Bush - Paraguay Land Holdings Of Approx. 100,000 Acres - Why?......

[global1]

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?

Supposedly all the paperwork and deeds and such are secret - but somehow the news leaked that a new “land trust” created for Bush had purchased nearly 100,000 acres near the town of Chaco.

I always wondered why? Then today I ran across this company - check out this link: http://www.panterapetroleum.com/

NOTE: you can also see a whole page ad in the March 2008 issue of Entrepreneur

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

Well 'oil be damned' - coincidence - I think not.

If anybody has any additional info on Bush and his land holding in Paraguay - please post to this thread.

[notadmblnd]

1. wow, and we were hoping that he would be moving there once he left office

now we can see that he's just going to rape Paraguay's' natural resources. is it legal to make investments like this while he's a sitting pretzledent?

[tabasco]

2. Well, there's your next bankrupt oil company.

Bush ruins everything he touches.

[Drum]

3. Enough brush for a lifetime of clearing.

:(

[LakeSamish706]

4. One should probably buy some stock in that company... n/t

[LakeSamish706]

7. Nope, never mind that.. Cause any company that "shit head" has been involved in...

did a major tank in the past.. Once an ass hole, always an ass hole.... At least that is what my daddy always said..

[Prefer]

5. The last Golden Ticket has been found,

right here, in Paraguay.

[TwilightGardener]

6. He plans to raise alpacas?

[rodeodance]

8. war crimes hide out?

[magellan]

9. If memory serves, that land sits on top of the largest natural aquifer

...in the world. They'll have control of plenty of clean fresh water, which will grow ever more lucrative as climate change digs in.

I also seem to recall that Sun Myung Moon has a stake in this exact same area, surprise surprise.

[femrap]

15. Yes....I read the same thing. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. My lord...

[Rydz777]

11. Very interesting. I've read that Rumsfeld made a secret visit

to the base which is near the Bolivian border. I've also seen references to Bush land holdings in Paraguay, but this is the most detailed information yet.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. I still haven't seen any serious reporting

that this is true.

[Tinksrival]

13. Earlier this week

Sam Seder subed for Thom Hartman. He had a guest that had written a book on Reverend Mooney. He said that Neil Bush had been on a global tour with the King of america and they had been reported in Paraguay meeting with "government officials".

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/29/paraguay.neil.bush.ap/index.html

[Sal Minella]

22. They're all good buds, the Bushies and the Moons.

"Neil received $1 million from a Moon foundation for an educational company." http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/04/bush_moon.html
dated 29 April 2007.

I've seen photos of George Senior and Ba helping the Moons celebrate at a big birthday party. buddy-buddy bunch.

[peacetalksforall]

14. To gain that resource and sell it to neighboring countries means dealing with them

in peace or taking them over - creating their typical CIA upstaging plans that always tries to get them to eat their own. If they don't take over or gain peace - they have to airlift the resources out of the country because the country is land locked. Plus the grand water reservoirs that include Paraguay are shared with neighboring countries. And I believe it's the same for the petroleum products. The political boundaries don't match the geological boundaries. Good luck to the predators, pillagers, plunderers. South American doesn't know what's going to hit them if it's Dick and George and their friends. But, they may not have a choice - precedent already set in Paraguay - refuge of many Nazi runners.

[Initech]

16. Our president is like a James Bond villian.

He's already revealed his evil plot for global domination and now all he needs is a grand escape. Unfortunately, our interlopers are asleep at the switch.

[dysfunctional press]

17. that was my first thought as well...the james bond villian thing-

does the land have an extinct volcano, or other natural/man-made features that would be suitable for building a secret lair?

[dysfunctional press]

18. they're building a space port and welcome center for our new alien reptilian overlords...

nt

[Adsos Letter]

19. Maybe Blackwater will set up shop there...gotta' have yer own personal army, ya know?

[Ghost Dog]

20. Paraguay's Chaco

The Gran Chaco Americano is the largest dry forest in South America and the continent’s most extensive forested region after Amazonia. It occupies territories in four countries: Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and a small portion of Brazil. In Paraguay, approximately 60% of the territory is covered by the Chaco, yet only 10% of Paraguayans live in this part of the country. However, this small percentage of the population represents a rich cultural diversity, including several indigenous groups. Conserving the biodiversity of the Gran Chaco also means maintaining and ensuring its cultural identity.

A broad climatic spectrum (from tropical to subtropical latitudes) and unique geological and topographical characteristics generate a wide diversity of environments within the Chaco area. The region includes wide plains, swamps, dry or seasonally flooded savannas, marshes, salt flats and a great variety of forests and scrublands. These diverse environments translate into a high diversity of animal and plant species, which make the Chaco a key area for conservation.

The goal of the Conservancy’s work in the Chaco is to create a biological corridor that will connect Defensores del Chaco National Park to three other protected areas nearby: Paraguay's Medanos National Park, the Cerro Cabrera-Timane National Park Reserve and Bolivia's Ka’a Iya National Park. This 330-square-mile corridor will provide a safe haven for a vast array of threatened plant and animal species and represent a total area roughly six times the size of Yosemite National Park in the United States. Recently, UNESCO designated this area as a Man and the Biosphere Reserve, and all national parks within it are categorized as core areas for strict conservation.

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Why the Conservancy Works Here

The Consevancy is working in the region because of the fragility of the Chaco’s natural resources, especially since its biodiversity is currently facing many human pressures. The degradation and continuous loss of natural wealth has been driven by poorly managed use of natural resources due to extensive livestock raising and extractive forestry. More recently, poorly planned agricultural expansion, petroleum and gas exploration, and large-scale infrastructure projects have adversely impacted the Chaco.

/... http://www.nature.org/wherewework/southamerica/paraguay/work/art5109.html

[OneBlueSky]

21. my brother is on the mailing list of one of those stock touting outfits . . .

and a recent "recommendation" was -- you guessed it -- Pantera Petroleum . . . the headline in the Natural Contrarian newsletter reads "U.S. Invasion of Paraguay to Make YOU Rich . . . Pantera Petroleum has just found the next OIL & GAS SUPER-FIELD & Paraguay is the Next source of $Billions in Investor-Profits" . . . they recommend buying PTPE "Now up to $2.00 per share" . . .

no mention of Bush's land holdings . . . nor those of Rev. Moon, who has also purchased a large tract in the region . . .

you can check out their update at http://www.naturalcontrarian.com/strategy.php?id=99

[ConcernedCanuk]

23. Ya don't really think that GW could live his life out peacefully in the country he helped destroy

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now do you?

He's not going to be big on the speech circuit invite list to travel around the Universities to spread his "theories".

Nope

George ain't gonna be welcome anywhere in his own country methinks

He'd have to take a massive security force to guarantee his safety

Gee-Dub is not exactly a "loved" citizen.

And he knows it.