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  • ‘Obama was unaware…’ again? (updated 3nov13)

    George Rebane Forget the latest Obamacare website fiasco for a bit.  A very surprising piece of news is making the headlines this morning about Obama’s reported ignorance that NSA was tapping the phones of certain world leaders.  (more here)  My surprise is not of the kind reported, and perhaps I’m the only one who is…

  • Can Kicked, Crisis Calmed (updated)

    George Rebane The House will accept the Senate’s version of jacking up the debt ceiling and resolving to continue spending like drunken teenagers with their parents’ credit card.  You can follow streaming coverage of the fiscal cliff dance here. But the Ponzi scheme that is our Federal Reserve system continues unabated.  Faith based money is…

  • Manmade Global Warming – The Smoking Gun

    George Rebane I recently looked at the most revealing graphic on global warming that I have seen.  The link to it was sent to me by a regular RR reader who was equally amazed by what he saw.  It was assembled by Nir Shaviv of sciencebits.com and is reproduced below. The figure illustrates the uncertainty…

  • National Dumbth Confirmed

    George Rebane When it rains it pours.  Today the OECD issued the umpteenth confirmation on the deep-seated dumbth that rules our land.  Consider this little cri de coeur to be the sequel to ‘National Ignorance …’ and the most recent in the series on America’s intellectual capital that predates RR.  What I am commenting on…

  • Change Climate! Change dammit! (updated 27sep13)

    George Rebane Well, another six years has passed since 2007 when the IPCC issued its last load of hooey piled high and dry.  In Stockholm they are now putting the finishing edits on this year’s hernia pack that updates the latest “peer reviewed science” on the earth’s climate.  And on Friday they will release the…

  • Rise of the New Upper Class

    George Rebane [This is the appended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2013.] In these commentaries we have examined major trends like systemic unemployment, income inequality, and the notion of a Great Divide that may rend America across one of its ideological faults.  In this installment I’ll briefly summarize a schism…

  • Slap a wrist to extract a foot (updated 9sep13)

    George Rebane As we prepare to launch some sort of punishing strike against the Assad regime in Syria, the question of WMDs comes up again.  We recall that 1) no significant WMDs were found in Iraq after Gulf2, and 2) that our military reported large convoys of trucks headed to Syria in the weeks before…

  • Approaches to Effective Education (updated 7aug13)

    George Rebane Our long lament with America’s education systems continues.  I was reminded of it again by a report on the entrepreneurial approach to teaching students that is rampant in South Korea.  There kids go to school during the day, and at night after coming home they go back to school, alebeit of a different…

  • Ruminations – 2aug13

    George Rebane The surface calm during our cool summer is beguiling and more than misleading.  Over the years RR readers have had an early heads up on a number of national and international issues affecting us that are now coming home to roost, and several of them are already here.  All of them were pooh-poohed…

  • Corporate Taxes – One more time

    George Rebane A major teaching point of RR over the years has been that corporations pay no taxes.  Corporate taxes are another preferred ruse of world governments to enable them to take more out of the pockets of real taxpayers.  Now we hear that the OECD is doubling down on the bamboozle with something called…

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