanctuaries.

During his time in Central America, Morley and his agents would send back over 10,000 pages of information and reports to naval intelligence. Morley would later be acknowledged as probably America’s most effective secret agent during the war. He would later excavate and largely catalog the objects in the great Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán, as well as make several exciting discoveries of other previously lost Mayan temples and pyramids. Morley has been put forward as a model for Steven Spielberg’s fictional movie hero Indiana Jones.

In May of 1917, reports that a Standard Fruit banana boat had been shelled and sunk by a German gunboat on the milk run between La Ceiba and New Orleans prompted Honduras’s pro-American president, Francisco Bertrand, to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany. Honduras also closed all of Germany’s consulates including those in Puerto Cortez, La Ceiba, and Trujillo, and expelled its German diplomats. Honduras was put under martial law, and people wishing to travel within the country’s borders had to do so using an internal passport.

Germany had indeed been using its consulates to coordinate espionage networks. Most of these German agents were corrupt and much more interested in lucrative smuggling activities with allied ships than in espionage or actual sabotage.

Honduras finally entered World War 1 on the side of the allies on July 18, 1918. It was the last nation in the world to declare war on Germany. The threat of U-boats to the banana companies was now over.

With the advent of 3D printing, getting a house built quickly and on the cheap is increasingly possible. ICON, a 3D printer manufacturer, built a 350-square-foot home in 48 hours at a cost of $10,000 with a printer running at only quarter speed. Once the printer is fully functional an 800-square-foot home could be built for less than $4,000. While housing for the poor has always been an economic and social challenge, the new technology offers an alternative to the high maintenance wood frame home with plastic siding and an asphalt shingle roof that has dominated the US homebuilding industry since the 1940s.

France’s Gilets Jaunes

The “yellow vests” have caused more disturbances in Paris than any protests since the 1848 revolution. The movement was sparked by a 33 US cent carbon fuel tax added onto $6 per gallon diesel price that was alleged to finance France’s fight against climate change. The French, financially desperate, inundated by migrants, and chilled by an extra cold winter, had had enough. The protesters demolished the majority of country’s 3,200 speed cameras and asked the population to withdraw as much money as possible from banks. The “Rodney King” type of police brutality against the French protesters went largely unreported by the European controlled media.

Sudan On The Way Down

General Wesley Clark announced that he was told by a Pentagon insider in October 2001 that “we [US government] are going to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.” While it’s taken over 17 years and the order has been shuffled around a bit, Sudan has finally gotten its turn. In December 2018 protests against risingbread prices turned into demands for the ouster of Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir who has held power for 30years.Forty people have been killed. Sudan ceded its southern territory, containing rich oil fields, to an independent South Sudan in 2011 leaving the country with limited resources. After Sudan, just Lebanon and Iran remain on the list.

Britain’s Almost Exit

It took Czechoslovakia six months to dissolve in 1992. Yet curiously it is taking Britain, an independent country with its own currency, three years to leave the European Union. On June 23rd, 2016 a referendum about Brexit, the term coined to describe Britain’s Exit from the European Union, passed with 51.9% of votes for withdrawal. While Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are doing just fine without the European Union, many agents of influence raise panic that life on the isles will come to a standstill. The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.

Belgium’s Deadly Trend

2,309 people were euthanized in Belgiumin 2017.Since the legalization of euthanasia in 2002, the practice is trending upward at a rate of 14% per year, now surpassing the number of deaths in car accidents. Euthanasia by injection with life-ending barbiturates is not limited to cancer suffering adults and the very old. Handicapped children aged nine with a braintumor, aged 11 with cystic fibrosis and aged 17with muscular dystrophy were recently euthanatized. The children asked to be put to death in writing, and a child psychologist conducted psychological evaluations. The mercy killings took place with parental consent. In Belgium sometime organs are harvested after euthanasia leaving yet more room for abuse. A member of the Federal Commission for Euthanasia Control and Evaluation resigned after being accused of euthanizing a patient suffering from dementia. While it appears that native Belgians are finding it increasingly deadly to live in Belgium, immigrants continue to flock to the country and now represent 25% of the population.

India’s No Tourist Island

American missionary John Allen Chau, 26,was killed visiting North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. Local fishermen took Chau to the island and reported seeing him being shot by arrows and buried on the beach. The 50 to 400 Sentinelese that inhabit the island have a reputation for being unwelcoming to visitors. In 1867, a merchant passenger ship wrecked on the island reef and 106 passengers spent days fending off attacks from the Sentinelese. Other vessels have since gotten in trouble on the reefand, while their crews have typically been evacuated, the Sentinelese have been known to scavenge the wrecks for iron and supplies.

The 1991 Gulf War has been the most chemical war in history. Approximately 250,000 US veterans suffer from the multiple debilitating symptoms, from chronic fatigue to terminal tumors. 25,000 have died prematurely and US government doesn’t know why. A likely culprit is the 290 tons of depleted US uranium munitions used in M1 tanks and A-10 aircraft that have contaminated air, water and soil across much of southern Iraq. From normal rates before the war Iraq now has rate of deformities in babies is 14 times higher than after Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The cocktail of fast acting “anthrax” vaccines not tested by FDA forcibly injected into American troops didn’t help. Saddam Hussain was given anthrax by US to counter Iran advantage in 1980s war against Iran..

Russia

After US government has spent two years spinning a conspiracy theory that Russia was behind leaking Hillary Clinton emails that Russia has came with a conspiracy theory of its own. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said that Russia is looking into flying a lunar probe to “verify whether they’ve been there [on the moon] or not.”57% of Russians believe NASA faked not only the six manned moon landings and take offs, but astronauts driving 37 kilometers on the moon surface in a lunar lover, escaping the Van Allen radiation belt, avoiding lunar meteor showers. To celebrate the feet Americans are accused of giving out fake “moon rocks” afterwards. All that took place within seven years after President Kennedy’s announced that Americans will go to the moon.

Greece

IsraAID, an Israeli organization funded by Israel’s Department of Foreign Affairs, American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith International is making sure as many African and Middle East migrants make it to Europe as it is possible. Since 2016 IsraAID has been in Greece, Serbia, Croatia to help monitor and basically herd the refugees onto UNHCR coaches and camps and then onto European countries. Some Turkey based AID organizations have covered the $1,500 boat crossing fee the Turkish smugglers collect from migrants. Since 2009 54% refugees in Austria and 53% in Holland are approved for asylum while Israel approved 0.48%. In April Israel made, then suspended, a deal with UN for the 16,000 of its 40,000 stateless refugees to be resettled to Europe and Canada.

Burma

The Rohinga Hindus have been massacred by Rihinga… Muslims. While Burma has become a casus belli for the UN, Amnesty International has confirmed the killing by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of over a hundred Hindus near the town of Maungdaw and Kha Maung Seik. Many Hindu Rohingas that find themselves in refugee camps of 480,000 people in Bangladesh have been forced to convert to Islam. Rohinga are peoples who migrated from Bangladesh to Burma in XIX and XX centuries during the British rule.

Syria

For the past 17 years the American government insisted it was Al-Qaeda that conducted the 9/11 attacks and now it insists that Al-Qaeda should be protect in its Syrian controlled territory of Idlib. “Idlib provice is the largest al-Qaeda safe-have since 9/11, tied to directly to Ayman al Zawahiri,” said Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy. Yet President Trump had urged Syria to refrain from “recklessly” attacking Idlib and reestablish control over its territory. Al-Qaeda has been terrorizing people of Idlib since 2011 and US government insists it’s important that it continue to do so. “Why is this happening? How are they getting there? They are not paratroopers,” said McGurk.

New Zealand

Passengers arriving in New Zealand are already digitally strip searched: they are required to forfeit the password to smart phones and laptops so that the officials check in on their suspicious conversations and files: personal photos, medical records, emails, text messages. Those visitors who refuse face prosecution, device confiscation and fines of $3,000. For now the officials cannot access the files kept on passengers cloud storage. The searches in 2017 were still voluntary, and the New Zealand customs officials conducted 537 such searches.

America’s baby boomers are filing for bankruptcy at alarmingly increasing rates. Three times more people over 65 were forced into bankruptcy in 2016 than in 1991. In 2016 3.6 people per 1,000 filed for bankruptcy in the 65 to 74 age bracket. Their average debt was only $17,000, but they had few options to get out of their financial situation. These baby boomers are in distress with declining income, rising healthcare costs, and mounting debt.

Slovenia

After the first solar powered aircraft circumnavigated the globe in 2016, several electric airplane manufacturers began production. One of the biggest in this small but growing and disruptive industry is Pipistrel, a Slovenian airplane manufacturer that in 2011 launched Taurus G4, the first electric four-seat aircraft. These electric aircraft are cheaper to construct, cheaper to operate, and the chassis is subjected to less vibrations and noise. With battery energy density rising by as much as 8 percent per year, the batteries hold increasing amount of energy per kilo. Pipistrel’s Alpha Electro two-seater costs $130,000 and can fly for about an hour.

Bhutan

In 1971 Bhutan dropped Gross National Product as the principal way to measure the county’s progress and embraced GNH – Gross National Happiness, an index that measures the spiritual, social, physical and environmental comfort of its citizens. The UN got in the game of defining happiness and is issuing its own list of happy countries based on GDP, life expectancy and social support. This year’s top rank went to Finland and Bhutan came in at 97th place. Bhutan, a homogenous Himalayan kingdom with strong culture has been quite content loosing the GDP race since it was adopted as a standard in 1944. While 70% of Bhutanese live without electricity and quarter of the population makes it on $1.25 a day, people seem quite content with life there and haven’t pleaded for asylum in Europe.

Germany

To recuperate from the stress and tedium of living in Germany, the government is paying for refugees to take paid vacations back home: Iraq, Syria, Libya, Bangladesh, wherever. While the refugees supposedly “felt unsafe in their own counties” they feel safe to go back there on a jet airline courtesy of German taxpayers for a three week vacations. There have been close to 2 million asylum seekers in Germany since 2012. And the country has a foreign population of 10 million.

Israel

Israel received its fifth nuclear cruise missile armed Dolphin-class submarine, ‘Rahav’, courtesy of Germany. Israeli nuclear armed subs have operated in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean and in 2013 launched cruise ship missiles again the Syrian port of Latakia. West Germany and France have funded the Israeli nuclear defense program since the 1960s. Israel has 300-400 nuclear warheads and, like India, Pakistan, and South Sudan never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The US has given $234 billion to Israel despite a 1961 US ban of aid to countries engaged in clandestine nuclear programs.

The US has begun to implement a sort-off rent-a-passport system. “If you have seriously delinquent tax debt (…) The State Department generally will not issue a passport,” reads a statement on the IRS.gov website. At least 362,000 names have been selected for passport denial and revoking for having a government debt over $50,000. In communist countries in 1940-1990 and in Cuba today citizens have to ask permission to receive a travel passport and have to return it to authorities when they return. Perhaps, if your passport was taken away so easily, maybe it wasn’t yours to begin with.

Mexico

Ibogane anti-addiction clinics are popping all over Mexico. Thousands of Americans dependant on Heroin, Cocaine and alcohol have freed themselves from their addiction after a 36 hour iboga root withdrawal session supervised by medical staff. There is no withdrawal symptoms with Ibogane and success rate is reportedly as high as 80%. Europeans came across the root bark of iboga tree being used in initiation ceremonies among some West African tribes in late XIX century. While CIA studied affects of ibogane in 1950, the Iboga plant is illegal, and alongside Heroin and Marijuana considered schedule I drug in USA.

Brazil

Mesoamerican reef that Roatan is a part of is no longer considered the second largest barrier reef in the world, it is now tied for second place. Scientists have discovered a brand new, 1,000 kilometer long reef – the Amazon coral reef. It stretches from French Guiana to Brazil’s Maranhão State and covers 9,500 square kilometers. The discovery of the reef at the mouth of the Amazon corrects a wrongly assumed theory that great rivers create gaps in reef systems. The reef follows the edge of South American continental shelf and is estimated to contain 60 species of sponges and 73 species of fish.

Sweden

Increasingly Swedes are choosing to have microchips inserted into their bodies. Apparently carrying cash, or even cards is inconvenient and a micro chip the size of a grain of rice can save you seconds to wirelessly unlock doors, access your computer or make credit payments from just four centimeters away. So far the 3,000 Swedes got “biohacked” and are not concerned about the risk of data theft, continuous live tracking of where they are and what they do.

Pakistan

China has built a world class shipping port in Pakistan’s Gwadar, the largest deep sea port in the world. Increasingly goods and supplies to and from western China are now shipped via Gwadar and placed on the paved road network avoiding the time end expense of travel to ports like Shanghai or Hong Kong. Gwadar port is part of the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. China has paved 806 kilometers of Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum highway connecting the it’s Tibetan plateau with the Arabian Sea. The two countries are also linked with 820 kilometer underground Fiber Optic Cable.

Mali

The UN world army has been at war in Mali since 2012 and the prospects of perpetual war are looking good. 17,000 foreign and 6,000 Mali forces and dozens have been holding the line against the 1,200–3,000 strong Islamic State of the Greater Sahara [ISGS]. Military servicemen from China, Slovenia, USA, Cambodia, Nepal, Ireland, France and a dozen of other willing countries have sent their soldiers to fight and fly fighter jet missions in continually unsuccessful mission to defeat the ISGS and there is no end in sight. In contrast, in Syria and Iraq, the 40,000 strong Islamic State has been all but defeated by the by conscripted Iraqi and Syrian forces. The Mali war has so far displaced 400,000 many of whom are already in Europe.