I don't know what's in it for Taiwan (except that they always toady to the U.S. and to the transglobal corporate monsters and war profiteers who rule the U.S.), but the Vatican and Monsanto are a perfect fit--so like each other in monarchical structure and in the fascist imposition of unnatural and, indeed, insane policy.
Destroying Mother Nature has been Church policy since St. Paul. There was no more destructive force against the "Sacred Grove" until the last century when corporate monsters such as Louisiana Pacific, Georgia Pacific and Weyerhaeuser, et al--also structured like the Roman Catholic Church--began the rapacious clearcutting of U.S. forests. Rome sent its missionaries all over Europe specifically to eliminate all knowledge of and reverence for Mother Nature. Their insane reps went into the Sacred Groves--which farmers knew, from ages past, were essential to good crops--and cut them down! Their doctrinal synods anathematized even the gentlest of notions of harmony between humankind and Nature, such as the Pelagians.
Monsanto--which does things like splicing Arctic fish genes into Tomato genes to get frost-resistant tomatoes--seems a strange bedfellow for an institution that opposes birth control and stem cell research, but then the Church is also an institution whose recent "Pope" said that women can't be priests because "they don't look like Jesus" (don't have pricks). When you think about it, yup, it's the same impulse to deny reality, big time, and force the world to fit preconceived notions that suit the wealth and power of those at the top these institutions.
The Vatican has been out to squash churchmen like Fernando Lugo--priests and the occasional bishop who take Jesus seriously--for many decades, and they've been laying in wait for Lugo since he got elected president of Paraguay. I wondered at their stepping back in that situation and not excommunicating Lugo. I shouldn't have wondered. The Vatican often just bides its time (kind of like the CIA) and then--"Blam!"--its targets find themselves stabbed in the back.
I'm thinking of the U.S. Catholic nuns who have tried for so long to live social justice and to promote the equality of women within this vastly unchristian institution--the Roman Catholic Church--rather than, as some did (like the Immaculate Heart Sisters in California), leave the official institution in protest of its restrictions on women. The nuns who remained under the authority of the Vatican have also been chafing at its male dominant/fascist dictates but "played by the rules." Now they've got a Vatican Inquisition that's going after these mainstream nuns as well!
The purpose is to stamp out free thought as well as real Christianity--just as Monsanto's purpose is to stamp out opposition to its GMOs and other monopolistic toxins as well as stamping out real farming (old-fashioned, organic, "free range" farming that utilizes ten thousand years of farming knowledge and respects Mother Nature's diversity and versatility, and, by these means, protects the food chain upon which all human life depends).
Monopoly. Sameness. Imposed boredom. No room for a wild card like Lugo, "bishop of the poor" who also loves women (has a common law wife and children). Just like wild card farmers who try to farm organically next to Monsanto's poisoned fields and find themselves sued by Monsanto when Monsanto's crap seeds drift over into their lands!
Unbelievable arrogance! Lethal hubris! Too much power!
So, the Vatican imposes Prickdom on the Church and, lo and behold, its priests get caught raping children all over the world, and--AND--the very things that could have prevented these terrible crimes--opening the priesthood to women and infusing the Church with their truly Christian beliefs, energy and activities; allowing priests to marry to bring a family perspective into the Rectory and encouraging, rather than squashing, the social justice movement within the Church--have all been forbidden and denied on the basis of NOTHING--the mere whim of the current crop of Pricks, in their velvet, lace and gold-trimmed robes, running the Church in their own, self-worshiping image.
The executives and top investors in Monsanto have exactly the same thought processes: corner the market on seeds, eliminate diversity and impose their fascist will on everybody.
And they now have conspired to destroy Paraguay's democracy.
In addition to Monsanto's assault on Mother Nature and dire endangerment of all humanity, the other issues in Paraguay are: 1) The spraying to toxic pesticides on the soy crops (big Paraguayan export) which also poisons the poor farm workers and their families (Lugo opposed toxic pesticide spraying); 2) the Pentagon's plans to get boots on the ground in Paraguay and use it as a launching pad for making trouble for all the surrounding leftist governments (much as they used Honduras during the Reagan horrors and are now planning to use Honduras again, post-coup) (Lugo opposed U.S. troops on the ground in Paraguay); 3) hydroelectric power (Paraguay's other big export) (Lugo renegotiated the contracts with Brazil's big energy corporations to get a better deal for Paraguay, to use the increased revenues to help the poor--those jerks also oppose Lugo and we can be sure are part of the conspiracy to get rid of him); 4) Unasur--the new South America-wide economic/political institution, that does not include the U.S. as a member (rival to the U.S.-dominated OAS; nothing the U.S. wants more than to "divide and conquer" Unasur--this coup in Paraguay is the opening move of that Panetta/Clinton/Obama strategy.)
Lugo was on the "wrong side" (um, right side!) of every transglobal corporate issue, and thus the wealthy elite which owns all the land in Paraguay has employed the Honduras template (fake "constitutional crisis"--designed in Washington DC) to boot out the elected president and turn their country over to these corporate monsters.
It is no surprise at all what this fake, unelected, coup president, Federico Franco, is doing. The questions for those who believe in democracy are: 1) Can Unasur restore democracy in Paraguay?, and 2) Can Paraguay's vast poor population get organized enough to help restore their own democracy?
It does not look good for democracy in Paraguay. I would say that the left is the least well organized in Paraguay, of all South American countries, with the exception of Colombia, where, if you raise your head in advocacy of the poor, you may well get it shot off by a gun paid for by U.S. tax dollars. But the stakes are very high for Unasur, as well as for Paraguay's poor. If the combined clout of Unasur cannot reverse this coup, it will not bode well for South America's new independence, prosperity and social justice. And that is the overarching goal of the coup, we can be sure--to smash all that progress and all those hopes into dust and GMO-ize the western hemisphere.
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