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Argentina bullying Uruguay on canal dredging and Falkland Islands flagged vessels
Uruguay has banned the docking of Falklands/Malvinas flagged vessel in the port of Montevideo, following on complaints from Argentina that several fishing vessels with that flag, in recent months had been operating from Montevideo. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd Uruguay is stupid then? OMG, you are so biased. URUGUAY isn't but fullfilling its constant, strong and public support to Argentine sovereignty rights over the islands. This is not new. URUGUAY is only being COHERENT and complying with its international obligations, something the UK is bullying not to. This Mercopress is incredibly biased...
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More sensasionalistic crap from MP, as usual.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My principle is that I don't comment on fish and fishers becouse
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the fishs are not honest animals and also evolutioned from snakes.
Good job Uruguay!
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chile´s next... Cristina K will be visiting Chile in Jan... and guess what issue she will be addressing in Chile??????? HO HO HO HO
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/world/latin-america/23082-argentine-president-will-visit-chile-in-january
Latinamerica will expell invadors, oh yeah!
It might be the case that Uruguay is forced to tow the Argentine line, since you still want to screw them over when they wish to extend their own port facilities at Nueva Palmira, facilities which will compete with your own in Bennies Hairies.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Again Argentina wants everything its own way, to the detriment of everyone else. Everyone else has to compromise, or give away things, except Argentina.
Yawn, nothing changes does it?
@5 Yeah Things change... take a look at the UK.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yer another nail in the British diplomatic coffin in the South Atlantic.....
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not to worry, UK is just around the corner...14000km/8000miles.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don´t forget St Helena....
Dec 15th, 2011 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By the way... how is the airport biulding doing?
Hurry up, you guys... you´ll need it!
There are rumors in BA that Cancilleria is working on a plan with Brasil and Uruguay to pressure cruise companies. In general terms they will bann these companies from their ports if they include Malvinas (falklands) as a destinatios. They hope to make them decide between the continental ports and the islands. Ouch...
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice to see you are back Think! We were surprised that you have not been chuckling on the recent o/g developments in The Falklands. It's strange since you commented every time the stock went down but not up? Strange....
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is easy for Argentina to bully Uruguay not so easy to bully Chile. Chilenos are business people and Argentina needs them more than they need Argentina same with Brazil. It is like Mexico trying to bully the USA, not going to happen.
Amigos,You all didn't guess what is goig on there ,then, i explain it
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they wanted to refuge to Uruguay with their fishing boats escaping
from Malvinas,whereas if I were like them I would rather to slip away
to Australia or New Zealand to more warmer countries also have similar
flags.
Sounds like argentina is using strong arm tactics on Uruguay, Stop the Falkland flag vessels! and no we wont allow any dredging to help your exports!!
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9 Have you ever heard of long haul jets and mid air refueling plus there is an airbase on Ascension island!!!
Long Live the Falklands.
I think I'm gonna tweet “MP: sensasionalistic crap” right now LOL :D
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just read it in a comment here and it was exactly what I was thinking.
I totally agree with the 1st comment here. Not much more to say...
(#) 13 Amigo
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gosh ! You are what a clever kid . Long Live Papamao.
Wait and see what Uruguay do when the dredging is all finished!
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isla Martín García is an Argentine island off the Río de la Plata coast of Uruguay. The enclave island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters;
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That must blow the argie proximity argument out of the water
One has to wonder just who runs Uruguay, President Jose Mujica or
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cristina Fernandez, more territorial ambitions.
3 ed (#) the fishes are not honest animals.
[Thank god you was not in charge of NOAS ARK]
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Perhaps when all the trade drops off, via another route,
Argentina will wake up
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(#) 2 Amigo
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My thought is a bit different from you have.
Mercopress is very clever to produce these kinds of articles on mainly
Malvinas/Argentina related actual,to attract many commentators
and maybe readers on,becouse that there are no any more posters here for the more serious world events and articles.
@10 ......'a plan with Brasil and Uruguay to pressure cruise companies. In general terms they will bann these companies from their ports if they include Malvinas (falklands) as a destinatios. They hope to make them decide between the continental ports and the islands. Ouch...'
Dec 15th, 2011 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are already choosing Punta Arenas, Puerto Williams and Port Stanley over Ushuaia and BA.... suck it down and live with it sunshine....
http://www.cruisetimetables.com/visitingportstanleyfalklandislands-jan2013.html
Dec 15th, 2011 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cruises visiting Port Stanley, Falkland Islands during January 2013
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@20 it's a matter of time to ask Chile to do the same. Peru, ecuador, colombia could also join in
Dec 15th, 2011 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More bad news for the colonial Brits...
Dec 15th, 2011 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thu, Dec 15
“Analysis - Costs, environmental risks may scupper Falklands oil”
“Companies looking at the Falklands in the grand scheme of things might just think the size of the prize isn't worth it given their wider interests,” said Ruaraidh Montgomery, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie in London”
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE7BE19X20111215?irpc=932
Marcos - the Reuters commentary is using old info, the data room is open and Mr Big oil is calling by :-)
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So Argentina is having to complain because Uruguay has said one thing yet done another. That has been my point all along and I think you will find Uruguay, Brazil and Chile will carry on.
British flag flying over the FI, commercial oil discoveries and a spineless and powerless Argentina. Yup nohing changes apart from increasing Argie impotence :-)
Just prooves my point in a previous comment section that Argentina cannot and should never be trusted. What is bieng aplied to Urugay will ultimatly be applied to all Argentinas neighbours in their effort to try to bring us down. But rest assured what ever she does will never change our constitutional right to determine our own future with the Country of our choosing and Argentina is not and never will be that choice so get used to it folk.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So Argentina is having to complain because Uruguay has said one thing yet done another. That has been my point all along and I think you will find Uruguay, Brazil and Chile will carry on.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0British flag flying over the FI, commercial oil discoveries and a spineless and powerless Argentina. Yup nohing changes apart from increasing Argie impotence
Sure beef!! And exxon and bp are diying to go to Malvinas....
@21... and google 'puerto argentino cruise ' .... the result = nada
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Kelper - trusting or not trusting Argentina is largely irrelevant. As this article suggests Argentina's neighbours continue to say one thing and yet do another. You will find that this continues as Argentina is all talk and no trousers.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Regarding the oil expo and Marcos's regular uniformed ejaculations I would advise everyone to look at the two RNSs released today. The big Institutional Investors are taking major positions and all crossing the 3% threshold. Looks like they know where this is going and getting in to multibag their way to big profits. Ultimatly these big boys are worth more than Argentina but I suppose that is not really that hard.
@17 Hahahaha! Your comments are always bordening stupidity, like your bosse`s.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A 'diplomatic' coffin now Think ? But you told me there was no blockade !!
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if Mujica will be around apologising to the British Ambassador again. Maybe he won't have to, if Uruguay doesn't get its dredged out channel, Agrentina may not get what she want either!
After all that is what this is all about - leverage !
Politicians, don't ya love 'em :-)
http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/argentina-threatens-court-action/
@18 briton: territorial ambition? it is funny how you expect Argentina to bully and press and threaten uruguay, NOTHING FURTHER FROM REALITY THAN THAT.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The logic of invading, using and bullying neighbors nowadays has more to do with Europe than with LatinAmerica. It happened in Europe in the World Wars and it happens again now with the situation on some members of the Union that are suffering the consequences of a dishonest and nasty purposes that some other members had when they decided to let them join.
The Pentagon and friends would love to see SouthAmerica divided into a million pieces. History proves that the British Empire and the USA had always made profit on wars between latinamerican ( I wonder if at least part of the profits ever reached the british or northamerican workers, I guess not) . And writing headlines like the one in this article is just a try to promote domestic conflicts in here.
What can be more ambitious than having a military base at an strategic place like Islas Malvinas on the other side of the world?
Nothing to be surprised about, colonial empires just invade, that's what they do. At least they could turn the Malvinas into a place for developing energy resources that are not contaminating and old-fashioned like petrol.
Vermin - it happened in 1982.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing to do with you, I suppose ?
Malviner - I don't know who will end up bringing the SeaLion field into production. Could be BP or Exxon just as much as it could be Shell, Tullow or Hess??? However, I think it may be an Asian oily, possibly CNOC or the Koreans. The fact that the Singapore gvt own a large slice of RKH and therefore the Sealion, Casper, Casper South/Shona and Beverley discoveries (and the countless smaller sands that lie above and below these finds) gives me a clue that this oil will end up in the East.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 02012 will reveal, but regardless of your desperate hope that such a thing will not come to pass, this field will go into production and there is nothing you can do about it. Just sit back and watch the show from the cheap seats :-)
EXCELLENT JOB ARGENTINA AGAIN, THIS IS A TRUE EVIDENCE! And it's not only Uruguay but the whole of the region incluing former UK (true) colonies!!!
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if Prince William will visit mainland South America? He would have a joyful time for sure :P
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0@32: I have nothing to do with war promoters, no matter Argentinian, British or else. Do you think that the dictators governing Argentina by then had to do with Argentinians so much? The popular choice was not their source of power, their support was coming from abroad and from the little group of agroexporter argentinian elite.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tatcher needed a war, Argentinian dictators also thought they needed one.
I stand for what I believe and I do not hesitate to be critic of Argentinians, nationality is not the first thing I see when I meet a person.
Colonialism is wrong, no matter who practices it. And the Malvinas is a scarf that the British Empire in decadence left. What is wrong is wrong, always.
The UK authorities pointing at the rest of the world with weapons of war is not fair and it makes the world a more insecure place. And I am sure it is not even what a lot of british people want. But how can they choose when there is a government that represses expressions of disagreement and protests in London? Imposing discipline with violence... Is that democracy?
Also, I smell a bit of TOTALITARISM at the UN Security Council.
@ 36 only a bit? lol If you talk about totalitarism, then you're talking about the UN Security Council.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 034 Alejomartinez
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0WTF is a 'true' colony, or an untrue colony come to that?
We aren't a colony of any kind, if that's what you're getting at. That gets right up your nose doesn't it?
You think you have the entire world on your side and it still doesn't get you anywhere. There's only 3000 of us and we just refuse to be bullied by you.
Well guess what, your 'support ' is an illusion. Your neighbours hate you. When Falkland Islanders travel abroad, they get sympathy from all sides....'poor you, those Argentines are complete b***^%$ aren't they'.
Argentina wouldn't know a 'good job' if it got up and bit them on the arse.
Alejo - so your great work is that you have realised that Uruguay has been telling you one thing and has been doing another! Sounds like you have been getting ignored to me :-)
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0So Vermin - as I thought, nothing to do with you !
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Beef.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0The gaps in mainland South America are getting sealed, the big oil companies are not interested, in a few words you guys are f@#$%^%
Rockhopper investor comment
“Last week I had the chance to speak to a chairman of a large oil company, I dropped the Falklands oil discovery into the conversation, his main concern for the find was he didn't think many, if any, of the big boys, would be knocking on the door”
why the British drivel makes you emotional? well, because it's fun!
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqNqHAOYmlo
Monty and most of you all: your reaction is the best evidence ever that Argentina is doing an excellent job. Not only my words. Not only Argentina's neighours. Not only South America. Not only the WHOLE Of the Caribbean now. Not only Spain, Portugal and many many others in the EU who recognise that there is a sovereignty dispute. Not only African countries. Not only Arab countries. Not only the 132 G77 countries. Not only Russia. As you see, WE ARE NOT WRONG. Truth and rigth will always prevail. You are even losing your only “credential”: might! EXCELLENT JOB ARGENTINA AGAIN. You know it. You react to it.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here's my reaction - yawn !
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0, 43 Alejomartinez
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not and only, are two different things,
199 countries in the world,
198 support you [your words not mine]
And what does Argentina do,
TALK, [carry on]
……………..
41 Marcos Alejandro
Make your mind up,
When there is no oil, you laugh,
Then when they find it,,[you want it]
Greed or ignorance ?
36 fermin
Colonialism is wrong, no matter who practices it
I stand for what I believe and I do not hesitate to be critic of Argentineans
[so getting the Falklands does not make you a coloniser ]???????
31 fermin
: territorial ambition? it is funny how you expect Argentina to bully and press and threaten uruguay, NOTHING FURTHER FROM REALITY THAN THAT..
[so you expect the world to believe that Argentina never ever bullies threatens or intimidates anyone,
[Now that’s the pied piper, if ever I saw one]
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43 Alejomartinez
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, Al, my reaction is the best evidence that I am still a free Falkland Islander with the right to give you the finger.
Yes you're right, South America, Spain, Russia, the Solar System, the Milky Way, hell, the whole universe recognises that there is a sovereignty dispute. We have sovereignty and you dispute it.
What they don't say is anything about you being right.
Of course I react to it, you pompous little prat; it gives me a giggle and plenty of other people some harmless entertainment.
everyone, everyone, in the first world, now the world knows the secret of Victoria!
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-15/victoria-s-secret-revealed-in-child-picking-burkina-faso-cotton.html
only a hundred years plus out of date .
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0people fighting again, I don't like people fighting. It's something horrible, isn't it?
Dec 16th, 2011 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8959865/French-leaders-declare-a-war-of-words-on-Britain.html
Claiming for sovereignty of a land on the other side of the world is already madness, and a lack of respect for International Diplomacy.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0British Government will go on playing unfair, corporate media will go on broadcasting lies, the truth is that the colonizers are not Argentinian ones. Down with contanimating colonizers, down with childish “self-determination” of the little group of settlers who live on the little cash that colonialism leaves them, giving away SouthAmerican resources to foreign corporations own by lazy investors addicted to the dirty cash of petrol, groups that care nothing about the british, the argentinians of anybody that works for them. They don't even care about the future of their grandchildren.
Down with warrior and death promoters, down with the empire propaganda. And DOWN in a PACIFIC and DIPLOMATIC way, as it was expected to happen even from british authorities before 1982.
Vermin - if you want to play with the big boys, then you have to learn the game.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0For a start off geography is is irrelevant, and distance is just geography.
Self - determination is the winner!
And the islanders have been exercising that since te 1960's.
50 fermin
Dec 16th, 2011 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Am I starting to get to you? Good, good.
The 'British' aren't claiming anything. We are; that 'childish self- determination' you speak of. You can call us names if you like, but it doesn't help you any. Your lack of respect for us just reinforces the negative views that some of us have for you already.
How is 'Britain' playing unfair? What lies? Be specific.
And we do care for our grandchildren. That is why we are exploring for oil. When the consolidated fund has £100 billion in it, we will never have to listen to a damn word you say ever again. Your neighbours will all be falling over themselves to be friends with us and you can either join them or not as you choose.
Personally, I think the threat to the environment is a high price to pay. If you were better neighbours we wouldn't need to do it.
Marcos - no need to get angry. All this time you said there would be no oil found and you were wrong :-)
Dec 16th, 2011 - 07:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0RKH have already had preliminary discussions (go back over the news flow if you want). This field will go into production and RKH will have plenty of offers. If you disagree then let's have a wager over it.
The loser admits defeat and no longer posts on Mercopress. Do you take up this proposal or are you a typical cowardly Argie?
Claiming for sovereignty of a land on the other side of the world is already madness, and a lack of respect for International Diplomacy.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, Proximity
Isla Martín García is an Argentine island off the Río de la Plata coast of Uruguay. The enclave island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters;
xbotox.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please Shut up. your are just embarrassing. When you brain tells your fingers to type...don't do it OK!
It really says everything when Argentines rejoice when they believe they are one step futher along ethnically cleansing or colonising the Falkland Islanders. It really says everything about the Argentine people (e.g. scum/vile).
Dec 16th, 2011 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also, I have heard that there are a number of Falkland Flagged fishing vessels in Uruguay right now who are being allowed to carry on with their work.....more evidence of Uruguay's “support”.
Ah welcome back Think, I see you have reared your ugly head once again when there is another symbolic nail to be hammered. Where are you when there is positive news for the current and rightful owners of the Falklands?
lol, this news agency is so bias it´s actually funny.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 054, stick up your junta
Martin garcia issue was resolved with a treaty with Uruguay, in which there was a swap of islands (juncal island)
You should read before talking abouts things you don´t know about.
Hello Uruguay. Would you like a real friend? Would you like a friend that stands by its word? Would you like a friend that accepts and believes in your sovereignty?
Dec 16th, 2011 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Would you like a friend that can turn Argentina into a cinder in less than 30 minutes? You know where!
53 Beef, I am not a gambler nor a pirate thief like yourself. However I have to thank England this time, Malvinas was a lot cause and thanks to their oil exploitation awoke a nation and a continent in a common cause, send the English pigmy nation back to their island in Europe.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 042 xbarilox (#)
Dec 16th, 2011 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, xbollox, but we consider both sides and do not twist the facts for either side.
I have already told you there is no British Empire. However we still have far more influence in the world because, unlike Argentina, we do not lie to the faces of our friends (Juggolo @ Washington-laughing stock of the diplomatic community).
There is one thing collaborationist Mugica will be unable to give Argentina:
Dec 16th, 2011 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“La Cumparsita”!
Philippe
Comment removed by the editor.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Insults come from people who have self-esteem problems and small penis, consequently any woman married to a man with a such a problem will be sexually frustrated...
Dec 16th, 2011 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thu, Dec 15
“Analysis - Costs, environmental risks may scupper Falklands oil”
“Companies looking at the Falklands in the grand scheme of things might just think the size of the prize isn't worth it given their wider interests,” said Ruaraidh Montgomery, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie in London”
Ha ha, when Marcos has to admit defeat he resorts to the old penis insult. Nice try Marcos but you are transparent.
Dec 16th, 2011 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like I said, I am happy that FI oil will go into production and am willing to put some cash on it. You cannot even take a point and are unwilling to back any case up with any capital, be it real or virtual.
Are you uncertain of the eventual outcome Marcos or is the realization just too much to handle?
(#) 57 Amigo
Dec 16th, 2011 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This news agency is bias
Do you know it's address ?
#65 ed
Dec 16th, 2011 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For all the bias you need regarding Argentina covered by MercoPress the address is:
Casa Rosada,
Plaza de Mayo,
Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
OK?
(#) 66 Amigo
Dec 16th, 2011 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just a small reminding that Argentina is not ruled & ordered from
neither Casa Rosada nor Plaza de Mayo .
#67 ed
Dec 16th, 2011 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not according to the govt website.
@ 57 Beto
Dec 16th, 2011 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Martin garcia issue was resolved with a treaty with Uruguay, in which there was a swap of islands (juncal island)
You should read before talking abouts things you don´t know about
argy scammers :-))))))
Juncal Island
The island is low and flat, and can be completely submerged during high water. It has a total length of 4.91 km and a maximum width of 1.95 km.
(#) 68 Amigo
Dec 16th, 2011 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you know the all governments are liar.
Marcos- when please has England ever attempted to search for and exploiut oil offshore?
Dec 16th, 2011 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FACT- UK has NEVER attempted any Exploration - let alone talk of exploitation!! If they have/are - please give me the FACTS - not bullshit!
Who controls the zone?
Who Issues Licences
Who controls and sets Safety Standards.
To whom do the Companies make their Environmental Impact plans and Oil Spill continigency Plans proposals to?
Do please tell me if you find the words “England” or London in their address?
Give you a clue - The Islands are no longer an old fashioned Colony(like what you want to make us!) - but we are a self governing territory with our own offshore EEZ.
71 Islander1 “The Islands are no longer an old fashioned Colony”
Dec 16th, 2011 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So is a modern English colony in the 21st century now? :-)
(71) Islander1
Dec 16th, 2011 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is the folllowing information ”British”, ”Clear” and ”Fresh” enough for you; Islander1? :
1) ”…………..a cluster of British-based, London-listed companies have rushed to explore the new frontier of the Falklands basin.
2) ”Licences are awarded by the Falkland Islands governor in consultation with the British Foreign Office, with terms of 9 percent royalties and 26 percent corporate tax. ………………..”
3) ”A British parliamentary report last year asked for clarity over responsibility for oil spills and raised questions about smaller companies' ability to foot the bill for a big spill…………….”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/12/15/uk-falklands-energy-idUKTRE7BE19X20111215
Env, y and jealously
Dec 16th, 2011 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Envy, and jealously.
.
Is it only my impression, or does Mercopress get more inflamed with time? No, I'm pretty sure that's not impression alone. Something's changed: 1) either something has happened that has not pleased Mercopress editors; 2) or, less excitingly, Mercopress editor in chief has changed and so has writing style (namely, to a more shill direction).
Dec 18th, 2011 - 07:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps they know more than we do,
Dec 18th, 2011 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and in responce just trying it on, to see the re-actions .
Barbara Tuchman wrote an excellent history book by the name of 'The March Of The Folly' whose reading should be obligatory for all people in all governments before they swear into office. It analises how goverments in world history between Troy and Vietnam, pursued policies contrary to their own interest, despite advice and warnings against such policies, before they were put to work. And with this short comment I believe I'll call it a day. Remember the dead, Argentines and British, that 1982 folly brought upon us: our tears dried, but we won't forget our children. Season greetings to all, friends and former foes! Argie aka Salvador
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