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Rousseff implicitly accuses the US of breach of international law and calls for UN regulation of internet

Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:40 UTC
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Addressing the United Nations General Assembly Brazilian President Dilma Roussef claimed that spying in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and urged the United Nations to play a leading role in protecting Internet users from illegal interception of communications and data, and decried recent allegations of electronic information spying as “serious violations of human rights”. Read full article

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  • Forgetit87

    “implicitly”, lol. She actually called out President Kill List on his country's bullshit the way no Brit will have the balls to in the next 200 years. I've learned not to expect much of her, but she did deliver on this one. Her 'moderate' image in fact made the rebuke sound all the more sharper.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 05:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Serious violation of human rights.

    Yeah, right up there, alongside the killing of women and children with Sarin Gas!

    This woman could do with a serious dose of perspective!

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 06:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Forgetit87

    @banality check:

    Thanks for the input - I now have learned there's only one crime we all should call 'a serious violation of human rights', namely the last one about which the Western media will try and manufacture outrage.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 06:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    The USA image is irreparably tarnished.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    Com'on guys, who has not looked over the fence to see the topless lady next door hoping she will not see you? keep looking over your shoulder the boogyman is coming.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Western media manufactured the Syrian chemical weapons incident did they?

    Wow, fancy that?

    Manufactured outrage, ah so the outrage is not real. Well ferk me, someone should have told these people standing at the podium.

    What Human Right does requiring you to pay back your debts breach?

    The right to be lie, cheat and renage as enshrined in the articles of the UN I suppose.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1 I rather wonder what “you” and she expect or hope to achieve. I also wonder on what basis she used the word “meddling”. What will “they” come up with? A “convention” that says that one member must not spy on another? It might not have occurred but all “spying” is, by its nature, covert, secretive and probably “illegal”. All that will happen is that some countries will agree and some won't. But it won't matter what they say, they will carry on doing it. But we can expect security to be stepped up to weed out those like Manning and Snowden. And it can be done. Nobody knows what goes on inside the United States' Area 51 because its security has never been successfully breached. Some people should be standing up to their knees in boiling oil for letting a “something that doesn't know what it is” like Manning have access to classified material and the same should be the case for letting a “civilian” such as Snowden have access. Clearly neither have any realistic moral compass. It's possible that, sometime in the next 30 years, Manning, or Gladys, or whatever it calls itself may develop one. If Snowden gets to latam, he'll never develop one. Even if he stays where he is, Russia is a pretty questionable country. He's only got temporary asylum on the grounds that it annoys the U.S. If he found out what the Russians get up to, he'd probably have a heart attack. Best read up on the fate of Alexander Litvinenko, Ed.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    Yes Yes, let's “hand” the internet to the UN. Where dissents posting on Facebook an be delivered directly to their respective governments to protect The People from... themselves. Where the lists of Humanists, Christians, Jews, Bahai, Gays and other undesirables posting on the internet in OIC countries can be handed to their respective governments to protect The Faith from... conscience. Let's have “net neutrality” that will always favor the regulators and their sponsors.

    The current state of the net isn't perfect by a long shot.. but how stupid does she think we are.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    UN Univesal Decleration of Human Rights.

    Article 1.
    The Right to Life.
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    Article 100.000
    The Right to Secure Laptops.
    Article 100.001
    The Right to renage on Debt.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    @9 the right for everyone to agree with me. the right for me not to be offended. the right for me to be reelected unanimously without question. the right for me to crush the little-p people in the name of the big-P People. the right to talk to the world body with the credibility of a freely elected leader from a western liberal democracy and not be laughed at.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alvaro Gremista

    She's aiming at next year's election...that's all....nothing will change the say she “wants to”.......but there are many people here who will take the bait...“wow, she's hard core by defying the yankees”....Obama must have tossed and turned all night long after that....she's more effective than a sleeping pill as she gives her unbearable speeches....but she and the party she belongs to want to set control on people's life in the future...having a Facebook account here has been risky mostly if one comments badly on her and PT....another contradition they got caught up in, among many others....as usual...coming from them

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    All these Rights,

    and still they know not,
    what the left is doing ..lol

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Forgetit87

    “Western media manufactured the Syrian chemical weapons incident did they?”

    It sure manufactured the outrage - considering that only a few hundred people died in the incident, that many more have been killed in the civil war, and that the US itself (to say nothing of its closest clients, like Britain and Israel) are themselves stubborn users of weapons that kill indiscriminately within a given range, the outrage can't be taken all too seriously - the Western media, after all, has ignored worse before.

    If the Washington Post, for example, cares so much about the use and effects of chemical weapons on a population, why does it insist on being silent regarding this issue: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/iraq-war-anniversary-birth-defects-cancer_n_2917701.html

    @Cuckoo-ro: lol, look at you, were you yelling at the screen as you wrote that LONG screed that I won't read?

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    “Considering that ONLY a few hundred people died in the incident.”

    “The outrage can't be taken too seriously.”

    Of all the crass stupid sick shit that passes for educated comments on this forum, they have to be the sickest of them all.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Come on guys, don’t be so hard on ForgeTit87, he can’t help having a real bad downer on the Brits or any other westerners.

    When your mother falls in love with a Brit and the result is this twat, who can blame the Brit for getting on his toes when he saw what the result was?

    I cannot think why else he would be so bitter and twisted, anybody would think he is “Thinks” lovechild!

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Nobody in the USA cares what the President of a Jungle thinks.
    Nobody
    Go crack some coconuts and see if you can make a radio or something.

    Sep 25th, 2013 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    United States is the same that Hollywood movies: lives of fiction and drama.

    Sep 26th, 2013 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alvaro Gremista

    ....as well as petistas who base on lies, drama, fantasy and hypocrisy....Brasileiro Petista

    Sep 26th, 2013 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Forgetit87

    @yankeefag Someone got his imperial pride hurt. Don't be sulking - I'm sure Kerry or Kill List in person will come over soon to falunt their “non-caringness”. While they're at it, they can give back the, um, hundreds of billions you are owing the Jungle. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt

    Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Forgetit86

    Oh, and @banality check

    I'm sorry my cold and experienced cynicism won't be impressed by your juvenile displays of moral indignation. Don't ever use Syrian lives to make propaganda - especially one with such base purpose as diverting attention from the crimes of Obama's rogue state. Ever, mkay?

    Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Whatever you say sicko!

    Now be a nice mature poster and look up some other atrocities to marginalise, for the sake of your twisted politically biased ego!

    Sep 27th, 2013 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/25/rousseff-implicitly-accuses-the-us-of-breach-of-international-law-and-calls-for-un-regulation-of-internet#comment277301: Bringing it back to chemical weapons people are still being badly effected by the defoliant we used in Viet Nam.

    Sep 30th, 2013 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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