The chief Raoni cries when he learns that Brasilian president Dilma Rousseff gave permission for construction to start on the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant. This, even after letters in the tens of thousands along with emails were given over to her office. All were ignored as was the petition with more than 600,000 signatures.
This now appears to be the death sentence for the peoples in the Great Bend of the Xingu river.
Belo Monte will remove at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus displacing 40,000 indigenous and local populations, and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.
In response to a reporters question, President Bu$h tells the world that he is "truly not that concerned" with catching the man who murdered 3,000 Americans just six months and two days earlier because "we've marginalized him."
Bu$h catches himself mid-sentence when he says "I don't know where he is, nor do I... (really care)."
"He hides in caves while sending young people off to die." Which is true, but that is no excuse for easing up on trying to find him.
Can you image if Bu$h had captured him when they had him cornered in Tora Bora? People would've lost their mind and he would've gone down as one of the best President's this country has ever had. Plus there wouldn't be an Iraq war. They let natives go after him and the Invasion Iraq happened, and we are where we're at with that. Makes you think doesn't it? Deliberate?
The Sunday morning after President Obama announced that Bin Laden was killed by American operatives in Pakistan, seven from the previous administration were making the rounds on the political shows to validate the techniques that were used on the war on terror, otherwise known as torture.
