Lateline - 25/11/2013: $1.5 million Australian expedition to Antarctica

Lateline - 25/11/2013: $1.5 million Australian expedition to Antarctica

EMMA ALBERICI: And tomorrow night, in the second part of this special report, could the British Antarctic explorer Robert Scott have lived? We look at how Professor Turney discovered that choosing the right team can be a matter of life and death. That's tomorrow night. 

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Could not make this up.

Maritime News: Research vessel Shokalskiy may become an Antarctic Flying Dutchman - FleetMon.com

Maritime News: Research vessel Shokalskiy may become an Antarctic Flying Dutchman - FleetMon.com

On Jan 2 all 52 passengers of research vessel AKADEMIK SHOKALSKIY were evacuated to Australian research and supply icebreaker Aurora Australis by a Chinese helicopter provided research and supply icebreaker Xue Long. World media made such a fuss over the story one could think it was a Titanik tragedy turned into success. It was clear from actually, the very beginning, that the passengers were in no real danger, when it came out, that there are helicopters nearby. They’ve been taken from Shokalskiy simply because they were already more of a nuisance staying on board of Shokalskiy, and eating away food supplies which are required for the crew remaining on board. Passengers were mostly scientists, or so they say, who were trying to get yet more proofs of devastating global warming effects.

Well, if getting trapped in ice is a result of global warming, they definitely found what they’ve been after. The public didn’t miss the irony of it: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/12/30/stuck-in-our-own-experiment-leader-trapped-team-insists-polar-ice-is-melting/ 

French polar chief derides Antarctic cruise as a jaunt

French polar chief derides Antarctic cruise as a jaunt

In an interview with AFP, Yves Frenot, director of the French Polar Institute, said he had no issue at all with rescuing those aboard the stricken vessel.
But, he said, the trip itself was a "pseudo-scientific expedition" that, because it had run into difficulties, had drained resources from the French, Chinese and Australian scientific missions in Antarctica. "There's no reason to place Antarctica off-limits and to keep it just for scientists, but this tourism has to be monitored and regulated so that operators can be sure of getting help if need be," he said.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/french-polar-chief-derides-antarctic-cruise-jaunt-20140104#sthash.Ddkr3IVb.dpuf

Expedition On The Cheap? Did Organizers Recklessly, Negligently Put Lives And Property At Risk?

Expedition On The Cheap? Did Organizers Recklessly, Negligently Put Lives And Property At Risk?

The purpose of the AAE expedition was to take a science team of 36 women and men south to discover just how much change has taken place at Mawson Station over 100 years. The expedition was also intended to replicate the original AAE led by explorer Sir Douglas Mawson a century ago, in 1913. The new expedition was to be led by Prof. Chris Turney, a publicity-hungry professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales.

- See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2013/12/31/expedition-on-the-cheap-did-organizers-recklessly-negligently-put-lives-and-property-at-risk/#comment-910538

Gennifer Flowers on Bill Clinton: ‘He said Hillary had eaten more pu–y than he had’ | Jammie Wearing Fools

Gennifer Flowers on Bill Clinton: ‘He said Hillary had eaten more pu–y than he had’ | Jammie Wearing Fools

When rumours surfaced recently of an affair between Hillary Clinton and her transition office chief, Huma Abedin, 37, Gennifer was not surprised.

The rumours concerning Huma, wife of disgraced former Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, 49, emerged as she stood by her husband in the wake of his recent ‘sexting’ scandal.

Revelations that he had sent intimate pictures of himself and steamy messages to 23-year-old Sydney Leathers – a girl he had only ever ‘met’ online – finally did for his New York Mayoral campaign last week.

The scandal broke almost exactly a year after the shamed congressman suffered a public mauling for the same behaviour. Then, as recently, his wife Huma Abedin stood by him.

This time round Huma’s loyalty raised eyebrows and questions over why a woman of such accomplishment would stick by a man so apparently incapable of change.

Gennifer said: ‘I don’t know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn’t care. He should know.
‘He said Hillary had eaten more pussy than he had.’

Clinton: the straight white Obama

The Death of Vincent Foster | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

The Death of Vincent Foster | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED