RT - 12/18/13
US President Barack Obama (R) kisses hello Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff as they arrive for the family photo during the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg.(AFP Photo / Jewel Samad)
Boeing was considered to have the inside track to win the contract earlier this year, yet revelations of intrusive surveillance of global officials’ communications, including those of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, by the US government’s National Security Agency led to distrust of the American company.
“The NSA problem ruined it for the Americans,” a Brazilian government source told Reuters.
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Good for you Brazil
Let American lawmakers who Okayed NSA spying around the world know that there are consequences. In this case, 4.5 Billion of them for Boeing. Do you still think it's a good idea for the NSA to know what kind of toilet paper world leaders are using? The people who make these decisions have no care or concern about what their intrusiveness does to people and nations in terms of trust. So it's vitally important that Nations like Brazil speak in a language these bozos do understand. Here's 4.5 Billion reasons for American lawmakers and businesses to consider. Likely this won't be the only economic punishment that the US suffers because some paranoid idiots in government thought spying on everybody was a good idea. Thank you Edward Snowden for lifting that rock and showing the world what kind of creepy crawly mentally deficient whack jobs live there. Is this the kind of world we want? Then start speaking up people. Silence is tacit approval. Decide where you stand and act!