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, Larry Ellison [Oracle], Mark Zuckerberg [Facebook], Larry Page and Sergey Brin [Google], Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales [Wikipedia], Julian Assange [Wikileaks], Singer [sewing machine], Jeff Bezos [Amazon], Lee Iacocca [Chrysler], George Eastman [Kodak], George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Sam Houston, Kit Carson, John Fremont, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Ian Fleming, Sir William Stephenson [the real James Bond], Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Denver, Donovan, John Williams, Winston Churchill, Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Billy the Kid, Bill Wilson [AA founder], Wild Bill Hickok, Barnum and Bailey, Will Rogers, Roy Rogers, Hank Williams, George Thorogood, Steve Miller, Warren Buffet, Jimmy Buffet, William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Ed Abbey...
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List Continued Below the EVIL White Men Collection....
Sadly, 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, Charles Hurwitz, Steve Bannon, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Timothy McVey, William F Buckley, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken [stock market thieves], Jeffrey Schilling, Kenneth Lay [ENRON swindle], Edwin Meese [a pig], John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman [Watergate], Joseph McCarthy [anti-communist], General Westmoreland [Vietnam War], Robert McNamara [Secretary of Defense during Vietnam War], Neil Bush [George Bush's Brother - Savings and Loan Scandal], J Edgar Hoover [FBI], John Wilkes Booth [assassinated Lincoln], Jim Jones [Kool-Aid suicide], Governor George Wallace [segregationist], Mayor Richard Daley [Chicago Riots in 1968], Judge Julius Hoffman [Chicago Seven Trial], David Duke [KKK], Lt. Calley [My Lai Massacre Vietnam] and The Unabomber [Ted Kaczynski] were not people to be proud of.
Chapter Zero. Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.
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Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke, Tolstoy, Stanley Kubrick, JRR Tolkien, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, The Band, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Country Joe and the Fish, The Moody Blues, The Beach Boys, The Jefferson Airplane [except Grace Slick], Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grateful Dead [Jerry Garcia is half white], Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis,Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Bill Graham, Billy Graham, Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, Martin Luther, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Ferde Grofe, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Strauss, Sousa, Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey,Dave Brubeck, Thor Heyerdahl, MC Escher, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Gilbert Sheldon, Robert Crumb, Wes Wilson, Leo Fender, Gibson, Les Paul, Paul Revere, John Dean, Daniel Ellsberg, John Muir, Mark Spitz, Mercedes, Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Rolls Royce, H Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Huell Howser, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Larry Bird, Count Dracula, Jim Henson, King Louis the 14th, Elon Musk [Tesla Automotive], Lawrence [Livermore Laboratory], General Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Oliver North, Charles Dickens, John Travolta, Woody Harrelson, Ted Danson, Clint Eastwood, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Magellan, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, John Wayne, Rupert Murdoch,
Thoreau, Freud, Bobby Fisher, Dustin Hoffman, Ed Harris, Ray Kurzweil, Socrates, Napoleon, George Patton, Montgomery [WW2 General], Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Stewart Brand -The man who wrote The Whole Earth Catalog, All the Astronauts that went to the Moon and the vast majority of the Rocket Scientists that worked for NASA, John Glenn, Yuri Gagarin, Robert Oppenheimer, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Plato, Descartes, Fibonacci, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Joseph Smith [Mormons], Brigham Young, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert [Ram Dass], Ken Kasey, Owsley, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassidy, Allan Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Wavy Gravy, Frank Zappa, Marshall McLuhan, E Power Biggs, Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Matt Groening [The Simpsons], G Gordon Liddy, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer, Robert Moog, Rick Walkman, Steve Miller, Lewis Carroll, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Karl Marx, Groucho Marx, Lenin, Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Leland Stanford, Alexander von Humboldt, Jerry Brown, Bernie Sanders, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire [but he is hardly anything without his partner Ginger Rogers], Walter Cronkite, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry, L Ron Hubbard, Leonard Nimoy, William Gibson, Orson Scott Card, Phillip K. Dick, Jonas Salk, Watson & Crick [DNA],Doctor Seuss, Rowan and Martin, Lenny Bruce, Bob Fosse, George Carlin, Robin Williams, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Derrick Jensen [Eco-Activist Author], Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jerry Seinfeld, Kurt Vonnegut, Warner Von Braun, Henry the Eighth, Saint Francis de Assisi, Douglas McArthur, Napoleon, Czar Nicholas, Emperor Constantine, The Warner Brothers, The Smothers Brothers, The Brothers Four, The Brothers Gibb, The Flying Add to dictionary Brothers, The Firesign Theatre, Monty Python, Don Martin [cartoonist], William Gaines [Mad Magazine], Charles Schultz [Charlie Brown], Gary Trudeau [Doonesbury], Scott Adams [Dilbert], Charles Adams [The Addams Family], 43 1/2 Presidents - Barack Obama was half white, all the vice presidents, all the Popes, all the Kings of England, The Vikings, The Pilgrims, The Masons, The Illuminati, The Rothschilds, A.P. Guanine [Bank of America], Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow [Lyrics for the Grateful Dead], Harry Houdini, Penn and Teller [Magic], Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton [movie director], Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Nikita Khrushchev, Michael Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Charles DePaul, Alan Turing [Computer Science], John Von Neumann [Computer Science], Van De Graaff [generator], Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean [Spinal Tap and other movies], Rush Limbaugh, John Dean, Alan Greenspan [economist], Hyman Minsky [economist], Daniel Ellsberg [Pentagon Papers], Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, [anti Vietnam War presidential candidates], Morley Safer [TV NEWS], Roy Rogers [TV Star], William Wallace [Scottish Revolutionary], Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Knights Templar, Nicholas Cage, Mick Fleetwood, Joseph Campbell [Power of Myth], Buckminster Fuller, Edgar Allen Poe, Liberace, Lee Michaels [organist], Don Schollander [swimmer], James Comey and Robert Mueller [FBI], Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Nolan Bushnell [PONG], Huntley and Brinkley [TV News], Larry King [Talk Show], Gene Simmons [exercise show], KISS, The Monkeys, The Mothers of Invention, The Turtles, Dan Hicks, Eli Whitney, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, John Brown [civil war], Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Bill Haley and the Comets, Buddy Holly, Malcolm Cecil [T.O.N.T.O.], Alan Alda [M*A*S*H], Roy Orbison, Raymond Burr [Perry Mason], Gene Wilder, Robin Williams, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin [silent movie star], Buster Keaton, Tim Curry, Richard O'Brien [Rocky Horror Picture Show], Steven King, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Rockwell, Charles Atlas, David Lindley [slide guitar], Jackson Browne, James Patterson [Alex Cross Novels], Dr. Ewen Cameron [MKULTRA], Dr. Sidney Gottlieb [MKULTRA], Dr. Bob [AA], Aristotle Onassis, Czar Nicholas, Orson Wells, William Randolph Hearst, Pulitzer, Alfred Nobel, WC Fields, Gene Kelly, George Gershwin, Weird Al Yankovic, Demosthenes [Ancient Greece], Nero [The Holy Roman Empire], Ben Bradley [Washington Post Newspaper], Jacques Cousteau, Francis Ford Coppola [Director of The Godfather], Nostradamus, Aleister Crowley, HP Lovecraft, Rex Tillerson [Secretary of State], Justin Trudeau [Canada], Hunter S Thompson and Jann Wenner [Rolling Stone Magazine], Douglas Adams [author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy], Rex Harrison [actor], Andy Rooney [60 minutes TV star], Earl Warren [JFK assassination], Jack Ruby [murdered Lee Harvey Oswald], John Marks [author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate-MKULTRA], Warren Beatty, Bono [singer-U2], Gary Powers [pilot - U2], Chuck Yeager [pilot that broke the sound barrier], Tiny Tim [Ukulele player], Frank Church [investigated MKULTRA], Lord Greystoke [Tarzan], Johnny Weissmuller [Tarzan], Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter O'Toole, Sir Alec Guinness, Edward G Robinson, Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana [author Two Years Before the Mast], Fletcher Christian, Captain Bligh [Mutiny on the Bounty], Dr Benjamin Spock, Laurel and Hardy, Charles Babbage, Jacquard [Loom], Volta, Faraday, Richter [earthquake measuring scale], Lord Kelvin, Gene Kelly, Dick Van Dyke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Copperfield [magic], John Foster Dulles, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Peter Coyote, Dennis Hopper, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin [Monty Python], Victor Hugo, Richard Wagner, Sylvester Stallone, Ben Kingsley, Mendel [biology], Mendelson, Copernicus, George Meade, Jeff Beck, [Larry the Cable Guy], Barry Goldwater, Steven Hawking [scientist], Hans Christian Anderson, The Brothers Grimm [fairy tales], Hanna/Barbera [cartoons], Richard Wolff [anti capitalist lecturer], Neil Patrick Harris, William Shatner, Harrison Ford, Hugh Laurie [House TV Show], David Duchovny [X Files], Noam Chomsky, John Birch [namesake of the John Birch Society], Bebe Rebozo [why?], Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise [ Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump], Morley Safer [TV News], Seymour Hersh [reporter who wrote about My Lai massacre in Vietnam], and old what's his name...
Minority Groups and Women... Not many names here...
Great Hispanic Men: Fidel Castro, Cortez, Junipero Serra, Che Guevara, Caesar Chaves, Carlos Santana, Jerry Garcia [half white], Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan, Cheech Marin,and that man who wrote 100 years of solitude... and Don Quixote...
Some non-whites are doing great. Look at Japan. Sony, Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, Yamaha, Roland, Korg... They make great cars, motorcycles and electronic equipment. I believe that WW2 helped them fix their bad attitude. Before WW2 they wanted to conquer their neighbors and enslave them. After a couple of Atom Bombs, they changed their attitude and became productive members of society.
Other non-whites are not doing so great. The only Arabs I can remember are Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Mohammad, Zarathustra and Ayatollah Khomeini.
China had Two: Mao Tse Tung and Confucius. India had Three: The Buddha, Ghandi and Ravi Shankar. Australia had Four: Crocodile Dundee and The Brothers Gibb.
Great Blacks: Mohammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, O.J. Simpson, Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Willy Mays, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Magic Johnson, George Washington Carver, Huey Newton, Bobby Seals [Black Panther Party], Tiger Woods, Chuck Berry, Michael Jackson, James Brown, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, Billy Preston, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Bill Cosby, Marion Berry, Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Richie Havens, BB King, Rodney King,
Prince, King Tut [Ancient Egypt], Snoop Doggy Dog, Notorious B.I.G. [Rapper], Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs [Rapper], Eminem [Rapper], Senator Cory Booker, Stokely Carmichael, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, Paul Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Barack Obama, Charlie Parker [Bird - Saxophone], .
Jews had Jesus and Moses.
Africa has Nelson Mandela and Muammar Khadafi.
Don't forget women, some have done great things. Grace Hopper [COBOL], Jane Fonda, Joni Mitchell, Carrie Nation, Mary Travers, Joan Baez, Ayn Rand, Susan Sarandon, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Elizabeth Warren, Ellen Degeneres, Mother Teresa, Shirley MacLean, Harriet Tubman [I don't know what she did], ABBA [half], Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Debbie Harry, Rachael Maddow [TV News], Joan of Arc, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan B Anthony, Condoleezza Rice, Butterfly McQueen [Gone With the Wind], Jessica Lang, Angela Lansbury [the actress that played the mother of the Manchurian Candidate and Murder, She Wrote TV Show], Elizabeth Taylor, Diane Keaton [Annie Hall], Katherine Hepburn, Betty White, Paris Hilton [Why?], Lady Dianne Spencer, The Queen of England, Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Patty Hearst, Cleopatra, Nefertiti [Ancient Egypt], Katherine Graham [Washington Post Newspaper], Harry Potter's Writer, Rosa Parks [she took a seat near the front of the bus], Margret Thatcher, Teresa May, Indira Gandhi, Angela Merkel, Martha Stewart, Julia Child [Cooking TV Show], Jamie Lee Curtis, Natalie Wood, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Madame Curie, Sally Field, Nicole Kidman, Winnie Mandela, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [Supreme Court], Susan B Anthony [Suffragette], Nichelle Nichols [Uhura on Star Trek], Laura Wilder, Sarah Palin, Gillian Anderson [X Files], Susanne Summers, Penny Marshall, Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
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and now for something completely different...
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A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 American Soldiers Died for Nothing...
During the 1950s Americans went into a Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and fallout shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs. During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "the Domino Principle"while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was that one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon they would take over Mexico and threaten the American Way of Life. Soon, President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. Then President Johnson sent even More American Soldiers to fight the Viet Cong. Then President Nixon continued the War for another 5 years before eventually he decided to allow the South Vietnamese to fight their own war and we left. Quickly the South lost and thousands of Boat People fled South Vietnam because they thought they would be killed. As it turned out, The Domino Principle was false. Communism did not take over the world. The entire war was a waste of lives and money.
The main reason we ended the Vietnam War was the huge protest movement against the war. Lead by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the Yippies, The Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman staged immense protest marches expressing the desire of the American People to end the war. Eventually the US government got the message...
Ho Chi Minh was the heroic leader of North Vietnam. He successfully threw out the French Colonialists and The Americans. He reunited his country and Vietnamese people ruled Vietnam.
The Vietnam War inspired many anti-war protest songs. Country Joe and the Fish's "Fixing to Die Rag", Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant, The Door's "Unknown Soldier and "Where Have all the Flowers Gone" and "Big Muddy" by Pete Seeger...
Then the Draft (forcing people to go fight in wars) ended and we were at Peace for Ten Years...
Many corporations profited from the War in Vietnam including Dow Chemical, Monsanto and Hughes Aircraft. The Government bought a lot of Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters.
Some say that corporations had President Kennedy Assassinated because he was going to end the war and they wouldn't reap the profits...
President Lyndon Johnson was the main promoter of the Vietnam War. He is the one that changed from sending advisors to sending combat troops. Even after it became obvious that we could not win he continued to send more combat troops because he did not want to be the first President to lose a war. Robert McNamara was the Secretary of Defense at the beginning of the war and then he quit because all his experts said that we could not win. At one point, Barry Goldwater (The Republican Candidate for President) recommended dropping Atomic Bombs on Hanoi but he lost the Election to LBJ and we never dropped any. We did drop an astonishing amount of traditional bombs, Napalm
(jellied gasoline) and Agent Orange (a defoliant). That killed about two million Vietnamese people. Since they were fighting in defense of their own country they were able to outlast the Americans because they were interested in winning. The American public became opposed to the war in such numbers that eventually Richard Nixon ended the war. At one point, Nixon was so afraid of the protesters that he encircled the White House with Buses parked end to end so that people could not jump over the fence and attack. One protest march walked from the Lincoln Memorial in DC to the Pentagon in Virginia and encircled it. The plan was to hold hands, sing and chant until the Pentagon levitated into the air vibrated and collapsed into a pile of rubble. This march was documented in the Norman Mailer book "Armies of the Night".
Many thanks to all who protested the war as we saved countless lives. Including my own.
At Kent State University in Ohio 4 Students were murdered by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration. This caused widespread outrage among the people of the USA. After all, when a species starts killing it's children extinction is not far away. Why these 4 deaths caused more of a backlash than the thousands of soldiers dying in Vietnam is a mystery. Maybe it's because of the Freedom of Speech guarantee of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The Night before the murder students burned down the ROTC building. (Reserve Officers Training Corps) That arson was used as the excuse for the National Guard to arm it's men with real bullets. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young wrote a great song documenting the murder called "Ohio."
At UC Santa Barbara students burned down the Bank of America building. That building was selected because the BofA was making a profit off the war.
The revolutionary organization "The Weathermen" blew up over 100 buildings in an attempt to "Bring the War Home". The Idea was that if the horrors of war were happening in the USA, the public would quickly grow tired of the war and ask our leaders to end it. Eventually, that is exactly what happened. "The Weathermen" selected organizations that were enabling the war for bombing targets. No people were ever hurt by the bombings only buildings. Including the US Capitol building in Washington DC.
Muhammed Ali refused to go to war and was arrested and convicted of draft dodging. At the time he was the most famous man in the world. He was a boxer. He said: "No Vietnamese ever called me nigger". Martin Luther King also opposed the war. So did Dr Benjamin Spock the author of the book "Baby and Child Care" which was the most popular book about how to raise children among the parents of the Baby Boom generation. Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam to visit the Army there and took many famous photographs that were printed in the newspapers worldwide. She was protesting Against the war and using her Fame as a Hollywood Movie Star to get attention to her views. Those photographs enraged people in favor of the war.
The draft had a tendency to select people who were poor. Anyone who was attending college got a student deferment. That meant that people who were too poor to afford going to college were drafted while students were excused from the war. Practically speaking, soldiers had a tendency to be Black, Hispanic or Native American. Rich people could also get a doctor to write a letter stating that their patient had medical reasons that made serving in the military impossible. For Example: Donald Trump was excused from service due to "Bone Spurs"... a medical condition that made it impossible for him to march... It's very likely that this medical condition was totally phony and was just an excuse... A friend of mine got a deferment for having surf bumps on his feet. He couldn't wear Army Boots...
William F Buckley was TOTALLY WRONG about the Vietnam War. He had a popular TV talk show where he would debate liberals. He was supposed to be a brilliant conservative thinker however, he was actually clueless about the war. At the time his show was on TV there were only 3 TV networks and his show was watched by millions of Americans. His opinions influenced the thinking of many "Right-Wing" Republicans. He was sort of like Rush Limbaugh or Fox TV News. A voice of the government. He believed that people should simply do what they are told. He was a skilled debater and could make seemingly believable arguments. Then these concepts were
repeated by millions of Americans... He put words in the mouth of parents that were worried that their children were running away to live in Hippie Communes and smoking Marijuana... Could it be that William F Buckley was a paid stooge of corporations that were making a profit on the war?
Walter Cronkite spoke up against the war. He was a TV News Anchorman and one of the most beloved people in America. He was regarded as a trustworthy father figure. When he came out against the war it was a sign that the people of the USA had had enough. He influenced public opinion greatly.
The "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" was fake. It was used as a reason for our involvement in Vietnam's Civil War. It was an event that did not happen.
Barry Goldwater ran for President against Lyndon Johnson and lost. Barry believed that we could win the war by dropping Atomic Bombs on Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. The American people thought nuking Vietnam was a bad idea. So Johnson Won.
The Chicago Riots at the Democratic Convention: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the YIPPIES! (Youth International Party) asked for a million protesters to assemble in a park in Chicago during the Convention. The Police attacked the protesters with billy clubs and the riot was televised. Chanting "The Whole World is Watching" protesters fought with police. Later there was a trial of "The Chicago 7" and they were all convicted of inciting a riot. Later on appeal they were all found
innocent and the Judge (Julius Hoffmann) of the first trial was convicted of obstruction of justice. One of the people of trial (Bobby Seal) was bound and gagged so he would not talk during the trial. A Great song (Chicago) by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young documents these events. It was also covered in Abbie Hoffman's Books "Woodstock Nation" and "Revolution for the Hell of It". Another great book of his was called "Steal This Book" a guide to how to live as a revolutionary in America by getting everything for free so a person did not have to work at a job for money.
The Anti-War movement caused President Lyndon Johnson to decide to Not run for re-election. He was discouraged by constantly being blamed for the USA losing the war. Often protesters encircled the White House and chanted "Hey, Hey, LBJ. How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?" this constant noise disrupted his sleep and he decided to go home to Texas instead of running for a Second Term. When he go home he drank himself to death. It took years but he eventually died.
University of California at Berkeley was an early start of the anti-war protest movement. Mario Savio and Mark Rudd spoke at free speech rallies on campus and organized blockades of the nearby Oakland Army Recruiting facility. The rock band Country Joe and the Fish got their start playing at rallies. Joe McDonald's parents were pro-communist sympathizers and named him after "Country" Joe Stalin. "The Fish" was a referral to the Mao Tse Tung quote: "A revolutionary swims
thru the people like a fish swims thru the sea." They are most famous for the "Fixing to Die Rag" song shown in the movie "Woodstock."
The invention of Television helped end the Vietnam War. For the first time people saw the horrors of war every day in their own homes. Reporters on location showed pictures of the war and the human suffering caused by bombing, napalm and agent orange. Pictures of burning civilians made even
the most Brainwashed of Conservatives Question Authority. TV revealed the lies of the government about how we were supposedly "winning" the war and that there was a "light at the end of the tunnel" and how it would all be over soon. Johnson and Nixon had a more and more difficult job of selling the War to Americans whose children were dying. Awakening Was Happening Nationwide.
I participated in "The Moratorium" anti-Vietnam War protest march in San Francisco. We had protest marches that day in every city in the USA. At my high school we chartered a bus and many students rode from Los Gatos, California to San Francisco. The march ended at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park.There was a vast sea of people and The Beatles song "Come Together" was playing on the public address system when I walked over the hill leading to the field. I felt a feeling of "Oneness" with the crowd. It's emotionally valid to be in favor of good and opposed to evil. The Vietnam War was pure evil. We cut school to participate in this protest march but the principal of our High School did not assign any punishment for our missing class. He told us to figure out for ourselves the meaning of not getting assigned detention. (he was proud of us for risking punishment in support of
our beliefs.)
I participated in a Candlelight March down Main Street in Los Gatos with my parents. I also collected signatures on an Anti-War petition from passers-by in front of the Post Office in Los Gatos. One man who was in favor of the war gave my father a book for me. "You can Trust the Communists" was the title and it's contents explained the justification for the war.
The Movie "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" documents in a humorous way the PANIC Attack of the USA about Global Communism and the threat to our way of life. ALSO, "Doctor Strangelove" ridiculed the Pro War people... Both movies are worth watching. "Team America: World Police" is a more recent mockery.
Ironically, during the 1960s most Americans were in favor of the war because they believed in obedience. The concept was that if the government told them to do something that people should simply do what they are told. During the late 1960s there was a global awakening and people started
to think for themselves and question authority.
I protested against the war in Vietnam not only because it was pure evil but also to save my own life. I turned 18 in 1972 and registered for the draft but was NOT asked to go to war. I missed the war by exactly ONE year. Thanks to Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, John Lennon and the millions of other people who protested the war. "All We are Saying, is Give Peace a Chance" ...
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Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A
list of flavors, emotions and clues from Zero to Infinity and Beyond
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/for-example-and-its-one-two-three-what.html
0: number invented by Indian Mathematicians. Brought to the middle east and then Europe by an Arabian named Al Khwarizmi. (Algebra). Handy for expressing BIG numbers like, 1 followed by a hundred zeros – a googol. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. Spelled differently than google.007: James Bond, a secret agent for her Majesty in England. A Character played in the movies by Sean Connery... and a gazillion other wanna-bees.
half pipe: a skateboard word referring to a part of the skate park made out of a concrete pipe sawed in half... a big concave area remains.
¾ waltz time… 4/4 rock music and folk… 5/4 Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”
1: The traditional beginning number used when counting. For Example: One for the Money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, now GO CAT GO! But don’t you, step on my Blue Suede Shoes. also: And it's 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for? Country Joe and the Fish.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34… Fibonacci sequence… add together any two consecutive numbers to calculate the next term.
1/20/09 date Obama moved into the White House.
1.44 - Size in Megabytes of a Floppy Disk. According to Larry Niven - Science Fiction Author it's the minimum size needed for a Neutron Star. 1.44 times as large as the Sun. "The Chandrasekhar limit ." The currently accepted value of the limit is about 1.39...
2: yin yang, male-female, binary: zero and one.
There are two types of people in this world. Some people divide the world into two types of people and some don't...
also: There are 10 types of people in the world, some understand binary and some don't...
2C-G: new psychedelic drug that is supposedly popular at the burning man event.
2.718281828459045 "e" the natural Logarithm. A LOG Rhythm is a beat played by whacking a LOG with sticks... see percussion instruments... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm
3: THE DADDIO, THE LADDIO AND THE BIG SPOOK... or the father , the son and the Holy Ghost. Biblical good luck number... 3 Wise Men. 3 AD: Birthday of Jesus. Wednesday Morning 3AM was Simon and Garfunkle's first record... With the hit song Sounds of Silence... (ZEN?)
Three Way: The French have a word for it: Menage a Tois.
Phantom 309: A tear jerking Country and Western Song by Red Sovine.
3.1415927 or PI.
For example: A clown threw a PI into the president's face... The ratio between the diameter and circumferance of a circle... also: PI R ^2 =area. The number pi times the radius times the radius equals the area of a circle.
4: You need four to play a bridge game, mixed doubles tennis or wife swapping. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four directions of the compass. Four winds: American Indian Spirituality. Four Way Windowpane was a brand name of LSD.
4: chatroom/text messaging shorthand for "for", 8 is shorthand for "ate".
Example: L8 4 Wrk GT U Frd. (late for work gets you fired)
46664: Nelson Mandela's Number in prison in South Africa.
5: fingers on a hand. The PENTAGON is a five sided building. A PENTAGRAM is a Satanic symbol. The PENTAGRAM is also the NAME of the "in house" newsletter at the five sided building in Northern Virginia. Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Dvorjak's 5th Symphony (New World). A unit of measure for Alcohol, a Fifth of Whiskey.
6: bad luck number... 666 is the mark of the beast in the Bible.
6.55 dollars: Federal minimum wage. This has changed to $7.25
7: good luck number... 777 is what you see on a slot machine when you win. Seven days a week. God created the world in seven days... Also a convenience store... "Oh thank Heaven, it's a 7/11" is their slogan. L7=square... put your hands with the thumb sticking out at a right angle to form a square-mocking conservative people... 7th son of a 7th son.
James Bond 007...
8: Octagon, octopus, octal: base 8 numbers used in computers.
377 octal=ff hex=11111111 binary=255 decimal
8.00 dollars: California minimum wage.
9: "Revolution #9" by the Beatles was an avant garde sound collage inspired by the work of Yoko Ono... samples of noise and music and industrial sounds were arranged to create a trippy "song". Love Potion #9. Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Ode to Joy. Dvorjak: 9th Symphony... Ice Nine caused the end of the world in Kurt Vonnegut's Book, 'Cat's Cradle'.
9 to 5: traditional work hours of an office worker. Movie with Dolly Parton, Lilly Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dabney Coleman.
10: Base ten is a popular number system with people because we can count on all our fingers. Base twenty never caught on. Many people count on their toes... is that caused by wearing shoes?
11. “These amps go up to eleven.” Quotation in movie Spinal Tap explaining that the band’s Guitar Amplifiers play louder than everyone else’s… Standard Marshall Amps go up to ten…
12: months in a year. Twelve days of Christmas Song. 12 signs of the Zodiac. 12 doughnuts in a dozen.
13: bad luck. Friday the Thirteenth was the day the Knights Templar were assassinated by the Pope in Medieval times. 13 doughnuts in a "Baker's Dozen".
14: Karat gold. a purity rating of an alloy of about half gold.
15: Beware the IDES of March. Was a Warning to Caesar of assassination attempt on March 15th. IDES is the 15th day of any month. For Example: April 15th a dark day for American Taxpayers. "Et Tu, Brutus" is what Caesar said... Literal translation is: "You also, Brutus" meaning My best friend Brutus, you are also part of this plot to assassinate me. It could be the number of doughnuts he ate... et TWO, Brutus...
16: hexadecimal numbering system used in computers. A=10, B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15. Handy for expressing colors: FFFFFF=white, 000000=black, FF0000=red, 00FF00=green, 0000FF=blue.
16: age of a "Sweet Girl"... sweet 16 birthday party... etc...
17: Magazine for Young Ladies... Fashion, dating advice...
18: age children can enlist in the military, vote… sex legal...
19: "Here comes your 19th Nervous Breakdown" a song by the Rolling Stones...
A whole century was named for 19, they call it the "Twentieth Century" why???
20: a "score" of years. Like in Lincoln's Speech... Four Score and seven years ago...
2020: perfect vision.
21: age children can drink…
.22 caliber pistol and rifle. Small, easy to hide...
23rd Psalm: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For I am the baddest MF in the valley;
And a suggestion from Facebook:
The 23 Enigma, as it is sometimes called, describes the bizarre way the number 23 seems to crop up in the most unusual and significant places. It is closely related to the Discordian Law of Fives (stating that everything is connected, in one way or another, to the number 5), since 2+3=5. 23 Enigma was originally discovered by writer William S. Burroughs.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=185880881426823
24: hours in a day, beers in a case… just co-incidence? 24 Karat Gold is almost 100% pure.
25 cents in a quarter dollar... not to be confused with 50 Cents, a Rap Singer. Is that term correct? as Rap Music performers do not actually SING.
25: LSD25 was the formula number that worked... 24 did not work, 26 had no effect... Dr Albert Hoffman tried many variations of his migrane headache medicine before accidentally absorbing formula 25 into his body... and feeling colorful...
25 or 6 to 4: A song by The Chicago Transit Authority.
Title 26 of the US code of Federal Regulations. Income Tax. IRS
27: age. Many rock stars died in their 27th year. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Alan Wilson (of Canned Heat) and Kurt Cobain.
28: days in a lunar month. Tides and a woman's reproductive cycle are in sync with the moon.
29: Days in February during a Leap Year
30 days has September, April, May, June and November... all the rest have 31... except February... 28 or 29 in a leap year... A "Handy" way to remember how many days in a month is to use your knuckles. Start with a the Knuckle at the end of your hand (index finger) January=31... then move to the space between February=not 31... then move to the next knuckle March=31... then move to the space April is not 31... keep going and use the other hand...
31 in base eight equals 25 in base twelve. Base eight is OCTAL, like October 31st, Halloween. Base twelve is Duodecimal like December 25th, Christmas.
32: temperature water freezes in Fahrenheit. Same as zero Centigrade or Celsius.
33 1/3 RPM records... The 12 inch LP (Licorice Pizza)
34th and Vine: address of Madame Ruth's Love Potion #9 shop.
36: In Jewish Tradition, in every generation there are 36 good men than prevent the world from destruction.
36-24-36: supposedly "IDEAL" measurements of female figure... Who sets these bogus standards?
.38 special handgun.
WD40: spray lubricant. quite handy!
411: temperature paper Burns. Book by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 411. Movie by Michael Moore... Fahrenheit 911
42: British humor/science fiction author Douglas Adams used 42 as the answer to the question: What is the Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything? The QUESTION was not very clear... At the end of the British TV show we find that the question is "What is 9 times 6?" so the world was based on a math error... ironic... British Humor, an acquired taste.
.44 Magnum pistol. Dirty Harry Callahan used this in the Clint Eastwood Movies... "You feel lucky, punk?"
45 RPM record. Big enough for two songs, one on each side.
409: engine size sung about by the Beach Boys.
420: code word for all things marijuana related. Supposedly, there are 420 chemicals in marijuana... Law called SB420 in California... A TIME that a group of Marin County Teenagers arranged to meet to smoke.
49ers: The Miners came in '49 the whores in '51 and when they got together they made the native son. A football team formerly from San Francisco now in Santa Clara.
50: The Police. Because of the famous TV Show Hawaii 50. Pronounced Five Oh. Law Enforcement, not the Rock Band with Gordon Summer.
Area 51: alien landing site in Nevada. Military test base for experimental aircraft... supposedly ILLEGAL to photograph...
"54.40 or fight": We chose to NOT fight and that's why Canada extends all the way south to the 49th parallel... 1844 election slogan about expanding the West Coast of the USA far to the north... All the way to a border with Russia... This was during a time before Alaska was a state... Most of this land was unexplored and unihabitated... except for Indians...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute
Highway 61: Song by Bob Dylan about the road from the deep south towards Chicago and Detroit. Symbolic of escaping economic slavery in the 20th century as many black people migrated North on Highway 61 to take factory jobs… The Johnny Winter version is superb... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_61_Revisited#Highway_61
64K: Kilobytes... A standard memory size for an eight bit microprocessor. For example the Intel 8080. Supposedly, Bill Gates said it was enough for anyone… oops… How about 4 GIG, Bill? Metric has been a popular meauring system in electronics. For example: Capacitors are often measured in Micro farads or Pico farads... whimsically referred to as "PUFFs"... as in "put a 10 puff capacitor in the circuit and it'll work just fine". "PUFF" was also the nickname for a helicopter made by Hughes Aircraft. "PUFF the Magic Dragon"... named after the song by Peter, Paul and Mary.
66: Route number of the main East-West road in the USA. TV Show. Song. Symbolizes escaping East Coast conservative culture for the wild lifestyle of California Surfers.
Question 67 or 68. a song by the Chicago Transit Authority. The meaning is disputed...
69: an oral sex act.
76: Trombones lead the big parade... from "The Music Man" Movie... Many other songs as well, it was a "musical"...
Agent 86. "Get Smart" was a television comedy satire of James Bond 007.
88: Keys on a piano.
911: the phone number for the police, ambulance... pronounced nine one one because there is no eleven button on the phone.
9/11/2001 usually stated as Nine Eleven without the year specified. Everything changed that day.
92: Keys on a Bosendorfer Piano. An extra 4 on the bass end.
96: Tears. Song by Question Mark and the Mysterians...
98.6: temperature in Fahrenheit of a healthy person.
99 bottles of beer on the wall... 99 bottles of beer, you take one down and pass it around, you have 98 bottles of beer on the wall... also... 99 luftballoons!
100% equals the maximum. 110% what athletes give in sporting events.
180: to turn a car around and drive the other way. sometimes spinning on an icy road...
212 degrees is boiling point of water Fahrenheit... 100 degrees Centigrade...
215: California's Medical Marijuana Law: grass is legal if you get a 215 card from your doctor... this law's rules and provisions were clarified by SB420... hence the slang 420 as secret code for all things grass related... What time is it? 4:20! means it's time to smoke a "joint"
360 degrees in a circle. also a wide ranging world view... broad spectrum of interests.
GAY NINETIES, an era in American History of prosperity and good times... The 20’s: Roaring Twenties. The 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s… each has its own flavor… no good name for 2000-2010 yet…
883 level b: military specification defining quality of electronic components.
1000: KILO in the metric system. Popular in America as a measure of imported Marijuana. Often grass was compresses into "bricks" of one KEY or about 2.2 pounds to facilitate smuggling from Mexico. Metric is also a popular measuring system among competative swimmers as an "Olympic" sized poll is 50 meters long. People that trained in an "Olympic" sized pool had an endurance advantage over people that train in a 25 yard pool. Especially in Butterfly races, where a 25 yard pool lets you turn around and push off from the wall... 50 meters is a really really long way to swim the butterfly...
1024: a kilobyte… computer metric measurement uses powers of two. In standard metric a kilo is a thousand, in computers it’s just a little bit bigger… the powers of two are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024…
1040: IRS income Tax form.
1066: Battle of Hastings, Norman Conquest of England... Historians use this as a turning point with the "Dark Ages" before and the "Middle Ages" after. Duke William of Normandy (a Viking region of France) crowned King of England due to victory at the battle. That same location was the scene of the "D DAY" invasion during WW2... The Operation Overloard landed at the beaches of Normandy.
1215: Magna Carta signed. The will of the king could be bound by law... big concept! Habeus Corpus.
1492: year Columbus visited the Indians living in America…
1620: Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, America.
1776: American Revolution…
1812: Oveture by Tchaikovsky, Russian Composer. Celebration of the defense of Russia against the invasion by Napoleon at the Battle of Borodino.
1814: Well, in eighteen and fourteen we took a little trip
along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans.
by Jimmie Driftwood, a high school teacher in Arkansas who wrote the song to teach his students about the battle. Johnny Horton recorded the song and It became a hit.
1906: earthquake in San Francisco.
December 7th 1941: A day that will live in infamy. Pearl Harbor Bombed by Japanese.
1984: Book by George Orwell predicting government mind control and spying on civilians.
Y2K: computer programming error that caused confusion in date calculations on 12/31/1999 at 11:59 and 59 seconds… the start of a new millennium. Acronym stands for year two thousand. Controversy as to why nothing happened... did thousands of COBOL programmers save the day? or was it all a MEDIA HYPE?
2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010: The Year we make Contact. 2061: Cash in on the series one more time. Books by Arthur C. Clarke.
2012: Mayan calendar ends… some people believe that this will be the “End of the World as we know it”.
2525: Song, “In the year 2525” by Zager and Evans
2600: Phone Phreak audio frequency. Used as name of computer hacker club and magazine. Originally the tone a payphone used to signal that a quarter had been inserted into the slot.
5150: California California's Welfare and Institutions Code for involuntary incarceration in a mental institution due to a person being a hazard to self or others.
555-1212 phone number for information. 1-800 free phone calls for customers. In motion pictures and TV shows, all phone numbers start with 555 because idiots were dialing the numbers in movies as a prank...
6630507: US Patent number for medical marijuana, an antioxidant.
8080, 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium... Intel's numbering system for microprocessors...
MIL-TFD-41: a Joke military standard. The letters spell "Make It Like The Fine Drawing For Once"
6.022 times 10 to the 23rd: Avogadro's number... Chemistry constant used to calculate... WHAT! I CAN'T REMEMBER! I passed the class and now it's not important... Just more stuff they cram into High School Kid's Brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
-273.15 degrees C (or zero Kelvin): absolute zero in Centigrade or Celsius temperature. Absolutely no motion in atoms...
710.77245 type this number into pocket calculator, turn upside down to spell SHELL.OIL
700,000,000,000: The amount of the Wall Street Bailout of 2008. Also the largext amount of money ever stolen in a bank robbery. JUST CO-INCIDENCE???
90210: Beverly Hills zip code. TV Show.
13 trillion: Size of the national debt. yep, trillion... $13,000,000,000,000
1,000,000 years BC: The year Raquel Welch battled the dinosaurs.
Lazy Eight: The symbol for Infinity looks like the number eight lying down... seems like a good idea to end this page with Infinity...
Magic Square: The Numbers Add Up to the same in all directions...
276
951
438
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_squarehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_tesseract
Slang: A "Number" is a word meaning Marijuana Cigarette.
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1,4,9
the dimensions of the
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly in the movie 2001
(the big black box filled with stars)
also,
the squares of the first three numbers...
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L7 is a hand gesture ridiculing "squares" (people that are not hip).
No Joke here...
The Pentagon is universally known for evil...
Satanic rituals use the 5 sided figure...
WOW, just co-incidence???
And the newspaper for employees of the
Department of Defense
REALLY is called the Pentagram! Like telegram...
candygram, smoke a gram, your gram-ma!
From an alert reader:
867-5309 from the Tommy Tutone song 'Jenny'. Supposedly the reason all phone numbers on TV and movies are 555-something since teens everywhere called 867-5309 to the chagrin of anyone actually having that particular phone number
The Jailbait Equation:
RU/18QT*3.1415927
or in plain English: Are You over 18 cutie pie?
If i is the square root of minus one, am I the person observing this mathematical impossibility or am I the person NOT observing the mathematical impossibility (because it's impossible). Is this the source of all those Apple Products? iPOD, iPAD, iDON'TKNOW
Speed of Light: 186,000 Miles per Second.
Link to the greatest movie of all time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_in_Mathmagic_Land
"To Infinity and BEYOND!" a quote from Buzz Lightyear. A Character in the movie "Toy Story".
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Solar Desalinization Project - Makes Pure Water, Salt and Electricity. Endlessly!
When the Steam cools, it falls from the sky as rain. 
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| Solar Desalinization Project |
Please share this information... If we built a hundred of these Solar Desalination plants all along the coast of California, Oregon and Washington we could create a moist rainy climate downwind. Much better than wildfires.
The website address for this post is:
http://vandergreg.blogspot.com/2015/08/solar-desalinization-project.html
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom asked for Ideas about what to do about California's Drought... I emailed this to him at:
http://www.gavinnewsom.com/contact/
Diagram of a Working Installation by a corporation.
http://www.powermag.com/adding-desalination-to-solar-hybrid-and-fossil-plants/
http://inhabitat.com/united-arab-emirates-tests-new-solar-powered-desalination-process/uae-solar-plant-shams-1-1-2/
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| Imagine the big puffy clouds of steam this would create... humid climate downwind. |
Sunset over Humboldt Bay
My Truck in the Snow. Eureka, CA
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| Memorial for Those Lost at Sea Woodley Island Humboldt Bay |
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| The Black Pearl sailing ship in Humboldt Bay |
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| Cross and Bird visual echo |
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| Bishop of Nottingwood |
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| Overnight Camping Sign Uprooted by Vandals. No Camping Where Posted! Well, it's Not Posted Now. |
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| Taxpayers 4 Sanity |
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| http://www.schatzlab.org |
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| Biodiesel Roadshow Bus |
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| Darryl Cherney and the Chernobyls in Arcata, CA |
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| Do the Math... The Killing of American Soldiers Dramatically Reduced about 1973. |
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