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Saturday December first, Antarctica Day recalls signature of the 1959 Treaty

Thursday, November 29th 2012 - 15:24 UTC
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Antarctica Day was inaugurated in 2010 to celebrate the 1st December 1959 signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which was adopted “with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind.” Read full article

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  • Pirat-Hunter

    Antarctica is a land grab intended for the English culture like Malvinas Argentina. I bid anything that I corporation like BP or Falkland holdings will rename Antarctica and claim it as overseas territory. The English culture is a joke and a gang of liars and criminals, they are in fact the worst pest on planet earth.
    http://www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/

    Nov 29th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • KFC de Pollo

    @1 don't talk nonsense.

    Nov 29th, 2012 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ptolemy

    @1
    Yeah, yeah, yeah,..we know, everything belongs to Argentina, blah,blah...
    The Argentine culture is a joke and a gang of liars and criminals, they are in fact the worst pest on planet earth.

    Nov 29th, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    fools,
    its argentina at this very moment in time, has its people their,
    not the rest of the world,
    the argies should be treated as illigal immigrants and thrown off.

    Nov 29th, 2012 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    I once heard a story that Argentina laid claim to the Scilly Isles?

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Santa Fe

    1.. no other country flies pregnant women out ot its Antarctic bases so as to childishly claim rights for a population. And isnt the Argentine base a military base!!! with guns and all that jazz!!! Yet again a frantic land grab exercise by the Rgs. Like a fat kid in a pie shop

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @6 Yeah, right. Who's got all the information about argie military activity in the Falklands? Didn't I see somewhere that the argies tested tanks in Antarctica? Isn't that a breach of Article 1 of the treaty? But then the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat is in Buenos Aires!

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Agustin Tomas O'brien Caceres

    Same treat needs to be conducted by God OTAN, OAS, and other international official institutions for the AMAZON FOREST situation because Landlords Plantation owners of that territory is being destroyed by Third World corrupt families like the Lula Family, Sarney Family, and other kings of Third World. These kings are devastating all they can to raise cattle, soybeans, and other things for their own enrichment. And when they burn the rain forest, we all in the world even have more problems because these families send Tons of pollution into the worldwide atmosphere. Now it is question of human kind survival, no time for diplomacy or old political demagogic theories. We will all die if these families continue to own such tremendous territories of the world. Besides that, they control the largest sources of potable water in the world (Kirchner family owns the Parana River guarani aquifero, and Lula, Sarney, Palocci, Chavez, etc families own the Amazon River aquifero). What we are talking about? 60% of the worldwide current potable water resources? Owned by 10 families? Are we all crazy?

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @6 They didn't intend to take her to Antarctica... they just forgot to throw her out of the plane on the way there....

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    Nice to see the Argentine flag as one of the flags on the map of Antarctica =)

    #5 Maybe as a illustration of the geographical silliness of Britain claiming the Falklands, not that I'veheard of it before myself

    Nov 30th, 2012 - 09:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    @10 I see you're still here, failing to troll. Haven't you been bumped off your long-term sick pay by ATOS yet?

    Dec 02nd, 2012 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #10
    Why ??????

    Dec 04th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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