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Finally Argentina will have a US ambassador: he never visited the country or speaks Spanish
The United States Senate confirmed soap opera producer Colleen Bell to be the next U.S. ambassador to Hungary and political consultant Noah Mamet to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Argentina on Tuesday. Neither of the two newly-confirmed Ambassadors are career diplomats, but both raised millions for President Obama's Presidential campaigns. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNever been to Argentina and doesn't speak Spanish? They gave that one a lot of thought didn't they. Presumably he has lots of experience with dealing with neurotic women?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0They most certainly did give it a lot of thought. A soap opera producer is an ideal and sensitive choice.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe they have sent all their good diplomats to important countries.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is getting in return the pathetic diplomats it has been sending out.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't speak Spanish. Bahahahahaha. So he can push the mute button on his translator when CFK starts ranting in her man voice.
I imagine he is deaf - which is the only qualification required for the job.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Disgraceful!
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0They got that one incredibly wrong. Surely the ex soap opera producer should've been sent to Argentina... and in time for panto season.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina, “ you reap what you sow” Argentine incompetent in the USA and in return a USA incompetent in Argentina, Just love it.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8. I'm not sure that you completely sum it up, but you seem to have the gist. Who says Mamet will be incompetent? He seems to have some reasonable qualifications. Driver and bodyguard for Mel Levine. Senior adviser and national finance director for Dick Gephardt. Own PR and communications firm. Monitor for elections in Sierra Leone. So he'll be able to take care of himself. Understands money and will be able to recognise spin and corruption when he sees it. I expect he'll be able to send some quite amusing reports back to Obama. It's possible that Mamet is a Jewish name. That should scare Herr Timermann.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is only going so he can work on a new script about a failed state called Aresentina run by Botox junkie ( any reference to CKF is purely coincidental) who finds a book telling of a mystical island of wealth called Malvinass. but i am giving the plot away to what is a a great comedy.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Could they find anyone less qualified?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0What next?
@11
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well Noah might be able to show the Argentine navy how to build a boat that floats, with an interpreter on standby of course.
It describes Noah as “a working mother” - am I misunderstanding something?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 13 Idlehands
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Probably:
“Bell's work as a civic leader, trustee and working mother as unique qualifications”
I know this is a crappy post but everybody has beaten me to the others”
Why would we bother sending the A team to Buenos Aires? It ranks up there with Bermuda irrelevant and forgotten,
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a telling message for la Kretina! Will they accept him?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is again rated as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It moved into a lower place this year. In a few years they're going to run out of places!
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe they'll set a new standard!
Right now they owe U$11B in holdout claims, Arg is offering no more than U$6B if they don't take that deal they're going to leave it up to the next gov't to resolve.
2015 will be fun fun fun to watch
I'm surprised they didn't send a chimpanzee
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The more the two countries drift apart, the better. These are all small steps in the eventual breaking of relations. Great development for Argentina.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#19 titti boi....does your other names bore you or are you so simple that you actually believe others think you are someone else.....titti boi?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have no other names. I may have many names as resets are needed, but I never use multiple accounts as unlike the rest of you I respect Mercopress guidelines. I always have only ONE account.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ BOLLOCKS”
distraction.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0rotting roadkill: Pay your debts.
I bet he can tango.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#21 bulshit......go back and bang your mother. Perhaps it will recall your memory.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would anyone break off diplomatic relations with Argentina?
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Much more fun to send diplomats that frustrate them. There's nothing they can do. Failure to acknowledge will only mean a more pathetic one will be sent.
You are trapped Argentina. You cannot escape from the system even as you slow sink to the bottom of every measure.
No, TTT is right about this. He uses one account but changes the name to suit his needs.
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 018 brasherboot (#)
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm surprised they didn't send a chimpanzee
they did, but when CFK asked if he was taking the mickey, he went home.
lolol
“Never been to Argentina and doesn't speak Spanish?”
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps everyone who had been there and/or spoke Spanish turned the job down
What's worse the X flight attendant of a bankrupt Argentine airline or the x soap opera producer both being posted as Ambassadors-is the American bird ginger by any chance????
Dec 04th, 2014 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0@26
Dec 04th, 2014 - 03:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Trapped? We are free from you Europeans. That is freedom. We want nothing to do nor are interested in your countries.
We are free from you Europeans
Dec 04th, 2014 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0yet you still take our hand-outs..
Oh yeah, please cut the 200 million in pittance. That will destroy us... hahahahaha.
Dec 04th, 2014 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#33 women like you always talk shit. In other posts you were cutting ties with us yet you stay around and continue to post. You must be ovulating and feeling lonely.
Dec 04th, 2014 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0200 million in pittance
Dec 04th, 2014 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0next--you will be telling us how rich you are then...
@11
Dec 04th, 2014 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Could they find anyone less qualified?
What next?”
An ex-trolley dolly?
@17
Dec 05th, 2014 - 03:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0IS THIS FUN TO WATCH???
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/official-america-now-no-2-150936444.html
USA USA USA................................................ #2!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Get used to it!
Well, I understand that he's a Vegan who refuses to use leather, hates Tango music and wine, can't stand people being late for appointments, cannot tolerate dishonesty, and thinks that riding horses is cruel.
Dec 05th, 2014 - 05:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0He has studied the location of the country on a map and is a loyal Obama Democrat.
Argentines are corrupt, but there is no more dishonest nationality in Latin America than the Chilean. Sorry, but just about everyone will agree with this one.
Dec 05th, 2014 - 05:20 am - Link - Report abuse 035 Briton
Dec 05th, 2014 - 06:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cheap Oil !! A world glut!! Shale oil everywhere!!!
Who is gonna invest in Argentina's Vacant Myrtle deposits - nobody!!
@37, so now 2 billion Chinese out produce the 200 million working folks in the USA? Come back when the standard of living and child survival rate come up a bit and green house gas production goes down.. The Chinese economy is based on the wests desire for cell phones and waving cats..
Dec 05th, 2014 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 040-correct,
Dec 05th, 2014 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but no doubt she will tell us that her friends will help out lol
Bubba
Dec 05th, 2014 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There aren't 2 billion Chinese. There's 1.3 billion.
And they don't outproduce. China' economy is only bigger measured in GDP (PPP) which is a MATEHMATICAL formula.
Only simpletons (or Argentine educated posters) believe Chinese economic statistics. Google and learns out how China's provincial statistics don't add up to the national ones. How electricity and rail can be used as a proxy. How exports to Hong Kong puff out export growth figures.
Argentineans are used to governments lying and faking statistics so you have to feel sorry for them.
@43
Dec 05th, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A MATHEMATICAL FORMULA???
Lol what a moron.
I guess your travels ain't helping your IQ.
PPP only means that action production, output and transactions are compared to like production, output, and transactions.
So what you are saying is that in Norway one pays 9 USD for a bottle of milk, and you pay 0.50 cents in Mongolia, yet the same number of people worked the same amount of hours to make the bottle, ship the milk, milk the cow... etc, the same amount of employees at the supermarket to shelve it... that the Norwegian transaction was 20 times larger??
Bollocks.
If Nominal is the truth and not PPP... then you do know AUSTRALIA is in a full fledged massive DEPRESION, its GDP has shrunk 20% since 2011 right?
in 2011 1 USD = 0.98 ASD
now ? 1 USD = 1.18 ASD
that's a 20% plunge which means your whole ecomony has contracted 20%.
OR HAS IT?
Do you feel the depression in the street? Or maybe, just maybe... the UNITS OF PRODUCTION have stayed the same or even increased??
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australian-dollar-fresh-4-low-gdp-data-disappoints-070806077--finance.html
... But the value of the unit compared to another like unit is down??? (in this case, to US units)
That's what PPP does. It evens out the currency volatility, that rarely has anything to do with the main street economy and mostly is speculators and stock markets manipulating it.
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