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Malvinas/Olympics advert athlete now admits he was aware the filming was for the Argentine government

Monday, May 7th 2012 - 07:02 UTC
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Argentine athlete Fernando Zylberberg involved in the controversial Malvinas/Olympics advert which is being aired by the Argentine government, contrary to his original statements, has admitted he knew the spot filmed in the Falkland Islands would be used by the government. Read full article

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  • Lou Spoo

    So another Argentine caught lying, hardly a big surprise.

    May 07th, 2012 - 07:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • STRATEGICUS

    Everything about the Argentine claim to the Falklands is fake so why should it surprise us that this advert ,showing British icons,shot early morning when no real Falklanders are about, is fake.I think this guy knows what sort of reception he is going to get if and when he is finally let into Britain.
    Obviously not the brightest penny in the pocket

    May 07th, 2012 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    So that's Y&R telling lies, which is great for a company whose leadership claim to be a 'light unto nations' with their super-human moral and ethical leadership... and now Fernando Zylberberg admits that like all argtards, he's a lying feck.

    May 07th, 2012 - 08:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Obody

    In the context of the London 2012 “ZION” Olympics - which in reality is an enormous attempt by the dark Rothchild-Windsors magicians - to perform a global ceremony to establish their New World Order, I find anything that throws a spanner in this work is must welcome!

    Hasta la victoria siempre!

    May 07th, 2012 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lou Spoo

    @4

    Hush now, grown ups talking.

    May 07th, 2012 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @5 He can't be quiet with all those conspiracy's going on.

    May 07th, 2012 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • etherea1

    An Argentine nationalist admits to lying, really??!!
    Let me guess, the IOC might give him a light scolding (though probably not) and perhaps even fine the team 10 pesos (unlikely)

    May 07th, 2012 - 09:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @7 Argtards are by definition liars, so it's not really unexpected that he lied on his visa form, and then lied about knowing he was working as a useful idiot for La Campora, and then he lied about not lying... lies lies lies lies...

    You cannot expect any more from these people, their DNA is damaged.

    May 07th, 2012 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    perhaps its not the making of it,
    but the way in which it has been used,
    it was deliberately used to insult and upset,
    and they say the islanders are agressive,

    the sooner CFK gets removed the better.

    May 07th, 2012 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    It wasn't undercover... Even though he previously admitted he ran the marathon pretending to be a 1982 veteran... Shot in the morning at 6am for the better light conditions I suppose, not to avoid the locals, nope, and they applied for all the permits to film and asked a normal director, not one with experience of undercover filming in the islands? Oh, good, that's so much clearer now.

    May 07th, 2012 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • RedBaron

    Now that he admits it (which is more than can be said for Ambassador Trolly Dolly), can't the IOC kick out the Argy team and replace them with the Canadians?
    Much better for everyone concerned!

    May 07th, 2012 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • STRATEGICUS

    I saw the Argentine spoof to the Olympic advert which was on one of the Argie news websites (Clarin I think).It was in black and white and because Google couldn't translate I did not really get it until a big fat ugly guy came on and stuffed his face and I recognized Maximus Dickus and the Campora without needing to read the caption underneath.

    May 07th, 2012 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @12 did it say 'I can't fooking stop stuffing my mouth with cream buns because I'm so fooking rich, DON'T YOU ASK ME WHERE I GOT MY MONEY!!!! I'm so rich, i'm going to open a new hotel... DON'T YOU ASK ME WHERE I GOT MY MONEY!!!! ” ?

    May 07th, 2012 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    4 Obody

    Were you dropped on your head as a baby?

    May 07th, 2012 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #4 Obody

    “The London 2012 “ZION” Olympics - which in reality is an enormous attempt by the dark Rothchild-Windsors magicians - to perform a global ceremony to establish their New World Order”

    I mentioned in another earlier post that when the Argentinian Peso again devaluates, the CFK political thugs will blame the British, the Spaniards, the WTO, the IMF and the of course the jews...

    (No, I'm not a jew, but I'm appalled at your brown shirted group carrying the banner of bigots.)

    You quote: “Hasta la victoria siempre!” and I would like to add the Chilean motto: “Por la Razón o la Fuerza” (By reason or force) Perhaps one of the “Elders of Zion” one night in a dark alley will explain to you what the significance is of it...

    May 07th, 2012 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    do me a favor, running at the crack of dawn not to be seen, on the Falklands, what did he think he was doing there, training?? wonder how much he was paid, enough to sell out his fellow athletes? IOC are you listening????

    May 07th, 2012 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    15: It's all so clear to me now, Timmerman is behind it all, of course!! Oooh, those pesky Zionistas! *waves clenched fist*

    May 07th, 2012 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Cestrian

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299154/what-s-wrong-argentina-matthew-shaffer?pg=1

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299154/what-s-wrong-argentina-matthew-shaffer?pg=1o/id3339.html

    This is all starting to unravel for Argentina.

    May 07th, 2012 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    So he is admitting he is a liar and he is perfectly happy to desecrate a memorial to the fallen. What a scum bag, cant wait for the next installment. Do those athletes realise they have to face the British public in a few short months

    May 07th, 2012 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ynsere

    If Zylbderberg (and the other members of the filming crew) committed visa fraud/tax evasion, they should be punished in accordance with the law, just as I would.

    May 07th, 2012 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    The more I think about this, the more I think the 'adverts' are a smoke screen.

    What if they were gathering intel for an invasion? I mean they shoot some video of this man running around and put together a crap advert, but what else did they film? Military installations? Possible landing sites?

    This could have darker tones than we 1st thought.

    @20 ynsere. I agree. International arrest warrants should be made under 'the prevention of terrorism' act for everyone involved in the making of this illegal program, including CFK. Lets see any of them ever being allowed on a plane again.

    I mean CFK is getting so desperate and the economy (that she destroyed) is unravelling around her, an invasion could be the only way she has of holding onto power.

    May 07th, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Cestrian

    @21

    I agree. I wouldnt put it past Rg Land to be doing some Intel but surely the Uk would know about this. what really gets me is why the falklanders invite Rg's onto the island in the first place. why on earth would you let a load of RG's swarm all over the islands for a marathon.

    how do we know BTW that they are all accounted for and that some of them werent say special forces who slunk away and are still on the islands.

    I think that the FI are a bit too trusting TBH.

    May 07th, 2012 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Read the the article in the National Review. Especially with the money sniffing dogs... MI6 needs to breakdown the “smell” of Argentine bank notes and create a spray that is applied to all Argentine luggage arriving to Heathrow.

    When the unsuspecting Argentine tourists return and again try to leave their country, the customs department will be paralyzed as the dogs will be having fits with the smell. It will shut down their borders...

    May 07th, 2012 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ManRod

    Does the UK have any chance, to deny entrance of this person onto UK soil this summer?

    May 07th, 2012 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • honoria

    @ 19 Britworker
    I am a Falkland Islander living in the Falklands. I hope that when the Argentine Olympic team arrive in Britain that people will simply ignore them. The Argentine people are being taught that the British are the enemy and combined with their love of drama and hysterical outbursts, their media would love to be greeted by howling mobs baying for their blood.

    This hockey captain has clearly forgotten that he has responsibility to behave professionally both as a role model to his team and aspiring players and out of respect for the other sports men he will encounter at the Olympics. He should hang his head in shame and resign.

    May 07th, 2012 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    25: the problem is that, if he resigns, he will appear to be abandoning the Falklands issue, and if he doesn't, he'll look as if he's mocking the spirit of the Olympics. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. Poor diddums :'(

    May 07th, 2012 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • juapell

    He is lying again. He has political ties , he is paid as a counselor for a viceminister in the government of the city of Buenos Aires.

    May 07th, 2012 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    There are 35000000 argentine who are insulted every time a British nuclear submarine violates Argentine waters or everyone a brtish ship drills in Argentina's waters to theft our natural resources and the olimpics is worried about a sports???? Maybe the Olympics is really a stage to push a KKK agenda.

    'As usual, it is about the papers again.

    ”The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers.
    The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy have papers, too, but those are no good. It is a shame and everyone is very sorry, but those papers are meaningless. Please stop showing us your quaint, useless papers'
    http://buffalopost.net/?tag=lacrosse

    May 07th, 2012 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JohnN

    Seemed like such a waste for Argentina to promote that video spot, but they're doing it obviously to fan the flames of aggression within Argentina against Falkland Islanders and against Britain. Its easy for Argentina to justify their deceitful lying that produced the video spot as long as they continue to believe that Falkland Islanders are illegitimate squatters and who are nothing more than “piratas”. Presto! Like Blacks, Jews, or Gypsies , they become available for humiliation, abuse and exploitation.

    May 07th, 2012 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @4 Another brain-dead, psychotic, argie, conspiracy theorist. “It's not us!” “We are fighting for the people!” And regularly killing them, thieving from them and making money out of them.
    @26 Zylberberg should do the honourable thing. Sharpen his hockey stick and then fall on it. Or, at the least, hang himself, publicly.

    Keep posting people. I've mailed a link to this article to the IOC asking when Argentina will be disqualified and all accreditations cancelled for breaches of the Olympic Charter. Let's see how THAT works!

    May 07th, 2012 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Boovis

    28: I guess you're insulted by nuclear submarines passing your coast because, you know, we have them and you, well, don't. International waters are just that: international, any nation can do what it pleases there, we know you won't get used to it, so just know it happens and live with your psychological problems that divert all your internal issues onto an external issue so you can pretend you're ok each morning you wake up.

    May 07th, 2012 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    Fakland island company has rights to self determination, Olympics has self determination, do Argentine's have self determination?? Or are this rights reserved only for the KKK and their corporates not people.
    'As usual, it is about the papers again.
    The men, mostly those white men — also again, also as usual — have official papers upon which they have written their rules and their laws and their treaties. They are very sorry, but it is all there on the papers'
    http://buffalopost.net/?tag=lacrosse

    May 07th, 2012 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Pratt-Junta

    Still living in Canada are we? Seen any nuclear subs up there have you?

    May 07th, 2012 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    He now admits the filming was for the Argentine government. Of course he knew what the filming was all about and he also knew the filming was for the Argentine government, but the malvinistas are like that, liars. You should never believe the word of a malvinista.

    @ 32 so you're black then, those evil white men beeeeeeeh beeeeeeeeeeeeeh they are so bad :(

    @ 24 They should do it, I mean the British government.

    May 07th, 2012 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Karl101

    It's looking more and more like the Argentine government are trying to get the team banned by continueing to show these disgusting ads violating a war memorial on the anniversary of the sinking of HMS Sheffield. There will be a lot of pissed off and angry atheletes if their governments propaganda stunts gets them barred from the games. So watch this space is all I say.

    There is no way Argentine should be allowed into the games after this!

    May 07th, 2012 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CityofLondon

    4 Obody

    You also know the TRUTH!!!! TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE DISCOVERING THE TRUTH!!!

    But please understand we are the Lizard people and rule the world but we are not English we are Scottish you piece of shit! If you wish to know the TRUTH understand the real TRUTH!

    http://hyperspacecafe.com/showthread.php?tid=8142

    We run all governments through the council of 300 Reptilians. Lord Rothchild is our Commander in Cheif he is a Jew, all of us are Jewish and Scottish and related to the Queen of England who is also really a Jew like us.

    The nazi's found out about our plans by exposing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - http://hyperspacecafe.com/showthread.php?tid=8142

    ALL OF WHAT I SAY IS THE TRUTH, THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH, MY TRUTH!

    May 07th, 2012 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    @36 Hmm I dunno, if anyone is gonna peel off their fake plastic face to reveal a lizard underneath, like in V, its going to be that mental power-hungry old bag that leads Argentina.

    May 07th, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • TipsyThink

    A commentator waylays in between Chile and Argentina waiting for their new crisis.

    May 07th, 2012 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redrabs

    #36

    Can I know what you are drinking and I trust it is not Argentinian Malbec!

    May 07th, 2012 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Pirat Prat- When on earth has a Br nuclear powered submarine violated Arg Territorial waters? That woulkd be a silly thing for the Navy to do!
    I dont think they even went that close to you in 1982!
    What British drilling ship are you prattling on about drilling in Arg waters? I know there was talk of a Blue ensign flagged rig going to work on your side but think it never happened?
    Over this side in Our Falklands waters and zones we currently have a Scandanavian rig working, before that I think we had a US one.

    Dont reallly think the Falkland Islands Company can claim self determination!! Well I guess they can over their own property and businesses!

    May 07th, 2012 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ynsere

    Here’s a free translation of an item I’ve just seen in the online version of Uruguayan national daily “El País”:
    Argentine journalist Jorge Lanata presented an investigation of 400 fake users in the Twitter social network who send messages in favour of CFK’s government, informs the website of “La Nación” newspaper.
    In the programme “Journalism for all”, Lanata divulged a list of fake “K Twitterers”, which caused great expectations in this social network under hashtag “listadelanata”.
    ”They connect with each other and repeat the same messages. Some write and others reply. They all write the same thing, as if they were robots,” indicated Lanata during the presentation.
    According to what he explained, his production was able to detect, by means of a Google app, that the photographs of 400 “K Twitterers” are other people. For instance, the image of Diego Pierelli (@DiegoPierelli) corresponds to the Italian engineer Robert Gretter, who talked with Lanata on Skypre.

    May 07th, 2012 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    36 CityofLondon (#)
    May 07th, 2012 - 05:58 pm

    I believe that Kretina has read “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ” and is applying the same reasoning as Hitler did to justify the Holocaust.

    May 07th, 2012 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    41 stupids are in all governments, and kirchneretee twittereters are al laugh compared to more importants things here. I mean we should teach kids to have a critical point of view of everything they read. Even here this page that is so biased, and shows in front page the news they favour them, not the other side (those they put them very down, jajaj)

    May 08th, 2012 - 12:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    “Some claimed to be offended by a spot that reflects the feelings of all Argentines. But more offensive is the exploitation of natural resources and not respecting the memory of the dead or the UN resolutions,” Ms. Kirchner said referring to recent statements coming from the British government.

    Kretina obviously doesn't believe in apologies.

    May 08th, 2012 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anti-Fascist

    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.

    Argentina 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.

    May 08th, 2012 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cLOHO

    ... two or three or four
    thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150-, 230-, 300- or
    400000 kilograms. ... We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help
    us God!” ...

    May 08th, 2012 - 06:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    “not respecting the memory of the dead”

    Anyone know what that is refering to?

    May 08th, 2012 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    Let's all Argentina around the world be ready to desecrate Olympic parks and UK war memorials around the world. If Olympics want to insult our dead heros we will piss and destroy their parks and war memorials see how they like it. Great work by Argentina very creative, keep up the good work. And don't ever forget that Argentine's will pay you back when you least expect it. Enjoy.

    The best Argentine publicity stunt that made UK cry.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlyQp9NAoM
    Boycott UK!
    www.facebook.com/groups/406831156008806/
    Join our cause for Scottish independence.
    www.facebook.com/ScottishIndependence

    May 08th, 2012 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    Thanks Prat, that explains everything!

    May 08th, 2012 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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