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2019.1.25...Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing Chance of finding survivors ‘minimal’ after tailings dam at iron ore mine bursts Dom Phillips in Pacaraima @domphillips Sat 26 Jan 2019 13.31 GMT First published on Fri 25 Jan 2019 19.51 GMT Shares 38.010 1:05 Aftermath of deadly dam collapse in Brazil – video report Ten bodies have been found and more than 400 people are unaccounted for after a dam operated by the mining firm Vale collapsed in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, releasing a wave of red iron ore waste and raising fears of widespread contamination. The fire chief Col Edgar Estevão said 100 people had been rescued from the sea of mud released by the dam, according to the G1 news site. Firefighters said they had recovered 10 bodies by Saturday afternoon. Rescue workers search for victims after the collapse of the Brumadinho dam Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rescue workers search for victims after the collapse of the Brumadinho dam Photograph: Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images Vale released a list of 412 employees and contractors who were missing. The document lists 412 names of people whom it had been unable to contact and who may be victims of the mudslide. The fire brigade estimated that 300-350 people were missing. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, visited Minas Gerais and flew over the disaster area on Saturday, after dispatching three ministers there on Friday. The state governor, Romeu Zema, said on Friday he did not expect many survivors. “We know now that the chances of having survivors are minimal and that we will probably rescue bodies,” he said. Advertisement Brazilian television showed images of survivors being winched to safety by a helicopter after the disaster at the Feijão mine near Brumadinho, less than two hours from the state capital, Belo Horizonte. As videos and photos of the destruction wrought by the torrent of mud appeared on social media, enraged Brazilians demanded punishment for anyone responsible. The incident comes less than four years after another tailings dam collapsed in Minas Gerais, killing 19 people in what was Brazil’s worst environmental disaster. That dam was operated by Samarco, which at the time of the disaster was jointly owned by Vale and the Anglo-Australian mining firm BHP Billiton. Vale’s chief executive, Fabio Schvartsman, said on Friday that one dam containing iron ore waste – known as tailings – had failed and another overflowed. Brazil’s environment ministry had earlier said three dams were involved in the disaster. “Most of those affected were Vale employees,” he said. “I’m completely torn apart by what happened.” The wreckage of a car and a house are seen a day after the collapse of a dam at a mine belonging to Brazil’s giant mining company Vale. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The wreckage of a car and a house are seen a day after the collapse of a dam at a mine belonging to Brazil’s giant mining company Vale. Photograph: Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images Among those missing were 100 mine workers who were having lunch in an administrative area when it was hit by a torrent of sludge and water, said a fire brigade spokesman, Lt Pedro Aihara. Brazil dam disaster: firm knew of potential impact months in advance Read more Advertisement “Our main worry now is to quickly find out where the missing people are,” Aihara said on the GloboNews cable television channel. He later told TV Record that the Pousada Nova Estância hotel had been swept away along with 38 staff and guests. Set in rolling countryside, the town of Brumadinho has dozens of guesthouses for tourists visiting the nearby Inhotim outdoor art complex but is also a home for mine workers. Local media said Inhotim, which attracts visitors from all over the world, had been evacuated but was not affected. “The mud still has not reached the town. The mud formed a barrier stopping the river and the town is on alert about what could happen,” said Bernadete Parreiras, owner of the Pousada Lafevi guesthouse near Brumadinho’s centre. “Everyone is in panic, people disappeared, many friends, many family, many people from the town have disappeared … I don’t have words to express the feeling in the town and what people are suffering.” A collapsed bridge caused by flooding triggered by the dam collapse. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A collapsed bridge caused by flooding triggered by the dam collapse. Photograph: Bruno Correia/AP The company said in a statement it had made 40 ambulances and a helicopter available for rescue work. It said the 86-metre (280ft) dam, built in 1976, held 11.7m litres of mining waste and had condition-of-stability declarations from an international company called TÜV SÜD. It was no longer in operation, was regularly inspected and was being decommissioned, the company said. But Vale was trying to increase capacity in the mine complex where the dam was located and at another nearby mine, according to the Intercept Brasil, which highlighted a report by the National Civil Society Forum for Hydrographic Basins, a network of civil society groups, that had urged the authorities not to grant the licence. Advertisement Brazil’s ministry of the environment said it had set up a crisis cabinet and that the environment minister, Ricardo Salles, and Eduardo Bim, head of the ministry’s environment agency Ibama, were heading to the scene.

IN THE MEANTIME, THE MAN BEHIND THE LATIN CHAOS, STEVE BANON, MAY FACE ARREST. HE MADE MILLIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
🔺INTERESTING FACT: THIS MAY BE THE FIRST MILITIA SPEARHEADED BY A JUDGE SINCE 1794.

Steve Bannon is Trump official cited in Stone indictment: Reports

by Diana Stancy Correll

 | January 25, 2019 09:45 AM

 

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The “high-ranking Trump campaign official” referenced in Trump associate Roger Stone’s indictment is former White House chief strategist and Trump campaign chief executive Steve Bannon, according to two new reports.

Stone was arrested Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and has been indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller on seven counts. The charges include one count of obstruction, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.

According to the indictment, an unnamed Trump campaign official instructed Stone to learn about which emails WikiLeaks possessed that could contain damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Bannon is the unnamed official referenced, according to reports by CNBC and Bloomberg, each of which cited one unnamed source.

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The 24-page indictment outlines that the Trump campaign official contacted Stone about “future releases by Organization 1,” a reference to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

“On or about October 4, 2016, the head of Organization 1 held a press conference but did not release any new materials pertaining to the Clinton Campaign,” the indictment reads. “Shortly afterwards, STONE received an email from the high-ranking Trump Campaign official asking about the status of future releases by Organization 1. STONE answered that the head of Organization 1 had a ‘[s]erious security concern’ but that Organization 1 would release ‘a load every week going forward.’”

That email matches one published by the New York Times in which Stone was communicating with Bannon.

The indictment says that the campaign official was directed by the Trump campaign to contact Stone about the matter, after WikiLeaks released a batch of emails in July from the Democratic National Committee. WikiLeaks later released other documents between October 2016 to November 2016, including emails from the DNC and Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta.

Stone has denied he was involved with any wrongdoing, but has also said on multiple occasions he was expecting to be charged.

The U.S. intelligence community concluded with "high confidence" in 2017 that WikiLeaks was used by Russian intelligence to publish information to help elect President Trump. WikiLeaks has denied this was the case.