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Month: August 2010

  • Pincer Movement (updated 15aug2010)

    George Rebane The news outlets today are buzzing with the latest report from the Pew Hispanic Center that one out of twelve births in America are to fugitive illegal entrants.  According to the now established interpretation of the 14th Amendment, these babies automatically become bona fide American citizens upon post-partum.  Achieving 21 years of age…

  • Obsolete Obama?

    George Rebane Have you noticed how Democrat candidates across the land have been nowhere in sight when President Obama swings through their neighborhoods?  It may have something to do with his plummeted approval ratings, or that the nation is beginning to take a second look at the fast track to EU socialism he has laid…

  • Duck!

    George Rebane Our sun is going through a gastric upset and belching some pretty big stuff in our direction.  The belches are actually Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) of high densities of charged particles that are many times stronger than the normal solar wind which the sun constantly blows outward.  Most of the solar wind is…

  • Competition or Corrupt Coddling

    George Rebane Even the left-of-center Economist, “the world’s oldest newspaper”, is beginning to see the light as governments take over huge hunks of their countries’ wealth generating capacity.  In its 7-13aug10 issue (‘Leviathan Inc’ and figure) it features a thorough analysis of governments worldwide grabbing control of industry after industry in a hopeless hope to stem…

  • Singularity Signposts – 9aug2010

    George Rebane New advances in walking and evolving intelligence. Today we’re a lot closer to robots walking naturally, and maybe tomorrow we’ll add the concurrent ability to chew gum.  A team of systems engineers heavy in six-degree-of-freedom kinematics and control theory has developed a totally new paradigm for robot locomotion that gets closer to how, say,…

  • Time to Soak the Cannons?

    George Rebane Today we break bread and hoist a glass with friends to celebrate the anniversaries of a number of auspicious events that happened on August 8th.  Among these was America’s signing the UN charter in 1945, and Richard Nixon resigning the Presidency in 1974.  Perhaps not so well known is the Estonian tribes’ victory…

  • Tragedy of the Commons, Etc

    George Rebane [This bi-weekly commentary aired tonight on KVMR FM89.5.  Dr Hardin has been one of my lifelong teachers of social thought, the good fortune of which I had to run into him while still in my twenties.  I highly recommend him to your attention; today his ideas are more important than ever.  This piece is…

  • Cue the Eternal Emergency (updated 8aug2010)

    George Rebane The $787B, or was it really $868B, stimulus called ARRA has not worked.  No matter the trumpeting from the front door, this is apparent now even to the White House which is conducting backdoor discussions on how to ‘double down’ on the next stimulus that is being cooked up.  We have quietly entered…

  • Ruminations – 5aug2010 (updated 6aug2010)

    George Rebane Tea Party, NAACP, black activists NAACP, charter schools Obamacare – ‘the more you know …’ Recently the NAACP has raised its head to again demonstrate how irrelevant it has become in the affairs of promoting the welfare of ‘colored people’.  The latest imbroglio, where it announced a forthcoming resolution to condemn the Tea…

  • Fleet Update 4aug2010 (updated 5aug2010)

    George Rebane Looking at Stratfor’s weekly update of our force projection resources – overwhelmingly the carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups (each with a reinforced marine battalion) – I noticed that we now have only eleven carrier strike groups operational (click to enlarge).  Until last year we had twelve.  Of these eleven we notice…

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