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Falklands’ explosives disposal team has dealt with 2.8 million ordnance items in 29 years
After almost twenty nine years of service to the Falkland Islands the Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal team based at Hillside Camp in the capital Stanley will be transferring its service to JSEOD teams based at the Mount Pleasant Complex. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI would be more than happy for the FIG to extend the invitation to the Argentinian army for them to be given training in mine clearance, using their own minefields as the training ground.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At the rate of 210 mines per day, it should take exactly 74 days to clear them. Deploy as many squaddies as is necessary - say 210.
And return the survivors.
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Apr 19th, 2011 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Time for Argentina to apologise & pay compensation to the Islanders & Britain for all the damage they have done.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Time for the UK to get the hell out of Malvinas.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Time for the UK to compensate Argentina for all the illegal fishing done around Malvinas.
Time for the UK to remove all its hydrocarbon exploratory equipment from the Malvinas basin.
The list goes on.
Martin, were you one of the soldiers that fought during the Falklands conflict?
Apr 19th, 2011 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you were, I'm sorry I teased you in #1.
But I have been thinking about the general question of who tidies-up the remaining ordinance at the end of a conflict.
There is a certain symmetry in the answer “you put it there - you remove it”
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Apr 19th, 2011 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you're a funny guy
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Apr 19th, 2011 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I wasn't.
I see no logic in your 'symmetry', I see the UK claiming 5 million km² of sovereign Argentine territories.
Is the UK willing to withdraw its claim?
No?
Then remove the mines yourselves and quit bitching about it.
take your lithium , martin, there's a good chap......
Apr 19th, 2011 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0take your bitching and moaning someplace else, wanker
Apr 19th, 2011 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Martín Fierro is all about valour, not a story about intelligence and much less about moral. ”
Apr 19th, 2011 - 11:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0—Roberto Bolaño about Martín Fierro.
Pretty much sums up our 'Martin' on Mercopress;
much bluster in place of valour, and with intelligence and morals matching his apocrophal namesake.
One thing that no-one can deny -
Martin Fierro goes on, . . . .and on, . . . .and on, . . . . . and on . . . . . 2,316 epic line s !
Uh, who the hell is Roberto Bolaño?
Apr 20th, 2011 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0You're the one going on and on about the mines...
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Apr 20th, 2011 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0“take your bitching and moaning someplace else, wanker”
From what I have read all you every do is bitch and moan about the UK being in the south atlantic. Somewhat hypocritical of you to then call someone a wanker for bitching and moaning don't you think?
And by the way the UK is not in Argentine sovereign territory. The Falklands are not part of Argentine and are not internationally recognised as such.
The only thing that is recognised internationally is that Argentina CLAIMS (big difference) sovereignty.
Right you can start “bitching and moaning” again.
Martin,
Apr 20th, 2011 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bolaño - Chilean; one of the better South American literary figures, now dead.
Poetry, short stories and novels.
Very left wing,
and renounded for his looong voyages and journey novels
- hence his reviewing of the Matin Fierro poem of life's journey of the gaucho.
Geoff.
Martin, do the nice nurses at the Bumfuck, Utah, Institution for the Severely Delusional know you aren't taking your meds?
Apr 20th, 2011 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 013,
Apr 20th, 2011 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Geoff, I read 'Martin Fierro'... you haven't, ok?
Just because you googled this crap, from a Chilean, it doesn't make you an expert.
You don't know anything...
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Huh?? lol
Martin - you seem to have some problem with Chileans.
Apr 20th, 2011 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Care to share it?
I tend to read a fair bit of stuff from South American authors - Peruvian, Chilean, Colombian, Brasilian, . . . . even Argentinian!
Some of it is real Nobel Prize-winning stuff ;-)
Try 2 books: Grandes Sertões Veredas and *Os Sertões* - the latter is hard-going but gives amazing insight into the cultural history of life in the SA landscape.
and, for a bit of lighter reading - Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, and Dona Flor .. by Amado
im fond of latin american literature of every country of latin american and also spain and if you want to learn more of SA read more modern than those you are reading like: delirio de laura restrepo (greatttt to learn a lot about colombia), abril rojo de santiago roncagliolo (peruano), el arte de la resurrecion de hernan rivera letelier (chileno) dóberman de gustavo ferreyra (argentino) las intermitencias de la muerte de saramago.
Apr 20th, 2011 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0those books you recommend are a bit older everybody has read them except os sertoes (brazilian) that i dont know what it is.
Thanks Malen,
Apr 20th, 2011 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they were my contextural introduction to the Continent when I first came here, and I learned to love them.
I offered Martin the title Os Sertões, not because it was difficult, but because it covered many of the same themes as the M. Feirro poem, but from a non-fiction standpoint. It is a superb social history *of its time*.
Surprisingly to me, I found 'A Death in Brazil' by Peter Robb (2003), an antipodian, a natural update for modern times (up to Lula), with a remarkably readable contextural section on Zumbi and Canudos, and marvelous descriptions of contemporary corruptions, food & sex, murders, Collor, and the role of PC Farias.
de nada geoff
Apr 21st, 2011 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0doña flor, teresa batista cansada de guerra, gabriela, clavo y canela are classics
never heard of peter robb but if he writes of all that he must be good
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