PHILIPPINE ADVENTURES
Artificial Intelligence Human Machines
The idea of endowing machines with artificial intelligence or ‘AI’ has been around for millennia. The concept of equipping machines with human like characteristics began in antiquity with stories of artificial beings endowed with intelligence and consciousness by the gods. These myths eventually evolved into current beliefs regarding intelligent machines. Continue reading
Ending the Myth The World de-Americanized
China is fuming! With the recent shutdown of the United States government Beijing considers the U.S. unstable, unreliable and unfit for global command. They’re insisting that the world de-Americanize. Continue reading
Artificial Womb Technology Building Better Babies Part Two
“…From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewing warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the fetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood. With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated eons to where… Continue reading
AWT Artificial Womb Technology or Capping the Abortion Debate Part One
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life.” -Deuteronomy 30:19-. An estimated 900,000 abortions was performed in the Philippines in 2011 according to the World Health Organization; that number is rising! Seventy percent of unwanted pregnancies back home end in abortion according to WHO. Continue reading
Christophobia* Community of Strangers or How to keep ‘em in the pews -Part Two
During the mid-1960’s America’s Christian majority have been cowed into a frightened whimpering shell of its’ former self. Christianity in the United States aforementioned in part one has lost its hold on the American mind despite a small statistical upswing in attendance since 2008. Church attendance always increases during economic hard times; the inverse is also true. Continue reading
Christophobia* The Church Militant-Part One
America’s mainstream media is scared to death of Jesus Christ. After 2,000 plus years the Christian Message is more radical than ever. Christ’s continuing popularity has prompted mainstream publishers and producers to employ a wide array of dirty tricks to vilify Him and His Church in the Marketplace of human thought or action. Continue reading
Hungary The Hard Country – Part Two
Infant mortality rates are used to gage a nation’s health. For every infant under one year old born per 1,000 20 will die back home 8 in Hungary. Hungarians live on average three years longer than their Filipino counterparts; life expectancy in the Philippines is 71 years; Hungarians 73. Continue reading
Hungary The Hard Country – Part One
The Republic of Hungary or Magyarorszag is a world class tourist destination though people know very little about this fascinating country. Hungary is in central Europe . Budapest the nation’s capitol straddles the River Danube; it was once two separate cities Buda and Pest . The Forint or Ft is the national currency. In 2004 Hungary joined the European Union. Continue reading
American Samoa South Pacific Paradise
“It is mean to hide ones possessions.”
-Samoan Proverb-
I never play the ‘tourist’ when abroad. I’ve always managed to blend in with the locals; that’s one advantage of being multi-racial. You can be anybody. So far I’ve been successful. When I travel I always bring home unique mementos of my experiences. I’m so much in love with most things Polynesian that I married a wonderful woman from that part of our world. Continue reading
Hitler’s Hollywood Der Fuhrer’s Face in American Cinema
Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler loved American Movies. Hitler and his staff reveled in the cartoonish antics of Mickey Mouse, King Kong’s ferocity, and child star Shirley Temple’s many adventures. Films by Charlie Chaplin made him cringe. Hitler and his propagandists weren’t fools. They knew a good thing when they saw it. The Nazis knew how to manipulate public opinion/action through film. Hitler was the first to use air travel to city hop spewing his message of race hate and ethnic cleansing. It was during Hitler’s reign of terror that television was used to display German technological prowess. His radio programs like nemesis FDR across the Atlantic became a staple for listeners. Continue reading