Is anyone beyond second chances in life?
I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, a city which has the 3rd largest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of any city in the world; GDP...
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Réal Laplaine
- Sep 19
- 4 min
It's the children that suffer...
An excerpt from my book, Twilight Visitor, illustrates the effects of war upon the innocent. It was a beautiful sunny morning with fleecy...
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Réal Laplaine
- Aug 29
- 3 min
Who should take on the biggest criminals in the world?
If the Law of Attraction is accurate, that is, that like attracts to like, this image of Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Kim Jong-un (North...
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Réal Laplaine
- Aug 17
- 4 min
Are we playing dice with our future?
It seems, at least history is our witness, that getting good leaders, that is, in nations with a democratic process (not dictatorial...
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Réal Laplaine
- Jul 27
- 2 min
The Global Rift of 2026
Given the current dynamics in our contemporary geopolitical arena, with Russia segregated from the West due to its tyrannical aggression...
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Réal Laplaine
- Jul 26
- 1 min
What is the value of books?
Since the advent of eBooks (ePub, Kindle, etc.) and independent publishing platforms, book promoters and major book sellers have...
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Réal Laplaine
- Jul 12
- 3 min
Can Ai stop dictators and war?
Ai or Artificial Intelligence, which essentially amounts to machines/computers demonstrating their own intelligence without human...
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Réal Laplaine
- Jun 13
- 2 min
What if aliens rejected us?
While Hollywood and conventional mediocrity tend to depict "aliens" from other worlds as the "bad guys" - what if it was the reverse?...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Is there an alternative to war?
To even pose such a question in the face of a global military industrial complex today, one where war is an industry of profit more than...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 27
- 2 min
What if Marilyn had a chance to tell us what really happened?
We've all heard the story... she apparently committed suicide, which makes a whole lot of sense when you consider she was only 36 years...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Conspiracy Theory and the culture of silence
What would you do if you overheard people planning a terrorist attack on your nation? Who would you report it to? How would you prove it?...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 24
- 2 min
ABBA nostalgia will never fade
In 2008, my wife and I decided to watch MAMMA MIA, the film with Meryl Streep, a musical fueled by ABBA songs. I was never an ABBA fan...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 24
- 2 min
Is human trafficking "over there"?
When I have spoken at venues around Sweden, about my book, SEE ME NOT and the subject of human trafficking, it became clear to me that...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 23
- 2 min
Would an energy desperate China go after Iran's oil?
Opening chapter to Twilight Visitor China’s rise as a global leader and their general sense of global indispensability was best couched...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 23
- 3 min
The RIFT - The World in 2024
Prologue to Earth Escape In 2024, Russia, China and several other nations including Turkey, Syria, Mongolia, Chad, and Libya in North...
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Réal Laplaine
- Mar 23
- 3 min
A Tribute to Radiator Don as the Buffalo Kid
The Buffalo Kid, my first book, was inspired by homeless people I had met in my life, living in Los Angeles, and then Buffalo, New York....
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