<div dir="ltr"><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4930" style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#362f2d" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet/5350272">http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet/5350272</a></span></font><br>

</em></p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4930" style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

<em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4931" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The President of <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Brazi</strong>l, <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Dilma Rousseff</strong> announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”).</em></p>

<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4984" style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

<em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4933" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic step is that the alternative infrastructure: <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The BRICS cable</strong> from <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4995" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Vladivostock, Russia  to Shantou, China to Chennai, India  to Cape Town, South Africa  to Fortaleza, Brazil</span>,  is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation.</em></p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify"><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4933" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">No amount of provocation and attempted “Springs” destabilizations and Color Revolution in the Middle East, Russia or Brazil can stop this process.  The huge submerged part of the BRICS plan is not yet known by the broader public.<br>

</em></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify"><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4933" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Nonetheless it is very real and extremely effective. So real that international investors are now jumping with both feet on this unprecedented real economy opportunity. The change… has already happened.</em></p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments.</p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company’s network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google.</p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">..</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4960" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:44px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4959" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">BRICS Cable!</strong></span></p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify"><a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4983" href="http://www.bricscable.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(59,77,129)">http://www.bricscable.com/</a>(see video)<br>

<img id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4965" class="" src="http://www.bricscable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/netw_geo.jpg" alt="netw_geo" width="694" height="338" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(228, 228, 228); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 635px;"><br>

BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system</p><ul class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

<ul class="" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square"><ul id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4979" class="" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial">

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4982" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">For any <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">global investor</strong>, there is <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">no crisis</strong> – there is <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">plenty of growth. It’s just not in the old world</strong></li>

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4981" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">BRICS is ~<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">45% of the world’s population</strong> and ~<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4980" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">25% of the world’s GDP</strong></li>

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4978" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">BRICS</strong> together create an economy the size of<strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4977" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> Italy every year</strong>… that’s the 8th largest economy in the world</li>

<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">BRICS</strong> presents <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">profound opportunities</strong> in <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">global geopolitics and commerce</strong></li>

</ul></ul></ul><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4969" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

</div><ul id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4970" class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:square;color:rgb(54,47,45);text-align:justify">

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4973" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil – the BRICS economies – and the United States.</li>

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4974" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Interconnect with regional and other continental cable systems in Asia, Africa and South America for improved global coverage</li>

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4975" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Immediate access to 21 African countries and give those African countries access to the BRICS economies.</li>

<li id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379454813309_4976" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Projected ready for service date is mid to second half of 2015.</li>

</ul><div><br></div>-- <br>Diego R. Canabarro<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left"><a href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/4980585945314597" target="_blank">http://lattes.cnpq.br/4980585945314597</a></span> </font><br>

<br>--<br>diego.canabarro [at] <a href="http://ufrgs.br" target="_blank">ufrgs.br</a></div><div>diego [at] <a href="http://pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">pubpol.umass.edu</a><br>MSN: diegocanabarro [at] <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a><br>

Skype: diegocanabarro<br>Cell # +55-51-9244-3425 (Brasil) / +1-413-362-0133 (USA)<br>--<br></div>
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