President Morales’ plane rerouted to Austria on suspicion Snowden on board.
Source: Washington Post
LA PAZ, Bolivia Bolivian minister: President Morales plane rerouted to Austria on suspicion Snowden on board.
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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/bolivian-minister-president-morales-plane-rerouted-to-austria-on-suspicion-snowden-on-board/2013/07/02/8f81c2b8-e365-11e2-bffd-37a36ddab820_story.html
Also: seeing tweets that his plane has been denied air permits by Portugal and France. Stay tuned.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)!!
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)on the same page. The one world order will not be stopped by one man.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)They don't want to end up like Putin with a headache if Snowden comes into their territory and they have a treaty with the USA.
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)nothing to do with what is happening world wide.
nineteen50
(1,187 posts)"f"ing protocol.
PSPS
(13,620 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The 1955 Austrian State Treaty ended the occupation of Austria following World War II and recognised Austria as an independent and sovereign state. On 26 October 1955, the Federal Assembly passed a constitutional article in which "Austria declares of her own free will her perpetual neutrality". The second section of this law stated that "in all future times Austria will not join any military alliances and will not permit the establishment of any foreign military bases on her territory". Since then, Austria has shaped its foreign policy on the basis of neutrality, but rather different from the neutrality of Switzerland.
Austria began to reassess its definition of neutrality following the fall of the Soviet Union, granting overflight rights for the UN-sanctioned action against Iraq in 1991, and, since 1995, it has developed participation in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Also in 1995, it joined NATO's Partnership for Peace and subsequently participated in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia. Meanwhile, the only part of the Constitutional Law on Neutrality of 1955 still valid fully is not to allow foreign military bases in Austria.[citation needed]
Austria attaches great importance to participation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and other international economic organisations, and it has played an active role in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an OSCE participating State, Austria's international commitments are subject to monitoring under the mandate of the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)They are still patsies to american power.
frontier00
(154 posts)Wow, Snow-job is a wild dude
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Somebody's fucking with the airplane of a sovereign head of state?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)The fact that NATO countries are playing this game tells me that the US really wants Snowden's ass. Big surprise.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)So, it's beginning to look a lot like Doomsday.
They don't care who they alienate.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Pretty straightforward actually.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Not often.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The country has that right.
Absolutely.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)again. Absolutely.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)We had the HEAD OF STATE of a nation forced to go through this.
THIS IS INSANE!!!
I hope Snowden is wearing bulletproff everything from head to toe...they are going to try to kill him.
Violet_Crumble
(35,977 posts)That way we don't have to worry ourselves with trifling things like international diplomacy Countries don't just give authorisation for a head of state to fly in their airspace and then turn round and retract it while the plane's in the air. Doing that leads to international incidents and all sorts of ill-feeling at high levels in the countries involved.
If it had been a US President it was done to, all hell would have broken loose and people wouldn't be sitting here saying that any country has a right to do that, so that's the end of it...
morningfog
(18,115 posts)This is making the US look like bullies and desperate. I can't wait to find out what Snowden has. Damn.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)For 2 fucking dudes, the world better get used to the new normal, or else!
Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of the news that Tyranny is coming!
cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)Ecuadoran president Aquilera in 1981. Aquilera refused to play along with US investment schemes. Could be Biden told Corerra we won't blow up your plane , If.?
Moralles should feel lucky in that the US just felt inclined to delay Moralle' flight.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)I'm assuming BS on this one until something vaguely credible corroborates it.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Bolivia is expressing its unhappiness with France and Portugal, who denied access to their air space based on rumors. Craven maggot governments.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)España, Portugal y Francia niegan el aterrizaje al avión de Evo Morales por Snowden
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1861639/0/snowden/evo-morales/aterrizaje-avion/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Update, nothing back there but some recyling bins.
....
George II
(67,782 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Democracies? We don't need no stinkin' Democracies.
We tell Democracies where to go and where to get off.
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)Now he'll see how far down is.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Others, including me, think democracy is more important than protecting an unconstitutional domestic spy operation.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)frontier00
(154 posts)Snowden Profiling
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)frontier00
(154 posts)Don't scramble the jets
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)That's what we're supposed to celebrate, right? Thumbing of noses at the global hegemon?
More statements, Evo! More, more, more! Nose thumbing, excelsior!
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)Meanwhile Snowden is escaping the Moscow Airport in the back seat of some rusted out jalopy.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)I hope he gets to where he's going before winter sets in. Doesn't look like that car comes with options - you know, like heat.
Cha
(297,772 posts)that Snitch heel was on board.
Mahalo Benton
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Our Ecuadorian guacamole orders were in jeopardy because of Snowden.
For now, it looks like prices will remain stable for guacamole in the U.S., as the all important guacamole import trade from Ecuador will still flow into the States at the same rate as before.
Whew, that was a close one.
I love weed
(50 posts)He gave a speech a few days ago downplaying Snowden's importance, saying sarcastically he won't be scrambling jets to get a "29 year old hacker".
And now this happens. What a damn liar, what a fraud and coward. What an obscene insult to the president of an independent nation.
So sick of our "government". I hope We the Sheeple wake up and realize the R vs D show is just BS to distract us. I see so many people here and everywhere get so caught up in partisan cheerleading and mudslinging that they miss the big picture. (And that is of course by design.)
RitchieRich
(292 posts)hope you have thick skin.