Weekend Rebel Science Excursion - 33
Systems involve Systems ScienceAh, Friday.So, let's do some science.Today, I want to show an example of dementia in the news media, a dementia of the criminal insanity sort.Yahoo News has this headline...
View ArticleMegacide City: The Capital of Oil-Qaeda & Nuke-Qaeda
Megacide City - The People's TempleHow could it happen that only two internal entities can facilitate the demise of civilization? The only known mega-methods for bringing about the extinction of human...
View ArticleAgnotology: The Surge - 10
Jeffrey D. Sachs"Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.He is...
View ArticleConundrum: Floods with Droughts (and Extinctions)
Floods and droughts don't normally mix, that is, major flooding and major droughts would seem to be happening at different times.That is, we might expect a drought in one year, then in another year we...
View ArticleOde To Pig Pen
A Dog Has DiedMy dog has died.I buried him in the gardennext to a rusted old machine.Some day I'll join him right there,but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,his bad manners and his cold nose,and I,...
View ArticleInteresting Science Subjects
Supernova 1987-AIt is Friday, again, so I am sharing some links to various and sundry scientific subjects today. Over the years the Dredd Blog System has featured posts on a variety of scientific...
View ArticleOn The Origin of Security - 5
Regular readers know that Dredd Blog has, from its beginning (The Deceit Business), discussed the hidden reasons for why the rogues within what we call "government" constantly talk about "security."So,...
View ArticleThe Deceit Business - 3
"What's troubling you is the nature of my game."I. IntroductionThe very first post on Dredd Blog was entitled "It's The Peace Stupid," which addressed the Israeli vs. Palestinian"problem."That problem...
View ArticleCivilization Is Now On Suicide Watch
Truth is never the fault of the MessengerYesterday, I presented the "optimistic" view in the debate about "Near Term Human Extinction" (NTHE) compared and contrasted with "Long Term Human Extinction"...
View ArticleThe United States of Europe - 4
Europe is busy, busy, busySince 2009, this Dredd Blog series has taken a look at the complicated notion of The United States of Europe (U.S.E.)That entity currently has the flavor known as The European...
View ArticleThe Damaged Global Climate System - 3
It isn't flat any moreIf you want to be an accepted scientist do you have to flatter "the world"?The answer in general is "yes."By that I mean that scientists can only tell "the world" (a place which...
View ArticleWeekend Rebel Science Excursion - 34
This is Friday, so let's think.Let's think about nature and how much our culture has missed, not looked for, or does not care about it.Or has forgotten about it.Let's limit that inquiry to plants and...
View ArticleIs The McTell News Malaise-ian Frenzy Related to Guilt?
Why does the U.S. mass media go nuts over certain (by comparison) minor stories, but not cover much more serious stories?Why do they major in the minors? Why do they have the poor judgment that even...
View ArticleThe Peak Of The Oil Wars - 10
Ottoman and Persian Empires circa 1912This series has focused on the fundamental origins, in current civilization, of the thinking that resulted in the change to the use of oil as the fundamental...
View ArticleUpcoming UN Lawsuit: The Monkey Trial II
New Groundhog Day Tank ("The Dervish 101")As was pointed out yesterday, Russia has won the latest oil war within the territory of the old Ottoman Empire (The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 10).One of the...
View ArticleThe Wars Are un-American Says Public - 2
On this date in 2009, Dredd Blog pointed out that the public is not composed of warmongers as the military is. It has been that way for a long, long time (The Universal Smedley, The Universal Smedley -...
View ArticleHere Come The Torture Investigations - 2
When I wrote the first post in this series (Here Come The Torture Investigations, February 25, 2009) I expected that the newly elected President Obama and his Administration would bring some justice to...
View ArticleA Grid We Can Believe In - 2
Vulnerable U.S. Power GridToday is Friday, so let's talk some science that Dredd Blog first discussed in 2009, and also pointed out that scientists were warning about acting on current grid...
View ArticleCivilization Is Now On Suicide Watch - 2
Both "hopium" and "doomium" seem to be addictiveSome conservatives and liberals are concerned about human extinction.In general, at this time conservatives are not concerned about human extinction via...
View ArticleWhen Indoctrination Is Enlightenment - 5
Obama IWhen a person suffers a head injury that causes a swelling of the brain, sometimes doctors will induce a coma, so as to reduce the pressure and therefore damage to the brain.A trance is said to...
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