Earth Changes
An international group of scientists found the species in the remote Foja Mountains on the island of New Guinea in late 2008 and released the details, including pictures, on Monday ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22.
Many of the species found during the survey are believed to be new to science, Conservation International and the National Geographic Society said, including several new mammals, a reptile, an amphibian, and a dozen insects.
Those who carry out this global genocide - men like BP's Chief Executive Tony Hayward, who assures us that "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume'' - are, to steal a line from Ward Churchill, "little Eichmanns." They serve Thanatos, the forces of death, the dark instinct Sigmund Freud identified within human beings that propels us to annihilate all living things, including ourselves. These deformed individuals lack the capacity for empathy. They are at once banal and dangerous. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications.
The death they dispense, whether in the pollutants and carcinogens that have made cancer an epidemic, the dead zone rapidly being created in the Gulf of Mexico, the melting polar ice caps or the deaths last year of 45,000 Americans who could not afford proper medical care, is part of the cold and rational exchange of life for money.

An oil soaked bird struggles against the oil slicked side of the HOS Iron Horse supply vessel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
"It's hard to say exactly what's going on in the Gulf right now, especially because there are so many conflicting reports and unanswered questions. But one thing's for sure: if the situation is actually much worse than we're being led to believe, there could be worldwide catastrophic consequences. If it's true that millions upon millions of gallons of crude oil are flooding the Gulf with no end in sight, the massive oil slicks being created could make their way into the Gulf Stream currents, which would carry them not only up the East Coast but around the world where they could absolutely destroy the global fishing industries."Now, barely one week later, it turns out that the oil slick is FAR worse than what we were being told.

Investigators said Romeo Briscoe was killed when lightning hit his fishing pole and then traveled through his body.
The victim was one of four friends fishing off a jetty at Seaside Park in Bridgeport as the stormy weather rolled in.
Investigators said Romeo Briscoe was killed when lightning hit his fishing pole and then traveled through his body. The blast was so powerful, it shredded his clothes and blew up his cell phone.
"This is part of the cell phone that were recovered here where the victim was struck by lightning," said Sgt. Giselle Doszpoj of Bridgeport P.D. "They tried to resuscitate him. He didn't come back. He's gone."
Briscoe's three friends suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Lightning injured a 25-year-old woman as she was letting her dogs outside around 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
A Suffolk Police spokesperson said Brandy Futrell was touching a metal gate when lightning struck near her home in 7000 block of Ruritan Boulevard.
Her husband found her lying on the ground not breathing and with no pulse, police said. He performed CPR until she started breathing on her own. Medics arrived and took her to Sentara Obici General Hospital.
Doctors list her in good condition, according to police.
If passenger safety was the primary consideration throughout this fiasco, why then has the airline industry and the relevant regulatory authorities repeatedly suppressed the findings of independent studies that sound the alarm over a very real danger facing passengers and crew alike during air travel?
A rock slide on the highway in Utuado also occurred due to the earthquake. Here, a concrete house was also shifted four inches away from its foundation.
Some shocks were felt in most part of the island including places like the islands of Vieques, St. Croix, Culebra and the rest of the Virgin Islands.According to the U.S. Geological survey , the earthquake was felt by high-rise dwellers on the western side of the U.S. Carribean Islan and 63 miles away from San Juan.
The US Geological survey also found out that the city of Moca was the epicenter of the earthquake.
The United States Geological Survey says the 3.7 magnitude quake struck at 11:33 a.m. Sunday about 85 miles east of downtown San Diego.
The epicenter was reported 15 miles southwest of Mexicali, in an area rocked by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Easter Sunday, April 4.
A sheriff's dispatcher says they have received no calls about the quake.

A look back at the flooding that unfolded at the beginning of May. This photo was taken Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at the OpryMills Mall in Nashville, Tenn.
Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms today are pushing through middle Tennessee, an area that definitely doesn't need any more rain. The region is still recovering from the devastating flooding that took place earlier in the month, and the rain today could cause renewed flooding in some areas.
Other states surrounding Tennessee will also be at risk for flash flooding through this evening as slow-moving showers and thunderstorms also affect Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky and southern Missouri.
It's important to stress that today's event will not be anything like the one that occurred at the beginning of the month with over 13 inches of rain falling in Nashville over the span of just two days. An event like that is quite rare.

This NASA image shows a close up view of a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico as it continued moving close to shore, near Louisiana.
Oil boom stretches along empty beaches, tar balls have washed ashore along the Alabama and Mississippi coasts, and a swirling, oily sheen covers at least 2,500 square miles of the sea surface in the Gulf of Mexico.
So far, currents, winds, and a plume of fresh water flowing into the Gulf from the Mississippi River have acted in concert to hold at bay the oil spewing from a damaged well head 5,000 feet below the sea surface some 40 miles off the Louisiana coast.
In anticipation of the oil's arrival, some 13,000 people stand ready to combat the spill if it approaches shore, according to the Obama administration. More than a million feet of boom has been deployed. More than half a million gallons of dispersants has been applied.








