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the pace of new another bailout being discussed in europe is likely to force more stary on the part. as they have lines here in r.t. next week spore why every conflict the us is involved in leaves behind a trail of military bases was no continent spared their presence. is this place general electric bombs well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it to them. to protect us from. these are all questions that somebody like obama should butt out. it just didn't happen. as it was designed. and those bases just came along like you know some terrible cancer.

when you see how much money is at stake in in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from kadena air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day and have involved thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and training and using the equipment and running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. president eisenhower was warning against in his farewell address in one thousand nine hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial complex meaning hidden power power that was not really under

the supervision of congress that. and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interest i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. in the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of defense alone consumes is much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day in day out three hundred sixty five days a year. to safeguard the oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country that job has been given to the military.

and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look at the map collectively there is an almost contiguous string. of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called the carter doctrine after president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is of vital interests of the united

states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to that end he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy these and west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. what from this new front here is coming into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is making the

truly great contribution to our modern civilization. and. one of the reasons the reason for that primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy it's being built inside baghdad it is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge basins around with an intention to leave they're building them with an intention to maintain control.

since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis or a permanent military presence in iraq. obama secretary of defense robert gates though has stated that even after two thousand and eleven he expects to see several tens of thousands of american troops as part of a residual force in iraq hence many fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. that in fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jega see. for example bone in the context of the cold pool is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq will be stayed to.

feasibility study and you know the ins and outs say. that people are to go if they are to retire and they are the thing is americans are living they are paying to they have to fill up they i and i and i you going ahead like the island you look like ily two hundred million year old and i'm erica no enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i don't and enjoy the same way they are doing. so by many as the navy's best kept secret because of its remote location diego garcia is actually home to about three thousand residents at any given time there's also a unique assortment of quality of life opportunities to take advantage of on diego garcia the island's athletic center is open round the clock with a wide range of workout equipment and a full sized gymnasium be sure to spend as much time as possible researching this

informative website to help you prepare for what will certainly be a memorable assignment abroad. by hosting u.s. bases countries lose their software to be in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the so for the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and it determines. who has access to united states will have what kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the. entries that have less power or leverage in relationship to united states have much thinner sofas in these cases these countries you'll find that when u.s.

soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable to not know not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just brought out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys nice guys been trained to be more aggressive than so they were aggressive you know. if. you like your like shot up which steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff man and so when you leave off the base man i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feeling like you're a tough guy you could get anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort

of attitude and getting kind of drunk and then some i'm looking at you the wrong way you know you just not you know when you know you were sold you're marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local wars and causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you let us off the base there's going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now when. the girl had been raped by united states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how

we treat sort of treated dio can only people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some of peace activists got in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they let the base people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so a week of lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the ireland and i saw the bases was still here i i just couldn't believe it. it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the end of world war two these spaces have been here. this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other

people's countries what kind of problems does it stop or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people. i think people get really angry you know at the idea that we are policing the world we have a right to put bases anywhere we want we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in for us bases are fine the noise is our noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. we're going home i don't know i know this is a list of the crimes accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa but this is the accidents are very frequent this ticketed along.

these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. on a. little secret. here is a map of the base as you can see it's right to the middle of the city. i

. see this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base. here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this group of twenty four that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you guys sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. to face the noise is terrible they fly old a lot nonstop. some crying in the middle of the night.

and some even stops coming to school. that. we are here to say they have a chance so want to accept any more military bases but under won't accept any more warm. sheens on its lamps repeat dot therefore we say no to all military facilities to get beyond it to those that come in arms we say go home. in

two thousand and seven the u.s. revealed its plans for a new military base in the chain. just a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base because that might. come to the southern european task force and one of ten major us bases in italy the area designated for the new base is the ex of indian airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chance of because you've been said you have four people. three of whom are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody a complacent big from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and the

authorities have decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists they don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't question airplanes on your side so it's purely ideological and negativism by a bunch of zero people who don't do anything in a worthless. in april two thousand a key live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on the new base. it is said to be held on october fifth but just a few days before the italian supreme court blocks the referendum. despite the court's decision the citizens of the chance to decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants photo

against in a place that. i made yeah i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but that it's been almost seventy years since the end of the war and we still have occupying troops in our city i despite the clear opposition of the people of the chance of the italian government gives the us the green light to go ahead with a new base. it's not unusual for the normal democratic process to be subverted when it comes to military bases most bases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the us and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four us it's the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament. i i another truck is arriving let's

try to stay together i know that. i. live. here and i am just going to look up. what i say. hello i. open the gate move you're breaking the special law on us my. basis. but if you're not going to do it i don't. want to knock you whatever you want to do you know why we struggle like this treasure have over a kernel you understand how we feel think we are because they are even articulate

we're not even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years for a victim to have we ever killed an american idol broke up. with your various girls have been raped of other planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. while this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two better year sun had predicted they would never grow up. we realize you're only doing your job well i don't know but ours is a historical g.-d. creator and we will pass this legacy on to future generations. good elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it is taught he'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that

committed abuses and usurpations of his and i was a him make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to a war i was. i was about his election was hailed by many. as the beginning of a political phase radically different from that of the bush administration and in many ways it has been. but the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for new military bases in a number of countries show how hard it is for this or any other president to challenge those policies that benefit the military industrial complex and

perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose when it destine the country's dwindling resources to strengthen social and democratic institutions or will it continue to fuel this parasitical complex that by definition can only produce new weapons and new wars. to go with us to that's my land over there but it is good it imo. so not a chill i hope to go back one day. support us. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish take on where i don't want them less so that i could grow millions of them and that little space more knowledge i can let it work it out i'll get on i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of

peace cannot touch your ideas you have. their moment there are me throughout iraq at their. own as we all stay united in the struggle there are now i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot i work together or if we don't speak out against the fast of our lands we will never be able to change the world. that it would kind of make your hear. and on about it we have to keep our camp in there. with a balance the only way we can prevail but they could. have my biggest strength and. our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it the group they

are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school that people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and add there will be a point where k. four is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. he questions any of thing else to get everything you needed.

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the culture is the same on the taxpayers' money coming to you and i says yes and a real mystery this is being described as one of the worst meetings we've ever had is the organization of petroleum exporting countries or opec in crisis if it is doesn't really.