US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase

[Judi Lynn]

US spying on Brazil halts talks on warplane purchase
AFP – Tue, Sep 10, 2013 6:41 PM AEST

Alleged US spying on the communications of Brazil's president have brought negotiations on buying US warplanes to a halt, a Brazilian government source said Tuesday.

The talks have been going on for years, and got a nudge with a visit from Vice President Joe Biden in May.

"The negotiations were going very well, and then they stopped" with the recent press reports that the National Security Agency had spied on the online and other communications of President Dilma Rousseff. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was also alleged to have been targeted by the NSA.

The US government was eager to close the aircraft deal in time for a planned October visit to Washington by Rousseff, the source said.

Brazil has been in talks to buy 36 fighter jets for years, at a cost of $5 billion.

More:
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-spying-brazil-halts-talks-084101152.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. I wish more would cancel their orders, maybe slow down the MIC a bit. Thanks Judi. nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's sad to know Pres. Dwight Eisenhower warned about the MIC

during his last formal speech before leaving office. If anyone should have known, it would have been a man who had also been such a powerful General during the Second World War.

It matters no more to this society than if he had simply whistled "Dixie" instead. Apparently they're going to insist on learning what he meant the hard way.

[Mnemosyne]

3. We always learn the hard way, it seems. Where is our Eisenhower? Our Smedley Butler?

Anyone that speaks up now is held up to ridicule, often imprisoned and usually branded a conspiracy theorist. No wonder they work so hard trying to discredit them.

Thanks Judy!