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16 Nov 2015 10:43 #209098
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Okay, I'll explain a few things here on the Mariana disaster in Brazil.
1. The mining company that did the work in Marina financed many people, the city itself Mariana with 16 million reais (local money) per year and in an election year funded 30 million for the two major political parties of the country.
2. People living in the districts affected by the wave of mud were country people, humble.
3. This company is owned by two multinationals, the old Vale and such BHP did shit in many places around the world there.
4. The attack on the French (who are in my prayers every day), is in focus everywhere and as we call here in Brazil, happened to Gringos (people of foreign)
5. Brazil is trying to prove to other countries like power in many ways to keep up with the major countries in the UN
Armed with this I can explain my point of view.
When the catastrophe of Mariana happened, many people had to make a run for cleaned the mess. The mayor can not say anything because the company financed the city through taxes, political parties also received this money, including the party of our current president Dilma; that is, you do not harm anyone pays you favors. Furthermore Her Excellency President Dilma has not done much and smothered it, as nobody here wants this to take internacionas scales, because that mud is not only heavy metals, has even worse, to clean all this ground shit and water will take, the calculations at least a century; without saying that those compounds will contaminate groundwater (which has a lot here) that is, the problem is huge and so the media is not giving as much attention as this is a political move to UN see all this shit and interfere negatively or criticize the actions taken (which so far have not taken).
Another thing that happens a lot here, and that Brother Almeida will agree with me, is that no one cares when poor people die. Of course, the attack on France killed and wounded many more people; Mariana died guess 40 and 10 people are missing, but we are the inside broke, niguém care. When the problem occurs in the US or Europe staff is moved, because they have adoration for foreign, as we say is the cultural capital, we value more the cultures and people of those countries than others.
The Mariana disaster should have leveraged a protest because it was an environmental disaster on a gigantic scale, and the technicians had already released talking about reports that the dam that dammed this mud (and so far I do not know why they accumulated it in a dam, it seems to me something very stupid) had cracks and no one did anything, but as usual it did not call people's attention, because on television we see only the flag of our sister France, but we forget to look at our own problems. Perhaps this case will not result in anything and people will fight for generations to be compensated.
This is a satellite picture before the disaster. You can clearly see northwest iron mine and mud dam just below, that yellow spot
This picture was soon after
The distance reached by the mud passes of 100KM
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Almeida wrote: So I'm sure you quite aware of the incidents in France.
Back? Ok. Well, in a nutshell, a dam broke down and toxic mud invaded everything. It was a red tsunami, full of heavy metals that essentially killed a big river and exterminated several endemic species, both fauna and flora.
I mention these two thing because a phenomena is happening here in Brazil, is that people are criticizing the ones who are changing their pictures to the French flag. And that bears the question: Is one tragedy really bigger than the other? More than that, are we capable of only feeling sorry for one people, and thus have to choose a side? Brazilian facebook is looking like a football match between two rival factions, in which you have to choose one to be sorry of, to help and to support.
Okay, I'll explain a few things here on the Mariana disaster in Brazil.
1. The mining company that did the work in Marina financed many people, the city itself Mariana with 16 million reais (local money) per year and in an election year funded 30 million for the two major political parties of the country.
2. People living in the districts affected by the wave of mud were country people, humble.
3. This company is owned by two multinationals, the old Vale and such BHP did shit in many places around the world there.
4. The attack on the French (who are in my prayers every day), is in focus everywhere and as we call here in Brazil, happened to Gringos (people of foreign)
5. Brazil is trying to prove to other countries like power in many ways to keep up with the major countries in the UN
Armed with this I can explain my point of view.
When the catastrophe of Mariana happened, many people had to make a run for cleaned the mess. The mayor can not say anything because the company financed the city through taxes, political parties also received this money, including the party of our current president Dilma; that is, you do not harm anyone pays you favors. Furthermore Her Excellency President Dilma has not done much and smothered it, as nobody here wants this to take internacionas scales, because that mud is not only heavy metals, has even worse, to clean all this ground shit and water will take, the calculations at least a century; without saying that those compounds will contaminate groundwater (which has a lot here) that is, the problem is huge and so the media is not giving as much attention as this is a political move to UN see all this shit and interfere negatively or criticize the actions taken (which so far have not taken).
Another thing that happens a lot here, and that Brother Almeida will agree with me, is that no one cares when poor people die. Of course, the attack on France killed and wounded many more people; Mariana died guess 40 and 10 people are missing, but we are the inside broke, niguém care. When the problem occurs in the US or Europe staff is moved, because they have adoration for foreign, as we say is the cultural capital, we value more the cultures and people of those countries than others.
The Mariana disaster should have leveraged a protest because it was an environmental disaster on a gigantic scale, and the technicians had already released talking about reports that the dam that dammed this mud (and so far I do not know why they accumulated it in a dam, it seems to me something very stupid) had cracks and no one did anything, but as usual it did not call people's attention, because on television we see only the flag of our sister France, but we forget to look at our own problems. Perhaps this case will not result in anything and people will fight for generations to be compensated.
This is a satellite picture before the disaster. You can clearly see northwest iron mine and mud dam just below, that yellow spot
This picture was soon after
The distance reached by the mud passes of 100KM
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