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  • The Eternal Debate with Collectivists (updated 16apr12)

    George Rebane For the benefit of the undecided reader who is truly puzzled as to the nature and fate of collectivist vs (classical) liberal forms of governance, we will take another lap around the barn.  The examination and critique of public policy always circles back to the fundamental arguments between the eternally contending measures of…

  • A Cut at ‘Rational Optimism’

    George Rebane A friend and correspondent who shares many of my worldviews sent me a link to science writer Matt Ridley's hopeful piece on "seventeen reasons to be cheerful".  RR readers of these pages know that I am of the opinion that the western world is now beyond the tipping point, that we are headed…

  • North Korea saves planet (again)

    George Rebane Shown below, we and our neighbors once more had our traditional annual celebration of ‘Save the Earth’ done a wee bit differently than the poor wretches in North Korea under the heel of their celebrated Good/Dear/Beloved/…/Bullshit Leader.  Those poor schlubs are forced to celebrate Earth Hour every night, while year after year we…

  • The ‘Global One Percent’ Myth

    George Rebane The income inequality issue will not go away.  It is Team Obama’s main causus belli, and underpins all of their re-election strategy.  But the progressive tenets of income inequality are a myth that has again been exposed, most recently using data from a Swedish study that is reported in the 9mar12 WSJ piece…

  • ‘Greece Passes Key Debt Test’, NOT!

    George Rebane The world’s newspapers are heralding the massive haircut taken by Greek sovereign debt holders as some kind of triumphal finesse in international finance.  Specifically – Just over 80% of Greece’s private-sector creditors had agreed by a Thursday evening deadline to turn in their bonds for new ones with less than half the face…

  • The Great Divide – 29feb12 update on work in process (updated 4mar12)

    George Rebane This is a weblog entry to update our ‘progress’ toward a fundamental transformation of America.  As has been discussed, we are past the tipping point with two alternative destinations that will redefine the social, economic, and political landscape of the North American landmass.  The first is the United Socialist States of America (USSA)…

  • TechForum2012 inaugurates a new community event

    George Rebane This afternoon TechForum2012 passed into history as a wonderfully successful new type of luncheon speaker series focusing on the accelerating technologies that will affect all of us in how we work, play, learn, live long, and prosper.  The event was sponsored by the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation to support its ongoing and…

  • The Off and On of the Inevitable (Addended)

    George Rebane The Greeks are rioting in the streets again.  They don’t like the new tranche of austerity measures that their parliament was forced to levy on the country.  This was in response to the northern eurozone countries imposing more conditions before giving Greece its next bailout check of approximately $170B in March.  The north,…

  • A new barrier to growth

    [This is the submitted form of my regular Union column that was published in the newspaper’s 11feb12 print and online editions.] George Rebane “Engineers in the European Union are free to work anywhere in the 27 member states, but recognition of their professional qualifications is often a stumbling block.”  So starts ‘Passport to Engineering’ in…

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