War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Update Below A good piece this morning in the New York Times, illustrating why global peoples are in for some way-hard, climate-change-days due to the fact that although nearly every other nation accepts climate change as a pressing problem, America has turned agnostic on the issue. And nobody seems to be paying much attention to…
(Illustration found here). As the entire world gears itself into the mesh of the Occupy Wall Street movement today — marching on Broadway en route to police headquarters last month, the photo above depicts the singular, unique wonder of an ageless, non-political protest — and there are events scheduled from London, Cologne and Zurich to…
This morning, a possible confrontation of some importance in the ground swelling/breaking Occupy Wall Street phenomenon as Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan has been ordered cleared for cleaning — zero hour was set for 7 a.m. EST (about right now (3 a.m. PST). The protestors have vowed to remain, even the powers that be: “You…
Another version of an international tall tale popped up this week with the initially alarming news of an official Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador at a DC restaurant via Mexican drug cartel gunmen. A tale so convoluted it turns out that David Mamet would have a hard time trying to decipher the plot. Yesterday,…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep with the pump price down now to $3.99 a gallon for regular — a dime drop since the last time we visited a gas station. In a strange setting, gas-pump prices have continued to descend, but are still way-high: Retail gasoline prices fell…
As the movement across the US takes an even more wide-spreading appeal, the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has snagged a big endorsement from a popular source. Via Raw Story: “We know the media will either ignore you or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and…
On Wall Street this morning protests continue as a now-major force in the news cycle, making folks pay attention to one of the great scams of world history. And today is for the future — Kids Speak Out Day — as the swelling demonstrations starts its 24th outing to put the spotlight on the horrors…
One thing that aggravates me to no end is George Jr. — the man can’t really disappear because of all the horror he left behind haunts the entire planet. Now he’s afraid US troops don’t love him anymore: “They hadn’t seen me and they hadn’t seen me with the troops,” he said. “So therefore I…
A glaring example of how long climate change has been developing, and how the warming quickens/intensifies nature. Climate Central reports a study on the migration north of Southern magnolias, among several tree species, where average temperatures some 2.7°F higher, and a growing season several weeks longer, than it was a few decades ago. Although magnolias…
“It’s getting a lot of attention,†the source says. “But no one’s panicking. “Yet.†(Illustration found here). The quote above comes from a Danger Room blog post on a computer virus that’s infested the US unmanned drone program, and although reportedly the canker hasn’t bothered flight operations at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, the…