SHANTYTOWN BURIED BY LANDSLIDE

BRAZIL BATTLES TO RESCUE HUNDREDS
BURIED AS NEW LANDSLIDE HITS RIO SLUM

BRAZIL (BBC News) - More people were feared dead after being buried under the latest landslide to hit a slum in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area, authorities said yesterday. Rescue teams in Brazil are working for a second night to find 200 people believed to have been buried in their homes by a massive landslide. More than 50 houses were engulfed as mud and rubble poured into the Morro do Bumba shantytown near Rio de Janeiro. About 200 people were feared due to mudslides near Rio de Janeiro, officials said Thursday, a new tragedy after massive floods two days before. If confirmed, the deaths would raise the toll sharply from the 175 people already known to have died this week in slides triggered by record rains. The fresh mudslide hit Niteroi, one of the worst affected parts of the greater Rio de Janeiro area. 4,000 families had been made homeless and 10,000 houses remained at risk, mostly in the slums

“Some 200 people may be buried, but it is not clear, there could be more,” fire Chief Pedro Machado said. Twenty-five people, including eight young children, were pulled out alive on after hours buried in mud and debris. “In our experience, it's an instant death” for those caught in their homes at the time, the official said. The shanty town was built on a mountain of trash that accumulated for decades, making the ground unstable and vulnerable to giving way. The soil is still saturated and local officials are warning that there could be further landslides. Brazil's national weather service, Inmet, said the rainfall has been the heaviest in 48 years.


Instead of adopting a simple living, high thinking lifestyle, modern society compels poor people to live close to larger cities, even at the risk of being an unsafe place. Many “favelas” or shantytowns in Rio are built on top of trash and disused landfill, which makes them prone to massive landslides.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Although the Vedic literature may give a brief warning about what will happen in the Age of Kali … we also need to see the full implications and how that description will expand as the Age of Kali progresses. … This also refers to the expanding gap between the haves and the have-nots. … We have to live according to Vedic Dharma and the principle of simple living and high thinking. If we can understand the strategy of the banks and governments that will be used to control or even rob the citizens of their money and property, then we also need to be able to plan how best to persevere in order to keep spiritual knowledge available for the general well-being of the masses.

Stephen Knapp
“The Vedic Prophecies”
“Slavery to Banks: A Vedic Prophecy”
hhttp://www.stephen-knapp.com
http://www.vina.cc/news/index.php/