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Argentina's CARI ranked as the highest Spanish language think-tank globally
Two of the world’s leading 40 think-tanks are from Latin America, with the top spot in the region going to Brazil’s Fundação Getúlio Vargas. However Argentina's Council for International Relations, CARI, was ranked as the highest Spanish language think-tank on a global scale according to a report from the University of Pennsylvania Lauder Institute. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesObviously Penn. University Lauder Institute has no experience of the people in SA: NONE.
Jan 24th, 2015 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think tanks, ones like Chatham House, think about the future. I have yet to meet anybody from Uruguay, TDC and Chile who can think even one step into the future: it’s absolutely pathetic.
If you need convincing just look at ‘No Money Pepe’, TMBOA, DumbAss Dilma and Mami and the rest of the bat shit mad mob.
So we need to realise that Jibber-jabber think tanks are coming from a very low base, very low indeed.
So now these rankings from “Penn Lauder University” are rags with no experience whatsoever.
Jan 24th, 2015 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm glad you have finally seen the light. It's what I have been saying all along, your precious rankings you always rave about (when they go against Argentina for whatever reason... how odd), but obviously you are pretty stupid and dull and takes some major dinning to get anything to stick in your sputtering cortical structure.
You Anglos live and die by these rankings and your egos depend on them ranking your anglo orgs high. As I have been telling you, they are basically clueless about the real world.
I'm glad you are now dismissing all those rankings as the maculature that they are. Most everything Anglo is utter shit, because it has never faced a challenge from an impartial ranking.
@2. How long did it take you to think that one up? Must be getting really difficult to hold your head up now that you know that you have a murderer for president.
Jan 24th, 2015 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But let's be straightforward. Rankings are only perceptions. We 'Anglos' know that.
But in head to head confrontations, huge spain, including argieland, has been unable to overmatch tiny little England/Great Britain/United Kingdom. Adequately demonstrated in 1982 when argieland illegally invaded a British territory 415 miles away. British troops, including all equipment, supplies and munitions were despatched from 8,064 miles away.
Unsurprisingly, the argies were beaten shitless. Interesting points in the conflict were that argies committed many war crimes, showed no respect for the homes of the population, set up world records for running (away), lost 2.54 killed for each British serviceman killed, had 11,313 taken prisoner, lost 9 vessels (Britain - 7), lost 100 aircraft (Britain - 35), initially declined to repatriate POWs (unwanted losers) and refused to accept corpses. Although Britain did offer to drive stakes through all their hearts.
This is a REAL ranking, based on actual FACTS. It would seem that there are grades of shit in argieland. How does one rate a 'country' that refuses to take its own rotting corpses back? How about a 'country' that declines to take more than 11,000 of its own citizens back? Would it have been different had they won? Not that they had much chance of that. Perhaps the argies shit in so many Falklander homes when they heard that the Task Force had sailed. Their fate was sealed.
You see, we 'Anglos' are the best there is. Thousands of years of evolution have produced 'Anglos'. What are the alternatives? Chinkys? Russkis? Eyeties? Dagos? Frogs? Where would we rate Scummers (argies and other selected latams)? Peruverts? Bols ups? Urineguayans, Brazil nuts? Equabogdoors?
What a shame that you can't recognise how superior we are. You might be able to learn.
OK. So now Christian Rubilar is a tough guy. lol. Lavalle 1506, Eighth floor, #33
Jan 24th, 2015 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Toby, coming from someone who purports to inhabit the country that gave the world only the Tango and Corned Beef, thats hilarious! Latino lands, be they in Europe or South America, are universally proven serial basket cases. Do you also claim that Black is actually White?
Jan 24th, 2015 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 5 CaptainSilver
Jan 24th, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The guy who originated the dance known as the Tango was a Uruguayo who later move to TDC.
The argies did NOT originate the Tango.
ChisR, that means Argies only lead the world in lying cheating and Corned Beef then?
Jan 24th, 2015 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#7
Jan 24th, 2015 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you will have to exclude corned beef !
Ireland produced a significant amount of the corned beef in the Atlantic trade from local cattle and salt imported from the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France.] Coastal cities, such as Dublin, Belfast, and Cork, created vast beef curing and packing industries, with Cork producing half of Ireland's annual beef exports in 1668.
@ 7 CaptainSilver
Jan 24th, 2015 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear, it just got worse!
Lying and cheating only!
Who'd have thunk it! Ha, ha, ha.
#2 pagina boi......you are a bit more edgy and fun when you wear your pablo hat. Diefinitely more feminine when you pretend to be the mendozan mule.....aka...tobi/TTT/Truth Telling Troll/Cruise Con Troll/Titti boi/Pagina boi/Narine T. Nüster/The Trolling Stone.....goodness, the name list goes on doesn't it?
Jan 24th, 2015 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still trying to convince people that you life in Argentina?
@2
Jan 24th, 2015 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Most everything Anglo is utter shit”
Yet you can't even make a jet engine even though they were invented about 80 years ago. Don't worry, you'll probably succeed in 100 years time-maybe.
@9 Can't they get any credit for 'sort of' inventing a jet trainer named after a pair of diapers?
Oh well, I guess it's back to lying and cheating then.
Even Argentina didn't invent 'it's always someone else's fault', though they have developed the concept almost to perfection.
The story is that Getúlio Vargas is the top think tank in Latin America. Due to the Argentina fetish that the British and Mercopenguin suffer from this has been recast as, “Argentina's CARI ranked as the highest Spanish language think-tank globally”. This article is a perfect example of why Mercopenguin is almost useless as a news source.
Jan 25th, 2015 - 01:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0@11
Jan 25th, 2015 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are bitching about me hurting your poor “Anglo pride”, yet totally ignore the petty and pathetic behavior @5, 6 7, and 9? And which you gladly also decided to partake in?
Don't you find that behavior utterly pitiful of supposedly grown, intelligent, first-world, objective, and “well-educated” men. Read those answers again... even 6th graders might start getting a bit embarrassed at the petty, vacuous, and asinine exchange.
You probably don't. Here's a hint: at best, you all appear like artless adult children with arrested development, who think 4th grade discourse as seen between replies 5-10 is either funny or witty... or at worst like truly uncouth parochial buffoons, indelibly branded as utterly uninformed, product of a nation(s) with sordidly failing and woebegone education systems.
Either option would not come as appealing to human beings with a modicum of awareness of anything beyond their benighted scope.
Toby, you are pathetic. You continually come up with utter crap here, you lie about practically everything and you cannot see when others take the piss! Path. Et. Ic! Now, you cant even claim corned beef or the Tango, what is your alleged country good for?
Jan 25th, 2015 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tobias/TTT or whatever crap name your are calling yourself today
Jan 25th, 2015 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back to your vicious ways?
“Most everything Anglo is utter shit”
Yet despite this the Anglosphere (UK, US etc...) has made far more discoveries and invented far more useful things than anyone else.
That includes the electricity. The computer you are using. The internet.
If it is all such 'utter shit' why are you using it.
Oh and next time you go to the doctors remember that most of the medical breakthroughs that you take for granted were made by British, European or US citizens. That includes very important things like vaccines, antiseptics and antibiotics. So feel free never to be vaccinated again, never clean a cut with antiseptics again and never to take antibiotics again, and see how long you live afterwards.
Face it Tobias, once again you lie and insult people, and when they respond in kind you call “Not Fair!”, cry about it, then run away.
So run away Tobias and GROW UP.
Or better yet come back with an actual intelligent sound argument to back your claims. Big words aren't necessary, they just make you look desperate to appear intelligent.
Poor little The Trolling Stone .....can't even respond to me and my claim of not being in Argentina because it is true. How is paradise in Mendoza? Something is taking place and I bet you are not even clued in on it because why? Not big enough for global news ......you have have to be there to know. Do you throw dice to see who you will be that day?
Jan 25th, 2015 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tell me...tell us Pagina boi. Do you have so little self respect that you are totally clueless to even register a little that we all know you do not live in Argentina? Your rants are childish at best, your racial hatred and prejudice is even sadder and your sophomoric attempts at sounding educated makes you look a self proclaimed show pony.
Develop some self respect. You want to support Argentina from where ever you are...fine....no problem. Start with truth .....no one care where you are from but we all know it is NOT Argentina.
12 Hepatia
Jan 25th, 2015 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The article could have stated that Argentina was ranked no. 3 in central and south America but chose to highlight that it was the no. 1 in the rankings of Spanish speaking countries globally (excluding Spain).
“ This article is a perfect example of why Mercopenguin is almost useless as a news source.”
If you all hate Mercopress so much, why bother reading it and commenting.
What is the link between Mercopress and Penquin news. ?
@13. Sorry? Isn't 'CARI' spanish for FART?
Jan 25th, 2015 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Top Gear is on now and Clarkson, Hammond and May have ALL got Chilean flag lapel pins!
Jan 25th, 2015 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahaha… .
***3 Take your medicine you silly fellow!!
Jan 25th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercopenguin news. That's a good one. Cant agree more! Editorialism is so cheap, reporting is so biased. It's simply for fun that one reads this UK propaganda! So cool
Jan 26th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0#21
Jan 26th, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is “mercopenguin” ?
This is all I could find when I tried a Google search
Heureka.cz - Vyhledávání Merco kluzák Penguin
www.heureka.cz/?h%5Bfraze%5D... - Translate this page
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I would have to agree with you and H. that the site is rather difficult to understand if you cannot understand Czech.
However, the Mercopress site gives you an opportunity to moan your chops off against the Falklands and the hated Anglos, so, what is your problem ?
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/01/24/argentina-s-cari-ranked-as-the-highest-spanish-language-think-tank-globally#comment377412: I stumbled upon this site a few years ago while I was looking for a source of news about Mercosul. But this site fails miserably to meet its own stated goals.
Jan 28th, 2015 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I later found out that Mercopenguin is well known as a British government run propaganda site. This is why, if you read the raw site, you will see many articles about Argentina and 'The Falklands' - and, bizarrely, Gibraltar and Spain - and only a few about Brazil and Paraguay, and almost none about Venezuela. Its also why there is a Mercopenguin Washington Bureau Chief - who knew!
The interesting question is who is the target audience for this propaganda? It cannot be Latin Americans - its printed in English. Neither can it be the US - no self respecting American would fall for this crude British rubbish. So, the real targets are the British themselves. That is this site is the realization of a British government
attempt to feed propaganda to their own people - something that the British have no problem with.
But not only have they failed to be the site of record for Mercosul they have also failed as a propaganda site. In the last year I have seen only two reference to Mercopenguin, both by a British ex pat journalist down in Brazil. And this is why this site is saddled with a set of British jingoists who are stuck in a 1950s time warp.
So, as you say, the site is a joke, nothing more.
#23
Jan 28th, 2015 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ British government attempt to feed propaganda to their own people - something that the British have no problem with”.
Why should we have a problem ? We can smell bullshit from 8000 miles away which strangely enough corresponds to the distance from Argentina.
@ 23 Hepatitis
Jan 28th, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“So, as you say, the site is a joke, nothing more.”
The ONLY 'person' claiming that is you.
If you don't like it, do us all a favour and DON'T COME BACK.
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