MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands’ resumes support for containerized international freight services
The Falkland Islands government and the local fishing industry have promised support for the maintenance of the containerised international freight services, which is expected to resume activities in the coming months. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI thought Twinky said this was proof the blockade is working.....I wonder if he would like chips or salad as a side portion to his words?
Aug 18th, 2011 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2011/01/07/falkland-islands-saas-stoppage-director-claims-partners-pressured
As usual Mr Think was basing all of his statements on pure speculation and what he hoped would occur. Once again Think has been proved wrong (Rockhopper Exploration). Think and his cronies need exit their fantasy world and start believing the facts. We are not going anywhere.
Aug 18th, 2011 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think, the poor mans Nostradamus, I recall him stating that cruise ships wouldnt be calling into Stanley due to some cunning argie plan
Aug 18th, 2011 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cruises visiting Port Stanley, Falkland Islands on 02 March 2013
http://www.cruisetimetables.com/visitingportstanleyfalklandislands-02mar2013.html
TWIMC
Aug 18th, 2011 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Subsidies, subsidies, subsidies......................
The article says:
”Although money-loosing, the SAAS service with the South American continent rendered a great container service for the shipment of the Falklands’ fish, meat and wool.”
I say:
Well, that’s the cunning plan…… All Malvinas business shall, step by step be rendered “money-losing” ones………..
All Malvinas business shall, step by step be rendered “money-losing” ones………..
Aug 18th, 2011 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And they are going to meet a tall dark stranger, whilst going on a long journey :-)))))
Think, it is very simple, the last route became a permanent loss as the direct result of Argentina blackmailing the Int Container line SAAS linked in to- HamburgSud. That meant they were unable to offer competitive services for frozen fish - the main container cargo that would have made the route pay. All we need to do this time is link to a container line that does not operate to Argentina and can thus be bribed, and perhaps from a different continent as well. Rounds 1 and 2 to you we admit, in the bribing and economic threats to Maersk and then Hamburg Sud - but rest assured the Falklands - being British - will always win the final battle, and that is the important one.
Aug 18th, 2011 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A little cash from the hydrocarbons profits may 'oil' the wheels of commerce :-)
Aug 18th, 2011 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 Islander1 ------ you would have thought by now that Argentina would get the message that Britain always wins the final battle, they must be thick as two short planks of wood.
Aug 19th, 2011 - 02:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I was reading about the life of David Rockefeller, and whoa! he is and has been doing so much for the global government, isn't he lovely? Founder Honorary Chairman of the Council of The Americas, Chairman of The Americas Society, Founder of the Forum of the Americas, Financial backer and board member of the Institute for International Economics, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commision and many more achievements for this old chap lol and here you are fighting for a piece of land and oil that belongs to lovely Rockefeller and his friends hahaha You own nothing suckers, these guys own it everything hahaha
Aug 19th, 2011 - 02:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if George Walker Texas Ranger Bush will rule over us, I like him. The countries are getting united under the control of these super-rich greedy men :) Something is going to happen. I hope the islanders don't suffer...much :(
PS: Isolde, just in case you suddenly vanish away, remember that I love you!!!
Old turkey neck will never beat the Islanders.
Aug 19th, 2011 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yum yum, lovely tasty words Think.......
Aug 19th, 2011 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can see how an adolescent UNASUR might use THI as a cause celebre, and could make as its first (and probably only) successful co-ordinated SA action, the isolation of TFI from the Continent.
Aug 19th, 2011 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is not beyond the bounds of possibility, given the need for the continent to hang together when the going gets economically tougher around the world.
What might be bad for TFI might be good for the continent, but I cannot see any liklihood that SA could and would develop through continental co-ordination. Chavez is promoting this path but via an unacceptible and impractical ideology.
No, I can't see it happening.
@ 9 He's also Honorary Chairman of the Japan Society; Chairman of Morningside Heights, Inc; Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Council for U.S.-China Trade; Co-founder of the Synergos affiliated Global Philanthropists Circle; Trustee of Historic Hudson Valley and Chairman of the Stone Barns Restoration Corporation.
Aug 19th, 2011 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why didn't you mention those?
(6) Islander1
Aug 19th, 2011 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You write:
”Rest assured the Falklands - being British - will always win the final battle”
I wonder:
Can't you grasp how guilelessly jingoistic you sound ?
But………………......., by Jingo.................., keep it up !
British haughtiness is the best card in the Argentinean hand…...............
Think - maybe you are the jingoistic one- not all battles are won with military might.
Aug 19th, 2011 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 014 Think
Aug 19th, 2011 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0''British haughtiness is the best card in the Argentinean hand….........''
Really? How reassuring.
(16) Sweet Monty96….
Aug 19th, 2011 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even when you try, you can’t match the British jingoism of the likes of Islander1.
It must be your better half surfacing (the Chilean one:-)
As long as the islanders wish to remain british,
Aug 19th, 2011 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0their is not much argentina can do but talk.
17 Think
Aug 19th, 2011 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know who you think I am, but my better half is about as Chilean as English Bob.
(19) Monty96
Aug 20th, 2011 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0My bad................
Long ago, a Kelper commented in here about being half-Chilean.
Somehow, I thought I remembered it was you.
Obviously, I remembered incorrectly.
It is time to round up all those latin americans who do not support our claim to las malvinas.
Aug 20th, 2011 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is time to stop talking to ideots and ignorant colonial pigs and time for final solution to malvinas problem!!!
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF TALK. COLONIAL PIGS IGNORE US THEY MUST BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO ARGENTINE DEMANDS AND FORCED TO COMPLY WITH ARGENTINE DEMANDS AND FORCED TO GO HOME!!!
THEY HAVE BEEN ON ISLAND FOR 183 YEARS AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND HAVE NO RIGHTS!!!
UN GO TO HELL!!!
US GO TO HELL!!!
EU GO TO HELL!!!
WTO GO TO HELL!!!
IMF GO TO HELL!!!
BRITISH PIGS GO TO HELL!!!
Bravo flip flop Author! Author!
Aug 20th, 2011 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And all this invective (#21) because Argentinan team lost to the Parents of Patagonia.
Aug 20th, 2011 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sad, man, really sad.
Indoctrinated propaganda
Aug 20th, 2011 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The final solution .
Flipper 2= flipper 2
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@20Think,
Aug 21st, 2011 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l think Monty means her husband when she says her “better half”.
lt's a British thing, you wouldn't understand.
(25) Cher Isolde……………
Aug 21st, 2011 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do you Brits persist in that haughty believe that all foreigners are halfwits?
I understand perfectly what ”Better Half” means in English.
And it’s not a British thing……................................................ It's a Viking thing.
It’s “Bättre Hälft” in Swedish and “Bedre Halvdel” in Norwegian and in Danish.
In the old days, it was used exclusively by Men to refer to their Women.
You learned it from them Vikings together with thousands of other small(små) words(ord) as man(mand), house(hus), tree(træ), ship(skib), sword(sværd), knife(kniv) bow(bov), bread(brød)…..etc. etc.etc.etc………..…..................and etc.
Anyhow, I’m still pretty sure that it was Ms.Monty96 that wrote about her being “Half Chilean”……
But apparently, her “Lesser (British) Half” chose to misinterpret, misread and misquote my clear reference to her “Better (Chilean) Half”……..
You Brits (and half brits) are quite good at that………..
Dear me some of these Patagonian-Argentine-Norwegian-Swedish -Icelandic-Equadaorian- Spaniards sure are thin skinned.
Aug 21st, 2011 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wales certainly gave those cry babies a Rugby lesson on Saturday.
Can't wait for the World Cup to see them Argies cry some more.
“It's a Viking thing.”
Aug 21st, 2011 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That would explain the term being used by roman poets hundreds of years before.
And Egyptians before that I believe .
Aug 21st, 2011 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(28) and (29)……. Chuckle chuckle™
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Our two resident dyslectic turnips playing with words they don't understand and getting burned...............
The Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Chinese and even the Babylonians may have used the CONCEPT, “Better Half” much before the Vikings.
But certainly not the TERM, “Better Half”, of unmistakable Scandinavian/Germanic origin:
Bättre Hälft (Swedish)
Bedre Halvdel (Danish/Norwegian)
Besser Halb (German)
Better Half (Anglo-Saxon)
You learned it from them Vikings together with thousands of other small(små) words(ord) as man(mand), house(hus), tree(træ), ship(skib), sword(sværd), knife(kniv) bow(bov), bread(brød)…..etc. etc.etc.etc………..…..................and etc.
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think,
Apart from 'knife' and 'bow' if it means 'front of ship', none of these words are Norse borrowings. They were in English before the Viking invasions. They are of common Germanic origin so have cognates in a number of Germanic languages.
(31) dab14763
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 04:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Did you ever give that 100 Soles to some poor soul, as in our bet about Mr. Humala winning the Presidential Election in Perú?
You never reverted, so I suppose not………
Typical haughty ungentlemanly British Turnip…….
Anyhow, Where do you “Think” the different Germanic languages originated from?……
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#History
Educare yourself.
Dear Thinkus Horribilus(Roman name)or is it Thinkus bad-axe or bad-ass(Viking version), you sure are thin skinned. No wonder it was easy for us to eventually defeat your ancestors & throw them out of England, France & Russia.Though as Dad comes from Yorkshire l've probably got Viking blood too. Just think, Cher haughty Think, we might even be related!
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 05:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where is your sense of humour, oh haughty turnip. Lighten up, as my kids say. Blessed be.Peace.♥♥♥♥♥
13/07/2011
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 06:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dear ,
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And I am well aware of where the Germanic languages originated. That was long before emergence of the Norse language, the Viking era, or the Danish settlements in England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
(33) Cher Isolde
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0At 1,58 m you are surely more of an Alec Issigonis design than a Viking descendant.........:-)))
@35 Cher Think,
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, l got my blue eyes & flaxen hair from somewhere.
(27 Be serious) England also got it's arse whipped by Wales the week before lol you village clown there are more welsh people in Argentina than in England lol
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is the origin of this expression?
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ancient Middle Eastern Origin of the Expression “Better Half”
One theory suggests that the origin of this is in an ancient Middle Eastern legend.
When a Bedouin man had been sentenced to death, his wife pleaded with the tribal leader that because they were married, she and her husband had become one, and that to punish one-half of the union would also punish the half who was innocent.
The court agreed and the man’s life was saved by his “better half
It was used that way by the Roman poet Horace and later by Statius.
Sir Philip Sidney was the first to put into print the use of this phrase to mean spouse, in The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1580
mind you, thinking about it,
as mr think is the expert, perhaps only his answers are sufficient,
34 dab14763
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 02:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for, finally, reverting about our “bet”.
It was high time!
37
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least England didn't cry their eyes out like big babies.
la la la la la ,
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh what a life, to be british,
oh what drag to be argentine,
if you change your minds, let us know, lol
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