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Isolated tribe air-spotted in Brazil

Satellite surveillance for illegal loggers does the business nowadays. Most of the provincial govnerments know what's going on anyway, they're all in cahoots with illegal loggers - it's immensely lucrative... so gotta deal with corruption and so on
It is much more than just Satellite surveillance nowadays with all in international funding for a number of agencies. Just being in many areas of the Amazon forest is forbidden (without a license) and its reasonably well monitored with-in Brazil's boarders, but only about 60% is in Brazil.
 
That was a strange read - even as late as 2007, the writer seems completely disinclined to speak of this tribe as if they or any other Aborigines could possibly be his equals, he talks about them like they are clever but troubled children.

Yes its a fascinating story but I haven't found anything on line that does it justice.
 
Oh shit. I just started reading that Herald Sun thing and quietly shouting at it already.

One of the first things Mr Tull did was take a couple of the male nomads for a drive in his Toyota.

"We hammered across a huge claypan at 80km/h with the latest Midnight Oil album blaring out of the cassette player," he said..

"I stopped when I realised they were frozen with fear."...

Really, you don't need a whole lot of imagination to realise that would be a bad idea even BEFORE doing it. It does sound a bit "ooh, I can have fun scaring the ignorant people". :mad:

(Come to think of it, in all honesty, that would scare me as well even although I have previously met motor vehicles and loud cassette players.) But seriously, that sounds like a shitty thing to do, unless somehow the blokes had actually requested this.

Just a wee bit insensitive there, Mr. bloody Tull. :mad:

<goes to read on>
 
Oh shit. I just started reading that Herald Sun thing and quietly shouting at it already.



Really, you don't need a whole lot of imagination to realise that would be a bad idea even BEFORE doing it. It does sound a bit "ooh, I can have fun scaring the ignorant people". :mad:

(Come to think of it, in all honesty, that would scare me as well even although I have previously met motor vehicles and loud cassette players.) But seriously, that sounds like a shitty thing to do, unless somehow the blokes had actually requested this.

Just a wee bit insensitive there, Mr. bloody Tull. :mad:

<goes to read on>


Playing Midnight Oil to anyone is pretty shitty behaviour
 
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