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John says...

And because of the recession and distress that occurred in years prior, many are able to pick up properties at basement bargain prices. Many Bahamians were living in their homes only at the mercy of their banks. And as the banks find buyers for the properties, the Bahamians are being kicked out. While Bah Mar and the tourist sector are experiencing glory days, financially, most of the local economy, where Bahamians are employed, remains dead and stagnant. Local businesses are continuing to close their doors, and when the boom in the economy does finally reach it will be too late for many who will have lost their businesses and their homes.

John says...

The way the webshop business is skewed, a number of them may not be able to afford these new ones aces. So the government with wrong advice and Hastings’s to collect more taxes may be forcing some webshops to close and leaving an oligopoly of mega rich operators to monopolize and control the market. So in its attempts, ‘to tax the numbers boys out of existence,’ government may have created a worse and more serious situation where there’s less competition and less employment. So the remaining web boys can decrease the odds of winning, decrease the margins and still make more money. A similar situation happened in banking after Obama spent billions to bail them out. Instead of chasing after the retail market or consumer loans and mortgages a small group went after countries, like the Bahamas, granting them loans with little or no breathing room. And many of the countries found it difficult to pay (their national debt). And so theses governments had to sacrifice doing essential things like building schools or hospitals or paving roads. Some raised taxes to no avail, causing inflation to skyrocket and necessities , medicine and food. to become scarce or I unavailable. Some saw their currency collapse. And then the same banks came along and offered to bail them out. But at higher interest rates and more rigid terms. And these countries found themselves getting in even greater debt. And citizens protested and some violently revolted. But by that time it was too late. The damage had been done.

On Web shop hold-outs on ‘shaky ground’

Posted 25 April 2019, 4:03 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Operation fast and furious still in action

John says...

It is time to investigate the relationship between crime in this country and the reports being put out by the state department and their agencies. How is it that they can gather intelligence/crime stats that are contrary to those of the police and go public with it before even sharing or discussing it with police or government officials? Maybe it is the same information they have on the massive fire that killed 158 in a country not too far from here not too long ago. Remember the one that appeared on the cover of Time magazine? We cannot have a foreign agency, continue to suppress our economy with false or negative information, disrupt our social life and be disrespectful to our government. Then what are the benefits of them being here. What exactly are their intentions in this country and for or against Bahamians?

On Dames: No stats to support US crime claims

Posted 25 April 2019, 9:12 a.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Is Andros being used to smuggle guns and incite Bahamians to social unrest and In Wheaton’s view, this secret facility was central to Theodore “Ted” Shackley’s “Third Option”; and the project to create domestic unrest, chaos, and the illusion of a domestic terrorist threat within America. According to the Portland Free Press, the operation was controlled by the same group of CIA covert operators who were running the Jupiter, Florida-based Continental Shelf Associates/ANV (“acta non verba” – action not words), and the New Orleans-based Pacific Gulf Marine; the same “lunatic fringe” of the intelligence community who were investigated by the Pike and Church Congressional committees in the mid-1970s, and Senator John Kerry’s Guns, Drugs and Covert Operation Committee in the late 1980s, related to the Iran-Contra scandal.

Alleged to be involved was George Bush senior, who became CIA Director and, later, President of the United States, Theodore Shackley who was formerly CIA chief of station in Miami, Richard Helms, Robert Stevens, James A. Cunningham, Jr., and an élite inner circle of OSS and CIA veterans, Ray Clines, William Casey, Geoffrey M.T. Jones, et al. Incidentally, the Bush family oil company, Zapata Offshore, an off-shoot of the Zapata Petroleum Company, was allegedly used by the CIA as a cover in the planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba (see The Last Supper, 1988 by Philip Willan, p.294). The Andros Island covert operations evolved from the mid-1970s intelligence scandals surrounding CIA officer Edwin P. Wilson, Jr. and the creation of Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Task Force 157, Consultants International and several “front” companies. At the time Theodore Shackley was CIA Deputy Director of Operations, involving illegal gun-running, money-laundering and assassinations. Such operations were allegedly planned, launched and controlled out of Andros Island under the secrecy, unofficially, of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Wheaton says he “has reason to believe several questionable deaths are related to illegal covert operations under the secrecy of [the] NRC, and were planned and launched out of Andros

Island”. He alleges that the deaths included Prime Minister Olaf Palme of Sweden, Bill Casey, and Jim Cunningham, a friend of his who was the former head of the CIA’s Air America in Laos; and a number of other individuals, although he does not give any evidence. Gene Wheaton died shortly after. The late investigative journalist, Danny Casolaro, who died under mysterious circumstances in August 1991, associated former

presidents Reagan and Bush Snr., and sources within the CIA and the Mafia, of being part of much the same secret group of conspirators which he named “The Octopus”. How much of this is true, I have no idea.

On Dames: No stats to support US crime claims

Posted 24 April 2019, 9:11 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) do not always see eye-to-eye. Often, there has been conflict between the domestic agency and the so-called overseas organisation.

‘As previously noted, in 1987, the CIA acted against Lynden Pindling, partly because Pindling had granted sanctuary to the financier, Robert Vesco, wanted by the FBI. In September 1983, however, according to Time (19 September, “Vesco Redux”, p.25), a dispute developed between a proposed covert FBI operation and the CIA. Since 1972, the FBI had been investigating the activities of Vesco and Bahamian officials allegedly involved in illegal drug-smuggling into the U.S.. They intended to set up a “sting operation” to catch the officials taking bribes. But the CIA station chief in Nassau successfully opposed the FBI operation on the grounds that it would jeopardise the continued use by the United States of AUTEC and other activities on Andros including, presumably, the global submarine surveillance system. Richelson and Ball (The Ties That Bind, p.248) add: “AUTEC at Andros in the Bahamas includes one of the largest sea-bottom arrays in the US global submarine surveillance system.”’

Marvin Dames must finally come to realize that there’s no ‘One America.’ There’s the part most Bahamians know where they go for fun and to shop and even to school or live. And there’s part of America that extends overseas and into many countries and also into the business of many countries, These agencies of America are not only involved in collecting and disseminating information, some true and others concocted and knowingly false. And yes they know how to destabilize or topple governments, or create social unrest and disturbances, all undercover and also to disrupt and make economies scream. And yes they may be involved in weapons and trafficking of illegal drugs and humans even. And they may work with you side by side but only to gather information for their own benefit. Even the regular Americans do not like this part of America. Some are even shocked to death about their behavior. And when China exposes them and find them of wrong doing, they execute them.

On Dames: No stats to support US crime claims

Posted 24 April 2019, 3:51 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

HINT: if the authorities would take time and trace these high powered, automatic weapons and find out where they are coming from, then they will understand what’s driving the crime and violence in this country. HINT : ‘your best friend may be your worst enemy, and your worst enemy your best friend . HINT: Who is benefiting from the crime and violence in The Bahamas? And who is suffering the most because of it? Stay woke Bahamians.

On Five shot by automatic weapon

Posted 24 April 2019, 6:12 a.m. Suggest removal

John says...

And it is just not the commercial cruise liners, but many private pleasure and fishing craft discharge untreated waste and contaminants into the ocean. And garbage (and poop) floats up on the beaches and they Blame locals.

On Carnival’s catalogue of ocean dumpings

Posted 23 April 2019, 6:13 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

I’m sure you were able to see Russia interfering in the US Elections from your plane. Also you had a test kit on board that you discharged remotely to determine that it was raw sewage being dumped.

On Carnival’s catalogue of ocean dumpings

Posted 23 April 2019, 6:07 p.m. Suggest removal

John says...

Hopefully he will be found alive and well.

On Boat found in hunt for fisherman

Posted 23 April 2019, 2:14 p.m. Suggest removal