Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4 Billion Resort Triggers 'Flamingo Revolution', Asset Freeze and an EU Warning
https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/
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Kirp123@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 76d
So it's the Flamingo revolution because the protected area is a native habitat for flamingo. Also today I learned that flamingoes are native to Europe.
jello@programming.dev · 30 pts · 76d
And the flamingo is just the headliner. There's also seals, turtles, birds, etc
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 19 pts · 76d
I live in southern Spain and there are flamenco breeding grounds like an hour drive from me: https://visitasfuentepiedra.es/
We also have the other flamenco.
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 76d
Omg, I had no idea that the word "flamenco" means flamingo in Spanish. Idiot
lauha@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 76d
¡Idiota!
jaycifer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
It could be worse. I knew flamenco means flamingo and that there’s a Spanish dance called the flamenco, but never made the connection that there could be Spanish flamingos until now.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 76d
Well, to your defence, there are no English lions, yet they're prominently present in symbols of English culture.
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 76d
But knowing us, we'll just have stolen the lions from another country during our angry-little-man phase :)
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Ha, same
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 76d
Yes but the name of the dance doesn't come from the bird. I think it comes from 'Flemish', which is also 'flamenco' in Spanish.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Weird, I never would have thought of them as Baltic, I just assumed they were only native to the Gulf of Mexico
CovertOperative@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 76d
Balkans, not Baltic.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Fr, I thought it was like Florida, the Caribbean, South America and Africa before this
bstix@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 76d
Most pictures of flamingos are the Florida kind because of the color.
Flamingos (even American ones) aren't born pink. They're bright gray and look like ugly storks.
The main difference between American and African/Eurasian flamingo is the food that they eat. The American shrimps have pigments that are toxic to most animals. Flamingos basically made this into a chili eating contest, where the most red (and surviving) bird won the right to evolution.
The color goes away if they're fed other things for a while, so Zoos actually have to dye the food.
panthera_@lemmy.today · 46 pts · 76d
Good. The project is bad for the environment and the Earth.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 76d
Also, I'm sick of these entitled sacks of bone and smeg being able to do whatever they want. Being told "no" must be a completely alien concept to them.
panthera_@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 76d
Like Trump, Kushner doesn't care about the environment. His only interest is money.
lando55@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 76d
He has money. They all have money. It's not enough. It will never be enough to fill whatever is missing from their meaningless existences.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d
They don't stop anyway so it makes sense the word is alien to them
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 27 pts · 76d
Oh noes! Don't piss off Jared Kushner! He's our only hope for peace with Iran or something...
rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 76d
Who knew that Albanians were such staunch environmentalists.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 14 pts · 76d
They are pissed because their PM and most likely other high ranking officials obviously took bribes for this.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 75d
Took and still taking, for years to come. How do you think all these resorts are being build? Good for people speaking there, because in other parts of Albania, they cant do nothing.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 76d
Maybe they just hate Trumps.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d
Metal Gear Guard Alert Noise
Artisian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
We've lost one bird war already.