When do we get some good news? Alcatel announced yesterday the buy out of Lucent Technologies for 12.2 billion Cdn. Lucent has been an orphan since it was spun off by the Baby Bells at the time of the breakup. Lucent, once Bell Labs over the years has been responsible for more high tech patents than nearly any body else. Only IBM matches Lucent’s productivity. Score another one for giant multinationals. Morn the loss of technological capacity for our phone companies, and their ever figuring out how to light up their hoard of dark fiber, or their bean counters ever having the desire. It is enough that Japan and Korea lead us in information access; we now add France to the list. Free Wi-Fi lights the Paris subways already. Their’s is a better sense of egality, but what a crushing loss of scientific knowledge for America.
The November 2024 election presents a significant challenge, transcending the traditional Democrat versus Republican divide. This election will determine the future of the American Republic, Western civilization, and potentially the survival of the human species. Plato suggested that democracies tend to devolve into oligarchies, and we are witnessing that transformation before our eyes. Three major trends in the U.S. threaten to replace our Constitution and representative government with a totalitarian, internationalist, socialistic oligarchy. First, seventy years of Soviet subversion, the Vietnam War, and generations of youth who were taught to reject American institutions have undermined U.S. leadership. Now, Chinese espionage, bribery, and infiltration further contribute to the erosion of America’s traditions of citizenship, enterprise, and prosperity. Second, NGOs in Washington, an entrenched bureaucracy, and organizations like the Trilateral Commission prioritize internation...
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