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Argentina celebrates: China accepts three GM types of soybean for consumption
China approved three genetically modified soybean types for consumption, including the RR2BT seed resistant to the imidazolinonas and the glufosinat-ammonium herbicides. The announcement was made following a meeting between Agriculture ministers from Argentina and China in Beijing. Read full article
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Jun 10th, 2013 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) The farmers not going on justified strikes to preserve their margins;
2) TMBOA keeping away from the deal and not stealing the money;
3) The Dark Country not fucking up in some other way.
My money is on ALL of them.
LOLs
I think the farmers announced a strike today. They promised not to stop food for domestic consumption but obviously exports will be affected.
Jun 10th, 2013 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Communist China- FreeTibet
Jun 10th, 2013 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0British Monarchy- Free Malvinas...and go home
Jun 11th, 2013 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Julia Gillard-Free Beer!!!!! and you'll still get a thrashing.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 03:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0So Argentina celebrates flogging GM modified protein reduced soy......whacko.
@4 free QOM and give them back their land known as Argentina..
Jun 11th, 2013 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Chinese must be desperate for food, but we already knew that.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exporting raw-materials to China.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Large scale (60 thousand tonnes) trade relationships.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Naturally lead to closer political relations, squatters can forget exporting to China.
Mercosur soon enough too.
Argentinas agriculture will naturally grow even further, cheap wool anybody ??
9. Maybe you don't read the news but China's economy is greatly slowing down. They will not have a negative trade balance with Argentina so you'll be buying as much or more than they buy from you. Selling them cheap farm products and buying expensive mfg goods.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not a great relationship
but have at it
It's not like your economy can get much worse at this point.
@4 What's your problem? Malvinas Argentinas is in Cordoba. If it's not “free”, it's your problem. Do the sensible thing. Shoot CFK. And Maximo. And Tinman. And Putridjelli. And Laurentino. And Video. And Randy Florence. And Alicia whats-her-name.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9 Oops, Falklanders don't export, or grow, soy. It's what poor people rely on. Falklanders, in time, may export OIL. Stuff argieland IMPORTS because it doesn't have the funds or expertise to get its own out of the ground.
10 - lol China economy is slowing down ... oh no ... trade collapse. Poor little China is going to disappear, never to be heard from again.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 011 - Duurr ...not soy... ANYTHING. China and Mercosur, forget any future in those markets. Meanwhile, Mercosur-EU trade agreement coming on.
@9
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Falkland Islanders do not need to export to China to make a living as they already trade with other countries with no problem.
Have Chinese jiggers not bought fishing licences of FIG?
12. MercoSur will be dead shortly, Brazil and Uruguay will drop out by 2014 or before to sign bilateral agreements with The USA.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Er, if China economy slows, maybe collapses they won't be buying much Soy.
How dumb are you?
Nope and nor will they now. Options closed and closing round the world.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Naturally.
Tourism drying up there too - due to a different, less pompous colonialist prince Phillip type generation, thats just not into the 'gotcha' culture.
Meanwhile - this contract with China is only natural and many more of this scale will be seen. Argentina has deep roots and is growing out of its problems, overshadowing certain little 'issues'.
Exponential growth vs gradual stagnation.
Is your news from early 2000? You are a little behind the times.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you want to talk collapse of tourism look to Argentina and especially BA. Hotels are closing, rates are 1/3 of what they were a year ago and your balance of tourist trade has a U$ 500MM deficit a month!
Nobody is going to BA anymore.
Nobody.
#4 Argintinean dictatorship - Falklands , British sovereignty, self determined status. Go home Latinos to your Club Med diaster areas. Free the indians!
Jun 11th, 2013 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yankee - “Er, if China economy slows, maybe collapses they won't be buying much Soy.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How dumb are you?”
LOL, yes cause thats going to happen.
Im pretty confident it won't. As is Han Chang Fu.
Mercopress:
The largest age group within the cruise arrivals segment is the 45-64 year olds, which represented *over 66%* of allvisitors in the 2012/13 season.
Good luck marketing that to the next 45-64 year olds.
Or the 30 - 45 year olds.
Or the 18 to 30 year olds.
The ones not still living in 1982.
Ibiza? Lake Garda? New York? ...
Lowcost flight G.B to Cote D'azur for £60?
no no I want to see some windswept islands which I cant even find on a map. For £600 and a 12 hour flight.
60.000 tonnes of corn is a drop in the ocean, if we are meant to get excited about this minor sale agreement, what the hell are we going to do about the other 24.940.000 tonnes????????
Jun 11th, 2013 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 018. Care to share your reasoning or is it just wishful thinking?
Jun 11th, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.cnbc.com/id/100801667
Countries in revolution don't tend to import a lot.
What this .... a news story !!!
Jun 11th, 2013 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Im guessing you're American from your name. And I'll bet you're just a little insecure about China from your lending credence to a single speculative western media column in an American newspaper on the topic of big bad China.
Im sure Mr Fu will be able to keep his word.
From your own source - “RBS lowered its GDP growth forecast to 7.5 percent from 7.8 percent, while Barclays slashed its outlook to 7.4 percent from 7.9 percent.” Dear God. Run for the hills.
21. Under 7%( tha tthey report it is actually nowhere near that) and much lower they will have huge civil unrest, they have already reached their max on workers, the population is old and their boy/girl ratio is out of whack, the banks are bankrupt and they're over built, so just give it a decade and get back with me.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you don't like that one article there are 100s just do a little research.
I predicted Argentina's current abysmal state of affairs many years ago when everyone thought I was nuts.
I am very secure on my predictions.
Yes - Ill get back to you in a decade . lol. Will the Argentina/China soy contract still be around then....or will it already have been completed ?
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Im sure theres not only 100's of articles foretelling of Chinas inevitable economic and structural collapse.....Im sure theres THOUSANDS, and Im sure they stretch back well over a decade.
lol “I predicted Argentina's current abysmal state of affairs many years ago when everyone thought I was nuts.” ... yes but you based it on the face of Jesus appearing on your toast.
@22
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I am very securely wrong on my predictions.”
Fixed.
Your country is crumbling, literally.
24. Yeah OK, except for the U$ 2.5B in new construction going on within 6 blocks of my house.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 022. That Jesus toast was pretty darn accurate about Argentina. Do you think hyperinflation will start next year or right after they devalue in Nov?
I don't know about Hyperinflation, but Hyperventilation started long ago with you poor fools trying so hard in unison to see Argentina destroyed.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well give us a secure toast prediction then. Oh seeing one. m
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Heres mine... this soy contract will go ahead as planned.
You are destroying it all yourselves you don't' need any help from us.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you get a flu shot...3 more dead today and it is moving fast.
How many bags of sugar did you have to trade?
I don't need flu shots, I am indestructible at the moment. Don't worry about me.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not worried, I couldn't care less, since your gov't says there is nothing to worry about there isn't an epidemic.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So don't worry all is well
cough cough
Id be more worried about getting shot up in a cinema or university.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Flu in an unsanitary place with Dr and Nurses that are not vaccinated, no thank you.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll take my chances in the USA over a filthy hospital in Argentina that can't even afford syringes and gloves.
Do they reuse the syringes like meth heads?
That sounds nice
I See you're familiar with meth heads.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes I have been to Buenos Aires. I've seen the filthy kids high on paco juggling in the street to pay for their habits.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The US is flooded with meth.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But I shouldn't talk about that online ..... NSA watching all servers.
Might put me in a forced labor private corp prison.
Only if you are a foreigner living in the USA. Which I am absolutely fine with.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA buys most of the meth from your President.
I wonder when she'll be in one of our jails.
Probably not too long now
Unless she gets a nice retirement party before we can prosecute her.
“Only if you are a foreigner living in the USA” ...oh ... you ...dont know..
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I cared what my gov't thought about what I do on the internet...
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0wait for it
wait for it
I wouldn't put it on the internet
Gasp
Logic
Rgs are really dumb
LOL - who said Im an RG.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Three types of soy? Bound to be a lot of farting coming out of China in the future....
Jun 11th, 2013 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Repeatedly Heading A Soccer Ball Can Cause Long-Term Damage
Jun 11th, 2013 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.rttnews.com/2134084/repeatedly-heading-a-soccer-ball-can-cause-long-term-damage.aspx?type=hnr
Just about every boy in Argentina plays soccer...
Maybe this is the link we have all been looking for?
And so the trap is set, and the con starts
Jun 11th, 2013 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We support you, in exchange for ?
We buy as friends,
Dependency is just starting,
This may or may not be good for Argentina,
But make no mistake [CHINA] will be pulling the strings,
Argentina is her own worse enemy.
Watch the papers = CFK thanking China for their support over the Falklands.lol.
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They need to export it to get the money. Farmers are starting a week long strike to protest the government, CFK in particular, and are focusing on disrupting exports rather than the domestic market.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0La Campora have stolen the railways to the ports. What is the betting they steal the grain?
41 - whereas concussions in American football ....
Jun 11th, 2013 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0American Football is not nearly as participatory as Futbol in Argentina. So..er try again.
Jun 11th, 2013 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW how many fans get injured at each game? Is that from the rubber bullets or the savages that attend the games?
Yankee.....think they know who strongman General Noriega is?
Jun 12th, 2013 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0They tend to riot after futbol games in Argentina, especially mendoza. When I was there in January, they had to call out the riot guards because the seats sold out and they rioted over not being able to go to a game.
BTW #44 I played college ball. and in the Army......awesome sport if you have to size or speed.......but extremely damaging. Every team sport has a danger to it.
No one cares about American Pass.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 04:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0As for riots, fewer people died in football riots in the entirety of Argentina last year than 6 year old children died in ONE class at one elementary school in one neighborhood in one city in one state of the USA.
Let's what is worse: some crazy fanatic adult men dying in some football stadium or totally harmless and defenseless 6 year old children dying of dozens of bullet wounds INSIDE THEIR CLASSROOM, when all they were doing was learning.
That's the difference between a humanized nation and one that is the laughing stock of the Earth for it's inhumanity and violence.
I wouldn't say that Argentina is “the laughing stock OF Earth for ITS inhumanity and violence”.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 05:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sympathy is probably more likely.
Pity as well.
@45
Jun 12th, 2013 - 07:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is now 'that bad' that opposition fans are not allowed to attend games in BA province:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/133321/visiting-soccer-fans-banned-from-attending-games
@48
Jun 12th, 2013 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being melodramatic when there is no reason to is pretty uncool. No one sees Argentina as a violent nation. NO ONE. If they do, then they see all of the rest of Latin America, AFrica, Middle East, most of Asia and the USA as far more bestial.
If ever it was necessary to doubt that these argie football players are nothing but a bunch of fucking wanabe gangsters take a look at this video from the Daily Telegraph:
Jun 12th, 2013 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/sportvideo/10113782/Today-on-YouTube-dog-flung-through-air-neck-first-by-Argentine-footballer.html
The dog seems to have got through the experience without too much physical harm but I was boiling at seeing the cunt Jose Jimenez of Bella Vista get away with just a red card AND they were arguing that was too much of a punishment.
How this player got off the pitch without being seriously set about by the crowd is beyond me.
Bunch of fucking cowards the lot of them.
You say:
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being melodramatic when there is no reason to is pretty uncool. No one sees Argentina as a violent nation.
I say:
Only because you decimated the military to the popint that it cannot defend itself......good thing you are a poor nation.
What the world does see when the world looks at Argentina..........is the most corrupt country in the world. Even fellow South American's are moving away from the stink. Argentina is a laughing stock of nations. Argentina stands out amongst nations for that alone, without being a laughing stock, you would be lost in the cesspool you live in.
Argentina's National Anthem:
“ME Want Out”
Written by: Hernán Gaspar Lorenzino
Argentinians see Argentina as a violent nation.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you realize in the civilized world most don't live behind 12 foot gates, don't have private police, aren't mugged or express kidnapped, don't worry about going in or out of a bank, don't worry about getting in the wrong taxi, don't worry about commando assaults, and on and on?
You are like a person who lives where it rains every day and has never seen the sun so you think every place is as horrible as where you are from.
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