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Disclaimer & comment rulesMercopress editors, please beign more respectfull, malvinas inhabitants are not members of mercosur and the fact you call the islands falklands does not represent the view of mercosur members. I think this is just a british unnemployed idea to make monney from and, at the same time, lobbying for the “falklands” cause.
May 03rd, 2009 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0PD: why dont you call this falklandpress instead of mercopress.
That's a good idea. This web wold have to be called “falklandpress”. It would be more formal name. Of course hey have the right to express through the web but mercopress sounds like a litlle lie or at least untrue, everyone know Mercosur is a group of 5 countries (Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela recently).
May 05th, 2009 - 06:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Luis and Jorge, so why don't you also complain about the stories about Antartica and the United States? They are not part of Mercosur, but there are regional sections devoted to them. At the top it says “Mercopress: South Atlantic New Agency”. The Falklands are in the South Atlantic are they not? What are you so afraid of?
May 06th, 2009 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Justin, as always your lack of interest to read before write, makes you lose the focus, again!. Anybody in the world has the right to express freely, even inhabitants of malvinas, to talk or write about anything, becouse we live in a freeworld. But the point of beign a probritish webpage made by “falklanders” makes no right to lie to its readers. This webpage declare that they are based on Montevideo, Uruguay, not malvinas islands. And Uruguay official position is that malvinas belongs to Argentina and falklands does not exist.
May 07th, 2009 - 04:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0See my point? why dont they give a legal address in montevideo?, why the articles have no name of the person who wrote it? why there is no telefone to contact only an email? why they put links to the “falkland island government” if officially Uruguay denie the existance of such thing?.
http://en.mercopress.com/about-mercopress
PD: beside the fact you have no idea the meaning of the word colony, i guess you should learn the meaning of the word lobbying.
Loose my focus? I don't think so Luis.
May 07th, 2009 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have no idea who is behind this website, but I doubt the Uruguay government is involved and so the official Uruguayan position is probably irrelevant and if the Uruguayan government is behind this website, then perhaps Argentina has something to worry about! As you say, everyone should have a right to freedom of expression, and linking to whatever website is an example of that.
Just because you don't accept the Falklands are not a colony, does not mean I don't understand the meaning of the word, and of course I understand the word lobbying. Please don't tell me Argentina is not guilty of lobbying...
Justin, you miss my point i mean i have no problem with islanders expressing themself, but what would you think if i make a same webpage based in london called “malvinas news” and make lobbying in favor of Argentina, with tittle like : “we british have to return the islands to Argentina” or “our queen should have died long before” or “we british likes bananas a lot” and i could go on.
May 07th, 2009 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obviously it will be more comedy or fiction than reality for you guys, but the lack of respect to its readers making them asume they are uruguayan for the fact it is “based on Uruguay” without admiting they represent british subject its very irresponsable and lack of Seriousness.
You can agree or not Justin but i insist i think this is just a british unnemployed idea to make monney from and, at the same time, lobbying for the “falklands” cause. This statemen was not denied by them.
That was me before, hehe my bad.
May 07th, 2009 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Luis, why don't you set up a webpage in the .co.uk domain called “Malvinas News” and lobby your case? Nobody will stop you. It's not illegal. That is freedom of speech, not disrespect.
May 11th, 2009 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are a little paranoid. You have no proof that Mercopress is a “british unemployment idea”... or and “idea to make money at the same
time as lobbying for the ”falklands“ cause”
Just because you don't agree with a website, does not mean the website has no respect for you? That is a very strange attitude. If you don't like the stories on Mercopress, why don't you just look at other websites?
Here are a couple of suggestions (I'm sure there are many more sites):
http://www.malvinasonline.com.ar/
http://www.malvinasonline.com.ar/
Justin, thats actually a good idea. I will take a british name and surname like yours, maybe your address too, and make a webpage called “we british likes pipis” with a photo of you playing with your mothers shoes. Becouse for you thats not irrespectfull, thats freedom of speach.
May 12th, 2009 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Justin im not going to make a big deal about this, im not suggesting to shut down this webpage, im just saying that this blog is far from beign a news agency, with biased news, irresponsable editors, disrespectfull with uruguayan community and mercosur citizens and this blog is far from reflect truely mercosur news.
And if you wanna know why i keep reading this crap is becouse it is made by islanders and is interest to see what they think or how they act.
Justin about if mercopress its a british unemployment idea or an idea to make money or lobbying its something you cant prove me wrong, becouse yes i made that comment without proof but can you prove me i was wrong? that it is not an unemployment idea or that it was not made to lobbying for the “falklands cause”?????
I wanna add http://www.malvinense.com.ar for pirats to read.
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