Monthly Archives: February 2015

conclusion of Political Institutionalization of Science in the United States

[this is the second of two posts, conveying the 1983 article in the leading Soviet scholarly journal concerned with issues of scientific research and policy — of course there are other journals, but they tend to be swamps of Party … Continue reading

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The Political Institutionalization of Science in the United States

The Political Institutionalization of Science in the United States by A. M. Kulkin [in Russian] Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki, 1983, No. 2: 50-61. trans. M. Meo The foundation for the present organization of science in the United States of … Continue reading

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Conspiracy of Maidan Square Starting to Unravel

The British Broadcasting Company has interviewed a man who says he, at the behest of a certain group within the Maidan Square protesters in Kiev during the months-long stand-off, started the shooting that ended in massacre. The man, identified as … Continue reading

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Mainstream Media Take: Personalities, Imputed

Steve Duin, a veteran columnist at the local monopoly media outlet, the Daily Oregonian, provides one view of the resignation: Cylvia Hayes pined for the celebrity of “First Lady.” Mere green-energy activist wasn’t sufficient. Cylvia was determined to masquerade as … Continue reading

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Senator Avel Gordley Urges Dropping Joint Terrorism Task Force

From Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch comes this: The below letter was sent from former Oregon State Senator Avel Gordly to City Council late yesterday afternoon, adding to the chorus of voices who testified last week against Portland re-joining the … Continue reading

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I Admit It

There will be a vote in one week, on Thursday, 19 February; Commissioner Fritz made certain that a specific time was established — that is, 2:15 in the afternoon — for the upcoming vote at the last Joint Terrorism Task … Continue reading

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Translation of a Different Colour

So that you don’t have to, Your Intrepid Reporter studies frequently the columns of that so-called “Manual for Witch Hunters”, the Malleus Maleficarum — truly, a precious document. I use the English translation with Introduction & Notes by Montague Summers, … Continue reading

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Democratic Education Promotes Better Science

Even if we adopt for the sake of argument the rather pessimistic — because it denies superiority of chronologically more recent science — schematization of T.S. Kuhn whom Your Intrepid Reporter happened to sit next to one day in Shakey’s … Continue reading

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Unpublished Letter to the Editor of the Oregonian

Letters to the Editor The Oregonian 1330 S.W. Broadway Portland 97201 Dear Sirs: Georgie Ann Geyer has written many previous commentaries which disparage the peoples of other nations and display a narrow-minded assumption that all things American surpass the manners … Continue reading

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