Mainstream news reports show that oil companies are flocking into the Falkland Islands 28 years after 1000 Argentinian and British soldiers were killed in war there.
For example:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-03/u-k-says-no-doubt-on-falklands-after-argentina-row-update2-.html
One of the companies involved is Desire Petroleum PLC. The founder of this company, Colin Phipps, boasted of being in the "war room" with Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War.
When Colin Phipps died in January 2009 his son, Stephen Phipps, took over as chairman.
More background info here:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/2009/12/03/swansea-raised-oil-man-colin-phipps-predicted-falklands-bonanza-91466-25310294/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4528103/Colin-Phipps.html
For example:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-03/u-k-says-no-doubt-on-falklands-after-argentina-row-update2-.html One of the companies involved is Desire Petroleum PLC. The founder of this company, Colin Phipps, boasted of being in the "war room" with Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War.
When Colin Phipps died in January 2009 his son, Stephen Phipps, took over as chairman.
More background info here:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/2009/12/03/swansea-raised-oil-man-colin-phipps-predicted-falklands-bonanza-91466-25310294/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4528103/Colin-Phipps.html 
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Bullshit
04.02.2010 00:54
Bullshit
Wouldn't surprise me
04.02.2010 08:14
Oh, and bullshit - nice analysis there :/
Concerned of Halton Moor
news
04.02.2010 10:00
The crusades.....missing records in King Johns own hand.......it was always about the oil rights.
28 years later!!!!!
we will also gloss over the whole " the entire population of the Falklands wanted to stay British" I know that being taken over by a dictatorial facist reigme makes for great stuff to whinge about but the history of the whole thing eventually resulted in the fall of a nasty facist government in latin america.
Or is this a bad thing I get confused on here
anon
Wasn't it always know that Argentina invaded for the natural resources?
04.02.2010 10:42
I hate the military and the UK government as much as anyone, but we have to remember that Argentina did start this one, unlike the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, you could argue that Iraq invaded Kuwait before the first Iraq war, but it wasn't invading UK territory.
Let's not get into an us versus them thing, the UK and Argentinian govts are both scum, and it's us the ordinary people who always suffer for what they do.
anon
How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead?
04.02.2010 14:16
"How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead?"
(Lyrics by Crass from 1982)
The song:
cr@ss
Falklands is in South America
04.02.2010 15:00
economic interests need to be concentrated.
The Generals embarked on a war of re-occupation, daring the British to respond, hoping to solidify support for their vicious and militaristic regime and divert attention from domestic crisis. So the inevitable: the deaths of many British and Argentine soldiers, and three Falklands civilians.
Of course, the British could have handed the Falklands over to the Yanks in the 1950’s and
forced the inhabitants to settle elsewhere like they did with Diego Garcia.
Malvin
Can any one of you Nationalist Pigs
04.02.2010 15:29
T
@T
05.02.2010 00:40
Mano de Dios
That goes without saying
05.02.2010 09:25
T
if my memory serves me right ......
05.02.2010 16:00
It was published about 6 months BEFORE the falklands fiasco.
And then there were/are the persistent rumours that south georgia was in fact invaded by the SBS in disguise to kickstart the conflict.
anon
beyond OT's and nationalisms
20.12.2011 18:56
*over-fishing in falkladns surrounding waters
*massive penguin deaths of penguins in the islands and healthy ones in near patagonia
*permanent military threat over people in the whole region (both argentines and islanders)
*nuclear weapons sunk and severe leak danger
*minefields
*permanent refusal of Briths govts. to solve this problem in accordance to UN rules.
*media "de-information" maneuvres from MercoPress (web) and Penguin News (the ONLY and weekly newspaper, if you don't know that).
*a few falklanders in neighbour argentina living normal lives (i know one of them). no discrimination cases known.
think!
riverplatewriter