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Falklands' flag flying at half mast in honour of Nelson Mandela
In a statement released Friday afternoon, the Falkland Islands Government has said it was saddened to learn of the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela yesterday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe ONLY way to save Malvinas Argentine Islands all types of viruses, is the removal of all British, especially English who tread its soil Argentine...
Dec 07th, 2013 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's change. Come to our Spanish America.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNm38B3JiY&list=WL17CDE780DBFE04C4&feature=mh_lolz
'our Spanish America'...what a strange phrase for a Brazilian to use.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0The typical British hypocrisy shedding “crocodile tears” over the death of Mandela.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0The creators, inventors of the concentration camps, specifically in South Africa against the Boers. It give nausea!.
@4...ho hum, yes, yes, no British people ever cared about Nelson Mandela or his cause...
Dec 07th, 2013 - 02:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzzy7KZAxtU
Perhaps you could post a video link to a similar Argentinean event?
Typical British Hypocricy.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 07:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still posting your vitriolic shite from the comfort of your nice cosey English suburb I see.
Oh the irony of it, Pmsl!
@1 You already said that on
Dec 07th, 2013 - 07:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0the article about norovirus.
The stupid and crass remarks from the trolls - what an example of the Argentine people! Especially, when one of the greatest men of recent times has died!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 07:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0¡Qué pelotudos!
Kin'ell. Morgan Freeman's dead???
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0He looked ok in that Rugby documentary I saw him in....
Ok @4 I will bite, you need to do a tiny bit more research before you claim the British invented and created concentration camps, yes they coined the use of the words concentration camps and yes they did use internment camps during the Boer war but as to the dubious honour of inventing them well we can leave that to others.The Polish historian Władysław Konopczyński has suggested the first concentration camps were created in Poland in the 18th century, during the Bar Confederation rebellion, when the Russian Empire established three concentration camps for Polish rebel captives awaiting deportation to Siberia and the earliest of these camps may have been those set up in the United States for Cherokee and other Native Americans in the 1830s, however, the term originated in the reconcentrados (reconcentration camps) set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War 1868–1878 and by the United States during the Philippine–American War 1899–1902.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile fast forward to something more recent
The Navy School of Mechanics (in Spanish, Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, commonly referred to by the acronym ESMA for Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada[1]), was an educational facility of the Argentine Navy. It was used as an illegal, secret detention center during the so-called National Reorganization Process (Dirty War) of Argentina's 1976–1983 military dictatorship.
The original ESMA was a complex located at 8151 Libertador Avenue, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Nuñez. It was the seat of Task ESMA3.3.2 - Unidad de Tareas 3.3.2,[2] also known as GT332, which was charged with thousands of instances of forced disappearance, torture and illegal execution. The military took the babies born to mothers imprisoned there, suppressed their true identities and allowed them to be illegally adopted by military families and associates of the regime. ESMA was the largest detention center of its kind during the Dirty War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Petty-Officers_School_of_Mechanics
Marcos, next to his homeland Mandelas favourite place was England. We honoured him with a statue in Parliament square outside the mother of Parliaments. Why? Because he recognised the decency of Great Britain and our committment to helping less the less fortunate. Independent of any government gifts and the prescence of HMS Illustrious helping the Phillipines, the British people donated $100 million to aid the people there after the typhoon. Can you tell us what Argentina has done?
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0We even give donations to Big Issue salesman like you were - hows the Cartonero job going?
Jose Malvinero
Dec 07th, 2013 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nelson Mandela fought for self-determination for the Black Africans in South Africa.
This self determination is the very concept you despise and deny others.
Perhaps you are the hypocrite.
José Malvinerp @4
Dec 07th, 2013 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0The expression in spanish “da asco” does not translate as “it gives nausea”(which means NOTHING!). The correct pronunciation is “ It makes me sick!” or “It's sick making” although the latter is not very correct.
Before you exhibit in these columns your almost total lack of knowledge of the English language you really must do better!
Just for you Josey again.... @1 I seem to remember we had a virus 1n 1982, with a little antivirus it was considered totally eradicated 74 days later, the virus is still in South America but we are immune to it now.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1, 2, 4. How petulant. The south-east part of south america is infested with a macro virus. Signs are as follows: it extrudes a feeler to other viruses and implants itself; it IS deadly, unless you stamp on it first; it is curable, by a torpedo-shaped injection. And the Spanish invented concentration camps. In Cuba. Like the Italians and Spaniards just continued slavery. Italy had the largest slave markets in the world. And Spain still sentenced people to “the galleys”. But I'm happy about the nausea. Always a chance you'll drown in your own vomit!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We expect nothing less!! The flag should fly at half mast in memory of a GREAT man!!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Dec 07th, 2013 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Malvinas Argentine Islands'
Puzzling remark as the UN firmly recognized that the inhabitants of ALL non-self-governing territories have the right to self-determination, it looks like the Falklands actually belongs to the people who actually live there.
Lovely words from Jan. Sometimes it is necessary to fight for freedom, especially when you are dealing with oppressive fascist a
Dec 07th, 2013 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0States like Argentina who do not respect anyone's rights other than their own.
We are more than ready for the next fight, are you?
The trolls have surrended!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 04 José Malvinero
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The typical British hypocrisy shedding “crocodile tears” over the death of Mandela”
And there is no hypocrisy in argentina then I take it?????
When are you going to give the land back to its rightful owners then?
*20 are you one of them??!!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“specifically in South Africa against the Boers.”
It was the Afrikaners (boers) who created apartheid you dimwit.
“The typical British hypocrisy shedding “crocodile tears” over the death of Mandela.”
The calls for Mandela to be released were more from the UK.
When did Buenos Aires hold a huge gig to demand Mandela's freedom? (see @5 screename).
A question for you. When the Falkland Islands eventually erect a statue to CFK and Timerman should they be erected in Stanley, Port Louis or perhaps on the 'end' of Scragg Paddock Point?
There's a statue of Mandela in parliament square, in London.
Is there a statue of Mandela in Buenos Aires?
'The ANC is a typical terrorist organisation ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land' - Margaret Thatcher, 1987.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/10/11/falklands-government-plans-a-memorial-bust-of-baroness-thatcher
Am I one of who?
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24
Dec 07th, 2013 - 10:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I continue to believe, as I have said to you before, that the release of Nelson Mandela would have more impact than almost any single action you
could undertake. ”
Margaret Thatcher, letter to P.W Botha, 31 October 1985
1985 you say.
Dec 08th, 2013 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0The plastic lady turned by 1987, didn't she.
(ahem) ....
David Cameron has distanced himself from one of Margaret Thatcher's key foreign policies, saying that she was wrong to have called the ANC “terrorists” during the apartheid era.
and so on....
THANK GOD!
Dec 08th, 2013 - 07:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just checked my calendar and it's still 2013.
@27 Wolfie Smith
Dec 08th, 2013 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Probably she was just doing what politicians generally do, which is to attempt persuasion by saying one thing in public and another in private.
In the adult world, this is also known as “diplomacy”.
and so on .....
@27
Dec 08th, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0”3 Things You Didn’t (Want To) Know About Nelson Mandela”
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/3-things-you-didnt-want-to-know-about-nelson-mandela/
28, 29 - very good.
Dec 08th, 2013 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lets hope you can remember these sentiments. (Ill be watching.....especially for you Anglo...2013, not 1982, good boy)
30 - tell it to Cameron.
Whatever anyone thinks of Mandela he facilitated the dismantling of the Apartheid regime without bloodshed. He was the only man who could have done it, Without him it would have come eventually as the result of a civil war which would have resulted in 100's of thousands dead and the destruction of the state and the economy
Dec 08th, 2013 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#4
.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22976781
Try the above link.
For my benefit, what exactly did Argentina do to help the anti-apartheid cause
Yawn...yeah whatever....
Dec 08th, 2013 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I heard he was such a great man they are calling for him to be cryogenically frozen for a future resurrection.
There's a song and they're even singing it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU
Vestige
Dec 08th, 2013 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Lets hope you can remember these sentiments. (Ill be watching.....especially for you Anglo...2013, not 1982, good boy)”
Thank you. I appreciate it. For I have stated this more than once on more than one forum. So it will only bolster my argument when someone, with whom I disagree with all the time, actually supports me.
I foresee my reply to your reminder something along the lines of:
'Agreed! Thank you Vestige. It is indeed 2013. And in 2013, Gibraltar is still British and wishes to remain so'.
Or….
'Agreed! Thank you Vestige. It is indeed 2014. And in 2014, the Falkland Islands are still British and wish to remain so after voting so recently'.
So nice that you have seen the light.
Great, we're agreed that we should keep it more up to date.
Dec 08th, 2013 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#33
Dec 09th, 2013 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A_Voice....another spoiler....Yawn, whatever. Who cares what YOU have to say
Jose Malvinero : On this the 30th anniversary of democracy in Argentina , you should be thanking the British for making that democracy possible by defeating the military invasion and discrediting the Junta .
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Encima , which was the only newspaper to stand up to the Junta over the desaparecidos ?
Yes , that would be the english language , British staffed , american owned Buenos Aires Herald , of course .
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/147112/herald-and-human-rights
To (mis)quote the ficticious Col Jessup in “ A few good men ”
The British have neither the time nor the inclination to explain themselves to choripanero malvinistas who sleep under the blanket of the very freedom that they died to provide, and then question the manner in which it was provided ! They would rather you just said “thank you”, and went on your way
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