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...
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.’...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 4 years, I have been posting my writing as chapters are completed, along with Short Stories and Poems. After the books are completed and...
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’...
Thoughts About Life after Radio Shack
The Demise of Radio Shack and… Dateline: Lake Geneva June 26, 2019 What did it, and does it, mean that Radio Shack went away? What do you suppose happened there that caused the ‘Mister Wizard’ store where you could get anything electronic or even...
Editorial: That One Thing
Editorial by James Strauss Dateline December 12th, Geneva Shore Report THAT ONE THING The process of writing has little to do with writing at all. Writing can be dictated, scribbled, typed or put down in calligraphy. It can be done in many languages using all manner...
March To A Different Drummer…
MARCH TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Dateline: Lake Geneva February 21, 2018 You cannot hear my drummer and I don’t always either. My drummer beats two snare drums, one of fiction and one of fact. I cannot tell the difference between the beats and I think the drummer...
We are With Child…..
Dateline: Lake Geneva September 27, 2017 Opinion/Editorial WE ARE WITH CHILD One of the most interesting and informative pursuits of being human is to sit down, contemplate, and then attempt to take in the enormity of man’s inhumanity to man, from the...
A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE …..
Dateline: Lake Geneva September 6, 2017 Opinion/Editorial A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN It’s not a hard time for your country. It’s a hard time for a lot of poor people, a lot of underemployed people struggling more with self-identity than income, a...
Renewal 2017….
Dateline: Lake Geneva August 30, 2017 Opinion/Editorial RENEWAL The Eve of Destruction was a song written by a man named P.F. Sloan in 1964, and the musician Barry McGuire’s recording of it made it hugely popular in 1964. That was fifty-two years ago. The first stanza...
Will Humility be the path……
Dateline Lake Geneva August 23, 2107 TO INHERIT THE EARTH The world defines humility as a lowering of oneself in relation to others, a state or the act of being humble, a freedom of pride and arrogance, and having a modest opinion or estimate of one’s own worth. It...
Kristallnacht emerging…….Editorial, August 16, 2107
KRISTALLNACHT August 16, 2017 German factions of the Nazi Party worked for years in order to create a way to classify Jews in Germany, and in nearby countries, as something different and less than human. This program to separate, and then denigrate, an entire social...
You are My Sunshine……Editorial
Dateline Aug 2, 2017 Lake Geneva Opinion/Editorial YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE Is there any chance that some kind of good fortune will be showered down upon the United States? Ever since the press, the media, or whatever the monolith of this “news” thing is, took over the...
Is This Land Your Land…….
Dateline: Lake Geneva June 28, 2017 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND This is not an article about choosing the right to die, or anything to do with that issue. No, this article is all about some people hastening other people’s death, without their permission, by deliberately...
Meaning of Life, Editorial
Dateline: Lake Geneva June 21, 2017 Opinion/Editorial THE MEANING OF LIFE A long time ago a television show came on the air discussing life on earth, its meaning, and the billions of beings comprising what has come to be known as this thing called intelligent life. In...Subscribe to FROM THE WILDERNESS
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