Archives for January, 2012
Loggers burned Amazon tribe girl alive to force tribe to leave forest
news.infoshop.org – Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on Tuesday night.
The child was said to have wandered away from her village, where around 60 members of the Awá tribe live in complete isolation from the modern world, and fallen into the hands of the loggers.
Luis Carlos Guajajaras, a local leader from a separate tribe, told a Brazilian news website that they tied to her a tree and set her alight as a warning to other natives, who live in a protected reserve in the north-eastern state of Maranhão .
“She was from another tribe, they live deep in the jungle, and have no contact with the outside world. It would have been the first time she had ever seen white men. We heard that they laughed as they burned her to death,” he said.
Reports of the killing, which was said to have happened in October or November last year, were seconded by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), a Catholic group which said it had seen footage of her charred remains.
A spokesman for the Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department said the government was urgently investigating the claims.
Huge iron ore deposits and valuable timber have encouraged mining and logging companies to enter the forests of Maranhão despite laws designed to protect the few remaining uncontacted tribes, often leading to violent clashes.
Around 450 tribes people have were murdered in Brazil between 2003 and 2010, according to figures from CIMI.
Survival International, a charity for tribal groups, warned that a third of the Awá’s land had already been destroyed and that their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle was being threatened as animals fled in the face of the approaching logging companies.
Intellectual Property Mafia
Intellectual property mafia is just part of corporate mafia in USA (and other capitalist countries). In the newest example we can see how function American ”democracy”, how congressmen are corrupted by different corporate mafioso. Lobbying is nothing else than corruption and entertainment industry is corrupting politicians in order to make the law in their interests. The fact is that movie and music industry is really full of money, they are so rich that they can’t spend all the money they have, but they are hungry for more. Will they really get more if they limit poor people from poor countries to watch movies without to pay? They just make presumptions that people will pay for watching movie if online piracy is stopped. That’s totally wrong, if I can not watch it online for free, I will not watch it at all. It is good to compare budget and profit for movies before 10 or 20 years and budgets and profit today and you will see how much they are greedy. For example, the production budgets of Marvel films (The spider-man, Thor, X-Men, Iron-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America…) were all relatively close to one another, average per-film $160 million, the average total primary revenue per film is $525-585 million, profit per movie is $365-425 million. In 1997, the average American film cost fifteen million euros, was nearly hundred percent privately financed, grossed 58 million euros, and reached 10.5 million persons (Dale, 1997). (Click below on Continue Reading)
