War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
SOS (same-old-shit) — blame outside influences, but this time with a twist. Instead of the standard Great Satan of the US, it’s the UK: In his speech during Friday prayers, Khamenei played on the historic suspicions many Iranians have of Britain by hinting at its involvement in the demonstrations and describing it as “the most…
Still more grim news, but today’s particular sack of shit is more ethics and morals than anything else. Three stories that reflect our times — strange/bad and getting worse — and how lopsided situations have become as if a giant screw is being tightened down. The first item concerns a near-invisible US horror — coal ash dump-ponds,…
Just as I get my Jeep Commache finally running right and back on the road — a near-two-year traumatic odyssey — fuel prices at the pump are starting to go up again, rising 20 cents in less than a month. Here in northern California, we’re now paying $3.25 a gallon, well above the national upwardly-mobile US…
Still more bad news from the war on weather. Changes in climate the next few years will create a disaster scenario beyond even the old chesnut of “biblical proportions” as all kinds of bad shit will force the mass movement of many peoples. From Agence France-Presse today (via Raw Story): Tens of millions of people…
Apparently, this global-warming scenario seems to be getting worse. This morning from the Washington Post: Sea levels could rise faster along the U.S. East Coast than in any other densely populated part of the world, new research shows, as changes in ice caps and ocean currents push water toward a shoreline inlaid with cities, resort…
Here on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion comes an odd historical look at the Normandy landings from an altogether different perspective: The civilian inhabitants along that particular French Coast. And according to history, the Allies acted like barbarians — high saturation bombing of cities, villages and even blowing the shit out of a…
In 1956, there were less than 170 million US peoples, unemployment was at less than 5 percent, a first-class postage stamp cost less than a nickel. And Dinah Shore was hawking the Chevy brand. In the illustration at left (found here), she is seen with her national, prime-time TV pitch-line, “See the USA in Your Chevrolet,” in…
Villager #1: We have found a witch. May we burn her? Crowd: Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her! Bedevere: How do you know she is a witch? Villager #2: She looks like one. Crowd: Right! Yeah! Yeah! Bedevere: Bring her forward. Witch: I’m not a witch. I’m not a witch. Bedevere: Uh, but you…
This past weekend the North Koreans tossed the old middle finger once again at the world and tested a nuclear device: “Was it another fizzle?†asked Hans M. Kristensen, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists. “We’ll have to wait for more analysis of the seismic data, but so far the early news…
Despite all the posturing, the US is a war-like nation. (Illustration found here). War has always been in the vital interests of the US — starting from day one, but officially most-likely from the Pequot War in 1637 with 11 wars fought before the so-called Revolutionary War and 30 even prior to the Civil War, a shitload…