Great Book: Drawdown - describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. by Paul Hawken... and... Lynn Fitz Hugh: Food and Climate - A Talk on Pirate Television out of Seattle...

https://www.drawdown.org/the-book 
For each Global Warming solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuyedq4-AQ

Lynn Fitz Hugh: Food and Climate - A Talk on Pirate Television out of Seattle...

All of us are consumers of food and make food choices that impact our carbon foot print. Learn about how eating an organic, local, plant-based diet and wasting less food can help stop climate change.

Lynn Fitz-Hugh founded https://350seattle.org/ as well as Faith Action Climate Team (FACT). Recorded at the 2019 South Sound Climate Convention in Olympia Washington 4/13/19 See also: https://southsoundclimateconvention.org/

Trump wants to expand fracking in California causing drinking water to be polluted... Trump=Evil... Please Share this Post with your Republican Friends as Their Own Children Drink Water... A Vote for Trump is a Vote For Death... and it's NOT Just California... Trump Wants to Frack ALL OVER THE WEST...

The Trump administration last Thursday released a plan to open up more than a million acres of public and private land to hydraulic fracturing in California. The lands being targeted cover several Central California counties including eastern Fresno, western Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura. 

California has had a 5-year fracking moratorium on federal land after a judge ruled for a pause in operations to better study the health and environmental impacts. As it already stands California's central valley has some of the worst air quality in the state. The plan is expected to be blocked by lawsuits that environmental groups are already readying. 

Source: Nayamin Martinez of the Central California Environmental Justice Network. 
https://freespeech.org/stories/trump-wants-to-expand-fracking-in-california/

FRACKING CAUSES DRINKING WATER POLLUTION. Trump wants to Trade Your Children's Health for Increased Corporate Profits... 
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-fracking-oil-gas-california-20190425-story.html

EPA Says Roundup does not cause Cancer... Once Again, Trump's EPA rules IN FAVOR of Corporate Profits and AGAINST People's Health... https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/441535-epa-says-weed-killing-chemical-does-not-cause-cancer-despite-jury

I like this idea... Graffiti-Vandalism to campaign against tRUMP... Make sure you use a Sharpie or El Marko... They are Permanent markers that are difficult to remove... or maybe those specially made Graffiti Pens that are used Everywhere in San Jose, California... They seem to actually ETCH their words into glass...

This one is Pretty Funny BUT...
You Can Write Your Own Slogan!
#DumpTrump or #BerzerkerPOTUS
Impeach Da MoFo!

The Grateful Dead were "Banned" from the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland because of too many fireworks in the parking lot... The venue is close to the State of South Carolina where people can buy rockets that fly up into the air and explode... SO...

I guess there was a danger of BURNING DOWN THE FOREST... anyway, the next Year the dead started Playing in a Basketball Arena... Maybe this is a true story or maybe they just wanted a bigger hall so more people could get in...

In Pittsburgh, PA I remember a lady had "Liberated" a Roll of bright orange Supermarket stickers that said "BONELESS" and she was sticking them on boys... I thought it was funny... Kind of a Pranksterish Thing to Do...  That was the Crosby, Stills and Nash & Dead Concert and there were many People from Canada and New York City attending... Great Show and The Three Rivers Stadium is a Perfect Circle with all the Echoes Cancelling near the Pitchers Mound... Yes, they did play "Teach Your Children" and Jerry Garcia played the Pedal Steel Guitar... 

At RFK Stadium in Washington, DC I men many Deaf Students from Gallaudet University... They said that Phil Lesh's Bass did not require Hearing using Ears as We could Feel it in the Stomach...

Photo of me demonstrating American Sign Language for the Phrase "Do you have any LSD?"

I love playing "Deal" on the Guitar... It's Really Simple... and Fun to Sing in Public... I Remember Playing that Song in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington DC and Some Homeless Guy said he Liked that song about a DEER... I guess I wasn't pronouncing the words accurately... In Contrast, a Homeless woman really hated "The Golden Road." The Lyric "She's a Neon Light Diamond, She can live on the Street" pissed her off...

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I attended a Live Performance of Seastones at Winterland in San Francisco... The record has a lot of Classic Analog Synthesizer Sounds... He turned up the Resonance on the Band Pass Filter and Modulated the Pitch using a Low Frequency Oscillator... You Know that sound... Like Spaceships Taking Off in 1950's Science Fiction Movies... Thanks to Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, Ned Lagin got a bit of NOTICE by the Deadhead Audience... Thanks Phil, for Finding him...

My real Gratitude is that I Bought an Analog Synthesizer and Played That Cosmic Outer Space Whoosh Whoosh Music Myself... Korg Poly Six and Roland SH-101 with a Micro Composer... 

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I saw the Jerry Garcia Band at San Jose State, California... That was the only concert that I got to Dance Right next to the Stage in front of Jerry... I remember that he was drenched in sweat... Those Stage Lights are HOT! and it was Just too loud for me so I moved back after a while... The big song of the Night was "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton. That is a really PERKY Song with a Difficult to play rhythm... Jerry was able to play it well... I remember the Bright Orange Streetlights after the show caused a totally odd color scheme...

Jerry also was able to Master the Rhythm of "La Bamba" while all the other guys seemed to be scrambling to keep up... at a performance at the Capital Center in Landover Maryland...

Campaign to DUMP TRUMP 2020... How to Get Your Ideas Read by People that Don't Already Agree with you... Strategy: "Like" Posts on Facebook that have Opinions That Are Different Than Your Own...

Facebook Publishes Posts that Agree with Your Beliefs. Their Idea is that You will stay on Facebook Longer if They show you posts that you find interesting... For Example: They record all your "Likes" and use that data to select what posts to show... Therefore, If I want to have my opinions delivered to people that have the opposite viewpoint... I have to "LIKE" a bunch of Right Wing Nuts... Republican Wankers... TrumpNiks... and then posts by those people show up in my News Feed... Especially if I choose to view the Most Recent Stories instead of the Top Stories. If we are going to BEAT TRUMP in 2020 we have to contact Republicans... Just Posting and Sharing with people that already vote Democratic accomplishes very little... I recommend sharing Stories about the DAMAGE TRUMP HAS DONE TO AMERICAN FARMERS... or The DAMAGE TRUMP HAS DONE ALLOWING INCREASED AIR POLLUTION... Everyone, Including Trumpniks Want Clean Air... and Trading Corporate Profit for Coal Mine Owners like Robert Murray for YOUR OWN CHILDREN'S HEALTH is a concept that even Brainwashed TrumpNiks can understand... Please Share: 


MOMS CLEAN AIR FORCE is a community of moms and dads united against air pollution...
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/


TRUMP'S TRADE WAR HAS HURT MIDWESTERN FARMERS. NOW, THEY'RE FIGHTING BACK.
A soybean farmer explains the challenges facing farmers if Trump's trade war continues.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-trade-war-has-hurt-midwestern-farmers-now-theyre-fighting-back

Trump's trade war leads to the lowest income for American farmers in years. Trump’s tariffs are causing Midwest dairy farms to go bankrupt in record numbers. https://www.salon.com/2019/04/30/trumps-trade-war-leads-to-the-lowest-income-for-american-farmers-in-years/

FISH AND WILDLIFE IS 'CONSERVING' IMPERILED ANIMALS BY DENYING THEM PROTECTION.
New documents show how quotas to delist or downlist endangered species may be influencing conservation decisions. https://psmag.com/environment/fish-and-wildlife-is-conserving-nearly-extinct-animals-by-denying-them-protection 

Mom's Clean Air Force... A Citizens Group Dedicated to Closing Coal Fired Power Plants and Fighting Air Pollution in Every Way. End Fracking... Please Share This Information with Trump Supporters... Their Children BREATHE! and Trump is In Favor of Coal and Rolling Back Automobile Emission Standards... Increasing Air Pollution...

https://www.momscleanairforce.org/
Moms Clean Air Force is a community of moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health. We arm members with reliable information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools and on-the-ground events... a special project of Environmental Defense Fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog
The 1948 Donora smog was a historic air inversion that resulted in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 people of the 14,000 population of Donora, Pennsylvania,[2] a mill town on the Monongahela River 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The event is commemorated by the Donora Smog Museum.

An Air Inversion Traps Pollution in a Bubble... Killing People... Like the London Fog that Killed 12,000 People... Remember, The Entire Earth is a Bubble... When we Burn Coal and Gas and Oil the Air Pollution STAYS HERE until Rain washes the smog out of the sky and INTO THE CREEKS...

https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ala-state-of-air-2019/
DECLINING AIR QUALITY THREATENS THE HEALTH OF MILLIONS...

https://membership.onlineaction.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3300
TELL CONGRESS: SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE TRUMP EPA POISONING OUR BABIES’ BRAINS. Trump’s EPA — under the leadership of acting head, Andrew Wheeler — has hit its lowest, most cynical level in its radical agenda to destroy protections against pollution.

EPA has launched a process to sabotage and ultimately destroy our Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. These are protections that keep a terrible poison from harming our babies' brains. This is a terrifying development because of what it means for our health. It’s also terrifying because it shows that Trump's EPA will stop at nothing to protect polluter profits.

This is an outrage — urge your representatives to speak out against EPA's attack on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

What is Bitcoin? Is it an Viable Alternative to Banks and Government Published Currency? Currently THE DOLLAR is used worldwide and THE DOLLAR is Created by the US Government... What If We Didn't USE The Dollar and People that Own Giant Banks like BofA or Chase simply... didn't matter?

What IF Jeff Bezos, who owns a lot of Dollars... Was Just like any other Hoarder? Others Hoard Old Newspapers or Cats or String... Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Hoard Dollars... What if Dollars were Obsolete?

Obviously, Bankers caused a lot of problems in 2008 when they gambled away all their money and had the US Government Bail them out... Bitcoin was invented and became popular soon after the meltdown... 2010 was the first year a person Bought a Pizza using Bitcoins... He found someone willing to trade 10,000 bitcoins for $25.00...

An Interesting History of Bitcoin: The Keiser Report starring Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert.
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@keiserreport/bitcoin-to-the-moon-for-some-usd1-in-bitcoin-seven-years-ago-usd1-4-million-today

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or group of people who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

Is it possible that Bitcoin is a Threat to The very Concept of Central Banking? Will organizations that depend on controlling Dollars be ANGERED by the Competition and try to Defeat Bitcoin Users? Some Organizations are: The US Government, The Government of Saudi Arabia, Goldman Saks, The Koch Brothers, and Donald Trump...

https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works

https://www.weusecoins.com/en/getting-started/

The Similarity of Trump, Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite is Creepy... They ALL Tell Lies that are Totally Believed by Brainwashed Followers... How can we Rescue and De-Program TrumpNiks Before it's Too Late?

CNN and MSNBC Often point out FALSE CLAIMS MADE BY TRUMP. Obvious Lies... However, True Believers of Our Glorious Leader Never Watch those TV Channels... Nor do they Read Newspapers Like The Washington Post, The New York Times or ANYONE telling the Truth... 

TrumpNiks Live in an Artificial World Constructed by Rupert Murdoch where they receive Programming Instructions via Fox News... and The National Enquirer... and Rush Limbaugh... 

and then there is Facebook and other Social Media Platforms... Anyone can write Totally False Stories and Post the as if they were true... Recently I've "Liked" many Republican posts and Groups too see what they Post on Facebook... Yes, My Newsfeed is Packed with Bizarre Lies and Fake Conspiracy Theories... It's astounding that ANYONE COULD POSSIBLY BELIEVE THESE INSANE RANTS...  

In case you don't know the Name Marshall Applewhite... He lead a UFO/Suicide Cult... They Earned their Living as Webpage Designers...
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite

Save the Mattole Ancient Forest... An Ecology Group Staging Tree Sits in Douglas Fir Forests of Humboldt County, California...

https://www.facebook.com/savethemattoleforest/   

http://sanctuaryforest.org/about/mattole-lost-coast-map/

Sanctuary Forest is a land and water trust whose mission is to conserve the Mattole River watershed and surrounding areas for wildlife habitat and aesthetic, spiritual and intrinsic values, in cooperation with our diverse community.

The Mattole Watershed
The Mattole River begins its journey to the sea from its headwaters located approximately 200 miles north of San Francisco, near the town of Whitethorn on California’s Lost Coast.  Draining 300 miles of rugged mountains and forests, it flows sixty-six miles northwest to Petrolia where it empties into the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/27/18816634.php
Forest Defenders' Blockade in Mattole Raided by Paramilitary-style Security... 
A long-standing logging road blockade defending the Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed was raided in recent days, but activists are still in the woods and on the road, struggling to hold the line.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/18/18819241.php
Tree Sitters Protest Sierra Pacific Industries Clearcut Logging...
Forest Defenders in Humboldt County took to the trees on forestland owned by Sierra Pacific Industries, California's most massive clear cutter and largest landowner. They are defending old growth and mature trees on a timber plan very close to where they have been defending forests on Humboldt Redwood Co. land.

What IF We Taxed Corporations As If They Were People? We could Totally Afford MANY Wonderful Things... We could spend Billions on Infrastructure... This Year 60 Giant Corporations Paid ZERO Taxes... That's Right... Amazon Paid Nothing! on $11 Billion Dollars Profit...

We OUGHT To Repeal And Replace Trump's Tax Cut For The Rich Law... 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.html
Headline: Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018...

Thanks to the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Amazon’s federal tax responsibility is 21% (down from 35% in previous years). But with the help of tax breaks, according to corporate filings, Amazon won’t be paying a dime to Uncle Sam despite posting more than $11.2 billion in profits in 2018.

I'm enjoying the good life on California's North Coast. After a life spent as an electronic draftsman, Dominos Pizza Driver and then Radio Shack salesman, I went to college at Humboldt State University and graduated with a BS in Computers... Got a Government Job...

Landed a government job at the Humboldt County DHHS (welfare department) and I've since retired... Visit my Webstore at http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan* to see artwork of mine printed on gift items... like coffee-cups, mousepads, t-shirts... and...

The Trinidad Rest Stop on Highway 101 a few miles North of Arcata. Redwood Forest and a Lovely Loop Trail.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-trinidad-rest-stop-on-highway-101.html

Madaket Ferry - Logging Truck on 299 near Arcata, CA - Park near Orrick

My Dad and Brother on the Madaket Ferry

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/madaket-ferry-logging-truck-on-299-near.html

Dancing to The Humboldt Calypso Band... Absynth Quintet... Blue Rhythm Revue and The Fickle Hillbillies... Arcata, California

Humboldt Calypso Band

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/dancing-to-humboldt-calypso-band.html

American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber and Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California.

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html

Great White Men... In The Past, Almost Everything that Has Been Accomplished Has Been Accomplished by White Men... But In The Future... We Shall See...

If you don't recognize any of these people, just Google them... and be glad that Great White Men invented Google, The Internet, Computers and Electricity.

However... Some White Men have been astonishingly Evil. Adolph Hitler, Donald Trump, Charles Manson, George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Joseph Stalin, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mitch McConnell, Steve Mnuchin, Charles and David Koch, Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Schilling, Charles Hurwitz, Steve Bannon, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ted Kaczynski and Timothy McVey...  to name a few...

List of Great White Men:
Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Thomas Watson [IBM],  Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Gordon Moore [INTEL], Hewlett, Packard, Alexander Graham Bell, Marconi, Harley, Davidson, George Westinghouse, Goodyear, Firestone, Henry Ford, Lockheed, Boeing, and it goes on and on and on... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/09/great-white-men-did-you-ever-notice.html

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California. Convert Seawater into drinking water, salt and electricity.  It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water cools it condenses into pure H2O and salt. The water would be sold to people for drinking, washing, watering livestock and watering plants. The salt could be sold or returned to the ocean if there are not enough customers... Camp Pendleton near San Diego would be an ideal location. Southern California is in need of water. There is a current proposal to use pipelines to move fresh water from the Sacramento River to be used by farmers and residents in SoCal. An alternative would be to just get the water from the ocean... We should also stop watering lawns in California. It's a cultural norm that is not practical in a state that is suffering drought. What if it became fashionable to have rock gardens or cactus? That's what they do in Arizona...

Click Here ---> https://gvan42.blogspot.com/ <--- Click Here

THREE CORRUPT REPUBLICANS GOING TO PRISON... Maria Butina - NRA/Russian Agent, Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni - Bridgegate in New Jersey... Former Governor Chris Christie Did NOT Go to Prison... WHY???

Headline: NRA/Russian operative Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison... 
The American University grad student and gun rights activist worked as an unregistered foreign agent for the Kremlin. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-operative-maria-butina-sentenced-18-months-prison-n998866


Headline: Bridget Kelly, sentenced to 13 months in prison, lashes out at Chris Christie: ‘You are a bully’
https://www.philly.com/news/chris-christie-bridget-anne-kelly-bully-bridgegate-prison-statement-20190424.html

Prosecutors said Kelly, Wildstein, and Port Authority official Bill Baroni conspired to reduce the number of local access lanes available to commuters approaching the bridge from Fort Lee from three to one. They covered up the scheme by promoting it as a “traffic study,” prosecutors said.

I remember FM Radio Quadraphonic Broadcasts of the Grateful Dead New Years Eve Concert in 1976... I was lucky enough to Get in to the Cow Palace Show in 1975... Carlos Santana played Up Until Midnight... then Festivities/Celebration... The Dead Started Playing After Midnight...

They Broadcast the stereo Front-Left and Front-Right sound on ONE Radio Station... and they Broadcast the Rear Left and Right on a Different station... If you owned Two Stereo Radios you could listen to True Quadraphonic Sound at your Home... The Reason they did this was that Tickets for New Years Eve were very difficult to get and Many people could not get in... BUT... We had a wonderful time at Home with all our Friends...

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I'm a big fan of Lyricist John Perry Barlow... He wrote "Estimated Prophet", "Throwing Stones" and "I Need a Miracle" and others... Great Meaningful Songs that Make you Think...

He also helped found the EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation... an Internet Freedom of the Press Organization...

Here is a Newspaper Article about Him and Julian Assange... Founder of Wikileaks...
Julian Assange and John Perry Barlow in joint interview on NSA Prism leaks: "Snowden is a hero" https://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/julian-assange-and-john-perry.html

An Obituary...
Tech Utopianism And Our Walled Gardens: Is It Time For A Jailbreak? 

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/12/585110447/tech-utopianism-and-our-walled-gardens-is-it-time-for-a-jailbreak 

John Perry Barlow, who died last Wednesday at 70, was one of those unusual figures whose obituaries find no point of common agreement. An Internet evangelist who once wrote song lyrics for the Grateful Dead, Barlow was also a poet, activist, cattle rancher and corporate consultant, whose peripatetic career defied easy summarization. Billboard wrote about his music career; Wired about his Internet activism; Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune about his boyhood on the Bar Cross Ranch. Barlow, louche and charismatic, had an astonishing number of friends, and their testimonials suggest a man with a taste for the good life and a certain facility for bulls***. No one seemed certain of Barlow's place in history, or how to answer the tougher questions: Is Barlow's utopian futurism still relevant? Was his work as an activist defensible? Was his music any good? But as writers struggled with the complicated legacy of John Perry Barlow, most readers, I suspect, had a different question: Who? Don't worry: Unless you enjoy suing the government, or were in the tapers' pit at Fillmore in 1976, you are forgiven for not knowing who Barlow was. Born in Wyoming to a family of cattle ranchers, Barlow showed early promise as a writer, garnering a significant advance for his first novel shortly after graduating college. He never finished it, instead discovering LSD and living for a time on an Ashram. Although he retained, throughout his life, the laconic drawl of a cattle hand, Barlow's intellect and charisma permitted him access to an extraordinary range of acquaintances, including Bob Weir, the rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead. In the early '70s, when Weir was feuding with the Dead's primary lyricist Robert Hunter, Barlow was temporarily brought in to replace him.

A Review of his Top Ten Songs... 
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/08/john-perry-barlow-remembering-his-10-greatest-songs/ 

“Cassidy”: The Weir-Barlow duo was never better than on this memorable tune originally released on Weir’s first solo album, 1972’s “Ace,” and then on 1981’s “Reckoning,” 1990’s “Without a Net” and other Grateful Dead live efforts. The song was reportedly named after Cassidy Law, who was the daughter of legendary Grateful crew member Rex Jackson and Weir’s close friend Eileen Law. Also check out the great version Suzanne Vega does on the Dead tribute album “Deadicated.” 

 “Mexicali Blues”: It’s believed to be the first Weir-Barlow collaboration and it’s definitely a keeper — a rambling cowboy tune that owes a debt to Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (which the Dead often covered). 

 “Throwing Stones”: One of the standout tracks from 1987’s “In the Dark,” “Throwing Stones” is a definite nominee for the best song the Dead created during the later part of its career — a powerful rocker addressing social concerns. 

 “Estimated Prophet”: The song provides a mesmerizing start to 1977’s “Terrapin Station,” kicking up a dust of psychedelia that still sounds satisfying to this day. 

 “Hell in a Bucket”: It’s another great rocker from “In the Dark,” which formed a great one-two punch with “Touch of Grey.” 

 “We Can Run”: Barlow collaborated with Grateful Dead vocalist-keyboardist Brent Mydland on a number of songs for the band’s last studio effort, 1989’s “Built to Last.” This passionate number addressing environment concerns might be the best of the bunch. 

“Black-Throated Wind”: Another keeper from Weir’s “Ace” album, which is thought of as de-facto Dead album since the rest of the band backed Weir on it. 

 “The Music Never Stopped”: This song from the Dead’s eighth studio album, 1975’s “Blues for Allah,” became an anthem for the band and, especially, its fabled fans – the Deadheads. 

 “I Need a Miracle”: Speaking of Deadheads, the title of this song became the ultimate catchphrase for anyone needing a ticket to a show (sold out or otherwise). 

 “Weather Report Suite”: Barlow contributed to this magical musical epic that brings the Dead’s sixth album, 1973’s “Wake of the Flood,” to a satisfying conclusion. 

 “Looks Like Rain”: Our final pick from “Ace,” which was a highlight of Grateful Dead shows for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

 

Sadly, Joe Biden has been WRONG on Almost Every Issue throughout his Entire Life... He Wrote the 1994 "Crime Bill" that ended up with Mass incarceration of Black Men for Crack Cocaine and Marijuana... Voted IN FAVOR of the Disastrous War in Iraq... Said Roe v Wade went Too Far... Voted to Repeal Glass Steagall Law - Causing the Financial Meltdown of 2008... Opposed Bankruptcy Protection for Student Loan Debtors... Anita Hill... and STILL Opposes Legalization of Marijuana...

https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/joe-biden-record/

Headline: No Joe! Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

By Andrew Cockburn

By the 1980s, Biden had begun to see political gold in the harsh antidrug legislation that had been pioneered by drug warriors such as Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, and would ultimately lead to the age of mass incarceration for black Americans. One of his Senate staffers at the time recalls him remarking, “Whenever people hear the words ‘drugs’ and ‘crime,’ I want them to think ‘Joe Biden.’” 

Biden later took pride in reminding audiences that “through the leadership of Senator Thurmond, and myself, and others,” Congress had passed a law mandating a five-year sentence, with no parole, for anyone caught with a piece of crack cocaine “no bigger than [a] quarter.” That is, they created the infamous disparity in penalties between those caught with powder cocaine (white people) and those carrying crack (black people). 

Biden’s legislative legacy includes an inconsistent (to put it mildly) record on abortion rights. Roe v. Wade “went too far,” he told an interviewer in 1974. “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.” For some years his votes were consistent with that view. He supported the notorious Hyde Amendment prohibiting any and all federal funding for abortions.

Biden was long a willing foot soldier in the campaign to emasculate laws allowing debtors relief from loans they cannot repay. As far back as 1978, he helped negotiate a deal rolling back bankruptcy protections for graduates with federal student loans, and in 1984 worked to do the same for borrowers with loans for vocational schools.

Biden was among the ninety senators on one of the fatal (to the rest of us) legislative gifts presented to Wall Street back in the Clinton era: the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999. The act repealed the hallowed Depression-era Glass–Steagall legislation that severed investment banking from commercial banking, thereby permitting the combined operations to gamble with depositors’ money, and ultimately ushering in the 2008 crash. “The worst vote I ever cast in my entire time in the United States Senate,” admitted Biden in December 2016, as he prepared to leave office. Seventeen years too late, he explained that the act had “allowed banks with deposits to take on risky investments, putting the whole system at risk.”