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DavidW;4751346; said:I guess when I go to starbucks and look at the menu to choose a coffee that is 'research ' too, by his measure?
But only if you walk, ride your bike or at least take public transportation
Damn, now suddenly I want a Starbucks latte!
Exactly - a lot of personal attacks on Heiko and possibly improper use of a copyrighted photo.
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DavidW;4751346; said:Some folks love to criticize Al Gore for his efforts to educate us and some of his information Vs his carbon footprint. They say he is a hypocrite and therefore his message is wrong.
Even on MFK there are plenty of fishkeepers who believe AGW is a hoax.
There have been some heated debates on that subject to the point where the subject is very 'touchy' here.
Hyped faulty information is bread and butter for AGW deniers. So , although I can agree with you in principle, at least maybe, about Bleher having good intentions, in fact hyperbole is counter-productive as it is too often used to discredit the real science, which he has never done.
I guess when I go to starbucks and look at the menu to choose a coffee that is 'research ' too, by his measure?
I have sworn never to criticize Al Gore ever again. He warned me about Manbearpig..that saved my life. On a more serious note, does global warming exist...yes, Have we made global climate shifts worse seemingly every year...yes, Would all this happen in cycles without use here...yes. Atleast thats what the back of the McDonalds menu told me.
DavidW;4751346; said:Some folks love to criticize Al Gore for his efforts to educate us and some of his information Vs his carbon footprint. They say he is a hypocrite and therefore his message is wrong.
Even on MFK there are plenty of fishkeepers who believe AGW is a hoax.
There have been some heated debates on that subject to the point where the subject is very 'touchy' here.
Hyped faulty information is bread and butter for AGW deniers. So , although I can agree with you in principle, at least maybe, about Bleher having good intentions, in fact hyperbole is counter-productive as it is too often used to discredit the real science, which he has never done.
I guess when I go to starbucks and look at the menu to choose a coffee that is 'research ' too, by his measure?
you're correct david, it shows you how really dumb and gullible people are nowadays. because most believe what they see and hear on the news. if its not on the news then it must be fake. same goes for lots of things i've said on other thread but i just get label as a crazy. good to see you on this thread david. always wanted to really know who that "wildthing" person was.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101025/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_brazil_drying_river
Drought has Amazon tributary at record low levels
By TALES AZZONI, Associated Press Writer Tales Azzoni, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 25, 4:52 pm ET
SAO PAULO – A severe drought has dropped water levels on a major Amazon tributary to their lowest point since officials began keeping records more than a century ago, the government reported Monday, cutting off dozens of communities who depend on the river for work and transportation.
Floating homes along the Rio Negro now rest on muddy flats, and locals have had to modify boats to run in shallower waters in a region without roads. Some riverbanks have caved in, although no injuries have been reported. Enormous fields of trash and other debris have been revealed by the disappearing waters.
The drought is hurting fishing, cattle, agriculture and other businesses, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency in nearly 40 municipalities. Amazonas state officials said more than 60,000 families have been affected by the drought.
The government has distributed about 600 tons of food, water and medicine, much of it by helicopter to isolated villages.
"It is a difficult situation for the community," resident Josimar Peixoto told Globo TV. "The families are struggling here."
The government's geological service said Monday that the Rio Negro was measured at a depth of 13.63 meters (44.72 feet) the previous day near the jungle city of Manaus, the lowest since a measuring system was implemented in 1902.
Manaus, in northern Brazil, is where the Rio Negro is at its deepest and where it merges with the Amazon River — meaning some places upstream are nearly completely dry.
The previous low was 13.64 meters (44.75 feet), recorded in 1963.
An engineer and hydrology expert with the geological service said rains in remote parts of the Amazon will begin raising river levels, but it will take time for that water to reach Manaus.
"The water is expected to start rising again in about three to four weeks," Daniel Oliveira told The Associated Press.
In June 2009, the Rio Negro hit a record high of 29.71 meters (97.5 feet) near Manaus following months of heavy rains.
At that time, flooding across the Amazon basin left more than 400,000 homeless and killed more than 50 people. Those high waters caused the people now experiencing drought to build new, higher floors onto their stilt houses in an effort to escape the rising river.
Cycles of flooding and drought have been common in the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, but they have been more extreme recently, shifting from record floods to record drought in relatively short periods of time, experts say. Many suspect global warming could be driving the whipsaw changes.
A report last year from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which tracks weather patterns, stated that its weather models forecast "rising global temperatures because of ongoing greenhouse gas emissions" and "project a decrease in rainfall across much of Brazil due to warmer waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans causing changes in wind patterns across South America."
The document says the changes could affect Brazil's energy sector: More than 70 percent of the nation's energy comes from hydroelectric sources, which would be hurt by reduced rainfall.
___
Associated Press writer Bradley Brooks contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.
Drought has Amazon tributary at record low levels
By TALES AZZONI, Associated Press Writer Tales Azzoni, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 25, 4:52 pm ET
SAO PAULO – A severe drought has dropped water levels on a major Amazon tributary to their lowest point since officials began keeping records more than a century ago, the government reported Monday, cutting off dozens of communities who depend on the river for work and transportation.
Floating homes along the Rio Negro now rest on muddy flats, and locals have had to modify boats to run in shallower waters in a region without roads. Some riverbanks have caved in, although no injuries have been reported. Enormous fields of trash and other debris have been revealed by the disappearing waters.
The drought is hurting fishing, cattle, agriculture and other businesses, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency in nearly 40 municipalities. Amazonas state officials said more than 60,000 families have been affected by the drought.
The government has distributed about 600 tons of food, water and medicine, much of it by helicopter to isolated villages.
"It is a difficult situation for the community," resident Josimar Peixoto told Globo TV. "The families are struggling here."
The government's geological service said Monday that the Rio Negro was measured at a depth of 13.63 meters (44.72 feet) the previous day near the jungle city of Manaus, the lowest since a measuring system was implemented in 1902.
Manaus, in northern Brazil, is where the Rio Negro is at its deepest and where it merges with the Amazon River — meaning some places upstream are nearly completely dry.
The previous low was 13.64 meters (44.75 feet), recorded in 1963.
An engineer and hydrology expert with the geological service said rains in remote parts of the Amazon will begin raising river levels, but it will take time for that water to reach Manaus.
"The water is expected to start rising again in about three to four weeks," Daniel Oliveira told The Associated Press.
In June 2009, the Rio Negro hit a record high of 29.71 meters (97.5 feet) near Manaus following months of heavy rains.
At that time, flooding across the Amazon basin left more than 400,000 homeless and killed more than 50 people. Those high waters caused the people now experiencing drought to build new, higher floors onto their stilt houses in an effort to escape the rising river.
Cycles of flooding and drought have been common in the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, but they have been more extreme recently, shifting from record floods to record drought in relatively short periods of time, experts say. Many suspect global warming could be driving the whipsaw changes.
A report last year from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which tracks weather patterns, stated that its weather models forecast "rising global temperatures because of ongoing greenhouse gas emissions" and "project a decrease in rainfall across much of Brazil due to warmer waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans causing changes in wind patterns across South America."
The document says the changes could affect Brazil's energy sector: More than 70 percent of the nation's energy comes from hydroelectric sources, which would be hurt by reduced rainfall.
___
Associated Press writer Bradley Brooks contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.
Record floods in BRazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides
The April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides was an extreme weather event that has affected the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the first days of April 2010. At least 212 people have died,[1][2][3] 161 people have been injured (including several rescuers),[4] while at least 15,000 people have been made homeless.[5] A further 10,000 homes are thought to be at risk from mudslides, most of them in the favelas, the shanty towns built on the hillsides above downtowns.[6][7] Damage from the flooding has been estimated at 23.76 billion reais (US$13.3bn, €9.9bn), about 8% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Rio de Janeiro State.[8]
The flooding has particularly affected the city of Rio de Janeiro, where at least 60 people have died, and its surrounding area. Deaths have also been reported in the cities of Niterói (132), São Gonçalo (16), Paracambi (1), Paulo de Frontin (1), Magé (1), Nilópolis (1) and Petrópolis (1).[4][9] Several municipalities, including Niterói and municipalities to the east such as Maricá and Araruama, have declared states of emergency or of public calamity.[10] The Governor of Rio de Janeiro State, Sérgio Cabral, declared three days of official mourning for the dead.[10]
A resident of São Gonçalo stands in front of his destroyed house.
Heavy rain started at around 5 p.m. local time (2000 UTC) on Monday 5 April in Rio de Janeiro city, and continued for 24 hours, with a total of 28.8 cm (11½ in.) of rain falling,[9] more than was predicted for the whole of April[6] and the heaviest rainfall for thirty years.[7] Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes admitted that the city's preparedness for heavy rainfall had been "less than zero,"[9] but added "there isn’t a city that wouldn’t have had problems with this level of rainfall."[11]
A further landslide hit a slum in Niteroi late on April 7. It is thought to have killed at least 150, although the toll is expected to rise.[12] Around 200 people were missing in the town as of April 13.[1]
After nearly 300 landslides hit the area, the statue of Christ the Redeemer was cut off from traffic for the first time in history.[1]
More than 300 homes were bulldozed after the landslides, and it is estimated that close to 12,000 families will need to be relocated by 2012 due to the damage from the floods.
OR:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aL2aRWW7Tpk4&refer=latin_america
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Brazilian government stepped up rescue efforts in the southern state of Santa Catarina after four months of record rainfall caused landslides and floods that have killed at least 84 people.
The Defense Ministry sent helicopters and rescue teams to aid victims across the state, according to a government e-mail. The states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais also sent food, according to Santa Catarina’s Web site.
More than 1.5 million people have been affected by the floods and at least 54,000 had to leave their homes, according to a statement on the Web site. Eight towns are cut off because of the rain.
Santa Catarina has about 6 million residents spread over an area about the size of Ireland, according to the state’s Web site. Landslides have covered roads, cut electricity and gas supplies and buried people alive. The rain also damaged an extension of the Brazil-Bolivia gas pipeline that links Sao Paulo to the southern portion of the country.
Images on BandNews television channel showed landslides submerging houses, entire streets with water flowing and covering the entrances to homes, and rescue boats traveling down the river to help people.
Record Rainfall
Rainfall this month set a record in five major cities, according to Santa Catarina’s Center of Information for Environment and Hydrometeorology. Blumenau, one of the cities hardest hit, has had 878.4 millimeters (34.6 inches) of rain this month, a fivefold increase from the previous November record of 167.2 millimeters set in 2006.
The average rainfall in November in those towns is from 130 to 150 millimeters, according to the site. Brazil’s rainy season typically runs from October to April.
Damage to the pipeline interrupted natural gas shipments to at least five cities in the state, according to a statement by the state gas company, Companhia de Gas de Santa Catarina. It will take 21 days to repair a broken stretch of the pipeline in Belchior, Gaspar region, according to Santa Catarina’s Web site.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-controlled oil company, and Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Brasil-Bolivia began a contingency plan with two natural gas distributors in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul to deliver 30,000 cubic meters of gas per day, enough to supply homes, hospitals and businesses, according to the site.
To contact the reporter on this story: Laura Price in Sao Paulo at lprice3@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Adriana Arai in Sao Paulo at aarai1@bloomberg.net
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0513-amazon.html
OR:
Near-record flooding has displaced thousands of people in the Brazilian Amazon, reports the Associated Press.
Water levels at a measuring station on the Rio Negro in Manaus, the Amazon's largest city, stood just 74 centimeters (29 inches) below a record set in 1953. The flooding comes just five years after a severe drought that stranded river boats, isolated communities, and contributed to massive forest fires. Drought is currently affecting southern Brazil, reducing hydroelectric production and threatening agriculture.
Speaking on his weekly radio program Monday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said climate change could be responsible for the severe weather swings.
"Some things are changing in the world and we need to start looking at them with more attention," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Lula recently committed Brazil to reducing its deforestation rate 70 percent by 2018 from a 1996-2005 baseline in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Globally deforestation accounts for roughly 18 percent of emissions.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides
The April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides was an extreme weather event that has affected the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the first days of April 2010. At least 212 people have died,[1][2][3] 161 people have been injured (including several rescuers),[4] while at least 15,000 people have been made homeless.[5] A further 10,000 homes are thought to be at risk from mudslides, most of them in the favelas, the shanty towns built on the hillsides above downtowns.[6][7] Damage from the flooding has been estimated at 23.76 billion reais (US$13.3bn, €9.9bn), about 8% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Rio de Janeiro State.[8]
The flooding has particularly affected the city of Rio de Janeiro, where at least 60 people have died, and its surrounding area. Deaths have also been reported in the cities of Niterói (132), São Gonçalo (16), Paracambi (1), Paulo de Frontin (1), Magé (1), Nilópolis (1) and Petrópolis (1).[4][9] Several municipalities, including Niterói and municipalities to the east such as Maricá and Araruama, have declared states of emergency or of public calamity.[10] The Governor of Rio de Janeiro State, Sérgio Cabral, declared three days of official mourning for the dead.[10]
A resident of São Gonçalo stands in front of his destroyed house.
Heavy rain started at around 5 p.m. local time (2000 UTC) on Monday 5 April in Rio de Janeiro city, and continued for 24 hours, with a total of 28.8 cm (11½ in.) of rain falling,[9] more than was predicted for the whole of April[6] and the heaviest rainfall for thirty years.[7] Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes admitted that the city's preparedness for heavy rainfall had been "less than zero,"[9] but added "there isn’t a city that wouldn’t have had problems with this level of rainfall."[11]
A further landslide hit a slum in Niteroi late on April 7. It is thought to have killed at least 150, although the toll is expected to rise.[12] Around 200 people were missing in the town as of April 13.[1]
After nearly 300 landslides hit the area, the statue of Christ the Redeemer was cut off from traffic for the first time in history.[1]
More than 300 homes were bulldozed after the landslides, and it is estimated that close to 12,000 families will need to be relocated by 2012 due to the damage from the floods.
OR:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aL2aRWW7Tpk4&refer=latin_america
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Brazilian government stepped up rescue efforts in the southern state of Santa Catarina after four months of record rainfall caused landslides and floods that have killed at least 84 people.
The Defense Ministry sent helicopters and rescue teams to aid victims across the state, according to a government e-mail. The states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais also sent food, according to Santa Catarina’s Web site.
More than 1.5 million people have been affected by the floods and at least 54,000 had to leave their homes, according to a statement on the Web site. Eight towns are cut off because of the rain.
Santa Catarina has about 6 million residents spread over an area about the size of Ireland, according to the state’s Web site. Landslides have covered roads, cut electricity and gas supplies and buried people alive. The rain also damaged an extension of the Brazil-Bolivia gas pipeline that links Sao Paulo to the southern portion of the country.
Images on BandNews television channel showed landslides submerging houses, entire streets with water flowing and covering the entrances to homes, and rescue boats traveling down the river to help people.
Record Rainfall
Rainfall this month set a record in five major cities, according to Santa Catarina’s Center of Information for Environment and Hydrometeorology. Blumenau, one of the cities hardest hit, has had 878.4 millimeters (34.6 inches) of rain this month, a fivefold increase from the previous November record of 167.2 millimeters set in 2006.
The average rainfall in November in those towns is from 130 to 150 millimeters, according to the site. Brazil’s rainy season typically runs from October to April.
Damage to the pipeline interrupted natural gas shipments to at least five cities in the state, according to a statement by the state gas company, Companhia de Gas de Santa Catarina. It will take 21 days to repair a broken stretch of the pipeline in Belchior, Gaspar region, according to Santa Catarina’s Web site.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-controlled oil company, and Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Brasil-Bolivia began a contingency plan with two natural gas distributors in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul to deliver 30,000 cubic meters of gas per day, enough to supply homes, hospitals and businesses, according to the site.
To contact the reporter on this story: Laura Price in Sao Paulo at lprice3@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Adriana Arai in Sao Paulo at aarai1@bloomberg.net
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0513-amazon.html
OR:
Near-record flooding has displaced thousands of people in the Brazilian Amazon, reports the Associated Press.
Water levels at a measuring station on the Rio Negro in Manaus, the Amazon's largest city, stood just 74 centimeters (29 inches) below a record set in 1953. The flooding comes just five years after a severe drought that stranded river boats, isolated communities, and contributed to massive forest fires. Drought is currently affecting southern Brazil, reducing hydroelectric production and threatening agriculture.
Speaking on his weekly radio program Monday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said climate change could be responsible for the severe weather swings.
"Some things are changing in the world and we need to start looking at them with more attention," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Lula recently committed Brazil to reducing its deforestation rate 70 percent by 2018 from a 1996-2005 baseline in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Globally deforestation accounts for roughly 18 percent of emissions.....
@ Dogofwar
look what you did...
You cut and pasted an article that had hard information. You linked to your source and in your article the author cited his sources. This is perfectly acceptable for a forum post and is the correct way to write a magazine article.
HB did exactly the opposite in his article, no figures except gross exaggerations, no sources except newspapers and no links to anything. Just anecdotes about a place that he is banned from visiting , and inaccurate and uninformed anecdotes at that. He is reporting on other peoples' reporting. Obviously he doesn't even fact-check anything he writes.
That is the epitome of junk reporting.
If he wants to preach in a paid magazine article then he needs to be held to a much higher standard than an average forum poster! If he makes a claim he needs to support that claim. You expect me to provide my sources but not him? I am not the one who is getting paid to write, he is!
There are no personal attacks on Bleher in anything I wrote. They are (sic) professional attacks on his so called 'research' with my associated reasoning.
If his articles can't stand a little criticism then they are even weaker than I thought. Certainly his recent articles on Stingrays were also mostly nonsense that showed he had little subject knowledge.
Anyway, I think I made my point .
look what you did...
You cut and pasted an article that had hard information. You linked to your source and in your article the author cited his sources. This is perfectly acceptable for a forum post and is the correct way to write a magazine article.
HB did exactly the opposite in his article, no figures except gross exaggerations, no sources except newspapers and no links to anything. Just anecdotes about a place that he is banned from visiting , and inaccurate and uninformed anecdotes at that. He is reporting on other peoples' reporting. Obviously he doesn't even fact-check anything he writes.
That is the epitome of junk reporting.
If he wants to preach in a paid magazine article then he needs to be held to a much higher standard than an average forum poster! If he makes a claim he needs to support that claim. You expect me to provide my sources but not him? I am not the one who is getting paid to write, he is!
There are no personal attacks on Bleher in anything I wrote. They are (sic) professional attacks on his so called 'research' with my associated reasoning.
If his articles can't stand a little criticism then they are even weaker than I thought. Certainly his recent articles on Stingrays were also mostly nonsense that showed he had little subject knowledge.
Anyway, I think I made my point .
Hi guys and happy and a very healthy New Year to all of you,
I just see this thread continued after my last post. And what I see is the reason why I do not come back to this forum anymore (and a couple of others), where Mr. DavidW or Wildthing, or whatever other name he uses (but never his entire correct name) all he does is criticise my work. But so far I have not seen anything constructive and informative from him. He must be damn jealous to always and everywhere criticise my work. Even my articles in PFK (3 every single month), which are the best - that is what its readers say, not me. And everyone seem to like them (those are the comments I get), but DadivW has to criticise them. I do not know of anyone else in the world.
If I look at his photo placed, already I (and I think anyone) already understand his character, underlined by his false names everywhere and by diverting from the thread and facts, just to attack me... It seems he has nothing else to do.
If anyone steels than you can see he has taken a photo from my website, which is copyright stated and he stool it. The photo from the Guardian had no copyright restrictions and unfortunately the editor of PFK has placed my name below, I have not told them. No place in the text and elsewhere I state to have taken that photo. But everything I wrote are facts, not only verified by me personally, but also people who live in Amazonia, in Manaus, Iquitos, Leticia. Fonte Boa, Santarém, Barcelos, etc. with whom I am in contact every week. (Maybe some of you do not know that I was partly raised in Brazil.) But my text was not only on the Greatest Amazon Disaster (which it was, and still two days again the water has not gone up very much, although now it should have reached the highest point in the upper Amazon and no one finds fish, because it is still dry...), I wrote about my encounters in other parts of the world, where I found every year less water. And that there are tremendous floods, no one argues, just now in Australia, my friend called me from Brisbane, the city is under water...
To CLD Darnell, I want to thank you for your support;
To Miguel also, for correcting one of his many false arguments (ie Mato Grosso and I will not go into the others, just wasted time);
To Mr. Cichlid 2006, I wanted to congratulate him for having judged me. I guess from what you write, you are a judge and did give this judgement "That I am a criminal" in a court. Unfortunately I was not asked to appear for your judgment. And to my knowledge one can only be a criminal if he is condemned or sentenced. I have never ever in my entire live been judged, in no court (except maybe yours), and no sentence have passed on to me. I have no criminal record whatsoever. The case in Manaus, everything can be read about it on my website under "Special Events", is an existing accusation by the PF of Manaus, standing, and no hearing has taken place, no request of any judge for us (my wife and me) to come to court. It is an accusation without any base, as I never ever had any genetic material. (And I am sure that the judge knows this false accusation to well and therefore will never ask for a hearing and much less judging.
But Mr. Cichlid 2006, you have condemned me, please send me the court order and the judgement, so I can see it at least...
And for Mr. DavidW, or whatever name you want to use, I have given you full credit in my new book, Bleher's Discus volume 2, which should come out in spring. I do not have anything against you and still do not understand what you have against me, except for just being jealous and not having done a fraction of what I have done and ma doing all my live. And hopefully for the benefit of many, I wish you would do at least something in that direction. But I guess you never will, and will argue again. But I will not waste my time on this thread anymore. Live is to short for so much none sense and false (jealous) accusations.
Still thanks again for those who see the world as it is, and for your support
Always
Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com
www.aqua-aquapress.com
I just see this thread continued after my last post. And what I see is the reason why I do not come back to this forum anymore (and a couple of others), where Mr. DavidW or Wildthing, or whatever other name he uses (but never his entire correct name) all he does is criticise my work. But so far I have not seen anything constructive and informative from him. He must be damn jealous to always and everywhere criticise my work. Even my articles in PFK (3 every single month), which are the best - that is what its readers say, not me. And everyone seem to like them (those are the comments I get), but DadivW has to criticise them. I do not know of anyone else in the world.
If I look at his photo placed, already I (and I think anyone) already understand his character, underlined by his false names everywhere and by diverting from the thread and facts, just to attack me... It seems he has nothing else to do.
If anyone steels than you can see he has taken a photo from my website, which is copyright stated and he stool it. The photo from the Guardian had no copyright restrictions and unfortunately the editor of PFK has placed my name below, I have not told them. No place in the text and elsewhere I state to have taken that photo. But everything I wrote are facts, not only verified by me personally, but also people who live in Amazonia, in Manaus, Iquitos, Leticia. Fonte Boa, Santarém, Barcelos, etc. with whom I am in contact every week. (Maybe some of you do not know that I was partly raised in Brazil.) But my text was not only on the Greatest Amazon Disaster (which it was, and still two days again the water has not gone up very much, although now it should have reached the highest point in the upper Amazon and no one finds fish, because it is still dry...), I wrote about my encounters in other parts of the world, where I found every year less water. And that there are tremendous floods, no one argues, just now in Australia, my friend called me from Brisbane, the city is under water...
To CLD Darnell, I want to thank you for your support;
To Miguel also, for correcting one of his many false arguments (ie Mato Grosso and I will not go into the others, just wasted time);
To Mr. Cichlid 2006, I wanted to congratulate him for having judged me. I guess from what you write, you are a judge and did give this judgement "That I am a criminal" in a court. Unfortunately I was not asked to appear for your judgment. And to my knowledge one can only be a criminal if he is condemned or sentenced. I have never ever in my entire live been judged, in no court (except maybe yours), and no sentence have passed on to me. I have no criminal record whatsoever. The case in Manaus, everything can be read about it on my website under "Special Events", is an existing accusation by the PF of Manaus, standing, and no hearing has taken place, no request of any judge for us (my wife and me) to come to court. It is an accusation without any base, as I never ever had any genetic material. (And I am sure that the judge knows this false accusation to well and therefore will never ask for a hearing and much less judging.
But Mr. Cichlid 2006, you have condemned me, please send me the court order and the judgement, so I can see it at least...
And for Mr. DavidW, or whatever name you want to use, I have given you full credit in my new book, Bleher's Discus volume 2, which should come out in spring. I do not have anything against you and still do not understand what you have against me, except for just being jealous and not having done a fraction of what I have done and ma doing all my live. And hopefully for the benefit of many, I wish you would do at least something in that direction. But I guess you never will, and will argue again. But I will not waste my time on this thread anymore. Live is to short for so much none sense and false (jealous) accusations.
Still thanks again for those who see the world as it is, and for your support
Always
Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com
www.aqua-aquapress.com
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