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Instead of America First! why not Earth First! ??? Remember: Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes... Drive Cars Less or Not at All... Protect Trees...Ride a Bike... Free All Cannabis Prisoners and Use the Empty Jail Cells as a Homeless Shelter...

It's troubling that our Glorious Leaders fail to comprehend that we are all one... Ecology is important to everyone... even Billionaires were like, totally inconvenienced by Hurricane Sandy in New York City. When the streets flooded "Limo Man" couldn't ride... Just like the Subway Riders...


Great Book "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Ed Abbey... 


One simple thing you can do is attach a Furnace Filter to the Back of a Box Fan. That way you can remove smoke particles from the air you breathe indoors. With the Massive Fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia pumping Megatons of Smoke into the Air... Wind blows all that pollution everywhere... Including inside your own home... 


simple invention to remove air pollution indoors - duct tape a Furnace Filter to a Box Fan - removes smoke from wildfires



http://www.abbeyweb.net/ 

http://www.abbeyweb.net/books/ea/monkey_wrench.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...

Then the Pacific Lumber Company was purchased at a foreclosure sale by The Fisher Family. They had made a fortune selling clothes at a chain of stores called "The Gap". They reintroduced the business plan called "sustainable logging" where the Lumberjacks would only cut down as many trees as grew during the year. This plan was invented by the original owner of Pacific Lumber, Simon J. Murphy... The concept was to cut 1% of the forest every year and plant new trees so that in a hundred years the new trees would have grown big enough to harvest.

Earth First!

During this time there were many ecology protests in Humboldt County. Including "Tree Sits" where forest protectors would build a treehouse in the upper branches of a giant Redwood in order to prevent Lumberjacks from Chainsawing the tree down. It would be possibly fatal for a tree sitter to be in a tree that was falling and the corporations were not willing to risk actual Human Life for profit. (Bad Publicity)... At the Tree Sit I attended MAXXAM Hired a Local man to "Evict" the Tree Sitters by climbing the tree and wrestling with the people... eventually carrying them to the ground where the Police arrested them.

Others committed "Tree Spiking" where large metal nails were driven into the wood of a tree and then the heads of the nails were clipped off. That way, if a tree was at the sawmill and the blade hit the metal, the blade would explode killing millworkers. Once again the corporation was not willing to risk people's lives and so trees that were spiked, were not cut down. The Forest Protectors spray painted the spiked trees so that the Lumberjacks would be aware of the danger.

Still others went to the Offices of Political Leaders and staged "Sit-Ins" where they would handcuff themselves to each other and chant/sing songs while being filmed by TV Cameras... At one of these events the local police used pepper spray on the protestors who were young women. The young women screamed loudly... and it was filmed by TV Stations. When this was broadcast on the TV News it outrages the citizens of California... There is a biological reaction to young women being harmed... This Media Event lead to a massive protest Statewide and the California Legislature Bought a Large Tract of Land and created the Headwaters Forest Park... The park protecting a stand of Old Growth Redwoods near Fortuna, California. It is a pretty park with a paved trail that is popular with people that have wheeled vehicles like bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and baby buggies. The hike from the parking lot to the Giant Redwood Trees is about five miles and simply too far for most people to walk but it's easy for people on wheels.

Another technique used to stop the logging was Scientific Ecology Studies that concluded that the Spotted Owl was losing it's habitat and it was in danger of going extinct. See Illustration below...

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...


Full Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for The Humboldt State University Lumberjack Newspaper about a Tree Sit in Freshwater, California
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/freshwater-tree-sit-near-eureka-ca-2003.html
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-headwaters-forest-coloring-book.html
Link to the Headwaters Forest Coloring Book.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mill-creek-trip-with-save-redwoods.html
Photographs and Description of events at the Dedication Ceremony of the Mill Creek Park with the Save the Redwoods League.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/two-pinecones-in-humid-weather-and.html
Photographs of a Hike in the Headwaters Forest.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/photographs-of-clearcut-logging-in.html
Photographs of Clearcut Logging in Arcata, California on Fickle Hill Road up in the mountains behind town...

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

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

https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Forest-Californias-Redwood-Timber/dp/0816653259 

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1619 Project: #MoscowMitch McConnell is Reviving Interest in The 1619 Project Again... Now, It's a GOP CANCEL CULTURE CAUSE! He Wants the US Government to BAN Teaching the History of Slavery in the USA... In Public Schools...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project

The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine which "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States' national narrative."

FULL ISSUE OF THE NY TIMES ARTICLE:

 https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

Historical Marker: 1619 First Africans in America - Remember the Pilgrims Arrived in 1620
Historical Marker: 1619 First Africans in America
Remember: the Pilgrims Arrived in 1620
at Plymouth Rock... Widely Taught in History Class

Nikole Hannah-Jones Responds To Republican Efforts To Censor 1619 Project:

The Pulitzer-winning journalist said efforts to censor the project, which examines American racism since 1619, are about “trying to prohibit the teaching of ideas they don’t like.”


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Hey TrumpNiks® Are You Tired of Everybody Laughing at You? Simply #RUNAWAY from the GOP... Stop Believing Lies!

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and in other news: 

Newsmax issued a retraction and apology on its website saying it found "no evidence" that earlier claims about Coomer and the 2020 election were true. [Trump's Big Lie That The Election was Stolen] https://www.businessinsider.com/newsmax-settles-dominion-executive-eric-coomer-defamation-lawsuit-and-apologizes-2021-4


Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories... CAUGHT! Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! 

 https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992534968/newsmax-issues-retraction-and-apology-to-dominion-employee-over-election-stories

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Please Email Your Elected Representatives and Say: "Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All The Cannabis Prisoners." or at the very Least, Like and Share this Post. 

---> Let's End CrazyLaws® <--- https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/10/please-email-your-senators-and.html

More Money Going Into the Government from VOLUNTARY Taxes, Less Wasted on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. I Wouldn't Pay a Penny because I Don't Smoke... I Sure Am Tired of Paying $40,000 a Year Per Prisoner to Lock 'em UP for WEED...

In General, I DO NOT DO EVIL... and That Includes Enforcing Crazy Laws... I Question How some Laws Happened... For Example: Richard Nixon's "War on Drugs" was Designed to Arrest People That Were Protesting Against The War in Vietnam... also Arrest People for Being Black... I Ask Were The Laws Passed in order to Satisfy Corporations that Bribed Politicians? Like: Magic Mushrooms are Illegal BUT Therapeutic  for Mental Health Problems... Big Pharma Would Lose a Lot Of Business is People JUST GOT HEALED... Their Goal is to Sell Pills and Pills that Do Not Work are Certain to Get REPEAT CUSTOMERS... "Just Take It For Another Couple of Months and It'll Help You." or another Couple of YEARS...

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SG Posted on The Facebook RAM DASS Group: 

What do you think Ram Dass’ position is on pickled okra?

Great Question! I Often See Posts about Bizarre Subjects Here... and I Appreciate the Absurdist Mockery! For Example: There was a Long and Boring Debate About Vegetarianism... As If anyone Cares What you Eat...  

I have a serious question from what I have experienced visually. Has Anyone ever closed their eyes and seen spinning mandalas? This has happened to me in a span of two years every now and the I could close my eyes and this mandala would appear after I closed my eyes and lay down. I'd sit there and just watch them spinning while I am highly entertained. I'd watch them for as long as I could.

I Replied! I see Magic Geometric Patterns in Orange and Black when I Close My Eyes... I Consider it a Blessing... But I Have Difficulty Gazing at Stars at Night Because I See Fantastic Patterns in the Sky... I only see the VERY Brightest Stars and Planets... I also Love to do Psychedelic Art on Potatoshop and I Seem to Get Visuals when I Look Away from the Computer...

The Beatles asked the Question and Answered it... in a Song Lyric... "What do you see when you turn out the Light? - I Can't Tell You But I Know It's Mine." https://youtu.be/0C58ttB2-Qg

What does Ram Dass say about people or what will happen to people who lie a lot?

I am related to a prolific liar; he believes all the lies he spins and the lies always reach more ears than the truth. It has previously caused a lot of emotional pain in my family. We have forgiven, forgiven and forgiven. Recently, it has all come to a head; I have walked away from this liar and let the people who believe his falsehoods go too. I have taken responsibility for my part. But this is the end and the pattern will now stop repeating. Myself and my little family are moving forward without the toxicity the lies have caused. We have spoken our truth.

I have meditated, chanted and prayed and the answer has come to me mainly through this group.

I am now happy because I know I have the strength within me to stop my part in the circle of lies and hatred.

I forgive them all, move on with love in my life and now know that the things that have hurt and frustrated me are attachment to people that have no love and respect.

That's their issue to deal with. They are working out their Karma. I've learned the lessons that I previously haven't and now I'm free.

Don't worry about what they're saying. Care about what you are thinking saying and doing. Tis' the truth and love that sets us free ❤

I Replied: That Sounds a LOT Like Donald Trump! Remember: It Takes Two People to Make a Lie Work. The CON MAN and The CHUMP... So... Step #1 is To Stop Believing Lies... 

I Don't Believe in Karma... It seems like a "Convenient" excuse Thought up by Rich People to Explain Why it's OK For Poor People to Starve... Look at the Caste System in India... EXCEPT INSTANT KARMA... I Believe that the Reason Dick Cheney had Four Heart Attacks was That He Behaved EVIL... and What Goes Around Comes Around... 

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Thank You Joe Biden... 

The Vaccine is Working and America Is BACK! 

We Survived Four Horrible Years With #TotalFailureDonald - Except the Half a Million People Who Died from That "HOAX" Disease... ANYWAY... HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/disneyland-reopening-celebrated-with-custom-mickey-ears-and-masks.html



I remember that when we went backpacking we always went to the Ranger Station to get a fire permit. We told them where we were going and when we would be coming back. That way, if we didn't check back in, they would send a rescue team out to look for us.

It's entirely possible to fall down and break a leg in the back country and be unable to walk out. Plus, the rangers had local knowledge of what was interesting in their neighborhood. Waterfalls, good fishing, epic views... I always loved those USGS maps showing elevation and sometimes we would just walk to a hidden lake by navigation.  "It's got to be just on the other side of that pass so... let's go!" It was a reasonable way to hike above timberline. Not so practical in the woods. 

In the High Sierra, people would stack rocks on top of each other in order to mark trails. Above timber line, the ground is all granite and wearing a trail into the dirt just doesn't happen. We would walk to a stack of rocks, look for the next stack and walk there and then look for the next stack of rocks... and on and on... That way we were able to go backpacking using "Ducks" to navigate. Since it was impossible for rocks to stack themselves, we knew that people had gone there before and were marking the trail...

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Great Movie: "Planetary" Documentary - Astronauts speak of One World Interconnected. GAIA. Tribal Elders, Ecology People and Philosophers...

https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/8369-planetary-documentary-features-nasa-imagery-and-earthly-sights-to-be-released-on-earth-day 

Features NASA Imagery and Earthly Sights,.. This Earth Day, filmmakers Guy Reid and Steve Kennedy will celebrate our planet by releasing their new documentary, Planetary, which contains all the Earth porn you'll ever need in service of a larger environmental and spiritual message.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3462896/

As seen in the trailer, the film will juxtapose images of Earth from NASA missions with everyday scenes from Earthly life, at Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas and in downtown Tokyo and Manhattan. It will also feature interviews with many experts who will speak to their perspective on our planet, including astronauts Mae Jemison and Ron Garan, cosmologist Brian Swimme, National Geographic explorer Elizabeth Lindsey, and physicist Peter Russell, as well as poets, authors, philosophers, environmentalists, doctors, Buddhist scholars, and more. 

We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. PLANETARY is a poetic and humbling reminder that it's time to shift our perspective. PLANETARY asks us to rethink who we really are, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us - to remember that: we are PLANETARY. In a stunning visual exploration, the film interweaves imagery from NASA Apollo missions with visions of the Milky Way, Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas, and the cacophonous sounds of downtown Tokyo and Manhattan, with intimate interviews from renowned experts including astronauts Ron Garan and Mae Jemison (the first African American woman in space), celebrated environmentalist Bill McKibben, National Book Award winner Barry Lopez, anthropologist Wade Davis, to National Geographic Explorer Elizabeth Lindsey, and Head of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu school, the 17th Karmapa. They shed new light on the ways our worldview is profoundly affecting life on our planet.

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