From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Five

THE ELASTIC EFFECT Newsreel By James Strauss   Going back in time to the earlier great authors of science fiction, many of them presumed to write about insurrections of earth humans on other planets; those fictional humans living under the enslavement of aliens or...
From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Four

From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Four

OUTRAGE Newsreel By James Strauss   The message of today, floating through the political and toxic atmosphere of today’s communications ‘cloud’ is all about extremes.  The extreme gets noticed while the more mundane, normal or regular stuff that life is really all...
From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Three

From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Three

BRUTALITY Newsreel By James Strauss   The entire planet of living animal life communicates in some way or another, and that communication involves all the senses that life possesses.  A vital ‘last ditch’ manner of communication expression is through physical...
From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Forty-Two

WILD VOTING IN THESE TIMES Newsreel By James Strauss   David Brooks wrote an interesting Op/Ed in the New York Times a few days ago. The Times is one of the vast numbers of news outlets that claims that it is liberal while leaning almost always to the right in...
From The Wilderness, Article Forty-One

From The Wilderness, Article Forty-One

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Forty

From The Wilderness, Article Forty

REAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONS Newsreel By James Strauss   The rooftops are raised and lowered as the winds of the Saudi Arabian desert are blown hither and yon by the world’s mass media (make that mostly America’s).  The Middle East and oil and gas production is considered...
From The Wilderness, Artice Thirty-Nine

From The Wilderness, Artice Thirty-Nine

PRIVATE MONEY Newsreel By James Strauss   People who have ‘real’ money don’t talk to other people about their money.  Ever.  Unless it is one of the other people handling their money, and then they divide up the management of that money so none of the advisors or...
From the Wilderness, Article Thirty-Eight

From the Wilderness, Article Thirty-Eight

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Seven

THE MESSAGE Newsreel  By James Strauss   There is a constant drone that comes out from all media outlets, whether that’s radio, television or even most of the Internet.  The one-way nature of that drone makes it impossible to comment, argue with or make a return...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Six

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Six

THE COMING G20 MEETING Newsreel By James Strauss   “Bal Hai may call you,” the song lyrics go. “Most people live on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea.   Most people long for another island, one where they know they would like to be.” There is a big...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Five

ELON Newsreel By James Strauss   The man is one of the pre-imminent true genius caliber humans of our time.  That demonstrated fact would be hard to deny by anyone, and I won’t go into the examples of his performance that prove the statement.  His genius is...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Four

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Four

CONSPIRACY Newsreel By James Strauss   We have to go all the way back to the 14th century to examine the origins of the word ‘conspiracy.’  This word, when coined by European cultures back then, was created without negative connotations. It was merely a word that was...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Three

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Three

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-Two

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-One

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty-One

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, Article Thirty

From The Wilderness, Article Thirty

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, Article Twenty-Nine

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Nine

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, Article Twenty-Eight

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Eight

TSAR BOMBA VIII Newsreel By James Strauss   Portrayed as the modern day ‘El Cid,’ or quite possibly Teddy Roosevelt, the leader of Ukraine rides into fame, fortune and the good will of almost everyone in the Western world for his heroic opposition to the Russian...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Seven

THE UNIQUE TROUBLE WITH DRONES Newsreel By James Strauss   Elon Musk is afraid that the coming of A.I. (artificial intelligence) among machines will be the end of the human species.  Science Fiction stories have been replete with such applied beliefs (think Fred...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Six

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty-Six

  TSAR BOMBA VII Newsreel By James Strauss   It is interesting to write columns and articles as times goes by.  Some of what I write I do not necessarily want confirmed by bigger and more traditional delivery organizations, simply because the sensationalism is so...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Five

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Five

THE MOVIES I NO LONGER GET TO SEE Newsreel By James Strauss   I get to see the Big Chill but can’t stand to be around, near, or watch anything to do with the Rambo series…including the first film called First Blood.  I like the Big Chill because the screenwriters of...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Four

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Four

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 Twenty Three

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Three

THE DENSITY OF WATER Newsreel By James Strauss   Water is heavy and dense.  One cubic meter (about three feet on a side) weighs in at over a ton, and water is denser than wood, paper, and just about everything that floats (not hollowed out with air pockets, like ships...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Two

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty Two

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION? Newsreel By James Strauss   What are you being fed on this very day, by the news media, by those associated and supposedly disassociated with it on the Internet?  First, and foremost, you are being ‘fed’ advertisements like never...
From The Wilderness, Article Twenty One

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty One

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 Twenty

From The Wilderness, Article Twenty

From The Wilderness TSAR BOMBA III Newsreel By James Strauss   Two weeks ago, I wrote an article on this newsreel about the potential for nuclear explosive ‘trouble’ in and around the Ukraine.  Two weeks before that time I postulated about the real cause of the war in...
From The Wildernesss, Article Nineteen

From The Wildernesss, Article Nineteen

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighteen

From The Wilderness, Article Eighteen

FORGET GLOBAL WARMING Newsreel By James Strauss   As an anthropologist, now retired from professing, I still attempt to maintain a finger on the pulse about what’s currently going on in our world.  Global warming is a problem, with the reality of that now confirmed,...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventeen

From The Wilderness, Article Seventeen

TSAR BOMBA Newsreel By James Strauss   Why is it important that in the very near future a lot of people have to die?  Why is the anthropoid competition complex that’s overtaken the males of our species led to this ‘death’s door’ of coming oblivion for so many?  The...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixteen

From The Wilderness, Article Sixteen

LISTENING TO A RECORD OF LIFE Newsreel By James Strauss   The new discipline of Archeacoustics is with us, although unknown to the general public, and in fact, to most of the other scholastic institutions and professors of our modern era.  Acoustics is the word used...
From The Wilderness, Article Fifteen

From The Wilderness, Article Fifteen

METHANE Newsreel By James Strauss   What is the big deal about methane?  Well, for one thing, and maybe the primary thing, it is a waste gas that is mostly burned off by oil-producing countries in order to better pump the oil from deep oil fields.  There is...
From The Wilderness, Article Fourteen

From The Wilderness, Article Fourteen

He3 Newsreel By James Strauss   The two letters and the number that are in the title of this article describe an isotope of the helium element, the lightest of the noble gases on the periodic chart of the elements.  What is going on in space that has anything at all...
From The Wilderness, Article Thirteen

From The Wilderness, Article Thirteen

CERN Newsreel By James Strauss   The accelerator/collider/decelerator complex built by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Europe over the course of many years and billions of dollars has run into a blizzard of miserable anti-science wing-nut...
From The Wilderness, Article Twelve

From The Wilderness, Article Twelve

CLASSIFICATION Newsreel By James Strauss   The U.S. system of declaring documents, and or actions, confidential, Secret, Top Secret, or above Top Secret, is called (regarding the implementation of procedures and rules) the Registered Publications System (commonly...
From The Wilderness, Article Eleven

From The Wilderness, Article Eleven

GONE OFFSHORE Newsreel By James Strauss   The financial, and therefore economic, world is not what it seems at all.  Back in the years before Ronald Reagan’s reign as President, the most massive amounts of liquid capital were held, maintained, and grown as part of the...
From The Wilderness, Article Ten

From The Wilderness, Article Ten

UNIVERSAL DEPENDABILITY Newsfeed By James Strauss   Probably the most accepted ‘fact’ about our universe, continuously reported by the highest rank and degreed astrophysicists and institutions, is that matter in the ever-expanding and revolving universe dependably...
From The Wilderness, Article Nine

From The Wilderness, Article Nine

UFO Newsreel Almost 80 years ago the United States leadership decided that the phenomenon, then called ‘Foo fighters’ was something and information about that needed to be classified and kept secret from the public.  The effort was amateurish and somewhat ineffective...
From The Wilderness, Article Eight

From The Wilderness, Article Eight

NO PARACHUTE Newsreel  The second third largest outlay of federal money from the annual national budget is the money paid for Medicare (Social Security and Defense have bigger budget shares), and of that 250 Million goes to the bogus medical system called Advantage,...
From The Wilderness, Article Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Seven

THE VERY SECRET SERVICE Newsreel By James Strauss   The Secret Service is all of that, at least as far as the secret part goes.  The Secret Service has training facilities, aircraft, vehicles, weapons, and electronic access and gadgetry that the public has no idea...
From The Wilderness, Article Six

From The Wilderness, Article Six

THE REAL STORY ABOUT THE WORLD’S OIL Newsreel By James Strauss   The world’s oil reserves are not what they are claimed to be, which should come as absolutely no surprise to almost anyone following international conflicts and politics around the world today.  But this...
From The Wilderness, Article Five

From The Wilderness, Article Five

THE RAIDER Newsreel   The FBI recently served a warrant on Trump’s home in Florida.  The warrant was a search document that specified classified documents illegally removed from official depositories and never returned when the President became the ex-President.  No...
From The Wilderness, Article Four

From The Wilderness, Article Four

GHOSTLY WEAPONS AND PLATFORMS NEWSREEL BY JAMES STRAUSS Back in 1980, while taking my daily run up and down the beach that fronts the western side of San Clemente, California, I saw a strange chunk of frayed and worn plastic bobbing in the surf line. I stopped and...
From The Wilderness, Article Three

From The Wilderness, Article Three

From The Wilderness Article Three THE STARS UP ABOVE   The first Star Trek television series came out on television just as I was heading off to Vietnam in 1968.  Later versions came along after I got home.  All of them had some fantastic electronic equipment that the...
From The Wilderness, Article Two

From The Wilderness, Article Two

From The Wilderness Article Two Confidential   The war in Ukraine.  The war is not about Russia invading to take over one of the independent countries that left the Soviet Union…so that Putin can rebuild that fallen empire.  No, the Ukrainian war is about nuclear...
From The Wilderness, Article One

From The Wilderness, Article One

FROM THE WILDERNESS Confidential Streaming Newsreel Article One Have you noticed the real foundational problem so well illustrated by the current political environment in the United States? The problem is not really about bad leadership. That’s the result of the...