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Bolsonaro slams environmental NGOs who accuse him “of setting fire to the Amazon”
“You know that NGOs don't have a voice with me. I am firm with these people, but I can't kill this cancer that most NGOs are,” Bolsonaro said Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a 'cancer' and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.
“You know that NGOs don't have a voice with me. I am firm with these people, but I can't kill this cancer that most NGOs are,” Bolsonaro said during his regular Facebook broadcast on Thursday.
He used the broadcast to hit out at “bastards” who accuse him of “setting fire to the Amazon.”
The main target of his ire was a group of environmental NGOs which this week launched an English-language internet campaign entitled “Defundbolsonaro.org”, urging potential investors in Brazil to insist on firm government commitments to protection of the Amazon.
“Bolsonaro is burning the Amazon. Again. Which side are you on?” the campaign headline asks.
“Because of him the Amazon, Earth?s main biodiversity hub, and the Indigenous nations who protect it, are in critical condition. Bolsonaro is suffocating our hope for a livable planet,” according to the NGOs.
International investment funds worth a combined US$4 trillion called in June for changes to the government's environmental policy.
Human Rights Watch responded on Friday to Bolsonaro's outburst, saying that “not only does he show his total disregard for the actions of NGOs ... but his anti-environmental policies have accelerated the destruction of the forest, with serious consequences for those who defend it, but also for the health of thousands of people who breathe toxic air as a result of the fires.”
General Augusto Heleno, Brazil's Minister of Institutional Security, acknowledged in an interview on Friday that it was possible to “improve” government action to preserve the Amazon, but he also criticized NGOs.
“The favorite sport of some NGOs is to speak badly of the Amazon. Behind it all there are interests that go far beyond preservation,” he told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
“It seems Bolsonaro is responsible for everything that happens in the Amazon, but a lot of the information in these campaigns is fabricated and ill-intentioned.”
Under international pressure, Bolsonaro has deployed the army to the region to crack down on deforestation and fires, and decreed a ban on all agricultural burning. However, satellite images from Brazil's space agency INPE identified more than 29,000 fires in the region in August, the second highest number in a decade.
The figure represents only five percent fewer fires than in 2019, when devastating wildfires triggered worldwide alarm over a forest seen as vital to curbing climate change.
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Sep 10th, 2020 - 03:10 am +4I'm just a plain small vineyard and orchard grower trying to make a profit as well try to provide a fair living for the people working for our family.
Most of Europe virus infections are showing an upswing, but Sweden's statistics are definitely showing a decline. The Swedish population has been fully exposed — where the other sheltered Scandinavian populations were not.
I remain convinced based on solid Swedish data. Time will either prove me a fool — or correct of what I sense. In any case, I strongly feel Latin America cannot afford the general European COVID19 measures.
But what do I know? I'm reliably assured by tonight's news that Joe Biden is far leading in the political polls over Donald Trump. They may be right, but I'm convinced Trump will finish his presidency on January 2025.
¡Saludos!
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Sep 10th, 2020 - 12:06 am +3I'm convinced based on solid data. A quote from the attached article.
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Many experts may be loath to admit it, but Sweden’s strategy increasingly appears to be both economically sound and scientifically sound.
“The pandemic will not be over until we reach herd immunity, either through a vaccine or through natural infections,” Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, recently wrote in The Spectator. “Herd immunity is not a strategy but a proven scientific phenomenon, and to deny that is as silly as denying gravity.”
https://fee.org/articles/bbc-sweden-s-economy-is-doing-way-better-than-the-rest-of-the-eu-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
If you look at the attached COVID19 data link inside the article, you'll note that: Sweden as of August 7 has had 5,763 deaths with 67% over 80yo
90% of deaths over 70
99% with pre existing conditions
No deaths under 20
60 deaths under 50 (1/120,000 of the in-range pop.) Avlidna/dag kumulativit
This virus in no doubt a vicious killer, especially the aged, and therefore they should be protected, but history will prove Sweden took the better measure against the pandemic.
Perhaps should change my quote to say: “Even if the Swedish-honeybee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than Argentine chicken-shit, the fly would still not understand.”
Regarding Bailys, are you speaking from personal experience? My own experience is that it has been a very potent heterosexual stimulant. (But then again, you perhaps have had a far-wider experience.)
...Certainly, Fuckwitt has a far-wider orifice to accommodate both your hand and his Long Dong Silver sex toy that he constantly boasts about...
By the way, do you know what an Irish queer is? “It's an Irishman that prefers women to drink.”
¡Saludos!
Estimado THINK
Sep 10th, 2020 - 12:36 pm +3I'm lounging on my sofa reading news on my tablet, listening to jazz composed by Bob James and on my second “sissy Irish” Baileys coffee while Madame is laundering the bed linens. Today we're returning home.
I read your interesting attachment and was impressed by the following:
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Sweden has been referred to as a society of state individualism; an eclectic blend of deeply individualistic behaviours suspended within a framework of strong state and governance. As such, Swedes are far more open to voluntary cooperation with state requirements in the face of crisis, than to heavy-handed draconian directives of legislation. It is therefore telling that strategy and response have been... ...part of the state as opposed to the government. The state as a broader entity is understood as being more apolitical, and therefore not subject to bipartisanship.... ...Given the nature of Swedish society as consensus-driven, the strategy ought to be read as a cooperation between the state and its citizenry, rather than the state dictating what is to be done.
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I just read the latest USA presidential polls show Joe Biden strongly leading in the national polls by 10% over Donald Trump. (The Wall Street Journal has shown Biden with 52% vs Trump 42%)
Highly respected media sources a inform me Biden will win, but I'm convinced Trump will win by an election landslide.
I quote these statistics to emphasize my point as I am a contrarian. — I do not accept the media propaganda preached to the masses. I learned to be a contrarian in the signals corps A2 division, where we were taught to suspect official facts and learn ourselves how to easily manipulate data to confuse our adversaries.
Sweden has publicly admitted that they made some errors in handling the pandemic, but remain convinced their overall herd immunity strategy will prove to be the best course for their nation. But then again, I'm just a small simple farmer in Chile.
¡Saludos!
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