Premium News Analysis: Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, decided to grant the Purchase of Fighter Aircraft for Sweden’s Saab Gripen Jet rather than Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet. The reason behind her decision is allegedly due to disclosure of Inept Intelligence Gathering; this by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) operating in Brazil. She personally was spied on. The ramifications of her decision will have many potential effects many places. We will look at who can win financially and who can lose due to the revealed Intelligence Stupidity and its aftermath.
Reference: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idUSBRE9BJ10P20131220
Boeing Aircraft’s loss of a $4 Billion Dollar Sale to Brazil may bode poorly for it as well as other American Manufacturers who, some say, “Aligned themselves with the Devil” . The very Lame excuses for the Spying Transgressions against ‘Friendly Countries’ are as poor as the Offerors’ empathies as allegedly expressed. Perhaps the self-fulfilling Ego/Mental Onanisms of the Characters in Washington, D.C. contribute to the moral blight?
The ‘NSA’ expressed no Contrition as one in the ‘Real World’ would expect. Its Mandate is to collect Electronic Intelligence (which it performs brilliantly). The problem it has becomes one of Intellectual Failure of Operational Judgement as to Who, Where, and When are “Off-Limits”.
The U.S. Congress, primarily consisting of Attorneys, apparently “Blew It” by not Inculcating OPERATIONALLY SUFFICIENT “Stoppages” If and When the NSA overstepped its Mandate. The White House was just as Culpable in not having the Wisdom to see the ‘Mine Field’ it was stepping in. Added to the Amateurish Blunders were its Denials of Knowledge of the NSA Surveillance against ‘Friendlies’. The final “Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back” was the revelation that 7.14 Billion People on Earth were being Electronically Monitored by the NSA.
For Every Tit, There Is A Tat. Now, the Economic Losses to be Experienced in America caused by other Nations and Businesses will hurt the Country when it can be least afforded. Just the example about the Boeing ‘debacle’ (at $4 Billion Dollars) should concern the White House.
Estimates of $35 Billion Dollars in lost Sales by the U.S. Electronics Industry is being reported in the Media. This is because others KNOW that the Electronic Components and Computers built in America have been “Bugged” by their Manufacturers for the benefit of the NSA.
International Leaders allegedly think that losses to the American Economy of $100 Billion + Dollars a Year ‘might’ get Washington D.C. to realize what their “Stupidity Extraordinaire” has cost the country. As for the ‘NSA’ itself, until its Leaders have ‘Walked the Plank’ their lack of Pain will induce NO gain. The Leaders’ lack of Empathy is very revealing (but not surprising). The financial losses to the country mean little to them. For most, their Entire Careers have been at U.S. Government’s Expense; They have been dining at the “Public Trough” for years.
People in Washington, D.C. are Irate at the ‘Messenger’ who revealed their “Thefts of Privacy World-Wide”. If they could, He would be Executed. Unfortunately, they are too ‘Neurotic’ to understand the Sociopathic Behavior of which they have been Engaging for Years; “Catching A Few Terrorists by Spying on the World’s Population”.
Investors can make money by “Short Selling” the Stocks of American Corporations involved with the NSA in any capacity. As these Corporations lose Sales, their prices will fall. Corporations NOT in America should see increases in Sales as a result; go ‘Long’ on them.
Whatever a Wise Investor does, he or she should ALWAYS REMEMBER that Today, when Communicating about Investments of ANY kind: “The Walls Have Ears”.
Reality.