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Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Brazil guts environmental agencies, clears way for unchecked deforestation
What can one say? These world leaders are psychopaths.
“The Bolsonaro administration has launched policies that undermine IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental agency, and ICMBio (The Chico Mendes Institute) which protects the nation’s federal conservation units, by effectively dismantling environmental law enforcement and allowing deforestation to proceed unchecked.
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What can one say? These world leaders are psychopaths.
“The Bolsonaro administration has launched policies that undermine IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental agency, and ICMBio (The Chico Mendes Institute) which protects the nation’s federal conservation units, by effectively dismantling environmental law enforcement and allowing deforestation to proceed unchecked.
'We Are Literally Sawing Off the Branch We All Live On': Amazon Deforestation Increasing Under Bolsonaro
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Trump and his minions are capable of almost anything that harms and degrades America’s precious public lands, the heritage that one generation hands down to the next one — or not, as long it enriches them and their friends. With Trump it is always “or not.”
His sons like to kill big animals — please don’t call this a sport, there is no sport, just people with insecurity issues — and it would not surprise me that they and others who think similarly lobbied for this stupid policy.
Sentimental X-Ray of Chavismo (III): The Immense Fatigue
By Reinaldo Iturizza
Character is for man his destiny.
Heraclitus
When you decide to dedicate your life to the titanic mission of national liberation, of social revolution, of the emancipation of the human species, you must learn to deal with triumphs and failures. With the triumphs to avoid the risk of becoming vain and, eventually, to adapt to the new circumstances, lowering the flags. With the failures, which will be many, to gather enough strength to continue fighting.
It should be understood that a task of such nature will almost always go against the grain or, as Walter Benjamin would say, against the grain of history, having to deal with a common sense made to measure the order of things that is intended to change radically. It also supposes the willingness to assume the consequences that derive from facing criminal powers, motivated fundamentally by the desire for profit, and willing to do everything in order not to go back a millimeter.
They go back, of course, in those luminous moments of history in which the people manage to advance through the struggle, flashy episodes in which time seems to stop, and then take a leap of decades or centuries in a matter of days or years. But when these powers manage to recover the initiative, retake part of the lost ground, even go forward, trampling everything in their path, the people suffer the thicket of times that seem interminable, labyrinthine, without exit.
Now that the Bolivarian revolution is going through a difficult and tiring moment, it is opportune to recall one of the many episodes in which Hugo Chávez was about to give up and step aside.
In 1997, both Chávez and a small part of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement Two Hundred (MBR-200) were convinced of the unfeasibility of taking power by armed means, so they had to start considering the idea of participating in the presidential elections. of 1998.
“I was Afraid to Protest When I was 8. Not Anymore” – Palestinian Icon Ahed Tamimi
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi grew up protesting the Israeli occupation. She took part in her first rally when she was
Trump Baby Blimp Pinatas on Sale in Ireland so Children can “Whack” US President
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France: Yellow Vests Protest in Several Cities for the 30th Consecutive Week
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