New Music Videos: "Melt the Guns", "Support the Troops, Bring'em Home" and "Teenage Alien Dance Party" - New eBook: "America's Bogus Wars" - Plus: 20 Simple Ideas to Make the World a Better Place. - and Original Psychedelic Art FOR SALE! Click Here to Explore the Absurdist World of Gregory Vanderlaan

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https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan

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https://www.facebook.com/GregoryVanderlaan 

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New Music Video: "MELT the GUNS" - by Greg Vanderlaan - Feel Free To Record This and Make a Top Ten Record. Pass this On to a Friend... Chords and Lyrics Provided.
video is at: https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos


Too many Children Dying... [A* C*] 

Too Many Families Crying... [A# A]
Everybody Realizes... [A* C*] 

We Should Collect 'em All... [A# A]
and Melt the Guns, Melt 'em... [G D A] 

and Melt the Guns, Melt 'em... [G D A]
Then They'll Never Kill Again... [E] 

(and there are many more verses) 

Contact: gregvan@yahoo.com


New Music Video: "Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home." by Gregory Vanderlaan [Chords:E A B7] - Feel free to Record This Song and Make a Hit Record... Pass it On..

We Fight All Over the World... For Nothing... 
Kill a Gazillion People... For Nothing...
Blow Up Countries... For Nothing...
Except for Corporate Greed... Lockheed!
Raytheon and Halliburton!
Dow and DuPont! [Agent Orange]
FMC and the CIA!
DARPA and the NSA! Oh My...

[CHORUS sing twice each time]
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home. 
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home.
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home.
We Need 'em Right Here in the US of A...
We Need 'em Right Here in the US of A...


PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP FOR SALE!
A PRESS Hat Might Protect You From Getting Your Head Bashed in By The Police at a Protest March... or it Might NOT! I Remember People Made Fake T-Shirts That Said: "Security - Shoreline Amphitheater" and used them to sneak in to concerts... Of Course, You MAY Change The Word... For Example: You Could Walk Around Wearing a Hat That Says: FLOWER POWER or NO NUKES or ASK ME HOW TO BEAT TRUMP IN 2020... and then when they ask... you say... "Like a Pinata! Grab a Baseball Bat and SWING AWAY!
PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
by gregvan

cyberPunk Button FOR SALE!

Classic "Chip Like" Art with the Word cyberPunk... YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORD IF YOU WANT TO... Try "Music Nonstop - TechnoPop" or "Kraftwerk" or "High Tech Wizard" or "City of the Future" - WhatEVER!

LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE BOOK... 

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS (Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half and Refund the Money to the Taxpayers) by Gregory Vanderlaan - Chapter Zero: Since 1945, The Department of Defense Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. Frankly Speaking, Can't We Buy Total Failure at a Lower Price? gregvan@yahoo.com



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My AutoBiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Chico, Washington DC, Eureka and Orangevale (near Folsom). 

Born March 19th, 1954, I moved to Los Gatos in 1960 and lived there until graduation from LGHS in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... Then I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year. FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz. [and it goes on and on and on...]

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


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Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place.
1. 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... There is an engineering break thru using solar power to pump the water out of the ocean but using membranes to do the purification. That's the same technology that is used in those drinking water dispensers you see out front of Liquor Stores.

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...

2. Convert human fat into electricity using exercise bicycle power generators. The kinetic energy created by people pedalling can be converted into electricity by using an alternator, diode and battery. Many people use stationary bicycles for exercise and these currently unused sources of power could be used to create electricity. People could sell the electricity to the power company.

3. We ought to cut spending at the Department of Defense and use the money for valuable projects. Simply stop the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Africa and all those secret locations. Bring the soldiers and the weapons home. We currently waste a vast fortune on wars that accomplish nothing. We could spend the trillions currently wasted on Medicare for all, infrastructure, teacher's salaries or school supplies. Remember that the US Military has not DEFENDED the USA since 1945. We have only invaded other countries... Often, our invasions cause disaster. For Example: When we helped Saddam Hussein become President and then blew up Iraq. Not a brilliant idea. Then we left stockpiles of weapons that were stolen by ISIS, Arming Terrorists. If we had just stayed home we could have saved six trillion dollars... The War in Afghanistan is impossible to win. Why not "Declare Victory", bring the troops home and have big parades?

4. We ought to legalize and tax marijuana nationwide. Release all cannabis prisoners. This would reduce government spending and increase VOLUNTARY taxes collected. The prisoners could spend their time working for a living and supporting their own families. That would reduce the costs of welfare and food stamps.

5. We ought to impeach Trump. He is taking the country in the wrong direction. His agenda is to cut taxes for the rich and reduce pollution control costs in corporations. He wants to increase drilling for oil, gas and coal mining. That causes more pollution. Burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Climate Change will make large parts of the USA uninhabitable. The Gulf Coast and the East Coast will have hurricanes every year. The destruction will become more than we are able to repair.

6. We ought to fund basic research into clean energy projects. Better electric cars, solar energy, wind energy and wave/tidal power plants. Better batteries... Better air conditioners... We are fighting for our lives. This should be funded like The Manhattan Project of World War Two or the Moon Landing.

7. We ought to reduce the amount of electricity used. Marijuana farms often use grow lights indoors to simulate sunshine needed for plants to grow. We could simply move all farms outdoors. These indoor farms often use stolen power that is unregulated. I have seen explosions at the Humboldt Bay power plant due to unforeseen surges of electricity use. The criminals tap the power on the street side of the power meter to avoid paying for electricity. That makes the power companies guess about consumption and how big transformers need to be. Another way to reduce demand is to teach people that transformers consume electricity even when not being used if they are connected to the wall outlet. We should teach people that a power strip with an on/off switch can cut their bill.

8. We ought to reduce the amount of gasoline used by commuters by moving the office closer to home. Every day people commute to work and if corporations moved the location of office buildings to residential locations, we would save gas, increase time spent away from work and increase happiness of workers. For Example: Silicon Valley and San Francisco have many jobs for people that create software. The tech corporations have headquarters where the employees work. People drive many miles thru traffic jams to get to those headquarters. A better plan would be to split the corporate headquarterss to many different locations in the suburbs. The people could co-ordinate their labor using the internet. The price of housing in Silicon Valley is very expensive in comparison to towns in the central valley. People should pay attention to commute time as an important factor in selecting a job. Currently people pay attention to pay rate, benefits and child care when selecting which job to take. They ought to have a choice of shorter commutes as well. It's an insane waste of time to drive to work. Riding the bus is much more fun.

9. We ought to change the EPA from Enabling Pollution Agency to Environmental Protection Agency. Under the Trump Administration we have seen a reduction of enforcement of laws prohibiting corporations from polluting the environment. Scott Pruitt wants to cut the costs corporations pay for ecology. And in a bizarre twist, he wants to change the rules for scientific research to prohibit health studies that protect the privacy of the people studied. HIPPA requires health information to remain private in any study of people's health. He also wants to prohibit reports from scientists that do business with the EPA while allowing reports from people hired by lobbyists. This would shift the reports in favor of polluting companies.

10. We ought to outlaw assault rifles. We outlawed machine guns and hand grenades in 1934. There is no need for assault rifles. NRA members often say that they need guns for hunting... So, we ought to allow rifles but not assault rifles. NRA members often say we need guns to protect our families... So, pistols can protect our families. We do not need bazookas, rocket launchers or anti-aircraft guns... We ought to protect our citizens from insane gunmen with assault rifles. Las Vegas, Columbine and Florida would not have been a mass murder without absurd firepower. Remember, when you have a gun in the home there is an increase in the chances of a gun accident. Suicide, shooting a family member during an argument and kids playing with guns actually increase the danger at home. NRA members say that we need guns to defend ourselves from the government. In a "Police State" the government keeps the people enslaved by first, taking away all the guns. They point to the USSR as an example. However, the police and US Army have vastly superior firepower and any defense of liberty by We The People is doomed to fail. Remember WACO and Ruby Ridge?

11. Police ought to stop murdering black men. Not only is it morally wrong to commit murder but it costs the taxpayers a lot of money. There is very little murder of white people by police but the culture of the police force seems to encourage murder of blacks. We ought to replace metal bullets with rubber bullets in all of our police forces. Rubber bullets do not kill people but they do cause a suspect to fall down and become easy to handcuff.

12. Remove corporate money from politics. Individual real people should be allowed to contribute to candidate's election fund but artificial "people" like corporations should be prohibited. They are only used to allow rich people to exceed limits of how much money anyone can contribute. This leads to what is in effect bribery. Politicians do what they are paid to do... pass laws that benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor. What we have now is one dollar one vote not one man one vote like the founding fathers wanted. PAC (political action committees) are another way to allow rich people to exceed limits.

13. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients decide what drugs are beneficial treatment. There is a body of medical research that says some illegal drugs help people with mental health problems. For Example: Termanilly Ill people who fear their own death could be given psychedelics to ease their fear. That would be compassionate... What is gained by prohibition? The patients are going to die anyway... We simply do not know enough about health benefits to make an informed decision about medicinal psychedelics. We ought to learn.

14. Make companies that sell addictive opioid drugs pay extra taxes to fund treatment for patients that want to quit using their drugs. They caused a problem and profited by it... they should pay to clean up the mess.

15. We ought to take action to defend our elections. The Russians interfered with our election in 2016 causing Trump to win. Without Wikileaks, Trump would have lost. We also should stop using the electoral college. Majority Rule is a better system. Twice we have had the loser in the Presidential Election serve as President. Both times were disasters.

16. Free birth control and abortion for all. No one should be forced to give birth to an unwanted child. Choice should be available to anyone including people who cannot afford it.

17. Outlaw fracking. It causes drinking water pollution. The only people who benefit are the stockholders of oil companies. Water pollution causes health problems... real people get sick...

18. Outlaw ROUNDUP herbicide. It causes cancer. This chemical is widely used in the farming of California's central valley. Non Hodgskins lymphoma is killing real people who work on the farms.

19. Close all Nuclear Power Plants. They create Atomic Waste that stays Radioactive for thousands of years. AND POISONOUS... The waste has to be stored safely and guarded to prevent terrorists from building a "Dirty Bomb" using the Depleted Uranium. Vast salaries will be spent on Armed Security Guards and warehouses.

20. Teach "Critical Thinking" in High School. Knowing when someone is lying to you is a valuable survival skill. Introduce students to "Logical Fallacies" so they will be able to recognize them.



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and Now, on a Different Subject... 
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Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - German Energy Giant RWE Agrees to Halt Logging in Hambach Forest... The Protests Worked! HEADLINE: Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coalmine in Germany... Greta Thunberg Visits Protest and Questions Wisdom of German Government Plan to Burn Coal for ANOTHER 20 YEARS... Energiewende = Plan to Transition to Low Carbon Energy (Updated 8/13/2019)

The Hambach forest is an old growth forest in the west of Germany. Everything that has evolved here over thousands of years is now being destroyed to make space for a continually expanding lignite coal mine. For decades people have been resisting this profit driven destruction and for five years the forest is occupied with treehouses.

 http://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=hambach+forest


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"The World is More Complex Than a Slogan on a Hat!" YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORDS IF YOU WANT TO... For Example: "Question Authority" or "cyberPunk"
Complex World Embroidered Baseball Cap
Complex World Embroidered Baseball Cap
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