Paraguay. Oh, the LUSH forests and exotic landscape. The aho poi embroidery.
REMIX!!
Bush Twins. A "Fear and Loathing in Nueva Germania" drugged out composer guy. Heroic doctors rushing to the rescue of unwitting pawns cursed with cleft lips. Frustrated students of Nietzsche. A diligent liberal reporter.
Such telenovella fodder.
To learn more of the bubbly new Republican Scandal and view the letters from the White House, please, read on.
I stumbled upon this nugget while I was reading Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" in my hoopty. The preface made mention of Niezsche's sister playing a pivotal role in getting the work published, using some underhanded methods.
Turns out, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche took advantage of her brother's celebrity, while living as an invalid in Germany. She eventually allied herself with the Nazi leadership in her quest for recognition, fame, and unearned acclaim. Eventually, she married and moved to Paraguay with a Nazi Lutheran to found Nueva Germania, a place to raise proper Aryan Lutheran families together and promote their religious values through hard work and community.
Sadly, her husband shot himself in a hotel before the colony could gain any hope of florishing, but only after luring 14 or so families to Paraguay from Saxony, Germany. Many died due to illness, the demanding climate, and occasionally sloth. A few managed to inbreed and sustain the small community. The latest generation of Nueva Germanians bears a clefted reminder of this last bit of legacy.
Fast forward to 2003. A citizen approaches the Juniper Hills Town Council in August of that year. The community, hoping to expand, hears his proposal to take on a "Sister City". The cleft-lipped sister being Nueva Germania, Paraguay. A letter is sent to Veep Dick, and soon receives a favorable response from his office.
Fast forward to 2006: Jenna and Barb, the Bush Twins arrive to party it up in Paraguay. George Bush and fam buy tons of land in Paraguay. Secret military bases start showing up in Chaco, an area of Paraguay which is 60% of Paraguay's landmass with only 2% of its population.
Bush and dictators in Paraguay have something in common: a love of oil and a willingness to fight brutally over it, regardless of the outcome.
The Chaco War (1932–1935) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of great part of the Gran Chaco region of South America, which was incorrectly thought to be rich in oil.
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Though the region was sparsely populated, control of the Paraguay River running through it would have given one of the two landlocked countries access to the Atlantic Ocean. This was especially important to Bolivia, which had lost its Pacific Ocean coast to Chile in the War of the Pacific (1883).
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Furthermore, the discovery of oil in the Andean foothills sparked speculation that the Chaco itself would be a rich source of petroleum. Two large oil companies were involved in the exploration: Standard Oil (later Exxon), which backed Bolivia, while Shell Oil supported Paraguay.
Checkout what Wonkette has to say about this region:
We’ve been directed to yet another parapolitical theory here at Rigorous Intuition, where it is reported that Rev. Moon bought 600,000 hectares — that’s 1,482,600 acres — in the same place: Chaco, Paraguay.
Another twist: The first story, from Paraguay, apparently refers to the senior George Bush as the owner of the 98.840 acres in Moon’s neighborhood.
Bush 41 was the first bigshot politician to go prancing around with Rev. Moon in public. Especially in South America:
"In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced the Washington Times and Moon’s anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event," wrote The Gadflyer last year. "Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that ‘brings sanity to Washington.’" That was while on an extended trip to South America in Moon’s company. A Reuters’ story of Nov 25 of that year describes the former president as "full of praise" for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him as "the man with the vision." (And Moon helped Bush out with his own vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure of his company.) Bush and Moon then traveled together to Uruguay, "to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo, to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America."
This gets better, I promise you.
There's new evidence from the NetrootsNetwork of letters sent from VeepDick's office approving of continued friendship with Nueva Germania. Observe:
Not to be outdone, Bush followed Cheney with his own letter of support. As usual, he was all "Support the War on Terror" about it as well.
Every story has to have a hero. Every hero has to be able to right wrongs, identify problems, and make progress toward solutions. Preferably they're good looking, nice people, and rich. In this true scandal, the heros are none other than Southern California plastic surgeons.
In this case, our heroes plan to descend upon Nueva Germania to correct the lip clefts inbreeding over 125 years has caused.
I mentioned a reporter in the preview. Here's Jack Epstein's piece from the SF Gate. It's called "Rebuilding a pure Aryan home in the Paraguayan jungle" Brilliant.
Now that I've neatly outlined the side projects of VeepDick/Bush, what do you think?
Ah, Republican scandals and telenovellas. Where does the madness end? Check out this map of Republican scandals.
What have they got planned down there? What's up? Why is Jenna partying at the UNICEF tent and setting upmeetings with diplomats? Where is she stashing the booze? Who is her ghostwriter for her upcoming book?
Perhaps we'll figure out in the next episode. (Loves the repub telenovellas!)