Secret Memorandum Shows Herschel Vinyard at 2004 Blount Island Meeting

By Tom Drummond

A Department of the Navy Infrastructure Analysis Team document that reads "Do Not Release Under FOIA"  show that's Florida DEP's Secretary Herschel Vinyard was in a discussion involving Blount Island on February 28, 2004 that involved its transition from leasing to ownership by the USMC.

 In the document, the importance of the Maritime Pre-Positioning Force was emphasized, presumably supply ships, floating bases, and vessels that allow the landing of marines. The Martime Pre-Positioning Force also include oil tankers.

The world's first LNG-powered ships were being constructed earlier this year for TOTE, Inc., parent company of Sea Star Line, a tenant at Blount Island. Jaxport, which intends to service Sea Star Line at Blount Island, has been reported since last October as excited (in the corporate person sense) about Jacksonville becoming a liquified natural gas export hub, and about the changing over of ships to the use of natural gas as a fuel.

The IMF has said the U.S. shale gas explosion has resulted in declining prices worldwide


Herschel Vinyard was VP of Atlantic Marine at the time. Atlantic Marine Southeast Shipyards was taken over by an investment firm run by U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman in 2006. It was then sold to BAE Systems, in May of 2010. Vinyard was selected by Rick Scott to be Secretary of the DEP in January of 2011.

In May of 2004, Atlantic Marine was mentioned as being involved in ship construction at Blount Island, along with Goodrich EEP, part of a team led by Raytheon.

Blount Island is continuing to develop as a military and commercial operation, with a recent 71.9 million boost to a Honeywell contract, along with former contracts going to
McCarthy Improvement Company of Davenport, Sauer, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla, and Barlovento, LLC, of Dothan, Ala. that totaled at $27.7 million back in June 3 of 2011.


On July 30th of this year, a ban of crude sales going back to 1975 was lifted when 400,000 of ultra-light crude was shipped to South Korea. An exception was created due to the nature of the product, and wrangling between oil companies and the U.S. Commerce department.

A Google Earth image from today shows what appears to be two tankers at Blount Island.

And close up.

Gun Control and the Foreign Police State

Divided Against Ourselves

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand." - Frantz Fanon

By Lou Saboter

The Nazification of America has gone off splendidly, thanks to your gleeful participation, including the globalization of our military-industrial-intelligence complex directed at ourselves.

I'm not sure what is happening in America anymore, because there is no news that has any credibility. The news that is credible according to the news has become such a ridiculous fiction that you might as well believe Orson Wells was serious about that Martian invasion in 1938. It's literally as good an explanation as any you could derive from the dumbed-down history which one could cull from corporate news.

So, we can safely say the bad guys won now and just submit, right? Well, that's certainly a viable option. Many have been trained to believe that even mentioning the overwhelming influence of intelligence agencies and secret societies makes the speaker certifiable. Furthermore, many people defended even the collection of data by the NSA, after the Edward Snowden affair, on the basis of Obama having Kenyan inheritance. And these are people who are allowed to do more than tie shoelaces.

The fact is, the USA's homeland security has been intensely interwoven with multinationalist (dare I say Globalist?) threads that easily paints the picture that the population is considered the threat to the people (read: multinational corporations) that have assumed more rights than the citizenry. It is no longer actual human beings that have rights, but only the ownership principles associated with any said human being that grants him any rights whatsoever. By this I mean to say, the more you own, and this could even be in terms of the debt you own, the more value you are granted by the enforcement systems in place and increasingly being put into place in the USA.

Homeless people sometimes still have the right not to be mowed down with assault rifles for selecting the wrong piece of earth to fall asleep upon. But that's only if the right people notice at the right time. Otherwise, it seems clear that the police have been green-lighted by someone, somewhere to treat the wretched of the earth as targets. And those wretched often continue to be the age-old second class citizens, persons of color, and are also increasingly the new, trial FEMA campers: the homeless.

Furthermore, other interesting trends would indicate that what is often depicted as the hyperbolic gun-owning population will be no match for what is swiftly being thrown into place for...what?  Assault rifles, night vision goggles, MRAPs, and drones are being handed out to the already paramilitary police forces of the nation, and secretly arranged legislation is handing away our rights constantly. Horror stories, such as prolonged solitary confinement of teenagers who haven't been found guilty of a crime at Rikers Island, and the recent execution of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, highlight trends toward a complete abandonment of all civil rights based upon the Constitution. Instead, your property, position in a corporation, or alignment with a political interest, which has itself been corporatized, appears to be the only form of defense one has against sudden arrest or murder by the police. As in Albuquerque, NM, police responded with ferocity to protests against their right to murder civilians, in this case Michael Brown, an 18 year about to start college.

Because corporations have been granted personhood and the right to buy elections, which has already been shown to open the door the foreign interests consuming our democracy, it is no stretch to state that the police are now killing you in the interests of foreign powers.

And they're armed to the teeth.

What a great time for gun control.