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enhanced_deficit
09-17-2013, 10:27 PM
Brazil's president, angry about spying, cancels state visit to U.S. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff calls off visit to Washington in the latest fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks affair.
By Kathleen Hennessey and Vincent Bevins September 17, 2013, 5:57 p.m.

WASHINGTON — In the latest fallout from the Edward Snowden (http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/crime/edward-snowden-PEOCVC000306.topic) affair, the president of Brazil canceled a state visit to Washington out of anger that the National Security Agency had spied on her and other Brazilian officials, deepening a rift with the Obama administration.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday called off the high-profile visit that both governments had planned for Oct. 23. A White House spokesman sought to downplay the diplomatic snub by a key ally and trading partner, and described the decision to indefinitely postpone the visit as mutual.
The White House said in a statement that Rousseff and President Obama had agreed that the state visit — an elaborate affair with meetings and a formal dinner with toasts — would be better staged when relations between the two nations were less tense.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-snowden-fallout-20130918,0,755350.story


Be interesting to see how nT responds to this.

HOLLYWOOD
09-17-2013, 10:30 PM
That's odd...


All the Main Stream Media corporate TV news are reporting this as, "U.S. and Brazil agree to cancel meeting, will reschedule visit"


I guess ALL of media didn't get the memo.

RickyJ
09-17-2013, 10:50 PM
Will the USA soon be the world's most hated nation, or is it already? Oh, forget that, I forgot about Israel for a second there, no nation will ever be more hated than Israel.

enhanced_deficit
09-17-2013, 10:58 PM
Will the USA soon be the world's most hated nation, or is it already? Oh, forget that, I forgot about Israel for a second there, no nation will ever be more hated than Israel.

This news is from sometime after Iraq invasion:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42645000/gif/_42645135_country_influ_gra203.gif (http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=A9crqBRZN_YK0M&tbnid=r-_65G10HzMmTM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2F6421597 .stm&ei=hjI5UvGUMYWE9gTT7ICYCw&bvm=bv.52288139,d.eWU&psig=AFQjCNFk88mDAVdO5OFq4OyW2v-hZA2wjA&ust=1379566573994180)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6421597.stm

ClydeCoulter
09-17-2013, 11:10 PM
That's odd...


All the Main Stream Media corporate TV news are reporting this as, "U.S. and Brazil agree to cancel meeting, will reschedule visit"


I guess ALL of media didn't get the memo.

They don't read memo's, just teleprompters, unless the memo is from the head chief about talking points.

ClydeCoulter
09-17-2013, 11:11 PM
Are we to become the next Nazi Germany in the not so distant future?

Zippyjuan
09-18-2013, 12:07 AM
She was shocked. Shocked. To learn that goverments spy on each other. Unheard of. :rolleyes:

Occam's Banana
09-18-2013, 12:33 AM
She was shocked. Shocked. To learn that goverments spy on each other. Unheard of. :rolleyes:

I am shocked. Shocked. To learn that politicians are hypocritical posturers. Unheard of. :rolleyes::p

JK/SEA
09-18-2013, 08:34 AM
must be hiding something....

Snew
09-18-2013, 08:52 AM
Ha!

tod evans
09-18-2013, 08:57 AM
Are we to become the next Nazi Germany in the not so distant future?

Ummmm,

I believe we as a nation have left the idiots alone on the hill for too long, and at this point we're as bad, moving toward worse than, WW2 Germany....

HOLLYWOOD
09-24-2013, 08:57 AM
AN Update, which most didn't hear about from MSM corporate media


At U.N., Brazil's Rousseff blasts U.S. spying as 'meddling'

http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130924&t=2&i=796924512&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=CBRE98N145T00 (http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow/idUSBRE98N0OJ20130924#a=1)
http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130924&t=2&i=796925025&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=CBRE98N145W00 (http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow/idUSBRE98N0OJ20130924#a=3)

By Daniel Trotta
UNITED NATIONS | Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:34am EDT

(Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday criticized the United States for spying, using the opening speech at the U.N. General Assembly to announce Brazil (http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil) would adopt legislation and technology to protect it from illegal interception of communications.
Rousseff last week called off a high-profile state visit to the United States scheduled for October over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency had been spying on Brazil and Rousseff's email.

After opening with diplomatic pleasantries and a condemnation of the shopping mall attack in Kenya, Rousseff launched into a blistering attack on U.S. spying, calling espionage among friendly nations "totally unacceptable."
"Meddling in such a manner in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and, as such, it is an affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations among countries, especially among friendly nations," Rousseff told the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.

U.S. President Barack Obama was en route to the United Nations while Rousseff spoke. He then followed Rousseff on the podium as the first and second national leaders to address the General Assembly.
Postponing the state visit, which as to have included a dinner at the White House, was a rare and diplomatically severe snub by Brazil. No new date has been set.

The report by Brazil Globo's news program Fantastico on National Security Agency spying was based on documents that journalist Glenn Greenwald obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, was one of the journalists to first report Snowden's leaks of classified information on previously secret U.S. telephone and internet surveillance efforts.
Rousseff's state visit was conceived to highlight cooperation between the two biggest economies in the Americas and Brazil's emergence over the past decade as a regional power.

Rousseff said Brazil will adopt legislation and technology to protect it from illegal interception of communications.

tod evans
09-24-2013, 09:04 AM
Hat tip to Rousseff.

enhanced_deficit
09-24-2013, 02:14 PM
AN Update, which most didn't hear about from MSM corporate media

No wonder MSM is not talking about it.

Snew
09-24-2013, 02:15 PM
Props to Brazil!