Bush family land purchase in Paraguay

[setmefree]

Weekend Edition
October 20 / 22, 2006

Hideout or Water Raid?
Bush's Paraguay Land Grab
By CP News Wire

Asuncion, Paraguay.

The land grab project of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort both politically and environmentally.

The news circulating the continent about plans to buy 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay) is the talk of the town in these countries.

Although official sources have not confirmed the information that is already public, the land is reportedly located in Paso de Patria, near Bolivian gas reserves and the Guarani indigenous water region, within the Triple Border.

Alto Paraguay Gov. Erasmo Rodriguez Acosta revealed he heard that part of the land purchase consists of an ecological reserve (Fundacion Patria), with which Bush is affiliated.

In its interview with Rodriguez Acosta, neike.com.py reported that he does not have documentation of this affiliation and it could not communicate either with the foundation or with the National Rural Development and Land Institute, in charge of these state lands.

Concern increased last week with the arrival of Bush's daughter, Jenna, and a source from the Physical Planning Department saying that most of the Chaco region belongs to private companies.

Luis D'Elia, Argentina´s undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says the matter raises regional concern because it threatens local natural resources.

He termed it "surprising" that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base.

Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and California together).

"The southern U.S. states are already struggling with water shortages," asserted the 1980 Nobel Peace Prizewinner.

Orlando Castillo, Paraguay Peace and Justice Service member, recalled the US military buildup in Chaco under a bilateral agreement.

This article originally appeared in Prensa Latina.

[Overcast]

It is his way of "Investing in the American Economy".

[TahoeBlue]

I've been researching this and have gone over several web threads. Bush officially denies the land purchase but there is a lot of smoke and initial confirmation frrom Brazil and Paraguay. Also the key to the connection is Rev. Sun Moon. It appears as of 2008 Rev. Moon owns over 1.5 million acres on the Brazil side of the Paraguay Border and 1.5 Million acres on the Paraguay side.
Recent trips to Paraguay/ Brazil have been made by Jenna Bush and Neil Bush.
Recent meetings with HW Bush and Rev. Moon

Anyone know principles in Pantera Petroleum ? (Corp HQ Austin, TX)

Here is some of the info with links:

Bush's and  Moonies in Paraguay:

Moon 1.5 million acres Brazil (on paraguay border) + 1.5 Million acres Paraguay (on Brazil's Border)

Bush 100,000 acres ? (Bush officially denies .gov web site)

Thursday, 28 February, 2002, 23:56 GMT :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1847934.stm

Brazil probes Moonie land purchases

The authorities in Brazil are investigating the purchase of vast estates close to its border with Paraguay by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The area is notorious for smuggling and money laundering and Brazil's authorities are worried about a foreigner owning so much land in a border region.
Since the mid-1990's, the Reverend Moon's Unification Church has been buying up land both in Brazil and in Paraguay.

It now owns some two million acres in Brazil, a vast tract of farmland which has been called "New Hope Ranch."

The church has also bought large estates, and even a small town, across the border in Paraguay.

Much of the land in Brazil was paid for in cash and the authorities are now investigating possible tax evasion and illegal currency transactions.


July 18, 2005 :

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050718/news_1n18paraguay.html

CHACO REGION, Paraguay – Foreigners have long owned Puerto Casado, a town in Paraguay's arid Chaco region. First it was an Argentine businessman and now it's a self-proclaimed South Korean messiah: the Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Villagers say Moon's 1.48 million-acre property is the largest unproductive estate in Paraguay, where a privileged few own much of the land.

The Unification Church's intentions have been questioned elsewhere. It has bought property on both sides of the Brazil-Paraguay border, and Brazil has investigated Moon disciples over money-laundering and tax-evasion allegations.

Oct 13, 2006


http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BEBA55617-2676-4091-ABBC-20650EB6FEE1%7D&language=EN

Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region.

Oct. 19, 2006

http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/51221.php

Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the American President’s daughter, Jenna Bush, has secured on behalf of her father, the American President, and the Bush Family, the purchase of nearly 100,000 acres of land in the South American Nation of Paraguay, and which is also confirmed by the Latin American News Service, and as we can read as reported in their article titled "Bush Buys Land in Northern Paraguay"

"An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region. Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia."

The American President’s daughter had used the cover of a United Nations group to ‘cover’ her mission to Paraguay to arrange this massive land purchase, and as we can see confirmed by the Associated Press News Service in their article titled "Jenna Bush joins UNICEF program in Paraguay"


February 29, 2008:

Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, called on Paraguay's president as the guest of a business federation founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

March 31st, 2008:

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/neil-bush-the-rev-moon-paraguay-and-the-us-dept-of-education/




Getty Images captioned the photo: “5 days ago: Neil Bush (C), younger brother of US President George W. Bush, leaves the presidential palace after a meeting with Paraguayan President Nicaron Duarte in Asuncion, on February 28, 2008. Bush is in Paraguay with a delegation of the Federation for Universal Peace, headed by South Korean reverend Sun Myung Moon.”

One veteran Moon watcher filled in the blanks for Talk2Action:


From left to right, the first person is Dr. Thomas G. Walsh, the Secretary General of UPF;

Second from the left is Antonio Betancourt, a “long time Moon follower” who currently is the Director of Government Relations of UPF International and “Character Education,” and who was a major player in “what was formerly called the Summit Council for World Peace or Summit Council, …a group active in Moon’s effort to unite North and South Korea, to save the ‘Fatherland’ and to form Moon’s sovereign nation”;

Third from the left is Chang Shik Yang, the Continental Director of the Unification Church now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU). Yang “played a lead role in the development of Moon’s black minister snagging unit, the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC), and also is Moon’s top man in the Middle East.”

Fourth is Neil Bush;

On the far right is Larry Moffitt who is the Vice President of editorial operations for United Press International (UPI), a news service owned and operated by Rev. Moon.

A presidential press office source, who spoke on condition of not being named, confirmed the younger Bush met President Nicanor Duarte on Thursday along with a delegation from the Universal Peace Federation, a group associated with Moon.



May 6, 2008:

http://www.gorenfeld.net/john/2008/05/06/ex-prez-bush-hosts-cult-leader-at-texas-am/

The Moonies have just trumpeted the latest delegation of their dreaded leader, Sun Myung Moon, to the Bush presidential library in College Station, TX. The occasion: a statesmanlike party Moon was throwing in D.C., from April 28 to May 2, 2008, celebrating his dreams of influencing world events and burying Jesus Christ.

May 17, 2006

About two weeks ago Moon made the latest of a long series of appearances with former President George H.W. Bush — this time at the Bush Presidential Library in College Station.
And as reported here two years ago, the Washington Times Foundation (Moon is founder and owner of the Times) covertly donated at least $1 million to the Bush Library.



Chaco Paraguay Resources:

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2DA7BAE4-061B-49B6-983F-3D69A4396E37%7D)&language=EN

An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region.

The Governor of Alto Paraguay, Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta has admitted to hearing that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it that Bush owns near to 70 thousand hectares (173,000 acres) as part of an ecological reserve and/or ranch. However, the governor said he had no documents to prove the rumor. Acosta said that some stories credited the land to the Fundación Patria, which Bush would be a member of.


He termed it “surprising” that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3006421

Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguyan government?

http://www.panterapetroleum.com/

Pantera Petroleum, Inc. is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration company (NASDAQ OTC BB: PTPE) headquartered in Austin, TX with operations in Midland, TX, Pecos County, TX, and Asuncion, Paraguay.

Pantera Petroleum, Inc is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration company (NASDAQ OTC BB. PTPE) headquartered in Austin, Tx with operations in Asuncion, Paraguay. In South America, Pantera has rights to an 85% stake in five concessions representing 3,872,000 acres, or 6,050 square miles (roughly the size of Kuwait), in Paraguay in a well established hydrocarbon area, named the CHACO BASIN.


Some Facts:

- CHACO reserves in Bolivia and Argentina estimated to be 73TCF gas and 1.9 billion barrels of oil in 128 fields
- Prolific Chaco Basin extends into Paraguay
- Paraguay is vastly under-explored - only 27 wells explored
- Pantera's concessions have potential reserves of 6.7TCFE gas or 1.1 billion barrels of oil
- 6 well exploration program projected
- 50% chance of finding developable fields of 170 BCF or 8MM BO or more
- Brazil and Argentina demand expanding
- Attractive economy

[strgzr]

Go George go.

[ZThomas0604]

Americans "hate" him. America is going down soon.

I wouldn't blame him for leaving,He knows something is about to happen here.

Explain to me why he would stay?

I would leave to if I had the chance.

BTW most of congress now have duel citizenship because they want to be ready to flee from America

[Boubear]

Yeah, he sunk the boat now he's jumping ship!!  I hope they find him and bring him to justice on all the war crimes, he and his pals have committed!!

[ZThomas0604]

Dont put all the blame on Bush & Co.
Like Alex said he was a pawn

[Boubear]

He may have been a pawn, but he did his job very well.  He is just to blame as everyone else!!

[lilly]

   Makes no sense going on about it.   Do you know our collective consciousness is what changes things and events?  But it takes the individual to first become silent inside, even just for a short while as many times during a day that you can.
We each have to lift our awareness out of learned behavior and deep ignorance, collected over many centuries.  Practicing concentration, contemplation and meditation.........clears blockages in the body and auric body, the result of such efforts ='s wake up.

The instant we begin to focus  and practice on the above mentioned, these efforts become part of the collective consciousness.   There is more awareness, the light shines in the darkness and certain ideas and emotions can no longer survive...old foundations and learning's fall away.

With many of us doing this, we become a force of light so strong, that those who would just as soon see you as a slave, well! they no longer hold power over us...the "collective".  That is how we bring about change. 

By always going on about what the people in Government are doing changes nothing, it only encourages that mind set, actually collectively we are creating this saga and giving our leaders the power to continue with business as usual.   People always put in power a government who matches the level of understanding and wisdom we live, collectively.
In my opinion people have woken up and many are not prepared to go on like sheep, which means we have chosen a President according to our level of consciousness.   Give President elect, Obama  a chance, at the very least.

It is kind of laughable hearing Obama referred to as an African American, I wonder what that means, really?  He is half white and half black.   Seems fair to me...haa.


yes we can.

from a Ron Paulite. 

ps: the chem-trail dumping in Montana today has been non stop.

[L2Design]

That whore JANET RENO is probably there

[larsonstdoc]

   Bush probably read somewhere how a lot of the Nazis fled Germany after WW2 to live in South America and has decided to do the same thing.  After all his grandfather Prescott Bush was one of Hitler's handlers.

[TahoeBlue]

There are alot of interseting connections between Standard Oil (Rockefeller), the Nazi's and the Bushes.

http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas3.htm

Nazis in the attic

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power.

"Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."

-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1)

http://home.att.net/~m.standridge/

This shows the links between Rockefeller Dulles Forrestal Bush et al. Standard Oil continued to supply the Nazi oil all thru wwII. Much of this oil came from South America.

http://home.att.net/~m.standridge/rocky.htm#h1

'By February 1945 one-third of the nations on the [South American] continent had not even entered the war, while Dulles's friend, President Juan Peron of Argentina led a bloc of decidedly pro-Fascist countries that were eager to help the architects of the Third Reich escape with their assets intact

1994 publication of Loftus' and Aarons' Secret War Against the Jews . They reveal that Rockefeller was a Nazi sympathizer during World War II. Worse, they reveal, he was a traitor: there are transcripts of telephone conversations between Rockefeller and Nazi agents in South America in which Rockefeller arranged the sale of tons of petroleum products to Nazi Germany. What is really significant about these transcripts is the date: 1943, in the middle of World War II (Loftus and Aarons 270-91).


http://home.att.net/~m.standridge/forrstl.htm#h1

Like his partner Allen Dulles (attorney of George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, sr., during this same time), Forrestal had been found to have engaged in treason, as well, on a milder level. Although Forrestal loved the U.S. troops and went into battle on the front lines with them, he was busily working with Dulles to arrange a negotiated peace with the Axis, behind FDR's back. (Loftus and Aarons 79-80, 89-90, 136-40, 149-50).

Devine reportedly saw Forrestal involved in destroying an aircraft. This aircraft, Devine eventually assumed, had been "Amelia Earhart's Plane." However, evidence now suggests that the plane in question was actually a TBM Avenger plane which had been piloted by (later President) George Bush, then a Navy pilot in the Pacific.. Bush had landed his plane on Japanese-held Guam on June 19, 1944, at Forrestal's behest. The fall of the Marianas, including Guam, would mean that Japan proper could be subject to U.S. bombing raids again, as it had been briefly in June, 1944, until the Japanese, with the connivance of Chiang Kai Shek (at the encouragement of Dulles) had captured the huge new U.S. Army Air Force bases in Northern China, from which the first regular bombing raids had started to hit Japan proper in early June, 1944. By the end of June, these airfields had fallen to the Japanese, as Chiang sold out his troops in return for the promise of Japanese help against Mao (Bagby 233-6).

[larsonstdoc]

Nice work Tahoe.  Thank you for the posts!

[strgzr]

Niel has aged some since he helped loot over a billion dollars from Silverado Savings in the 80s.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/99614.php



What possible harm could these fellows do?

http://rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm



All American family.

TRUST OR HUSTLE: The Bush Record

David E. Scheim

http://www.campaignwatch.org/details.htm

“What you’ve got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle.”

- Republican pundit Kevin Philips.

While opportunism isn’t new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago.  As documented below from impeccable cited sources, the exploits of six Bushes, including George W., range from stock sales that were probed or sanctioned to arranging U.S. business investments for a Japanese Mob front.  They range from lobbying for a Mafia-linked businessman that enabled massive Medicare fraud to misconduct that helped trigger S&L collapses costing taxpayers $1.2 billion.

It was thus not entirely coincidental that under Bush senior in 1992, U.S. taxpayers faced a $500 billion S&L bailout2 and the largest ever budget deficit, $290 billion.  This contrasts with the largest surpluses ever under Clinton-Gore.  George W. Bush asks for trust, yet his evasions about his own dealings and recent campaigning with brother Jeb immerse him within a family financial scandal of alarming scope.

NEIL BUSH (George W’s brother) was a principal in the 1988 collapse of Silverado Banking in Denver, which cost taxpayers $1 billion.   Neil approved $132 million in unrepaid loans from Silverado to two business partners, who in turn arranged payments to Neil totaling $650,000.

JEB BUSH (George W’s brother) and a partner defaulted on a $4.5 million loan from a Florida S&L in 1988.  The default helped trigger the S&L’s collapse, which cost taxpayers $285 million.  Bush and partner repaid only ten percent of the irregular loan and, incredibly, also got to keep the real estate that collateralized it.

In 1985, Jeb lobbied the federal government on behalf of Miami HMO owner Miguel Recarey to increase Recarey’s Medicare business ultimately to a total of $1 billion.  The following year, Jeb received $75,000 from Recarey.  Recarey, who had longstanding business ties to the late Florida Mafia boss Santos Trafficante, subsequently fled the U.S. under indictment, suspected of up to $100 million in Medicare fraud.

GEORGE W. BUSH.  On June 20, 1990, Bush, a director of Harken Energy, sold the bulk of his Harken stock for $848,000.  A week later, the stock plummeted in value on news of a large quarterly loss.  Bush claimed that he had submitted a required report about the stock sale but it had somehow disappeared.6  Bush refused repeated requests from both The Wall Street Journal7 and U.S. News and World Reports8 to discuss the stock sale. 

A federal (SEC) probe of Bush’s stock sale terminated without charging or exonerating Bush.9  But as Time reported, it was widely assumed that insider knowledge prompted the sale.10  The Wall Street Journal reported other suspicious circumstances concerning Bush’s involvement with Harken Energy.11

Throughout his business career, George W. was bailed out by influential contacts for plays, as The Wall Street Journal put it, that “did not quite make the grade.”12  An example was a 1989 baseball deal financed in part “out of respect for his father” that ultimately earned George W. $15 million on a $600,000 investment.13  Such financial windfalls were important for Bush, who, as Newsweek summarized, “was an academic slacker [at Yale], a mediocre athlete, a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and an unsuccessful oilman.”

GEORGE BUSH, SENIOR.  The late Jonathan Kwitny, an award winning journalist for PBS and The Wall Street Journal, detailed links of George Bush senior to S&L fraud beneficiaries nationwide.15  Under Bush, Kwitny reported, “investigations were called off, proposed fraud charges weren’t brought, and President Bush continued to pal around with investigative targets who got off scot-free.”  Among Bush’s several pals in the S&L bonanza crowd named by Kwitny was Joe Russo, who owned one failed S&L and defaulted on multimillion-dollar loans from five others.16  Details   Disbanding the strike forces against organized crime

JONATHAN BUSH.  In 1991, George senior’s brother Jonathan was fined $30,000 in Massachusetts and $4,000 in Connecticut for violating registration laws governing securities sales.   Jonathan was barred from securities brokerage with the general public in Massachusetts for one year.

PRESCOTT BUSH. In 1989, Prescott Bush, a brother of George senior, arranged investments by a Japanese Mob front company in two U.S. firms, for which he was paid $500,000.  The underworld front ultimately gained a controlling interest in both U.S. firms, and both subsequently filed for bankruptcy.18  Bush denied knowledge of the underworld’s role in these deals, which came under investigation by Japanese police and in the U.S.

George W’s talk of integrity and plans for privatized social security appear to be somewhat of a hustle considering this Bush family record and what happened to the S&Ls during his father’s presidency.  George W. may have trouble convincing U.S. voters to reinstate Bush family ethics and economics as national policy.

http://www.campaignwatch.org/details.htm

I guess since the Bushes have nearly worn out their welcome, Paraguay looks pretty good.

[kevlar442]

Maybe the Bush family said "f#ck it, since everyone knows we're criminals, we'll start our own cocaine cartel and sell to the CIA".

[iamc]

...and off they go.. into the wild blew-up-the -world-yander...

(those who take what they want. Never get what they need!)

[chris jones]

Interesting and infromative. thank you, good research.

I'll try to make a one liner, Bush and his mateys may be in for a suprise if they move to Paraguay. I'm certain the big dogs will woo him and guarantee his safety. he will certainly feel a king among the peasants.

He will be in for a suprise the likes of which he has never anticipated. Contrary to news reals and Murdochs comic book news, the knowlegable educated indivuduals, many within their own rights powerfull, are disqusted with this peice of human waste.  It could be he is walking into the lions den. Many underestimate the South American "human beings".

[mr_anderson]

At least we'll know where he'll be. 

[chirhonius]

Dont forget about Dubai - alot of the elite americans are fleeing there right now too

[NWOSCUM]

Maybe Bushy is feeling guilty about the *cough* carbon footprint he has created in the Middle East and he's gonna try to clean it up with his 99,000 acres.

It'll probably come out in the near future that the largest landowners will receive carbon credits due to their foliage scrubbing the air.  So once again the elites will get paid and well, we'll just get bent over.