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One officer and 3 civilians killed during eviction of a landsite in north Argentina
A shootout between police and civilians in Argentina’s northern province of Jujuy left one officer and four protesters dead plus more than 30 injured, after clashes occurred during the eviction of more than four hundred families from a land site. Read full article
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Jul 29th, 2011 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Kinda like a wild west shoot-out. I was wondering if the impending eviction of a large traveller community in Essex will deteriorate into similar violence.
Jul 29th, 2011 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seems like the police must have shot the squatters needing to be legally evicted, and concurrently shot each other.
Jul 29th, 2011 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Plausible?
There maybe valance when the travellers in Essex are moved on, but there will not be trigger happy police shooting the travellers, like there was here, how long will it be before we have some one saying that it was not the police that were shooting, but the violent mob that would not do as they were nicely asked to do, is this what CFK meant when she says we will look after the poor,
Jul 29th, 2011 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and where are the argie bloggers to defend argentina,
Jul 29th, 2011 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hiding again, its all your fault they will be saying .lol
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Jul 30th, 2011 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0(6) Chinajack
Jul 30th, 2011 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Finally a comment worth of reading on this thread :-)
@ukkelper
Jul 30th, 2011 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because the UK police officers are almost like angels on earth?
correct, [only without the wings]
Jul 30th, 2011 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Jul 30th, 2011 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A short update about this episode for the uninformed turnips........................
It turns out that the shots that killed and injured many UNARMED policemen and UNARMED protesters came from the private guard corps that “protect” the property of one of Argentina’s richest families; the Blaquier’s.
The landsite in question is now being expropriated by the provincial government and given to the occupying families.
The untouchable oligarchs are not so untouchable anymore…..
Things have certainly changed in Argentina……..
10 Think-------- Forgive us if we dont believe you
Jul 31st, 2011 - 04:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0chuckle chuckle!!!!!!
TWIMC
Jul 31st, 2011 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody needs to believe me.
Internet is full with fresh news and info about this episode.
Isn’t you Brutons always saying that you are well educated and well informed?
Isn’t you Brutons always saying that that is what makes you so sophisticated?
Obviously that’s not the case of “Templar Knight Britishbulldog”!
12 Think ----Tongue in cheek remark tongue in cheek or dont you know what that means.
Jul 31st, 2011 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0CHUCKLE CHUCKLE.
That must mean that Britishbulldog is a ”tongue in cheek Templar Knight”
Jul 31st, 2011 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think, are you an informed turnip?
Jul 31st, 2011 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0A well informed turnip, all my ex-wifes an kids agree upon.
Jul 31st, 2011 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is so, so, election-worthy.
Jul 31st, 2011 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Barrionuevo wont get votes from the Bolivians and Paraguayanos that were squatting on the land....
Jul 31st, 2011 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Jul 31st, 2011 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those “rich” can end losing more than 15 has out of the 250,000 has they own in the Province.
They could very well end losing their liberty.
This family has a “killing” history of impunity since the seventies.....
Now they kill again........
They better watch it......
As I said above:
The untouchable oligarchs are not so untouchable anymore…..
Things have certainly changed in Argentina……..
14 Think-------would you like this tongue in cheek Templar Knight” to help sort them out or can you manage? I am in a good mood today so whats it to be?
Jul 31st, 2011 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No thanks Templar Knigkt.....
Jul 31st, 2011 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Recent history has shown us that for every time one Turnip “sorts” other Turnip out, we end with, at least, four more Turnips on our lap.
This time, we Argentineans are sorting them out the right way.........
Vincit Omnia Veritas
El Think
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3723012/Navys-biggest-ever-warship.html
Jul 31st, 2011 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0problem solved
18 Oct 2010
Aug 01st, 2011 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Navy aircraft carrier will be sold after three years - and never carry jets”
Brits, the Turkish metal scrap yard are extremely busy already.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8072041/Navy-aircraft-carrier-will-be-sold-after-three-years-and-never-carry-jets.html
@22Briton,
Aug 01st, 2011 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wouldn't have made more sense to have two carriers at half the size or even three at one third the size?
For all its impressiveness & technology it still cannot be in two places at once.
Not really Isolde if you have smaller carriers then you have less aircraft and so if some really big trouble flares up lets say hypothetically in the Falklands and Middle East or East Asia, then instead of sending 3 carriers with 36 aircraft to one location you send one with 40, and another one with 40 to the location, and on top of that these new toys can carry a fully airmobile battalion of marines if the needs arise + supporting elements.....
Aug 01st, 2011 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with Isolde, big carriers are big targets. Putting all our eggs in one basket so to speak - not sensible. Still if push comes to shove we can always fall back on other assets to deliver a punishing blow to an aggressor.
Aug 01st, 2011 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you may be correct, at this stage
Aug 01st, 2011 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but times move on,
the catapult tested one of the JSF to be used,
if and only if the carriers servive this goverment,
we may yet get both carriers,
i think the navy was being very clever in this,
plas the type 26 combate ships,
if we are to defend anything in the future, we must retain these ships
if we dont , then its bad new for these we protect,
you cant defend your mates with promises can you,
just a thought .
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