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Cocker spaniel puppy will keep Catherine company while William is in Falklands

Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 05:13 UTC
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Prince William's wife Kate will not be on her own during her husband's tour of duty in the Falkland Islands: the couple have a new puppy, St James's Palace said Wednesday. Read full article

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  • MurkyThink

    This article says :

    Britain has around 1,000 military personal on the islands......

    I say :

    1,000 miltary personal together with their families equals to 2,000--2,500 personal and around have shoppers and few fishers becomes totaly 3,000--3,500 people......where is the these islands' people who have imposed by “ self determination rights”” ...where ?................!............

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Be serious

    Jurky Think says :
    “where is the these islands' people who have imposed by “ self determination rights”” ...where ?................!............”

    I say:
    Good of you to recognise that the Islanders have self determination rights.

    Cheers.

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    MurkyThink,
    Whats it got to do with you, anyway?

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monty69

    1 MurkyThink
    They don't bring their families on this posting, unless they are high ranking officers. Do your research.

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JustinKuntz

    #4 that should be DYOR, the usual cry from a numpty when he can't back his own claims.

    #1 Muppet

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1 Why did you call yourself MurkyThink? You may be murky but you clearly can't think.

    However, since the information is in the public domain, as you would know if you had two brain cells to rub together, you should know that the British Army has about 500 troops on the Islands. Plenty to see off the Argentine army. Then there are the pilots and ground crew for the 8 RAF aircraft. The Royal Navy is, of course, based on its ships. As Monty69 has pointed out to your single brain cell, few of these people take their families. Apart from anything else, it would interrupt the children's education.

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Filippo

    In 1970's my father responsible for helping to disappear many thousands of political traitors from this country but his work was undo by failiur of our coward military to win Las Mavlinas battle. But always remember that parents of disapeared were praising their government when we re-occupied Las Malvinas, this is proof that people believe in our country more than they care for their family. This is what make Argentine such strong country.

    We can be strong again, with all our might and all our passion directed at Las Malvinas and ignore all our problem at home, we can again be strong.

    Never give in to English colonials because our blood is thicker than water and the blood of Las Malvinas I believe is black gold for which many of us with right connections can get very rich from...

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • MurkyThink

    (5)

    You say :

    He can't back his own claims...................

    I say :

    Britain now has 1076 troops stationed in the Islands,as well as 4 vessel naval “” deterrence“” forces that could be quickly augmented.In 1985 Britain opened the new purpose built Mount Pleasant air base ,west of the capital Stanley so that reinforcement could be brought in swiftly in any emergency.....

    Argentina believes that it automatically acquired soverignty over the islands with independence from Spain..and reject the bottom-line British assertion that soverignty is for the local population to determine ,on the grounds that today's islanders are not aboriginal people..but in their overhelming majority descendants of settlers from Britain,8000 miles from away,finally the islands are on the Argentina's continental shelf..Argentina says its claim is therefore buttressed by the “”1958 UN Convention of Continental Shelf “”.......!..................

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Is that male cocker spaniel name Alejandro by the way?

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • anti-fascist2

    @ 8 MurkyThink

    quote: “Argentina believes that it automatically acquired soverignty over the islands with independence from Spain..and reject the bottom-line British assertion that soverignty is for the local population to determine ,on the grounds that today's islanders are not aboriginal people”

    Is that the aboriginal people who never lived on the Falklands or the Amerindians your people ethnically cleansed so you and all the other Europe colonials could settle in Argentina without the Indians getting uppity?

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • MurkyThink

    (10)

    You say:

    2nd paragraph............

    I say :

    Neithet Zapatista guerilla in Mexico,nor the indigenous self-governments in Colombia,nor the struggles by Andean and Mapuche people will find a full solution if the state is not re-founded.But it is also true that the states can not be re-founded without taking seriously their indigenous peoples.

    No one know how the process will turn out,but it is certain that there is no going back to the past......!...............

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JustinKuntz

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............did the liar from Argentina ever produce any proof about the expulstion of 1833 that never happened. Perhaps he'd like us to forget the many racist bigoted rants of his.

    Like ignoring the fact Argentina never ratified the 1958 Convention and like ignoring the fact that it does not give a claim to populated territory.

    Whilst the islands may be 8000 miles from the UK, they're over 300 miles from Argentine but the Falkland Islanders are there.

    What a muppet.TM

    Feb 02nd, 2012 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    (12) Justin(hishead)Kuntz
    And yet another little convenient lie from Mr. Kuntz...........

    He says:
    ”They're (the Malvinas n.a.) over 300 miles from Argentine”

    Google Earth shows:
    Just a tad under 215 miles ................

    Such an insecure personality that has to lie about even the most banal details..................
    What a Turnip!

    Feb 04th, 2012 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    ln another post sr Think you said they were 195 kms.
    Now its 215 miles.
    Can't you make your mind up?
    Or are you being just king turnip?
    Anyway, l couldn't care if they were 215 micros 215 cubic miles of seawater, the Falklands are still NOT yours.

    Feb 05th, 2012 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • row82

    Argentines are not very bright, given the choice between fascism and democracy they have chosen fascism every time. Given the choice between American hegemony and being an independent nation, they have chosen America hegemony every time, characterised by its attendant secret police (NSA, CIA, Special Forces and other such gestapo trappings, including their own) and an attendant military or militant right government.

    Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.

    Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.

    It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.

    But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.

    In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.

    At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't!

    Feb 06th, 2012 - 12:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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