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The two most troublesome nations in the world today, threatening world peace and democracy, are headed by men, dictators at that.

Imagine if a woman was in charge of Russia or the United States?

This is not to say that all female leaders are better than male ones, but let's face the facts.

99% of all wars are started by men.

All dictators in the world today, the ones threatening the world (Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, etc.) are men.

Roughly 10% of national leadership roles in the world are held by women, the rest, are men.

If the power structure, particularly in the most influential nations, were shifted to women, do you really think we would have warmongering, outright and insane destruction of political and commercial alliances, violations of human rights, mass deportations, and all the other insanities we see - or would the innate female maternal nature dominate and would they lean towards creating peaceful relationships, nurturing bonds and alliances?

As I said, this is not to say that women are better than men, but one thing is for certain, history is testimony to the fact that the imbalance of power is and always has been destructive to world order - and that has never been more true than today.

I know, the very idea of a woman President in the United States probably sends shivers up the spines of fundamentalist Republicans who envision The Handmaid's Tale utopic society, where men are completely in charge and where women are regressed to being baby-makers and compliant home-care-takers - subservient to men; and certainly in Russia, the oligarchs and old-school Stalinist clubbers would heave up their vodka and caviar at the very mention of turning the reins over to a woman, because of their love affair with Czars and dictators over the past century.

It's time to shift that power and let women in the door, because I truly believe that we need some people at the helm who want to nurture life and alliances, not destroy them.

Réal Laplaine

Author of high-concept thrillers

www.reallaplaine.com

https://www.reallaplaine.com/equality-for-women

V.O.I.C.E. - The Silence is Over!

23-year-old Jacob Dekker and his partner and secret lover, 21-year-old Jess Andersson, two of the youngest astronauts to ever man the first Mars base, discover an alien artifact hidden beneath its surface. Jess is exposed to something that puts her life at risk, sending Jacob into a flurry of action to save her. Meanwhile, Jacob receives a mysterious message from deep space - not from Earth, but from somewhere else. Jacob finds himself suddenly cast into a bizarre and unbelievable arena; on the one hand, the love of his life is fighting to survive; on the other, he has this bizarre message and whoever is behind that to contend with; and lastly, as word leaks about the alien artifact, it catalyzes another series of events as geopolitical powers try to monopolize whatever technology it contains, all of which threatens the already fragile global state of affairs. A high-concept thriller full of twists and turns, V.O.I.C.E. not only opens up the forum to the question, "Are we alone in the Universe?", it deep-dives into the sociological paradigm of our society, challenging the reader to rethink our place in the Universe.

"Compelling science fiction novel with eerie echoes of our current times!

I don’t often read science fiction novels. I enjoyed this new release by Real Laplaine, a sequel to Woman Ex. It is well written. To my untutored mind, the science aspect is rendered in a believable manner. The story centers on a young specialist and his partner on a mission on Mars which goes badly wrong, seemingly placing the life of his partner at risk. This leads to a mysterious message from space. I don’t want to offer any other details as those would include spoilers. I just found it refreshing to read a story that offers an element of hope, something we need badly these days." – Malve von Hassell, author

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Despite Trump's embarrassing and dangerous behavior as a "President", remember, the real enemy is Vladimir Putin; he invaded the Ukraine, he is behind the scene eating popcorn while Donnie acts like a truculent child to the world.

Putin is the enemy we all need focus on.

Given all the rhetoric and verbal diarrhea going back and forth across the oceans, I thought it would be a good time to provide some perspective, which I know a lot of people already have, but in the interest of filling the void with truth as opposed to lies, here it is.

I am a Canadian, born and raised and proud of Canada, especially now with its Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, whom I have always considered to be a good and inspiring leader, stepping into the ring and throwing some good punches at Canada’s neighboring regime.

I moved to the United States when I was 21 and lived and worked there for 34 years - and yes, it’s a great country and I met wonderful people, but, America has lost its way over the past fifteen or so years, ever since 9/11 when its Administration of the time decided to introduce surveillance on its own people and started to tie up its borders to let in only “acceptable” ones - moreover, resorting to mass deportation making America no longer the “land of opportunity” for all ethnicities - and now of course, with the new dictatorial regime under Donnie and his groupies, we see a version of America that we never thought possible - one that is now being run with the hand of a dictator, controlled by billionaires and oligarchs, where the needs of the people are back seated to other agendas.

I moved to Europe fifteen years ago, maintained my Canadian citizenship and forfeited my American permanent residency in lieu of a nation, Sweden, where democracy was and is, still, in vogue. I recently applied for Swedish citizenship and now hold citizenship in two countries and I am proud of being a part of the EU and I will tell you why:

The EU has a stronger grip on the notion of democracy than America at this time. They know what is at stake with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, because just 85 years ago, most of Europe was overrun by another dictator and it took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to crush the NAZI regime. EU was formed, not only for commercial and trade benefits, but like the United Nations, to UNIFY all the different countries, ethnicities and people under a common flag to help ensure that no dictator would ever set foot in Europe again.

While Trump, Musk and other members of that disastrous Administration, one that is leading America over the edge of the cliff, attack the EU and call it a weak democracy, I dare say that the shoe is on the other foot right now, because the EU is standing by democracy, not pulling back, and certainly NOT allying itself to the oppressor (Russia) which Trump and his Administration are doing.

Having lived in Canada, the United States and now Europe, I can tell you first-hand, that in many countries here, the level of democracy, the quality of life, the infrastructure provided for its people, is miles above the United States. And while Trump and his Administration like to preach that “America is the greatest nation on Earth” - that mantra does not hold water today, and this is no slight on my American friends across the pond.

By pounding that mantra into your heads, you are being deluded into thinking that having no or little affordable health care, is good for you, and that systems, such as we have here in Europe and even Canada, where healthcare is available to everyone, is “socialism”. They are merely redefining the word to fit their agenda. That propaganda is designed to blind you to the truth, that here in the EU we have a better infrastructure in many countries, a workable one that takes care of the health of its citizens. Case in point, an operation that I needed some years ago, one that would have cost me between $4,000 to $12,000 in the United States, cost me $30 out of pocket - and it was life-saving. That is the USUAL - not the exception here.

You walk the streets of Sweden and find virtually no homeless people, because the system helps them too. There is a safety net in Sweden, and other EU countries, one that ensures that no one goes hungry or lives on the street, and YES, it isn’t perfect, and it is violated and taken advantage of by those who manipulate it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is there for the majority of people. What is more important than being healthy - because without good health, life can become terrible.

I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, the heart of Hollywood, and at any time of the day or night, you would find homeless men and women, in fact, Los Angeles alone has 80,000 or more homeless people - living on its streets.

Look, I could go on, and my aim is not to say that America is bad and the EU is better, but the facts do speak for themselves, and when regimes like Donnie and his groupies come out and attack the EU, trying to make it look bad, when in fact, they should be pointing their grimy fingers at themselves, I am going to speak up on behalf of my fellow Europeans.

America has never been attacked on its borders, not like the EU, with the exception of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and if you want to draw a long beard, 1812, when the Canadians burned down its White House at the time. 9/11? Well, if you believe that two planes systematically demolished two towers, and a third building across the street (a 47 story structure) that was never hit by anything, but also crumbled in its footprint, you really do need to stop listening to the rhetoric and lies coming out of the White House and look at what the real agenda was about.

I stand by Canada, I stand by my American friends and all Americans who support true democracy and not the clown show in the Oval Office, and I certainly stand by Europe and the EU.

We are not letting go of our democracy - whoever threatens that, Trump, Putin or the dogs of hell - the EU will remain strong.

Réal Laplaine

Author of high-concept thrillers

www.reallaplaine.com

With all the divisional mantras streaming across the globe, such as “Make America Great Again”, or “restore the Motherland”, or “let’s wipe the Palestinians off the map so that we, the “chosen ones” can take their land,” etc., it’s easy to lose perspective - that all this nonsensical verbal diarrhea that divides us, is just that, nonsense.

These pronouncements, along with such inane ones as “taking Greenland by force”, or invading the Ukraine, etc. are all of them coming from the mouths of sociopathic people. Vladimir Putin remains the greatest threat to world peace and stability, and the only real hero in that arena, fighting to make sure he doesn’t win is President Zelensky of Ukraine - because he knows that if Putin takes Ukraine, he will keep going into the Baltic States and Eastern Europe - it will be a war that disrupts the whole world, not just Europe.

The fact that Donald Trump thinks for one moment that peace can be achieved by mediating a deal where Ukraine forfeits another chunk of their nation is not only ridiculous, but I suggest this to him; if Russia moved into Alaska, would you forfeit it to have peace? We all know the answer would be a resounding no.

Up until 2014, when Putin decided to annex the Crimea to Russia, and everyone sat back in the hopes that he would stop there, followed by Trump’s first presidency in 2016 to 2020, where his message of division, stomping on allies, “Make America First”, and cutting ties with treaties designed to unify the world, not divide it, we have seen this division spread like a cancer.

Brexit, where the UK broke away from EU is an example.

Trade wars with China, designed to cut them off from the American market, another.

And most recently, Netanyahu’s mass slaughtering of tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children, and the displacements of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in his supposed war against the Hamas, but in fact, is a pure land grab so that Israel can take over the Gaza.

What makes any nation great are its people - not its mantras, certainly not its division from other peoples or nations.

The teachers, the truck drivers, the doctors, nurses, the mothers and fathers, and countless more - these are the people who make a nation great, and in turn, help to unify the world as one race - because that is what we are, ONE race.

If you pull back the curtain, the threats to world peace today, the sources of division and falling out between nations, the wars, the killing, are coming from a handful of men: Vladimir Putin the worst of course, followed, now, Netanyahu and a close third, Trump.

There is a way to ensure world peace and unity, and it is in the very technology which has catapulted our culture in the last few decades.

Not to pitch my book, The 9th Divinity, but when Putin invaded the Ukraine in 2022, I asked myself, how could I stop him and stop that war, moreover, the threat to peace in Europe and the world? After considerable research, I devised a simple approach, involving a handful of Ukrainian military personnel, the two main characters in my book series, and drone technology powered by artificial intelligence. I wrote a thriller that showed exactly how, using our existing technology and a handful of people, we could penetrate the Kremlin’s security walls and remove Putin to the Hague to be tried as a criminal.

The point is this; if I can figure that out in a fictionalized scenario, using technology that exists as we speak, why are the trillions upon trillions of dollars invested in the military-industrial complex today not doing the same? Why continue to let ONE man disrupt the world? Is that justifiable at any cost?

The answer is simple. If you remove the source of the cancer, Putin, for example, using a surgical and tactical approach as I laid out in my book, one that doesn’t require full-scale war, how do you then justify a massive military presence?

You can’t, and that is problem, particularly in a nation like the United States, which is the largest dealer of military weapons in the world. They make no money if they just cut the head of the snake and stop him in his tracks. It’s not conventional. It doesn’t fit into the old-world paradigm of marching out onto the battlefield with tanks and guns and letting thousands of young men and women die fighting against an “enemy” - when in all simplicity, a surgical approach, to remove Vladimir Putin from the throne, would probably end the Ukraine invasion and the threat to peace - because the dream to build “the Empire” is Putin’s. It’s his mantra.

We have the technology today to make war redundant, the means of spotting, isolating and removing threats to world peace, and trying them as war criminals before they spill the blood of more innocents.

It’s not a question of can it be done, it is entirely a matter of the willingness to do it.

Up until the last decade, since 2014, the world was moving toward a more unilateral and unified peace. Besides the attack on the Islamic world for an event, 9/11, which they didn’t do and has since been debunked by countless professionals as a “false flag event” - where the Twin Towers, and a 47 story-building across the street (Building 7), were demonstrably brought down by demolitions technology, not by planes flying into them, the world was heading toward a better place.

Don’t be fooled by these utterances coming out of the White House today that make it appear as if “Americans” are against immigrants - because they are not. The minority who are chanting that slogan have forgotten that their roots, in less than a generation or so, originated outside of America. America is a nation built ENTIRELY on immigrants, and the only truly indigenous people in that country who can claim to be original inhabitants, are its Indians.

We can make the world great - and we need to, but it’s time to deal with the cancer, the source of dissention, upheaval, war, hate, division, which is largely coming from a small handful, less than five, men.

It seems ridiculous, if one looks at our world like a fishbowl, that billions of people are standing by and letting two or three sharks in the water, destroy their peace.

The technology is there - and despite all the reasons that the combined military forces across the globe are not using it, or are backed off because Putin has threatened to use nuclear reprisal, is simply hiding one’s head in the sand, because either way, people like Putin need to be stopped - and the “nuclear card” is a poor excuse to let one man destroy world peace.

As the International Criminal Court correctly declared, both Vladimir Putin and Netanyahu are war criminals and should be tried as such, despite what Donald Trump or any other “leader” for that matter, says otherwise. You kill people, you invade their lands, you are a criminal.

In the neighborhood where I grew up in Canada, we had a simple approach to dealing with bullies. It was called a five-knuckle punch. One or two good blows and the bully was gone, peace reigned and everyone got on with it.

So, where’s the punch?

Author of high-concept thrillers

www.reallaplaine.com

NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) are already preparing for a manned Mars mission in the near future - the first time humans will step on the red planet. That will be followed by a campaign to colonize Mars.

Mars will eventually be a spring board, a launch point to reach beyond our solar system to the stars.

Whether you believe that other life exists out there, or not, or your particular faith insists otherwise, that we are the only species around, science provides a compelling argument in favor of other intelligent life beyond our tiny planet.

In our observable sky, alone, what we can see directly, exists about 100 (one-hundred) billion visible galaxies - which amounts to countless hundreds of billions of suns and planets.

The Hubble Deep Space telescope, took one photo which revealed ~5,500 galaxies over an area that took up just 1/32,000,000th of the sky. In other words, extrapolated, scientists put the number of existing galaxies at over two trillion in number.

Any way you toss the dice, it is impossible, in fact, completely arrogant, to assume that no other intelligent species exists out there in over two trillion galaxies.

The distances that separate our small planet from the rest of the Universe are so immense as to make it seem inconceivable, but that is just a matter of time and distance - it does not change the fact that other intelligent species, like us, are probably looking back our way, at the Milky Way, and wondering the same thing.

Let's assume, that out of that two trillion or so galaxies, just one of them manages to get a communication through to us, a mere HELLO.

What would happen to our world on the day we received an indisputable HELLO from another species in a galaxy just light years from our own?

How would that affect the narrative, the stories we have been telling ourselves about Creation?

How would that affect our perspective of the Universe?

Most importantly, what if that HELLO led to something more, and what if, in the process, humanity had to suddenly reassess its cultural values, whether war and violence was more important than reaching out to the stars and meeting them?

V.O.I.C.E. - The Silence is Over!

When contact is finally made - ET becomes science FACT - not fiction.

V.O.I.C.E. or Voice Originated Interface and Contact with an

alien Entity is a high-concept thriller that delves deep into the human paradigm and our place in the stars.

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