by BO » Thu 02 Feb 2006, 11:44:23
Great posts Ludi, and CheRand. Thank you for articulating what I failed to articulate.
Does anyone know much about the Kogi's in Columbia, There was a BBC documentary made in 1990 about them, apparatly they sought after this particular journalist; to give the world a message, They believe the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain is the heart of the world, and that the "Younger Brother" us, are destroying the earth by digging out the heart of the planet, by sucking out oil, spoiling its natural water, and mining its minerals. Website here:
www.taironatrust.org
Here is a summary:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Kogi Indians of South America, have a similar historical scenario in their creation story, told as part of theBBC film made by Alan Ereira and called Message from the Heart of the World: the Elder Brother's Warning. According to the Kogi, the Great Mother Aluna is the primeval waters and the source of all creation. Even before creating worlds, she lived through all possibilities for all worlds and all times through great mental anguish. For this she is known as Memory and Possibility. The eight worlds she created previous to this one were not peopled, but in this ninth world she put humans, including Elder and Younger Brothers. From the beginning,
Younger Brother caused so much trouble that eventually he was given knowledge of technology and sent far, far away across the waters. Five hundred years ago, the Kogi say, he found his way back across the waters and he has been causing trouble ever since. If he does not listen to the Kogi, who see themselves as Elder Brother, and stop destroying the Mother, stop digging out her heart with his mining and cutting up her liver with his deforestation, he will bring this world to an end.From the Hopi and Kogi perspectives, we see that present human existence is dominated by the "white brother" or "younger brother" of their ancient stories. He is industrial man as we have seen him in earlier chapters, creating a technological society founded on a mechanical worldview and scientific discovery. We have seen that his technological way of life, for all its benefits, has brought us to the brink of disaster. In this chapter we will see that it stands in sharp contrast to many indigenous and traditional peoples' worldviews, value systems and lifestyles which are only now beginning to be recognized as valid in their own right and possibly critical for our very survival as a species.
Link:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/Saht_indig_way.htmlWhite people ARE inferior to many indigenous tribes, it has been drilled into us since childhood that we are superior, this is the only way to justify the atrocities we have committed, and still are commiting.
I don't know why it is so hard for us to see, I mean look at what the drooling idiot and his lackeys are now doing to the Kogi, exterminating them:
http://www.taironatrust.org/$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')pen Letter to the President of the United States George W. Bush
COLOMBIA
About fumigations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
I work for a French NGO , "Tchendukua" whose goal is to recuperate land
for the Kogi Indians living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in
Colombia.
In 2000 we bought, La Luna, a land, with access to the sea, It was the
first time since the Spanish invasion, the Kogis had a low land. They
where so happy, full of hope.
At the end of June 2004, La Luna became an " Indigenous Reserve" , a
protected area...
The Sierra is also one of the UNESCO's "Biosphere Reserves".
Fifteen days later, on July 17th, a plane from Dyncorp passed only once
to fumigate La Luna. That was enough to provoke a complete disaster.
Some days ago, I saw the rushes of a second movie we have made on the
Kogis.
Now, La Luna is like some places in Asia after the tsunami... I could
not believe it.
The Kogis took five years to regenerate the soil, now they will have to
wait, at least, five more years to replant. Everything is contaminated
and the streams are dry because there are no more trees to retain water.
What are they going to eat? What are they going to drink? Where to go?
Tchendukua's director in Santa Marta organized some time ago with the
Kogis and the farmers around, the eradication of coca by hand. There was
no coca in La Luna.
It is impossible that your sophisticated planes are unable to detect
Indians villages.
In the movie there is a scene with a Kogi shaman sitting in front of his
house, in the middle of the devastation. He is crying.
This image is unbearable and it will remain in my memory forever.
Yes, Mr. Bush, an image can turn people really angry.
Remember the picture of Nick Ut showing a little girl naked, burned by
Napalm, running on a road in Vietnam. This image had an incredible
impact in America.
Condolezza Rice wants Colombia to change its laws and spray in National
Parks such as La Macarena, El Catatumbo, La Sierra Nevada de Santa
Marta, etc...
To achieve that dirty job, a new aerial base for fumigation planes will
be build, $125 million.
The fumigation of La Luna on July 17th 2004 was completely illegal.
In the Sierra, Kogis, Arsarios-Wiwas, Kankuamos and Arhuacos are
starting to have health problems , especially children (see notes-page
14).
In Vietnam, after 45 years, Agent Orange is still active.
The new poisoned cocktail is called Agent Green. If you take the
ingredients one by one, it doesn't seem so dangerous. If you mix them,
highly concentrated, it is a terrible weapon. The mixture is made with
Monsanto Round Up Ultra, Cosmoflux 411F (illegal in the US), POEA and
the fungus fusarium oxysporum EN-4.
Dr David Sands, an American scientist who made some researches on EN-4
admits
( interview with the BBC-2000) that you can call it a Green Warfare or a
Biological Warfare.
When you had a few cases of Anthrax in your country it was immediately
called a terrorist biological attack...
The Dutch government donated 500.000 euros for the eradication of coca
by hand in the Amazonas and the Sierra. A part of this donation is
dedicated for substitution cultures and social development.
The Netherlands asked the parks director, Julia Miranda, to confirm
whether the decision to fumigate on the protected aeras was definitive,
because if it were so, "it could be motive to request the suspension of
activities financed by his Embassy".
Mr. Bush, you and your government, you will be responsible for the
genocide or ethnocide (see notes-page 10)) of the most ancient and
sophisticated precolombian cultures in Colombia.
The proper name for this worthless so-called drugwar is < BIOLOGICAL and
CHEMICAL WARFARE <.
Before writing this, I've asked to a Dr in Molecular Biology if I could
use those words, the answer was yes.
Mr. Bush, will you dare to say that you are doing this "In the Name of
God"?
Where are the courageous American scientists who helped to stop the
fumigations with Agent Orange in Vietnam in 1971?
The fact that this sort of thing goes on, and we don't even know about it, is disgusting, and it proves my point.
But I also agree with the postings that having more technology allows one to make the mess at a faster pace, as the saying goes (from my programming days) 'to err is human, but to totally mess it up you need a computer'. 
