Cocker spaniel puppy will keep Catherine company while William is in Falklands
Prince William's wife Kate will not be on her own during her husband's tour of duty in the Falkland Islands: the couple have a new puppy, St James's Palace said Wednesday.
William, second in line to the throne, took off from Brize Norton on Wednesday night to begin a routine six-week posting in the Falklands’ archipelago in early February, leaving Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, back home in Britain.
It is thought their new pet, a black Cocker Spaniel will live at their home near the RAF Valley base on Anglesey, northwest Wales, where William, 29, has been working as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot for more than a year.
“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a male cocker spaniel,” a St James's Palace spokeswoman said.
“It's from a litter known to the couple through a family connection. It's a few months old.”
The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that the dog's father is a pet that belongs to the duchess's mother Carole Middleton.
Britain has around 1,000 military personnel on the Falklands to ensure their security following the April 1982 invasion by Argentina. Tensions between Britain and Argentina are high as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict approaches. However Prince William is expected to be back in the UK before April when his six weeks will be over.
Argentina has reacted with fury to William's deployment, saying he would be visiting the area “in a conqueror's uniform”. However the RAF said that overseas deployments are a routine part of the Duke's position with the RAF.
RAF rules mean that Kate is not able to join her husband on the posting.
William has been putting in plenty of hours of flying time in recent months as he bids to win promotion and become a captain. The experience he will gain in the Falklands will count towards his goal.
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Britain has around 1,000 military personal on the islands......
I say :
1,000 miltary personal together with their families equals to 2,000--2,500 personal and around have shoppers and few fishers becomes totaly 3,000--3,500 people......where is the these islands' people who have imposed by “ self determination rights”” ...where ?................!............
“where is the these islands' people who have imposed by “ self determination rights”” ...where ?................!............”
I say:
Good of you to recognise that the Islanders have self determination rights.
Cheers.
Whats it got to do with you, anyway?
They don't bring their families on this posting, unless they are high ranking officers. Do your research.
#1 Muppet
However, since the information is in the public domain, as you would know if you had two brain cells to rub together, you should know that the British Army has about 500 troops on the Islands. Plenty to see off the Argentine army. Then there are the pilots and ground crew for the 8 RAF aircraft. The Royal Navy is, of course, based on its ships. As Monty69 has pointed out to your single brain cell, few of these people take their families. Apart from anything else, it would interrupt the children's education.
We can be strong again, with all our might and all our passion directed at Las Malvinas and ignore all our problem at home, we can again be strong.
Never give in to English colonials because our blood is thicker than water and the blood of Las Malvinas I believe is black gold for which many of us with right connections can get very rich from...
You say :
He can't back his own claims...................
I say :
Britain now has 1076 troops stationed in the Islands,as well as 4 vessel naval “” deterrence“” forces that could be quickly augmented.In 1985 Britain opened the new purpose built Mount Pleasant air base ,west of the capital Stanley so that reinforcement could be brought in swiftly in any emergency.....
Argentina believes that it automatically acquired soverignty over the islands with independence from Spain..and reject the bottom-line British assertion that soverignty is for the local population to determine ,on the grounds that today's islanders are not aboriginal people..but in their overhelming majority descendants of settlers from Britain,8000 miles from away,finally the islands are on the Argentina's continental shelf..Argentina says its claim is therefore buttressed by the “”1958 UN Convention of Continental Shelf “”.......!..................
quote: “Argentina believes that it automatically acquired soverignty over the islands with independence from Spain..and reject the bottom-line British assertion that soverignty is for the local population to determine ,on the grounds that today's islanders are not aboriginal people”
Is that the aboriginal people who never lived on the Falklands or the Amerindians your people ethnically cleansed so you and all the other Europe colonials could settle in Argentina without the Indians getting uppity?
You say:
2nd paragraph............
I say :
Neithet Zapatista guerilla in Mexico,nor the indigenous self-governments in Colombia,nor the struggles by Andean and Mapuche people will find a full solution if the state is not re-founded.But it is also true that the states can not be re-founded without taking seriously their indigenous peoples.
No one know how the process will turn out,but it is certain that there is no going back to the past......!...............
Like ignoring the fact Argentina never ratified the 1958 Convention and like ignoring the fact that it does not give a claim to populated territory.
Whilst the islands may be 8000 miles from the UK, they're over 300 miles from Argentine but the Falkland Islanders are there.
What a muppet.TM
And yet another little convenient lie from Mr. Kuntz...........
He says:
”They're (the Malvinas n.a.) over 300 miles from Argentine”
Google Earth shows:
Just a tad under 215 miles ................
Such an insecure personality that has to lie about even the most banal details..................
What a Turnip!
Now its 215 miles.
Can't you make your mind up?
Or are you being just king turnip?
Anyway, l couldn't care if they were 215 micros 215 cubic miles of seawater, the Falklands are still NOT yours.
Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.
Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.
It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.
But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.
In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.
At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't!
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