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Remarks on President Obama’s Speech on Accepting The Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo 12/10/2009
President Obama’s speech on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2009 has generally been reviewed in the US with much glow about its rhetorical heights and appreciation of its depth of thought. I did not watch Obama give … Continue reading
Tagged Bush, CIA, demilitarization, disarmament, Eisenhower, empire, history, militarization, military bases, nobel peace prize, Obama, small arms control, US, Vietnam
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Yottabytes and the National Security State
The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database” that reviews the new book by Mathew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency . I … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, corporate databases, empire, james bamford, Mathew M. Aid, national security state, new york review of books, NSA, nsa national security agency, Petabytes, US, War, yottabytes
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More Blather about Healthcare from “Experts”
Acknowledge the basic facts about how the healthcare system is working today. Yesterday in a radio interview, “How to conquer health care challenges”, with Professor Glenn Melnick from the Rand Corporation and USC, we were again offered up “expert” opinion that does … Continue reading
Tagged atul gawande, health care challenges, healthcare system, infant mortality, kai ryssdal, US
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Michael Crichton’s Congo and the Transformation of the Western Mind
Book Review/Essay 2/97 (revised 1/29/02 – maps added at bottom) (revised 6/25/03 – map of Angola superimposed on the US) Michael Crichton’s 1980 pulp novel Congo opens with an introduction that is truly arresting . I quote here the first … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Congo, continental united states, geography lessons, latitude, longitude, map of angola, Mercator, michael crichton, US
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