From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Nine

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Nine

FROM THE WILDERNESS Newsreel By James Strauss   Where did meritorious service, talent and expression go to die?  It didn’t’ go anywhere. It stayed right where it was, a giant target for the steamroller of advancing communication technology.  Instead of advancing...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XX

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XX

I waited patiently for Gularte, sitting in the afternoon sun, rubbing my useless government pen with the fingers of my left hand. The pen wasn’t totally useless I knew, as its presence where it was found was very likely a valuable clue. Was the person who lost it not...
THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XIX

THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XIX

The beach was abandoned, at the point where it preceded south from the state beach but not yet a part of the Trestles Beach portion. There the point stuck out into the ocean to create the conflicting broken sea environment that led to sometimes legendary surf, which...
SIMULTANEITY, SUPERPOSITION, ENTANGLEMENT, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Eight

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...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVIII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVIII

  Detective Hoodoo instructed Gularte and I to depart the beach scene, as he and the ‘team’ of lifeguards would handle the situation from then on. He’d already given that order but neither Gularte nor I had moved. Instead of re-issuing the earlier command he...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Eight

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Eight

WE’LL TAKE ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING Newsreel By James Strauss   I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the mass media and why the entirety of the near united but not tied and bound outlets is reporting what it has got to have as a motivational factor.  Waiting for some...
THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XVII

THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XVII

I finished the shift with Herberich and Gularte. Nobody got shot, and they sort of bonded in that single time together. Not with me, but with each other. I understood, in the back seat, that I wasn’t really bondable material. I had my wife and daughter and that was...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Seven

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Newsreel By James Strauss           FREEDOM, that word used to describe a state of being that doesn’t exist but seems to exist in some future time or even the present if we can just get over to where the conditions are ripe for its appearance or...
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...
Electrocution, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Six

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Five

GOOD VIBRATIONS Newsreel By James Strauss   In the 1800’s physics had come far enough to determine just how the sensory system of humans, and most other animals on the planet, really worked.  There has been little dispute about what was discovered.  We have five...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVI

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVI

I left Mardian at the pool, since I’d given him everything I had about whatever it was I was supposed to know, but really didn’t. The money was invisibly held into the middle of the clamshell holster meant to hold and conceal a Smith and Wesson .44 Magnum, 4 inch...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XV

Gularte was waiting at the beach unit when I arrived at the city parking lot, my Volkswagen’s engine knocking a bit, which had me worried, but not unduly so. The thing was still under warranty, although I had no replacement if it might be in the dealership shop for...
From the Wilderness, Article Ninety-Four

From the Wilderness, Article Ninety-Four

IT’S DA BALLOON BOSS, DA BALLOON! Newsreel By James Strauss   Just how accidentally dumb is the American public, and how deliberately dumb the mass media?  Well, try the biggest balloon story occupying national attention since the ‘Balloon Boy’ story created back in...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, CHAPTER XIV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, CHAPTER XIV

  I drove the Marauder to the pier in silence, neither Gularte nor I saying a word, even as the vehicle, much heavier than the Bronco built for the off-road job of patrolling the beach and incidental structures, made a smooth surface out of the rough wooden slat...
The Gas, Oil and Coal War – From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Three

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-Two

THE MODERN BATTLE TANK Newsreel By James Strauss   The modern combat tank used in actual combat, is an advanced derivative of the first tanks to ever be used in combat (that was in WWI in the battle of the Somme during 1916).  Tanks have evolved over time and been...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-One

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety-One

GOVERNMENTAL GARBAGE Newsreel By James Strauss   I seldom turn off the news or cast aside my daily delivered issue of the New York Times.  I have been doing so lately.  Streaming has its benefits, as the fiction shows and movies located on those premium sites are, by...
From The Wilderness, Article Ninety

From The Wilderness, Article Ninety

UKRAINE Newsreel By James Strauss   The war in Ukraine grinds on, ever deeper into a cold hard winter, as predicted earlier in these newsreels.  Zelensky came to the United States to attempt to sell his case for continued support, while under cover of secrecy he was...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Nine

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Nine

A.I. Newsreel By James Strauss   At one time, a long while ago, I worked in Hawaii, part-time, with an organization called Dragon. Dragon was the name of a hastily put together company trying to create a writing program that would allow people to speak into a computer...
The Quietude, Winter 2023, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Eight

THE QUIETUDE IN THE WINTER OF 2023 Newsreel By James Strauss A great prevailing and little broken silence 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...
Revelations, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness. Article Eighty-Seven

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Six

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Six

UKRAINE Newsreel by James Strauss   The Ukraine foreign minister signaled yesterday that the Ukrainians, following the recent visit by Zelensky to Washington, are now ready to have a peace conference in February with Russia, supposedly to be chaired or moderated by...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Five

THEY ARE ALL DOING IT Newsreel By James Strauss   Rupert Murdoch brought the London tabloid style of reporting the news to the United States, creating Fox in the process and so much more, as news changed from a form of informational transfer (from reporters to the...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Four

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Four

WHAT’S NOT COVERED Newsreel By James Strauss   As the news business expresses itself, day after day and night after night, it becomes revealing about what the media in general, both print and televised (as well as video, radio, podcasts and social media) don’t bother...
Zelensky arrives in Washington, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Three

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-Two

STREAMING HELL Newsreel By James Strauss   The New York Times reported this week that the huge streaming services, providing television shows and movies to so many today, as opposed to the ‘old days’ when everyone waited week by week for new installments for...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-One

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty-One

THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS GIFT OF ALL Newsreel By James Strauss   You are not reading or seeing very much at all about this great Christmas gift in the papers, on television or even the Internet.  The greatest present of all is God’s delivery of fusion power to humanity...
From The Wilderness, Article Eighty

From The Wilderness, Article Eighty

UKRAINE Newsreel By James Strauss   Once more, the seemingly disorganized mess of the Ukraine winter in combat, or waiting for combat, or just out of the field of combat, moves coldly and deceptively forward.  During this last week, the European Union got together and...
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 II, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Nine

FUSION II Newsreel By James Strauss   The announcement yesterday about the first real experiment in laser fusion 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 every...
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,...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Seven

CRYPTOCURRENCY III Newsreel By James Strauss   Fright.  That’s the aroma in the cryptocurrency air these days, following the arrest, detention and request for extradition of the world’s first major cryptocurrency leader down in the Bahamas.  That faint sweet smell of...
Fusion, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Six

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,...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Five

QATAR Newsreel By James Strauss   Another rich Arab country, Qatar, consults with public relations firms in Europe and New York to take over the championship play for worldwide soccer.  Like the Saudi’s are trying to buy their way into respectability by opening up a...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Four

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Four

THE SLOW UKRAINIAN CONVERSION Newsreel by James Strauss   The grinding cold winter and the even more grinding process of trying to bring a settlement to the most challenging war across all the countries of the earth moves toward settlement.  The developing settlement...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Three

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Three

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Two

FAME IN THE ARTS Newsreel By James Strauss It can be difficult to write about some things without other things being ignored or conflated into things they aren’t really.  Fame is one of those things.  The word is almost totally synonymous with sales.  Without fame,...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-One

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-One

CRYPTOCURRENCY II Newsreel By James Strauss   Several weeks prior to the fall of FTX and Bitfi, I wrote an article about the inherent instability and ridiculous lack of regulation with respect to the entire field of what has come to be known as cryptocurrency.  My...
From The Wilderness, Article Seventy-Three

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...
Eruption at Mauna Loa, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Seventy

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 Indonesia...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Nine

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Nine

PEAK OIL Newsreel By James Strauss   The much-accepted nonsense published by the mass media, fed to that media by supposed experts and scientists of the time (the nineties and early two thousand) held for years that the world was fast depleting its supply of oil and...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Eight

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Eight

ELON ADDERALL MUSK Newsreel By James Strauss   Adderall is a drug commonly prescribed today to treat ADHD, better known as Attention Deficit Disorder. The drug is widely used to treat this disorder to the effect that fully ten percent of America’s population is using...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Seven

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Seven

UKRAINE DRUMBEAT TO SETTLEMENT Newsreel By James Strauss   As predicted earlier, going all the way to the start of this newsreel effort and after my laying out the real reason the conflict was initiated by Putin, the forces that must be brought together are gathering...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Six

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Six

ELON Newsreel By James Strauss   Elon Musk is beginning to appear to be an unstable genius and, in controlling some of the areas of the American and even world culture, a truly dangerous unstable genius.  This man basically owns and runs the world’s largest...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Five

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Five

ROMANIA Newsreel By James Strauss   When the war in Ukraine began, I made my first prediction about the why Russia was in pursuit of going after a country that had lain quietly on its border since the fall and breakup of the Soviet Union.  At that time, in this...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Four

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Four

THE BUDGET FOR ‘DEFENSE’ Newsreel By James Strauss   The general public, and that probably includes most of the readers looking through comments like this, generally have no ability to put Finance together with military capability.  The United States, for example,...
Stingray and Faraday Bags, From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Three

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...
From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Two

From The Wilderness, Article Sixty-Two

DARK MATTER Newsreel By James Strauss   Back in 1997 I traveled to Northern Russia to take in the excavation of an entire Wooly Mammoth, buried deep under the permafrost of the Magadan Tundra.  I was a professor of anthropology at Chaminade University at the...