Brazil Says It Will Reject Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7
Hours after leaders of some of the world's wealthiest countries pledged more than $22 million to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's government angrily rejected the offer, in effect telling the other nations to mind their own business — only to later lay out potential terms for the aid's acceptance.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil expressed his ire in a series of Twitter posts on Monday, and specifically criticized and taunted President Emmanuel Macron of France, who had announced the aid package at the Group of 7 summit meeting. Their comments extended a verbal feud between the two leaders.
But early the next day, Mr. Bolsonaro offered possible terms for the acceptance of the aid package when he spoke to reporters in the capital, Brasília.
He said that if Mr. Macron withdrew "insults made to my person," and what Mr. Bolsonaro interpreted as insinuations that Brazil does not have sovereignty over the Amazon, he would reconsider.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:10PM (4 children)
Why are the fascists always such whiny little thin-skinned bitches?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 28 2019, @08:00PM (3 children)
Is that a tricky question? I don't know the answer.
I don't block Javascript and use incognito browsing. As such, NYT only displays "Either you accept ads or you pay" - which is fine by me, their right. If I need the story, I can get it from other places; and so I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @08:24PM
I was talking about Bolsonaro...
But, I think Thexalon convinced me of his hypothesis below. Bolsanaro likes the fire and he's just pretending to be a whiny little bitch like Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @02:26AM (1 child)
You haven't thought about blocking javascript then?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 29 2019, @02:44AM
I can't afford to block javascript.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford