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American Genius

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     A late announcement today from Apple Corporation managed to drop the after market price and relative value of one of the hottest stock properties in the world more than 7 percent. The message wasn’t so much a what, but a who – legendary Apple CEO Steven Jobs announced he was relinquishing the position of […]... Read More
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The Last Shuttle

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           The last planned American space shuttle flight took of from Cape Canaveral yesterday, and with it a fifty year history of continuous effort to achieve and maintain an American manned presence in space. The Space Shuttle program was initiated on April 12th, 1981 and over the next thirty years achieved 135 flights with […]... Read More

Kesennuma No More

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     This blog essentially relates the journey of western civilization, both currently and historically, from the human perspective in both challenge and triumph. As spectacular as human capacity can be, the awesome force that Nature can apply, to make small the mightiest of civilization’s achievements, was brought to bear in Japan’s devastating 9.0 earthquake of […]... Read More
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Stuxnet Redux

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     On December 4th of last year RAMPARTS looked at a new form of cyber warfare, the STUXNET virus,  that was used to cripple Iran’s drive toward achieving a viable nuclear device. Although at the initial report no identifiable connections with intelligence services were noted, the complexity of the computer virus suggested a tie to sophisticated  computer experts […]... Read More
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A Year Later, the World Is Slowly Warming to the “Truth”

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     It was a year ago that one of the great farces and premeditated frauds  perpetrated on civilized culture began to unravel, to the benefit of all that care in the least about human progress and individual freedom.   World leadership was preparing to gather in Copenhagen for a world wide conference about “climate change and humanity driven […]... Read More
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A New Champion in the Art of Tunneling

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    The world was captivated earlier this week by the incredible engineering achievement of drilling teams to bore through 2300 feet of the granite rock of the Andes in less than two months to successfully provide a rescue portal for 33 trapped Chilean miners.  This same week another drilling milestone was achieved in the Swiss […]... Read More
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The World Drives Toward a Nuclear Future; We Remain in Park

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   The focus on Iran’s nuclear program for its potential development of nuclear weapons obscures somewhat the progressive demand  by many countries across the globe to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by development of nuclear energy capacity.  The presence of the majority of fossil fuel deposits in the hands of a very few countries has […]... Read More