Disquieting Random News
Claudewell S. Thomas, MD, MPH, DLFAPA, is an established psychiatrist who is currently retired ,, He received his medical degree in 1956 at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and specializes in social psychiatry, public health psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Thomas was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry... more
It must be that your basic mindset substantially affects what comes to your mind as well as what you do with the information. Ostensibly random reading and TV, excluding war talk, brought up a new viral outbreak in Hunin, 37 miles away from Hong Kong, with 37 to 50 cases similar to a 2013 outbreak of bird flu disease. There is a scheduled air to ground shoot Idaho origin goats in Wyoming, said goats are disease carriers capable of infecting the remaining 150 or so Bighorn Sheep, which are native and prized. Apparently, the goats already compete successfully for grazing territory and can interbreed with the prized sheep effacing vital gene pool sanctity.
Yale alumni magazine devotes its entire coverage to global warming and desert formation. Smithsonian magazines feature a don't blame the Medes article, which indicates that ancient Niniveh, the principal city of Assyria (they who "came down like wolf on the fold and whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold") became desertized by climate change long before the Neme Tekel Upharsin biblical warning interpreted by Jacob. Claiming "you have been tried in the balance and found wanting, your kingdom will be divided between the Medes and the Persians." Nebuchednezar didn't do it, global warming resulting in climate change did. The world remembers the 2003 Tsunami that devastated parts of Indonesia, the weakening of confronting armies by typhoid, influenza, etc. It is probably not an accident that the alternative news is primarily war talk.
The species, Homo Sapiens, is under severe threat as our blue planet is pressured by global warming, drought and the profusion of devastating fires and loss of potable water. Some gains in understanding bacterial and viral toxicity were reported and the model of international cooperation and information sharing showed its superiority to 'me first' researching. The arrest and incarceration of a rogue Chinese geneticist who was experimenting with human/animal clones was on the good side of the news. However, the realization that such cloning can occur with relative ease calls for much more world cooperation and sanctioning enforcement.
