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“Argentine Antarctica Day” celebrations with special mention of South Georgia
Argentina celebrated on Tuesday 25 February, the “Argentine Antarctica Day”, which recalls the 110 years of uninterrupted presence of the country in Antarctica and included among the many activities displayed the scientific research cruise of May 2013 in waters adjoining the South Georgia islands. Read full article
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Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine Antarctica Day?
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse +1What a waste of time and money! These people are bonkers.
l was going to say, more money than sense.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then of course, l realised, they've got neither money OR sense. lol
Hey Hector....How is the Ice Breaker coming along after its $100 million dollar plus refurbishment ?
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0And will it make an ounce of difference to Argentina's spurious claims over British territories? - not at all.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is just to fool the Argentine people.
Lord Ton.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed: but the trouble is that some Argentines can be fooled. That's the only reason the present government is in power.
“Argentine Antarctica Day”,
Feb 26th, 2014 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Antarctica belonga Argentina!
Why not ?
Feb 26th, 2014 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You plant a flag somewhere, stick a few bodies there and its yours.
Thats how it works for GB.
Oh look the Arg science camp has just held a referendum 99% want the antarctic to remain Argentinian, free speech ...democracy...you fascist !!
Vestige - That's also how it works for Argentines. You flee Europe, butcher the indigenous population occupying the land you stole and named Argentina, plant a flag and celebrate said bloodshed.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +1But of course, Argentina is nothing like GB is it... Hypocrite / moron.
@3 That's “neither money NOR sense”. It's “either....or” or “neither.....nor”. I've always remembered that!
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Sorry. Britain claimed its section of Antarctica in 1908. Despite being given its first research station by Britain, argieland did nothing until 1943. Why is it that the thieves of argieland can't hold back from thieving? Oh, and look, did argieland have discussions with the existing owner, Britain? Did it sit down at a table and negotiate? Not a chance. It waited until Britain was embroiled in a worldwide war to save the free people of the world. Have to admit that I would have found a way (e.g. the Doolittle raid) to bomb argieland. Perhaps the Royal Navy should have been sent to bombard argieland. Never mind, we can still bombard argieland. Two hundred cruise missiles. Reload. Another two hundred cruise missiles. Reload. That's why we have Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels. To reload warships. Just imagine a constant procession of C-17s transporting Tomahawks to Ascension. And another constant procession of RFAs shuttling between Ascension and the Falklands. And air-launched Storm Shadows as well.
#9 correction - Thats how it worked for Spain, not Argentina. You ignoramus.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -1argentina is like a little poor beggar...looking through the shop windows and dreaming of owning the goods on display........like, south shetland islands. southern orkneys, south geogia, the falkland islands and British antarctic territory.........SUCH A SHAME FOR THE PORR LITTLE BEGGAR
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1#11 Shove off back to Spain then.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +1South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands News:
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/(h)South_Georgia_News_and_Events
SGSSI webcam: http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/(h)South_Georgia_News_and_Events
@ Vestige, Are you fooookers so stupid “that's how it worked for Spain” your the sons and daughters of colonisers you idiot, you people need to come to terms with your TRUE history and not shit you make up on a daily bases
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse +1@12
Feb 26th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Falklands Islands British? Agreed.
South Georgia British? Agreed.
Southern Orkneys and south Shetland Islands? KEEP DREAMING.
”The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about 604 kilometres (375 mi) north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.[1] They have a total area of about 620 square kilometres (240 sq mi).[1]
The islands have been part of the province of Tierra del Fuego, and the Argentine Navy has maintained a permanent base on Laurie Island since 1904. The islands are also claimed as part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962 (previously they were a Falkland Islands Dependency), and the British Antarctic Survey operates a base on Signy Island. Apart from base personnel, there are no inhabitants.“
”Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories[citation needed] and they are open to any signatory for non-military use”
British Antarctica does not exist and will never exist, either.
Pathetic that a country in the 21st century still engages in Imperialism 12 THOUSAND KILOMETERS AWAY from its shores, and then has the gall to accuse another country for its misguided imperialism of some islands 400 kilometers off its shores.
400 vs 12.000. LOL, typical British dishonesty and duplicity.
There will never be a British Antarctic territory.
@11 Unfortunately for your “version” after “declaring” independence, argieland was still committing genocide in 1833. Strange that, eh? Argieland still committing genocide on indigenous people, while Britain protects settlers who displaced NO indigenous people. Not content, argieland restarted its genocides in 1875 under Alsina, and in 1878 under Roca. And, even today, argie state thugs regularly murder indigenous people. No questions asked.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Probably best for an honest nation to move in. Best to start by executing the so-called “government”. On to “state authorities”. Most of them can die as well. Then we can move on to the “foot soldiers”. The “police” and similar agencies. No problem. Shoot the lot. Although, given argieland's poor financial situation, a necktie bungie drop might be better. I can think of a number of current argie and latino tosspots who should go the same way. Happy to volunteer to tie the ropes round their necks and, in the spirit of tradition, pushing them off the ramp of a C-130 Hercules. What an amazing sight. A C-130 flying around Buenos Aires trailing bodies on ropes. When will the heads rip off? On to the next city. Until there's not a vestige left!
@16 Really? Make no mistake, our next objective is 40 million argie corpses! Believe me, as far as WE British are concerned, there is nothing in argieland that is human. Just bacteria. WE kill bacteria.
No Vestige, that is how it works for Argentina. Spanish / Argentine - All European and all cut from the same cloth I'm afraid.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Typical Argentine, always trying to blame somebody else. Always somebody else's fault. Never want to admit responsibility.
Sigh.
Sigh.
15 - ah... so guilt by ancestry
Feb 26th, 2014 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Yes 19.. Same us us Brits. Get used to it! Except, unlike the Brits, you have nothing to be proud of (except the Tango)
Feb 26th, 2014 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 - Ah... There's that famous South American hypocrisy again.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dream on , silly Argies !! Forever Falklands Forever British !!!
Feb 26th, 2014 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As usual , all words by Tinpot .
Feb 26th, 2014 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fact is , the scientists on the bases , including Marambio are starving due to lack of resources to support them :
http://www.penguinnews.com.ar/2013/05/17/por-mas-de-un-siglo-fue-motivo-de-orgullo-nacional/
Can anybody explain exactly what is a “sudaca”?
Feb 26th, 2014 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A_neuTroll_Observer
Feb 26th, 2014 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The South Shetland Islands were discovered by the English sea captain William Smith on February 18, 1819. On revisiting the islands in October of the same year, he landed, planted the British flag and formally took possession of the group in the name of King George III, calling it New South Britain-(this was afterwards changed to South Shetlands, after the Shetlands Islands, north of Scotland).
The South Orkney Islands (named after another Scottish group) were discovered by the British sealing captain, George Powell, on December 6, 1821On the following day he landed the largest of the islands, took possession of it formally in the name of King George IV and called it Coronation Island in honour of the King's Coronation.
The Scottish explorer, Dr. W. S. Bruce in the ship S.S. Scotia established a meteorological station at Laurie Island in the South Orkneys in 1903,. The working of which was entrusted to the Argentine meteorological office in the following year. He spent the Antarctic winter of 1903 at Laurie Island and in 1904, after revisiting Laurie Island to land the Argentine meteorologists,
On July 21, 1908. South Georgia, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, the Sandwich Islands and the territory of Graham Land were by Royal Letters formally constituted Dependencies of the Colony of the Falkland Islands and placed under its government.
This was communicated to the Argentine Government by the British Minister in Buenos Aires in a note of February 20, 1909, who transmitted to the Argentine Foreign Minister (Victorino de la Plaza) a copy of the Falkland Islands Gazette containing the text of the Letters Patent. The Argentine Foreign Minister replied in a note of March 18, 1909 without complaint
19@Vestige, I rest my case
Feb 26th, 2014 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 20 CaptainSilver
Feb 26th, 2014 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“you have nothing to be proud of (except the Tango)”
NOT TRUE! The Tango was developed by a Uruguayo who subsequently went to live in Argentina. But as always the argies claim it even though they DO know the truth.
@10 Conqueror,
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you, l didn't know that.
But then, l don't profess to know everything.
A_neuTroll_Observer
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Further information for you.
In 1912, negotiations were begun for the cession by Great Britain to Argentina, of the South Orkneys in return for a freehold Legation site in Buenos Aires and conditional on respecting British whaling rights. By 1914, the final text of a treaty of cession had been agreed between the two countries but, on a change of Government in Argentina, the new Government declined on financial grounds to complete the transaction. These negotiations themselves demonstrate Argentine recognition of British sovereignty over the South Shetland islands. Why negotiate the purchase of territory if it is already yours?
Further letters Patent were issued on March 28, 1917 which clarified the area of British sovereignty. and the Falklands dependencies were finally defined to include-
“All islands and territories whatsoever between the 20th degree of West longitude and the 50th degree of West longitude which are situated South of the 50th parallel of South latitude and all Islands and territories whatsoever between the 50th degree west longitude and the 80th degree of west longitude which are situated south of the 58th parallel of South latitude”.
The territories of the dependencies as so defined in the Letters.
Once again the Argentine Government acknowledged receipt of the gazette recording the Royal letters Patent without protest.
The Argentine claim on the South Shetland, like its claim on the falklands and South Georgia has been conceived not only long after British sovereignty has been established but also after it has been acknowledged by Argentina herself.,
@ 16 toby
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You'd better be careful with that proximity argument ... you know which country is closest to the Antarctic.
@ 25 rupertbrooks0
That is too much historical fact for a troll to deal with - I expect he will go silent now.
Since when was South Georgia in the Antarctic?
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +1If our government had any backbone,
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it would place a claim on this argy piece of land, just for the sheer fun of seeing these fools run crying to the un-mighty UN.
mmmm.
(30) Condorito
Feb 26th, 2014 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You say...:
“You'd better be careful with that proximity argument ... you know which country is closest to the Antarctic.”
I say...:
Nothing to be careful about...
New Zealand is closer to the Antarctic than Australia...
But, that doesn't hinder them to have each their “Sector”...
Both would though “Rise an Eyebrow or two” if the Northern Ex-Colonial Japanese Empire pretended to apropriate both their sectors...
@ Think
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1That is my point: claims are not based on proximity.
Do I detect you support Argentina's colonial ambitions in Antarctica?
@ 31 knarfw
Good point. Cabo de Hornos is further south than South Georgia.
(34) Condorito
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You say...:
“That is my point: claims are not based on proximity.”
I say...:
Well.........., your point is just wrong...
@ Think
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well in that case, “You'd better be careful with that proximity argument ... you know which country is closest to the Antarctic.”
(36) Condorito
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Then it is back to my point at comment (33)...:
“New Zealand is closer to the Antarctic than Australia...
But, that doesn't hinder them to have each their “Sector”...”
The Aussies and the Kiwies share like the brothers they are, my dear hermanito Shileno...., like the brothers they are...
Just like us, Chilotes and the Argentuzos...
“Argentina Senate condemns Cameron's Falklands statement”
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the look in his eye
Seemed to say to the sky
“Now, how to amuse them today....”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16735731
You gotta laff aint cha??
Falklands dispute: Argentina 'urges UK import ban'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16735731
All we do is light the touch paper........ and watch as they run around and make fools of themselves.
@ Think
Feb 26th, 2014 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are no overlapping claims in the Auzzie / NZ sector.
So where there are overlapping claims... if proximity is relevant....”You'd better be careful with that proximity argument ...
(39) Condorito
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse -1The overlapping claims we'll talk about as the proximity hermanitos we are...
I'm positive we, Chilotes and Argentuzos can reach a much better solution for the both of us than letting them English Pirates have both our sectors...
Gosh I just don't understand why unions don't want a 25% yoy raise? Its only a little less than 1/2 of the monthly food inflation.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahaha
I've been waiting for hyperinflation.
Can anyone tell me if 60%+ yr is consider “Hyper” in a failed country?
#25
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shame on you for trying to confuse nostrils with the truth.
@ Think
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see. Selective proximity. Well we could just go with 55 degrees south as the arbitrary cut off point.
@Think, we just luurv being termed pirates. Jack Sparrow is our hero. Anyway, the treaty says it all.
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 016 A_neuTroll_Observer
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Humble opinions do not displace a verifiable history
39. The Falkland Islands Dependencies and Antarctica
...the “Treaty” of Tordesillas of 1494 “allocated” South Georgia to Portugal, voiding any possible claim by Argentina to have inherited it from Spain. ... ...The first country to assert an official claim to South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, the South Shetlands, and the South Orkneys was Britain, which on 21 July, 1908 issued Letters Patent that defined South Georgia, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, the Sandwich Islands and Graham Land (the Antarctic Peninsula) as the “Falkland Islands Dependencies”, to be administered from the Falklands.1 The Letters Patent consolidated and confirmed the 18th century claims made by Captain James Cook and others,2 and were published in the official Falkland Islands Gazette. On 20 February 1909 the British Minister
in Buenos Aires sent a copy of the Gazette to the Argentine Foreign Ministry, who acknowledged receipt on 18 March, but Argentina registered no protest or even official comment at that time.3
2 ...and George Powell claimed the South Orkneys for Britain in 1821.
3 Headland 1984, 240.
Getting it right: the real history of the Falklands/Malvinas
by Graham Pascoe and Peter Pepper
(43) Condorito
Feb 26th, 2014 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Sooooo...... You are not interested in giving away your sector to the Ingleses then?
Think,
Feb 26th, 2014 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Antarctica is not for you. The climate is far too Chile for your turnip cultivations.
27NOT TRUE! The Tango was developed by a Uruguayo ......Who????
Feb 26th, 2014 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uruguay invented everything, Arg only copies.
CFK just closed the largest travel site in Argentina.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a surprise
I hope the middle class Rgs traveled in the “won decade” because that's the last time you'll see the civilized world for a very long time.
“Argentina's activity in Antarctica is supported mainly on scientific research and a logistics and professional administration“ says mr Tinman....... Mainly? what's that supposed to mean?
Feb 27th, 2014 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0and another... Tinman underlined Argentina's commitment to the Antarctic Treaty System, its principles and objectives of making the continent a land of ”peace” and conservation..... Argentina is the only country to have open fired upon another nation in Anterctica. What a load of old Bull.
@48 Tango. Carlos Gardel born in the department of Tacuarembo, Uruguay.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why were there members of the Armed Forces and the Minster of Defence present? Military activity is banned under the Antarctic Treaty to which Argieland is a signatory.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 12:40 am - Link - Report abuse 024 Gordo1 ”Can anybody explain exactly what is a “sudaca”?
Feb 27th, 2014 - 04:04 am - Link - Report abuse -1You should've asked that question when you were a Lloyds bankster in Málaga.
Did you shop at El Corte Inglés. Gordo?
Think says:
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0”The Aussies and the Kiwies (sic) share like the brothers they are, my dear hermanito Shileno...., like the brothers they are...
Just like us, Chilotes and the Argentuzos...“
Chile and Argentina's relationship is nowhere near as close as Australia and New Zealand's. Sorry but the pale shadow a brotherhood that Think tries vainly to portray as existing between his country and Chile is nothing compared to our family bond across the ditch.
”New Zealand is closer to the Antarctic than Australia...”
Try again! Wrong. Australia is closer than New Zealand. Indeed our southernmost point is even further south than Argentina's.
8# last vestige
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Why not ?
You plant a flag somewhere, stick a few bodies there and its yours.
Thats how it works for GB”
This is how it works for Argentina:
1982, Argentina invades peaceful British territory of the Falkland Islands. Despite being heavily defended by 40 Royal Marines armed with lethal weapons, the Argentines (who have deployed most of their armed forces to the Falklands) finally manage to overcome the stiff resistance put up by marines and the Islanders and emerge victorious. Victorious Argentine soldiers try and humiliate the marines in front of the world press and there is much ecstasy and rejoicing in Argentina. (You don’t see a lot of that, do you?)
The Islanders are locked up and terrorised by the occupation heroes whose behaviour could accurately be described as fascist..
But unfortunately those tactics failed big time and the Falklands were restored to their rightful owners, the heroes were now reduced to the status of feather dusters were sent packing back to Argentina.
That worked well for the Argentine fascists, didn’t it?
l read somewhere that the Argentines have tested tanks in the Antarctic.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0lf true, guess who is militarising/militarizing the Antarctic.?
lt couldn't possibly be true though, we all know how “peaceful” Argentina is.;-))))))
#56 ”lt couldn't possibly be true though, we all know how “peaceful” Argentina is.;-))))))”
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0A beacon of civilised behaviour and democracy in a troubled world, thats how they see themselves. shame about their history!
@ 46 Think
Feb 27th, 2014 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Sooooo...... You are not interested in giving away your sector to the Ingleses then?”
Not at all. It is not ours to give. The British presence in the region pre-dates ours (and yours). The British claim to the land pre-dates ours (and yours).
I dislike Chile's state policy of misleading the public about “our” Antarctica. Antarctica belongs to the world and the world powers will decide if/when/how it gets opened up.
In the meantime I support the increasing Chilean infrastructure in the area, like the new air force base south of the 80th parallel, in order to look after our interests ... and evacuate our beleaguered hermanitos when they are in trouble:
http://www.eldinamo.cl/2013/08/22/fotos-fach-realiza-evacuacion-aeromedica-combinada-en-la-antartica/
;)
What history,
Feb 27th, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they are still uneducated school children..lol
@ 56 lsolde
Feb 27th, 2014 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“l read somewhere that the Argentines have tested tanks in the Antarctic.”
Bit doubtful but you can never be too sure about argie idiocy. The use of tracked vehicles in the Antarctic is well understood as is the exterior ballistics in arctic conditions of tank tubes (the gun).
But if it keeps them happy until somebody has to come and rescue the poor starving scientists because the argies can’t do it themselves who am I to care?
(58) Condorito
Feb 27th, 2014 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Firstly you say....:
I dislike Chile's state policy of misleading the public about “our” Antarctica. Antarctica belongs to the world and the world powers will decide if/when/how it gets opened up.“
And then you say...:
” In the meantime I support the increasing Chilean infrastructure in the area, like the new air force base south of the 80th parallel, in order to look after our interests ...”
I say....:
En que quedamos, hermanito Shileno?
Me pare que Usté quiere la chancha, los veinte y la máquina de hacer chorizos...
I sometimes wonder how many people read my posts:
Feb 27th, 2014 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina is a unique case of a country that has completed the transition to underdevelopment,” said Javier Corrales, a political scientist at Amherst College.
Then, to give expression to its uniqueness, Argentina invented its own political philosophy: a strange mishmash of nationalism, romanticism, fascism, socialism, backwardness, progressiveness, militarism, eroticism, fantasy, musical, mournfulness, irresponsibility and repression. The name it gave all this was Peronism. It has proved impossible to shake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/opinion/28iht-edcohen28.html
@61 Think
Feb 27th, 2014 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I want more honest state policy so that the public are better informed. Public sentiment cultivated on false information can become a ball and chain for a country as you (should) well know.
Our advancing infrastructure projects on the white continent are not at odds with the above stated desire or the current international treaties.
I don't expect the pig, the piglets and the “la máquina de hacer chorizos” but I do hope that the “chancho” is favorably “pelado”.
(63) Condorito
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You say...:
”Public sentiment cultivated on false information can become a ball and chain for a country as you (should) well know.“
I say...:
You mean..... like the ”Public Sentiment” that the English try to cultivate on false information about the Malvinas Islands, that has become a ball and chain for their Country?
its quite simple to resolve the whole falklands issue.........why doesn't argentina declare war on the united kingdom and we can then have winner takes all..........how about you little diego cowards?
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey Condorito.....
Feb 27th, 2014 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is your name Diego ???
@ 64 Think
Feb 27th, 2014 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, you know I don't mean that. As an objective 3rd party I see Argentina wasting a great deal of diplomatic resource on the Falklands issue. An effort that has not and will not yield the desired result.
@66 Think
Negative. Why?
(67) Condorito
Feb 27th, 2014 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -1You say...:
“As an objective 3rd party I see....”
I say...:
“Objective 3rd Party”................... You ???
In all the time I have been reading your comments in MercoPress about Argentina, you do not once, come across as an “Objective 3rd Party”...
I asked you if your name was Diego because your English friend at (65) was trying to communicate to somebody called Diego Coward.....
In psychological terms — and Buenos Aires is packed with folks on couches pouring out their anguish to psychotherapists — Argentina is the child among nations that never grew up. Responsibility was not its thing. Why should it be? There was so much to be plundered, such riches in grain and livestock, that solid institutions and the rule of law — let alone a functioning tax system — seemed a waste of time.
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ Think
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have the objectivity to see that Chile's institutionalised distortion of facts about “our” Antarctica is foolish policy.
You on the other hand appear unable to see that teaching children from pre-school age that something is theirs (when its ownership is at very least disputed) had nothing to do with a disastrous military campaign and subsequent equally unsuccessful foreign policy.
It is clear where the lack of objectivity resides.
...
“Diego Coward”? I think he was last seen in 1982 waving the white flag wishing to god his inept leaders had possessed a fraction of Condorito's objectivity.
(70) Condorito
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Did I EVER claim to be an...: “Objective 3rd Party”?
Did I EVER claim to be an...: “Objective Party”?
Did I EVER claim to be...: “Objective”?
I have ALWAYS claimed to be an Argentinean citizen pissed off by English Piracy, Colonialism and Haughtiness in the South Atlantic...
No more...
No less...
Diego? Name rings a bell.Son of Patricio Dowling?
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1@ 71 Think
Feb 27th, 2014 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In that case and in view of ”Diego Coward's” fate and in avoidance of stoking future conflict on the Antarctic peninsula, would it not be wiser for our governments to pull down the façade?
Well informed Diegos = good.
Pissed off Thinks = bad.
56 lsolde ”read somewhere that the Argentines have tested tanks in the Antarctic.
Feb 28th, 2014 - 02:55 am - Link - Report abuse -1Race cars Isolde. Enjoy Antártida Argentina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhPFzL2C24
shortages and rationing of oil and sugar in supermarkets
Feb 28th, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lanacion this morning!
All I can say is I TOLD YOU SO
Whew that feel good
For years I've been telling the Rgidiots to by sugar and they laughed and laughed
Well who's laughing now
me
Bahahahahaha
Its only going to get worse
Not your territory, Marcos.
Mar 02nd, 2014 - 04:40 am - Link - Report abuse +1Just because you want something does not make it yours.
Didn't you learn that as a child?
Oops, forgot, most of you think like children.
“lts mine, its mine”
Well in this case, its not…so behave.
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