War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). A lunar eclipse on winter solstice — first time since 1638. From Wired: The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 a.m. EST (10:32 p.m. PST). During totality, when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun, the moon will turn a rusty orange-red for 72…
UPDATES BELOW America as world empire is tottering on the brink — in this modern age of so many different and terrible events are taking shape, the life of the vast majority of US peoples could be quickly coming to an end. All the tell-tale signs are here. The collapse of past empires only came…
A bit of news not played up here in the US: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, known to his friends as just, The Dick, will skate on bribery charges brought forth by Nigeria — The Dick and Halliburton, the company he CEOed for five years before moving on to public service, had been charged with…
Watching daylight turn into rain, there comes a feeling that what is perceived as reality is just noise to a lot of people, creating a blip in the mojo, a trip in the ether, and forcing disaster onto the multitude. In casual observation, the statement, ‘fish need water,’ requires no explanation, either for it’s actual-factual…
Gone is that so-called “light on the hill” and that old-time “huddled masses” routine as the good-old US of A is now known as the hypocritical epicenter of life on the planet — if American authorities can’t arrest you, then you’ll be hunted down like a dog and assassinated, and if you are captured, you’ll…
One of the great horrors of our day is Fox News Corp. Not only does this faux journalistic organization distort, twist and outright lie about the news, but it makes regular viewers even more stupid — a dangerous situation as the assholes are also helping destroy the planet. A poll from World Public Opinion: Following…
Life is so funny and hilarious, the bowels scream with laughter. (Illustration found here). Yesterday, the famous last words of Richard Holbrooke, the long-time US diplomat and President Obama’s point man for the Af-Pak theater who died on Monday, were thumped across the Internets: “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.” Now, however, quick…
As the conflict in Afghanistan reaches nearly a decade, the results are becoming more horrendous as time progresses — six US GIs were killed Sunday and the entire operation appears on the point of break-down — the media pushes an end to the side and even a near-deathbed plea. The Taliban, in statement released Sunday:…
This country is in a mess, so tangled in foreign conflicts and so twisted in domestic economic terror there may be no way home. And one of the major reasons: The lying, nasty-faced GOP. Last year, the new speaker of the US House, John Boehner — The Boner to his pals — lied through his…
(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was really one for the books, a watershed year). Near forty years ago was 1968. A very big, long year. Life-altering…
