Updated: 2.0: January 11, 2020 version 1.0 January 7, 2020 This incident happened in 2006, a long time ago. The documentary referred to is: The Truth About Climate Change. A clip from the film is dated October 22, 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ob9WdbXx0. … Continue reading →
Version: 2.0 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-general-killing-global-alarm-1.5413788 Soleimani’s ‘reign of terror is over,’ Trump says of top Iranian general killed in airstrike www.cbc.ca: The Associated Press · Jan 03, 2020 6:13 AM ET U.S. sending about 3,000 troops to Middle East as a precaution, … Continue reading →
Series Contents Continued from: Part 9 | Part 8 | Part 7 Part 10: Version 2.0: December 30, 2019 Unless specified otherwise, page numbers and quotations are from Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) [1]. Internet references are cited as accessed … Continue reading →
1.1 September 8, 2019 8:29pm References cited as of September 8, 2019 This is a follow-up on my earlier post: Degradation of human life proceeds: Human-animal hybrids in Japan and letter to MP First, a clarification on the research in … Continue reading →
Japan approved experiments that would allow for animal-human hybrids to be born for the first time ever, July 31, 2019 https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-approves-experiment-to-create-animal-human-hybrid-2019-7?fbclid=IwAR0cH_H5SWHbMjA0aKd1GrU0cJGxQL3tdk6XP0Q0eO7uvt06Vzc-vQSKTQI Japan had previously banned such experiments. It was wrong last year but this year it’s OK! It’s strange how … Continue reading →
Edition 1.1 Huxley’s novel Brave New World describes a society with features that parallel the modern world and its totalitarian direction. Many of us are aware of this novel which has been promoted extensively. Other science fiction stories–utopian or dystopian–have … Continue reading →
Revised edition (rewritten – sorry, now it’s even longer!): 2.1: June 9, 2019 Principles are there to be discovered. We need principles to hold our lives together personally and collectively. I don’t know the best way to express or order … Continue reading →