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  Writing Guidelines for Future Occupation of Earth by Extraterrestrials Introduction Many have speculated on whether extraterrestrials would be characterized by exploitative, malevolent intent or by enlightened, benevolent intent -- perhaps beyond current human understanding. Of course, any malevolent intent might also be of a kind beyond human understanding, perhaps a form of structural violence, cultural violence, conceptual violence, or even spiritual violence -- which would currently be virtually undetectable. The newly acknowledged cognitive traps in intelligence analysis recognize that there are many levels at which another culture can be misunderstood -- in this case that of the extraterrestrials. A valuable complementary perspective is offered by Johan Galtung (UFOs, Transcend Media Service, 6 September 2010). Extraterrestrial sensitivity: There is one interesting possibility, however. Extraterrestrials may have reached the conclusion that any civilization should be encountere

  Ensuring recovery of a form of cosmic debt? Public debt : Over the decades of the past century humanity has adopted practices whereby nations borrow financially, most notably from each other -- thereby incurring  debts  on which interest is paid, in anticipation of some process of  debt recovery .  Public indebtedness  of this kind is measured in trillions of dollars and as a percentage of GDP ( List of countries by public debt ;  List of countries by future gross government debt ). The Economist  offers an interactive  World Debt Comparison: the global debt clock . An update of the IMFâ-'s  Global Debt Database  shows that total global debt (public plus private) reached US$188 trillion at the end of 2018, up by US$3 trillion when compared to 2017. The global average debt-to-GDP ratio (weighted by each countryâ-'s GDP) edged up to 226 percent in 2018. Jeff Desjardins,  $69 Trillion of World Debt in One Infographic ,  Visual Capitalist , 14 November 2019) Indebtedness between

Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie? Maybe time to appreciate the dish -- / -- Introduction Trump as American as apple pie? Mental capacity of effective instigators of social change? Unconscious civilization and "reality distortion"? References Produced on the occasion of the response to the critical commentary of  Michael Wolff ( Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , 2018;  Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President ,  New York Magazine , 3 January 2018) Introduction This is an effort to draw together a variety of threads relating to personal and collective exposure to the Trump phenomenon. This seems appropriate at a time when many are relishing the vulnerability of Trump to the final consequences of his idiosyncratic behaviour and declarations (Abigail Tracy,  Trump's "Fire and Fury" Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse: the White House is racing to contain the damage .  Vanity Fair , 4 January 2018; Quentin Fottrell,  '