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.

Into the Darkness, From The Wilderness

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

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

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

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, 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...

Alien Sense and Secrets, From the Wilderness

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

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

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

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

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...

Electrocution, From The Wilderness

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 Quietude, Winter 2023, From The Wilderness

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, 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...

Fusion II, From The Wilderness

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, 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, 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, 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 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 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, 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

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

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, 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

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...

Hi-Tech Side of War, From the Wilderness

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

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

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, 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, Tsar Bomba IV,

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, 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

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...

Fourth of July, 2021

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…

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...

Editorial, Mean-Spirited

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...

John Bolton who? Editorial, June 12, 2020

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…

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

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...

I Did The Thing… Vietnam

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

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

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 mechanical to help...

Editorial: That One Thing

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...