Here is another cat reported by paranormal investigator Rupert Sheldrake in his book, The Sense of Being Stared At. Walskins, a male silver tabby, was owned by a husband and wife in Berkeley California. The husband, a university professor, was often away on trips, some of them as far away as South American and Africa. … Continue reading Paranormal World | Walskins, the cat who answered the telephone
Paranormal World | Timmy the Cat
Because my posts on Sugar, the cat who found his way across half of the USA to rejoin his old family, still gets repeated visits, I'm going to introduce another member of his species. I found the story of Timmy in Rupert Sheldrake's book, The Sense of Being Stared At - and other aspects of … Continue reading Paranormal World | Timmy the Cat
Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard, or read, someone say something like what the author of the March 6/2024 BBC article says of García Márquez, that he was "was best known for pioneering the magical realist style of writing." That all started with his first and, in the English-speaking world, … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
This morning I read a BBC article about South Korea's declining population. Korean women are said to be producing children at a rate of 0.72 per woman, the lowest rate in the world. Since it takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population (if you ignore immigration, which many wealthy countries receive), South Korea's … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
Returning to this world
It's hard to believe I haven't done a post here for 2 months. I won't go into all the reasons -there are too many. One of them was a pair of tax disputes with CRA (Canada's tax people) - an unreal world if there ever was one - where I represented myself alone, since a … Continue reading Returning to this world
Rescuing the Future | Rising Housing Costs | But is the Condo explosion coming to an end?
....... we look like we're headed for some kind of spectacular multi-vehicle financial pile-up. Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing History and trying to rescue the Future | What Happened when the U.S. failed to prosecute an insurrectionist Ex-president
If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?
Alan Conrad 