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Falklands' Chamber of Commerce: second flight desperately required
The Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce underlined its support for a second flight to the South American continent, and its significance for the development of business and all sectors of the economy. Stacy Bragger, Executive Secretary of the Chamber had a letter published in this week's Penguin News. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesJust think of all the business that Argentina has lost by invading the Falklands and p*ssing off the inhabitants all those years ago.
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse +2Hear hear Stacy! IMO the best option would be a second flight from Chile midweek and coming direct from Santiago with, if necessary, a once a month stop off somewhere in Argentina - preferably somewhere en route between Santiago and the Falkland Islands. If you draw a straight line between the two points then somewhere like Neuquén or perhaps Comodoro Rivadavia would serve the purpose.
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Imagine how all these difficulties could be easily solved if the dispute were settled or at least if there were a perspective of settlement...
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse -7If Argentina dropped its false claim and harassment of the islanders then they may well be solved,
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +4but until then, disputes will always remain.
Marcelo
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Be interested in hearing how you think the dispute could be settled...
Marcelo Kohen, what would that settlement be in your view. Oh yes Argentine rule. You dont acknowledge the islanders rights.
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +5Best stick to selling your books on Amazon or Ebay Marcelo, or fixing mock legal seminars in Argentine favor because you have little idea of what the islanders want.
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Marcelo Cohen
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +3All the time you encourage your fellow citizens to believe that the fairy tales, myths, false interpretations of historical events concerning the false claim to sovereignty of the Falklands archipelago then the dispute remains. Just be honest and direct your talents elsewhere - your interventions only make the matter worse.
Marcelo Kohen is a fraud. He tells lies, photoshops images and attempts to distort history. Since the review (below) was written, we've discovered further examples of deception. Kohgen should be ashamed - but then he's a lawyer. Says it all.
Dec 23rd, 2016 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +3https://falklandstimeline.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/review-of-kohen-rodriguez-2016.pdf
Ni un vuelo más para los kelpers. Qué se pudran solos... Si no tienen para comer, mejor.
Dec 24th, 2016 - 05:38 am - Link - Report abuse -2Roger,
Dec 24th, 2016 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse +2Thanks for the link; I hadn't read that before. Nobody really gives K&R's work any credit, do they? Koen can't even stand up and defend his garbage on here. Instead, he posts his usual nonsense (like on this thread) and then runs. He's no better than Marcos or Hepatia in that regard.
Anyway, your document made for very interesting reading, as always. I don't suppose K&R gave it a response? As I said above: publish, run, hide, wait a few months and then do it again.
Jo - My review was published by the Penguin News and I know that there were other less than favourable reviews around. Since I wrote it I managed to get hold of a source K&R cited for the 1777 instruction from Madrid which they claimed ordered the destruction of the British establishment at egmont. Hell as like it did. the order very specifically targeted American whalers and even instructed the Spanish commander to destroy their temporary buildings while the whalers were 'out.' LOL The important part, of course, is that K&R knew exactly what was ordered and then lied about it in their book.
Dec 24th, 2016 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse +4Kohen did write a feeble response to the Penguin News publication but failed to address the points made. Claimed I was attempting to discredit them, which is a little ironic as that was exactly their purpose in writing a book attacking Pascoe & Pepper. I suspect the irony went straight over their heads.
Kohen couldn't lie straight in bed. :-)
Roger
Dec 24th, 2016 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I do recall Kohen writing that response in the Penguin News now. Have a nice Christmas and New Year and I'll look forward to reading more of your posts in the New Year. It's a nice quiet day here in Stanley today, forecast temperature of about 14. Mrs Bloggs has got that “I'm on a mission” look about her like she gets every year on about the 22nd of Dec so I am going outside to mow the lawn and tidy up the garage.
Flights to the islands will be returned within 25 years.
Dec 24th, 2016 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Skylon will visit the Islands within 25 years, reducing the flight time from the UK drastically.
Dec 24th, 2016 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Marcelo
“at least if there were a perspective of settlement...”
There is a perspective of Britsh settlement, UK 1765-1774. with sealing operational and RN patrols and surveys taking place between 1774-1833 and then 1833-2016.
If you would like to provide solid indisputable occupation of the Falkland Islands by Argentina (other than by your fascist mates April-June 1982), go ahead. All the other posters on here, more knowledgeable than I, will rip, using evidence, your arguments to shreds.
Another settlement perspective is Vernet, 1928-1833, (don't forget if you are any good at research, that Vernet applied for permission for his settlements from Great Britain in 1826 and 1828).
Also when Vernet received compensation for his property on the Islands it was from Great Britain, not from Argentina or the USA. So the UK clearly controlled the Islands.
I hope you are embarrassed that you are supposedly an academic and I am a spud thick farmer. Yet I know more about Falkland islands history than you do.
The truth is out there amigo.
Argentinos y argentinas,
Dec 28th, 2016 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Para vds.
http://www.falklandshistory.com/historia-falsa.pdf
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