https://freerepublic.com/tag/yanomamitribe/ en-us Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:02:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4083050/posts The front page of today’s New York Times features a big article clearly intended to get the readers riled up about the latest environmental horror that must be stopped. The headline is “The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land.” Subheadline: “The Times identified hundreds of airstrips that bring criminal mining operations to the most remote corners of the Amazon.” Wow, this is bad. The airstrips are “illegal.” The mining is “toxic,” and not only toxic but also “criminal.” And it’s all happening in the most pristine place left in the whole world, the “remote corners of the... Manhattan Contrarian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4083050/posts#comment Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:02:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575766/posts CARACAS, Venezuela - U.S. missionaries accused by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of espionage have been forced from their remote outposts among jungle tribes by a government order, the final pair leaving Thursday after years of evangelical work. The New Tribes Mission flew those two out of the rain forest to regroup with other missionaries in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. There they will decide what to do next: leave the country or continue with a legal battle seeking to overturn the government's order to expel them from indigenous areas by Sunday. Most of the group's missionaries are Americans. Since... Miami Herald https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575766/posts#comment Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:35:25 GMT