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CFK supports Ambassador Castro during the opening of a ‘Malvinas patio’ in government house
President Cristina Fernández defended Argentine Ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro, who tackled British Foreign Minister William Hague over Falklands/Malvinas Islands dialogue and stressed the fact that “the right to talk cannot be invalidated.” Read full article
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May 03rd, 2012 - 07:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't that the case.
Yet another bizarre set of actions and words from the RG's. They simply dont get it - they wont be getting talks with anyone in the UK Government until they drop their ludicrous claims to the Falklands.
”I pointed out that we must speak, we need to engage in 21st-century diplomacy and not the colonial diplomacy of the 19th-century“.
Does she seriously think that this sort of talk is going to intiate any dialogue? Rg Land and SA in general just cant see past ”colonialism“, ”pirates“, ”imperialism” due to the massive chips on their shoulders and inferiority complex.
Its quite pathetic.
The truth is that she was given an almighty great bollocking for referring to the “ Falkland Islands ” in front of the world's press . government sources have been quoted as saying that Cristina was spitting mad about this .
May 03rd, 2012 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0KFC supports her Ambassador?
May 03rd, 2012 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0This story tells us everything we need to know about Argentinian politics and their grasp of it.
An ambassador is a diplomat, a civil servant. Not a politician. They do NOT make policy, they convey it. I assume that KFC really thinks somebody maybe everybody, will accept that the 'ambassador' is speaking her own mind.
Bloody political retards.
'As she (CFK) inaugurated on Wednesday the Malvinas Islands patio in the Government House.'
May 03rd, 2012 - 08:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0More sensitive diplomacy from the 'give peace a chance' brigade, who will stunts like this diliberately try to inflame the situation.
This government long lost it's credibility on the world stage, and their clownish and outrageous antics will cause door after door to be slammed shut in their face.
In the meantime, the Chinese have been in measuring up for curtains and other soft funishings for their new province, Argentina. LOL
“I did not interrupt the Foreign Secretary. I was invited to the meeting as Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom,” she explained.
May 03rd, 2012 - 08:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, I have a simple solution to that.
“we need to engage in 21st-century diplomacy and not the colonial diplomacy of the 19th-century”
Ironic that by ignoring the islanders this is exactly what she's doing.
“We will not lower our voices or stay silent in any part of the world” This made me smile. The complaint I often hear about Argentines is that they are SO LOUD. : )
May 03rd, 2012 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Unseemly behaviour from a 'diplomat' will not gain Argentina any supporters.
How about a nice South Georgia Gazebo!
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sh!t ambassador is sh!t.
May 03rd, 2012 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0we dont want to take away the Britishness of the people we respect that.
May 03rd, 2012 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0OK leave them alone.
we might stop trolling you in 2082 about the war if your lucky the germans have got used to it.
Is anyone else thinking 'Malvinas patio'?
May 03rd, 2012 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0“He doesn’t keep saying to Angela Merkel that Germany lost the war, does he? We know why”
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well it's pretty obvious why if you think about it. Germany don't go hobbling round the streets begging the price of a cup of tea and bleating about the return of Alsace and the Sudetanland.
@11 and Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, et cetera, et cetera.
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Imagine if Germany did an advert for the olympics with someone running around Paris saying ''Germans preparing for London Olympics in German Colonial Territory”. How well would that go down in France?
I think this lady is very good for the British cause. With her as ambassador, nothing is going to get discussed, ever.
Is it me or does she look like she's been sniffing glue? Or is it just frustration that makes her bare her teeth like that?
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's from years of having her stewardess's scarf on too tight, it causes muscle wastage.
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0These two smart ladies are running rings round the out of touch old Etonians otherwise known as the British government =)
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0““We will not lower our voices or stay silent in any part of the world. Only the force of word, of reason and justice can face the strength of war and weapons,”
Bravo my Queen, you really are an inspiration for a more peaceful tomorrow
”He doesn’t keep saying to Angela Merkel that Germany lost the war, does he? We know why, because Britain needs German help to cope with the recession”
Exactly
#3 “KFC supports her Ambassador?....An ambassador is a diplomat, a civil servant. Not a politician. They do NOT make policy, they convey it.”
Indeed. So why shouldn't the President back up her representative???
15 British_Kirchnerist
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Indeed. So why shouldn't the President back up her representative???” Because her representative is making the president look like more of a kn*b than usual. Ignore diplomatic protocol's, behaving like some Argentinian football hooligan rather than the diplomat she is.
“Only the force of word, of reason and justice can face the strength of war and weapons” eeeerrrr no it can't. If someone is pointing a gun at your head are you going to Defeat them by force of word, of reason and justice? No you are not. What you do is get yourself a Bigger gun and then do some soft talk.
I would like you to meet HMS Dauntless, the uk's “Bigger gun” and now, we do the soft talking.............
@15 ”He doesn’t keep saying to Angela Merkel that Germany lost the war, does he? We know why, because Britain needs German help to cope with the recession”
May 03rd, 2012 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly
Um no, not exactly. You really are a fool. We don't remind Germany constantly about World War Two because both countries got over it decades ago. We have a good, constructive relationship with the Germans these days, and the war is in the past. When countries become friends past spats are generally forgotten, and it is the same here.
““We will not lower our voices or stay silent in any part of the world. Only the force of word, of reason and justice can face the strength of war and weapons,”
Bravo my Queen, you really are an inspiration for a more peaceful tomorrow
No she isn't. I think you'll find that all of the flak is coming from Argentina. The reason why they won't lower their voices is because they are an insignificant, attention-seeking country with a major inferiority complex who feel the need to bully a small group of islands hundreds of miles from their coast that wants nothing to do with them. The Argentinians should just forget about the Falklands, as they are never going to get them if they carry on acting like a petulant child.
I sincerely doubt that you are British, and I think that a more accurate name for you would be 'Argentine_government_official_pretending_to_be_British'
@15 - BK: 'These two smart ladies are running rings round the out of touch old Etonians otherwise known as the British government'
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What planet are you on? This is not how Ambassadors behave, and Castro, the silly bint, has now shown to the world that Argentina is at best imbecilic and immature and at worst so pathetic that they can't even get a meeting with the Foreign Secretary!
No other country in the world has ever behaved like this, they have too much self-respect, even Iran or N. Korea wouldn't stoop to such idiotic measures - they understand how the diplomatic systems work.
CFK may regret backing her imbecilic Ambassador, and I wouldn't be surprised if, in a few days, that she begins to distance herself from this whole embarrassing incident.
Argentina has shown to the world that they are ineffective, unconnected, lack self-respect and have no common sense. Your ambassador will find herself without friends in the diplomatic circle very quickly if she tries something so stupid again.
However, looking at this situation from another point of view, having Castro as Ambassador makes Argentina look infantile and the British as adults to the whole world.
So 'Carry On Ambassador!' Hmm, that could be the name of a new film, I mean Castro has made herself look like a clown already. ;o)
@18 Talking of doing something stupid again...
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you're in a hole, stopping digging is normally a good idea. Apparently Ms Castro hasn't heard of this, or doesn't realise the hole that she's digging.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/99817/castro-urges-the-uk-to-join-argentina-on-the-negotiation-table
Some prize quotes from Castro in a radio interview reported in the article...
“The islands are located over fourteen thousand miles away from the United Kingdom. It is obviously something that lives somewhere on the British imaginary realm. It is an extremely war oriented country, conflicts to them are routine,”
“The UK is trying to push us to the path of illegality,”
“British warfare tendencies.”
I'm off to put a tenner on her being declared persona non grata...
15 - haha two smart ladies running rings love it....By interupting and talking over someone and acting like a buffon is runnning rings !!! hardly a master stroke spouting retoric. We in the UK just pity the RG's obviously still feeling that deep humiliation for losing the war and being a broken country, shame as i do like a drop of Malbec with my sumptuous sunday roast. Do the Kircher youth provide Sunday Lunches as payment for votes, support and trolling???
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is a laughing stock in the eyes of the world
Not brilliant, but CFK is pulling out all the stops in her campaign of very low, low level warfare over the Falklands. So how will she be challenged? Get the creative juice flowing to think of ways to counter her move and to advance the issue. I'm not creative, but if she has “Malvinas” patios, why can't every British legation start offering Falklands-labeled whiskeys, or Port Stanley fizzy water? All the receptions held around the world in chancelleries, embassys and high commissions must cost UK taxpayers a lot, so why not serve up a little politics while entertaining?
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/99817/castro-urges-uk-to-join-argentina-at-negotiating-table
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The UK is trying to push us to the path of illegality,” …this can only be construed to mean that if they don't get what they want through diplomacy they will be forced to resort to war.
@15 Best thing for you to do, sonny, is to get to the level that suits you and try doing commercials for Burger King. I like Burger King, but you could destroy it in a week. Because you're a rectum!
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those two old whores of yours will soon become PNG.
The destruction of argieland and its incorporation into a new British Empire will have the same effect. But it will be much more popular throughout the world. You know how much people like the idea of yapping little dogs having their heads cut off.
Being an imbecile, I doubt you understand the concept of being “diplomatic”. Amongst other things, you don't try to embarrass your host and you don't embarrass yourself. But, having a name like Castro, I doubt the dozy cow thought of that!
What a duo! The Black (Plastic Princess) Widow and the Sexagenarian Slag.
@22 Unless they plan to force-feed Maximo some extra buns and then unleash him 0n us like a chubby Godzilla, I don't fancy their chances.
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19 - the stupid bit also said the Falklands were 14,000 miles away from the UK. Last time I checked they were about 8,000 miles away.
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So Argentina is planning something illegal is it? I have a feeling that they'll trying flying people in on the routine LAN flight and try and occupy somewhere on the islands.
If I were the Falklands government I'd put an immediate ban on Argentinians entering the Islands until the Argentine threat can be verified.
The only alternative might be that they're going to do something monumentally stupid at the Olympics...
But wait, everything is alright in Argentina. Everyone is thrilled with the populism of CFK's government and the country is finally recovering the patrimony of the people that was stolen by the English and Spanish pirates. Why just in the news today: “Salaries gained 28.8 percent in March compared to the same month last year, while it accumulated a 3.9 percent increase during the first quarter of 2012, according to the Indec national statistics bureau.” What wonderful news! Everyone is making nearly 30% more than last year! And chocolate, Argentina has its own chocolate and bio-soy-diesel, lots of extra liters for everyone! Wait for the Olympic Games, we'll enter the stadium and unfurl a banner declaring the Malvinas peoples there are prisoners and that the islands belong to us! Yes, that's what we'll do, embarrass the English pirates! Meanwhile, “Dearest and Wise Leader” Maximo is eating lots of creampuffs to be ready for his eventual succession...
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Someone pour me large dram of whisky...
What Argentina needs is a touch of statesmanship, a bit of humility and some manners.
May 03rd, 2012 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Instead they have a bunch of ugly, bitchy, menopausal women shouting hysterically and stamping their feet whenever they sense a camera or a microphone.
Why do these creatures believe that something has changed or anything can change in respect of the Falkland Islands. All their efforts to date have had the direct opposite effect to what I assume they intended.
I'm sorry Argentinians but the Falkland Islands are British Territory and until the Falkland Islanders determine that they want something different - that's the way its going to stay.
I have the utmost respect for some of your footballers who currently grace the Premier League in England but that's about it.
15 British_Kirchnerist
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey there. Was speaking some of my mates last night over in Argentina and they were saying that there is quite a large sense of embarrassment about this. They said that they thought the ambassador lost some of her dignity and that it doesn't reflect well on the government. These guys are staunch Kirchneristas. The impression I got was that this was hogging the news when there were other more important things that the government should be addressing which they are being silent on at the moment.
@27 Don't discriminate...male Argentinian politicians have been in the habit of shouting hysterically and stamping their feet whenever they sense a camera or a microphone as well.
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 Richfe
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm normally the first to point out the bl**din' obvious. Arn't the Falklands only 8,000 miles away?? Where did the other 6,000 miles come from? It would appear that Geography as well as diplomacy is not her strong point..............
“The islands are located over fourteen thousand miles away from the United Kingdom”
30 toooldtodieyoung
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is may be right. If you go due east-southeast from london it is probably 14,000...
At least now what the RGs are talking about when they harp on about the 'Malvinas'.
May 03rd, 2012 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The oil companies will be quite happy to abstain from drilling under Christina's patio. They are more likely to find skeletons under there than oil though
@30 I only cut & paste...I was more interested in the insults and lies than the bad geography. It is just under 8000 miles.
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When are they announcing the opening of the Malvinas doorway?
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I personally cannot wait.
It's been delayed because the Malvinas Doorknob fell off. Argentine craftsmanship, tisk.
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What about the South Sandwich Islands Trolley?
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maximo won't eat his cream buns from anything else.
@25 FIG shouldn't be allowing any argies in, for any reason, anyway.
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26 Isn't argie “inflation” around 28.8%? Running hard to stay in the same place! Except for the removal of the subsidies.
@27 What argieland “needs” is to die! To admit that they cannot form a viable, honest country. To be absorbed by proper countries. To have its Hitlerite, totalitarian, dictatorial “politicians” eradicated.
Where's “malvinas”? Indian Ocean? Argie fantasyland?
@36 He can wash his buns down with some of that rancid tea they like from the 'Entire Antarctic is Argentine' tea urn.
May 03rd, 2012 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(Making jokes about the imbecilic nature of the Fourth Reich is so much fun)
Yes, but will FatBoy ever 'pick-pick-pick-up a Penguin? :o)
May 03rd, 2012 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#37 No one truly knows as the CFK government is playing games, including controlling the price of “Big Macs” Today's news that “Salaries gained 28.8 percent in March compared to the same month last year, while it accumulated a 3.9 percent increase during the first quarter of 2012, according to the Indec national statistics bureau.” is VERY telling that inflation is getting way out of hand. According to the experts, they have 8 to 14 months before a major currency devaluation.
May 03rd, 2012 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 08-14 months is very generous window to devaluation. I think it will happen this year. Based on the leak rate they're almost at 6/1 and the gov't doesn't have enough U$ to keep the differential up for very long. The market will pressure it to 6 but at some point the internal market will get scared and the gov't will not be able to hold back the tide.
May 03rd, 2012 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Once the devaluation happens there will be hyper inflation and mass layoffs. It is just a matter of time.
@39 He'd pick up he whole pack of 7. Sadly he'd have to unpeel them first, especially if they'd been in his hot pockets he might have made the chocolate melt.
May 03rd, 2012 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@41 Judging from the Argtardian press they cannot seem to make up their minds if stealing YPF was a good thing or not. They cannot decide if nationalisation or provincialisation is the best model. They cannot have those two imbeciles at the helm apparently, and now the Mayor of BloodyAwful has said they've gone and shot themselves in the foot because no one will invest to give the people jobs.
If only one of them had the ability to think before jumping.
The woman is obviously in the CFK mould and has no concept with reality and even less of history.
May 03rd, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do feel sorry for the ordinary Argentine in the street who is being duped by these people.
'As she inaugurated on Wednesday the Malvinas Islands patio in the Government House...'
May 03rd, 2012 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just the place to bury the bodies of Argentinians now in the Falklands.
@44 bury bodies? Argtards drop the bodies out to sea, with all the nuns.
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For my KFC fans: Net News May 3, 2012
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Former Argentine President, Néstor Carlos Kirchner, craved cocaine and cars, farted uncontrollably due to his vegetarian diet and was injected with semen from young bulls to keep up with his sexually active wife, Cristina Fernández, according to a rarely seen and historic cache documents discovered at the Casa Rosada and set for public auction next week.
The documents include the original 47-page classified report of President Kirchner, craved cocaine and cars, farted uncontrollably due to his vegetarian diet and was injected with semen from young bulls to keep up with his sexually active wife, Cristina Fernández, according to a rarely seen and historic cache documents discovered at the Casa Rosada and set for public auction next week.
The documents include the original 47-page classified report of the former president’s health culled from post-mortem interviews with his six chief doctors and that include diaries of what he heard Kirchner said, such as, “Blair and Bush are monkeys.”
The Kirchner cache, which is up for sale May 8-9 at Alexander Historical Auctions, a well-known seller of historical items.
The classified doctor’s report includes several extensive details about his health. Panagopulos said it quotes Kirchner doctor Theodore Morrell confirming that Nestor and Cristina had sex though they slept in separate beds and that he was injected with semen from young bulls to spark his libido. Under the section “Sex Characteristics,” the classified report said:
Panagopulos said the report also notes that Nestor “suffered from uncontrollable flatulence” due to his veggie diet, something the Argentine leader took pills for.
The longer report from Giesing noted Nestor’s cocaine use to clear his sinuses and that the doctor had to cut the dosage because the father of the “Malvinas Solution” craved it because it made him happy.
Alicia Castro
May 03rd, 2012 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shows you what CFK looks like without make up on,
But CFK has a very good point,
[We will not shut up]
We do what we want, when we want, where we want , and the whom we want,
And until some politicians in the UK grows the balls to shut her up, and put her and her government in their place.
Then she will do it again and again.
And the more people listen to her, the worst it will get,
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But just like blowing up a balloon, sooner or later it will go bang,
We just wish, it was sooner, rather than later .
Just a puff of wind ??
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#46 You really are a nasty piece of work
May 03rd, 2012 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#47 “Alicia Castro
Shows you what CFK looks like without make up on,”
Still pretty. For those of us not afraid of a smart strong woman...
im saying nothing .
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#49 Why thank you. Anything to promote the ruling family...
May 03rd, 2012 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A documentary about Nazi Argentina, on a discussion group the Argentine posters were quote “disapointed” that Argentina was still a military dicatorship. However you people are still fanatical nationalists with ambitions to add the entire South Atlantic and Antartica to your territorial aquisitions. next step will be Chile and Uraguay and they know it. Which is why we have so much support from the people of those nations.
May 04th, 2012 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6pB57lhPlk&feature=youtu.be&skipcontrinter=1
@49 British Kirchnerist, just stop posting on these pages, as it is clear that you are an agent working for KFC's government. She is not pretty, nor is she smart, and neither is her lackey who calls herself an ambassador even though she clearly knows nothing about diplomacy. You are an idiot, so go home, and if you really aren't an argentine government member, then you need to have a SERIOUS look at yourself. I bid you good day.
May 04th, 2012 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine fishermen are 'dining on our dolphins' caught illegally in the Falklands Islands waters
May 04th, 2012 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Animals being 'hauled on board trawlers after becoming trapped in nets in Falklands Islands waters' -Wildlife experts believe fisherman are slicing fillets before throwing bodies back into the sea
By: AFP
PUBLISHED: 4 May 2012 |
Callous Argentine fishermen are eating steaks carved from dolphins which have been illegally caught in the South Atlantic Channel, conservationists claim.
Experts believe the animals are being hauled on board trawlers after becoming trapped in nets off the Falklands Islands waters.
Fillets of flesh are then sliced off to be eaten before the bodies of the highly intelligent mammals are callously tossed back into the water.
Threat: Common dolphins seen off the Falklands coats. Wildlife experts have accused Argentine fisherman of eating the animals
Since the beginning of January, Falklands Wildlife Trust's Marine Strandings Network has examined and recorded 50 dead dolphins and porpoises. Just under half, 23, showed distinct signs of having died in fishing gear.
A common dolphin, examined on the beach at in early April, one of five discovered in the same week, showed scars typical of a large trawler net from which it presumably tried to escape. A spokesman for South Atlantic Wildlife Trust said: 'A large fillet of flesh had been removed from the back - presumably for eating. 'This is a known practice on Argentine boats and Argentine pair trawlers were working close to the Islands waters at the time. 'The dolphin's tail had been cut off in the course of cutting the animal free from a winch strop which was used to lift it over the side of the boat.
@54
May 04th, 2012 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If this is true (I could not get any confirmation on AFP) and I somehow think it would be, then the Islanders should ensure the Type 45 turns up when Argie paired trawlers are operating even close to Falkland (there are no Malvinas) waters and 'has a word' like 'fuck off or we'll arrest you'.
#55 Chris, my friend, don't trust my propaganda...
May 04th, 2012 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW Next time you choose a red wine at Tesco think about the following:
The Killing Fields of Argentina–The Annual South Atlantic Baby Seal Hunt
Brian Duignan - May 4, 2012
The annual Argentinean baby seal hunt is again scheduled for November. Although little known, the the target is the infant of the species. For six to eight weeks each spring, the ice floes of the South Atlantic waters turn bloody, as some 300,000 harp seal pups, virtually all between 2 and 12 weeks old, are beaten to death—their skulls crushed with a heavy club called a hakapik—or shot. They are then skinned on the ice or in nearby hunting vessels after being dragged to the ships with boat hooks. The skinned carcasses are usually left on the ice or tossed in the ocean.
Thousands of other wounded pups (estimates range from 15,000 to 150,000 per year) manage to escape the hunters but die later of their injuries or drown after falling off the ice (pups younger than about 5 weeks cannot swim). The seals are hunted chiefly for their pelts, which are exported to China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Turkey, Russia, and other countries, where they are used to make expensive designer-label coats and accessories. Among the major vendors of these products are the Italian fashion-wear companies Gucci, Prada, and Versace.
The Argentinean seal hunt has provoked worldwide outrage and intense protest by animal-rights, environmental, and scientific groups, by national governments, and by some international governmental institutions, such as the European Union, all of which have objected that it is viciously cruel and, in its typical size, a serious threat to the long-term survival of the harp seal species. Both charges have been vehemently rejected by Argentina’s Department of Fisheries and claims that the hunt provides an important source of revenue for Patagonia’s economy and that seal hunting in Argentina is an economically viable.
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It's only right that Argentina first addresses its own hyocracy by re-examining its own history before talking about taking more land it has never had soverignty over. Not just the Falklands but South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands.
@British-Kirchenist
May 06th, 2012 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really are'nt very convincing. No one is that psychophantic, unless they have something wrong with them.
@Argentines in general - the reason we keep a garrison in the Falklands is exactly because your people approved of the invasion in 1982 (lets all remember the baying, screaming mobs in Buenos Ares) and would do so agin in a heartbeat if you thought you could get away with it.
If we were banging on about regaining some colonial possesion we had seized in the past then lost we would have arguments with half the countries in the world and would be viewed as a rather strange and unbalanced nation. Thats how we see you......
Argentina is a product of colonialism, conquered by the sword, most of the natives killed and infected by disease, their land taken from them and worked by imported African slaves, oversean by imported European colonials. The African's who made up 50% of the population would themselves completely disapear from Argentina between 1850-1900 in what could have been a chilling fore runner to the disareances of the Dirty War in the 1970's when an estimated 30,000 Argentines were raped, tortured and murdered, many more were held illegally in detention camps and tortured. The true figure for the dead could be as high as 100,000, no one knows because there is little official documentation and most bodies were dumped in the sea.
May 08th, 2012 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina took land from its neighbours in numberous wars , civil wars and land grabs - Paraguay, Uraguay, Chile. Today Argentina despite the changed political landscape is still a nation characterised by uber nationalism. The claim to the Falklands was surendered in 1850 but reserected in 1941 by a fascist junta, which inc Peron, they thought their friends the Nazi were going to win the war, the Falklands looked easy picking.
In 1982 Argentina was under the latest succession of a series of fascism military junta's. Their hold on power was looking precarious, in deperation they sort a war, Chile looked like a good victim, they already claimed lots of land and were ignoring the international tribunals that had ruled in Chile's favor. But then they changed their mind and invaded the Falklands. Today the war is romanticized by a nation ruled by a kind of cross between a Neo-Nazi uber nationalist and a Charvesta Revolutionary uber Marxist. The only thing missing is the land reform. Maybe that's for later? But as few natives remain, maybe they'll just ignore their rights... God knows they always have. An entire culture replaced by a European one. Entire languages destroyed.
Timmerman should take time to read about his country's history.
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