Friends, in this life, you've got to be bold, you've got to be relentless and you can't fear being labeled a right-wing conspirator-type crackpot. This news got by me the first time it was posted on my favourite right-wing site for conspiratorial crackpots, but the vigilantes, true to their reputation, put it up again today. And that is, despite protests from both pseudo political parties of this pseudo democracy, 46 US warships, 200 helicopters and 7,000 marines set off for Costa Rica this past weekend. The reason given was to further thwart drug cartels.

I became a war strategist a few years ago, my credentials consisting of having watched an interview with General Honoré when he returned to his hometown New Orleans to impose martial law/straighten the place out if only for a short time, and I now can instantly divine the true intentions of the Joint Commanders, so here goes. There are drones on the border of Canada -- yeah Canada -- and now there's a pretty big military build-up way down in tiny Costa Rica, a heretofore peaceful and unarmed eco-tourist destination. All that's needed next would be to cut off communications in the middle to completely befuddle the enemy, the enemy being those in the middle, obviously, which would be who . . . who's in the middle? Oh, that would be us. Well, that was taken care of in the last few days, too, by making it legal for the Pres to turn off the Internet any ole' time he's told to. Or the solar flares will do it, which are forecast to start up again. When exactly? Any day we're told. So the stage is set.

Of course this could be a secondary goal, a killing of two birds with one stone, as it were, with the primary goal being something like putting the hurt on Venezuela. With Putin and Chavez cozying up lately, it could well be that the US's hand may be forced to do something like bomb Venezuela. And it would make sense to so get as close as possible; you certainly wouldn't want a stray spark from an evening of Shock and Awe reigniting the Gulf of Mexico. And if Venezuela were to bomb back, they needn't go any further than hapless, caught-in-the-middle Costa Rica to find a US proxy.

This has got to be freaking out Jim Willie, the Golden Jackass blogger and webbot mastermind and howz he gonna support himself with the Webbot Project now if there's no web and what about the other 100 thou or so American expats living in prefab treehouses in the Costa Rican rain forests where it rains all the time, which is how it got its name, think these things through before you put down a deposit folks. Jim's a nice guy and I'll bet the others are nice too, thinking that they could sit things out and live the good life down there Tarzan style. Who would ever have thunk this would happen. (Hip tip to the Mogambo Guru for the sentence structure and punctuation.)

Be Here Now

I thought my next article would be a continuation of my Emigrate Now mini-series; however, the expansion of war with Latin America into Costa Rica comes as a black swan, at least to me and probably the Costa Ricans too. Pretty soon this is going to cramp a few styles and it's not that big of a jump to conclude that wherever you are now, that's where you're going to stay and probably for a long time, so choose carefully and choose quickly if you want to have a choice. Medical marijuana brownie recipes issued by San Francisco to the contrary (it was a long and apparently productive weekend on many fronts), if we accept containing drug traffic as the reason for occupying Costa Rica, it's obvious that the US will stop at nothing to thwart drug lords, protect its own drug routes, bomb and be bombed, and Lord knows what else. If we don't believe the official statement, it's still obvious that the US will still stop at nothing to do whatever it wants to do to . . . to make the world safe for democracy; yeah, that must be it, make the world safe. If national holidays are to new military offensives what Fridays have been to bank failures, I'm on pins and needles waiting for what Labour Day will bring.