War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Life ain’t so pretty no more. One Canadian’s view of nowadays: Future generations could find themselves dealing with serious catastrophes: the highly disruptive consequences of climate change; disruptions in the food chain due to ecological destruction; nuclear war (still a serious risk, even if it has faded from the public consciousness); massively destructive accidents (like…
One of the scary parts of climate change — and there’s a shitload of scary parts — is the unknown, stuff beyond what the science can reveal, or even if some particular action actually does more harm than good. No matter what all the experts say, the planet earth and all its now-7 billion inhabitants…
“The issue is not whether the Iraqi people will greet U.S. soldiers as their liberators, but what will they do six months after that. I find it naive and disingenuous to claim that you can create democracy in Iraq any time soon. The administration has already assured us that the U.S. will not stay there…
“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. “To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet…
One real scary moment for Halloween is the overcrowding mob on hand for the party — the UN claims the population of the earth will top 7 billion on Monday, embellishing a smorgasbord of dangerous problems already facing a beleaguered planet. Despite a prognosis to the contrary: Max Singer, founder of the Hudson Institute, warned…
In recent history, one has learned to not trust a lot of information from any US government agency with a hidden/or not-so-hidden agenda — recent example is the State Department’s okay of the horrendous Keystone XL pipeline, claiming the 1,711-mile tube slated to carry peanut-butter-like toxic slop through the gut of middle America “would have…
Another anniversary this morning, and a sad day indeed for US peoples. Ten years ago today, George Jr. signed into law the infamous USA/Patriot Act, a move which revealed the end game for the great American experiment in democracy — nowadays the US is closer to George Orwell than George Washington. And although George Jr.…
Another nasty package on the highly-movable climate-change-train as a new study (once again) signals earth is moving beyond heat — revealing the crazy Russian heat wave last year most-likely wouldn’t have happened without global warming. Abstract from the research posted at PNAS: We estimate that climatic warming has increased the number of new global-mean temperature…
The MSM in the US has gotten worse and worse — the whole outfit wasn’t pretty to begin with and the ugly is getting worse — and CBS News should know better. A whole shitload of people don’t deserve any kind of forum, much less on national TV. On Sunday, nit-twits appeared all over the…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep with local pump prices still the same as its been the last couple of months — $3.99 a gallon for regular. Still high, but steady, though, horrifying for some US peoples, who will spend a record $490 billion on gas by year’s end…