22nd May 2012
Reblogged From bigtitsbigasses
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Spider Swimming in the pool. (by brownsheet1) this my stuff!
kids say no to #drugs
Hallek
Argentina lodges formal Falklands protest
World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk (Rory Carroll) - 2/10/12 1:45 PMUN secretary general concerned by escalation of dispute as Argentina lodges formal protest at recent deployments
Argentina has lodged a formal protest at the United Nations over Britain’s “militarisation” of the Falkland Islands, further fuelling the row between London and Buenos Aires.
The Argentinian foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, presented a complaint on Friday to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who expressed concern about the increasingly strong exchanges in a summary of the meeting given by his office to reporters.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the move earlier this week as part of her strategy to internationalise Argentina’s campaign over the disputed south Atlantic islands.
She said Britain’s dispatch of a modern destroyer, HMS Dauntless, to replace an older vessel, as well as Prince William, in his role as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, were provocations and presented a “grave risk for international security”. Britain said the deployments were routine.
Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth: BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city with 24-hour lighting, a wastewater processing facility and a gas-fired power plant.
To make room, BrightSource has mowed down a swath of desert plants, displaced dozens of animal species and relocated scores of imperiled desert tortoises, a move that some experts say could kill up to a third of them.
Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.
Read our article here, and be sure to check out the accompanying graphic.
Images: Top, Artist’s conception of Ivanpah ‘solar farm’ project. Bottom, the impact of a solar farm on desert ecosystems.
Great just what we need!
