Let's End Trump's Crazy Iran War: VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS NATIONWIDE --- Trump Set an Oil Tanker on Fire... Ecological Insanity... Please Share These Memes Worldwide... Thank You!

uncontrollable greed - hoarding of gold

What if we just learned from the French?

Crispy gnome plans for the future 

in a Trumpless world...

Hey Donald: Where's the Beef?

<~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~>

Will TRUMP Launch a "False Flag" Drone Attack on California and Blame Iranian Immigrants?

Promises made. Promises broken. No $2,000 checks. No $2 trillion in savings. No income tax relief. Gas and electric bills? Still crushing you. And new wars? Very much a thing. Turns out China isn’t paying the tariffs — YOU are. Trump and Republicans lied. Full stop.

JFK Document Release Conclusion: "Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone" - ICYMI: In 1963 JFK Ordered the End of Vietnam War. All Troops Out by the End of 1965. But Then He was Assassinated and We Fought the War until 1973.

Sadly, nothing of interest in the document dump...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/declassified-jfk-files-provide-enhanced-clarity-on-cia-actions-historian-says/

<~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~>

JFK Had Ordered Full Withdrawal from Vietnam: per National Security Action Memorandum Number 263.

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/jfk-ordered-full-withdrawal-vietnam-solid-evidence/

What I Wonder is: Who Benefited from Continuing the Vietnam War? Dow Chemical sold a Lot of Agent Orange and Napalm. Bell Aircraft Sold a Lot of Helicopters. The CIA Exported Tons of Heroin out of Laos... Financing their Operations Worldwide... This is Something I was Not Taught in School... nor did anyone mention it in all the conversations I've Had about the War and The Assassination... 

Was this the Real Motive for Kennedy's Assassination? To Keep the Vietnam War Going.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam/

On October 2, 1963, Kennedy received the report of a mission to Saigon by McNamara and Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The main recommendations, which appear in Section I(B) of the McNamara-Taylor report, were that a phased withdrawal be completed by the end of 1965 and that the “Defense Department should announce in the very near future presently prepared plans to withdraw 1,000 out of 17,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Vietnam by the end of 1963.” At Kennedy’s instruction, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger made a public announcement that evening of McNamara’s recommended timetable for withdrawal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Action_Memorandum_263

National Security Action Memorandum Number 263 (NSAM-263) was a national security directive approved on 11 October 1963 by United States President John F. Kennedy. The NSAM approved recommendations by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell Taylor. McNamara and Taylor's recommendations included an appraisal that "great progress" was being made in the Vietnam War against Viet Cong insurgents, that 1,000 military personnel could be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of 1963, and that a "major part of the U.S. military task can be completed by the end of 1965." 

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/3446

White House taped conversations and other documents reveal a president who recognized the inherent dangers of military intervention in Vietnam and who had devised an exit strategy. Had it not been for his assassination, the withdrawal plan might have prevented the deaths of more than 58,000 Americans and countless numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians.

Meeting the Beatles in India - EPIC MOVIE - 1968 "Home Movies" Filmed at the Maharishi's Ashram - by a Canadian on a Spiritual Journey

https://youtu.be/2he26OhhJYw Trailer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7999072/

Documentary: Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.

He brought his own Camera and too Many Candid Portraits... and Ringo taught him how to Make Home Movies with Ringo's Movie Camera. 

Includes interviews made recently... Most interesting was Pattie Boyd... Who said she had a lot of Fun in the Sixties... Being the Subject of Love songs written by Both George Harrison and Eric Clapton... 

also David Lynch: Singer in the Talking Heads Band. Who Studied TM... 

Behind the Music Reveals that one of the other people at the ashram was Prudence... who was "stuck" in her room... so they Sang "Dear Prudence: Won't You Come Out To Play..." 

also we see an interview with Bungalo Bill... who shot a Tiger... but Later Bill decided to Do Wildlife Photography for National Geographic Magazine...

Pattie Boyd was delighted when she Learned That Bungalo Bill traded in His Gun for a Camera...  

The White Album was Written at That Ashram.

~~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

an alternative is... Frank Zappa's 

COSMIK DEBRIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LT2MdaPI

and the Mockery of the Firesign Theater...

WC Fields Forever... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_l25G33Co

The Death of Commercial Rock Radio is an Example of what happens when Corporations let computers select the top 200 songs and then play them again and again and again... because that's the way to capture the ears of the largest audience... and sell advertising at the highest price... This is a taste of the world AI will create..

VKK SAID: I wish the Bay had a decent rock station, I remember being big mad how they seemed to get rid of it when we lived there lol

SE REPLIED: You're probably thinking of Live 105, which plays alternative rock and 90's rock. Live 105 went away for a while, but now it's back, and it was very much needed. But I do wish they were more like they were when they first started in the 80's. In the 80's, "alternative rock" meant an "alternative" to regular rock, which was stuff like Led Zeppelin and the Who and Pink Floyd, and also Motley Crue and Def Leppard and stuff like that. Live 105 played new wave and industrial and goth and punk. Their format changed in the 90's when grunge mostly killed all of those other genres, and "alternative rock" was no longer an alternative to regular rock, it was just the mainstream rock: Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and stuff like that. And I guess they still played some punk, but mostly newer punk like Green Day and the Offspring. So I wish they'd go back to the new wave, industrial, and goth music they played in the 80's. But there doesn't seem to be as much demand for that now, for some reason.

SLJ SAID: I'm really NOT a fan of jazz. But I actually have one of my car radio presets to KCSM, College of San Mateo. 80% of the time they're playing music classified as jazz but it's too chaotic for the meter in my head. I can't seem to find the "pulse" of many songs so I bail and go to one of my other stations. BUT, then again, sometimes they play some really cool and interesting songs that I simply love! The same is true with a lot of classical music so again I have a preset to a classical station. Some of that music I absolutely can't stand but every once in a while they play some really cool songs. I wonder if part of my diverse listening (rock, country, punk, electronic, folk, etc.) habits come from being a musician because I find myself figuring out what they're doing rather that just enjoying it. One thing for sure though, I don't listen to a CD collection. I'm a random radio listener.

SE REPLIED: I never used to like jazz either, with the exception of big band/swing. But I didn't think I liked other types of jazz...but then in 2016, I went to the San Jose Jazz Festival for the first time, and I realized that there are a lot of different styles of jazz, and I actually like a lot of it! But big band/swing is still my favorite. I spend most of my time at the big band stage when I go to the jazz festival.

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

What does it take to convince Google News that I don't want to read ANY STORIES EVER about the Kardashians? I click on fewer stories and that makes my google news KK free for a WEEK... or maybe TWO and then the INFESTATION RETURNS!

Like

Comment

Share

A Nice Guy Gets His Just Desserts. A Mystery Story - and My Dream about Ram Dass

I was Opening the Mail at Our New House When... I Read this Letter.

"Dear Susan: Thank You for the Most Wonderful Night of My Life... I can Certainly See Why You are a Professional... Here's that $28 Dollars I Owe You. Let's Meet Again for a Romantic Interlude. "

  ~~~~~~ Thanks, John ~~~~~~

I Assumed that the Former Resident was a "Working Girl" and Since I Knew Where She Lived Now... I decided to go visit and deliver her mail in Person. Hopefully, Since I was Such a Nice Guy, She Would Service Me for Free... After All, I Could have Just Kept the Letter and The Money... 

Ding Dong! 

and What Happens Next? Who Know!

It's a MYSTERY!

This entire story happened to me in a dream and I Woke Up Right after I Rang the Bell... SO... Even I Don't Know What Happens!

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

another Dream!

We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings... 

He Wrote The Book: Remember, Be Here Now... and THAT Got My Attention because of the ART! Here's a Picture of about a Hundred Drawings in that book...

~~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

and now for something Completely Different.

~~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Where is Walla Walla? 

It's Between Ting Tang and Bing Bang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZNYyrbACLs

Witch Doctor Song - Cartoons 

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

https://youtu.be/ahv_1IS7SiE

Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

https://www.facebook.com/greenpeaceusa

BREAKING: A HUGE win for free speech! For 7 years, Resolute Forest Products has sought to silence Greenpeace USA, simply because we exercised our First Amendment right to expose their destructive business practices.

We are beyond grateful the Court defended the right to call out corporations that prioritize profit > people. Because the truth is, this fight was never just about Greenpeace: it was an attempt to silence all those who speak truth to power. And we need the right to raise our voices now more than ever–against toxic chemical spills, against oil wells in our communities, and against attacks on our democracy. #WeWillNotBeSilenced #StopSLAPPS

What climate PSA posters would look like if they took a hit of acid

Hannah Rothstein’s new art series, ‘Goodstock,’ draws on idolized rock music posters from the ’60s to rally people around climate solutions for today.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90884810/what-climate-psa-posters-would-look-like-if-they-took-a-hit-of-acid

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. He passed Away on 2/9/2018. Co-Founder of EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Lyrics for The Grateful Dead.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Birthday Remembrance to John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018)

One of the best ways to honor Barlow (and other humans as well as yourself) is to remember his 25 Principles of Adult Behavior.

1. Be patient. No matter what.

2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.

3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.

4. Expand your sense of the possible.

5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.

7. Tolerate ambiguity.

8. Laugh at yourself frequently.

9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.

11. Give up blood sports.

12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.

13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)

14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.

15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.

16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.

17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.

18. Admit your errors freely and soon.

19. Become less suspicious of joy.

20. Understand humility.

21. Remember that love forgives everything.

22. Foster dignity.

23. Live memorably.

24. Love yourself.

25. Endure.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/throwing.html

"Throwing Stones"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Bob Weir
Barlow has posted the lyrics to his songs.
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

Picture a bright blue ball, just spinning, spinnin free,
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky,
Brush in some clouds and sea,
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space,
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace
Is the human face,
But afraid we may lay our home to waste.There's a fear down here we can't forget.
Hasn't got a name just yet.
Always awake, always around,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves
And the nighttime falls.
Again the hunt begins,
Again the bloodwind calls.
By and by, the morning sun will rise,
But the darkness never goes
From some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets,
Staking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat,
It's you and me.
You and me.
Click flash blade in ghetto night,
Rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley, roll them bones.
Need that cash to feed that jones.
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
[Bridge:]
Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice.
Any way they fall,
Guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray,
Selling guns 'stead of food today.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us
What to think.
If the spirit's sleeping,
Then the flesh is ink
History's page will thus be carved in stone.
And we are here, and we are on our own
On our own.
On our own.
On our own.
[Instrumental]
If the game is lost,
Then we're all the same.
No one left to place or take the blame.
We can leave this place and empty stone
Or that shinin' ball we used to call our home.
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
[Bridge two:] Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north.
In a whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours.
And the current fashion sets the pace,
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical, he rant and rage,
Singing someone's got to turn the page.
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing just leave well enough alone.
But his pants are down, his cover's blown...
And the politicians throwin' stones,
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And it's all too clear we're on our own.
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Picture a bright blue ball,
Just spinnin', spinnin, free.
Dizzy with the possibilities.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.