Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
14-02-2012, 15:44
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
The Argentinians trying to cut off the Falkands Islands from South America is probably the very best way to ensure more traffic, military and otherwise, heads down that way from the UK. Just what the Argentinians say they don't want....  
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14-02-2012, 17:16
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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He'll be wanting to hand the US back to the native indians soon then eh? |
Or the Argies to bog of back to Spain.
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14-02-2012, 18:42
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Osem
The Argentinians trying to cut off the Falkands Islands from South America is probably the very best way to ensure more traffic, military and otherwise, heads down that way from the UK. Just what the Argentinians say they don't want.... |
The Falkland Islanders should complain to the UN about Argentina as it is nothing short of bullying. 
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15-02-2012, 10:29
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Tensions getting deeper:-
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...change?cc=5739
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Originally Posted by ESPN
FIFA have warned the Argentina Football Association that the move to rename their top league after the General Belgrano cruiser sunk during the Falklands War may breach rules on political involvement with football.
It was announced last week that the country's domestic league will be known as the Crucero General Belgrano First Division.
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The General Belgrano, an Argentine cruiser, was sunk during the Falklands War on May 2 1982.
Seems Argentina, is trying to play a war of names and words at the moment.
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15-02-2012, 10:50
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Yes, I think they are trying to stir up a reaction from the UK.
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15-02-2012, 10:54
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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If they name the league after the ship, does that mean all the teams will go down at the end of the season?
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15-02-2012, 10:54
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Couldn't care less what they call their league TBH.
I heard a British football journalist based in Argentina being interviewed this morning and he said the change had already been signed, sealed and delivered. What's more the Argentinian's apparently have a close relationship at senior levels within FIFA and he felt certain that nothing would come of the FIFA 'warning'.
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15-02-2012, 11:15
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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So it sounds like FIFA could sink the General Belgrano this time then 
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15-02-2012, 16:00
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
I wonder what would happen if the island was given to the islanders? Assuming that's even possible.
Then they could decide their own future and run their own affairs.
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15-02-2012, 16:33
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by AdamD
I wonder what would happen if the island was given to the islanders? Assuming that's even possible.
Then they could decide their own future and run their own affairs.
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As far as I know, they do more or less run their own affairs, and make their own laws.
However they are never going to be able to defend themselves against Argentina on their own.
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16-02-2012, 22:57
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Yet more disgusting behaviour from the Argentinians....
Click HERE
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Activists held an anti-British demonstration and burned tyres and a Union Jack flag outside the gates of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline near Buenos Aires as tensions between Argentina and Britain rise over the disputed Falkland Islands.
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Members of the far-left Bolivarian Quebracho group marched to the GSK campus in the Victoria suburb of Buenos Aires with their faces covered in their signature scarves and carrying banners and chanting slogans denouncing the British presence on the South Atlantic islands known in Argentina as Las Malvinas.
The demonstrators piled tyres outside the gates to the laboratory and set them ablaze. The activists burned the Union Jack as they sang pro-Malvinas protest songs.
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16-02-2012, 23:08
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Just as long as we don't descend to their level I think we can ignore all this posturing.They cannot realistically do anything else. 
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16-02-2012, 23:28
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Just as long as we don't descend to their level I think we can ignore all this posturing.They cannot realistically do anything else. |
Very true. I think boycotting their imports to the UK and showing support to the Falklanders is our best position 
I much prefer Chilean wine 
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Interesting report on BBC....
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Nearly three decades after the Falklands War, tensions between the UK and Argentina have resurfaced. The UK insists the Falkland Islands are rightfully the UK's. The Argentine government maintains the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, belong to it. But what are the details of each side's legal, historical and geographical claims for ownership?
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17-02-2012, 01:25
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Very true. I think boycotting their imports to the UK and showing support to the Falklanders is our best position
I much prefer Chilean wine
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Interesting report on BBC....
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I'm already boycotting any Argentine products.
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17-02-2012, 09:48
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by danielf
One wonders if the Argentinians are reading Alan's Twitter feed.
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I am in favour of the UK side if the agurment!
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1000s of lives???
I could have sworn the total fatalities of this were under 1000 (too many, I know, but not "1000s").
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The acutal number of deaths is 907 while almost 2,000 were wounded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War#Casualties
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