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"Poverty increased by 74% to make us the poorest country in Latin America This figure by itself explains the migrant caravan of thousands of people of all ages who flee to the north Mexico and the United States Looking for a place in a way to subsist regardless of the risk it implies for their lives Castro's presidency marks the end of a brutal 12 year regime by the U.S. back right wing national party which first came to power after the 2009 U.S. backed coup that overthrew Castro's husband President Manuel lya This comes as many are demanding outgoing Honduran president Warner lender Hernandez be indicted an extradited to the United States to face charges of aiding drug traffickers like his brother In Japan 6 people who develop thyroid cancer in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown filed a landmark lawsuit against the Tokyo electric power company The plaintiffs were age 6 to 16 at the time of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters a court acquitted former executives from the utility company in 2019 Meanwhile a plan to release wastewater from the Fukushima plant starting next year has sparked international condemnation At least 70 people in Southern Africa were killed as tropical storm Anna struck Madagascar this week before slamming into mozambican Malawi torrential rains triggered landslides and caused flooding that washed away bridges submerged farmers fields and damaged tens of thousands of homes hardest hit was Madagascar where the UN says 1 million people are already facing severe hunger from food shortages brought on by acute drought last year the World Food Program warned Madagascar faced the first ever famine caused by climate change Meanwhile one of the largest icebergs ever observed has broken up in the southern Atlantic Ocean When it drifted away from Antarctica in 2017 iceberg a 68 a was roughly the size of Delaware weighing in at an estimated 1 trillion tons Scientists warn melting ice from the Berg has dumped billions of tons of freshwater into salty seas near South Georgia island with unknown consequences for marine life and the environment A federal judge in Washington D.C. has canceled oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico ruling the Biden administration's auction of 80 million acres last year failed to sufficiently account for the climate crisis It's a major victory for environmentalists who have been fighting What would have been the largest sale of offshore oil and gas leases in U.S. history The Los Angeles city councils voted to prohibit new oil and gas wells and phase out existing wells within city limits The measure also creates a program to help oil and gas workers transition to jobs in other industries Los Angeles council president Mary Martinez spoke ahead of Wednesday's unanimous vote Referred to long neighborhood drilling has disproportionately affected the health of our low income communities of color From three ways to power plants are falling communities bear the brunt of pollution and climate impacts A 2021 study by University of Southern California researchers found residents of majority black and LatinX communities in south Los Angeles who live near oil and gas sites have lower lung function which may contribute to environmental health disparities President Biden heads to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania today to promote his recently past $1 trillion infrastructure Bill hours before Biden's visit a bridge connecting Pittsburgh's region square and squirrel hill neighborhoods collapsed No injuries were reported at the time of this broadcast but residents reported a strong smell of natural gas in the area The U.S. coast guard has suspended its search for dozens of migrants who are feared dead after their boat capsized off the coast of Florida on Saturday 5 bodies have been found while 34 people are still missing when survivor was rescued earlier this week as he clung to the hull of the sinking boat which had departed from The Bahamas Oklahoma prison officials have carried out the first execution in the United States this year 46 year old Donald grant was strapped to a gurney at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in mcallister Thursday morning and injected with a lethal cocktail of three drugs He was declared dead at ten 16 a.m. grant had asked federal courts to hold his killings saying Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol presented an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering It was Oklahoma's third execution since the death penalty was reinstated after a 6 year pause that followed a string of botched executions Last October 60 year old John Marion grant convulsed and repeatedly vomited after he was administered a sedative and an execution that witnesses described as drawn out and tortuous Here in New York workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island will vote on whether to unionize their workplace the effort is being led by Chris smalls who Amazon fired in March of 2020 after he organized a wildcat strike to Manning sanitized workspaces protective masks and COVID-19 tests for workers The Staten Island Amazon workers will vote on whether to join a grassroots worker group called the Amazon labor union which is unaffiliated with any national union Elsewhere in New York City hundreds of street vendors led a march to Times Square Thursday demanding labor protections and for the city to stop issuing heavy fines to vendors who haven't been able to get selling permits Bronx council member fiorina Sanchez is backing new legislation that would end the criminalization of street vendors and increase the number of ending permits.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Ernest shackleton stands at the bow of the boat. The cold seawater sprang his face. But he doesn't care. He's counting the men on the beach. There's marston his sketchbook still in hand and frank hurley photographer and orde lees. Looks happy for once. And there's frank wild the man he left in charge waiting into the serve food. Clothes are in tatters. They all look so thin. Their beards had never been longer but they're alive. It took shackleton three months to get here three attempts with three different boats and each time. The ice stopped them but he refused to give up. Now he's on an ancient tugboat lent him by the government of chile in exchange. He had to promise not to take her through the ice a promise. He wasn't sure he could keep them. Fortunately this time a southernly gail had blown through and the ice had let them pass. He nudges frank horsley who seated beside him. I knew wild would take care of them. Good to see their filthy faces again. Isn't it as they get closer to. Shore shackleton calls out wild. Are you all well. We are all well boss. Several men call out. We are all well. never been. Better shackleton wipes away his tears. This is the fourth attempt. I've made to reach you. Bladders the men roar with laughter and grab at the cigarette shackleton throws to them. Wild is keen to show off the camp. But shackleton doesn't wanna wait a minute longer than necessary. The ice could sweep in again and the tugboat wouldn't stand a chance. Within an hour all onboard board and steaming north leaving elephant island behind forever on september third nineteen sixteen all twenty eight members of the endurance crew arrive safely in doubting us chile. The streets are filled decked out in flags celebrating their safe return relieved in a little dazed. The men are introduced to the governor and marched down. The street still dressed in their rags accompanied by tooting whistles and a naval band. It's a welcome. The men will never forget from there. The men returned to britain at different times. The world has changed dramatically. Will they've been gone. World war one started just when they departed england in nineteen fourteen and continued while the ice kept them walked away after surviving. The worst that nature could throw at them. Most of the men almost immediately sign up for the war effort because of captain frank. Wars leaves nautical experience. He's assigned capped into to various submarines he's given the distinguished service order by the british government for his service. He also writes four successful books about his endurance expedition. When the crew members of the endurance return home most of them are given the polar medal by the british government for notable explorers scientists and naval officers in nineteen nineteen photographer. Frank hurley releases photos and videos at the endurance expedition. Some of the most haunting images of antarctica and the struggles of the men. You leader goes on to become a war. Talk of her. In nineteen forty one is nominated for an academy award for cinematography. When frank wild returns home from the antarctic tisches himself russian and goes on to become the royal navy's transport officer in russia during the war receives the polar medal with four bars. One of only two people to receive that distinction a few years later a mountain range on elephant island is named after him. Shackleton himself serves for the british army in russia for short time when he returns he writes a book about the endurance ordeal called south and it becomes a bestseller dedicates it to my comrades who fell in the white warfare of the south and on the red fields of france and flanders by antarctica continued to call out to him. He knew he needed to return on september. Eighteenth nineteen twenty one. He sat out on a fourth expedition to explore the seas around antarctica. Border small boat called the quest eight of the men from the endurance. Join him including frank. Horsley and frank wild but shackleton doesn't live to see the expedition completed on january fourth while staring out at the ic bluewater autres shackleton has a heart attack is laid to rest on south georgia island in the heroic age of exploration. Shackleton was one of its greatest. He was an explorer and leader of men. Almost a hundred years later. His leadership skills are still studied and taught at colleges around the country including harvard. Sir raymond priestley who traveled to the continent on shackleton's nimrod expedition once wrote for scientific discovery. Give me scott for speed and efficiency of travel give me amundsen but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone. Get down on your and pray for. Shackleton shackleton also inspired future explorers who dared to dream big. Three of those men were henry. Worsley will gal and henry adams after their own successful expedition to the south pole and early two thousand nine to finish. What shackleton started gallon adams returned to england and help create a shackleton foundation to help disadvantage. You both return to work in the city and settled back into family life. Henry worsley tries to settle into. He works with the british army and spends more time with his wife and children but he can't stop dreaming about antarctica in november. Two thousand fifteen. He sets out alone on an unassisted crossing the continent. He travels nine hundred miles over seventy days and then on january twenty second nineteen sixteen. He wakes up in his tent too exhausted to move. He asks himself the question he asked many times. When recreating the nimrod expedition would shackleton do as much as it pains him. He realizes he needs to save himself and call off his expedition. Just as shackleton had done he radios for help with the following wines when my hero. Ernest shackleton walked ninety seven miles from the south pole on the morning of january ninth. Nine hundred ninety nine. He said he'd shot his bolt. Well today i have to inform you with some sadness that i to have shot my bolt many mountaineers battle away and failed to reach the summit. My summit was just out of reach. Henry's airlifted to chile arrives. He gets sick. Two days later he dies of peritonitis. He's fifty five years old. Henry's family buries his ashes on south georgia island next to the grave of his hero. Ernest shackleton if you like our show. Please give us a five star rating and review. Follow against the odds on apple podcasts. Amazon music the wondering app or wherever. You're listening right now. Join one plus in the wondering. Listen one week. Early and ad free. In the episode notes you'll find links links and offers from our sponsors. Please support them by supporting.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Loading just above the ice playing. It looks like a golden orb is never seen anything like it he knows. It's the per helium. A result of the sun's rays passing through tiny ice crystals floating in the freezing air. But something about it. Feels bigger than that in shackleton's diaries. The explorer talked about a greater force. Another presence who travelled alongside them across south georgia island maybe the light is a sign that shackleton and his crew are watching over them urging beman. It's four. pm may twentieth. Nineteen sixteen matteis. Anderson is exhausted. He's the foreman at the strongness whaling station. And it's been a long month. He's got just one more boat to unload today and then he's headed home for a warm dinner. Then here's the frightened voices of young boys in the distance. It looks across the snow and sees them running towards him about fifty feet behind our three bearded. Men where did the men come from when they get closer. He sees at their haggard. Faces are dark with sut and mud. Their clothes are in tatters. Kept together by just a few. Safety pins the workers on the docks. Stop what they're doing and stare. When the men come closer anderson steps forward. How can i help you. We lost our ship and have just come across the island anderson blinks. No one has ever crossed the island. It's twenty nine. Miles of cliffs in ice man continues. Those anton anderson's still manage the factory here. No he's no longer here. The new manager is the ralph sorel. The man's chap face breaks into a smile. I yes i know sorrel. Well m m in december almost two years ago. Can you take us to him. Anderson is surprised but the man sounds. Confident has only three hundred feet off the dock as he leads the way he can feel the eyes of the workers watching them as they walk by when anderson reaches sorrel store. You knock softly. what is it anderson. And then he takes a step back his eyes widening in the three men before him. Who the hell are you. The one in the middle steps forward again. My name is ernest. Shackleton a look of surprise roles across the man's face the last he.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Henry is asleep in the tent when the sound of a twin otter plane wakes him up it. Sounds like ten helicopters in the silent world. He bolts upright and his sleeping bag will atoms. That's gotta be the ninety seven mile crew. They made it in. He still can't believe he and his crew had made it to the very same spot. Shackleton was a hundred years ago now. They'll be joined by two other. Descendants of the original nimrod crew. Tim freight who is the great great nephew of frank wild and dave cornell the great grandson of jamison atoms along with three others. Henry unzips the tent and meets a wall of frigid air blinking. in the brightness. He watches the small plane circles above them through the small windows. He sees a flurry of hands. Grabbing jackets hats and gloves the author flies down lately running. It's skis down across the surface. They're checking crevasses before landing. He can see dave cornell's face smiling out of a window as the plane passes by a moment later they any drop on the surface. They taxi past the union flag. Were henry staged a photo the day before a photo that exactly matches the one taken of shackleton and his crew a century ago henry thought he would be more excited but he suddenly feels a drop in his mood. It's been just him and his two teammates out here in the silence for fifty six days he and will an adams have gotten to know each other's quirks and habits now there will be a new dynamic at least for a while. Dave is the first out of the door horsley atoms cow. What you've done is amazing. Henry turns on his camcorder to film. Dave running toward his teammates wrapping them in a bear. Hug dave actually joined the project before henry dead and led the fundraising efforts. Then dave grabs henry shoulders so enthusiastically. He almost drops the camera. So many people have been following you. Henry it's unbelievable not unbelievable. I think shackleton was watching over us. Mattie bounds after him last time he saw her was when he and his team were training in norway. He remembers her lecturing them about teamwork. Hey mattie you ready for this maybe will actually beat you to the south pole. Henry's group and the newcomers have agreed to travel separately. So they have a chance to acclimate. Henry and his team have momentum. They don't wanna wait. They'll travel and ships checker boarding across each other. While one team sleeps. The other moves ahead matty laughs. It's not a race henry but since you mentioned it. Are you feeling good about the last stretch. I can't believe we're going to do it without shackleton's spirit urging us on but yes. I'm excited and exhausted. I bet maybe we will give you a rotten as the new team sets up their tents. They chatter nonstop about news. They missed in the past two months. It feels like a world away to henry one. He's not ready to go back to just yet. But there's still ninety seven nautical miles to reach the pole. Who knows what challenges. He still has to face on this vast continent or what else he might learn about himself. Frank wild stands on the rocky outcropping of shore looking out at the ice strewn see it's may second nineteen sixteen shackleton and his small crew had been gone for more than a week but wild can already sense worry on elephant island each night talk turns to all the different ways rescue might come. How many boats. How big the one thing they don't talk about is the very real possibility that shackleton's boat didn't make it through it's as if no one dares to say it out loud keeping hope alive is still key to surviving the long winter days wildness to give the mana task. Something to focus on him. He gathers the crew on the beach. Okay man we're going to need a stable shelter if we're going to survive for the next month anyone have any ideas. Silence wild claps. His hands come on man. The boss chose all of you for a reason. Let's think we need shelter walls and a roof george. Marston is the first to speak up. He's the expedition's artist. What if we use some of the larger rocks on the beach for the foundation. We could build her up about four feet high. Then we could put some the canvas over the top. Another one shouts what if the boats for roof turn them upside down. Suddenly the crew is excited. The men begin to pick up rocks and dragged them up the beach but it's a struggle for everyone. They're weak from hunger. They used to be able to easily handle a twenty pound boulder. Now have to stop every few feet to rest. It takes hours but finally they stack up enough to create the foundation of a hot then. They lift the boats into plates wild proud of them job. Well done men gather up your sleeping bags and let's move in with. The boats turned upside down the seats. Create perfect births for sleeping after dinner. They all fall asleep exhausted a little past midnight. A blizzard blows in waking the matt gusts of ice barrel down from the clips shaking the huts and whipping in with a small cracks wild lays in his bunk wondering if the roof will be knocked clear off the stones when the sun comes up. The hutch is still standing and macklin discovers. Everything is wet and frozen steph. Shoes clothes sleeping bags. The man begin to curse. I hate this damn island. Why do we even bother. It's hopeless no matter what we do. Fate seems determined to stop us. Wild knows how the men feel but showing it now won't do their spirits any good okay. Enough of the belly aches. We'll have a warm breakfast double helpings of heated milk. And then we'll get to work fixing the walls despite the huts shortcomings. Wild feels proud. Sure it has some cracks but it held through the storm you knows wherever shackleton is the conditions are worse just hopes the cared is holding to shackleton camp believe they actually found south georgia island across eight hundred miles of wild ocean and stormy skies with just wars lee skills to guide them. The site of the cliffs has given everyone hope when he speaks. His voice is soft and horse men. We done it as they get. Closer shackleton conc- patches of grass growing on top of the cliff..
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward. For god's sake hold on it's got us shackleton's spins around and ducks to the floor using one arm himself steady and then the wave class the boat in his grip brin eerie moment. Everything is almost quiet. As a wave lifts the small boat up and up and then it hits the vote is thrown into the air suspended then drops down into the sea edging forward and back like a bucking bronco. The rudder seizes up about spins backwards. Water strings over the side and almost ripped shackleton from deck. He's completely submerged is not sure if are even on the seed or they've turned on their side there's nothing but water and then the waves were along. It's over shackleton sets up coughing. He can't believe it. The ship is bobbing upright. They're taking on water but at least no one was thrown into the sea. Is everyone okay. I boss grab whatever you can and start bailing. The next morning the crew was completely spent and now they're almost out of fresh water their bodies close to collapse to be so near and yet so far from the goal even shackleton feels himself growing somber on may eighth at ten thirty. Am the mist and fog. Breaks one of the men kirs into the water and spots a patch of seaweed floating on top of the bobbing waves then a cormorants squawks from above. Those birds rarely venture far from land. But still they can't see anything another hour passes and the fog parts and the clear voice of one of the semen rings out. I see land. There between the clouds are black. Cliffs rising out of the sea here seeing the sky and then the clouds drift back together hiding the island from view but they all saw it. Now they just have to get there between blazing hot temperatures and neighbors partying late into the night. Doesn't it seem like getting a good night's sleep is an uphill battle this time of year but when you have a purple mattress you can sleep cool and comfortable no matter what the world throws at you. That's because only purple mattresses have grid the grids unique ventilated design allows air to flow through to help you sleep cool. I especially love the purple pillow. I love how it's got these little holes in it to just make me stay cool all night long. It's just that perfect pillow. It's not too low. Not too high not too soft not too firm. And it's definitely my favorite pillow that i have on my bed at the moment. Purple is comfort. Reinvented try your purple mattress. Risk free today with free shipping and returns financing is available to right. Now you'll get ten percents off any order of two hundred dollars or more go to purple dot com slash the odds and use the promo code. Be odds that's purple dot com slash. The odds promo code. The odds t. h. e. o. d. s. for ten percents off any order of two hundred dollars or more from wondering. I'm cathy tackle. And.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Against The Odds
Ernest Shackleton: Surviving Antarctica
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Pants On Fire
"south georgia island" Discussed on Pants On Fire
"A character in the mercy. Watson books named francine and i love mercy watson. That's a good reason. I suppose all right oliver. Your first question will go to francine what is a typical day at work for you. Okay usually when i get to the aquarium. It involves checking in on the penguins who we've already paired and their chicks. You know taking their temperatures as well as any changes or the consistencies in their environment. As part of our goal is to create the right environment or move for these birds to create relationships that will lead to ensuring their population. I'd like to a little bit more about this. So you are introducing penguins to each other so that they can make families. How do you go about doing that right. So basically what we're doing is trying to match penguins and they don't always want to match but Eventually that usually do interesting fact. Penguins don't actually mate for life but it doesn't mean they don't still have preferences For for each other. See and would you say you. Can you tell if a relationship is going to work out or can you tell right away. If they're not getting along you can tell so like One example would be when one of our penguins. Frankie was bonding with the bird name. Sandra they took their nesting too far. And i i don't know if you know this bet. When couples nest they hoard rocks to protect their nests. All couples not just not just the penguin up and they started hoarding rocks from around the exhibit. Ooh yeah so that wound up actually crushing some of their eggs and so noon. I know one of the things we had to do was create a nesting box and a few token rocks. And once we did that they turned out to be really great parents. So you know they they do have their own personalities and it's kind of fascinating jaros. What are being wins personalities. Like that are happy to answer that. Because i think things have lots of personalities. Some penguins are very shy penguin colony yellow eyed penguin in new zealand. That runs away from you. You get anywhere near outages. They'll just go and run away and then there's another kind of penguin. Call the royal penguin. That is the most curious penguin of all in there on another island almost in antarctica. And they'll come right up to you if you walk down the beach. I've had fifty of them. Walking on the beach. Felt like i was there royal penguins and i felt like i was a king of the royal penguins being when they're very wonderful. The emperor penguins. They'll never very curious they come right up to you. I've actually had emperor. Penguins climb on top of me while i was lying on the ice at school. Did they just think you were a speed bump or something like that. Well i think they're curious and they want to figure out who you are and so they come up in ten pekka you poke at your boots and i happen to be lying down on the ice photographing a different penguin and it jumped up on my boots. Wow it must be very curious to meet. Yeah will they don't see people very often so in fact we were wearing colors. That looked a lot like. There's will kind of yellow jackets with black hands. And i think they may have thought we were kind of strange mutant penguins or something find out. Where were you know someone needed that. I guess are seeing wins. There are mutant penguins. There's one that was just discovered this month on south georgia islands in king penguin. Normally they're gray and black with white tummies orange highlights but it's all white with a kind of yellow body. It's a strange strange penguin. Wait does this. Mean that. Ari beauty bigwood with digest. But what is there one. This is for seen sometimes. The most can be messy. What is grossing that ever happened to. You said this was really early on training. I was an intern over at the smithsonian zoo and i was in charge of cleaning the penguin habitat and the penguins. Were really cute and i had just read this paper. How penguins really like human contact. So i went to hug. One of the pink wins but Again this was very early in my career. And i wasn't aware that it was multi pain and i you know i just going to say. I learned some really valuable lessons about what. The penguin body secretes during their multi process. And that was that was pretty chris. there's ooh what happened while the actual multi process this is this is weird is called catastrophic team which i think will help you imagine how gross it might be The ra lot of of the feathers and there was a smell that took a really long time to get out of my hair and my clothes. It wasn't it wasn't go. Have you ever been tricked by pain and high school right. You wanna hear this. High school tanglin came out to me and said hey lisa. We want you to be on the cheerleading team. Great i love cheerleading. Went there after school and guess what. It wasn't the cheerleading team. It was the cheer booing team the team. I don't like that and don't trust. Penguins story is horrible. I yes yes believe everything you hear from pain. Have i know it might not be the case but have either view experts ever been tricked by penguin. I have to think about that. And yes i think in a way i could say i was tricked by penguin. Okay one time africa. We were working with baby. Penguins lever wayne them and measuring them. The baby african penguin and you have to be careful with them. Because they'll try to bite you and things like that when they don't want you to hold them and they'll try to slap you with their flippers. So i was watching those. But what i didn't realize is that their number one weapon is it. They'll aim their bottom at you and coupons color. Diphu her question. It was fish colored because it's long stinky street. they're able to projectile poop. They can shoot their poop. Four feet in distance so they really are good shots with poop. Shall we move onto the next question. I don't think we can but we can try to come back from that one. This is for both of you. What is your favorite kind of being winning. Why he wants to start. or why. don't i start okay. My very very favorite is a chick. An emperor penguin chick. Because i think they're the cutest animal babies in the world. They haven't all fussy gray body and they have a black cap that looks like a helmet white cheeks with big black eyes and it looks like they're wearing jammies. That's cute my favorite is the mantle. Corean pink win and they are.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's early morning on april twentieth. Nineteen sixteen ernest. Shackleton hasn't slept on light the blizzard still hasn't let up and there's a decision to be made his called for his most trusted men wars and wild to consult with him. The plan isn't new. They talked about it backward and forward long into the nights on the flow all the men. No it's coming to shackleton has always been transparent with them so gentlemen. Let's go over our three options again. He watches as frank wars. -ly unrolls his map and begins pointing it at dark spots in the sea. So we've got horn. That's the closest it's five hundred miles north west of here. Then there's port stanley part of the falklands. That's just a ways. Further but due north the problem with both of those is we'll be sailing against the current and right into the wind at the mention of wind is if on cue. Driving gust hits their tent. Shackleton laughs. Maybe that's a sign so we still all agree that south georgia island is our best bet. Say eight hundred miles northeast spot. Were the endurance began. I agree. We'll have the winds on our side most of the time. Anyway wild cox eyebrow. I guess that's all we've got. What none of them say is that the chances of making it to south georgia alive are slim. Even if the wind's cooperate. Eight hundred miles is a long way to sail. The drake passage is known for its storms and strong ocean currents the wild season. The area are legendary now which men should go and which stay behind even though everyone knows this will be a dangerous journey. Most want to go spending months on elephant island waiting for help and not knowing if it will ever come is too much to bear. More xlii has to go. that's given. There's no better captain on stormy seas and even for him it will be difficult shackled him a lead that leaves four spots looks too wild for his input injured and we have to stay. Obviously and macklin is doctor and who need to treat them. I think what we need to consider here is who are the strongest who will be the most likely to help the boat through those sees the three of them discuss each member of the crew over and over who is strong enough to row eight hundred miles if the boat starts taking on water. Who'll be able to fix it. Who has the best temperament to stay here on the island waiting for a rescue crew. Who might stir up trouble if they stayed by the time. The rest of the men have woken up. Shackleton has top picks mind but he can't order anyone to come on such a dangerous mission. He will need to ask for volunteers. He finds most of the men out on the rocks. Skinning penguins and snow blows around them. Shackleton sits down and joins them. I'm sure it'll come as no surprise with this weather. That have made a decision. We need to get help as soon as we can. I will need four men. I don't ask anyone to come. Who has not thoroughly. Wade there chances. There's a good chance we won't make it. The moment shackleton stop speaking every single man steps forward. Go boss count me in. Shackleton looks at all their faces he has moved by their dedication their commitment their willingness to give up their lives. Finally he says simply. Thank you men captain. Wars lee will navigate clean. Benson and mccarthy will need your strength and mcneish if the boquets damaged with your excellent carpentry skills you'll be are mad two of the men immediately head for the beach. we'll get to work on building some decking daqing will protect the crew from the elements while you sleep. Shackleton watches them go then he speaks in a quiet voice for those of you. Who are staying. I want you to know. I will do everything in my power to bring back. A rescue ship shackleton looks up at the sky. He just hopes for all their sake. The blizzard dies down of had my cat cay schmear for four years now and he is my best friend. He is incredible. And i think he is the best kitty on this planet but i'm bias but as much as i love my cat. I'm not fond of the stink bombs. They leave in their litter box. Everything from cleaning to covering up. The smell can be a constant battle. That's why i'm excited to be trying out pretty litter pretty litter is kitty litter. Reinvented unlike traditional litter. Pretty litter superlight crystals trap odor and released moisture resulting in dry low maintenance litter. That doesn't smell pretty litter arrive safely at my door. In a small lightweight bag that lasts up to a month and shipping is free but above all else. Here's why pretty litter is a pet parents. Hero it's a health indicator pretty litter monitors my cats health by changing colors when detects potential underlying issues. Get the world's smartest litter without leaving home by visiting pretty litter dot com and use the promo code the odds for twenty percent off your first order. That's pretty litter dot com promo code. The odds for twenty percent off pretty.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's six am april sixteenth. nine thousand nine hundred sixteen. Ernest shackleton sits on a rock staring out at sea. His men are still asleep. It's been just twenty four hours since he and his men docked their boats on elephant island and he still can't get used to the solid ground beneath his feet life here feels different than on the flow giant cliffs rise behind him. The island is teeming with life birds of all shapes and sizes from his perch. You can see a seal family basking in the sign. Yesterday crew even managed to bring in a few for food. It's the first time he's seen them smile in months which is why he dreads giving them the news he has today. Frank wild is up. I enjoy shackleton on the shore. Boss you need more sleep actually. We need a better place to set up camp. there's no protection here against any storms. That might come in from the east. And it's below the high waterline. When tide comes in it could wash out. It isn't safe. Shackleton points over to the cliffs on the edge of the beach deep scars run across the rock damage from the storms. They stay here. They could be swept out to sea in the middle of the night. While doesn't look surprised he's noticed it too wild. Why don't you take the wills. And a small crew sail along the coast and look for something more stable all have the mindset tense is far up on the beaches we can. Wild is up an packing about before. Shackleton has to ask twice. He's a good man for the rest of the day. Shackleton helps the crew gets set up then joins them on the shore. Their faces look like they're coming out of a fog. They're fascinated by small things like the birdlife and the play of water against the rocks. They sit on the ground for hours staring out at the sea but as the day wears on shackleton becomes anxious where frank wild and his crew. They've been gone for several hours. He puts his hand into the air. None of wind to take them out to sea. So where could they be after dinner. There's nothing to do turn in. But shackleton can't sleep. He puts guard on watch and tells him to call as soon as he spots anything. Keep the doctor at the ready in case we need to go out and help finally at eight pm. Here's the voice. It's the wills. There's a flurry of activity as the men rushed through the dark towards the icy water and helped wild and his men back in shackleton can tell from their faces. The news is good. Wild tells them they sailed along a large part of the island for nine hours straight. It's all cliffs in rocks boss but there might be one spot bigger than this at least seven miles west. There are seals and penguins for food and a glacier nearby for water. That's all shackleton needs to hear. Men will break camp at dawn there in the boats by six. Am and for the first few hours it's uneventful but then the wind comes back. It treats from up high in tax at ninety miles per hour. The boats hug the coastline trying to use the cliffs for protection at three pm. They finally reached the new beachhead. The men's faces fall other than the size and safer high water mark on the cliff. The new beach is worse than the first is no protection at all. It juts into the water leaving the site completely. Exposed to wind and storms as the pru retrieves their gear from the boats. A gust of freezing cold wind hits them head on every step is an effort as they make their way up the beach to set up the tents but as soon as they get one tent set up the wind tears a foreign at side. Another is ripped to tatters and then in late afternoon the wind brings snow. It falls on the tense and a thin crust of white. The men huddle in their bags. There is no getting more the next morning. The blizzard is worse. Shackleton is up early as usual. He walks into the pelton snow toward the gray seed with his head down. It's not even winter and it's already bad. How will these men survived. The closest whaling station is south georgia island. But it's eight hundred miles away. There's no way he can take three boats filled with men across that much water and expect everyone to survive. Not after the harrowing journey just to get to this island. He'll have to go now. he just needs to work out. How henry wakes up feeling weak and exhausted but he doesn't care anymore. It's january eighth. Two thousand nine. And they have only twenty six miles to go. Before they reach shackleton's point the spot where he and his crew turn back and today the weather is perfect while they were sleeping. The blizzard cleared up. The wind is gone. And the sun has risen. Bright a cloudless sky for the first half of the day. Henry feels wonderful but after seven miles an article catches up to him once again and his legs into feel heavy and slow push and rethinks shackleton had to deal with much worse. Henry can handle a few muscle aches twelve miles from their goal. He and his team decided to stop and set up camp. Henry puts his sleeping bag down between will and adams and climbs n. f. the next morning henry pushes forward on his skis. He thinks back to the start of his journey. How he imagined he feels. He finished up these last. Few miles late jubilant triumphant. But it's thirty below an all henry can do is keep moving and focus on staying warm. They see for seven hours. And then henry stops and pulls out his. Gps to take reading. We're almost there. Henry moves the. Gps monitor slowly like. He's panning for gold. He looks down. S. eight dot twenty e one. Six two this is it it matches with the reading shackleton gave. They made it very same. Spot shackleton stood one hundred years ago. Camera lifts has left ski pole and drives it into the snow as hard as he can and then watches the union flag wave in the wind shackleton and his team carried one of these two. He looks over at will and adams who have huge grins on their faces. That's it we've made it. No one knows what else to say. They've done it. Suddenly henry is overcome and for the first time. Since he was a.
Against The Odds
"south georgia island" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's april two thousand six and three degrees above zero on baffin island canada henry wars lee strange to drag a hundred pound sled through the snow. It's strapped to his chest harness and every step forward. He can feel the weight of the sled crushing his shoulders. He's going to be sore. It's all part of the extreme polar training course he and will enrolled in to help them prepare for their south pole trick. It's led by the legendary polar guide. Matty mcnair who has taken a special interest in their expedition. They have to other team members with them. Both great grandsons of the youngest member of shackleton's nimrod crew the team is spread out across the course breathing hard. The shins are scraped raw from chunks of broken ice hidden by fresh snow. He turns around and yells back to will. How're you doing. Shouldn't we all be together but will is too far back. He can't hear him. Henry's glad to finally be an official member of the team. Though since he and will. I met a planning has been slow. Yes they have monthly meetings but the goals are scattershot. they research possible sponsors and then re research again. There was a rope work class that they took with one of henry's bodies one weekend but the only thing they learned was how much they didn't know henry pulls off his goggles to wipe them down the reflection from the sun bouncing off the snow pierces. His eyes blindness. Something shackleton talked about on all of his trips. He needs to be careful when henry's teammates catch up. They look at each other sleds. This bad one of the sleds has all of the heaviest items strapped on the back. Others have the heavier items in the front. If they can't even learn simple tasks like packing sleighs. They're never going to be able to drag them up. Thousands of feet of ice. The men's ski back to camp mattias there waiting with her arms crossed. She doesn't look happy. She waves them over. Come on guys. Let's get into the tent. Who wants to start the cook stove henry. Volunteers matty starts assessing their progress. But would you say went wrong today. There's an uncomfortable silence. Finally henri speaks up. We pack the sleds inefficiently. We also mis read that navigation atoms jump said and we're still skiing too slow. We won't make our goal unless we speed it up. Adams is the youngest and most of the four. Henry met him at the airport for the first time when they arrived his enthusiasm for the trip is almost as big. As henry's henry liked him on onsite suddenly the ten fills with an odd smell. The cooker it's burning. They completely forgot. They turned on the cooker and now the food is on fire. Adams and will rush to. Douse the flames with snow. Matty laughs at the chaos but then she turns serious guys. These little things are bigger than you think. Leading a stove might seem tedious. But you can't cut corners when you're out there not on this not on pitching your tent correctly or preparing your food. The beauty of the antarctic will seduce you. But you have to stay alert and look out for each other. Henry knows she's right. he's read. How prepared shackleton was for his missions. Explorer has some crazy ideas but he had other team members to balance him out and he knew it matters voice interrupts. There's something else you need to think about. You need to figure out your strengths and your weaknesses teamwork is everything out there. You have to know yourself. Andrew teammates better than you know anyone. It's the only way you'll survive now. Who's the lead here. It's the same question that's been bugging. Henry shackleton was a great leader of men but for their expedition. It's still not clear. Who's in charge and it's taking a toll. It's hard to build trust and everyone is frustrated. Even will something has to change when maddie leaves henry asks will if he can speak to him alone. It's going to be a hard conversation but he has to do it. Henry chooses his words carefully. I know this whole thing was your idea your dream you've pulled the team together and no one can ever take that away but things aren't progressing. The way they should the lack of direction could ruin this entire expedition. Unless you hand the reins to someone else. I think i'm going to withdraw from the team. Henry watches the emotions. Play on. will's face. There's confusion and anger and sadness. This is his baby his vision finally he responds. I know what you mean by. That doesn't mean i like it. I'll have to think about it that night. Henry doesn't sleep well. This could be his only chance at the poll when he wakes up will is already in the cook tent making coffee from the dark circles under his eyes. Henry can tell he hasn't slept much either. You're right henry. Someone needs to be in charge. You have more experience than i do. You can take the lead. Henry is moved is a huge gesture the to shake hands when we'll leave the tent. Henry sits down alone and thinks about how they're going to pull this off in the next two years there's still so much to do. They'll need a fundraising committee. He wants to meet with experts people who have done this before and training more training address rehearsal in greenland. He's going to plot shackleton's route from end to end. Note the problem spots. It's up to him to be the team's shackleton now. Ernest shackleton peers down at the small brass compass in his hand. It's november fifth nineteen. Fourteen left pornos aries nine days ago. They should reach the whaling station soon. It's their final stop. Before the one thousand mile push to artika so far. It's been easy sailing. The waters have been kind. The crew even spotted a few whales in the calm seas sign of luck events in the distance shackleton sees south georgia island rising up and out of the blue c. they plan to dock at griffin a small whaling town. They're they're shackleton hopes to get news from the local whaling skippers about conditions on the sea as they owned a fort. They're greeted by weight. Seem through the hazy light under the shadow of an ice capped mountain a few small fishing huts dot the rocky shore. It's a beautiful place to stop frank. Wars nudges him. Put the compass away boss. You'll need that hand. For drinks shackleton laughs. We're not even on shore yet skipper. Let's wait to see what the local say about the ice in the whittlesey..
The BreakPoint Podcast
"south georgia island" Discussed on The BreakPoint Podcast
"Chance of of success You know a slight chance of survival slide but you know awards and fame if successful and five hundred people show up because they want to go on this journey and then after he gets them stuck in ice for months has to basically do three feats of crazy hoop superhuman things that the world could not repeat if they tried. You know beefing up a lifeboat and going eight hundred miles from elephant island south georgia island the toughest season the world and then crossing elephant island on foot without climbing equipment. And there's a third one to just. Oh the navigation of that whole thing which is a whole another part of this after he does all that and everyone that goes back fights and war war one and then he goes. I'm going to try it again. And they all sign up to go back with them for the second time is it. Is it something that people are crazy or is it something that god has made us in a an amazing way where we are not victims of the created order. We are after the fall after the fall we have. We have a place in the created order where it can kill us blaise. Pascal talked about this. He goes what is man. What a chi- camera he said you know. He's the ruler of the universe and yet the slightest vapor can kill him. But you know how do you how do you. How do you figure out. Man's place in the world that we can you know take over. A vast wasteland think of dubai and then build marketable city and sustain life and yet a virus. We can't see can kill six hundred thousand americans. I it just the anthropological Explanation for the universe is Or explaining the anthropological Problem why are humans the way they are wire. Humans the center. Why do they seem. What are the universe's Stephen jay gould. I think it was the one who said why. Did the universe seem to think we were coming seemed to know we were coming. And how can we have so much power and be so vulnerable at the same time. The thing about alone. Is that what aaron and i realized as we psychoanalyze all these people are watching it and just to describe it really quickly. It's it's exactly what it sounds like. It's a reality show where they drop people in the middle of nowhere and whoever can stay the longest wins and we were just watching this one where they did it a little differently. Which i'm convinced. There's like a team of graduate psychology student somewhere. Who's putting this show together and just studying the participants so this season was different where they said if somebody can if you can last one hundred days in the arctic you'll get a million dollars at the end. Three people made it beyond eighty days. Which i don't think in any other season of alone anybody's state at least not in the arctic. Nobody stayed that long. So there's something to be said for the fact that they had something to work toward as opposed to this open ended timeframe. You just have to be the last one standing there working toward the hundred days but the other thing we noticed this season is the people who are gonna stay. The longest are the ones who give themselves projects every day. So even if they're the silliest like i'm gonna make a spoon out of this piece of bark we need. We need productivity. Which is such a god given a clearly god-given thing that spans any sort of category it spans race ethnicity age athletic ability gender. The people who come up with tasks for themselves every day on the show are the ones that are going to last longer. And there's something reused wine.
Too Many Podcasts!
"south georgia island" Discussed on Too Many Podcasts!
"All this time. I had a website Because i've been working on online for so long. Having a website was natural and the difference was a lot of people may go on and around the world trip but it's primarily to big cities. they'll go to paris london. Bangkok said me places. Like that and i was going to really weird places that job no one visits and for that reason i started to gain a following online and it was nine months in i was in hong kong and i kind of said to myself that you know this is there weren't a lot of people on my website. You know having both my current business where we had a network of video games. We used to do like a month across our network so it was huge. This what i was doing with this was not huge at all. So i said to myself either. I should quit doing this. And just focus on traveling. Or i need to take it seriously and see make something of it and i didn't know what that was because no one at the time was making a living doing this. The term blog was still rather new. So i went to a new standard hong kong. I bought every travel magazine and opened up a spreadsheet and i started didn't analysis of what is in all these spreadsheets and one of the things i realized was that primarily had to do with travel pornography. The things they were writing about the number of places they were writing about each issue. No human could could do that in one month and they. They probably weren't even using this for travel planning. It'd be very difficult even to pick one place in twelve issues and go there in a year. so i started to put an emphasis on photography. I bought a camera when i started traveling. That was way over my head that i didn't know how to use in space of a few years. I taught myself how to do it. And i was named travel photographer the year. North america ended up being doing that. three times. Beating out national geographic photographer's established people like that. That's that's kinda got started and you've also went awards for your blog is well. I know that it was time magazine. That ranked as one of the best travel blogs no best blogs this is in this in two thousand and ten they used to do a an annual review of the top blogs in the world and in two thousand ten i got on their list of the top twenty five and it was the first travel website. Ever get put on. It was interesting is that i didn't know why i was ever put on the list and the next year i was in new york and i had lunch with the editor from time who had put together the list and i asked him why they chose my site and he said. Oh you're from wisconsin. Oh i'm from wisconsin and my wife read your site so restaurant put on by location. I mean that's what goes into those decisions. So i guess it worked for me but just for statistics here. I guess we should tell everybody. I mean as far as your Your world mileage is concerned. You've been to every state in the united states this twice. You've been to every province in canada three times. You've been to over two hundred states you've seen even hundred and so Yeah there's a list call the travelers century club and they break the world down to more than just countries. Because there's a lot of things that aren't country is like puerto rico. Antarctica french polynesia. If you say. I'm going to france and you go to the pacific ocean. Technically that is france in the same way. That hawaii is america. But that's not what people are thinking of when you say you're going to france so they break in so they have a list of. I think it's up to three hundred twenty six different territories around the world countries and territories. I've been to two hundred four. I think of those three hundred twenty six. is it always flying. Is that your preferred mode of travel. Have you ever taken i. honestly i hate flying. i absolutely loathe it. I hate long flights. If i could if they had regular service via ship from say new york to london i would probably take that every time they do offer. This cunard ashley does have that. But it's like once every two weeks and it's more of a production where it's like. Oh you're going on the titanic or something people dress up. i'm just talking about a cheapo carnival cruise eaten at the would do that every time because for its a three or four day trip fine. You don't arrive jetlagged. it's about the same price as flying. You can walk around. You have a proper bed if you look at the kind of cabin you get even a cheap cruise line versus a business class flight. The cabinet and a cruise ship is better than what you're going to get in first class on a plane because it's bigger it's you. You have more space. The food is going to be better. You're gonna be able to walk around. Your legs won't get sore. So yeah i would do that all the time. I understand that. Some people are constrained with time and it wouldn't be for them but for me how would especially You know with the new satellite internet are now coming online. You're going to have broadband in the middle of the ocean. So why not. You could get be productive work for several days when they struck these interesting. Now you've been to antarctica. What is there to see. When do you go during the summer months during our winter. Months is aso right now as we're recording this in january this would be the time to go to antarctica because it's summer in antarctica. But nothing's happening this year. So it's not really a thing. I would say i don't know what the numbers are last. I heard it was around. Twenty twenty five thousand people a year. Go to antarctica almost all on ship. It is possible to fly there. Believe it or not their flights out of chile. I know they fly into a place called union glacier flying. I understand why people do it because the the the boat trip over there can be kinda rough. But you're not gonna see much because you're landing on a glacier in your just landing in a place where white everywhere that's all it is whereas if you take a ship you're going to be seeing the sea coast. It's far more interesting. And that's where the animals are. You're gonna see the penguins in the whales and all sorts of stuff. The thing i always recommend people. Is i understand the attraction going to antarctica. And it's great but what all of the people who work on the ships that go to antarctica forward to every season is stopping and south georgia island and it usually only happens a couple times once or twice a season for most ships and south georgia is kind of usually is starting to shy argentina. You'll stop in the falklands south further out. Huge penguin breeding ground. And then you go down to. Antarctica makes a triple longer more expensive. But well worth it. There's there's no place on earth. Quake south georgia. You really have been pretty lucky that you haven't had too many bad things happen to you on traveling. I'm glad about that. Did you have any unusual experiences at any of these countries. I know there was one. They actually denied you entry..
Brief History Podcast
The Falklands War Explained
"This episode is on the Falcons will and so we get straight into the Falklands war was a ten week. Undeclared war which we Argentina and the United Kingdom in one thousand nine hundred ninety two over two different territories in the south Atlanta the focus on islands territorial dependency which is south Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. The conflict guy on the second of I pro. When Argentine forces invaded occupied the focus ORLANDS? This was followed by invasion of south Georgia the next day in an attempt to establish the sovereignty claim them over on the fifth of April. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage each week the Argentine navy and Air Force before making them in February so come the island. This conflict lasted seventy four days and ended with the Argentine surrender on the fourteenth for June. Were turning the islands to British control in total six forty nine auditorium military personnel. It's now on two hundred and fifty richest personnel and three folklore owners died during the hostilities. The conflict was a major episode. In the protracted dispute over the territory's sovereignty Argentina selected our maintains that they were Argentine find territory and Argentine government. That's characterizes military action as the reclamation of its territory the British government regard the action As an invasion of in crime colony since eighteen forty one the folkman islanders who had inhabited the island since the early nineteenth century with predominantly descendants of British cyclists and strongly favored which is shocking Leave estate officially declared war. Although both the government declared the islands of warzone hostilities was almost exclusively limited to the territories UNDIS- disputes and the area South Atlantic where Louis the conflict had a strong effect in both cultures and has been the subject various books articles films on songs uh-huh patriotic sentiment ran high in Argentina. But the outcome prompted large protests against the military government hastened its downfall in the United Kingdom the conservative government boasted by the successful outcome was reelected increased majority the following year the the cultural and political effects of the conflict have been less than the UK done in Argentina where it remains a common topic for discussion. Diplomatic diplomats relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in one thousand nine hundred nine fallen meeting Madrid a which the two governments issued the joint statement. No change in either country's position regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands were made explicit in Nineteen ninety-four Argentina's in times claim to the territory was added to its constitution in the period leading up to the wall in particular perform transfer of power between the military dictators. General Jorge Raphael Videla and General Roberto Eduardo Viola late in March nineteen eighty see what Argentina have been in the midst of a devastating economic stagnation and large scale civil unrest against the military Giunta that been governor the country since nineteen seventy six in December. One thousand nine hundred what there was a change in the audit time military regime bringing to office. It's a new GENTA headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri Acting President and Averick Adele Lameta an admiral. George Weah was the main architect and supporter of military solution for the long standing claim over the islands calculating and that the United Kingdom would never respond militarily by opt-in for military action the Galateri government hoped to mobilized choice along standard patriotic feelings of Argentines towards the islands. Their star the public attention from the country's current economic problems on the regime's James Ongoing Human rights violations of the dirty war such actions would also boast a dwindling legitimacy the new space last preceding speculated on a step-by-step plan beginning with cutting off supplies to the island and direct actions slate to nine thousand nine hundred two if the UN talks were fruitless ongoing tension between the couteau countries over islands increased the online from March where Military Group of Argentine scrap metal merchants. They actually infiltrated by Argentine Marines raised as the Argentine flag at South Georgia Island. A not that would like to be seen as the first offensive action in the war. The blow navy ice patrol vessel H- H must endure. It was dispatched from standing to South Georgia on the twentieth in response the Argentine Ministry Genta suspect in the UK would reinforce his Atlantic forces ordered the invasion of the fulcrum islands to be brought forward to the second-ranked The UK was initially taken by surprise by the Argentine attack on the South Atlantic islands. Despite repeated wouldn't wooden royal naval captain Nicholas Barker it commanded. They're enjoying anivers- Balka believed that the Defense Secretary John Not Nineteen Nineteen eighty-one review in which knots described plans to rejoin the joins. The Yolk case only naval presence in the in the South Atlantic at center signal not Argentines that UK was unwilling would soon be unable to defend his territories subjects in the Falkland Islands on the Second Night Nineteen eight thousand nine hundred. The Argentine forces mounted on Fabius London's known as Operation Rosario on the Falkland Islands the invasion was met with nominal defense organized by full. Didn't governor Sir. Rex Hunt giving command to Major. Might Norman of the Royal Marines brings the events invasion included end of life. Talent commander Admiral Sanchez supply. Thomas I'm fabulous commanders. Group the attack on Moody Brook Barracks. The engagement between troops of Hugo Santelli on bill trip at Stanley on the final engagement and surrender government. Government has worthy invasion. I reach the U. K.. From auditing solstice. A minister defense operative in London had a short tally tax. Conversation with Governor. Hunt's telex operation confirmed that Argentines on the island and in control later that day BBC journalists Lorrimore Golez spoke with an Orlando at goose green via average rage of who confirmed the presence of a large oftentimes entire fleet and the Argentine forces had taken control of the island richest military operations in the Fulcrum Wolf were given the code thing Operation Culpa and the commander of the Task Force was Melissa. John fieldhouse operations lasted from first of all April nineteen thousand nine hundred to the twentieth of June nineteen ninety two. The British undertook a series of military operations as a means of recapturing the fortunes from Argentine Argentine occupation the British royalty taken prior in second April invasion in response to the events on South Georgia the submarines henchman splendid and H- H Mess Fox and was ordered to South to south on twenty nine March whereas the store ship Royal Flea Cle- exonerate for Austin was dispatched from the western Mediterranean H Messengers North Carrington. I wish to send a third submarine but his decision with deferred due to concerns about the impact on operational commitments coincidentally on the second of March suckering suckering hikmet superb after broke up and it was just seemed was in the press to be heading south that has been since been speculation. The effect effect these reports were panic. The Argentine Genta into invading the Falkland Islands before nuclear powered submarines could be deployed the following day. Join a crisis. Meeting headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Chief of Naval Staff at Henry Leach advise that quote written could send Taskforce Skip. The islands were invaded and on the first April sent orders to a royal naval force. CARRINA LENA exercises in the Mediterranean to provide south-south Phony invasion on the second of April after emergency meeting of the cabinet approval was given to form a task force to retake the islands. This was backed in an emergency session of the House of Commons. The next day on the six by the British government set up a war cabinet to provide today political oversight the campaign this was the CRISCO instrument crisis-management to the British with his remittance to keep under review political or military development relating to the South Atlantic and to report as necessary to Defense Overseas Policy Committee. The Wall Cabinet Matt at least daily until it was dissolved on the twelfth of August although Margaret Thatcher is described as dominating the wool cabinet Lawrence Friedman notes in the official history of the Falkland Islands Campaign that she did not know opposition without concern of however wants a decision was reached. She did not look back and quote on the evening of April. The United Kingdom's nation's ambassador possums for a drop. The president of the United Nations Gertie Council the resolution which condemned hostilities in the media. Argentine ritual from the island was adopted by the council the following day as United Nations. WHO's not council resolution five? Oh two which passed with ten votes in simple when against ends up stations. China the Soviet Union potent UK receive fervor political support from members members countries the Commonwealth of Nations and the European Economic Community Australia Canada New Zealand withdrew that diplomats from bodice Ariz the e say also provided economic support by imposing economic sanctions on Argentina. Auden itself was politically literally backed by a majority of countries in Latin America of crucially knocked chilly and also some members of the Non Aligned Movement. The New Zealand government expelled the Argentine ambassador following the invasion Prime Minister Rob Dune was in London. When will grow finding an opinion piece published in science? He said quote the military rulers of Argentina must not be appeased. New Zealand will back Britain all the way and unquote will cost in on BBC World Service. He told the focus islands. This quote this robot mode do we all think Commu Given our full support total to the British government isn't this endeavors to rectify the situation. Get rid of the people invaded your Country Country Unquote on the twenty for May nine hundred eighty two. He announced that New Zealand would make H. M. S.. Concentrate prey lead. The class frigate valuable to use when the British were could fit to release royal. Navy vessels from the Falcons in the House of Commons almonds. Afterwards Margaret Thatcher said quote the New Zealand government and people have absolutely magnificent in support of this country and the Falkland Islanders just for the rule of liberty of law and quote the French president. Francois Mitterrand declared embargo home. Frenchamn sows thousand assistance to Argentina. In addition from allowed UK act craft warships use of his poor field facilities. That car in Senegal Frans provided dismisal aircraft training. So that Harry pilots could be trained against the French aircraft used by Argentina Intelligence also cooperated with Britain to prevent Argentina from containing more exit missiles on the international market. Kim a two thousand two interview in reference to the support John Not then defense secretary at disquiet France. At Britain's quote greatest tally in two thousand twelve. He came to light that wall. This poll was taken place. A French technical team employed by docile and already in Argentina remained death throughout the world. Despite presidential decree the team had provided material support to the Argentines identify and fixing faults in exit missile launchers. John Not set the unknown. The French team was that beset. It's what was thought. Be Not of any the important and advised that French government denied any knowledge the time that the tech teams that in contrast French intelligence officer maintained a team was that it was in intelligence gathering capacity. 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Brief History Podcast
The Falklands War
"The Falklands war was a ten week undeclared war between Argentina on the United Kingdom in nineteen eighty two over two different territories in the South Atlantic the focus winans territorial dependency which is south Georgia and South Sandwich Islands the conflict got on the second of April when Argentine forces invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands this was followed by an invasion of south Georgia the next day in an attempt to stop the sovereignty claim them over on the fifth of April the British government dispatched a naval task. also to engage with the Argentine navy and Air Force before making them amphibious assault from the island this conflict lasted seventy four days and ended with the Argentine surrender on the fourteenth of June we're turning the islands to British control in total six hundred forty nine talk military personnel and two fifty five purchase personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities inflict was a major episode in the protracted dispute over the territory's sovereignty Argentina asserted maintains that they all were Argentine territory an Argentine government that's characterizes military action as the recommendation of its territory the British governor my regard the action as an invasion of territory in Crime Colin leases eighteen forty the folkman islanders who had inhabited the island since the early nineteenth century with predominantly descendants of British settlers and strongly favored Britches sovereignty leave estate officially declared war although both governments declared the islands a war zone hostilities was almost exclusively limited to the territories UNDIS- disputes and the area Allante with a law. The conflict had a strong effect in both countries and has been the subject of various books articles films on songs patriotic sentiment ran high in Argentina outcome prompted large protests against the ruling military government. Hazy listen it's downfall in the United Kingdom the conservative government boasted by the successful outcome was reelected with an increased majority to follow in the empirical fact of the conflict has been less than the UK done in Argentina where remains a common topic for discussion diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in nineteen eighty nine following a meeting in Madrid which the two government issued a joint statement no change in either country's position regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands Made Explicit in Nineteen Ninety full Argentines claim to territory was added to its constitution in the period leading up to the wall in particular form the transfer of power between the military dictators General Jorge Raphael General Roberto Eduardo Viola late March nine thousand nine hundred what Argentina have been in the midst of a devastating economic stagnation and large scale civil unrest against the Military Gentler that been governing the country since nineteen seventy six in December nine thousand nine hundred there was a change in the auditorium military regime. bring into office in New Jersey headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri acting president an average Adele but the Llama Dosa and Admiral George Weah was the main architect unsupportive of a military solution for the longstanding claim over the islands calculating that the United Kingdom would never respond militarily by opted for military action the gala tear recover go to mobilize the wrong standard patriotic feelings of Argentines towards the islands there started the public attention from the country's economic problems on the regime's ongoing human rights violations of the dirty such actions would also boast a dwindling legitimacy see the new space last press speculated on the step by step plan beginning with cutting off supplies to the island and indirect actions late in one thousand nine hundred eighty two if the UN tokes free ongoing tension between the couteau countries Orlands increased on nineteen March where a Military Group of Argentine scrap metal merchants they actually infiltrated by audience I marines raised the Argentine flag at South Georgia island a knocked that would like to be seen as the first offensive action in the war the Royal Navy patrol vessel hates must endure it was dispatched from Stanley to South Georgia on the twenty fifth in response the audience time miniature Genta suspect in the UK would reinforce Atlantic pulses altered the invasion of the fulcrum islands to people fool with to the second bankroll the UK was initially taken by surprise by the Argentine attack on the South Atlantic Islands despite repeated warnings boil naval captain Nicholas Barker it commanded their endurance anivers- Balk at believed the defense side St John Not one thousand nine hundred one review in which knots described plans to redraw the George the Yolk case only naval presence in the in the South Atlantic had sent a signal to the Argentines that the UK was unwilling would soon be unable to defend his territories and subjects in the Falkland silence on the second April nineteen eighty two the oftentimes forces mounted amphibious London's known as Operation Rosario on the could the invasion was met with nominal defense organized by Fulcrum Islands Governor surrendered hunt giving command to major might normal on on the Royal Marines the events the invasion included on of left commander Admiral Sanchez supply. Thomas I'm Fabius Command There's group the attack on barracks the engagement between troops of Hugo Suntan bill trip at Stanley on the final gauge moments surrender at Government House worthy invasion first reached UK from Argentine sources administered defense operative in London on the show tally tax conversation with governor. Hunt's telex operation it confirmed that Argentines on the island and in control later that day BBC journalists lorrimore Golez spoke with an Oil Linda at goose green via amateur radio who confirmed the Solarge oftentimes fleet and Argentine forces had taken control of the island richest military operations in the fulcrum were given the something Operation Cobra Commander of the Task Force was John Fieldhouse operations lasted from first of all April Nineteen take to the twentieth of June nineteen eighty two the British undertook a series of military operations as a means of recapturing for wins from Argentine occupation though the British royalty taken prior in that second April invasion in response to the events on salary order the submarines h Miss Splendid and H- H Mess Fox was ordered to South to south on twenty four March whereas the the ship Royal Fleet Accelerate our effect for Austin was dispatched from the western Mediterranean h messengers. all currency had wished to send a third submarine with his decision with deferred due to concerns about the impact on operational commitments coincidentally on the second March two separate left Gibraltar and it was just seemed it was in the press to be headed south that has been since in speculation the effect of these reports were panic the Argentine genta into invading the Falkland Islands before nuclear powered submarines could be deployed the following dight join a crisis meeting headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the chief of Naval Staff at Henry Leach Advice doc quote recent could and should send a task force skip the islands were invaded and quote on the first April Lynch sent orders to NATO force China exercises in the Mediterranean to provide south-south invasion on the second of April after emergency the governor approval was given to foam task force to retake the islands this was backed in an emergency session of the House of Commons the next day on the six April the British government set up a war cabinet to provide day-to-day political oversight the campaign This was the critical instrument crisis management to the British with his remittance the end to keep under review political or military development relating to the South Atlantic and to report as necessary to Defense Overseas Policy Committee the war camping matter at least daily until it was dissolved swath of August although Margaret Thatcher is described as dominating the wool cabinet Lawrence Friedman notes in the official history of the Falkland Islands campaign that she did not know opposition without concern of however once a decision was reached she did not look back end quote on the evening of April United Kingdom's nations on Buster possible and for a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council resolution which condemned the hostilities and demanded the immediate Argentine ritual from the island was adopted by the council the following day as United Nations who's not council resolution five to which possibly ten votes insulin we'll when against which Panama enfor up stations China the Soviet Union potent the UK received Fervor let's go support from members catches the Commonwealth of Nations and the European Economic Community Australia Canada and New Zealand withdrew that diplomats from bodice Ariz the EEC also provided economic support imposed economic sanctions on Argentina oughtn't itself was politically backed by majority countries in Latin America of crucially not chilly and also some members on Aligned Movement the New Zealand government expelled the Argentine ambassador following the invasion Prime Minister Robert Muldoon was in London when will grow cap on a in an opinion piece published in science he said quote the military rulers of Argentina must not be appeased newseum will back in order wide end quote will cost it on BBC World Service he told the Falkland Islanders quote this World Mood and we all thinking of you and we will give full support total to the British government is in his endeavors to rectify the situation get rid of the that s concentrate elite class frigate available to use when the British could fit to release Romeny vessels from the Falcons in the House of Commons afterwards Margaret Thatcher said quote the New Zealand government and people have absolutely magnificent in their support for this country in Senegal and France provided this minimum aircraft training so the Harrier pilots could be trained against the French aircraft used by Argentine Lena intelligence also cooperated with Britain to prevent Argentina from an exit missiles on the international market in a two thousand two interview on in reference to the support you're not the Dan Defense Secretary at disquiet France at Britain's unquote greatest ally in quote in two thousand twelve. He came to light that we've while this was taking place a fridge technical team Loyd assault and ordine Argentina remained death throughout the world despite presidential decree the team had provided material support