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November 20, 2007 at 09:20:21

In Preparation for Prosecution and/or Armageddon, Bush Buys 99,000-Acre Ranch in Paraguay

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President Bush Makes Massive Land Purchase In Paraguay Ahead Of Expected War Crimes Charges.   www.thepowerhour.com/news2/bush_paraguay.htm

 

CP News Wire: Bush's Paraguay Land Grab -- By CP News Wire.  Asuncion, Paraguay.  .  Bush plans to buy 98840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, ...  www.counterpunch.org/cp10202006.html

Empires Fall: Bush Family Buying Land In Paraguay -- Bush is reportedly looking into purchasing a 100,000 acre tract of land in Paraguay near the border with Brazil http://empiresfall.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-family-buying-land-in-paraguay_21.html

 

Scoop: Bush Purchases 99,000 Acres In Paraguay? PRENSA LATINA - The land grab project of US President George W. Bush -- plans to buy 98840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, ...  www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00308.htm

 

Meanwhile, BushCo is advertising in poor neighborhoods in places like Lima, Peru -- the search is for strong, brave young men who would like a chance to win U.S. citizenship.  Pass the physical and sign up for a 6-year commitment to fight in Iraq, and upon completing basic training, learning rudimentary English, and getting to Iraq, the new soldier will receive $2000US in cash, which is big money in the slums of Lima, Peru.   All survivors, after 6 years, will get US citizenship. 

 

Consider this report from www.harpers.org:

 

Triple Canopy is a firm that has started recruiting soldiers in Latin America.   They plainly stipulate that neither Triple Canopy nor the U.S. Government is responsible in case the employees are injured or killed in the line of duty. 

 

Chilean Sen.  Alejandro Navarro said his government has had to cover the costs of workers returning from Iraq with stress-related disorders because the security companies that employed them refused to provide help. 

 

Despite concerns, host countries have done little to prevent recruiting, and the current state of the countries has created pools of men ‘ripe for the picking.’ Latin American countries such as Colombia, El Salvador, Peru and Nicaragua have a long history of military action with large militaries that have been involved in civil wars.  Most importantly, their militaries have recently downsized, leaving a population of trained men unemployed with few practical working skills.  Working in labor-intensive jobs and making little to no money, these men are eager for gainful employment. 

 

Geoff Thale, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, argues that allowing Latin America and other less-developed regions to serve as cheap labor pools to recruit people for dangerous jobs that are part of the U.S. military mission is deeply wrong, for both moral and political reasons. 

 

In a democracy, when wars are fought, there are casualties.  When a U.S. soldier is wounded or killed in combat, his family, neighbors, and community directly feel the death and the weight of the war.  In response, that community makes political judgments about whether the human cost is worth the political cost.”

 

“An increasing number of Latin Americans can be found carrying out security tasks in Iraq: Peruvians guard the outer perimeter of a U.S. installation in Basra; Chileans protect the government Green Zone in Baghdad; Hondurans have provided security within the terminal at Baghdad International Airport; and Salvadorans once protected the Green Zone in Baghdad.  However, many will be surprised to know that these men are not serving in Iraq as members of allied military forces, but rather are hired by private firms contracted through U.S. government agencies. 

 

As reported earlier this week by Tyler Bridges of the Miami Herald, while Americans are eager to bring the troops home, many Latin Americans are willing to go to Iraq:

 

The Latin Americans typically served in the military back home—many fought leftist guerrillas in places like El Salvador and Columbia—and were taught by U.S. instructors, making it easier for them to use U.S. weapons and work under American security procedures. 

 

After leaving their own armed forces, these soldiers found themselves in low-paying jobs.  So they agreed to risk injury or death in Iraq for $1,000 to $1,500 a month, ($5-$7 an hour) a good salary for them, but far below the $10,000-$15,000 monthly pay for American contract employees.    http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000722

 

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Several years after receiving my M.A. in social science (interdisciplinary studies) I was an instructor at S.F. State University for a year, but then went back to designing automated machinery, and then tech writing, in Silicon Valley. I've always been more interested in political economics and what's going on behind the scenes in politics, than in mechanical engineering, and because of that I've rarely worked more than 6 months a year, devoting much of the rest of the year to reading and writing about that which interests me most.

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Several years after receiving my M.A. in social science (interdisciplinary studies) I was an instructor at S.F. State University for a year, but then went back to designing automated machinery, and then tech writing, in Silicon Valley. I've always been more interested in political economics and what's going on behind the scenes in politics, than in mechanical engineering, and because of that I've rarely worked more than 6 months a year, devoting much of the rest of the year to reading and writ...

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Richard ClarkSeveral years after receiving my M.A. in social science (interdisciplinary studies) I was an instructor at S.F. State University for a year, but then went back to designing automated machinery, and then tech writing, in Silicon Valley. I've always been more interested in political economics and what's going on behind the scenes in politics, than in mechanical engineering, and because of that I've rarely worked more than 6 months a year, devoting much of the rest of the year to reading and writ...

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Rumor or fact?

Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway  

Tom Phillips in Cuiab

 

Monday October 23, 2006

 

The Guardian

Meeting the new couple next door can be an anxious business for eventhe most relaxed home owner. Will they be international drugtraffickers? Have they got noisy kids with a penchant for electronicmusic? As worries go, however, having the US president move in next  door must come fairly low on the list.  

 

Unless of course you are a resident of northern Paraguay and believereports in the South American press that he has bought up a 100,000 acre (40,500 hectare) ranch in your neck of the woods.  

 

The rumours, as yet unconfirmed but which began with the state-runCuban news agency Prensa Latina, have triggered an outpouring ofconspiracy theories, with speculation rife about what PresidentBush's supposed interest in the "chaco", a semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's north, might be.  

 

Some have speculated that he might be trying to wrestle control ofthe Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves, from the Paraguayans. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1928928,00.html  

by Richard Clark (21 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 68 comments) on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 2:33:17 PM
 


Several years after receiving my M.A. in social science (interdisciplinary studies) I was an instructor at S.F. State University for a year, but then went back to designing automated machinery, and then tech writing, in Silicon Valley. I've always been more interested in political economics and what's going on behind the scenes in politics, than in mechanical engineering, and because of that I've rarely worked more than 6 months a year, devoting much of the rest of the year to reading and writ...

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Richard ClarkSeveral years after receiving my M.A. in social science (interdisciplinary studies) I was an instructor at S.F. State University for a year, but then went back to designing automated machinery, and then tech writing, in Silicon Valley. I've always been more interested in political economics and what's going on behind the scenes in politics, than in mechanical engineering, and because of that I've rarely worked more than 6 months a year, devoting much of the rest of the year to reading and writ...

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What's Bush's response to this allegation?

As Media Matters points out, the Bush regime itself has been
remarkably low-key in handling this report about the big land purchase in Paraguay; rather than posting a denial of everything on the White House web site, they left it to an unattributable third-party spokesperson in the State Department to deny everything, including some things that have been documented to be true, in an unrelated article in an obscure archive -- almost as if they didn't want anyone to find the denial, but wanted
it to be available "just in case," should the story develop "legs."

Of course, the larger implication, that Bush may try to flee war
crimes charges if he ever has to leave office, is mostly untouchable
by the ever-loyal US media.  But for only the second time in its
history, the politically neutral ICRC (International Committee of the
Red Cross) is apparently filing charges of war crimes against a
sitting administration, namely the Schrubbe Satrapy (i.e. Bush administration).

 The first time it took such an action was in 1943, against guess which regime?

by Richard Clark (21 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 68 comments) on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 3:14:20 PM
 


A meteorologist by trade, I am an ardent Bush, Cheney and (general liar) detractor. When I'm relaxing, I love to camp and fish.
wxman2001A meteorologist by trade, I am an ardent Bush, Cheney and (general liar) detractor. When I'm relaxing, I love to camp and fish.

The Fascists return to Paraguay

Bush also negotiated for and got granted immunity from extradition to any international court for his 'household and support workers' (read soldiers) from the president of Paraguay, according to the first official stories I read (at Wonkette) last year. The nearby US base, which used to be a small dirt airstrip, is now paved and long enough to accomodate large jets, while the base itself is quite a bit larger. The area that he bought his land in is known for being in an arms smugglers route, and his nearby neighbor will be the owner of a big DC paper, the Reverend Moon.

by wxman2001 (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 114 comments) on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 7:14:19 AM
 


Rosa Schmidt is an American married to an Iranian, hence the second last name, Azadi.  She's a long-time peace activist with a background in anthropology, education, and public health.  She's also one of the people who walked away from the falling Twin Towers on 9/11 and returned to help with the recovery effort.  Out of this experience of destruction, death, and horror came a deeper commitment to human life everywhere and specifically to non-violence.  Retired and sp...

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Rosa Schmidt AzadiRosa Schmidt is an American married to an Iranian, hence the second last name, Azadi.  She's a long-time peace activist with a background in anthropology, education, and public health.  She's also one of the people who walked away from the falling Twin Towers on 9/11 and returned to help with the recovery effort.  Out of this experience of destruction, death, and horror came a deeper commitment to human life everywhere and specifically to non-violence.  Retired and sp...

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Paraguay made sense to Nazi war criminals, too

I've been thinking for a long time that bush cheney rumsfeld inc would take our money and run when it finally got too hot for them to handle in the USA.  I've been waiting for someone to uncover evidence that they're secretly sending money out of the country in preparation.  That's a common pattern among dictators who face opposition and eventually have to flee their countries--hold on till the last minute and then fly out to join the money you've sent ahead.   

When Halliburton decided to move to the Arab Emirates, I thought I knew where the Bushies were preparing their refuge.  But really, Paraguay is a much better choice for them. 

First, the environment in Paraguay is incomparably better than in the Emirates. 

Second, in the UAE they'd be easily accessible to any Iraqi bent on revenge. 

And third, Paraguay has a history, unfortunately, of harboring unrepentant Nazis (probably with private armies) who fled Germany after WWII.  And is it true that Moon is already there? 

I feel so sorry for the people of Latin America.

by Rosa Schmidt Azadi (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 49 comments) on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 3:23:22 PM
 


Rosa Schmidt is an American married to an Iranian, hence the second last name, Azadi.  She's a long-time peace activist with a background in anthropology, education, and public health.  She's also one of the people who walked away from the falling Twin Towers on 9/11 and returned to help with the recovery effort.  Out of this experience of destruction, death, and horror came a deeper commitment to human life everywhere and specifically to non-violence.  Retired and sp...

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Rosa Schmidt AzadiRosa Schmidt is an American married to an Iranian, hence the second last name, Azadi.  She's a long-time peace activist with a background in anthropology, education, and public health.  She's also one of the people who walked away from the falling Twin Towers on 9/11 and returned to help with the recovery effort.  Out of this experience of destruction, death, and horror came a deeper commitment to human life everywhere and specifically to non-violence.  Retired and sp...

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Hope Paraguay gets too hot to handle for the Bushes, too

That article outlined depressing conditions, but it gave me hope because NGOs and, hopefuly at some point, the international community are fighting back on the side of the poor in Paraguay as elsewhere.  Pray for the day the Bushes will have to flee to Mars, or do their time in jail like any other convicted criminals. 

by Rosa Schmidt Azadi (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 49 comments) on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 1:57:50 AM
 

 

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