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The white settlers’ dilemma
by James Nielson, Buenos Aires Herald - David Cameron was certainly being provocative when he accused Cristina’s government of “colonialism”. It was a quite dreadful thing to say. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesArgentina has long been an innocent victim
Jan 20th, 2012 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0mmmm aparently she has been threatend by elephant island,
briton (#)
Jan 20th, 2012 - 03:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0mmmmmmmm!I think she is better than the the fat boy's!!!mate!!
He's just saying it ,as it is...
Jan 20th, 2012 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Very well written, James Nielson.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, he has the Argentines summed up very well. They have the luxury of have the spoils of the Empire, a huge and fertile land but fail to acquire again the riches they once had. They play the victim when they have the spoils of the land stolen from the indigenous people.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If they had anything like a decent government they would be exploiting their own land, inculcating some work ethic into the population, and they would have an enviable future. But that flies in the face of the state capitalist society CFK is so intent on developing.
Randazzo? Sorry, did I miss something. Is that a traditional Mapuche, Tehuelche, Ona, Teba, or Guarani surname? Perhaps Selk'nam? I don't know... it's all so confusing, these colonials pretending to have been subjugated by colonialism.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I remember CFK on a visit to Spain saying how proud she was of her Spanish grandparents. So does that make her only the 2nd generation of her family to be born in Argentina? That's not many vs the 8/9 generations the Falkland Islanders have been in the Falklands...
god DAMN that was cold. awesome... but cold.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0this has to be the most clearly written and brutally honest deconstruction of argentuna's delusional self righteousness i have seen in a long time.
James Nielson... all i can say is congratulations. you said in one article what the world has been too polite to say for 50 years
Brutaly honest and just about says it all.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even a white elephant has many qualities,
Jan 20th, 2012 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fat of the land, poor bits of the feet [stumps]
The long trunk , of an equally long vicious tongue
Small brain, equated with a leader of the herd,
Yep not much difference then, in a nice way ?
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Fantastically knowledgeable, well structured and written piece. Well done sir.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0could very well turn the tide of argentina .
Jan 20th, 2012 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Care to make a comment Think?
Jan 21st, 2012 - 06:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0l'd like to see you twist, lie & wriggle out of this one.
Poor James Nielson, hope he's still got a job & has personal protection.
The silence of the argies here, is deafening.
Jan 21st, 2012 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(12) Isolde
Jan 21st, 2012 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A short comment; just for you my little vixen.
Poor James Nielson, you say………... Why???
He is a highly respected person in Argentina, having proved his worth many times to us, especially under the last dictatorship.
But….......… He is also a born and raised Englishman and, as such, he has his English opinions and bias….
It happens all the time in Argentina, dearest Sister…..
That's the way we are.........
@14 Think
Jan 21st, 2012 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What are your thoughts about what he said in the article, if you please.
He is also a born and raised Englishman and, as such, he has his English opinions and bias
Jan 21st, 2012 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be fair, he has a valid point,
The man is entitled to his own opinion,
Every man must live by his own code of conduct or honour,
Every decision has consequences,
A lord haw haw said,
Know one is forcing me, and I say what I want, and what I believe in,
And he took his opinion to the gallows with him .
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@15 Pugol-H,
Jan 27th, 2012 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well we gave him nearly a week.
Guessed he wouldn't answer.
These malvinistas don't like the truth & just ignore you when they can't think of an answer.
@17 lsolde
Jan 27th, 2012 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not a true malvinista here I think, more like a common or gardanal wind up merchant with ego issues. If he wasn't trying to upset people about this it would be something else, that much is clear. A supersillious pontificator not in the acendancy.
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