EXPIRED-NelsonMandela’sLongWalkToFreedom+InvictusTheMovie

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SHORT-FUSE NOTICE

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EXPLANATION

Occasionally, a Proposed Topic for Future Meetings has a SHORT-TIME FUSE because a governmental unit is soliciting PUBLIC COMMENTS for a limited time period with a SPECIFIED DEADLINE.

Exhibit A would be the 8/5/2016 Proposed Topic entitled “Clone Rights -- Involuntary Soldiers, Sex Slaves, Human Lab Rats, Etc.”

We had already focused on this topic for our 4/9/2008 meeting more than 8 years ago when the PBS Newshour interviewed a Yale U. Biology Professor who had already created a “Chimaera” with 25% Human DNA and 75% Chimp DNA (Chimps are the animals that share the most DNA with humans).

The Yale U. Biology Professor stated that he was then (2008) in the process of creating a “Chimaera” with 50% Human DNA and 50% Chimp DNA, and that he planned to create in the near future (2008 et seq.) a “Chimaera” with 75% Human DNA and 25% Chimp DNA.

As our 4/9/2008 meeting materials posted on http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org disclose, Gwen Ifill who conducted the interview, was oblivious to the issue of the Nazi’s definition of a Jew based on the percentage of Jewish heritage and the Ante-Bellum American South’s definition of African-American based on the percentage of Sub-Saharan-African heritage.

But, even more appallingly, Gwen Ifill failed to ask the obvious question = What happens if the 50%-50% “Chimaera” then already being created happens to exhibit as DOMINANT TRAITS 100% Human DNA and as RECESSIVE TRAITS 100% Chimp DNA!!! Which, of course, would mean that Yale U. was treating as a lab rat a “Chimaera” that is 100% Human!!!

Unfortunately, the 8/5/2016 Proposed Topic was prompted by a Proposal from the National Institute of Health (NIH) which appeared in The Federal Register of 8/5/2016 and which had a 9/6/2016 deadline for public comments!!!

So our 9/14/2016 meeting, which was the first for which our focus had not already been determined as of 8/5/2016 under our normal rules, was too late.

So the reason for inaugurating this Short-Fuse Notice Section is to provide a Special Heads Up that a Proposed Topic has a Public-Comment Deadline that will occur before the first regular meeting date at which the topic can be discussed -- so that any of our readers who want to comply with the Public-Comment Deadline can contact the Proposer of the Topic in order to confer with anyone else who may be considering comments by the deadline.

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PENDING SHORT-FUSE PROPOSALS

1. Re “Clone Rights -- Involuntary Soldiers, Sex Slaves, Human Lab Rats, Etc.” (proposed 8/5/2016), although the 9/6/2016 public-comment deadline of the National Institute of Health (NIH) has passed, this Topic Proposal is still active. PLEASE NOTE ATTACHED TO THIS PROPOSAL THE 1/29/2017 UPDATE ENTITLED0 “HUMAN-PIG CHIMERAS -- DECENT BEHAVIOR DESPITE OPEN BARN DOOR.”

2. Re “Destroying Great Salt Lake To Grow Low-Profit Hay For China” (proposed 9/27/2016), there is a 10/24/2016 public-comment deadline that will occur before our first possible regular meeting (11/16/2016) at which this Proposed Topic could be considered.
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EXPIRED-NelsonMandela’sLongWalkToFreedom+InvictusTheMovie

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In honor of Nelson Mandela, who passed away on December 5th, I propose --

(1) that we read his autobiography “Long Walk To Freedom” and

(2) that, since Long Walk only covers his life from young revolutionary through his 27 years in prison ending in 1990 followed by his 3-year negotiations to end Apartheid BUT NOT his term as South African President 1994-1999, we view the 2009 movie Invictus which was based on the 2008 book entitled “Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation” by John Carlin, Mandela’s long-time friend dating from Carlin’s 1989-1995 stint as South African Bureau Chief of the London Independent, and which (the movie) was directed by Clint Eastwood and starred Morgan Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as the captain of the all-white South African rugby team that Mandela immediately championed upon ending Apartheid as a strategy to unify the country and bind up its wounds (and that, incidentally, despite remaining all white won with Mandela’s backing the 1995 Rugby World Cup the year after Mandela became President of South Africa).

[This, if accepted, will be a personal treat because over the years I have read several biographies of Nelson Mandela and of his second wife, Winnie Mandela, who kept his legacy alive during the 27 prison years but was, for unrelated reasons, highly controversial.]

[For extra credit, I would highly recommend Mandela’s Official Biography which was written in 2000, the year after Mandela voluntarily stepped down after one term as President of South Africa, and which was written by another long-time friend, Anthony Sampson who spent the early 1950’s as a journalist in South Africa and supported Mandela by attending his 1964 trial -- Sampson has also authored many other famous books including The Seven Sisters in 1975 about the international oil industry.]

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