War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Ground fog and damp this way-too-early Saturday on California’s north coast — seemingly the most-dead time zone of all, that period of deep quiet and isolation marking a weekend’s pre-dawn hours. Everybody else most-likely asleep, like normal folks. In the wake of a federal appeals court ruling last week the NSA’s mass collection of phone…
Last paragraph yesterday from a story by Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian about how NSA people do as they please with government technology: Compounding the potential financial conflicts at the NSA, Buzzfeed News reported that the home of chief of its Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa Shea, has a signals-intelligence consulting firm operating out of it.…
Raining and warm this early Friday as we grind down another work week and ready ourselves for a couple days of no bullshit from ground level. In the ongoing spying- bullshit from way-up yonder, and a sigh of relief: In a 32-0 vote, the House Judiciary Committee passed the USA Freedom Act, a bill that…
Clear and cold again this Thursday morning up here on California’s north coast, with the weather hopefully, slowly moving out of the news spotlight. We’re at 37 degrees right now on our way to a high of 53, and some rain forecast for tonight — but who knows. Beyond the chatter on the Congressional budget bargain-basement…
Raining and cold this way-too-early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and the weather continues to match the season — up here, this state of the atmosphere is pretty normal, except with the equinox of crazy. Nuts like the NSA — Google security engineer Brandon Downey didn’t mix words: “Fuck these guys.” Even as the US…
Here we are in one word — Friday! Chilly and overcast up here on California’s north coast as we gleefully trot off into the weekend. Despite a lot of other shit happening, the NSA soap opera continues apparently unabated — beyond the leaders of Mexico, Germany, France, the Netherlands, others I forget, the US intelligence…
Crystal-clear and a bit chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a majestic full moon hanging mega-bright over it all — despite that, we’ve a 90 percent forecast for rain later today, maybe with some thunderstorms tonight. Weather is as peculiar as life nowadays. Apparently, in this humanistic, modern age, guns are king:…
Seemingly clear skies this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, but I can’t see any twinkling stars — must be a way-high overcast way-up yonder somewhere. Well, this is Humboldt County, we’re higher than the rest of the country combined, to start with, and to finish. America as a concept is pretty-much over — this…
Once again it’s already middle of the week — time flies when shit runs supreme. And a lot of it does stick to the wall. Another foggy early morning here on California’s north coast as I wade through the current news cycle, seeking whatever sticks to that proverbial wall and most of it ain’t funny,…
(Illustration found here). A kind of shaker coming in the wake of the NSA/Internet/surveillance weirdness is the news today of someone pulling off a “sophisticated” hack late last year of CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer devices, and the attack didn’t appear random. Via the Washington Post: In a statement Friday, CBS did not identify…
