Heart of Brazil: People of the Xingu

[lastpoina]

ECO-TERRORISTS GET A JOB!

[meelusine]

That's what I call a genocide. Please stop all your evil doings and repair what you have damaged, so they can live in nature in peace.

[rbsavant]

The lady at 2:52 - 3:11 explains in three sentences in a very precise manner about her fears...! No philosophy, no big talks... just plain good old wisdom!

Any straight answers from the so called world intelligentsia?

[lastpoina]

I live in Amazonas, as a native I could behold this phenomena from very close.

Some NGO "officers" come asking where they can find cocaine to consume, some of them even look for sex with native children and women, sometimes leaving them with diseases. We are mad because brazilian government still allows those kind of foreigners to come here, they say they come to preserve the nature, develop "projects", to teach us a new religion or to make studies. They get mineral and blood samples and go.

[lastpoina]

Summarizing:

Without belo monte no industrial and economic development, without development we will have more poverty.

poverty=rainforest anihilation.

[lastpoina]

This may sound paradoxal but...

IT IS BELO MONTE THAT WILL SAVE AMAZONAS!

Those protesters in Brasil are being manipulated by foreign NGOs!

[TribesAlive]

@lastpoina Belo Monte will do nothing to save the Amazon. It is just one of over 60 huge hydroelectric schemes proposed by the government, which will turn the Amazon into a series of stagnant, lifeless reservoirs. The government sees the Amazon as a factory to produce electricity, soya, beef - and money for their pockets.

The protests in Brazil are because people are learning about the corruption and vested interests driving Belo Monte. When the general public finds out it may be too late.

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive You undertand little about economy, science and brazilian affairs. Some people from YOUR country, USA and Europe are being paid to divide and conquer south american by using this fake green pretext. Our hydroeletric powerplants are the best choice when compared with the expensive, poluting (yes, galium arsenide from solar panels are highly toxic) and killing machines (in south brazil the wind power has been killing birds since it was deployed).

You are not updated too...

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive Our hydroeletric powerplants projects have been modified last years, they now wont harm wildlife. An example is the Itaipu, today people before and after the riverway can fish a lot thanks to the new fish channel tech. This is a case of a hydroeletric powerplant success that your corrupted government and media wont tell.

You are one of the buyers of our meat and soya. You should also know that it is the industry underdevelopment that hold us in the meat and soya production...

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive Your dramatic way of describing how amazon will be if we do this and dont do that has nothing to do with reality. People move there, and still will move without hydroeletric powerplants, due to their need to survive, most of them dont cut trees because they like it , it is because of poverty. A poverty that your countries wish us to remain in by boicoting our economic development. Without economic development we cant help those people and we cant avoid forest destruction...

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive The protests in Brazil are happening because your NGOs are terrorizing indigenous people by lies. Most of those NGOs are being paid to make tha divide and conquer game for their governments, which are also corrupted and just agreed to do what they did in Iraq, Lybia and soon Syria. North american agents are already infiltrated Roraima and taking the indigenous gold and Niobium to USA, no farmers there since the law kicked their asses out.

All you want is to take control of amazon



[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive Your dont want to protect it, you want to take it for you so the next politic generation are free to destroy it.

[lastpoina]

O Brasil não cuida bem da amazonia porque sua economia não está desenvolvida o suficiente para bancar todos os serviços de proteção que ela necessita, os gastos superariam os 100 bilhoes! É quase como criar um país aqui dentro, com hospitais, escolas, exercito etc.

Sem Belo Monte nao tem crescimento economico para bancar e manter tudo isso, não tem industrialização e ficamos presos a mera exportação de commodities como a soja, cujos cultivos estão destruindo florestas e cerrados.

[TribesAlive]

@lastpoina O Brasil está desenvolvida sim - é um dos países mais rico do mundo! É simpismente por causa de falta de vontade política que as florestas são desaparecindo. Se o Brasil realmente quis proteger as florestas, elas seriam protegidas.

Tem dinheiro para ajudar, mas com desmatamento crescendo rapidamente, e com o proposito de enfraquecer o Codigo Florestal não tem como o Brasil merece.

Belo Monte só ajuda com a política desenvolvimentista, e nada com o proteção da floresta.

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive Não minta, ser rico em recursos naturais nao quer dizer que existe uma infraestrutura competente. Não estou falando de uns milhoezinhos desviados por uma administração ou outra, são necessários mais de 100 bilhões em investimento em saneamento, saúde, educação e proteção das fronteiras. Só a modernização do nosso exército, sem falar nos custos de sua manutenção, já passa desse valor SOZINHO. O que vocês querem é deixar o Brasil dividido, atrasado e indefeso para depois roubarem.

[lastpoina]

@TribesAlive Me desculpe, mas pelo seu português você nao deve ser daqui. Espero realmente que seja uma pessoa mal informada com boas intenções. Caso contrário incluo sua ONG na lista de denúncias que pretendo enviar para as autoridades interessadas.

[basslightning1]

another case of the outside rich investor getting richer,, and the small people pay,, fight with everything you 've got

[0102106kls]

STOP CALLING THEM SHAMIN THERE NOT WITCH'S AND STOP TALK'N ABOUT THEM LIKE THERE CHILDREN IF YOU KNEW WHAT THEY NEW YOU'D LIVE LONGER AND WOULD BE ALOT HAPPIER I HAVE THAT SAME NATIVE BLOOD IN MY VAINS AND I NO THEY'D REATHER DIE THEN TO SEE THAT LAND GO DOWN

[ThePatriota307]

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[TheMundo2012]

Muito Obrigado! pelo video

[meforgodforall]

We will soon see. All of us! What we are going to, and doing to get there. Life is good.

[MinaVanner]

Until quite recently, most of the deforestation occurred in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

[MinaVanner]

The current rampant destruction of rainforest in Borneo is a biodiversity disaster of planetary proportions. Majestic gifts of creation, which took 50 to 100 million years to develop could be totally decimated in just 50 years of frenzied, largely uncontrolled exploitation.

[prespos]

Hi, *TribesAlive*, no worries:

(imaginary) Celtic saying :

touch a tree, every day, or lose your soul

Water,

Prespos

[SiouxSyndicate]

Stop the Belo Monte Dam!

[lmpiacentinihotmail]

and..........this happens in USA to.

[TribesAlive]

I would be grateful if people would not use the comments section of this page to repeat the absurd and baseless xenophobia which is perpetrated by a certain sector of Brazilians who have a vested interest in the destruction of Brazil's own precious natural heritage. There are huge multinational powers lined up to finance the destruction of the forest, but it is being done mainly by large Brazilian landholders who are intent on making fast bucks by exporting to Europe, China and North America.

[villasboasa]

@TribesAlive Aloha my name is Alfredo Marcos Lino Villas-Boas i was born in Salvador,Bahia Brazil ,my home is in Maui-Hawaii for the last 20 plus years.

But i have a plan that is going to bring awareness to the world to protect the xingu people and put a stop on the construction of Belo Monter Dam.

The plan is to follow:

[villasboasa]

Respond to this video... Aloah My name is Alfredo Marcos Lino Villas-Boas i have a plan to bring awernes to this world be going to visit the Xingu reservation to go down river on my stand up paddle board 200 km.

[firstlourenco]

@TribesAlive Besteira! Se você é brasileiro deve estar ganhando bem para trair seu próprio país tentando convencer milhares de brasileiros a apoiarem estes gringos pilantras que querem se intrometer na nossa política interna. E o pior de tudo é que usa os índios para manipular a opinião do público. Como se nós brasileiros não cuidássemos de nossos índios! Somos o país do mundo que tem a maior área transformada em reservas indígenas. Além de termos a FUNAI etc.

[mrbobydyla]

E muito triste ver essa situacao e mas triste ainda e nao poder fazer nada...

Saber que vao acabar com tudo por dinheiro que depois nao vai valer nada,um video desse deveria ser mas visto mas as pessoas pensa d mas no momento no futuro ninguem que pensar que Deus tenha pena da raca Humana

[SiouxSyndicate]

Its all ogonna be gone after this Dam will be build.

STOP THE DAM in the XINGU RiVER!

Never surrender!

[TribesAlive]

edson, before you comment you should really check your facts. The geographical centre of Brazil is about 40km west of the Xingu river, give or take half way between its source and its mouth. Brasilia is spelt with an 's' not a 'z'. This video was shot in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, nowhere near Amazonas state. So in your brief comment you made three basic errors.

Thanks for your comment.

[edson102710]

HEART OF BRAZIL IS BRAZILIA, this video was made on the jungle, in Amazonas, it is one of the 26 states that have in Brazil.

[SeriosProductions]

So this is how far we've come. Just like the indigenous people in North America, thier culture is being constricted by the coils of the "civilized world". These cultures must live on into the next centuries to come.

[SeriosProductions]

This video illustrates that in order to create ("society") we must destroy (the indigenous peoples). Because of all this modernization, millenia of traditions and culture are only going to be faded memories in books and video if we don't do something about it.

[jspinac1]

good video