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• 1 Nancy Willing // May 31, 2008 at 7:47 am

  I cringed reading about this tribe yesterday. Why can’t we leave well enough alone? Evidently, the Brazillians only documented them in the argument to keep capitalist logging interests out of the area.
  Next targeting these peoples will be big pharma who want to steal what lore they can steal in the interest of the next new pharma product.
  Media Matters sent me an email today remarking that Rush Limpballs was joking about them on air:
  “Limbaugh called Brazilian indigenous tribe “savages”
  On the May 30 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh referred to “[o]ne of … South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes” — recently photographed by the Brazilian government from an airplane — as “these savages.” Recounting the story, Limbaugh said, “[T]hey’ve spotted an isolated tribe in Brazil. An airplane flew over this hut, this thatch roof hut or something, and these savages are body painted in red and they’re trying to shoot the airplane down with bows and arrows.” Read More”

• 2 jason330 // May 31, 2008 at 9:30 am

  I can’t think of anything more savage than bombing the shit out of a country to satisfy one man’s vanity.

• 3 Andy // May 31, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  I can’t think of anything more savage than bombing the shit out of a country to satisfy one man’s vanity.
  Amen

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