Scientists discover a giant prawn thousands of metres under the sea in New Zealand’s Kermadic Trench.
The ‘supergiant amphipod’, as it has been described, measures almost 12 inches in length – ten times the size of the normal species – and was found 4.3 miles under the surface of the ocean.
Scientists, who say the crustacean is closely related to the sandhopper, were dumbfounded by their find.
“It’s always great to be on a ship, where something unusual comes up on the deck and when there’s just that little moment, it only lasts a microsecond when everyone looks at one another and you know that you’ve got something special,” said Ashely Rowden from the New Zealand Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Mr Rowan added that they had many questions about the size of the giant prawn.
“Is it because of the environmental conditions of that location, or those specific locations of where the records have come from, is it to do with the food environment, so lots of questions start spinning around straight away,” he said.
Supergiant amphipods have been found only once before, in the 1980s, and NIWA said it has yet to determine if the latest catch was a new species.
I guess this is the Nobel Committee’s way of saying “You’re sabotaging America’s war effort in Afghanistan, rapidly disarming America and setting Israel up to be nuked. Keep up the good work.”
Nobel Peace Prize = Socialist Prize
U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said today that Mr Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for ‘his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’.
However today’s announcement will raise eyebrows among critics who may argue that Mr Obama, who has been in office for just ten months, has not yet had time to create a lasting achievement worthy of the prize.
Though his name has been mentioned in speculation before the award, many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
Williams, a lifelong Republican whose hits include Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, told the Radio Times he thought Mr Obama wanted to turn the US into a “socialist country”.
The 81-year-old was a friend of the Kennedy family during the 1960s and was present at the Los Angeles rally where Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
“I was very close to Bobby and he asked me to be a delegate for him when he ran for president,” he said.
“He knew about me being a Republican, but just laughed and said, ‘Sign yourself in as a Democrat and then change back afterwards’. Sadly, I never got to do that.
“I was very close to Teddy Kennedy, too, and his death recently brought it all back. What a tragedy. Had he lived, I think Bobby would have been a great president.”
But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.
“Don’t like him at all,” he said, “I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.
“Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.”
Politicians, media personalities and conservative activists have accused the US president of espousing socialist ideas.
Earlier this month, Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida, said he was “absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology”, after the US leader appeared in a televised address to be shown in classrooms around the country.
That’s the question asked by Gerald Warner in the Telegraph. Once again you have to go to the U.K. to get any objective view of Obozo.
Why does Barack Obama (D-Kenya) hate America? You might as well ask why Osama bin Laden, Fidel Castro, Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Huge Chavez, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hate America.
Answer: Because Obama’s politics and Worldview are diametrically opposed to America’s founding principles.
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.
Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.
That is why he opened Pandora’s Box by publishing the Justice Department’s legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.
“Don’t be discouraged by what’s happened the last few weeks,” he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them – or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.
So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers.
Obama promised his CIA audience that nobody would be prosecuted for past actions. That has already been contradicted by leftist groups with a revanchist ambition to put Republicans, headed if possible by Condoleezza Rice, in the dock. Talk about playing party politics with national security. Martin Scheinin, the United Nations special investigator for human rights, claims that senior figures, including former vice president Dick Cheney, could face prosecution overseas. Ponder that – once you have got over the difficulty of locating the United Nations and human rights within the same dimension.
President Pantywaist Obama should have thought twice before sitting down to play poker with Dick Cheney. The former vice president believes documents have been selectively published and that releasing more will prove how effective the interrogation techniques were. Under Dubya’s administration, there was no further atrocity on American soil after 9/11.
President Pantywaist’s recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America’s enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?
