The obligatory freaky double deaky lost Brazilian tribe photos
posted at 4:11 pm on May 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The amazing pics are among the most viewed on Yahoo News, with good reason: This is as close to that “Invaders” episode of the Twilight Zone as we’re ever going to get. Here’s the money shot, in which Red One and Red Two defend the black widow in the back there from the imperialist colonial tyranny of the Brazilian chopper:
A government official took an arrow in the face from one of them when he got too close a few years ago. The stakes:
“First contact is often completely catastrophic for “uncontacted” tribes. It’s not unusual for 50 percent of the tribe to die in months after first contact,” said Miriam Ross, a campaigner with the Indian rights group Survival International. “They don’t generally have immunity to diseases common to outside society. Colds and flu that aren’t usually fatal to us can completely wipe them out.”
Loggers and developers are inching ever closer. Exit question: What’s the answer? Some sort of nature preserve where you wall off a certain number of square miles on each side? Or is Brazil really going to move in and let the microbes take care of business here?
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LOL
jaime on May 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Let me see, they have used the spotted owl, harp seal, whales, polar bears, various other birds and animals, insects, plants, weather, what’s left?…I know, let’s find some natives, put them in the jungle, make them brave and mysterious, and we can use them, until we find another, animal, insect, plant.
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Reminds me of the true story of the missionary trying to take a picture of the chief…when he raised the camera the chief got all agitated, began gesturing. The missionary stopped, said to the interpreter that it is alright, he won’t take the chiefs spirit…the interpreter looked at the missionary and said “that is not the problem, he is telling you the lens cap in on”.
right2bright on May 30, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Somebody needs point out to the Dhimmicrats and Republitards how these people have been living just fine without government schools, welfare, food stamps, socialized medicine, bow & arrow control, or liberal politicians telling them what to do.
TC on May 30, 2008 at 5:30 PM
First of all, if you zoom in on the guy’s left foot, he’s wearing Nike pumps. I smell a copywrite infringement in the works as we speak. Secondly, those two guys in the front look awful like the Skipper and the Professor to me. I bet you Maryanne is in the grass hut having a smoke.
Syd B. on May 30, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Competition.
jaime on May 30, 2008 at 5:30 PM
After all of this “environmental BS” would’t it be hillarious if they found out later this was some kind of B-movie director filming a movie? HAHAHAHA!!!
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:31 PM
HAHAHAHA!!! I must have the giggles today. Everything I read is cracking me up!
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:33 PM
This
Limerick on May 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM
It does sort of remind me of the story of Jim Eliot and the other missionaries who were martyred by the Aucans years ago.
Pretty good movie, “The End of the Spear” is about their story and their wives work to evangelize the Aucans
ToddonCapeCod on May 30, 2008 at 5:34 PM
All it would take is one spit and you could probably wipe out half of the tribe right there.
Kokonut on May 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Wonder why one of the three is really dark skinned? Does “uncontacted” imply that no Africans or dark pigmented races have ever infiltrated their camps? It appears otherwise.
leftnomore on May 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM
A lost tribe of knowitalls…great.
The Race Card on May 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Left over survivors from season 2.
right2bright on May 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM
I think that no doubt played a major role, though I’m assuming there was competition in interior Africa, and descriptions I’ve read of these South American groups indicate some of them fight with one another. For that matter, most of Europe was stuck in tribal mode until the Romans forced them forward. So competition seems necessary, but not sufficient.
I’d even speculate that organization beyond stone-age tribalism was a development peculiar to the Mediterranean, but the Chinese seemed to have booted-up a relatively advanced civilization in parallel. Maybe conditions had to be good enough that there was a population boom, too. Once a tribe exceeds a minimum number of people, maybe it achieves some kind of social critical mass and just starts absorbing its neighbors.
Blacklake on May 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM
I heard that Obama is considering one of them for vice president.
Not the black one.
Labamigo on May 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Oh noes, the giant whirly devil has stolen their souls.
Spectreman on May 30, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I posted on this this morning too. Though, I have to admit, Allah has a better picture. :) I tend to agree with Richard Disney. If I had the misfortune of being born into a primitive tribe of people, I would want to be contacted. Just sayin’.
wytammic on May 30, 2008 at 5:50 PM
I think it’s ongoing competition. If you’re able to eliminate or assimilate your competition you don’t really progress. But if your challenger remains a viable competitor over time, it spurs progress on both sides. At least that’s how I see it.
jaime on May 30, 2008 at 5:51 PM
It sounds like some of these Amazonian tribes have been fighting with one other for a rather long time, though. So there has to be more to it. Probably so much, though, that we’ll never really know all the ingredients.
Blacklake on May 30, 2008 at 6:03 PM
The Gods Must Be Crazy, great reference!
mikeyboss on May 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Yeah, you’re probably right.
I was thinking about modern competition in the marketplace, but maybe that’s not a good comparison.
jaime on May 30, 2008 at 6:09 PM
I was going to bring up that book, you beat me to it. Great reading.
Anna on May 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Shenanigans. There, I called it.
thebriand on May 30, 2008 at 6:34 PM
OK — what environmentalist dogooder put themselves in harm’s way with red dye #2 to save the rainforest? Oh Yeah…”Survival International”….yeah…right…
Gee, wouldn’t it have been easier to throw down a couple dart snails and spotted owls to make a point?
We can confirm one thing about the tribe. They are NOT part of the Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered tribe mostly found in San Francisco and parts of the Hamptons in the summer months…otherwise the spears would have matched their belts…and they would have died off from a lack of sperm and egg cohabitation…though I did spot a turkey baster in the background..
While these folks’ very existence is allegedly at stake, a chimpanzee in Austria “wants” to be declared a human so that he won’t be euthanized…due to the folding of the shelter at which he resides. If he succeeds, make him the executive director. Chances are he will do a better job than the jerk who drove the shelter into the ground…(http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/ehrenreich)
The commenter who said the tribe has done well without bow and arrow control,welfare, food stamps etc should talk to the chimp. If he does make the grade as an equal to Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews (that is the step BEFORE he gets human status, a trial period you might say…though some get stuck there, yet somehow make a ton of money from weak, emasculated cable news channels run by liberal monkeys), he will then need to pay taxes! Ouch. Amazonian tribes untouched…chimps getting human status, cats and dogs sleeping together..who ya gonna call? Obama!
evilcon555 on May 30, 2008 at 6:37 PM
“Crap! Che is back! Man the arrows!”
sulla on May 30, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Someone drop and empty Coca Cola bottle down there and see if they start worshipping it!
pilamaye on May 30, 2008 at 6:59 PM
First truly undecided voters in recent year.
Neo on May 30, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Though it does appear they are anti-helicopter.
Blacklake on May 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM
HAHA!
surrounded on May 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM
There
surrounded on May 30, 2008 at 7:15 PM
File under “human progress not inevitable.”
DrSteve on May 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Damn hippies.
Rhinoboy on May 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM
As I speak,Dean is winging his way to Brazil,
to sign this tribe up as Democrats,a hum!
(Sarc.)
And Al Gore is also going to meet them,
stewarts of the earth,or the key to mans
survival,or sumpin crazy like that! Ha ha.
canopfor on May 30, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Hoax comes to mind…
greekinfidel on May 30, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Why do I feel the need to inquire about low-cost car insurance?
nosliwelyk on May 30, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Yeah he do, but he don’t think it stink.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM
P.S.
Hey, what’s that?
I don’t know. Let’s kill it.
Rednecks in the mist.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 30, 2008 at 8:57 PM
The answer is that we introduce them to civilization. If they don’t want it fine – they can always go back to the jungle. I’m a big believer in options though.
Mormon Doc on May 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Leave them alone. They don’t need us and we don’t need them.
SouthernGent on May 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM
AP is obviously, after this post, the funniest man alive.
No Sh&t!!
Thank you AP.
awake on May 30, 2008 at 10:23 PM
I think one of them is Obama’s uncle.
Rod on May 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Between this thread and the alien in the window thread, I’ve been dyin’ of hahaheehees all evening. MirCat’s comments in particular have forced me to install the SpittleGuard on my delicate electronics.
innominatus on May 30, 2008 at 11:37 PM
I think you made a wrong turn somewhere. This is Kinda Funny Lane. You’re looking Kinda Creepy Avenue.
The Race Card on May 30, 2008 at 11:39 PM
delicate electronics
Sounds personal.
The Race Card on May 30, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Heh. Allah, you crack me up.
labrat on May 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM
I’m all for great missionary stories, and “Brutchko” is one of the best true life missionary stories there is. However, the one you are telling here is from “Crocidile Dundee.” Unless of course that movie stole the story from a missionary.
p40tiger on May 30, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Hope and Change.
labrat on May 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Hmmm this scene looks like a level of Starcraft to me, the damn Blackleader always uses a move that kills my whole force.
Rbastid on May 31, 2008 at 1:33 AM
look at thier achery stance…very poised.
They must have seen 300.
Black Adam on May 31, 2008 at 2:49 AM
You mean like Democrats? They’re still locked into feudalism long after the American revolution supposedly ended it.
NNtrancer on May 31, 2008 at 5:52 AM
Something is very smelly about these pics. Why is one person very black and the others look much lighter skinned? A case of all your fakes are belong to us? Somebody needs to look into this.
bloggless on May 31, 2008 at 10:46 AM
AP, could it be that someone needs to prove that these pics are a hoax? I shall study these photos and get back to you. A vast left wing conspiracy?
bloggless on May 31, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Here goes:
There is no smoke or fire. Do they have bic lighters?
There are no kids.
Skin colors are way to varied for an isolated tribe.
How are they so certain that they have had no contact with outside world?
It is all so perfectly set up to save the rain forest.
Where are all the people who live in those huge houses?
bloggless on May 31, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Ha! “Land of the Lost” is Real! Is the darker one a sleastack?
KevinA on May 31, 2008 at 1:38 PM
I say we nuke the site from orbit.
Just to be sure.
Et tu Brute on May 31, 2008 at 1:58 PM
I would say leave them well enough alone. first contact with outside world has always been bad news for small isolated tribal populations. Usual result has been being visited by the three horsemen of apocalypse in every sense of the phrase with plague and famine taking the lead. Although admittedly lifespan for one of those primitive groups ain’t that long your lucky if you live to your 50s…average IIRC is in the 40s.
And guys that’s warpaint. Plane had buzzed by earlier. Gave the local warriors time to get into full kit and gear. As to the tribe not having contact with western civilization that is an open question. But I’ve got the gut feeling that any contact was bound to have been a nasty mess.
BTW is it just me or is almost every comment here fitting in the left wing stereotypes about conservatives?
werehawk on May 31, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Main advantage the old world had over the new world is a couple of things coming together:
Eurasia (Europe and Asia) is oriented in an east west axis domesticated plants and animals can spread across similar ecosystems more easily than in the Americas which are in a North South axis.
Also Eurasia had more domesticable mammals than the Americas. Only large mammals domesticated in the Americas were Llamas and their kin in the Andes. Majority of mammals are not domesticable in any sense of the word and in some case you’d be an insane to even try to domesticate. Zebras come to mind as an example of an utterly undomesticatable mammal.
I’d recommend taking the time to read Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel some of his conclusions are arguable but his facts are pretty much dead on. And the fact that he’s managed to offend a lot of representatives of the Voodoo sciences by even daring to tread in their field makes a great argument in his favor.
werehawk on May 31, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Meaning- should we honor the isolation in the way there were South Pacific tribes who ended up worshiping the stuff they got from WWII sweeping through their undisturbed societies. Or, should these societies be forced to come into the worldwide community.
My vote is stay away.
highhopes on June 1, 2008 at 1:06 AM
I was showing this to my Brazilian friend when I first saw it on Drudge. He said that those tribes are remote, but “uncontacted” was a bit of a stretch. He had followed this on local news and Brazilian news. He said that the Chief there had two watches and all the men spoke Portuguese, but that the women only spoke their tribal language. I’m guessing this is some sort of “Save the Rainforest” or “Global Warming is going to kill the Natives” type PR push. Need to wait a few days/weeks to see what else pops up out of nowhere.
TheCulturalist on June 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM
they buzzed the tribe earlier. this was the second pass after they had time to muster an aggressive stance. The two males are coated in a pretty common plant dye and the woman is probably sporting the black dye for same similar show of aggression. At least that’s what it said on one of those hoity toity BBC sites I read the other day.
pc on June 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM
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