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The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling Amazon reserve Monday after blistering domestic and international criticism.
President Michel Temer's office will issue a new decree Tuesday that "restores the conditions of the area, according to the document that instituted the reserve in 1984," the Ministry of Mines and Energy said in a statement.
Last week, environmental activist group Greenpeace said at least 14 illegal mines and eight clandestine landing strips were already being used by miners in the Denmark-sized reserve known as Renca in the eastern Amazon.
Greenpeace said this showed the risks faced by Renca even without Temer's earlier proposal for ending a ban on large-scale foreign mining in the mineral-rich region.
Temer's decree signed on August 25 on opening up Renca—rich in gold, manganese, iron and copper—was suspended days later after an international outcry.
Mining condoned by the government will not happen, but illegal mining will continue?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:16PM (9 children)
Heh. I just find it very amusing to be on this site with Chicken Little screaming about the sky falling :)
1) Slashdot is for audiences, so don't really care
2) Sourceforge has been dead for years.
Can we get an article or something for this AC to post in? Otherwise we're going to hear them hyperventilate with offtopic comments till the sites comes back up for this person.
For the record, illegal mining in Brazil is worth discussion when they're massacring uncontacted tribes in the Amazon [news.com.au].
Of course the overall story is about mining because of money being more important than people, but the real story here are these criminals boasting of what amounts to genocide. People that don't what a camera is being terrified trying to defend themselves with sticks while an entire tribe, men, women, and children, killed with guns. Is the government of Brazil doing jack shit to stop them? Apparently not, and their president was about to get away with giving the corps (read: rich men) unfettered access to protected lands.
Yeah, all things considered, I don't give a fuck about Slashdot and Sourceforge.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:20PM (8 children)
A lot more people use Slashdot and SourceForge than use this site. Slashdot and SourceForge are more important topics than Brazil, too.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:29PM (5 children)
Yet, Brazil has an actual fucking article about it. The one in which you might actually learn about mass murders, but yeah, some fucking website we don't give a shit about here, and an ancient decrepit source code site that shot itself in the foot is more important.
Those sites don't mean shit, and none of that is an excuse to continually hijack articles to talk about it. You want to talk about it? Find an article somewhere else where somebody gives a fuck about it, and then post it here, and then you can make your comments.
Till then, fuck off. The only thing you've done is help hijack another article with the weak ass excuse that "Brazil isn't as important".
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:34PM (4 children)
Bruce Perens [twitter.com], one of the founders of the open source software movement, has weighed in [twitter.com] on the Slashdot disruptions. That makes the Slashdot and SourceForge disruptions a much more important topic.
As for this Brazil nonsense, maybe you could try going down on one knee during the Brazilian national anthem? Isn't that how lefties like you "solve" problems these days?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:13PM (3 children)
"Lefties"? Dragging partisan politics into it? Is that the weak ass sauce your trolling skills has this morning?
Brazil is the conversation we are having. Don't like it, fuck off.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:21PM (2 children)
Do you know anything about Brazilian politics? Brazil, like nearly all South American countries, is politically very far to the left. One of the most interesting things about Brazilian politics, and politics in general, is the correlation between leftist politics and corruption.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:03PM
GOP
oh look at that, your argument fell to pieces with a single acronym!
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 27 2017, @08:54PM
Ha ha, yes leftists in power in South America.
It's not like the CIA overthrow them or anything, or [wikipedia.org]
Honduras [wikipedia.org]
Or plenty of others I'm sure. But no, the leftists are the problem.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:08PM (1 child)
Then fuck off to Slashdot, let us be a few and spare us of your pollution.
Once I left the green site because it didn't care for my needs, I don't fucking care how many of others still like the shit they are fed with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday September 27 2017, @08:52PM
"Then fuck off to Slashdot"
Okay I will!
Oh, wait. News from Tuesday?
What? Sites down?
Shit.
:)
Yeah, don't miss /. at all.
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