The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored
multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in
my one.
  --Stephen Spender




Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. 

孫子  

Published on Feb 28, 2013

The REAL Climate Changer: http://youtu.be/_yy3YJBOw_o
Ice Age Soon? http://youtu.be/UuYTcnN7TQk
An Unlikely but Relevant Risk - The Solar Killshot: http://youtu.be/X0KJ_dxp170

TODAY's LINKS:
Salty Seas: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aqu...
GMO: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-genetica...
Saturn: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightsin...
Spinning Vela: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLA...
Ray pic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
US Climate Cooling/Warming: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-w...

Published on Feb 27, 2013

"The wealth gap between blacks and whites has ballooned since the middle of the Reagan administration, nearly tripling between 1984 and 2009, according to a new Brandeis University study.

Published on Feb 27, 2013

"Sean Hannity got an earful from Democratic congressman Keith Ellison on his Tuesday show. Ellison exploded at the Fox News host, calling him "the worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen."

Pedophilia & Corruption: Will next Pope stop Catholic hell?

Published on Feb 28, 2013

Nearly 90 million Mexicans profess to being Catholic and will be closely watching who is chosen to lead the Church.  

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-
songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 1965. Having until then
recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing
band on every track of the album, except for the closing 11-minute
ballad, "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way in
which Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of
poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of
contemporary America. Leading with the single "Like a Rolling Stone" (a
top-10 hit in several countries), the album features songs that Dylan
has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of
a Thin Man" and "Highway 61 Revisited". He named the album after the
major North American highway connecting his birthplace, Duluth,
Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage,
including St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. The album, which peaked
at No. 3 in the United States charts and No. 4 in the United Kingdom,
was ranked No. 4 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
"Like a Rolling Stone" was listed at No. 1 on Rolling Stone's 500
Greatest Songs of All Time list.

Rise and fall of the Maya in response to climate change

Posted: 27 Feb 2013 10:39 PM PST

28 February 2013

 -The role of climate change in the development and disintegration of classic Maya civilization from AD 300 to 1000 has been controversial for decades because of the absence of well-dated climate and archaeological sequences.

In a recent article, scientists present a precisely dated, high resolution regional climate record for the past 2000 years that for the first time shows how the Maya political systems developed and disintegrated in response to climate change.

The REDD contradiction: Deforestation and oil palm plantations in the Congo Basin

Posted: 27 Feb 2013 11:38 PM PST

Since 2009, companies have announced new oil palm plantation projects in the Congo Basin covering a total area of 1.6 million hectares. Projects currently underway cover 500,000 hectares. A new report by Rainforest Foundation UK warns that vast areas of the Congo Basin forests are potentially threatened by the expansion of oil palm plantations. The [...] [...]

Survival or Mission? by Barb

For too long the church has been becalmed in the backwaters of a dying age, frightened by the swift waters of the new age coming into being. The church has for too long structured its life for survival rather than mission. The church must set its sail and move into the mainstream of life in the revolutionary world where every structure and form is called into question. The church must pattern its life in ways designed to make possible obedience to Christ regardless of institutional survival.