{"id":2697,"date":"2012-08-16T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2012-08-16T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:49:53","slug":"belo-monte-dam-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/belo-monte-dam-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Belo Monte Dam suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank Goodness<br \/>\nthere is Sanity<br \/>\noutside the<br \/>\nWestern World<br \/>\nwe sit here in our bubble<br \/>\nimagining we were hurled<br \/>\nalong in space<br \/>\nand we&#8217;re the only<br \/>\none&#8217;s who are so far<br \/>\nhonest, thoughtful<br \/>\nand not judgemental<br \/>\nbut that is what we are<\/p>\n<p>Take  the  Monte Belo Dam<br \/>\nin Brazil, the Government<br \/>\n mad<br \/>\nallowing Corporations<br \/>\nto displace us which was bad<br \/>\nTo dam the Xingu River<br \/>\nand force out<br \/>\nforest souls<br \/>\nthe indigenous people<br \/>\nwho love the land<br \/>\nand have visions<br \/>\nand controls<\/p>\n<p>they care and have cared<br \/>\nfor centuries<br \/>\nthey live where they were born<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t march in with<br \/>\npowerful saws and axes<br \/>\nand much scorn<br \/>\nnor cut down vibrant forests<br \/>\nto make locations tense<br \/>\nto burn and release carbon<br \/>\nwhich proves they have no sense<br \/>\nThese are The Forest People<br \/>\nthey know each inch and can<br \/>\nlook after it,and nurture it<br \/>\nwhich they&#8217;ve done since<br \/>\ntime began<br \/>\nto flood this precious<br \/>\noxygenation reservoir of life<br \/>\nand bow down to the<br \/>\ncorporates<br \/>\nand their continued strife<br \/>\nwas clearly wrong<br \/>\nand needed, to, just be reversed<br \/>\nand  thank God  it does<br \/>\nauger well for<br \/>\nDemocracy seemed cursed<\/p>\n<p>The Corporates were at it<br \/>\ndestroy the lot the call<br \/>\nThe Government was powerless<br \/>\ntheir backs against the wall<br \/>\nsupported by the Banksters<br \/>\nwho move the figures here<br \/>\nand there<br \/>\nand say sod off to  us<br \/>\nand why should that lot care<br \/>\nEmbedded in their mansions<br \/>\nwith offshore havens, they<br \/>\nare ripping off the planet<br \/>\nand are all getting their way<br \/>\nThe courts have said<br \/>\nthis Monte Belo Dam<br \/>\nis wrong and cannot<br \/>\nbe allowed to happen<br \/>\na decision I like a lot<br \/>\nbut we must not ever let up<br \/>\nfor they have a lot of strength<br \/>\nand corruption spreads its fingers<br \/>\nfar and wide to a great length<br \/>\nbeyond what the indigenous<br \/>\ncan ever hope to do<br \/>\nUnless the people have chance<br \/>\nThe planets doomed<br \/>\nthat view<br \/>\nI share with warriors everywhere<br \/>\nwho witness and who see<br \/>\nThe corporate clowns<br \/>\npumped up with power<br \/>\nwho have f***** up mercilessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monte Belo Dam must be suspended and stopped so that the Indigenous people and animals can live in Peace ad Harmony with the Nature they were born into <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/belo-monte-dam-suspended\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}