Many of you know I publish a weekly newspaper in Lake Geneva Wisconsin
It grew from the desire to share NEWS with our neighbors unencumbered by any financial pressure from advertisers or public entities,
and also be a platform for me to share my thoughts publicly, regarding the state of Local, State and National affairs.
The Geneva Shore Report is printed every Wednesday and distributed throughout the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin area.
We also post the articles on our website,
The Geneva Shore Report
Below are Opinion/Editorials from the past and present. Enjoy and feel free to comment pro and con. Sane and mature dialog is the cornerstone of one of our greatest Freedoms.
CRICKET, The Dog Who Died of Trust
CRICKET, THE DOG WHO DIED OF TRUST by James Strauss Kristie Noem does not live in Wisconsin. In fact, she doesn’t live anywhere near this state. She lives in a state of mentally troubled, morally broken, and mean-spirited existence. The geographic state is South...
The Badly Needed Emetic, From the Wilderness
The Badly Needed Emetic By James Strauss Most people don’t know that Ipecac can’t be purchased over the counter in the United States anymore. That syrup was plentiful for most of my life, as it was used as something that was ingested, usually by a child, that...
Into the Darkness, From The Wilderness
From The Wilderness INTO THE DARKNESS The Pandemic came and went, and of course, has lingered a bit over time. It brought with it a response that caused a severe cloud to be dropped over all of social behavior, at least in the developed ‘first world’ countries like...
The Tribe, From the Wilderness
THE TRIBE From the Wilderness by James Strauss Alexandre Dumas, in one of his grand sweeping romance novels of all time, created the phrase "one for all and all for one.” The phrase referred to the combined friendship and focused attitudes of four individuals...
The Death of the Future, From the Wilderness
From The Wilderness THE DEATH OF THE FUTURE By James Strauss In one of the first ‘From the Wilderness’ articles written more than a year ago, I made a prediction that the forces opposed to both electric vehicles and automatic driving would face nearly overwhelming...
Death From Above, From The Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS Death From Above By James Strauss The Internet can be a terribly accurate but often unresearched data base for things many people never think to research. One of those things involves death by pilot suicide. For example, between 2011 and 2021,...
The Star on The Cape, From The Wilderness
THE STAR ON THE CAPE The world of me. The time of me. The expression of me. And the reflections by mass media that our entire consciousness is being overwhelmed by this intense and burning need by everyone to have the focus placed upon them and only them. This has...
The Rise of Truth and The Death of Humanity, From The Wilderness
Opinion/Editorial THE RISE OF TRUTH AND THE DEATH OF HUMANITY We try to live in secret. We hope to spend a good portion of our life with the general public not knowing what we are doing or where and when we are doing it. Until we become fully involved with a social...
Alien Sense and Secrets, From the Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS The Obvious Sense Behind Alien Secrets and UFOs By James Strauss As an important field operations member of the Central Intelligence Agency for seventeen years I can honestly report that I never saw in real life something that could be termed a...
Veteran Priority, From The Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS The Forgotten Soldiers By James Strauss The nation spends about $88,000 for each living veteran who qualifies for its services. Where does that money go? Almost all of it for administration, care givers of all kinds, and facilities. Direct...
The Plight of Reality, From The Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS Plight of Reality by James Strauss The door into reality gapes open, swinging wide and then slamming shut, as pain and frightened alienation leave anyone left alive and standing…staring in paralyzed wonder at a closed surface once again veneered...
What a Wonderful World, From The Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD By James Strauss Our studies of the universe cause us to cower inward, as if pulling back from the cold harshness of a raging blizzard just outside. We retreat to the warmth of our fireplaces, radiating with warmth and...
My Country Tis of Thee, From The Wilderness
FROM THE WILDERNESS My Country Tis of Thee by James Strauss We’ve come upon hard times. The perspective of almost every human being at any time through all of the species' history indicates that this psychological position is the one most commonly held no matter...
SIMULTANEITY, SUPERPOSITION, ENTANGLEMENT, From The Wilderness
SIMULTANEITY, SUPERPOSITION & ENTANGLEMENT From the Wilderness By James Strauss The advanced societies and cultures of the earth have been studying and using the results of those studied in physics to make great technological advances in almost every area of...
Electrocution, From The Wilderness
From The Wilderness ELECTROCUTION Newsreel By James Strauss The Ford Motor Company, on this day, February 16, 2023, terminated the production of its highly funded, touted and unworkable EF150 pickup truck. What happened? Was it terminated because of the reasons...
The Gas, Oil and Coal War – From The Wilderness
THE GAS, OIL, AND COAL WAR Newsreel By James Strauss They are lying, all of them. Natural gas cost one-sixth the price to burn by home and business owners across the land in stoves, heaters or any other way. That cost amount is not hard to figure out. Just...
The Quietude, Winter 2023, From The Wilderness
THE QUIETUDE IN THE WINTER OF 2023 Newsreel By James Strauss A great prevailing and little broken quietude has taken over the world. The war in Ukraine goes on but, in a snow, and ice muted form, with Putin still threatening to blow up the world and Zelensky keeping...
Revelations, From The Wilderness
REVELATIONS Newsreel By James Strauss Quite likely now, the most important, and possibly devastating, revelations about the current republican party are all being revealed in this current political ‘log jam’ set right in the middle of the great American political...
Zelensky arrives in Washington, From The Wilderness
UKRAINE Newsreel By James Strauss Zelensky has come to the United States and will make his appearance at the White House on this day, the shortest day and longest night of the year. How fitting this meeting is, what with a blizzard bearing down, the tilt of the...
Fusion II, From The Wilderness
FUSION II Newsreel By James Strauss The announcement yesterday about the first real experiment in laser fusion that produce more energy than was spent in producing it was made with no fanfare at all. The enormity of this scientific achievement was played down at...
Fusion, From The Wilderness
FUSION Newsreel By James Strauss Back, way back in the 1980’s I worked for a bit at Los Alamos National Laboratories in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The project I worked on, headed up by Einstein’s follow up grand intellect, named Hans Bethe, was called Project Antares,...
The Mass Media Dilemma, From The Wilderness
THE MASS MEDIA DILEMMA Newsreel By James Strauss The new show called Harry and Meghan, the former prince and whatever she really was in the British Royal family, is not really about how screwed up the Royal family really is (it really is) but about how that fault...
Eruption at Mauna Loa, From The Wilderness
ERUPTION AT MAUNA LOA Newsreel By James Strauss There is quiet risk in geologic events, although such events are seldom able to be predicted ahead of time. There was little warning around the world when the earthquake that occurred along the seafloor just off of...
Stingray and Faraday Bags, From The Wilderness
STINGRAY Newsreel By James Strauss Automatic driving is coming but much of the public is resistant to its introduction because of negative media coverage (over blowing any accident where auto driving has been involved) and a complete lack of understanding about...
Cryptocurrency and FTX, From The Wilderness
CRYPTOCURRENCY Newsreel By James Strauss The writer of this article has been studying cryptocurrency for almost ten years, since its inception as cyber currency in 1983**. In 2006 the word cryptocurrency became popular and with Bitcoin’s creation in 2008 by an...
We Can See You, From The Wilderness
WE CAN SEE YOU Newsreel By James Strauss The things that simply blow by us as we try to take in the enormity of pervading news that the presenters, the mass media, pour out constantly twenty-four hours a day. The New York Times, this morning, published a long story...
PROMIS and Pegasus, From The Wilderness
PROMISE AND PEGASUS Newsreel By James Strauss Actually, the word Promise does not apply in this article. The real word is not a word at all, that promise resembles, but very definitely is not. PROMIS is the acronym for the phrase Prosecutors Management Information...
U.S. Marine Corps Birthday, From The Wilderness
THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BALL Newsreel By James Strauss Today, November 10th, is the Marine Corps birthday, going back to 1775. Why has this birthday celebration become so popular and relevant in modern times. The Marine Corps, a relatively small military...
Roe, Roe, Roe Your Boat, From the Wilderness
ROE, ROE, ROE YOUR BOAT Newsreel By James Strauss As the last day before the coming ‘frightful’ election looms in front of us all, the dark count remains in question. The dark count, in this coming totaling of election results involves women voters. The new...
The Great Political Finale, From The Wilderness
GREAT POLITICAL FINALE Newsreel By James Strauss The truly great news that will occur sometime on Tuesday of this week will be apparent to absolutely everyone who listens to a radio, watches television or spends time streaming on the Internet. Regardless of winners...
U.S. Troops Move Into Romania, From The Wilderness
U.S. TROOPS MOVE INTO ROMANIA Newsreel By James Strauss For months I have been writing about the real foundations for the Russian attack on the Ukraine. The first faints of the attack took place, with Russia striking at the heart of Ukraine in its capital, hoping...
Hi-Tech Side of War, From the Wilderness
THE HI-TECH SIDE OF WAR Newsreel By James Strauss A recent near controversy generated by a Tweet that went viral from Elon Musk, the reading and listening world might have missed the fact that some new electronic system, in this case Starlink, might have a vital...
8.7% Increase, From The Wilderness
EIGHT POINT SEVEN Newsreel By James Strauss The coming 8.7%t in cost-of-living increase in social security payments, to be effective in January of 2023, is huge. Not only is it huge to the impact it will have on the incomes of older citizens dependent upon the...
Anti-Abortion Avalanche From The Wilderness
THE COMING ANTI-ANTI ABORTION AVALANCHE Newsreel By James Strauss What you may believe about the practice of abortion, and no matter how might have come to arrive at a position on this wildly emotional subject, the U.S. Supreme Court has brought it right into your...
The Lying Summit Meeting, From The Wilderness
THE LYING SUMMIT MEETING Newsreel By James Strauss There’s going to be a meeting soon. A big one. It’s called the G20 and this group of country leaders (twenty of them get together every year to discuss financial expectations and predictions) can talk about...
From The Wilderness, New York Times and The Hero From Hell
THE HERO FROM HELL Newsreel By James Strauss The New York Times doesn’t kill anybody on purpose. If only life were that simple and decisions could be made upon such direct and honest, although killing, truths. No, the New York Times kills Americans using a much...
From The Wilderness, The Dying Failure of Communism
THE DYING FAILURE OF COMMUNISM Newsreel By James Strauss The word communism is a word that has come to describe a feared form of government and economics that is the arch enemy of today’s very successful western form called democratic capitalism. There is also...
From The Wilderness, Tsar Bomba IV,
TSAR BOMBA IV Newsreel By James Strauss Although I am not a nuclear physicist, I was classically (PhD) trained in physics (Quantum Mechanics) enough to be able to understand how the Periodic Chart works, how the micro-world of tiny particles is the foundation of all...
From The Wilderness, Article XXI
From The Wilderness AUTONOMY Newsreel By James Strauss The word autonomy is not being used in this article, nor by many members of the American Industrial Complex for Defense, as you may know it to be classically defined. That classical definition is: “the capacity...
From The Wilderness, Article XIX
TSAR BOMBA II Newsreel By James Strauss I wrote earlier about the largest nuclear explosion ever to receive ignition, Tsar Bomba. That bomb was exploded against the advice of almost every physicist living at the time, Western and Soviet, but it was set off...
Editorial Published In The Geneva Shore Report September 1, 2021
OPINION/EDITORIAL THE THIRTEEN SAMURAI Thirteen American warriors died at a gate leading into Kabul Airport in Afghanistan the other day. Those warfighters belonged to the same unit I was wounded while serving in Vietnam so many years before. Sometimes those...
Fourth of July, 2021
Thoughts on July Fourth, 2021 If you do not have power in a democracy, or in any other structure of cultural gathering, then you damn well better have the potential to get power and to be able to transmit the image of that potential to others around you. On this 4th...
The Crumbling System…
Where is the logic and why is the might, the huge and world-shaking might, of the United States of America so fractured and rendered powerless and little more than useless in emergency situations? Where was the body of investigative forces that should have gone...
The Silent Killers, Editorial, August 15, 2020
The Silent Killers Editorial, August 15, 2020 How many are we going to lose from the silent killers, not trotted out like the COVID mortality results? How many people are going to die because they had serious surgery and nobody came? Nobody could reach them? Nobody...
Editorial, Mean-Spirited
Editorial August 4, 2020 The planet is in flux. It's not just the USA, which is the last place one would have expected hysterical drama to shut down. No, the world is filled with it right now because of the Internet, the penetration of television news and radio talk...
The Social Order, Editorial July 5, 2020
The Social Order, the Social Condition, and the meaning of 'Social' itself. The social definition is simple, whether determined by a dictionary in exotic detail or in seemingly understandable catch-phrases like 'we are all in this together.' Social means to be...
A Celebratory Weekend? – Editorial June 20, 2020
Celebration Let's see, and consider, what is going on right now in the nation on the longest day of the year. Yesterday was Juneteenth, a holiday almost nobody knew about because, somehow, the freeing of the slaves back in 1865 was never publicly appreciated. That day...
Supreme Court Direction and More, Editorial, June 19 , 2020
Dreaming gay dreams...as the United States Supreme Court faces away from the growing progressive wind to run for cover. The very conservative court, able to vote on any issue with a 5-4 majority, begins to see the direction the wind is beginning to blow in and lifts...
John Bolton who? Editorial, June 12, 2020
John Bolton who? This guy, resigning from the White House in September of last year, was going to be a lightning rod of booming revelation, with respect to Trump's wrongdoings. Oh, I forgot, there was the book he was writing. He had to keep silent while getting ready...
It Is All About the Money…
All About the Money It is about the money. Where did it come from? First two trillion, and now three more. The gross revenue from all sources for the country was only 20 trillion. The total taxes collected in 2019 was 3.46 trillion. In 2018 it was 3.22 trillion. Where...
Science and Truth… Editorial, May 18, 2020
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E.O Wilson There is no 'Truth' in Science. There is only a repeat performance of experiences and experiments to confirm that things tested give every appearance...
Friends and Friendship, Editorial by James Strauss
FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDLESS OPINION/EDITORIAL from my Newspaper, The Geneva Shore Report, January 8, 2020 There was once a bit of humor portrayed by two hoboes talking to one another on a park bench. They were having one of those not-uncommon hobo conversations about...
Intellect, Editorial from the Geneva Shore Report
OPINION/EDITORIAL INTELLECT First published in the Geneva Shore Report, January 1, 2020: INTELLECT Your definition is as good as anybody else’s definition of that word. What does it really mean to be smart, relative to other humans or even beings alive on this...
Wonderful Fans and The Funding Of This Journey
This article is a THANK YOU to all of my wonderful 'Fans' and an introduction to something new. For the past 8 years, I have been posting my writing as chapters are completed, along with Short Stories and Poems. After the books are completed and published the...
I Did The Thing… Vietnam
I did the thing in a country called Vietnam. I went on from there to have a fairly wild and messy but distinguished career in the CIA. How come, after all that, and publishing my story in books and more, I am expected on such social communication sites like this, to...
The Forest of Lost Reality, an Editorial
Forest of Lost Reality An Editorial from the Geneva Shore Report What has happened to explain this latest emotional iteration of social unrest that has been created by opinions about current circumstances rather than likely reality? I write about ‘likely reality’...