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Ha! I actually agree with Roark… That last line “El Che” / “Bush” Same kacke Different Day…” Is absurd.
George Bush is clearly responsible for the deaths of far more innocent people than El Che… But of course the estimates of the number of people killed in Iraq that comes out of the US press is in the tens of thousands – MORE DAMNED LIES.
“… the British medical journal The Lancet, calculating that more than 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion and its ensuing chaos. ” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/16/EDG6PKDSLU1.DTL
I can only assume from your obviously doo-lally attitude about slaughtering innocent people Roark that you are one of the many millions of clearly deluded and demented Americans who are looking forward to the Rapture and are aggressively pursuing every means possible to accelerate the end of the world so you can fly up to heaven on your celestial wings and think you’re going to be laughing at us poor slobs down here who are strange enough to believe that a US caused genocide that’s comparable to Adolf Hitler’s is a “just cause” …
After everything that has come out in the last five years you sincerely believe “the war in Iraq is a worthy cause.”
I can’t remember who said it but it makes the point: “Attacking Iraq after 9/11 is like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor.”
Please, please TRY and explain why you feel that attacking a country that NEVER posed a threat to the US, that’s responsible for the slaughter one million innocent Iraqis, forcing about four million of them to flee from their own country (which would NOT have happened had we not attacked), being responsible for the death of thousands of US troops (the real patriots), crippling tens of thousands of others and dropping hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (radioactive for a mere 4.5 BILLION years) in Iraq is a “worthy cause.”
I’ll say it again, history does repeat itself but what I am referring to is the historical fact that in history empires rise and fall and the US empire has risen and is falling. History is repeating itself.
You don’t get it do you and you’re on the ground in Paraguay
International Relations Center, December 14, 2005
Title: US Military Moves in Paraguay Rattle Regional Relations” by Sam Logan and Matthew Flynn http://americas.irc-online.org/am/2991Upside Down World, October 5, 2005
Title: “Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay” by Benjamin Dangl http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/10/fears_mount_as.htmlU.S. Military in Paraguay Prepares to “Spread Democracy” by Benjamin Dangl http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=593
What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay? By Benjamin Dangl http://upsidedownworld.org/US-in-Paraguay.htm
‘Intelligence Brief: Rumsfeld Visits Paraguay and Peru’ http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=351&language_id=1
“The Paraguayan government confirmed on Tuesday that a British prospecting company has found oil and natural gas in the north of Paraguay, whose energy has depended on import.” http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200602/15/eng20060215_242940.html
“John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980’s.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm
We can probably add a couple of million more innocent people slaughtered by the CIA to that number now …
Yes! History repeats itself and empires rise and fall and the arrogance of the empire shines through in your comments. Never before has the US been is such an abysmal financial condition.
It would appear that there are conflicting statements in the forum that say that America is not nearly as charitable as you think and, let’s be realistic – if it wasn’t for the BILLIONS OF OUR DOLLARS that the US throws at Israel every year, that US charity would look really pathetic.
And how does that work anyway? If Israel’s economy is in such good shape with a magnificent trade surplus and ours is in such bad shape with record deficits – Why does the US keep giving Israel billions upon billions of OUR TAX DOLLARS?
The world does NOT depend on the US however, as US actions have proven, the US clearly does depend on oil.
Obviously you think everything begins and ends in the US (which does not) but the US is not the only country to have suffered from terrorism you know and the demolition – Yes! I said D-E-M-O-L-I-T-I-O-N of the World Trade Center is hardly enough to force a whole country to stop functioning…
But you’re under the impression that your vote counts.
That is actually means something.
That they listen to you and care about what you think?
Have we not learned anything?
I agree simondg… How about “letting people get on with their lives without interference?”
But that would not be the American way or, in years gone by, the British way would it?
The last 1,000 years clearly shows that the USA and before that the British ‘Empire’ absolutely did NOT allow “people get on with their lives without interference” and have interfered and intervened normally using excuses/reasons later proven to be false or more frequently lies to further their agenda and “protect our interests” causing the deaths of TENS OF MILLIONS of innocent people.
Makes you feel real proud huh?
And during our own lifetimes, has our own experience taught us that politicians always tell the truth and have our interests at heart or, has our experience shown us conclusively that it’s only when their lips move that they are lying?
And to this day, I have NOT met one person who can tell me that he has read and understood the 3,000 page CAFTA agreement so how could anyone make a sensible decision?
I saw it on here somewhere, maybe Scott said but if you don’t understand a legal agreement 100% – you don’t sign it.
I guarantee that CAFTA will have some very nasty surprises up it’s sleeve and Costa Rica will not be able to do anything to protect itself.
I am concerned about probable increases in prices in telecommunications. “Deregulation” in the US certainly did not make things much cheaper and there’s simply no way that telecoms will be cheaper here.
The majority of Costa Ricans are poor and I am concerned about highly probable increases prices in various medications.
I am very concerned about Costa Rica’s small farmers and particularly concerned about the many cooperatives that employ so many people in Costa Rica.
We all need to cooperate more and compete less.
The USA clearly has an agricultural policy that demands that the rest of the world stop using and producing their own seeds and only buy the terminator seeds from Monsanto et al. This is not just a ‘profitable’ tactic for them, this is another military strategy to control the world’s food supply.
To use Scott’s term the American form of “capitalism on steroids” is obviously unsustainable and this will become more clear each year until finally – when it’s far too damned late to do anything about it – people will wake up and realize that: “Oh! My God! My child has chronic asthma attacks because we’ve polluted the air so badly, our fertility rates will continue to fall because our water supply is totally polluted and my relatives in Europe are telling me that the cancer rates there have increased by 1,500% recently because of the 1,000+ tons of radioactive depleted uranium weapons of mass destruction (which only has a life-span of 4.5 billion years) the USA has dropped in Kosovo and Iraq…
God only knows what will happen if GWB and his team of truly crazy m************ attack Iran…
I am concerned that if living costs rise dramatically for the average Tico then our quality of life will suffer because crime will increase.
We might also bear in mind that the American consumer is getting close to the point where all of his credit cards are completely and totally tapped out… So what are they gong to buy? What will change with TLC? Does anyone really know the answer? Will they all of a sudden stop buying what they have been buying before?
AOL founder Steve Case – who has committed to investing $800+million here says he’ll stick around whether CAFTA passes or not… So will many others.
Most Americans and Europeans come here to enjoy a simpler life, why would we want our lives to become more like America’s?
If Costa Rica does indeed become just like America, I for one will not be staying here and finally, NOBODY I know understands this agreement – NOBODY!
Why would anyone want to ‘agree’ to something that they don’t fully understand.
Simon would probably think it would be a good idea to allow someone like Charles Manson to start selling land here – I mean everyone deserves a second chance right?
Not difficult at all when you can say whatever you want.
“Don’t forget that when it’s completed, the new highway leads right past our property.”
“When the new international airport is finished, it will be minutes away from your land.”
“Our attorneys are telling us – and this is confidential – that Hilton Hotels has bought more land close by and we’re expecting the announcement any day now.”
“Didn’t you know that Mel Gibson bought land near here?” And …
“Steve Case, one of the founders of AOL has a $800 million project near here.”
“Can you imagine what will happen to the value of your land when the rest of the world knows all about this and they start hunting for land in Costa Rica?”
“These are just some the reasons we’ve been forced to raise our prices again but if you get on board now before the end of INSERT DATE HERE we can reserve the land for you at the lower price. Should I send the papers to you or address them to both you and your wife?”
Four recent disturbing events in the last few weeks:
1. 7th July 2007 – Senator Rick Santorum: “Confronting Iran in the Middle East as an absolute linchpin for our success in that region…. And while it may not be a popular thing to talk about right now, and I know public sentiment is against it [namely, the war in Iraq and expanding the conflict to Iran] … between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view….”
2. Arkansas Republican chairman Dennis Milligan, who describes himself as “150 percent” behind Bush and his Iraq war, said in an on-the-record interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.”
3. 10th July 2007 – Although the US Intelligence community spends $100+ billion per year on “intelligence,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff prefers to rely on his “gut feeling”. He told the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune that he had a “gut feeling” about a new period of increased risk. Saying that “Summertime seems to be appealing to them,” Chertoff said in his discussion with the newspaper about terrorists. “We worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”
4. The US now has a formidable strike force in the Gulf with two carrier groups, 50 or more warships with nuclear weapons, hundreds of planes and contingents of Marines and Navy personnel. They’re not there for a social visit…
5. They’re just waiting for an excuse real or, more likely fabricated to start what will probably be the third and final world war.
I just posted an article that clearly shows CRIME IS DOWN in Costa Rica….
I can not seem to paste in the chart that is in the article but you can see it at http://www.amcostarica.com/072007.htm#31 and clearly shows robberies and thefts for June 2007 bare MUCH LOWER than any month this year.
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June statistics show a decrease in San José robberies
By the A.M. Costa Rica staffAlthough a clear trend may not be evident, crime statistics show a reduction in June over other months of 2007. That included both robberies of individuals and burglaries and thefts.
Law enforcement officials have been conducting sweeps in San José and adjacent areas to pick up known criminals. They also have been targeting the international shipment of drugs from Colombia which results in an influx of cocaine to Costa Rice.
The drug effort has been so successful that officials claim that hitmen had been sent to Costa Rica to kill to government officials.
As the cocaine passes through Costa Rica, either on the water or overland, locals who help usually are paid off in cocaine that then enters the local market.
Statistics from the Judicial Investigation Organization show a decrease of 78 robberies of persons in the Provincia de San José from May to June. In May 297 robberies were reported. In June there were 219 cases.
In just the central canton of San José itself during the same period, there was a reduction of 58 reports: from 173 in May to 115 in June.
Thefts from persons and home burglaries also were the lowest in June of all the months of 2007.
Thefts include those done by stealth, such as pickpocketing, those committed because the victim was inattentive to his or her property and also thefts committed with trickery.
Many victims in Costa Rica do not report crimes to the police, in part because they do not expect any action. So the statistics are suspect when trying to measure the amount of criminal acts. But crime reports at least show general trends.
During the first six months of the year, there were 2,382 reports of what investigators call asaltos in the Provincia de San José and 1,291 in the central canton, which can be considered the city of San José. There also were 1,468 reports of thefts, burglaries and con games during the same period.
The statistics come from the Unidad de Análisis of the Oficina de Planes y Operaciones of the Judicial Investigating Organization.
Fernando Berrocal, minister of Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública, has embarked on a two-pronged program against street crime. One effort is to cut into the drug trade. The second is to pick up criminals with pending warrants and a history of street crimes. The program has been adopted by other law enforcement agencies which now work together.
The signs of this are an increase in drug arrests and law enforcement sweeps at odd hours in areas where they are likely to encounter criminals.
Robbery or asalto here is defined as use of force or threat, and street robberies frequently lead to injuries or death when the victim fights back.
People have died on Avenida 2 in early evening because they would not surrender their cell telephone to a drug addict.
Just Thursday the Fuerza Pública and the Judicial Investigating Organization detained four men suspected of distributing drugs in Aurora, Heredia. The Fuerza Pública detained three men in Alajuela with crack and marijuana. And in the Alajuela district of Pital, officers announced that they had detained a man wanted for investigation of robbery. He had marijuana, cocaine and crack in his pockets, police said. This is a typical score for a weekday in recent months.
The biggest anti-drug bust of the week was at Playa Zapotal en Carrillo, Guanacaste. Wednesday three men beached what appears to be a drug boat and fled. The presumed crew, three Colombians, were caught a few miles away after one stole a bike from a 14 year old, said Berrocal’s ministry.
The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat at sea and drove it to shore, eventually into the hands of the Fuerza Pública, the Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas, the Vigilancia Aérea, the Policía de Control de Drogas and the Unidad Canina (K-9). When found, the boat was empty, but officials are conducting extensive searches to see if drugs have been hidden nearby. The boat could carry up to two tons of cocaine as well as two more tons of fuel.
The boat, typical of its type, had four 200-horsepower outboard motors. It carried 1,175 liters (about 310 gallons) of fuel. Some Costa Rican fishermen have a steady business of supplying fuel to these drug boats, and the crew of this craft might have made a mid-ocean pit stop before being detected. Fishermen usually get cocaine as payment, and then sell the drugs in the internal Costa Rican market.
Berrocal was at an unusual closed meeting with the Comisión de Narcotráfico of the Asamblea Legislativa for two hours Thursday in which he discussed the recent arrest of Colombian men who were accused of being hired gunmen sent to Costa Rica. They were ordered by Colombian drug lords to kill Berrocal and Rodrigo Arias, minister of the Presidencia and the brother to the president, in revenge for their efforts to block drug shipments, officials said at the time.
When the men were sent back to Colombia as illegal aliens, officials there set them free.
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One would have thought simondg that any developer would be proud to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR in their marketing – and they obviously spend MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on marketing – which project was finished and which project had all the infrastucture in place?
Have they?
No they have not.
Why not?
And for once, why don’t you stop jumping all over anybody that posts legitimate concerns about Paragon and show us the infrastructure? You defend Paragon more than the Chairman of the company so you are obviously working for them at some level.
I am going to ask Scott Oliver if he would be willing to post photographs of the Paragon infastructure on this site and we’ll see what he says.
Can you please tell us all what kind of infrastructure has been completed and which land you are discussing because they have more than a dozen places where they promote land now no?
You are asking for the wrong method of delivery Guillermo. The bank transfer thing gets the Army confused, ask for the SWDD!
According to http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008189,00.html
“The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.”
“In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.”
“Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. “The numbers are so large that it doesn’t seem possible that they’re true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?”
Bremer’s financial adviser, retired Admiral David Oliver, is even more direct. The memorandum quotes an interview with the BBC World Service. Asked what had happened to the $8.8bn he replied: “I have no idea. I can’t tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn’t – nor do I actually think it’s important.”
Ask them for the SWDD – That’s Shrink-Wrapped Direct Deposit. A few packs of shrink-wrapped greenbacks sent by FedEx will work fine.
We should be grateful to the Chinese for beginning to accept responsibility for a particular problem, finding the people responsible and sentencing them to death.
Shame we don’t do that in the USA
Take a look at http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/06/munitions_dumping_at_sea.php
Where it speaks of “It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. “The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste – either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.”
And you can see a photo of “The SS William Ralston filled with 301,000 mustard gas bombs and 1,500 1-ton canisters of Lewsite — sinks in the Pacific off San Francisco in 1958 (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army).”
And we think lead paint on a toy truck is dangerous?
You can see some in-depth stuff at
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-chemdumping-stories,1,534800.storygallery?ctrack=1&cset=trueMore info at http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-weapons-ocean_x.htm
Has anybody in the USA been held responsible for the dumping of these highly toxic, deadly WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTION off the coast of the USA?
