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  • Ruminations – 25sep2011

    George Rebane Some thoughts on violence and the blind. Harvard psychologist Professor Steven Pinker asks, “Why has violence declined so dramatically for so long? Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?”  In his recent book (as reported in the 24sep11 WSJ, ‘Violence Vanquished’) Pinker cites…

  • Ruminations – 14sep2011 (updated 16sep2011)

    President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States." –Jay Leno George Rebane Republican Bob Turner wins over a century of Democrat incumbency in New York Nine.  It turned out to be issues instead of long time party loyalty, and Obama lost on the issues. …

  • We Will Remember 11 September 2001

             

  • Agenda 21 and the “Pod People”

    George Rebane Jo Ann and I have attended many local workgroups and meetings where the pod people were in obvious attendance.  These meetings presented ideas and plans for environmental harmony, smart growth, green jobs, local sustainability, and so on.  A recent one we attended involved sincere people who promoted the establishment of many small farms…

  • ‘The Geopolitics of the United States’

    George Rebane Under that title STRATFOR has published a comprehensive two-part essay on how the country got here, and what portents it now faces.  For readers who frequent these pages, this essay is a must read.  It is tightly written, comprehensive, and sports the STRATFOR hallmark for clarity. An important takeaway from its reading is…

  • Islamophobia – a rational response? (updated 1sep2011)

                            Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.  R. Clay Reynolds George Rebane As these pages long attest, for me the answer to the title question is a resounding YES.  And our western governments aid and abet that as being the reasonable response.  The progressive tsunami of proscribing anyone who evinces fear of Islam ranges from Mayor…

  • What’s Really ‘Eating the World’?

    George Rebane Web browser pioneer Marc Andreesen writes ‘Why Software is Eating the World’ in the 20aug11 WSJ.  It is a well written compendium of the commercial sectors that have grown in recent years, and promise to really grow more because of cheap and ubiquitous computing power.  Andreesen, whom I much admire, outlines how such…

  • ‘The Next Grand Minimum’ Launches

    George Rebane Russ Steele, Nevada County blogger extraordinaire, closed down his long running NC Media Watch blog.  He has moved his blogging enterprise to a new blog – 'The Next Grand Minimum' – that was launched today.  In this research and publishing effort he will focus on real climate change backed by science that is…

  • Singularity Signposts – Cognitive Computing Milestone

    George Rebane Yesterday IBM announced the first fruits of its cognitive computing initiative.  It’s a processor chip with an architecture that mimics some of the neural net topology (how neurons hook up to other neurons) of a human brain.  The cognitive computing chip (CCC) from IBM Research shown here is not to be programmed in…

  • Decline and Fall of Europe and the West

    George Rebane Progressive organs around the world are starting to hyper-palpitate about the EU economy, sovereign debts, and unexpected violence in the streets.  The Economist and Time are in general agreement that Europe is “about to blow”.  And it’s all due to the planned and announced budget cuts because their governments are rapidly running out…

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