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Comment Re:Hopefully this makes the article a bit more pal (Score 1) 110

by hernol (#28748861) Attached to: Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste
Exactly, people is the same no matter the country. But this is still happening in South American countries, the British gov wanted to send their waste there a few years ago, just by bribing local SA govs. What I'm saying is: It's just not the other way around, it's a one-way-waste-road. And I didn't meant to be anti-british, but anti 1st world-domination-policies. Hernol.-

Comment Re:Hopefully this makes the article a bit more pal (Score 3, Insightful) 110

by hernol (#28744287) Attached to: Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste
This is how First World countries grow and control the world, by shitting Third World countries. It's a nice article about how UK doesnt give a f*** about other countries. And this is in slashdot because they sent their waste to the "wrong" country, this happens all the time in Africans and poor Asian countries, but you just dont hear of it.
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Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste 110

Posted by kdawson from the got-enough-of-our-own-thanks dept.
Peace Corps Online writes "BBC reports that Brazilian authorities are demanding the return of more than 1,400 tons of hazardous British waste found in about 90 shipping containers on three Brazilian docks. The waste, which includes syringes, condoms, and bags of blood, has been identified as being of UK origin from the names of British supermarkets and newspapers among the rubbish. Reports in the UK media say the waste was sent from Felixstowe in eastern England to the port of Santos, near Sao Paulo, and two other ports in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The British government has launched an investigation into how and why the waste was sent to Brazil and the British Embassy in Brazil has said in a statement that it was investigating and would 'not hesitate to act' if it was found that a UK company had violated the Basel Convention on the movement of hazardous waste. Meanwhile Brazil is demanding the immediate return of the rubbish to the UK. 'We will ask for the repatriation of this garbage,' says Roberto Messias, head of the Brazilian environment agency. 'Clearly, Brazil is not a big rubbish dump of the world.'" Two UK companies named by Brazil as suspected exporters of the waste are owned by a Brazilian, based in the UK, who says that anything that was in the containers other than the expected recyclable plastic is a problem to take up with his suppliers.
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British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes 778

Posted by timothy from the don'tcha-just-hate-online-crime dept.
chrb writes "Two British men have become the first to be jailed for inciting racial hatred online. The men believed that material they published on web servers based in the United States did not fall under the jurisdiction of UK law and was protected under the First Amendment. This argument was rejected by the British trial judge. After being found guilty, the men fled to Los Angeles, where they attempted to claim political asylum, again arguing that they were being persecuted by the British government for speech that was protected under the First Amendment. The asylum bid was rejected and the two were deported back to the UK after spending over a year in a US jail."

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