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Malvinas ‘Ushuaia declaration’ will be approved this week by the Argentine congress

Monday, March 12th 2012 - 07:51 UTC
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The chairman of the Argentine Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee, Guillermo Carmona said that the recent ‘Ushuaia Declaration’ claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be posted to all Parliaments world-wide to ratify and further advance Argentina’s position in the dispute. Read full article

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  • Stefan

    Another pointless gesture. Everyone out there knows you're crazy, Argentina. No need to submit it in writing.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brit abroad

    Everyone must know the RG stance, and those who dont, probably dont give a flying feck!!! BOOOOOOOORRRRRING!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Doveoverdover

    Perhaps it's laying the ground work for a C24 resolution in June that this year will be put to the UN General Assembly for adoption. As gestures go this is definitely a gesture but when the best you can do is gesture you have to take your chances where you find them.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Ton

    Wow ! Uganda ! Wow! Somebody wake me up if anything important happens :-)

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Cestrian

    This is now all about internal politics within Argentina and nothing to do with the rest of the world. Looks like Argentina are all but admitting defeat here.

    First of all as we know there is no need for the “Ushuaia declaration” (snigger, snigger) as they already have this written into their constitution. This is about making them feel good about themselves and making it look as though they are doing something.

    Also what a climbdown re the UK govt. they have obviously got absolutely nowhere with bringing the Prime minister into this discussion and have therefore decided to lower their sights on a parliamentary committee.

    “...it is anticipated that contacts with Westminster will be re-established” - I wouldn't bank on it. The UK doesnt want to talk to you about it!

    Oh dear.

    The first step for Argentina is to rescind all declarations and constitutional parts that insist on sovereignty. Until that happens no discussions can be had.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Teaboy2

    So how many countries will reneged on their ratifying our treaties with the UK that supports the UK's sovereingty. Errr very few, probably limited to just argentina and mercusor nations and the consequences for any other nation would be to great and i doubt they would want to be seen as a nation that dishonours its treaties or goes against the UN Charter by refusing to recognise the islanders wish to remain british.

    So yeah, yet another fail by argentina that is designed to distract its peoples attention from the real problems in argentina. God everyday almost, we have argentina making statements about the falklands, yet very rarely is the UK making new of different statements. Though we could indeed see this new act as an a breach of our sovereignty and as an hostile act by argentina, as it clearly is an attempt to steal sovereignty from us.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    *Snore*

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • nerosaxo

    Maybe you could hire Kony as an advisor in Uganda!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GALlamosa

    Well this will be a seismic event in world politics, I can just see Presidents and Prime Ministers all over the world grabbing for the phone to their foreign ministers for an full briefing.

    Significant signs of policy failure. Thanks for all the free publicity though, the cause of self determination has moved forward all over the world in the last few months......perhaps CFK should put that in her communique and claim credit for it. Now that would be in character.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • M_of_FI

    Oh no! Another nail in the coffin for the democratic wishes of the Falkland Islanders.......

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @9 I don't think the KFC government knows that people laugh at them, use them as an example of bad governance and they're basically run by a Mafia. So bearing that in mind, imagine what happens when that gem of a communication arrives at your desk.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    Sounds like the first step to war. Hitler did the same when he started claiming countries around him.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 8 nero

    But Kony is theologian.
    Some US troops settled there not UK ones.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @12 yurp, the analogy of German expansionism in 1930s has been flagged up a few times.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    you have nothing to worry about argentina, im sure the countries in the civilized world will put its less important home affairs and world standing to one side and have nothing better to do than to take the risk and support your crying propoganda on such an all to familiar baseless claim of which your have proven hostililties both past and present.

    would you be a reference for a violent thug applying for a job at a nursery?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    “Guillermo Carmona said that links with Westminster will be re-established”... will they Guillermo? Will they really?

    “Guillermo Carmona said that the recent ‘Ushuaia Declaration’ claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be posted to all Parliaments world-wide to ratify and further advance Argentina’s position in the dispute.” ... will you post them Guillermo? Will you? Will you really post them?

    *laughs*

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    The problem for me, and I suspect a lot of Brits, is I just cannot get my head around how stupid these people in charge of Argentina are.

    Do they really think all this nonsense is going to impress any other nation outside LatAm?

    As for having a dialogue with Britain because they have a new Ambassador, well, I can only hope they all hold their breath until that happens.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    All nations of the world will have their Foreign Affairs departments briefed about TFI, the Argentinian Constitutional inclusion and the UK position, or will at least have file-notes from UN meetings.

    The Argentinian 'declaration' distribution to the world's governments has yet to be seen, but it will probably invite the nations to sign up to an 'insistance' that the UN and its Resolutions in this matter be 'respected' and the sovereignty issue be re-opened in the full light of publicity.
    Not 'heavyweight support'.

    This would (will?) work counter to the decolonisation activities of the UN C24 and could reasonably take TFI off the C24 agenda forever. Their C24 brief is seek return of lands to the indiginants, not to wholly depopulate countries.
    With no prior population, TFI falls outside its remit, largely if not wholly.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    I'm not sure I understand this.

    Are they basically writing to every government in the world stating “Las Malvinas Son Argentinos” with a request that they sign and return it to clarify they agree?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Xect

    Yes they are begging for support essentially.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    2nd World war.....Terrible business, terrible business... I complained about it, wrote a letter I did. A strongly worded letter!!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    I have visions of people of all creeds and colours shuffling through piles of maps and scratching their heads.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    Who gives a monkeys.......? Bla bla bla etc.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornishair

    in the words of the argentinean bloggers

    hahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahaha, silly repugnant argentinean goverment, trying to steal the falklanders land. colonial pigs etc, etc :)

    Just why?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    If anyone missed this link I posted the other day they should take a look:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vys78sGB7Y

    I wouldn't normally post youtube video links but the creator of this masterpiece was a comedy genius. Brits and Falklanders will be falling off their seats laughing (as would most neutrals at a guess). Argentines maybe not.....

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    I don't typically post Youtube videos, but this one describes peaceful negotiation with Argentina quite well I think.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOtgLmJtqs

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    If nothing else, this latest comical act reflects the Argentine goverments complete and utter lack of respect for the Intelligence of all the worlds countries, by attempting to fool them with the same dispicable mis-information and lies they use to brainwash young Argentines.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BritishguyfromLondon

    Funny how no pro-Argentine poster has seen fit to offer their comments on this one. Perhaps they have realised how fruitless it would be to do so...

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • nerosaxo

    @ 13
    If KONY is considered a theologian in Argentina you are sicker than I thought. The guy kindnaps children! The males are Boy Soldiers and the females sex slaves. Although he could be living there considering your record of giving refuge to War Criminals..

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 29

    “” KONY 2012 “” is a crafty piece of propaganda.It happens to have been released at just the right moment in history.The movie's narrator warns “” this movie will expire at the end of 2012“”.Of course it is just coincidence that Obama is running for re-election this year.The camera often often makes shy glances towards shot of “” KONY“”and “” OBAMA“” posters next to one other.The message is clear “” elect one man and you'll
    defeat the other “”.

    Another events a film neglects to mention is that Uganda's government announced the large oil reserves at the northern part cıuntry last spring.Of course this is probably coincidence and has nothing to do with Obama's decision to send special forces to Uganda several months later,despite this event that the LRA has shifted their operations to Congo.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Anyone wishing to read about the latest claimed friend of Argentina:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

    I would assume even the most ardent malvinista would dissassociate from him.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 31

    In 1954 a mass detention program began named “” Operation Anvil“” aiming to uproot Mau Mau from the Kenya capital Nairobi,believed to be it's nerve centre.General Sir George Erskin commanded 25000 troops to purge the city sector by sector of all members of Kiyuyu,Embu and Meru tribal groups who were placed in barbed wire enclosures.In a two weeks period 20000 males detainees were sent to be interrogated while 30000 women and children were placed in the reserves ,ultimately to be moved to “ protected villages” with 23 hour curfew.

    The rebellion itself was defeated by 1956,According to the British Officials Figures 11000 KLFA fighters were killed while British loses fewer than 200. There were 1819 African civilians death on each side and 32 white civilian death.Emergency rule ,which provided legal protection for perpetrators of repressiononly end in 1959.Historians estimate that 100000 -- 300000 Africans were killed.

    Of course atrocities carried out in other British colonies such as Malaya and Cyprus will increasingly brought into the light.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rhaurie-Craughwell

    Newflash, Argentines make another declaration on their own claims......32 so because a couple of thousand machete wielding maniacs were killed in the 1950's this enables a group of Malvinas banner waving fanatics to override the demcoracy and human rights of a couple of thousand indigenous inhabitants of a group of islands 400 miles away from your coast, which you have never ruled except by means of an aggressive illegal invasion in 1982 and a bunch of smelly murdering gauchos pooing in mud huts for 3 months in 1833?

    Wow welcome to the thought process of Malvinista fanatics :)...whatever next, why don't we as the UK claim sovereignty over Argentina because about 150 years ago, she wiped out the Mapuche :) Mclick, did you buy your arguments on E-bay, clearly you've been ripped off mate :)

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    It's hard to know where to start. How on earth have you managed to link that to your lauding of Joseph Kony?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 34

    when the non profit “” TRI “” launched on line video called “” KONY 2012“”
    filled wth lightened lights,footage and battle scarred African children and tearful appeals to emotion ,the movie rallies its viewers around a single goal : stopping the Lords' Resistence Army (LRA)and its leader Joseph KONY with the help of US military of course and Oprah Winfrey.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    People - am I talking to a bot?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 36

    At first glance that's not such a bad idea After all “”LRA “”has kidnapped perhaps thousands of Ugandan children and forced them into their milita in their bid to topple the Ugandan Government.The movie ignores ,however is that Ugandan government and its US backed leader Y.Museveni doesn't appear to have a much better record when it comes to human rights.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Can anyone else follow this?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 38

    Do you want to follow Cecil Rhodes
    who said (wrote)that...
    “”“ Africa is still lying ready for us,It is our duty to take it ,It is our duty to seize every oppotunity of acquiring more territories and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simple means more of the Anglo-- Saxon Race ,more of the best,the most human,most honorable race the world possesses. ””

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Okey dokey.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    McClick #31, refutation:

    The total number of Kikuyu, and explicitly Mau Mau deaths attributable to the Emergency is disputed.

    Caroline Elkins claims ‘tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands’. Her estimate has been challanged by Blacker who demonstrated that Elkins' numbers were gross over-estimates, explaining that 300,000 deaths implies that half of the adult male population would have been wiped out—yet the censuses of 1962 and 1969 show no evidence of this—the age-sex demographic pyramids for the Kikuyu districts do not even show indentations.

    His study dealt directly with Elkins' claim that “somewhere between 130,000 and 300,000 Kikuyu are unaccounted for” at the 1962 census.
    Half of Blacker's own estimate of 50,000 comprises children under the age of ten – child mortality is still common in the region today, but was much reduced during this colonial period through the DDT malaria control programme.
    25,000 children is a recurrent mortality – replicable even today across much of Africa;
    25,000 ‘lost’ adults represents people who prefer not to be found and recorded – remember these were ‘troubled times’.

    Carruthers of Rutgers University (who noted that Elkins had managed to confuse the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda!), said
    'Elkins proves the least reliable guide to African history.... this was NOT genocide; history is not well served by its sloppy invocation'.

    The British likely killed in excess of 20,000 Mau Mau insurgents in what was, until recently in Iraq, the most vicious ‘Dirty War’ that the British have encountered.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • nerosaxo

    @13
    KONY is a War Criminal yet @8 consiers him to be a theologian.
    See what happens when you change the script!
    I am all for freedom of religion but that is streatching the limits. I guess your indoctrination is purely concentrated on The Falkland Islands to the detriment of a universal education.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    Quite a Debs ball

    Mau Mau militants were guilty of numerous atrocities. The most notorious was their attack on the settlement of Lari, on the night of 25–26 March 1953, in which they herded Kikuyu men, women and children into huts and set fire to them, hacking down with pangas anyone who attempted escape, before throwing them back in to the burning huts.[172] The attack at Lari was so extreme that “African policemen who saw the bodies of the victims . . . were physically sick and said 'These people are animals. If I see one now I shall shoot with the greatest eagerness'”,[91] and it ”even shocked many Mau Mau supporters, some of whom would subsequently try to excuse the attack as 'a mistake

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Revealed: Britain's torture of Obama's grandfather

    “During two years' detention he was subjected to horrific violence, according to the story's authors, Ben Macintyre and Paul Orengoh. Tortures inflicted on Kenyan prisoners sometimes involved such barbaric implements as ”castration pliers”.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/dec/03/obama-grandfather-maumau-torture

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornishair

    44 knowing what argentineans did to there own people, why on earth would you bring up british police actions in the 50's. oh dear!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    45 knowing what British did to people of Irak a few months ago and are doing to the people of Afghanistan nowadays oh dear!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornishair

    if you mean iraq, thats was more then a couple months ago (try years). and Afghanistan is as far as i know a legal war. NATO wouldn't of gone in if it wasn't :p

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    I said a few months ago not a couple(Irak/Iraq). Killing innocents civilians is part of a legal war? I can't imagine if that war was “illegal” then.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    46 Marcos Alejandro

    Do us all a favour and try and get something right for once, just once will amaze us all.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornishair

    do you not uderstand what happens in a war!. innocent people die in war, its been happening since the beginning of time. no in the uk really wanted to fight in iraq, apart from tony (fucking) blair. afghanistan was the right war, fought for the right reason. sadly you can't win a afghanie war and history shows that. i don't have to explain to you everything thats happened since 2001 do i

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    49 ChrisR

    http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DV6HS6jyxoFE

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cornishair

    ahh try to argeue baked :p seems i can't write a sentence lol

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    46 Marcos Alejandro

    and what, dare I ask, has Argentina done to help stop the flow of global Terrorism? What deed has the people / armed forces of Argentina done that is worthy of a note in history to stop the spread of Islamic Terrorists?

    Don't bother to reply....... We already know the answer

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • honoria

    @ 44 Marcos Alejandro
    Hang on a minute ... acouple of threads ago you were gleefully informing us about Argentinians pouring boiling oil on people. No moral high ground for you.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    There are 'shades of grey' in wars, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, 'conflicts', and in internal 'peace-keeping'.
    And it depends upon which 'side' you are on as to whether a particular act is a justified pacification or a terrorist outrage.

    Sometimes the situation is so imbalanced that the good guys and bad guys are obvious to all - this is the world-view of the Falkland Islands short war a generation ago.

    Re-writing histories is an inevitable part of the after-years of war;
    what we are seeing is the fogging of history by CFK and her propaganda machine.
    It is difficult because the memories of the reality are still alive and well, and widespread around the world.

    She may see this as her truely-believed view of her Argentinian perspective, or she may be consciously manipulating something she knows to be wrong for entirely personal-political reasons.

    In either case, she is wanting to take the Argintinian people with her - to keep her in power and, perhaps, to put the country on a de facto war footing where the best practices of peacetime macroeconomics can be set aside.

    This latter needs a delicate touch, because it may actually result in a heavy-shooting-war involving Buenos Aires state territory and terrorist acts on the British mainland.
    This is definitely not in the interests of either people.

    With or without a war, Argentina is set for another period of military rule; either outright Military Junta or Puppet Peronistas.

    The national income will - as always - be powerfully siphoned away from the Argentinian common man.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 41 .......................@ 54

    Have you ever heard the word of “” Lily Pad “” ?
    this word in US Military Jargon referred as “” Co operative Security Locations -- CSL s“”
    The report list countries with “” lily pads“” as Algeria,Botswana,Gabon,Ghana,Kenya,Mali,Namibia,Sao Tome,Sierra Leone,Tunisia,Uganda,Zambia.
    US also has access to military locations in almost all parts of Africa.
    US uses military facilities in Kenya for its “” anti terrorism campaign“”in the horn of Africa.
    Well known that US also has military ties with Kenya and Uganda in East Africa,CJTF-HOA also list Burundi,Chad,Comoros,DRC listed Madagascar,Mauritius,Mozabbique,Rwanda,Tanzania,Uganda and Yemen as “” areas of interests“”.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Xect

    McClick have you taken something? Your posts grow increasingly bizarre.

    I did find Idlehands responses above to your posts highly amusing.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    54 honoria Are you on drugs kelper?

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 55

    we should be very careful when using the “” grey “” word for these strategical subjects to inform our poster mates here.

    FOR EXAMPLE

    Africa is the only “” grey “” area in the US's global military sphere of influence, the meaning of this ;
    US has
    USNORTHCOM : US North Command
    USEUCOM : US - EU Command
    USSOUTHCOM : US - South America Command
    USCENTCOM : US Central Command
    USPACOM : US Pasific Command

    These permenant and fully operational commands cover every region of the world except for Africa.( !!!!!!!)

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stefan

    @59 - We do have one African military base, I believe. It's in Djibouti

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @59 Oh, how I hate to correct you.
    USAFRICOM : United States Africa Command
    USCENTCOM : United States Central Command
    USEUCOM : United States European Command
    USNORTHCOM ; United States Northern Command
    USPACOM : United States Pacific Command
    USSOUTHCOM : United States Southern Command
    USSOCOM : United States Special Operations Command
    USSTRATCOM : United States Strategic Command
    USTRANSCOM : United States Transportation Command

    Be grateful. This took hours of research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Combatant_Command
    Pity you couldn't copy it all!

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • McClick

    @ 61

    The last three ...COM was reshaped in the past few years.
    There is no USAFRICOM..Africa Zone extremely connected with USEUCOM in partial operations influences right now.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    #59

    Grey is not owned by the USA.
    Its shades are not owned by the USA.
    Grey is the ambiguity of the world we live in,
    and though we all see grey we see it through different shades.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    ‘Ushuaia Declaration’ claiming sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands will be posted to all Parliaments world-wide to ratify

    Does this mean, that Argentina now runs the world, and all 199 colony’s are part of the argentine world empire,
    And we all must ratify this thing or be severely punished,,
    Am I dreaming or did I miss something whilst at sea last night.

    Are the nutters really in charge now then ?/

    .

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @64 No, you pretty much got the gist of it. Apparently Argentina posts things to you and you have to sign it and send it back to say you're doing exactly what Mafialand says you should do.

    Kind of hilarious and sad at the same time.

    Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    gotta be the best joke of this year, surley .

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Every Monday I ask how good it's going to get each week and Cristina never lets us down.

    I wonder what the UK government will do with it's copy? Forward it on to the FIG for approval?

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Teaboy2

    @67 They can forward it to me, i would glady place it next to the toilet and send it back with freash skid marks on, after iv'e used it to clean my rear, they would love that, as i heard they are into that - they certainly speak a lot of it! lol

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 02:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @62 Bad luck. Wrong again! I asked the DoD.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    58 Marcos Alejandro

    No mate, I'm not on drugs

    I nor am I a “Kelper” ( whatever one of those is.......... )

    But I do notice that you have not yet answered my question.............. I'm still waiting for an answer, Alas I think that satan shall be skating to work before I get a sensible answer from you.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Doveoverdover

    @69 I support you fully. See http://www.africom.mil/ but note the HQ is based in Europe because,with the honourable exception of Liberia, no African nation would agree to host it.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    “inclusive economic policy implemented by President Cristina Fernandez” hahaha bad joke

    @58 what happened to your good manners, Malvinist? Cool it down a little, you're writing like a mad man :P

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • honoria

    70 toooldtodieyoung
    I think it was me he was referring to as the Kelper. Argentinians use this a term of insult for Falkland Islanders, not having yet grasped that it means very little to us.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    @ 73 I don't use it, lady, so don't bother me.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @73 Kelp is quite good for your body. It's one of the reasons that people from Okinawa Prefecture live so long, because they eat quite a lot of it. They also say 'when you're 80% full, stop eating', but in a dialect of Japanese.

    Don't know why, but Kelper makes me think of someone working in a high-end facial mask boutique in Chelsea.

    Mar 13th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • tobias

    Guillermo Carmona must be completely drugged. This is the most ridiculous proposition I have ever heard.

    Mar 14th, 2012 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    75 GreekYoghurt

    Chelsea?? Now that makes me think of fake tans, chilren called “Chardonnay” or the even more up-market “Shardonnay”, white high heels, and the “Chelsea facelift” hair-do..........(shudder )

    Mar 14th, 2012 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rebeldenacion

    Mad psychotic bitch is the best term for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the current disaster president of Argentina!
    Others around Cristina Kirchner that are also crooks are her vice-president, Amado Boudou, he is actually an owner of the company that prints money for the government in Argentina, a major conflict of interest, but he denies it, he owns the company in the names of other friends and associates. He is being investigated and surely will end up in jail where he belongs. Cristinas 2 VERY UGLY children, Maximo and Florencia Kirchner, are also very corrupt. Maximo owns all kinds of hotels and properties adn Florencia is a film student in New York and lives in a luxury Park Avenue apartment and is known for major cocaine use. Some of us who know her in New York remember how she always used to tell us how her parents have a bank account drawn on the Nation of Argentina and for her family money is no object. These 2 corrupt children of Cristina Kirchner are self proclaimed “militants”, they belong to 2 internal terrorist groups which Cristina Kirchner finances, “La Cámpora” and “Quebracho”. “La Cámpora” goes around to the poor shantytowns around the cities in Argentina and gives the poor people a bag of groceries, a sausage sandwich called “choripan” and $20 pesos to buy their votes. These people have no choice but to accept this as they are extremely poor and have no other hope. “Quebracho” is a terrorist group which Cristina Kirchner pays to protect her, they disguise their faces and go around shaking down businesses to get money and give back to the president. They are also responsible for drug dealing, robberies and murders.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
    www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
    www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm

    Mar 15th, 2012 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Who cares what the govt of TDF does.
    Your writ doesn't run in these lslands you ratbags, so sling yer 'ook.
    Pillocks.

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    Whoopie - a bit like laying a claim on the Moon.

    Still the AGs are out in space!

    Mar 16th, 2012 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Filippo

    There is no government in Malvinas, only colonial pirates who have great big hand of Britain in their backsides.

    They must be removed from these islands, which belong to Argentina even before Argentina exist, it was taken from them. This and also by grace of God and Papal Bull of 1496!

    In 1982 we have a much more macho government than today, we had a man in charge and no ordinary man, he was a General, from Italy, same country my grandparents came from, fleeing from British and American Imperialists after WW2 (it would take several generations and Berlusconi to put right what they did to Italy).

    General Galtieri did not take no for an answer, he sent a great military force with special forces under command of our counter terrorist officers like Captain Alfredo Astiz, who is now in prison and should be freed!

    These were the men who removed 50,000 left wing terrorists from our streets and delivered them into the Atlantic. We are proud that they had the guts to do what was necessary.

    But today I listen to the BBC and it seems there are more left wing in our nation. I am in The Bahamas at the moment working in hotel so out of touch with my country. It seems all the strong people leave and only weak left remain.

    But still there are veterans prepared to attack the police for medals for Malvinas War as they protected Patagonia from a British invasion, they deserve these medals, Police should not keep them from them.

    Pirates and Anglos i hate all of you. Even here in the Bahama, have to put up with your Royal family, Prince Harry and the descendants of your Caribbean pirates some of which now Mullatos but others prefer stay white. I myself do not like. Or the children of British colonial pirates!

    GO HOME BEFORE WE SEND YOU TO YOUR HOMES.

    Mar 17th, 2012 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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