Posted on 02/21/2006 3:59:01 PM PST by Barbarian6
Global environmental concerns from the UN and various special interest groups—from rational to extremist—often do speak in terms of the Amazon as a global environmental interest and resource. Intellectually or specifically, such rhetoric implies challenges to Brazil’s sovereignty over the region. Those flinging about such rhetoric include former senior US political leaders, namely Al Gore.
...the father of Brazil’s nuclear weapons program, Rex Nazare Alves, currently sits on the advisory committee for National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) of the government of Lula da Silva. Previously a consultant in the Institutional Security Office (GSI) of the Presidency of the Republic, he was promoted to be a representative to “Deliberative Commission” the most important Brazilian nuclear policy group that provides both oversight and veto decisions for CNEN. According to Brasilia Correio Braziliense, Alves was part of Brazil’s secret “parallel nuclear program” in the 1980s; involving nuclear design and construction and unspecified classified funding of the program.
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