Value for value: Please support my efforts. Re. climate conferences in Paris and Canadian Liberal government’s support of climate change measures. If I was part of a movement that stood up against the “carbon pricing” (that has already been implemented … Continue reading →
I realize now what people mean when they are glorifying “science” and claiming that someone is stupid and anti-science because they don’t believe the media and education system’s version of reality. The “scientific method” doesn’t refer to testing and evaluating … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Source: www.imdb.com No mystery. I picked out a few examples. Also, I bet the information at imdb is very incomplete. Selected film and television titles Man of Steel (2013): Department of Defense, U.S. … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Updated version By Alan Mercer, 10 November 2015 Edited: 3 September 2017 (Ed. 2 – minor edits) Part 2 (series contents) Continued from Part 1 Scenario in Brave New World Novel: Preparing the Way … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Update: October 7, 2015 I think people should ask these questions (or similar ones) of all candidates and all parties, big and small. (And anyone else relevant who needs challenged, such as members … Continue reading →
The implications for Canada of a fast-tracked Trans-Pacific Partnership www.nationalobserver.com, Stuart Trew & Scott Sinclair | 4 June 2015 . . . only five of the TPP’s 30-plus chapters directly relating to trade . . . . . . 80 … Continue reading →
CASS SUNSTEIN: Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice (http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2015/09/01/cass-sunstein-choosing-not-to-choose-understanding-the-value-of-choice-oxford-up-2015/) OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 newbooksnetwork.com, Robert Talisse | September 1, 2015 | (can be accessed from iTunes) Very cleverly justifies behavior modification and interference in our choices. As … Continue reading →
Blair may have ‘signed in blood’ to topple Saddam a year before war, www.timesonline.co.uk, Nov. 27/09 Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s ambassador to Washington before the Iraq war: “Although President Bush agreed to wait for the UN to pass resolution 1441 … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. By Alan Mercer The Earth Charter (pdf) (local copy) Multiple Languages Website: www.earthcharterinaction.org (currently redirects to earthcharter.org, but 2015 version is linked from web archive) (or https://earthcharter.org/read-the-earth-charter/) The origin of the Earth Charter … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. In his 1946 Foreword to Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes: “This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. … Continue reading →