The real reason for America's Southeast Asian projection. By Wayne Madsen.

[James H. Fetzer]

Here is a new article from Wayne Madsen Report that relates to a topic

that I have addressed on THE REAL DEAL.

June 7-8, 2012 -- The real reason for America's Southeast Asian projection

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120607

WMR's Asian intelligence sources report another, morfe ominous, aspect

to the decision of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to move 60

percent of U.S. naval forces to the Pacific region. Panetta announced

in a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue defense conference in Singapore

that most of the Navy's littoral combat ships, submarines, cruisers,

and destroyers will be deployed in the Pacific. In addition, new U.S.

Marine bases are being established in Australia. Panetta, according to

our sources, has also been negotiating with leaders of Singapore,

India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand the

establishment of new U.S. military bases or the re-opening of former

bases from the Cold War era. The latter include Subic Bay in the

Philippines, U-Tapao airbase in Thailand, and Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.

The United States has plans to build new bases in Darwin, Perth, the

Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Sihanoukville in Cambodia. The United

States' "Compact of Free Association" with the Republic of Palau gives

Washington the right to establish military bases in that southern

Pacific nation, an option that the Pentagon appears to be close to

invoking.

WMR has learned that with the continued high radiation affecting the

northern hemisphere as a result of life-threatening radiation

continuing to be dispersed into the atmosphere from the meltdown of

reactor 4 at the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear plant in Japan, the

Pentagon wants to preserve most of its military forces and to ensure

the protection for American elites who have plans to move to the

southern hemisphere, particularly the Southeast Asian region, to

escape the effects of the radiation circulating around the northern

climes.

Currently under wraps are plans to shift a bulk of the U.S. Air Force

to the southern portion of the Asia-Pacific region.

Now that Myanmar is opening to the West, the United States is also

eyeing new bases in that country, particularly in Naypyidaw, the new

capital city that is said to be relatively safe from the northern

hemisphere radiation.

On January 2, 2006, WMR reported: "Southeast Asian intelligence

sources report that Burma's (Myanmar's) recent abrupt decision to move

its capital from Rangoon (Yangon) to remote Pyinmana, 200 miles to the

north, is a result of Chinese intelligence warnings to its Burmese

allies about the effects of radiation resulting from a U.S.

conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

There is concern that a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear

installations will create a Chernobyl-like radioactive cloud that

would be caught up in monsoon weather in the Indian Ocean.

Low-lying Rangoon lies in the path of monsoon rains that would

continue to carry radioactive fallout from Iran over South and

Southeast Asia between May and October. Coastal Indian Ocean cities

like Rangoon, Dhaka, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Colombo would be

affected by the radioactive fallout more than higher elevation cities

since humidity intensifies the effects of the fallout. Thousands of

government workers were given only two days' notice to pack up and

leave Rangoon for the higher (and dryer) mountainous Pyinmana.

New housing planned for some of the new U.S. military bases, said to

be for rotating military personnel, will be sufficient to accommodate

America's political, financial, and military leadership.

No less affected by the radiation from Fukushima, Canada has also

announced plans to shift a large portion of its naval, air, and ground

forces to the Southeast Asia region with Singapore being the "hub" for

the Canadian military. Canadian Defense Minister Peter McKay toured a

potential site for the Canadian military during his visit to Singapore

to attend the Shangri-La meeting.

Although there is tension between the United States and China, our

sources have indicated that confronting China's growing military

presence in the region is merely a cover story designed to mask the

abandonment of the northern hemisphere by the Pentagon. In fact,

Chinese defense officials participated in the Shangri-La Dialogue.

WMR has learned that the recent agreement between the U.S. National

Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Thailand to establish

an atmospheric testing facility at U-Tapao Airport in Rayong is part

of the Pentagon's evacuation plans. NASA is being used as a civilian

"cover" by the Pentagon.

NASA's SEAC4RS program or Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate

Coupling Regional Study will use aircraft to sample air samples over

Southeast Asia for radiation levels from weather patterns that could

bring radioactive particles from the northern to southern hemisphere.

Aircraft are due to be deployed from U-Tapao beginning in August. A

senior Pentagon official met with Thai military Supreme Commander

General Thanasak Patimapakorn on June 4 to hammer out final details on

the atmospheric testing to be carried out from U-Tapao. Responding to

concerns by some Thai members of Parliament that the U-Tapao base has

a military aspect, Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaiku may

have revealed the actual reason for the base when he stated that it's

major purpose was to deal with "natural disasters."

In what amounts to an "On the Beach" scenario -- a reference to the

1960s movie that saw Australia as a temporary safe haven as a result

of a nuclear war that killed off all life in the northerrn hemisphere

-- the United States, Canada, and other countries are making

preparations to re-locate their political and military elites and

ample military forces to protect them to the safest zone from the

Fukushima radiation -- Southeast Asia.

Israel is reportedly buying up property in India and Uganda to shelter

millions of Jews from Israel, North America, and Europe to escape the

effects of the life-threatening radiation in the northern hemisphere.

At the Atomic Age II Symposium at the University of Chicago, Professor

Hiroake Koide of the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University,

displayed a world map showing the "hot zones" for cesium-127 resulting

from the Fukushima meltdown. Unsafe zones extend throughout the

northern hemisphere from "ground zero" in Fukushima province to deep

within the United States' and Canada's prairie state and province

food-producing "bread baskets." Koide showed one PowerPoint slide that

pointed to a "collapse of life through evacuation."