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>There are claims that Water Island was once a submarine station.

So do a basic dig, verify (or not)… it's not difficult.

Fort Segarra

The U.S. government acquired Water Island in 1944 for a coastal defense installation. Water Island is the smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands and is approximately 1,800 feet from St. Thomas, south of Charlotte Amalie. The Army constructed barracks, gun emplacements, watch towers, underground bunkers, and various other structures, and the installation became known as Fort Segarra. The Army constructed Battery 314 at the top of a hill in the southern portion of the island, but the guns were not installed, and the emplacement was never operational. The Army did install guns at two places associated with the 818th Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Battery (Druif Point and Providence Point). There were two 37 millimeter guns at both locations and two 90 millimeter guns at Druif Point. With World War II winding down, the Army deactivated the 818th Battery in 1945 and deactivated Fort Segarra in 1946. The Army used Fort Segarra between 1948 and 1950 for tests associated with the Tropical Test Program. Most of that land comprising this Formerly Used Defense Site is now privately owned.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has conducted a number of investigations of the former Fort Segarra over the years, and a removal action to search for and remove any munitions-related items was completed in 2009. In addition to the removal action, USACE installed signs at the public ferry and deep water docks to make sure the public is aware of the military's use of the island. USACE conducted a review in 2012 to see if the remedial action implemented in 2009 is still effective in protecting people from potential risks associated with the military's use of the island. That led to USACE replacing the two signs.

While no munitions or munitions debris have been identified in more than 20 years, to ensure public safety, USACE is conducting a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study to determine if anything from the military's training remains in the area and to identify appropriate future actions.

https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/FortSegarra/

>Ghislaine Maxwell ran a submarine company in the US Virgin Islands, called TerraMar.

She had the TerraMar Project and a UK company, TerrarMar UK LTD

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08661523

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>>23319085

TerrarMar Project

Ghislaine Maxwell, Founder and President of the TerraMar Project, talks about leveraging technology to create a global ocean community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUzcRORDIg

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/terramar-project/

Moar… https://qresear.ch

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>>23319178

Lobbyist bought tropical land from Biden’s brother

Scott Green, a lobbyist with close ties to Joe Biden, purchased Virgin Islands property from James Biden and then extended him a private mortgage

n 2005, Joe Biden’s brother bought an acre of land with excellent ocean views on a remote island in the Caribbean for $150,000. He divided it into three parcels, and the next year a lobbyist close to the Delaware senator bought one of the parcels for what had been the cost of the entire property. Later, the lobbyist gave Biden’s brother a mortgage loan on the remaining parcels.

The Virgin Islands land deal, reported here for the first time, furthers a pattern in which members of the Biden family have engaged in financial dealings with people with an interest in influencing the former vice president.

In this case, a Biden staffer left the Senate in the early ’90s to become a lobbyist. Both before and after the land transaction, his clients benefited from Biden’s support and appropriations requests. A firm the lobbyist co-founded — which features a testimonial from Biden praising his “emotional investment” in his work on its website — specializes in federal contracts for niche law enforcement and national security programs for which Biden long advocated.

After the land deal, Joe Biden vacationed elsewhere on the tiny island, which once protected a nearby submarine base before it became a tropical getaway, on at least three occasions.

Honeymoon Beach

The property itself has remained vacant and undeveloped. It is not clear why the lobbyist, Scott Green, purchased the parcel from Biden’s brother James, or why James Biden later went to the lobbyist for a loan, rather than to a bank. An easement James Biden obtained granting road access to the land before selling it to Green may have made the land more valuable, but it is unclear whether the dramatically higher price Green paid for his parcel reflected its true value. The terms of the loan were not disclosed in property records.

It is also not clear whether Joe Biden was aware of the transactions. Following the land purchase, Green continued to lobby on issues over which Biden wielded influence and to meet with Biden’s staff. Green’s firm also continued to land government contracts related to federal programs for which Biden advocated.

Representatives of the Biden campaign declined repeated requests over weeks to comment. Shortly before publication, spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement: “Joe Biden was wrong. Politico does have a sense of humor. Because this story is an absolute joke.”

Green did not respond to several requests for comment. A lawyer for James Biden, George Mesires, acknowledged receiving questions, but did not respond to them.

James Biden, six years Joe’s junior, served as finance chairman on his older brother’s first Senate campaign in 1972. He went on to pursue an entrepreneurial career that regularly intersected with Joe’s public duties. He once sought to launch a Washington lobbying firm, but the venture was cut short when his would-be partners were convicted of attempting to bribe a judge in an unrelated matter. He has previously been accused by former business contacts of seeking to exploit the former vice president’s clout for financial gain in court proceedings inNew York,Kentucky, andFlorida, though he has denied such claims.

Water Island is a 500-acre spit of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Department of Defense purchased the island from a Danish company during World War II, using it to protect a submarine base on nearby St. Thomas. Since then, it has become an under-the-radar tropical getaway dotted with several-dozen homes, where the largest beachfront estates can fetch north of a million dollars.

moar…

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/james-biden-lobbyist-virgin-islands-099318