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Brazil: Enter at Extreme Risk! 2016 Olympics Doomed as Our Athletes Plan to Enter What Is Worse Than a War Zone! (Videos)
7 Jul 16
These are perilous times in Brazil and the athletes as well as the tourists are in for one hellof an awakening! The mayor of Rio is warning the world how unsafe Brazil is! There is no security, violence is abundant, the water is polluted with sewage, the horrific Zika virus still continues. Is it worth taking ones life into the hands of lawlessness and disease? What can be done? What are the solutions?
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RIO DE JANIERO – Five weeks before the start of the Olympics in Rio, police say a mutilated body washed up on Copacabana Beach, where the beach volleyball competition will be held.
The horrific discovery comes as Olympics organizers deal with a raft of problems including severe pollution in the venues for sailing, rowing, and other water sports.
Biologist Mario Moscatelli is the man behind the camera who has been documenting Rio’s vast water pollution problem for the past 20 years.
He hoped the Olympics would force Rio to clean it up.
“We had seven years and our authorities didn’t do almost anything, because this is a toilet,” he said, pointing at the water.
Raw sewage still flows from Rio’s poor neighborhoods right into the water.
In the marina where Olympic sailors will launch their boats, a giant plume of
sewage streams into the water.
Rio’s waters were found to contain viruses up to 1.7 million more times hazardous than a beach in the U.S.
The problem is not just sewage. It’s also trash, tons of it, floating in the bay. And some athletes say they’re worried about running into it.
“We’ve seen it with some other boats that they’ve collided with maybe some chair…it could be anything,” said Arantza Gumucio, an Olympic sailor from Chile.
Oceanographer David Zee said the Brazilian government promised to install eight treatment plants on Rio’s polluted rivers. They built just one. They promised to treat 80 percent of the sewage flowing into Guanabara Bay, and are only treating about half. READ MORE
Violence flares in Rio’s slums just months before Summer Olympics
HARI SREENIVASAN: It’s just over two months until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
For the host country, Brazil, it’s been a troubled journey. The Zika virus, corruption scandals, and an economic and political meltdown have all had an impact. But for many residents, the most worrying development is a spike in crime across Rio and what happens after the athletes go home.
“NewsHour” producer Jon Gerberg teamed up with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and they report from the shantytowns, or favelas, of Rio de Janeiro.
And a warning: Some of the images are disturbing.
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: The image of glamorous Rio de Janeiro most people know: world-famous beaches like Copacabana, a draw for tourists and residents alike.
But just behind the high-rises and hotels lies another world. These are two impoverished communities called Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira. They are at the heart of a bold policing experiment that started in 2008. It’s called pacification.
It introduced community-based police units to many favelas that are close to tourist areas, its aim, to push out the violent drug gangs that operated here in advance of Brazil’s debut on the world stage with the 2014 World Cup and, in two months’ time, the Olympics.
Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira together became the poster children of Rio’s transformation. Crime dropped. New businesses opened, catering to tourists. Police would walk around with their weapons holstered. Dignitaries like U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and media like me were taken here to show off the project’s success.
But that success is now under threat. Pacification is in crisis. The first time I came to this favela three years ago, it was safe. It was known as the Disneyland favela. This time, residents refusing to talk to us because they have been threatened by drug traffickers. And the only way we can come is with heavily armed police.
These pacification units, known as UPPs, now walk around ready for battle. Two rival gangs are violently fighting for control in this area, and police are struggling. At the crest of the favelas, Commander Paulo Berbat tells me the gangs use these jungle paths to ferry weapons and drugs in and out.
He told me that, in March, the battle for control over these routes turned deadly.
So, he’s saying that, just up here in this area, members of a rival gang from a different community used the cover of the forest to try and invade this community and take it over. There was an intense confrontation between the drug gang that controls this community, and three of the drug traffickers were killed.
Businesses that had flourished, attracting foreigners, are now reporting a 50 percent drop in revenue. Even though no visitors have been harmed in Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira, tourists are choosing to stay away. It’s a shocking turnaround for the residents here.
Among them is Rodrigo da Silva. He sells food to make a living on the beaches just near his home in Chapeu Mangueira. He had hoped that the Olympics and pacification would provide new opportunities, so he opened a hostel, advertised on Airbnb, but clients today are scarce READ MORE
ARE YOU COMPLETELY PREPARED?
IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT PREP YOU CAN DO!
The Bible tells us that every human has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God which is is a heart-penetrating truth. He has provided a way to cleanse us of our sins since we can never be “good enough” to cleanse ourselves. That avenue to God’s grace, mercy and forgiveness (the cleansing of our sins) is through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth Who is equally God.
Not one of us are guaranteed a “tomorrow”. Has your time run out? Will you continue to ignore the promptings of God the Holy Spirit or have you awakened to the essential need for God, risking eternal damnation?
God the Holy Father, God the Holy Son and God the Holy Spirit are One God, the true, living, uncreated God Who is ever-present, all knowing, all powerful and all loving. He desires that every single person be forgiven, saved and to live eternally with Him. He is our only real protection and His love for you is unchanging. Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, the true Messiah, today.
You can’t take your salvation for a test drive. You’re all-in or not.
Admit to Him that you are a sinner in need of forgiveness, that you are truly sorry for your sins. Acknowledge that He died for your sins, rose from the dead and lives forevermore. Invite Him into your life and to help you to turn from sin. Rejoice! You just became a Christian! Now trust in Him and get to know Him through the Bible which tells us everything we need to know and through prayer/talking to Him. He eagerly desires relationship with you.
Remember the old question, Suppose they gave a war and no one came?
So suppose they had an Olympics and No one came?
Or just means Russia will win all the gold medals.
What are the odds in Vegas?