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Reflections from our visit to the Falkland Islands
A group of Central American journalists recently visited the Falkland Islands for a week as guests of the Foreign Office together with Bruce Callow from the UK Costa Rica embassy. The following is a first reflection just back from the Islands in Bruce’s blog. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh dear, one more reason for Turkeyneck to froth at the mouth - they'll have to put her down at this rate.
Oct 25th, 2012 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh dear she won't be happy...............again
Oct 25th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Oct 25th, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I bags the pistol, it will only take one cartridge.!
I will even do it free of charge: well, perhaps for a Choripan and a beer.
LOLs
Let's wait and see what the Central American journalists publish in their newspapers. Though there is little love for Argentina in the Central American countries. The Argentines are seen as arrogant individuals.
Oct 25th, 2012 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is why you won't find the C24 visiting the Islands, they know what they see on the Islands will not agree with the ass licking they offer to Argentina, they're scared of the truth.
Oct 25th, 2012 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least these journalists have seen the other side of the story they are no doubt fed.
““The only news that we hear about the Falklands is about the conflict with Argentina. This trip opened a door for us to learn about the human side of life here and get a fuller perspective.””
Oct 25th, 2012 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And this is the only quote that they were able to publish?
Would that be the conflict in 1982 , initiated by Argentina , in which the military dictatorship was soundly defeated by Britain , thus ushering in the longest period of democracy in argentine history ?
Oct 25th, 2012 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A democracy currently being dismantled by a cabal of pretend marxists intent on robbing the country blind and enslaving it whilst pretending to care about “ human rights ” and “ the people ” .
The main purpose of organizing this trip was: to make the journalists sympathetic towards the islanders. You know you have no legal right to be on those islands, so you're better off turning it into a soap about the poor islanders.
Oct 26th, 2012 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0And that was *exactly* the plan, more than a hundred years ago.
@8 Do we “know that they have no legal right...”?
Oct 26th, 2012 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think s0 - please educate us. ;-)
@8 PGH
Oct 26th, 2012 - 06:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0And what 'legal' right do the none native Amerindians have to be in South America?
Your arguments are weak, pathetic and very hypocritical.
The rights of the Islanders come from their being the 1st permanent 'civilian' settlement. The land was inhabited by no one when they arrived. You Arengtines cannot say the same thing, can you?
p.s. Falklands community founded in 1826/7/8 ish.
The Republic of Argentina founded in 1853, around the same time as your ancestors were busy raping, murdering and ethnically cleansing native amerindians and stealing their land in Patagonia.
What 'legal' right does that actually give you over Patagonia?
Patagonia:- illegally occupied by the descendants of the Argentines, who murdered the original, rightful,legitimate owners.
Oct 26th, 2012 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0And they have the gall to say that the Falklands are theirs!
Get real, Argentina.
@PGH Please read this link very carefully.
Oct 26th, 2012 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.falklandshistory.org
Pascoe & Pepper??? “No de nuevo, decia!”
Oct 26th, 2012 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not again, thank you. I'm allergic to propaganda.
Falklanders(for you) are SouthAmericans and Argentines too!!!!!!!!!Malvinenses Fueguinos (for us)!!
Oct 26th, 2012 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 -PGH
Oct 26th, 2012 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you are allergic to propaganda then you'd better leave Argentina because that is all you've been fed all your lives.
Pepper and Pascoe have done that thing that you would never do, research. They've looked at evidence, some of it held in Argentina, that clearly shows the truth.
@14 - gustbury
Argentina has no legitimate claim to the Falklands, if you did you would take your case to the ICJ. You don't and you know there is no way on Earth that you could win the case, so you continue to cling to your lies, and repeat the lies to your children.
The NAZIs believed that a lie told often enough would eventually become the truth. Argentina tries that too. It was a fallacy when the NAZIs tried it, and it is a fallacy when Argentina tries it.
LOL The show must go on!
Oct 26th, 2012 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More “Falk do soilel”
In a few years this will be history!!!
By the way this is a much more better and wiser way to advocate than sending those two sweet hearts.
Cheers!
@15 LEPRecon
Oct 26th, 2012 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Their research is good, but the result is skewed by being so biased. They've put together the basis for everything you Angry Brits are screaming all over the internet. Although they make some good points, some of the thing they claim are laughable.
We can't do research? Pepper and Pascoe's work is 80-90% based on Argentine research.
“In a few years this will be history!!!”
Oct 26th, 2012 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
Courtesy of Wiki.
If the cap fits, wear it.
I agree with the definition of delusion as any right thinking person would.
Oct 26th, 2012 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But we are referencing a set of argies here whose mental capacity has been stymied by the state from a very young age for the last 65 years..
No matter how strong the evidence to the contrary they think it is faulty and has been put there by the dastardly Brits!
Ha, ha, ha.
@8 ....17 PGH
Oct 27th, 2012 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A new malvinista on the block. Blind and blinkered and brainwashed like all the rest. Argentina the pontificating belligerent neighbour squandering the favour our forces did them when the Junta were knocked off their perch.
The Falklanders invited the journalists to sample the truth first hand rather the poisonous CFK rhetoric they get to hear about.
PGH - the islanders are there legitimately and will still be there when you are pushing up daisies. Your country's claim to the falklands is weak your government does not take its case to the UN ICJ as it knows it will fail. End of Dream. Your government merely whip you up into a frenzy to hide the fact that your country is up shit street without a shovel.
PGH
Oct 27th, 2012 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pepper and Pascoe's work is 80-90% based on Argentine research.
if 80-90% of P&P's work is based on Argentine research and that Argentine research categorically says the islands don't belong to Argentina...I think you better be a bit worried.
“No legal right to be on the islands”.....Funny how the only ones peddling that ludicrous assertion are the ones coveting those very islands?
Even the UN says any negotiated settlement must take into account their “wishes” implying a legal right to be there, even your constitution says this.
@20 Too right mate, I always love it when a new one comes along. They're always so easy to dismantle that it's almost laughable. He calls us angry Brits. We're certainly (and justifiably) annoyed, but, with the possible exception of Conqueror, you'll never find a pro-Falklander on the internet screaming in capitals endless rants. The same sadly cannot be said for pro-Argentines (Malviner01, I'm looking at you...)
Oct 28th, 2012 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Angry Brits screaming is it?
Oct 28th, 2012 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0No we are not angry. At worst we are bemused but mostly amused and we are not screaming at anybody. We are laughing at Malvinistas stomping around like a bunch of two year olds.
@14
Oct 29th, 2012 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Falklanders(for you) are SouthAmericans and Argentines too”
Possibly South American,probaby South Atlanticans but only Argentine in your dreams. There is no Argentine flag flying in Stanley-Enjoy your dreams though if it makes you happy.
In my dreams because there are areas of Patagonia first settled by people born on the Falkland Islands and Ushaia was first populated by peple from the UK, in my eyes they are Falkland Island and UK territory.
However in real life if I were to go to Patagonia, the Argentine flag would be flying there, keeping my dreams, like yours, just dreams
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