Argentina accuses David Cameron over Falklands festive message

[Eugene]

Source: Press Association

Argentina accuses David Cameron over Falklands festive message

Press Association
The Guardian, Friday 3 January 2014 17.46 GMT

Argentina has stepped up a diplomatic offensive over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands with its foreign minister taking a direct swipe at David Cameron.

Héctor Timerman accused the prime minister of "forgetting the peace message … that Christmas should inspire" by stressing in his festive message the UK's commitment to defend the disputed overseas territory.

It comes days after Argentina's president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner set up a new taskforce to "better defend" the interests of what Buenos Aires calls Las Malvinas.

Cameron had used a Christmas message to condemn a "shameful" attempt to deter oil exploration in Falklands waters through a new law imposing heavy jail sentences and fines.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/argentina-david-cameron-falklands-message

[pipoman]

1. I find it interesting

How many wish to make the US out to be the giant occupier of the world while England and several other countries are actually in ongoing occupational disputes. In fact England is probably the largest, most oppressive occupier in the history of the world. .

[Peace Patriot]

2. U.S. corporate rulers and U.K. corporate rulers support each other's imperialism.

You just have to consider the Iraq War to understand this. WHO gave the Bush Junta some measure of "legitimacy" when all the rest of the world, including U.S. allies, balked at the Bush Junta's war on Iraq?

EIGHTY PERCENT of the British people OPPOSED the Iraq War, yet Tony Blair, disgustingly dragged them right into it, against their will. He was acting for the 1% who benefit from war, and colluded with the Bushwhacks on false intelligence reports, etc. This was a raw, naked example of U.S./U.K. collusion on imperial goals, but there are many others.

The reason that U.S. gets heavier criticism is that the U.S. corporate rulers--and "military-industrial complex"--are bigger and richer and thus inflict more damage, not only in direct impacts--killing people, robbing them of resources--but also in destruction of local sovereignty, self-rule and democracy.

The U.S. and the U.K. very much work together to keep that British outpost of their combined "military-industrial complex" in the South Atlantic--the Malvinas/Falklands. It is a STRATEGIC location for their resource wars. And it is all about the oil in the ocean between the Malvinas and the Argentina's coastal waters.

The U.S. is, indeed, IMITATING "Great Britain" and its old "East India Company" in the effort to dominate the world on behalf of the 1% who profit from such domination. Such irony! The American colonies REVOLTED against the British imperium! Now "we" have become what our forbearers revolted against. "We" = our corporate rulers and THEIR "military-industrial complex," not "we, the people."

Anyway, I think you need to look into how the U.S. and U.K. elites are intertwined--intelligence services, militaries, economic establishments, etc. It is myopic to be resentful that the U.S. "gets blamed," when the two establishments are, essentially, one establishment--covering for each other, colluding with each other, pursuing a COMMON policy of world domination.

[MisterP]

3. doesn't Argentina have some nuns to lure onto a short plane flight over the sea or something?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Different "guys." The current President's husband was imprisoned & tortured by the military

dictatorship when it was their custom to push helplessly drugged, stripped naked prisoners out of airplanes and into the water of either the ocean or the river Plata, sometimes going down tied at the wrists to other prisoners like a string of paper dolls.

The filthy scum operating that evil madhouse were fully supported and counseled by Henry Kissinger, and his backers.

[MisterP]

5. hey, in for a penny ...