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Alejandro Betts, technical advisor of Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Observatory
The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council held its last meeting of the year at the Malvinas Foundation building and among other issues named former Falklands Islander Alejandro Betts as Technical Advisor to the Observatory. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“'”Quisling“””....!!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh boy!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0This message board is going to be funny in so many different ways. So let me get the ball rolling.
“The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council”
WTF? If this isn't the true definition of a waste of money quango I don't know what is.
First what does it observe? And is that observation so specialised as needing an entire organisation? Doesn't anyone in Tierra del Fuego have access to Google?
Second. What are they advising exactly? How to invade properly next time?
“former Malvinas combatant Alejandro Betts ”
Really? He was a combatant?
Well at least the article was correct in calling him “former Falklands Islander”. I suppose he is a current Isla Malvinero. Even though that place only exists in such worthless organisations like The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council.
Congrats Alex. Your conversion is no complete. You are officially employed to try and make a 74 year old fairytale real.
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Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Congrats Alejandro!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://prensa.tierradelfuego.gov.ar/el-observatorio-malvinas-realizo-la-ultima-sesion-ordinaria-de-2013/
Now that IS funny - Betts the man who abandoned his wife, his children, his people, his country - a man without honour. Actually it is not funny - it is pitiful !
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Easy on the asado Ale......
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Easy........;-)
@5 Lord Ton
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0But his reward is to forever get paid in Argentine pesos!
Bahahahaha
Now there's a curse to rival Cassandra's.
Some people say that the Malvinas cause is all talk and no action. But here they have not only inaugurated a boardroom but then decided to meet in that room again. And when they do, well.... they will consider introducing prizes for each other.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm afraid for the islanders it sounds like the game is almost up.
Surely that should read,“Former junta informer!”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I was them I would keep a close eye on him, when he starts to make notes in a little black book, start worrying!
I think something got lost in translation here. I was picturing a real observatory (telescopes etc trained on the islands from the heights of the Andes?). I think what it really means is something along the lines of “TdF M question Provincial Study Center”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Looking forward to the award ceremony. Timerman should be up for the “lifetime non-achievement plastic juice cup”, Cfk must be in the running for the reverse psychology award, given to the person who persevered with hating and trying to undermine the islanders the most to make them come running.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0But the most prestigious awards will go to the Malvinistas on this site; for “Having the piss ripped out of them day and night for years and not getting it. Once”
Betts ; looking through the wrong end.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I roared with laughter, and I like a good laugh in the morning. Betts a “former Malvinas Combatant....” At what, tiddleywinks, he certainly did not fight in the war.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Betts puts Walter Mitty completely in the shade.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
apparently they will team up with the lost city of Atlantis group for xmas dinner,
Dec 11th, 2013 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0anything's possible is it not ..lol
l actually had to restrain my Mr.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not too much gets him going, but this did!
l won't personally comment,
lt all happened before my time.
A.B. Not the most popular kid on the block.
Way I heard it, the only combatting that Bett's did was with the lass from LADE, who dumped himn after they got to BA anyway. I also hear that he hasn't spoken to his children from that day to this. Speaks plenty at the C24 most years though - otherwise unemployable probably. The Falklands' Lord Haw Haw !!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@16
Dec 11th, 2013 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He, Betts, has been engaged in combat, the war of words.
My personal opinion is, he is he is about as good at that as the RG Army are at actual fighting.
That being said, and before anyone else 'climbs on my back', yes the Argentine Air Force did perform very credibly, much to the discomfort of the British Forces, although some of their claims were a little exaggerated, how many times did they sink the 'Invincible'?
Jobs for the boys ?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There were two “combatants” in the Betts family.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Peter Betts, merchant sailor, was onboard RFA Tidepool.
Terry Betts, Falkland Islander, was one of the Falkland Islanders who helped British forces following the landing.
Alexander Betts did sweet FA.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/07/30/falklands-at-c24-alejandro-betts-misrepresents-says-professor-willets
And he still can't wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the arse.
On the bright side, Alexander as he used to be known, is getting on and can't last much longer. It's amazing that an individual with so many enemies still likes to appear publicly. Especially when there are so many bullets with his name on them. Of course, he makes much more money out of being an unprincipled traitor. http://en.mercopress.com/2007/01/29/former-islander-running-for-mayor-in-cordoba-village
Dec 11th, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That article needs to be read. Especially ”It was in the late seventies while working in Stanley (Puerto Argentino) that Betts begun reading books about the “British usurpation of 1833” and Argentina's legitimate rights over the Malvinas, and then something changed“. Not real books then. Argie books. There's are other more popular descriptions of argie books. Such as ”propaganda“ and ”lies“. But the turd was ”dissatisfied” and brainwashed himself. Must be similar to the Stockholm Syndrome.
Oh how cute. The Little Eichmann of 1982 has a job that makes him feel relevant. Awwwwww.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like I said.....“”“Quisling”“” covers it all...!!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Puir wee Sandy! Perhaps been hired to look for ships in the offing. Cruise ships?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ARAB Naval vessels perhaps?
Perhaps he should recall Admiral Nelson's signal at Copenhagen.
“I see no ships”
@ Whilst I get the drift the actual comment was, I believe, ”I see no signal' as he put his telescope up to his blind eye.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hence another expression, 'to turn a blind eye'.
Stand corrected by your erudition, biguggy
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure that as soon as he's spent his 30 pieces of silver, he'll do the decent thing and hang himself, just like the other Judas!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15
Dec 11th, 2013 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So much for the Falklander humans belief in democracy (freedom of thought), and based on the commentary on the primitive response system used here, that same belief on the part of the Anglo humans?
I'm not saying it was Anglos, but it was Anglos, again... in hypocrisy. May Nibiru orbit near us soon.
@ 26 nigelpwsmith
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now that IS funny, imagining he has the courage to take his own life.
No, he will wither on the vine as the saying goes.
So primitive, these Anglo humans. They have not yet arrived to the level of accepting descent, or different opinions.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Explains their behavior in this primitive binary message board system.
I have this picture of him at the opening meeting, standing there wearing a hood with the eyes slits, Argentine Officers either side of him and nodding as each member passes in front of him and they ask him, “Is he one?” Then they get escorted from the building and whisked away in a Green Ford Falcon, never to be seen again.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Old habits die hard!
No,I think he will be appointed as an aide to Alicia in London as an expert on fomenting trolls on Scottish affairs.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quisling? Yes. Lord Haw Haw yes!
Perhaps he may see the light on the road to Damascus like Rudolf Hess.
And how many years did Hess spend in German prison till he died there?
Is he pregnant?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Blucher said, convinced he had been raped by a French soldier, to explain his belly
Dec 11th, 2013 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Il ya un elephante ya
Accept different opinions, Anglos. Seems your touted core belief in democracy has suddendly sublimated, like water on Nibiru during final approach to Earth.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Resorting to the above ridiculous, crass comments just evince impotence and utter rejection of freedom of speech, choice, and assembly.
Not saying it was Anglos, but it was Anglos! (again)
29 redp0ll
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“ And how many years did Hess spend in German prison....”
I say...:
Spandau was as German as Gitmo is Cuban....
So apart from awarding each other titles, and no doubt salaries with expenses to match, what does this “council” actually do?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever else, Quisling Betts has made a good living out of the Argies from all this.
Who else could be persuaded to pay him for anything?
“The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council” What a tongue twister! Has anyone ever see the statutes of this organisation - it must be most complicated. What is actually supposed to “observe”?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know we are in December the month of El Dia de los Inocentes - but, really!
“The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council”. In Argentina, or in Latin America, generally speaking, the longer the name the more useless the organization.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@34 yes Spandau was an injustice and I would agree
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Put your typo this time. It's Guantanamo
Look up your history of 1898 to see why the base on Cuban territory exists at all
Obama said he was going to close that “facility”. He hasn't
All criminals, terrorists or not are entitled to a fair trial under the principle of habeas corpus.,something that seems to have been forgotten in the Guantanamo situation.
Well, I for one can't wait for the medal to come out.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With a name like that around the edge it will be the size of a manhole cover.
Perhaps the first prize they should award is to themselves.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The prize most suitable? Redundancy.
It would save the waste in pesos handed to them, because we all know they can't back up the rhetoric with facts that would stand up to scrutiny in the International Court of Justice.
@ redpoll
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't know what I was thinking, you got the quote right, but it was a quote not a signal.
My apologies.
Oh this is where our resident know-nothing Rgs are posting!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Certainly not of the news about the rioting
BTW that's still going on Sr Think, Marcos
Will you both admit you have been wrong all these many years and that I have been right? Or will it be too hard on your fragile and inflated ego?
Methinks the later.
Oh how I love to be proved right. Oh how I love it.
Dim probs, biggugie
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0never heard of him, never heard of them either.... but, it may be a translation error, but is the article really saying that somebody's kitchen has been made into some sort of “official” meeting room and that this is somehow newsworthy?
Dec 11th, 2013 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0really?
Half of Argentina is rioting and this is news?
Anbar
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's only something for Malvinistas to be distracted from more worrying news.
You know how they love a fairy story. This one just tells them what the castle is called.
“”“”You know how they love a fairy story. This one just tells them what the castle is called.“”“”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hehe, I did actually LOL at that :-)
To paraphrase Karl Marx. “ Religion is the the opium of the people”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Malvinas is the fantasy of Argentina”
ALL TRAITORS, of one kind or another, eventually become “technical advisors.”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Before, being hanged, if possible in a public square!
Philippe
Oui, Philippe. A la lintern avec lui!
Dec 11th, 2013 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alex betts the most disgusting man. A traitor, so beware, he could do it again! if he ever stepped foot in the Falkland Islands it would be his last.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 51 Falkland Islands
Dec 11th, 2013 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I hope that's a promise, not just a threat! :o)
The best part is that Alex will NEVER set foot on the Falkland Islands again...... poetic justice.
Dec 11th, 2013 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”and naming “former Malvinas combatant Alejandro Betts as technical advisor”
Dec 11th, 2013 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's technical about raising a white flag?
Does Alej advise on the correct method of extracting the white flag from the standard Argentine ration pack?
If he was a'combatant', which battle did he surrender at?
Didn't realise the Battle of the Bulge took place in the Falklands?
Oh I get it now! He's a salad dodger so he technically advises Prince Maximo on the deitry requirements necessary to achieve that 'maximum gut' look, in the vain hope that several hundred waddling Argie salad dodgers will wade ashore at Yorke Bay, dodge the mines, scare the British garrison shitless and cause their immediate surrender.
Well, they've tried migrating birds, is this any more stupid?
@51
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ah, Falklands democracy at work again.
I'm not saying it was Anglos, but it was Anglos!
”Alejandro Betts, born in Malvinas..Argentinas of course
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIY7_1ig2jQ
Now I understand the 99% vote... and the 1% “woosh”, vanished like the Nephilim from our planet.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:10 am - Link - Report abuse 057
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you talking about those Saddam Hussein “elections”?
@ 56 Marcos
Dec 12th, 2013 - 05:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0“”Alejandro Betts, born in Malvinas..Argentinas of course”
Really. So who issued his birth certificate in 1947?
@ 57 Nostrils
Disappearing someone who doesn't agree with the government is actually an action undertaken by former Argentine governments and not current Falkland Islander government.
Marcross Alejando.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 06:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Born in Argentina, lives in the UK.
Hypocrit!
Alexander Betts - ¡qué verguenza! ¡Cipayo!
Dec 12th, 2013 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0A fat bloke that fcucked-off with an argie bird?
Dec 12th, 2013 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's all that is in the photo.
The Tierra del Fuego Malvinas Question Provincial Observatory Advisory Council... The TdFMQPOAC...
Dec 12th, 2013 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmm, wonder what language you have to translate it into to get a comedy acronym.
@56 Marcos,
Dec 12th, 2013 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Betts does a lot of waffling, but doesn't say much.
What is this revelation of his, where it came to him, one day, that the Falklands supposedly belong to Argentina?
Must be redhot information that will win the case for Argentina at the ICJ, No?
How come the Argentine Government have not gone rushing off to the ICJ with this startling evidence?
OR Is A.Betts just a lying traitor, who pointed the finger at his own countrymen?
Care to comment(& try to justify the lad?).
Totally Dumb Fernandez Makes Quick Progress On Antics Cause
Dec 12th, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0#57
Dec 12th, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0The adolescent with multiple personality disorder has appeared again.
He has had more reincarnations than Dr.Who !
Why is he so ashamed of being Argentinian ?
Betts is a fool, who followed a woman, who went to bed with him, but left him because he was a useless prat, who is now a burden on the Argentine state, because he is willing to betray his heritage. He's a traitor pure and simple. Like all fools, eventually the Argentines will stop giving him money and he will die alone and unloved. No one will mourn his passing, but many would like to urinate on his grave. People will only remember him as an traitor and an idiot, a fool who was willing to betray his kin for lust.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He will probably end up with mythical status in Argentina, after all he is the nearest they have ever come to having a legitimate Malvinas Islander.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long may he continue to cost Argentina shit loads of money.
It’s the only useful thing he has ever done, waste their money.
@66
Dec 12th, 2013 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, when one of your side evinces the minimum requirements to debate honestly, who knows... maybe even Nibiru will blaze in our skies again.
That is far more likely to happen than to encounter an honest, objective anti-Argie ready to debate.
With an Italian first name and a Greek(?) surname - are you from Argentina?
Dec 12th, 2013 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@69 Giorgio B. Tsoukalos
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Debate what!!!
Ancient Mesopotamian deities???
That’s real life, isn’t it???
# dear lorton bettter known as the LIAR archer.
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say about Betts: “..... the man who abandoned his wife, his children, his people, his country - a man without honour. Actually it is not funny - it is pitiful ! ”“..
we wonder about ”.. the man who abandoned his wife, his children, his people, his country - a man without honour that goes to Thailand to live “la vida loca” and write BS
...what Nat would think about it ? she must have an opinion doesnt she ?
@72 so_far
Dec 12th, 2013 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Betts couldn’t defect to Thailand, they didn’t invade the Falklands.
Did they!
@70
Dec 12th, 2013 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What? Do you have stage 2 Morgellons? I'm from Switzerland obviously!!
@ 72 so_far
Dec 12th, 2013 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So which country are you writing BS from?
Or is it Chew Butt in The Dark Country, eh, Lunatic?
TDFMQPOAC .... vowel ... another vowel ... and another vowel ...
Dec 12th, 2013 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Andrew Betts TATDFMQPOAC.
I had twice as many letters but they had spaces between the groups.
'Andy-the-Acronym' is still Bettered by Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Those Welsh'll go to the ends of the earth for a good acronym.
@75
Dec 12th, 2013 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As far as I can make out he is an RG of recent Italian descent, currently, much to my disgust, living in Canada.
67 nigelpwsmith (#)...Surely you cannot be serious....ie..“A woman actually slept with and maybe did the ”naughty” with this tub of shit..?..ewwwwwwwwww...((((shudder)))....For what ever reason I now have this picture in my mind of this slab of flab huffing, puffing, and perspiring while making all kinds of grunts of pleasure while humping a pig...!
Dec 13th, 2013 - 12:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0The result of such a rutting were four offspring.
Dec 13th, 2013 - 04:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0What to you call a litter of four?
I know, QUISLINGS,
Apparently they approached Borat when deciding on the name for this organisation!
Dec 13th, 2013 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is Betts a Trojan Horse ? The malvinistas might think he is one of them , but maybe his motives are more sinister . ......
Dec 13th, 2013 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has he had a hand in building the secret airport in Patagonia ?
http://www.malvinense.com.ar/snacional/n0108/532.html
Is it really the launch pad for a new English invasion ?
When asked , most sensible argentines replied that they sincerely hoped so .....
@ 81 Usurping Pirate
Dec 13th, 2013 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can see why they would want the “English” to invade when you look at the pitiful things donated to cloth the “veterans” in that area.
Mind you, I bet most of the donors want the stuff back now that they are on their uppers themselves.
@76 GeoffWard2
Dec 13th, 2013 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps if they translated TDFMQPOAC, into Welsh???
reality check (#79)
Dec 14th, 2013 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0'What to you call a litter of four?
I know, QUISLINGS,'
Surely they'd be QUASLINGS.
Looks like a chubby Assange
Dec 14th, 2013 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nah! he looks like a Telly Tubby.
Dec 15th, 2013 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Frankly, he is about as useful as one too.
@ 83 Pugol-H
Dec 15th, 2013 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“TDFMQPOAC”
Are you sure it’s not Spanish, looks like it to me! Ha, ha, ha. :o)
Good to see Senor de la Thinko has a new occupation and might have less time for rose coloured Malvinas stories on Mercopress!
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