Welcome back to another blog post from The One Host with A Billion Voices blog site, I truly hope you enjoyed the last piece we put together pertaining to the division within the democratic political party that was made to maintain the power structure of their financial backers (CORPORATE INTEREST). I can only hope that the last blog was very insightful and informative, if you are reading this blog after reading our previous blog then allow me to be be the first to say thank you, I appreciate your support and interest in learning about what's really going on. I am almost certain that we pissed off quite a few readers off with our truth telling on their current president and his flaky political party. I would love to apologize to you all as my attempt to make everything better, but there will be no apologizing coming your way from us for speaking the truth, and providing additional information to back it up! Our job was to provide information to raise your awareness of the behind scene deals that are made between congress and it's financial backers. To give you a better understanding in knowing who is actually running your country with or without your vote, though both parties are guilty of misleading you, we the people are guilty of not wanting to become more informed. We are guilty of allowing our emotional ties to these particular parties to overshadow the obvious truth of knowing that this government at times is not conducting itself as the People's government.

The One Host with a Billion Voices is the sister site of Globally Speaking Radio that's coming soon in which will consist of a combination of music and weekly talk radio. Our goal will be to both entertain and inform you at the same time, but back to the business at hand the post of the week "Is it the war on drugs or the war for drugs to control the global market?"

For as long as I can remember America has been engulf in it's ongoing war on drugs, and thus far we have been getting our butts whipped because the flow of drugs are still plentiful. In my era it was Crack that dominated the communities where I resided, there were countless people that I knew personally who either got rich, hooked, killed or locked up because of Crack. In my previous post I shed some light on just how Crack was able to penetrate into the urban communities throughout the country with the assistance of your friendly neighborhood government due to their involvement  in the Iran/Contra  scandal. Movies like "Scarface" hope glorify drug dealing in my community just like what the movie "The Warriors" did to help promote gang banging in the early 80's throughout the nation. The impact these movies had made on our physic was astonishing, something comparable to the influences of gangsta rap on our youth today. But it wasn't the movies that were bringing drugs into our communities nor was it brought in by the local drug dealers because cocaine isn't home grown, it's imported. Which brings us back to the whole Iran/Contra scandal, it was made public that our government hands weren't clean, it was discovered that in order to raise money to accomplish their (Government) goals, there's no limit to what they're willing to do or hurt. Documentaries like "Cocaine Cowboys" help shed some light on the import of drugs, and how cities like Miami were being built and redeveloped off the money.

America does not have the capabilities to produce the coca plant that makes cocaine, nor do we have the capabilities to produce opium poppy that makes heroin and this is no mystery, the only mystery is how are these drugs able to get into our country so easily? The most vital link to world trade on the Western hemisphere is the Panama Canal in which was owned and controlled by the United States between 1904 -1999 today it's currently controlled by the Panamanian government. However it wasn't a smooth acquisition for the Panamanian government as  originally planned by the signing of the treaties between President Carter and General Omar Torrijos in 1977. In 1989 Panama was on the verge of losing it all due the invasion of U.S. forces under the orders of President George Bush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause At the time General Noriega was considered public enemy number with the U.S. due to Noriega's close relations with drug-lords around the world. But before Noriega became the man the U.S. loved to hate, he too like Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden once worked alongside the CIA

Noriega had sided with the U.S. rather than the USSR in Central America, notably in sabotaging the forces of theSandinista government in Nicaragua, and the revolutionaries of the FMLN group in El Salvador. Noriega received upwards of $100,000 per year from the 1960s until the 1980s, when his salary was increased to $200,000 per year.^[8] Although he worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration to restrict illegal drug shipments, he was known to simultaneously accept significant financial support from drug dealers,^[7] because he facilitated the laundering of drug money, and through Noriega they received protection from DEA investigations due to his special relationship with the CIA.^[9]

Beginning in the middle of the 1980s, relations between Noriega and the United States started to deteriorate. In 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan started negotiations with General Noriega, requesting that the Panamanian leader peacefully step down after Noriega was publicly exposed in the New York Times by Seymour Hersh, and later exposed in the Iran-Contra Scandal.^[10] Reagan pressured him with several drug-related indictments in U.S. courts; however, since extradition laws between Panama and the U.S. were weak, Noriega deemed this threat not credible and did not bend to Reagan's efforts.^[11] In 1988, Elliot Abrams and members of the Pentagon began pushing for a U.S. invasion, but Reagan refused, due to Bush's ties to Noriega through his previous positions with the CIA and the Task Force on Drugs, and their negative impact on Bush's presidential campaign.^[12] Later negotiations involved dropping the drug-trafficking indictments. In March 1988, an attempted coup against the government of Panama was resisted by Noriega's forces. As relations continued to deteriorate, Noriega appeared to shift his Cold War allegiance towards the Soviet bloc, soliciting and receiving military aid from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Libya.^[13] American military planners began preparing contingency plans for action against Panama.

In May 1989, during the Panamanian national elections, an alliance of parties opposed to the military dictatorship of Noriega counted results from the country's election precincts before they were sent to the district centers. Their tally showed their candidate, Guillermo Endara, defeating Carlos Duque, candidate of a pro-Noriega coalition, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. Endara was beaten up by Noriega supporters the next day in his motorcade.^[7]

Noriega declared the election null and maintained power by force, making him unpopular among Panamanians. Noriega's government insisted that it had won the presidential election and that irregularities had been on the part of U.S.-backed candidates from opposition parties.^[14] Bush called on Noriega to honor the will of the Panamanian people.^[7]

 "Noriega's government insisted that it had won the presidential election and that irregularities had been on the part of U.S. backed candidates from opposition parties"

This is an interesting allegation because the same accusations were made by other countries during their elections such as Egypt, Venezuela, Iran, and Libya. Each country experienced a rise from some mysterious opposition force that no one knew who they were and who were providing their funding. However, Libya didn't have presidential elections due to the countries' dictatorial structure, but it was Obama that called on Gaddafi to honor the will of the people by stepping down. The same thing was suggested by Bush to Noriega in Panama and when Noriega refused his country fell under attack by US forces.

Now here is where it gets tricky, Bush claims that he was invading Panama to cease the drug trafficking that was making its way into the US plus Noriega was corrupt by collecting pay offs from drug-lords all over the world because he was securing their money. Bush's accusations weren't off target because it was no secret that drug-lords were making big deposits into Panamanian bank accounts. However the invasion of Panama did not slow down the drug flow into the US, as a matter of fact the drug flow increased at a much greater rate into America after the invasion. Though Noriega was no saint, neither were the true intentions of the US, because whoever controlled the canal also controlled the money that were being passed through it. This post was no different than any other trading post throughout history, controlling the routes meant power for their country. This invasion wasn't a move to secure the safety of the people of Panama, instead this was a move to secure the US ownership of the canal.

If the US were to lose ownership of the canal due to the signing of the treaty, millions if not billions of dollars would have had been lost, the only way to prevent that from happening was to break the deals that were made that kept the treaty intact. Within the treaty it was agreed that  in order for Panama to take over the canal it needed to have a military in place to secure it. Without a military in place the canal would remain under the control of the US. The invasion in 1989 granted the opportunity the US needed to justify maintaining control because the invasion resulted in wiping out the military force Panama had put in place to secure the canal. http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/resurgence/2012/262/world2.htm

Now I know what you are thinking, this is pretty far fetch considering the fact that the US no longer have ownership of the canal because in 1999 the Panama Canal was returned back to Panama due to the terms of the treaty. The US no longer had control of the trading route that played a major role in trafficking drugs into the country, so billions of dollars were lost, however that would be short lived due to the opportunity 911 brought to the table.