War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast with thick-gray clouds this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, supposedly another episode in a mundane weather routine — fog tainted with sunlight, rinse and repeat. However, I do so-prefer here than the three-digit temperatures found in the interior, away from these shoreline breezes. We’ll top in the mid-60s today most-likely. Seems little Eddie…
Terror toss to the good today — maybe/maybe not have a positive effect in this era of multi-media surveillance, especially through phones, and fright. Via The Hill: ‘A federal court has decided that the National Security Agency’s bulk, warrantless collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal.’ And, ‘“exceeds the scope of what Congress…
A swelling interest in George Orwell, in a swelling Orwellian age of WikiLeaks and worldwide mega- surveillance — art imitating life, and life becoming a movie. Robert Butler at Intelligent Life magazine reviews the literature of a cultural, social motif for an age, “1984,” a tale of the times, from Orwell’s literary executor Bill Hamilton: ‘“We’re…
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.…
Ground fog, and most-likely way up in the dark, there’s overcast skies here on California’s north coast — Friday morning; and ain’t we just burning the shit right-through September? And 2014? A whole year — nearly gone already. A near-three-week retiree, I haven’t felt any time-travel slow-down either. And I do practically nothing, which blows…
Thanks to Eddie Snowden, we’re watching them watch us. The real bad shit — they don’t give a rat’s ass. In this case, the “them” being our own government. Memos from George Jr.’s smoke-screen attempt to wiretap the world after 9/11 were released late yesterday, but this is the real-key point on the whole matter,…
Ground fog and a chilled air makes for an exciting early morning here on California’s north coast, and what makes this particular day so titillating is that it’s Friday! Frick, I been waiting for this. Events this week proves the US is not the exceptional place we were all told repeatedly it was, and not…
Overcast and a bit of ground fog this way-too-early Friday on California’s north coast as we look the weekend square in the eyes — and Saturday blinked. The air’s somewhat cooler this morning, too, so maybe we’re catching some of that polar vortex shit. Meanwhile, out in the world, real shit is hitting the fan.…
Truth always trumps — no matter an impossible-case reporting what’s right. Case in point: Glenn Greenwald, in an interview last month: “The key to the social control was the possibility that they could be watched at any time.” Published 64 years ago last week, George Orwell’s “1984” has been the ultimate/universal code for bad-government juju.…
Overcast and a touch of ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and a warm breeze, too. The air’s not really ‘warm,’ but feels like it, though. In the atmosphere this morning, though, is a spirit or remembrance. Not only of things past, but what the past does for tomorrow, and what kind…
