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  • The Vocational Technical High School

    George Rebane In today’s Union, James Hinman calls for a new high school in Nevada County that focuses on producing graduates who are able to go directly into the workforce and begin earning a living at a job that can develop into a career path (here)  These pages have long argued that today’s colleges focus…

  • Socialism – The disease that dares not speak its name (Addended & updated 4dec2011)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 2 December 2011.  Here it contains a link to augmented graphics, and is addended with relevant material that could not be included due to the limited time slot into which the commentary must be scheduled.] The world has already changed a lot,…

  • The Fed/ECB dollar swap

    George Rebane Does everyone understand what went down this morning between our Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank?  I venture that less than one in ten thousand Americans know that their pocket was legally picked today by international central banks.  This morning the Fed executed a “dollar swap” with the ECB that essentially allows…

  • US Net Exporter of Oil Again

    George Rebane It isn’t clear whether we should laugh or cry.  But here we are, for the first time since 1949 we will be a net exporter of petroleum products this year.  The accompanying figure filched from the WSJ shows that exports started increasing during Bush2’s reign (recall Bush2 was an oilman).  Unfortunately, our exports…

  • Ruminations – 27nov2011 (updated 28nov2011)

    George Rebane Communist spying and influence on our national policies have long been denied/diminished by our Left.  The public experience in uncovering these activities within our government was not sufficient to change any minds in our unions, mainstream media, or the halls of academe.  Things should have changed when the USSR collapsed in 1991, and…

  • The Congressional Kabuki’s Coming Swansong (updated 21nov2011)

    George Rebane That the congressional super committee was orchestrated to fail from the moment it was commissioned was a known to anyone paying attention (or reading RR).  Now all the talk shows have come to that conclusion after interviewing various stiff-upper-lip members of that dysfunctional dozen. This morning Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday asked…

  • Threshold of New Progressive Era Hailed

    George Rebane Jeffery Sachs of Columbia University is a very prominent and celebrated far Left academician who writes extensively in the national media.  For example, he is the spearhead of that august Scientific American having been politicized over the last decade or so (it is now also a much thinner magazine with articles that have…

  • Real News and Pabulum (updated)

    George Rebane Until further notice, please pay attention to – 1.    The German/French sovereign debt spread – subtract German interest rate from French interest rate.  This summarizes the entire eurozone crisis.  Use formula/chart in 'Investors playing the odds' to find likelihood that France defaults and/or that the ECB starts massive printing of euros to bail…

  • The (inter)national cancer of public service unions

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my regular column in The Union which appears in its 12nov11 print and online editions (here) under its less harsh title 'Public service unions will be our demise', no doubt edited for a more sensitive readership than frequent these pages.] Today socialist Europe is unraveling after years…

  • Beyond 1984, right here in River City?

    George Rebane Yesterday’s 11am PST nationwide FEMA radio alert made many people of all political persuasions sit up and take notice.  It appears that the federal hardwired capability to control content on all broadcast media is now in place, is operational, and (here’s the interesting part) ready to be exercised with non-emergency content. Infowars.com reports…

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