FBI agents investigate killing of American nun in Amazon (2/27)

[truthpusher]

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/11003306.htm

Posted on Sun, Feb. 27, 2005

FBI agents investigate killing of American nun in Amazon

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Three FBI agents arrived in northern Brazil to investigate the killing of an American nun, Brazilian media said Saturday.

Dorothy Stang, 73, originally from near Dayton, Ohio, was killed on Feb. 12 by gunmen allegedly hired by a rancher who wanted to log the rain forest area she was trying to protect.

The FBI agents arrived Friday in Altamira, about 80 miles from the rural town where Stang was killed, said the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Brazil's largest.

The agents met with local police officers and interrogated the two suspected gunmen charged with the killing, Folha and other local media said. They were expected to report to the U.S. State Department after finishing their investigation.

complete story: http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/11003306.htm

[benburch]

1. I *knew* that bookstore was suspicious!

Sorry, I had to. I know this is a serious matter. :spank:

[burrowowl]

2. Will the FBI

rat on the CIA?

[Judi Lynn]

3. What if their "investigation" leads them to American companies?

Will they pursue it to its appropriate conclusion, or will we all be rapidly distracted while they bury the investigation permanently? From two links on a thread on the murder of Dorothy Stang:

It is also to hell with the climatically essential task of saving the world's tropical forests. Consider that the huge "Avanca Brasil" development plan in Brasil, which, if implemented, would lead to the annihilation of something like 40% of the climatically critical Amazonian rainforests, has been approved by the Brazilian government and the World Bank. <10> Four huge American logging companies; International Paper, Weyerhauser, Boise Cascade, and Georgia Pacific, aggressively lobbied Bill Clinton, when President, who accepted to make it his priority at the WTO Ministerial at Seattle in November 1999 to pass a law known as the ATL Initiative, (known by its critics as the "Free Logging Agreement").

This would have made it illegal for the loggers to be denied access to any source of timber, or to any market for the sale of their products. Tariffs on wood and wood products would have been eliminated, "performance requirements" would have no longer been allowed, which means that the loggers could no longer have been made to observe sustainable forestry practices, while eco-labelling would have been outlawed. <11> In other words the protection of the world's remaining forests - as essential as they are for climatic and other ecological reasons - would have been made illegal. The Seattle meeting proved to be a fiasco (for the corporations) and the Free Logging Agreement never became law, but at the Doha meeting it has been put back on the agenda. Not surprisingly the Director General of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stated (even before the last Ministerial at Doha) that only a miracle can save our tropical forests.
(snip/...)

http://www.edwardgoldsmith.com/page24.html

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• Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microoganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to Rainforest deforestation.
  
  
• Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species dissapear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.
  
  
• Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Gerogia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.
  
  
• There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
  
  
• In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destoyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also dissappearing.
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http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm

[98geoduck]

5. That must have been the "I gave almost everything Liberals wanted"part

of Clinton's recent speech. I'm actually going to pick up John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". Should be an informative read.

[burrowowl]

6. That is

why I said will the FBI rate on the CIA and Facist-Corporatist.

[struggle4progress]

4. Maybe they'll arrest Brandon Mayfield again. eom