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President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "The Guardian reports that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country's strategic industries. 'Personal data of citizens was intercepted indiscriminately. Corporate information – often of high economic and even strategic value – was at the center of espionage activity,' said Rousseff. 'Brazilian diplomatic missions, among them the permanent mission to the UN and the office of the president of the republic itself, had their communications intercepted.' Rousseff's angry speech was a direct challenge to President Barack Obama, who was waiting in the wings to deliver his own address to the UN general assembly, and represented the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Washington's efforts to smooth over Brazilian outrage over NSA espionage have so far been rebuffed by Rousseff, who has proposed that Brazil build its own internet infrastructure. 'Friendly governments and societies that seek to build a true strategic partnership, as in our case, cannot allow recurring illegal actions to take place as if they were normal. They are unacceptable.'"
Enough said.
I can't wait until Bush is no longer president so all these foreign countries no longer hate the US. Between Iran stil enriching uranium, Syria using chemical weapons daring us to do something, Russia ridiculing the US, and now Brazil making this speech the standing of the US in world view is at an all time low point.
Whats that? Bush isn't president and the DNC has the White House. Nevermind, all of this is acceptable as long as a Democrat is running things.
Carry on.
Commendable, but ultimately wishful thinking unfortunately.
The NSA will just tap the underwater cables or enlist the "help" of technicians at the Brazil data exchanges to split the data feeds. When the adversary has this much money and next to no scruples, the battle is difficult if not impossible.
You know when their lips are moving that they must be lying. This is not significant, nor fallout. This is merely another sociopath talking. No different than Bush or Obama or Merkel or Putin.
represented the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
Really, "the most serious diplomatic fallout" was a (justifiably) angry speech?
How about when Vladimir "Polonium 209" Putin suddenly became the world's defender of human rights? Or how about when the US and EU countries grounded Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, so they could search his plane for Snowden (a rough equivalent here would be the Chinese stopping and searching Air Force One)?
Rousseff is almost definitely speaking for more than just Brazil: Her government is the strongest of a group of left-wing South American countries that have resisted the US for about a decade. Others in that group include Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and of course Cuba.
I am officially gone from
Brazil has a lot of things going for it ... but the moral high-ground one of those things. Brazil isn't exactly spotless when it comes to human rights abuse. Sure, it's not wide-spread mass surveillance, it's just regular police state concerns (non-existent rights for both the accused and the convicted, and systemic government corruption), though they're not doing so hot in promoting equality (or addressing their widening income gap and widespread poverty).
But hey, they're not wrong, and that doesn't excuse what the NSA is doing. Has done. Is accused of doing.
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
Obama is weak and ineffective -- and the whole world knows this.
The US regime really must prosecute those who were responsible for this criminal activity.
Spying on people is the act of a criminal and totalitarian regime, and is incompatible with democracy.
Washington's efforts to smooth over Brazilian outrage over NSA espionage have so far been rebuffed by Rousseff
Yeah, talk me more about those "Washington Efforts"...
Obama with a poker face: Well we spy on you to protect the world against Terrorism
Dilma: So I was suspected of terrorism, even if I was the candidate for the ruling party of an country without conflicts with the US.
Obama: But with terror...
Dilma: And If I was suspected of terrorism, the why did you spy on our major petrol company...
Obama: Err terror...
Dilma: Fuck-You.
accusing the NSA of violating international law by [...]
And the rest of the world, doesn't care what is the NSA, for us it's the US that's spying, so no she accused the the US...
What about the super secret nuclear plant at Recende which even the normally craven IAEA says is bizarrely inaccessible? What about Brazil's SNI and ABIN intelligence agencies which are literally only answerable to the person of the President and even that only nominally and that they had been caught wiretapping every single person in the Federal government in 2008?
and this will stop the devil from taking over your new Internet?
hahahhaahahahaaaa
Brazil should embrace their new NSA overlords.
Brazil has a lot of things going for it ... but the moral high-ground one of those things. Brazil isn't exactly spotless when it comes to human rights abuse. Sure, it's not wide-spread mass surveillance, it's just regular police state concerns (non-existent rights for both the accused and the convicted, and systemic government corruption), though they're not doing so hot in promoting equality (or addressing their widening income gap and widespread poverty).
But hey, they're not wrong, and that doesn't excuse what the NSA is doing. Has done. Is accused of doing.
She's blowing all this steam and yet they refused asylum for Snowden.
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the near future two main issues are : " Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the Arab-Israeli conflict ".
So that's cool, both problems have their roots in the 1920th and not looking close to any sort of solution, Iran can transform their nuclear industry into a chocolate factory as long as they do not give their petrol for "real cheap" absence of proof not being proof of absence it can still serve as a bogey man (and they do enough creepy stuff inside to make it hard for them to be really "liked"), and the end of the Arab Israeli conflict can only be solved in three ways,
- decide that palestine is all arab (and muslim)
- decide that israel is all isrealy (and jewish)
- decide that this vaguely federal country to be named is a democratic country with people of various ethnic and religious back ground who need to live together and the only way this can happen is to totally extirpate any reference to any specific religion, ethnic origin or "nation".
Choice one and two would mean lots of dead people, choice three would be seen as a "bad example" for the neighbours and protectors...
So Obama ignored the issue, and is just doing a "domestic" pitch for "more money to the war mongers ..."
And of course a "think of the children" in syria is a brillant way to distract attention, the "chemical weapon" issue is a total red hering, it is just something that can justify doing nothing while vaguely pretending to do something. ...)
What the F*ck does it matter if you are pounded by mustard gaz or large amounts of bombs (except that chemical weapons are somewhat lower tech than "conventional" weapons, so the risk of doing them "at home" is higher and it makes the was less profitable for the foreign weapon makers, how positively tragic
Of course we are completely clueless about what we could possible do, the intervention in Libya for instance has just replaced one mean and cruel dictator with a dozen mean little would be dictators...
In reality the US lost all wars in the middle east when they agreed to let Irak introduce religion in their constitution, at that very point it demonstrated that democracy was dead in Irak and not even remotely the goal of the US occupation.
(And no it is not the specific type of religion that is at the issue, but the simple fact that something written/revealed/produced/inspired (take your pick) a long time ago would now be a base that cannot be deviated from for all future elected people's representatives....)
We must spy on terrorist nations like Brazil which threaten the world with 140F temperatures by cutting down rainforest. Al Gore said so.
I would much, much rather see Washington DC pay a very high, very personal price for their rampant criminality and violations of the Constitution, as in all of them swinging from the trees that line the national mall and DC itself burnt to the ground with large letters scored in the ground with a bulldozer that say, 'Don't Tread On Me! ---The American People"
An angry speech by the president of Brazil is nice, but there need to be real consequences for these criminals.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Brazil is about to buy some 36 advanced fighter jets. The three short-listed candidates were Dassault Rafale from France, SAAB Gripen from Sweden and the Boeing-Northrop Super Hornet from the USA. The NSA-Roussef scandal essentially negated the F-18's chances to win the tender worth many billions. Now the race is only about good political relations (Rafale) versus lower price with higher economic offsets (Gripen). Boeing's workforce must be grateful for the NSA's efforts in protecting american jobs...
The policy of saying "If it was anyone else than USA it would be worse" is simply ridiculous. Or even to mention concerns about terrorism to justify such spying.
As many are forgetting, let's summarize the real reason for such anger: industrial spying (towards Petrobras, Brazil's biggest company) and spying over a government with more than a century of friendly relations.
The article points this as well: "As host to the UN headquarters, the US has been attacked from the general assembly many times in the past, but what made Rousseff's denunciation all the more painful diplomatically was the fact that it was delivered on behalf of large, increasingly powerful and historically friendly state."
Let me tell all of you from outside the U.S. that our government's excuse "hey, we're only spying on foreigners, not Americans" would be disgusting even if it weren't a pack of lies.
FUCK the US. I'm storing popcorn so I can watch their Empire crumble in this lifetime, and Imma enjoy it.
Until the rep/dem ruling party is voted out, all this chatter won't amount to hill of beans. American voters are responsible for this, but they all have their eyes set on Grand Theft iPhone...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Excuse me, but the NSA's fucking job is spying. Every country spies. It's part of one of those things governments are supposed to do.
The REAL "rulers" are the wealthy, & what keeps them the MOST wealthy? Heck - the MOST PROFITABLE INVESTMENT THERE IS: War! It's what the "Eisenhower Military Industrial Complex" THRIVES on... via YOUR TAXES!
* You have something they need/want? They make YOU "the enemy" to justify going after that 'something' they want/need... for "freedom" (whose freedom & what kind? Financial FREEDOM for the war profiteers is what!).
It's so damned obvious, they can't HIDE THAT anymore...
APK
P.S.=> This shit is just outright plain-jane insane, all of it... apk
Brazil is gonna go build their own internet. And get the fuck off the one used by the rest of the world?
Make it mandatory for your citizens to stay off the rest of the worlds internet too brazil!
Oh please let this happen. Global douche levels online will drop so hard.
Unfortunatly i think this is just more bullshit from a brazilian... Big empty talk from a country of douchebags.
I'm sure Brazil doesn't conduct any espionage on its neighbors . . .I'm sure it just takes them all at their word.
Diplomatic fallout?!?
"the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden"
Seriously? The problem is that Snowden revealed the spying, rather than the fact the NSA was spying via a dragnet in the first place?
Isn't this kind of like blaming the person who outs the pedophile for all the outrage against the pedophile?
The US has two main fears historically emerging from a Brazil like country:
Exports outside the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar with countries like Japan, China - totally removing the need for any use of US currency.
The formation of views such as a new http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement locking up strategic materials and demanding market value.
The CIA and NSA never want the US to lose control of their vision of soft dollar loans. Long term the loans get repaid with interest or the sale of local assets back to US entities by emerging countries.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
across the USA, Europe, Africa, and countries in the Middle East. They are very, very good at keeping it quiet. However, to do it with the effect their leadership wants usually requires electronic communication. That's what the NSA and its European counterparts realize.
Which particular law did the the lady have in mind?
Spying on other countries is what all countries do — to the best of their abilities. Perhaps, Brazil's abilities aren't a match for those of the US — and not just in the field of spying. I can see, how the resulting jealousy — among politicians and ordinary citizens alike — can lead to some fiery speeches, but the audience better remember, there is nothing the US has done, that any other country wouldn't have, if only it were able to.
Now, spying on one's own citizens — that's bad. But that's not a matter for international law, is it?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
When looking at contracts, in many cases a good test of fairness is to swap the names on the contracts and see if both parties are still happy. I think this test would work well here as well:
United States president, Barack Obama, has launched a blistering attack on Brazilian espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the ABIN of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of US citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country's strategic industries.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me
Okay, you guys don't get this Internet thing. The Internet is a collection of private and public networks all connected together in a massive mesh.
You already own your own infrastructure. You already have your own Internet. If the US is spying on you in your own country, its because you're letting them by using US services and providing data to the NSA yourself. If your country laid a pipe to the US data centers for back feeding that data, its most certainly YOUR problem. There is absolutely no dependency on the US that you don't create yourself. The only possibly one you have is for .com/net/org/edu ... and thats already solved by .... .br and the fact that the US doesn't actually control all the root zone servers for DNS.
Drop routes containing AS numbers assigned to US companies, find the various AS numbers used by spy agencies located outside the US and drop those routes as well. Turn off any direct connections to the US. Problem solved. This isn't even a little bit difficult. Hell, I shut off countries selectively on a regular basis within my own Internet within my organizations departments. (Looking at you China), its trivial at the border routers.
This 'speech' is a posturing crock of shit. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is just like all the countries in the middle east that tell us how much we suck for doing things like Afghanistan and Iraq, or our treatment of North Korea, Syria and Iran publicly ... while privately begging us to blow those countries off the face of the Earth for them.
And whats really sad, at the time I'm writing this, it appears no one on slashdot understands how the Internet works either as all the posts seem to think that the US controls networks in other countries through some sort of magic.
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Because the rest of the world is getting tired of putting up with your shit.
Your security doesn't trump our sovereignty.
there wasn't one major headline about this from a major US news source. Instead it was all about Iran. Our news media sucks.
is probably run by the same people that run the central bank - The Goldman Sachs, Meryl Lynch et. al. cartel hellbent on looting and pillaging the west to inflate the value of China who they invest everything in it seems these days. I guess they want people who are kind of racist against white people or non han, north east Asian generally to rule the world. It's the kind of anti-logic anti-morality one should indeed expect from a psychopath as these people apparently are.
Bye my kin sob sob. my victim complex. I can't help feeling it's some kind of master stroke by the East - get control of Americas's private banks, find a way to privatise the federal reserve, and then give themselves all the bounty. Or maybe Japan never intended to win WW II. They just wanted to galvanise a good victim complex to keep their people fighting and insecure of the knowledge of their supremacy so in the end they would be the only viable part of the world, responsibly run. It matters not - the West (most of her people) get boned whatever way u look at it. Also, that's one of the smartest thing a country could do if it got the upper hand over another. Convince its own people to smile and bow to the others and pretend they're inferior. All the while the other side is emboldened in the false belief that they won something and become increasingly lazy, and ignorant of whats going on around them. Then again, I sometimes feel that because I have to type everything with an s now instead of a z like organisation vs organization that British English and the crown took back full control of America. It's 'an' hospital now not a hospital. Or maybe Britain in turn got controlled by China. I have no idea, but it's certainly crazy and obfuscated enough so that I'll never truly understand. All I know is that the big buzz word with these people (at least was) is China and the century of China. So who runs China - can't help but feel China is the next America - an international cartel posing as a country...
I don't see anybody calling the Syrian insurgency "terrorists", or not calling North Korea "terrorist".
You can't play the terrorist card whenever 'X' attacks 'Y', and 'X' isn't part of a government... 'terrorism' it has a very specific definition.
The funny thing is that in these latitudes, we take the reverse point of view, the de facto governments are being judged for terrorism or what they did to combat that insurgences... governments that were not only allies, but also were promoted by the US.
Obama: Be cool with this and we'll provide you with enough data to stay in office as long as you like. If you want a career change, we can help you with investment information too.
Dilma: Sounds good. Give me a couple of months to gracefully tie up the rhetoric.
Obama: Sure thing.
It makes no sense for the Brazilians or anyone else to go on whining about this. People who were too stupid to protect their own data got spied upon, thats all. If anything, it means that the US of 4'n A is an enemy of the rest of the world and should be treated as such.
It's not as easy as removing routes on the technical level when so many economic services rely on it, it's about removing that that economic dependency, that's a lot more difficult.
I used to live there until Lula came into power. Trust me, the Brazilian govt is watching you AND is doing international espionage. Oh, and maybe they can get something other than the same 4 cars doing surveillance on the US consulate in Recife.
Frankly, I find this disturbing that her speech was not mentioned AT ALL. Only Iran and Israel. Nothing to see here folks, move along now. Look the other way.
I don't see anybody calling the Syrian insurgency "terrorists"
I certainly do.
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Right now, Brazil is the world leader in deep sea oil exploration/extraction (way, WAY ahead of any other). Also, it has the most successful alternative fuel program in the world (most successful by any measure you chose, be it price, adoption, w/e). Those two things alone paint a big target mark in the country's back, and make it a prime target for espionage. The USA tried to buy those technologies in the past, and was mostly refused, if I recall correctly.
Some people will say that Brazil once had a nuke program. Who cares? These fuel technologies are a bigger threat to the USA than any patched up nukes would be, by the simple fact Brazil is using them, and they are making a difference. See all the wars that are fought because of oil, and all the anti-ethanol lobbing always going on in the US.
morcego
There are only two parties, the sold, and the for sale.
I suspect its mostly the petrodollar issue. Because lets face it; the US Economy is largely farcical.
If a major non-dollar international trade circuit developed, the following drop in dollar demand would probably be so steep there is nothing the FED could do to control inflation.
Stands to bring down the entire house of cards.
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throw away all the US routers/switches with backdoors, you say?
then huwaei to china all the way?
wtf?
She is turning Brazil into a communist state along with her partisans. Espionage (and political prosecution) is a thing her party does on a regular basis. They are taking over Brazil, and corruption is an all time high. This speech is just the "fight the evil empire" shit
It's only funny if you consider it to be untruthful/unlikely hyperbole. Unfortunately, the truth is that the U.S. *HAS* done just this on quite a number of occasions, and it's not so unlikely.
And yet there is a better political system: that of Bugarup.
Government officials in Bugarup are elected by the people and then put into prison to save time.
One can only hope the current system evolves into that.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
I don't think she (Dilma) is doing anything right. It's too naive to think Brazilian government doesn't know that NSA (or MI5, or KGB or ...) spies on them or on anyone else. The fact that common people from Brazil went to streets to protest and are still in protest on some places, makes need of a scapegoat or a "common enemy" of the state and the people.
So they redirect the hate of Brazilian government to US government. Everybody loves to hate the US government.
And next year Brasil got elections. And with this bombshell the game of thrones in Brazil is running right now.
Interesting article from 2011 that claims: 21 men linked to Islamic extremist groups including al-Qaeda, have been using Brazil for various purposes including controlling inflows of money and planning attacks..
Hosts helps vs. what WE deal in (online threats) but not vs. "legal bribery"/lobbyists (the MAIN problem!) - which is their MAIN tool to gain not money but the TRUE GOAL: Power & Control!
"Puppet Politicians" (best money can REALLY buy) won't stop it as it makes them RICH via "the holy dollar" - Sociopath megalomaniacs 'crave' it like drug fiends due to qualities other humans innately possess that they lack!
(Yes.it's truly their "fix" & they aren't doing a GOOD JOB of it thinking they're smart enough to overturn lessons history yields since time immemorial in that it's easy to win a battle but not a war & occupations ALWAYS fail! That's a person's home not just a financial asset & they'll go to the ground for it (or 6 ft. under) for their families! The 'controllers' + their "I got mine" pattern of thought = short term stupid!).
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(You know it, I know it, like anyone else reading w/ 1/2 a brain - TRUTH's that way & dusts trolls like YOU every time).
APK
P.S.=> In any event, "Back on Track" (our subject which you deviated from troll): When common-sense starts failing in folks, especially due to a 'virus of the spirit' called greed when MONEY BECOMES YOUR GOD? What's happening out there today is what you get - outright madness & lunacy + short-term thinking!
... apk
"Many Can't afford mass surveillance programs" :)
but yeah its bad
Exactly. There are really no realistic military threats to the US. The real threats are economic, and the US is becoming increasingly likely to fall under those economic threats due to the outsourcing of pretty much everything but services which absolutely require domestic workers.
Develop alternative communications systems, use encryption settings that will make it more difficult for them to intercept your communications, and lastly: emigrate.
Governments only matter when they have people to control. If the people go away the government will whither and die.
Sadly the other responses require the concerted efforts of the majority of citizenry and if there's one thing that's been predominantly obvious for a long time, it's that the majority don't care enough to affect change.
It's depressing, but most people would rather be slaves kept in nice cages and told they're free, than actually free with only what they or their fellows can build for themselves and seeing the world as it actually is.
How apt, the captcha was 'Nobility'
"Terrorism" has been turned into a convenient buzzword. It's only applied to those the person using it disagrees with. The Syrian insurgency most certainly does have terrorist aspects. The American Revolution had terrorist aspects as well. If I were fighting as an insurgent, you can bet your ass I'd target civilian installations supportive of the regime against which I was fighting. It's eminently practical on a strategic level, and is one of the most effective tactics in a lop-sided conflict.
It's powered by basic needs (of the few elites, not the majority) in that they "need THEIR 'heroin'" & folks? That 'heroin' = Money, & thus, power + control = to satisfy their 'virus of the spirit' personal mental afflictions (in greed)... NO different, than a junkie!
Why? Imo, pretty obvious: Well - to feel like a "real man" since they lack OTHER "attributes" between their legs imo! Yes to "get pussy" since face it - Freud had SOME things, right, & that is a HUGE motivator to males (& it is STILL a "man's world")!
So - What gave THAT away to me, recently, via "projection"?
The former NSA head (Hayden), iirc, who called us "nerds/geeks" folks that "haven't had the company of the opposite sex in 5 or more years"... dunce that he is giving it away like that - Man, I would seriously BET I've had more "tail" than he has his ENTIRE LIFE 10x over (without 'buying it' as I bet he probably had to, lol), when I was only in my 20's... he's a fool for even *thinking* thus on his part, generalizing way, Way, WAY too much!
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See - I've been on this planet/in this existence for 1/2 a century now, & it's shit like this that makes me say this (& I've said it before online MANY times):
"DOGS ARE BETTER PEOPLE, THAN PEOPLE!"
(By far, since @ least they're DIRECT & HONEST about what they want, & don't *try* to "politically correct mask it" either, & when they use force? It's to exist or procreate, usually, only!).
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* It makes me ashamed to be a part of the same species as the power hungry war mongering selfish profiteers is all... with their obviously self-centered short-term only "I got mine, fuck you all" mentalities!
(I will agree with you on another point: "ignorance IS bliss", until they ruin it all that is... I was a LOT happier person BEFORE I began to really, Really, REALLY look @ things in the world today, that, is certain - it all seriously has utterly DISGUSTED me!).
APK
P.S.=> This ALL comes @ the expense of everyone else (& NOT by decent means, but instead, bullshit crookery, & 1/2 truths spread by the media they own!)!
So, in the final analysis: Are they doing a "good job" as "masters of the universe"?
Hell no!
Since ALL I HAVE TO DO, is say "Look @ the results, worldwide", since you CAN'T HAVE a good economic system with 90% of the wealth in the hands of only 1% of us (money doesn't flow like it should - it's like running your car's engine, with NO OIL - sure, it'll run for a bit, then seize & die)...
... apkb
or else we build our own!
What I say is true, though I know you twerps who frequent
this site will most likely mod me down in a pathetic attempt
at censorship, but what you cockgobblers don't understand
is that you cannot suppress the TRUTH.
Obama is a murderer by use of drones, and has killed people who
are nowhere near the US.
Obama has destabilized the world by allowing the NSA surveillance to
continue unchecked.
Obama has attempted ( but didn't succeed, LOL )
to prosecute Assange, a man who has not committed any crimes against
the US.
Obama is a MASSIVE failure and an embarrassment to the US.
And certainly anyone with a fundamental understanding of geopolitics
understands that Obama has made the world a more dangerous place
during his tenure.
There is nothing friendly about Brazil to the US. Brazil is the up and coming economic power in South America, and are only held back by the dominant position the US maintains on the Western hemisphere. Brazil has been seeking ways to break free and become the dominant power in the region, and this is just another item in the long list of things they are doing to strengthen their position as the dominant economic power in South America, and workign towards bringing other latin american nations into their orbit and away from US dominance.
Brazil is a great country, the people are awesome, and it's worth visiting. But the governments are not friendly to each other, they are competitors.
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You've got it backwards!
0.0.0.0 pentagon.army.mil
(THAT is the CORRECT format for hosts files internal line record items!)
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Personally though (& back on the REAL subject here)?
I have *NOTHING* against MOST military OR NSA etc. gov't. personnel - since MOST hired on just to make a living (not even Hayden, former NSA head I noted here http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4261215&cid=44950725 for what I cited there for his STUPID projecting comments he directed OUR way as "geeks/nerds" etc.), but I DO against those who "hide behind the curtain", Wizard-of-Oz style (ala "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain") taking orders from those (the wealthy 1% controllers) who are not only screwing US as their tax-paying constituency, but themselves too in the end.
APK
P.S.=> So much for our TRUE "fearless leaders" (who aren't soldiers, or even politicians, but those giving THEM the orders, via lobbyists) in the war profiteer "masters of the universe" they *THINK* they are, well f-that - their results, suck - especially since they do NOTHING MORE than using those military folks like pawns, nothing more (they die, the 1% war-profiteers profit even MORE)...
... apk
Drop routes containing AS numbers assigned to US companies
Three problems with that.
1: Just because the AS number isn't assigned to a US company doesn't mean that the cable route doesn't go through the US.
2: You will most likely loose access to a large part of the internet (and not just the US either) because afaict most providers will only advertise to you their "best" route to a place and in many cases the "best" route will go via the US.
3: Even if you are ok with all of that the return traffic to you could still come via the US.
To minimise the ammount of your traffic that goes through the US you first have to build the routes that don't go via the US (look at an undersea cable map sometime, notice anything about south america?). Then you have to make sure those routes are used in preference.
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