A Meteorite is reported to have hit Argentina to-day , causing injury or Death.
Confirmation is awaited.
“Some media is reporting that a meteorite or a piece of a satellite struck a woman in Monte Grande, Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing her and injuring eight. Witnesses say that they saw a blue ball of fire striking a house:
Meteorite Hits Argentina
My daughter’s bedroom is on the front and she told me that, when she opened the window after smelling gunpowder, she saw how fireballs coming from the sky and there she saw the explosion that reached my son-in-law on his leg.
Another woman says that she was sleeping when she heard the “impressive noise”. She woke up around 2AM today because she heard a “high pitch noise” and, a few seconds later, she felt an explosion that shattered her house:
When I went out I saw fire coming from above, of light blue. It wasn’t the color of a normal fire, it was all of sky blue.
A young man claims that he has captured the meteor on his mobile phone. The picture—shown on the top—doesn’t seem like the straight trajectory of a meteor or a piece of space junk. It looks more like this imbecile decided to make a fake photo photographing a moving piece of burning wood in the middle of the night.
The police, however, believes this is all a case of mass hysteria driven by the photo and the recent news of the NASA satellite that crashed in the Pacific last Saturday. They went through the rubble to discover a “gas 45-kilogram gas tube, part of some pipe and a [pizza] oven destroyed.” The fire department declared that the explosion was enormous.
He urged people “not to forget those who had fallen during the war” as they had “shed their blood on Argentine soil”
Pope Francis has been a vocal and passionate supporter of his country’s claim on the Falkland Islands, known as Las Malvinas to Argentinians.
In April last year, at a memorial mass in Buenos Aires 30 years on from the Falklands conflict, he said: “We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the homeland who went out to defend their mother, the homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs, that is of the homeland, and it was usurped.”
And a year earlier, he urged people “not to forget those who had fallen during the war” as they had “shed their blood on Argentine soil”
Not that his relation with the present Argentinian is cozy..far from it.
He is against Gay marriage.
When the Cardinal urged parishioners to join a campaign he called “God’s war” against gay marriage, Ms.Kirchner , Argentinian President,,compared his tone to the Middle Ages and the Inquisition.
Previously, in a snipe at Cardinal Bergoglio, Mr Kirchner reportedly said: “Our God is everyone’s, but careful because the Devil also reaches everyone – those who wear trousers and those who wear cassocks.”
Despite their differences, the Cardinal called for the Argentine people to pray for Mr Kirchner when he died in October 2010.
Now this statement on Falklands, where a referendum has taken place about 4 days ago on its status.
Britain, though outwardly cool awaits the result of the Referendum.
Hope it has not manipulated the Referendum process.
Britain formed a new sect of Christianity because the Catholic pope did not allow a king to marry when his wife was alive.
Let’s see if the Pope creates a new Britain. outside Britain.
Anyway, we can find Britain squirming in the coming years.
People living in the Falkland Islands are voting in a referendum on their political status on Sunday and Monday at a time of heightened tensions between Argentina and Britain over their sovereignty.
The two countries went to war over the territory, known to the Argentinians as Las Malvinas, in 1982 after the then-military government in Argentina landed troops on the islands.
According to the Falklands legislative assembly, the vote is intended to affirm islanders’ desire to remain a self-governing territory of the United Kingdom and to reject claims of ownership by Argentina.
I received a colorful comment for this post and there are two ratings “Poor’.
(that the post received 18 Likes is a different matter-Obviously from the colonized!)
Obviously from the British.
They asked me to Study History.
This is Britain’s History.
“Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It’s not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian Stuart Laycock was happy to volunteer for the job and presents his findings in a new book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To. The book stays true to its title and finds in a survey of 200 of the world’s countries through that, in one shape or form, Great Britain has invaded all but 22 of them. That amounts to about 90 percent of the world’s countries.”
The Copahue volcano spews ashes above Caviahue, in Neuquen province, Argentina, some 1500 km southwest of Buenos Aires on December 24. The authorities of Chile and Argentina issued alerts in each country due to the eruption of the volcano, placed in the border between both countries.
I received a colorful comment for this post and there are two ratings “Poor’.
(that the post received 18 Likes is a different matter-Obviously from the colonized!)
Obviously from the British.
They asked me to Study History.
This is Britain’s History.
“Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It’s not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian Stuart Laycock was happy to volunteer for the job and presents his findings in a new book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To. The book stays true to its title and finds in a survey of 200 of the world’s countries through that, in one shape or form, Great Britain has invaded all but 22 of them. That amounts to about 90 percent of the world’s countries.”
One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000km (8700 miles) away from London.
The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule.
Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity.
The Question of the Malvinas Islands is also a cause embraced by Latin America and by a vast majority of peoples and governments around the world that reject colonialism.
In 1960, the United Nations proclaimed the necessity of “bringing to an end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations”. In 1965, the General Assembly adopted, with no votes against (not even by the United Kingdom), a resolution considering the Malvinas Islands a colonial case and inviting the two countries to negotiate a solution to the sovereignty dispute between them.
This was followed by many other resolutions to that effect.
In the name of the Argentine people, I reiterate our invitation for us to abide by the resolutions of the United Nations.
The British PMs reaction may be found in the Link.
SUN Advertisement in Argentina.
SUN Advertisement on Falklands In Argentina.
PM David Cameron yesterday backed the islanders remaining British.
We fired off our newspaper message to Kirchner in her native Spanish.
She accused Britain of stealing the islands in adverts placed in left-wing British papers The Guardian and Independent.
But in an open letter today in the Buenos Aires Herald, translated below, The Sun tells her Britain has had sovereignty there before Argentina even existed.
And we remind her how the Argentine invasion of the islands in 1982, which was ended by our troops, was against the UN charter.
The islanders hold a referendum on whether they remain British in March.
But The Sun responded by taking out an advert in the Buenos Aires Herald – an English-language paper with a circulation of around 20,000 – telling Argentina to keep its “hands off”.
The advert refers to the 649 Argentinian and 255 British servicemen whose lives were lost in the 1982 war and said it was a conflict fought to defend the principle of self-determination.
The ad goes on to dispute Argentina’s claim to the islands and points out British sovereignty dates back to 1765.
It ends with the words: “Until the people of the Falkland Islands choose to become Argentinian, they remain resolutely British.”
But the journalist Daniel Schweimler, who lives in Argentina, said the Sun’s message would not go down well.
Argentine veterans protested outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires
Mr Schweimler, who is based in Buenos Aires, said: “I’ve been here seven years now, and have never come across an Argentine who doesn’t believe that the Falklands belong to Argentina.
“There’s never been any animosity towards me when I say I’m British, but I think it’s fair to say that almost across the board in a country of 40 million people that Las Malvinas, the Falklands, belong to them,” he added.
Argentine journalist Celina Andreassi agreed and says the Sun’s advert was quite provocative-BBC news.
Read the advertisement Text at the SUN link above.
Capitan, a German shepherd, reportedly ran away from home after its owner, Miguel Guzman, died in 2006. A week later, the Guzman family found the dog sitting by his grave in central Argentina.
Miguel Guzman adopted Capitan in 2005 as a gift for his teenage son, Damian. And for the past six years, Capitan has continued to stand guard at Miguel’s grave. The family says the dog rarely leaves the site.
“We searched for him, but he had vanished,” widow Veronica Guzman told LaVoz.com. “We thought he must have got run over and died.
‘The following Sunday we went to the cemetery, and Damian recognized his pet. Capitan came up to us, barking and wailing as if he were crying.”
“It is a mystery how he managed to find the place,” she said.
Cemetery director Hector Baccega says he and his staff have begun feeding and taking care of Capitan.
“He turned up here one day, all on his own, and started wandering all around the cemetery until he eventually found the tomb of his master,” Baccega said.
Argentine veterans protested outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires
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