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These Kings of Tech (Google, Facebook, Twitter) are More Powerful Than Presidents of Countries... Think About It... Do YOU Really Care about the Opinion of "Balls Are Narrow", the President of Brazil? A Country with MORE PEOPLE Than the USA...

 HEADLINE: Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs Testify Before Congress: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980510388/facebook-twitter-google-ceos-testify-before-congress-4-things-to-know

I Don't Have a Strong feeling of Patriotism towards the USA. However I DO Feel Loyalty to Google... I Entrust ALL MY DATA to Google. I Have Uploaded My Autobiography, All My Artwork, My Family Photographs, My Travel Photographs, My Absurdist Fiction Stories,  All My Songs and Every Opinion I've Ever Had...

I DO Feel Some Patriotism to the State of Jefferson. (Southern Oregon and Northern California) But The USA Has Too Many Crazy TrumpNik® Freaks for My Liking... 

MEME - i will survive - covid 19 shot gregory vanderlaan self

 Think About It For a Second... Google is Not at War With Anyone... Has No Need to Buy Weapons... The USA is in a Constant State of War Against Imaginary Enemies... 

There Exists an Industry of People That Write Magazine and Newspaper Articles BASHING BIG TECH. It's Possible to Sell and Article that Shouts: DANGER DANGER Google Will Find Out Your Innermost Secrets! These Articles are Written by People That Need Work and Have Discovered a Niche... as a Matter of Fact, There are People That Will Say ANYTHING if they Get Paid. Often They Work for "Think Tanks" - Witness the Bizarre Falsehood Published by the Heritage Foundation... They Even Had a Guy That Said The Electoral College Was a GOOD IDEA! Madness! Other Freaks Publish Endless Articles and Youtube Videos Promoting Nuclear Power Plants as a "Green" Alternative Energy Source. They Conveniently Ignore the Fact That Nukes Create Radioactive Waste that Has to be Stored Safely for 10,000 Years... They Say: Look! No Air Pollution! No Disasters Since F*CK YOU Shima, Chernobyl, TMI and Santa Susanna Field Laboratory... Mostly Safe... Except for the Increase in Cancer Around thos FAILURES... 

Remember the Endless War in Afghanistan? Can We Even Pretend That There is a MISSION? A GOAL? Can Anyone State Why We Are At War There? No... It's Just Another BogusWar® Designed to Sell Stuff For Defense Contractors... Sell Boots to The Military? Well, You Sell More Boots if We Have Boots on th Ground in DirkaDirkaStan... Sell Bandages? You'll Sell More Bandages if there Are Americans Bleeding in Some Far Off Land... 

abandoned Military airplanes rusting in the desert... a total waste of taxpayer dollars... meme gvan42
Abandoned Military Airplanes Rusting in the Desert...
a Total Waste of Taxpayer Dollars... 


Medicare for All would Cost A GREAT DEAL LESS than Paying for Insurance Company Profits...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17631240/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-32-trillion-cost-voxcare 

Bernie Sanders’s $32 trillion Medicare-for-all plan is actually kind of a bargain. The federal government would spend a lot more money on health care, but overall US health spending would be about the same as otherwise projected.


http://www.connectthedotsusa.com/

Let's Cut Defense Spending in Half and Use The Money Currently Wasted to Pay for Medicare for All and Free College... Since the Military Has NOT ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA since 1945, Why Spend Billions on Something we Do NOT USE? Since August 15th, 1945 [Victory in Japan Day] ALL WARS HAVE BEEN BOGUS... We have Invaded Foreign Countries and Taken Sides in THEIR Civil Wars. Remember Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq and Afghanistan? Why Did We Spend Taxpayer Dollars to Blow Those Countries UP? Corporate Profit! That's Why... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/04/lets-cut-defense-spending-and-use-money.html

What IF We Simply Taxed Marijuana and used THAT Money to Heal America? GEE, That Was Easy... 

When I am wrong, I simply Change my Mind. Sometimes I Change it Back and Forth as I LEARN MORE!

I used to be in favor of "Medicare For All" but...  
I saw an advertisement that stated we would have to WAIT LONGER for treatment with a single payer system. 

NOW, My Facebook Friend Changed My Mind Back!
Medicare for all - costs less, works better - meme - gvan42



I asked Google and It's True. In Canada they wait Longer... Well, I don't want to wait longer! I'm 65 years old and I already HAVE Medicare. The Medicare For All plan would ADD YOUNG PEOPLE... and I don't CARE about them... Really... CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY MEDICARE FOR ALL WOULD BE BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW? 

Maybe Medicare For All would be better for People under 65 but... 

I Emailed Bernie Sanders but have not gotten a response... Maybe You Know the Answer... 

Medicare for all Costs Less, Works Better - meme - gvan42




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On a Different Subject... 
a Post of Mine Was Deleted from This Blog
because I Dared to Ask the FORBIDDEN QUESTION:
"Why do we allow fresh water from the 
Sacramento River to flow into the Ocean?"

after all... 
We Pump the Colorado River Dry before it Gets to the Ocean in Mexico... and No One Complains About THAT!

all the water from the Colorado River is used to Drink, Water Crops, Fill Swimming Pools, Shower, Water Animals and Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks Beverage... 

SO... Someone Reported My Question to Google
and That Post was Deleted... 
WE MUST ALLOW NO QUESTIONS!
OBEY THE ECOLOGY NUTS!
NO THINKING!
Sat Image of Sacramento River
Sacramento River Satellite Photo Google Maps - Delta - 2021 Here is a Post on that same subject that was NOT Deleted on Facebook... "I Wonder Why Fresh Water from The Sacramento River Flows into the Ocean? After All, The Colorado River is Pumped Dry.
We are Having a Drought Here in California... This Water COULD be used to Grow Crops, Water Livestock, Take Showers or Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... But NO... It Flows Out into The Ocean at San Francisco... "

What IF? Would Pumping all that water out of the River and Into Fields that are Growing Crops Change the Climate of California's Central Valley... In the Summer, all that water would evaporate and then fall as rain when those clouds meet the Sierra Nevada Mountains... In General, the Wind Flows from West to East... WE NEED RAIN...

The Objection to Pumping the Sacramento River Dry is That Salmon Need the Water to Survive... and They Would Go Extinct... In That One River... Other Rivers, Like The Klamath and The Columbia and Rivers in Canada and Alaska would NOT Be Changed... and The Salmon Would Continue to Survive There... and... What IF Salmon Became Extinct? The Drought is The Western USA Is Putting Salmon in the Klamath River in Danger Right Now... Even With The Dams being Removed...



Kapow-Un-Dam-the-Klamath-River-All-Species-Parade-Arcata-CA
Protest Sign Says:
Kapow! Un Dam the Klamath River
in the All Species Parade: Arcata CA

Golden Bear Portrait Klamath River
Golden Bear Sculpture on The Klamath River Bridge.
Highway 101 - Northern California

The San Francisco Bay would Become Salt Water flowing In under the Golden Gate Bridge... Currently it has a Mixture of Salt Water and Fresh Water...

salt flat san jose
That's Surprising because there are Salt Harvesting Businesses Near San Jose... They Just Let the Bay water Evaporate and Collect the Remaining Salt...


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Taxation Without Representation is What the Republican Party is Offering These Days... Republicans Senators and Representatives are the Paid Puppets of The 1% - The Super Rich. They Aren't Even Pretending to Represent Their Constituents!

However, There are Millions of Patriotic Americans That Reveal GOP Corruption ONLINE 24 Hours a Day, 365 Days a Year... While Corporations Can Purchase TV Ads and Entire TV Networks to Broadcast Propaganda, Citizen Journalists Blog and Post on Social Media Exposing Corruption Endlessly! Satire, MEMEs and Rude Jokes are an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE. 

Please Like and Share These Memes... Just Right Click and Save Image as... Then Post on Facebook, Twitter or 12 OTHER Social Networks! Or Make Your Own! FUN! Let's Beat Them Like a Piñata. Just Get a Stick and SWING AWAY!

Ted Cruised to Mexico... Remember: Lying Does Not Change Reality - GOP=EVIL - Let's Beat Them Like a Piñata. Like and Share This Meme - more at gvan42
Ted Cruised to Mexico while Texans Froze...
Remember: Lying Does Not Change Reality
Like and Share These Memes


Remember: Lying Does Not Change Reality - GOP=EVIL - Let's Beat Them Like a Piñata. Like and Share This Meme - more at gvan42.blogspot.com

Remember: Lying Does Not Change Reality - GOP=EVIL - Let's Beat Them Like a Piñata. Like and Share This Meme - more at gvan42.blogspot.com

LINK: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

On a Totally Different Subject... Here are a Few Paragraphs from My Autobiography... While Looking at some Family Photos Taken at Our Cabin in Tahoe I was Reminded That... 

When I went to West Valley Junior College I Took a Class in Architectural Scale Model Building. Before It was Built, I took Blueprints of The Cabin on North Shore, Lake Tahoe and Built an Accurate Scale Model of it. Dad showed it to his friends and clients... Just to explain what he was having Built...  Just Like a Real Architect Would DO! I still have that model because Dad liked it and made sure it never got accidentally damaged. 

I did Learn How to Draw Mechanical Drawings Used to Make Computers There and Was Instantly Hired after One Year of Classes... at The Legendary System Industries... Owned by Dr. Edwin Zchau... Later He Became a Congressman in the US House of Representatives. On Family Day, Mom and Dad Took a Personal Guided Tour with Dr. Zchau... The Three of Them went Off and Looked at Everything... Including the Disc Drives That were About the Same Size as a Washing Machine... 1976

During the Free time I Had Between Classes I went to the Library and Drew Pictures, Cartoons, Designs... ART... while wearing Headphones... My Favorite Song was 'Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin... It's Astonishing on Headphones because there is a lot of Left-Right Ping Ponging and Phase-Shifter Effects on the Drums... Drawing White Listening to Music DOES Effect the Sketches... They End Up Being Much More Squiggly!

I remember buying a slice of Redwood Burl at That Store/Gallery on Highway 9 directly across the Street from San Lorenzo High School. My First Wife Jo Ann and I  were taking a Stained Glass Window Making Class at West Valley Junior College Night School. I made a Red Rose Framed by that Burl... and it hung in the Window of my Father's House for decades... and... Every Time I Looked At It I noticed the ERROR I made in the construction of that window... and it bugged me for about 10 seconds... I also made a Clock from a slice of Burl... and It hung in the Living Room... The School was right next door to a drive in Movie Theater and at Night we could walk over and see the movies without paying. We Saw "Carrie" there... While Walking on the Railroad Tracks. 

I have actually fired a gun. Really! At Camp Campbell [YMCA Summer Camp] in the Santa Cruz Mountains we learned how to shoot targets with a .22 rifle. I enjoyed it. Quite similar to playing Darts or Archery. Another time I fired a large pistol at cans. ONCE. My dad's lawyer owned the pistol. It had a "Helluva Kick" and was really loud and scary. I've never actually owned a gun or had one in the house... Thankfully... as on occasion I have had arguments with Wives and Girlfriends and none became fatal...

Camp Campbell also had a zip line. I got into a swing seat, jumped off the cliff and whoooooosh went down to the ground. At that time we were responsible for our own actions and staying safe. I suppose I could have fallen out of the zip line seat but I made sure I held on tight. BIG FUN.

My whole family rode bicycles on Highway 280 before it was opened for cars. Thousands of people rode in a one day celebration. We started near the Winchester Mystery House and rode towards downtown San Jose. I've always loved 280 as it was a fast and beautiful way to go visit San Francisco. We had friends (The Raas Family) that lived in "The City" and would go visit them often. Steve Raas took me to the Fillmore West in 1969 to go see a band called The Youngbloods and The Chicago Transit Authority. The big song of the night was "Get Together" a classic Hippie Anthem. There were light-shows on the walls of the concert hall. Squishy Water (like the album cover of Iron Butterfly's In a Gadda da Vida Album) and many movie loops and Strobe Slide Projectors. There were blacklights and people were painting each other's bodies with fluorescent paint. Big Fun.

We also went to The Exploratorium. That museum allowed the visitors to play with the exhibits. My favorite was the custom built musical jam session where a half a dozen people played synthesizers that were designed to never play a wrong note... with strangely shaped keyboards... that way visitors that had no musical training could experience the joy of playing without the pain of making a noise that was not pleasant. They also had a virtual reality experience where I was flying thru a tunnel and my spaceship traveled in the direction that I looked. It was a game where the goal was to crash into floating cubes that moved randomly. The cubes had people's faces on them and one was Jerry Garcia. This was long before VR games became available to the general public.

We visited the Winchester Mystery House when I was a child. I was not very impressed as I was expecting something more like Disneyland. In retrospect, I admire the giant house and appreciate the story of Sarah Winchester being haunted by the ghosts of all the men that died from gunshot wounds caused by her husband's rifle. She employed carpenters to work around the clock so that their sounds would keep the ghosts away. And if she did have any nightmares, she had strong men to protect her.

Mom, Dad and I went to the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco to see the prints by MC ESCHER. It is a private gallery with a locked door. You buzzed the buzzer and they made a decision if you were worthy or not... We were allowed in and saw many actual prints including Metamorphose... That one is VERY wide and a lot more interesting in person than it is in a book. We did not buy any prints. OOPS, That would have been a good investment but... we missed that opportunity.

LINK: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

In 1971, a friend of mine went to San Francisco and went to a Rock Concert at the Fillmore West and came back to our high school and said... LET'S BUILD OUR OWN using the old mill in the center of town. We formed an organization called "Youth Unlimited" and got the Town to Sponsor Us with $1 per year rent for Forbes Mill. 

That was the beginning of The Forbes Mill Teen Club in Los Gatos California... We had a light show and electric rock music every weekend... On Wednesday nights we performed folk music.  I was the head of security and did advertising posters. I used the mimeograph machine at the High School to print the posters for upcoming shows...

"Youth Unlimited" first held a concert in the Rec Room of the Presbyterian Church next to Old Town on University Ave. There was a live rock band that featured a saxophone player with an electric sax. We also formed a drum circle outside with me playing harmonica and a couple of guitar players. 

Since we had Town sponsorship of our "Teen Club" thru the organization Youth Unlimited, we had to make sure no laws were being broken at Forbes Mill or the police would shut us down. Certainly no drinking or illegal drug use or housing of runaways. My take on law enforcement was to direct potential lawbreakers to the nearby hole in the fence that lead to the wooded area next to the freeway.  I admit that a lot of laws were broken on State of California property, but that was NOT MY CONCERN. I was responsible for making sure that OUR property was crime free.

The light show was created by using four slide projectors and two spinning wheels with variable speed motors that blocked the light from reaching the white wall behind the bandstand. Each cardboard wheel had holes cut into it so that the slides would be projected in a stroboscopic manner.  Some slides were abstract art created by "crystal craze" paint and others were photographs.

We also owned a strobe light and I learned to not point it at the electric organ player because the blinking light made it impossible to see which keys were black and which were white...

"Youth Unlimited" also built a crisis center called Fre-Ba-ZAK House. It was in an old wooden home on North Santa Cruz Ave. The idea was to have a place for runaways to have a safe location to negotiate with their parents. Kids that had nowhere else to go could go there ... My friend Richard Bergholdt worked there as a counselor. I used to go there because it was a fun place to go talk with other classmates... I remember drinking coffee and discussing weighty subjects late at night. One time I went there because I couldn't go home. I had gone to the Ike and Tina Turner concert at the San Jose Convention Center and took a Large Dose of LSD. I had to wait until my parents went to sleep before going home. It was a great concert and I remember that MANY of the students at LGHS went. I also remember listening to the FM radio there. Talks by Alan Watts about Buddhism... and the story "The Cave" by Plato. There were some totally free radio stations then. They had the freedom of selecting what to play and when to play it. I heard "Space Hymn" by Lothar and the Hand People at Fre-Ba-ZAK House.

In the 1960s I made tie dyed shirts using rubber bands and boiling the dye... one color... RIT brand named dye... Mom sewed a shirt with bell sleeves and a Nehru collar... I wore it with a bell around my neck. Like, totally "mod" like the fashion that was popular with the teenagers in England... 




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Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://chickenofthesea.com/company/sustainability 
CORPORATE LIES: "Sustainability:
At Chicken of the Sea, we pride ourselves on our long-standing commitment to operating a socially and environmentally responsible business. We realize that our sustainability obligations don't end when the seafood is caught, but extend all the way through the processing, packaging, and delivery of sustainable seafood to our customers."

Fact: We Have Eaten Tuna Packages in Metal Cans for Decades... and That Metal Can Be Recycled... Melted and Used Again. This new Marketing Strategy Will Create Millions of Plastic Bowls... and WHY? 

A whopping 91% of plastic isn't recycled

Billions of tons of plastic have been made over the past decades, and much of it is becoming trash and litter, finds the first analysis of the issue.

MEME - gvan42 - Boycott Plastic Packaging of Tuna by Chicken of the Sea - Infusions SUCK
Boycott Plastic Packaging of Tuna by Chicken of the Sea Infusions SUCK
I emailed them at:

and I said: 

"Infusions create millions of Plastic Bowls and Forks to pollute the environment for 10,000 years. ENDANGERING FISH with Plastic Garbage floating in the Ocean... Killing YOUR TUNA! Sell Tuna in Metal Cans Like You have for a Decades. I eat a Lot of Tuna and will NOT BUY ANY FROM YOU ANYMORE. Infusions SUCK! "

and they wrote back: Dear Gregory,


Thank you for providing your feedback regarding our new Chicken of the Sea Infusions.

Careful consideration will be given to your observations regarding our packaging. Your comments have been noted and reported to our Quality Assurance Department for their follow up. In addition, the material in the cups and fork is recyclable, recycle #5.
We value you as a customer and appreciate you taking the time to contact us regarding our Chicken of the Sea Light Tuna. We hope we can count on your continued loyalty and in appreciation, please accept the complimentary coupon we are mailing to you.

Sincerely,
Wendy Stanford
Customer Care Representative


GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/queen-adam-lambert-global-health/

How Queen and Adam Lambert Are Taking Action for Global Health and Well-Being.

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Small tuna cans are made out of aluminum, and also recycle easily. The actual composition of the metal varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Before you collect tuna cans to take to the recycling center, place a small magnet on the can. If the magnet sticks, it is not aluminum but steel. If the can is steel, it should be placed into your steel can recycling bin if available.
https://sciencing.com/list-recyclable-aluminum-cans-8441456.html

The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum cans declined to 49.4 percent in 2016, its lowest level in years. The consumer recycling rate for aluminum cans was down from 54.5 percent a year earlier. 
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2017/11/14/aluminum-can-recycling-falls-significantly/

Great TV Show: Redacted Tonight on RT (Russian Television). Comedy/News... Looks at Subjects Ignored by Mainstream Media and Makes Satire.

https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/
With reality now seeming like a Shakespearean comedy, perhaps only comedy can truly bring truth to the people... Comedian Lee Camp and a talented cast do just that with RT America’s first comedy show - Redacted Tonight

here is a typical show... something I had never heard of before...

https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/435108-air-marshal-travel-danger/
Lee Camp explains a new federal air marshals program called ‘Quiet Skies’, in which armed gunmen follow ordinary traveling citizens who haven’t been convicted or even suspected of a crime.

The Only Real Lines on the Map Are Coastlines.



Where ARE the Secret Prisons in the USA housing immigrant children separated from their families at the Border? If You See Something Say Something.

Citizen Journalists have been filming and recording immigrant children... Please use your own cellphone to document this child abuse. We know that there is a Secret Prison in Harlem, New York City... and many in Texas... at Military bases... REPORTERS AWAKEN... Your Country needs you to film these hidden location!

HIDDEN HORRORS OF “ZERO TOLERANCE” — MASS TRIALS AND CHILDREN TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS




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