Endangered Species and Politics

http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/images/Documents/20080521/fc/statement_rahall.pdf
Covert white house interference with endangered species has been going on for who knows how long? How could we all have been that insensitive not to know or did we really want to know. Politics as usual.Endangered species compromises the entirety of our environment for one aspect of the environment is connected with another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Obsequens
Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis (Book of Prodigies), completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the wonders and portents that occurred in Rome between 249 BC-12 BC.

The work was first printed by the Venetian humanist, Aldus Manutius, in 1508, after a manuscript belonging to Jodocus of Verona (now lost). Of great importance was the edition by the Basle Humanist Conrad Lycosthenes (1552), trying to reconstruct lost parts and illustrating the text with wood-cuts. Later editions were printed by F. Oudendorp (Leyde, 1720) and O. Jahn (1853, with the periochae of Livy).

A curious, if not important, aspect of Obsequens' work are the references made to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). For the year 100 BC, for example, Obsequens writes:

"When C. Murius and L. Valerius were consuls, in Tarquinia towards sunset, a round object, like a globe, a round or circular shield, took its path in the sky from west to east."

For the year 91 BC, he reports that:

"At Aenariae, while Livius Troso was promulgating the laws at the beginning of the Italian war, at sunrise, there came a terrific noise in the sky, and a globe of fire appeared burning in the north. In the territory of Spoletum, a globe of fire, of golden color, fell to the earth gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance. It revolved toward the eastern quadrant of the sky."

From the article above wonders and portents occured in Rome as depicted in the picture attached (work of art). These signs and portents occured between 249-12 BC. Note carefully what this art work depicts. Yes we have another visitation as the above article states?

The Annunciation with St Emidius 1486? Gallery London

http://www.uforc.com/religion/AF-journal2_UFORCE_p52.html
The last post contains a work of art by Crivelli and noted in a book by Barry H Downing when one world opens into another at the annunciation. The blown up art is in this link and it does picture a UFO in a picture depicting a 3 decker universe where a door is opened.
Reference #2: THE BIBLE AND FLYING SAUCERS; 1978 Barry H. Downing, Avon Books, NY NY.

The great art of the ages have run a common thread of showing visitations either by UFOs or if you will angels from other worlds as alluded to by St. Paul that we have been visited by other angels (beings from other worlds) and beware! we have not recognized it. This drawing is a depiction of the virgin wherein light is pencilled upward to (or beamed upward ) to an unidentified object.

Assault on science

http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2008/05/the_assault_on_science.php



This is an extremely interesting "debate" on the whys of the assault on science and global warming during the prior 8 presidential years and the reasons for the alleged assault from a variety of points of view and perspectives.Many points were covered, most valid.The audio went defective in mid play unfortunately but what I did hear was fascinating as discussion of this issue. Chris Mooney's books are further elucidation on this topic.Further points in the debate underscored the following:
-misunderstanding of science
-mistrust of research and the value of scientific inquiry or vested interests?
-scientific consensus ? when should we listen to those on the edge, for example those asserting that certain vaccines cause autism?
-is there a consensus regarding Global Warming based on over 2500 scientists of the United Nations asserting its validity? Or did they so assert it. Were they only peer reviewers and not in a consensus?