IT WILL BE DONE IN XINGU RIVER, ONE OF THE BIGGEST RIVERS OF AMAZONAS: IMAGINE 2 CITIES WITH THE DISTANCE OF 516KM BETWEEN THEM, AND NOW THINK ABOUT 516 KM2, THEN YOU CAN HAVE THE NOTION OF THE DIMENSION OF THE AREA THAT WILL BE INUNDATED AND TOTALLY SUBMERGED TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY TO OTHER REGIONS FAR AWAY FROM THERE, LIKE SÃO PAULO, (BECAUSE IN THIS REGION THEY DON'T NEED ALL THIS ELECTRICITY) . THIS IS THE PROJECT OF "BELO MONTE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION", PROJECTED TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. MILLIONS OF ANIMALS AND A GREAT VARIATION OF THE RICHEST BIODIVERSITY OF OUR PLANET (MORE THAN 400 SPECIES IN 100 meters2) WILL BE LOST FOREVER AND WILL REST UNDER THE WATER. YOU MAY ASK IF THERE'S ANY VIABLE PLAN TO SAVE THOSE ANIMALS AND PLANTS AND THE ANSWER IS NO, THERE'S NOT ANY VIABLE PLAN TO SAVE THIS TREASURE. SIX INDIAN COMMUNITYS(ARARAS, KAIAPOS, AND OTHERS...) ARE REALLY AFFRAID ABOUT THEIR FUTURE. SOME OF THE ADJACENT RIVERS FROM WHERE THEY GET THEIR SUBSISTENCE WILL GET DRY, OTHER RIVERS WILL OVERFLOW. THE GOVERNMENT IS TALKING ABOUT RELOCATING THEM, BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THE LAND WHERE THEY LIVE SINCE THE PRE-COLOMBIAN YEARS. FEDERAL AMBIENTALIST ORGANIZATIONS WERE NOT APPROVING THAT PROJECT, AND THE GOVERNMENT STARTED MAKING PRESSURE OVER THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CONGRESSMEN TO APPROVE IT, SAYING THAT ENVIROMENTALISTS ARE EXAGERATING AND OVER ESTIMATING THE PROBLEMS. What can we do to stop the destruction and deforestation that is done everyday? An international pressure would be wellcome and it's necessary. Brazilian artists and people on the media, press, politicians, writers, musicians, movie makers, are always trying to promote themselves and their works, they like to talk to the press, but they don't express any clear opinion about those vital problems of the country. They are totally alienated to those important subjects and problems. They like to be on the spot of the camera, but they are fearful to say what they're really thinking about those matters, if ever they think something, or to express their opinions about that, if ever they ever had any opinion. Meanwhile, politicians, the congressmen, illegal lumbers, business men, a great variety of political thiefs in suits doing petty politics and all kind of stupid people are seeking their interests, one of the richest biodiversitys of the world is being destroyed and lost. Some stupid sense of domain and soberany prevails. But this is not a question of "it's my country", it's a matter of extermination of life on Earth, it's terrorism against nature and wildlife.

Brazilian indians are more modern and interesting than the actual rock stars and pop stars, and less stupid than people who think their religion is more important than the others, and are fighting against each other, for a little piece of land, and we should try to learn with them instead of exterminate them. Brazilian indians know to cohabit with the jungle without destroying it, so if our society wants to evolute, we should start to study them from the distance, then maybe someday we would be prepared to contact them whitout doing any harm.
In Brasil, politicians transfered the capital from Rio de Janeiro, creating and building Brasilia in the middle west. And we should ask, Why? They brought a lot of destruction. They should leave the center of Brazil to wildlife and the indian nations. There's a lot of fine territory in the rest of Brasil, in direction to the Atlantic coast. Before the sixties, when the capital was in Rio, Rio was a pretty city, and the politicians were working close to the population and they had to behave well. They must had fear to  take tomatoes and eggs on their face each time they leave Congress if they did wrong things. Now it seems like they're hiding from the population, stuck in Brasilia (too far away), they brought a decadent society with marginality to Brasilia, and Rio is also abandoned to marginality. Rio and Brasilia are now two focus of decadence, apart all the other big cities .  And we still have to pay those politicians semanal airplane tickets every week, so they can go  to their hometown cities on weekends, and get back to work in Brasilia during the week, to do petty politics and dirty business, cause that's what they do in the Congress.
The amount of duties and taxes the government collects from the population is incredible, and it's not restored in services. So it's understandable the government has no crisis, the crisis is left with the population that work hard, produce, make the country grow, have a hard struggle for life and receive so little. 


Medidas a serem tomadas para evitar ou pelo menos diminuir a destruição das florestas:
1-Educação principalmente para as pessoas que vivem em cidades com áreas limítrofes= Education to urban populations from citys bordering and inside the rainforest, like Manaus, capital  of the State of Amazonas, and Belém, capital of the State of Pará.
2-Pressão política sobre os governantes: (politic pressure, economic bargain, and cultural activities ).

                                                    

Suggestions of sites with information about some Amazonian problems:
Illegal exploitation of trees from indian reservations in Amazonia:
http://brasilnewsbrasil.blogspot.com/2009/04/fotos-aereas-flagram-exploracao.html
WATCH VIDEO= INDIAN MANIFESTATION AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION OF BELO MONTE AND MPF (MINISTÉRIO PÚBLICO FEDERAL: FEDERAL PUBLIC MINISTRY) DEFFENDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THAT MEGA HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION:
http://noticias.r7.com/economia/noticias/xingus-lutam-contra-belo-monte-no-dia-do-indio-20100419.html
http://www.abola.pt/mundos/ver.aspx?id=202334
PHOTOS OF UNTOUCHED/ISOLATED NON-CONTACTED INDIANS WATCHING SUSPICIOUS PLANE:
http://blogdaamazonia.blog.terra.com.br/2008/09/24/survival-international-arrecada-euros-em-nome-de-indios-isolados/
http://blogdaamazonia.blog.terra.com.br/2009/12/02/encontro-brasil-peru-busca-reconhecimento-e-protecao-de-territorios-de-indios-isolados/
"S.O.S. AMAZONIA"=
 http://www.tvbrasil.org.br/saladeimprensa/release_198.asp
http://www.globoamazonia.com/Amazonia/0,,MUL934605-16052,00-DESMATAMENTO+OBRAS+E+DOENCAS+AMEACAM+INDIOS+ISOLADOS+BRASILEIROS.html
GOVERNORS REDUCE AREAS AND EXTINGUISH PROTECTED RAIN FOREST AREAS=
http://eptv.globo.com/emissoras/NOT,0,0,312498,Floresta+reduzida.aspx
 THE SCORCHED EARTH- Illegal extraction of wood:
http://lobonoticias.blogspot.com/2010/01/mst-predadores-da-floresta-invadem.html
The original american lineage descendents are losing space:
WHO WILL PROTECT THEM? CAN YOU READ IT IN THEIR EYES?
http://cipbrasil.blogspot.com/2009/09/indios-brasileiros.html

Hi friend! Those are the original first brazilians:
http://herisalves.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-04-12_2009-04-18.html
Study about Paracanã and Xikrin:
www.unicamp.br/unicamp/unicamp_hoje/ju/outubro2002/unihoje_ju193pag12.html
What nation is this?
http://www.fase.org.br/v2/pagina.php?id=1976
State of ACRE:
http://www.altiplano.com.br/Kampa.html
Indians lose patience with engineer that was trying to justify the construction of Belo Monte:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEPnRE74g8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsU3kCyaBU&feature=related
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE SOCIAL, AMBIENTAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPACT OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF BELO MONTE:
http://www.investidura.com.br/ultimas-noticias/228-mpf/157366-subprocuradora-discute-impacto-das-usinas-de-belo-monte-e-de-estreito.htm

BRAZIL 2010/ ELECTIONS - PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: NOTHING WILL CHANGE, DEFORESTATION IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS WILL CONTINUE, IT'S THE SAME SICK OLD SPEECH.

http://blog.nanwebware.com/2010/04/avatar-and-marina-silva.html

3º. Marina Silva, ecological candidate, was very influential in 2010 brazilian elections, ex-environment minister of President Lula, she resigned. One of the reasons is that she is against the construction of the mega hydro-electric power station on Xingu river, and she was suffering a lot of pressure to change her points of view. 

                                    

1º. Dilma Rousseff & Lula: Dilma was the principal minister of president Lula, she's more prepared than him. Lula is an unlearned man, and Dilma is an economist, but that's not enough.  The world's today problems require an environmental aproach, another philosophy than just the yearning for economical growth.

2º.José Serra: ex-governor of the state of São Paulo. São Paulo has a lot of problems, so, if he couldn't resolve São Paulo's problems, how could he resolve Brazilian problems?

 One of those above had chances to be the President of Brazil. Dilma won the elections, so there won't be substantially changes. People will continue to live like poors, being in a super rich country, and still having to thank that they are less miserable than in the past!
We've seen elections for president here in Brazil. We've seen three principal candidates with chances to be the next President of Brazil: 1º.Dilma Roussef (ex-minister of the actual government, who quit her cargo as Minister to do her campaign for president), 2º.José Serra, an old politician, and 3º.Marina Silva (ex-minister of environment of Lula's government, who resigned and left the PT:Partido dos Trabalhadores, the political faction of president Lula). Dilma Roussef and José Serra are favorable to the construction of mega hydro-electric power station Belo Monte, and if they  can they will do that, and that will cause an ecological disaster and social harm to native communitys. Marina Silva is against that construction, and she was the only hope for those who are ecologically concerned and are against that project, once that we haven't seen any effective international pressure. This government is receptive to persuasion only when it comes from goverments that apart from being fair, are politically influential and have economic power to bargain, but unfortunately, this international pressure by other  governments over the environment topics in Brazil are not being done. Dilma Roussef, is an economist. I studied in the same classroom with her when I was studing economy, in U.F.R.G.S. Economics University, (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul= Economics Public Federal University of the state of Rio Grande do Sul). Althought Dilma was my schoolmate, I didn't get to know her well. A friend of mine knew her better, but I can't say a lot more because he is married now, and he was married at that time. Luckilly I quit in the second year to study architecture, and after 1,5 year I quit again to play music and learn about real life. I have no regrets, I'm proud of that! I would be ashamed to have a label as an economist or an architect because that's not my nature. It was in the UFRGS university that Dilma Roussef got her degree and diploma as an economist. She had a good training as an economist being a minister of state on Lula's administration , and also learned a lot working previously for other local governments here from Rio Grande do Sul. She is affiliated to PT( Partido dos Trabalhadores), the same politic faction of president Lula. Lula is an unlearned man who knows to talk to unlettered classes. He is Dilma's protector and supportted her campaign for presidency. Dilma will try to lead this country to be an economical potence, but the problem is that nowadays, to take economical steps, you have to take into account the environment factors. John M. Keynes economical  theories and  other macroeconomical currents were written when our planet wasn't in such environmental vulnerability as it is today. You can't grow infinitely, you better transform yourself, preferentially for better, but if you keep growing infinitely in the same restricted space, instead of changing your ways and evoluting, there's theorically the possibility that someday you might explode. China is not a good example to copy.
What's the advantage of being economically developed if you have to live in cities where you can't breathe. 
When economical growth comes with ecologycal harm that's no good. There's much more than the economical riches to enrich our lives. You can't underestimate the strenght of "SOFT POWER" and cultural power, that opens new doors to create new economical partners, and even change their ways for better.
Actually, the problems with the preservation of the amazonian rainforest in Brazil are very complex. It's a big problem and difficult to resolve. But not impossible. This problem also has the time factor, we're running against time, and time is running out!

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