Let's STOP Paying Israel $4 Billion Dollars a Year... That's an INSANE WASTE OF MONEY (and Lives Too...) REDRUM... REDRUM... REDRUM...

My attention this week has been on the Campus Shutdown at Humboldt State University... When I attended we did not believe any world exited outside of Humboldt County... We certainly did not have any Opinions about what those Crazies were doing beyond the Redwood Curtain... I believe BOTH SIDES are Wrong in the Israel/Gaza War...

And this Year... The Government Has Spent $26 Billion So Issrael Can buy more BOMBS, More GUNS and More DEATH!

Could this War in Israel all be a "Wag the Dog" Distraction to Keep Americans from Noticing the Infrastructure Failure Here at Home? The Mississippi River was CLOSED to Freight Traffic Due to a Cracked Bridge... But Now, Everybody is Talking about Israel Bombing Palestine... https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/05/18/arab-americans-protest-biden-dearborn/5130943001/

"Wag the Dog" Movie Summary: Two weeks prior to reelection, the United States president lands in the middle of a sex scandal. In need of outside help to quell the situation, presidential adviser Winifred Ames (Anne Heche) enlists the expertise of spin doctor Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro), who decides a distraction is the best course of action. Brean approaches Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to help him fabricate a war in Albania -- and once underway, the duo has the media entirely focused on the war.

The REDRUM Scene from the Movie "The Shining" 

The GOP Believes that if the Simply LIE, LIE AND LIE AGAIN that Magically Time Travel Will Become Real and tRUMP Would Win! and He wasn't REALLY Banished to Mar-A-Loser, Florida... 

https://www.ajc.com/politics/the-georgia-gop-tries-to-rewrite-the-2020-election-history/ONLHXNUJQNEY3M5A5ZY7HNBEGQ/

The Classic "Just Joking" Defense by Rude Julie Anna... It was all "Hyperbolic" - Just Like the Turner Diaries is FICTION! Not a REAL Plan for the Overgrow of the US Government... https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-insurrection-lawsuit/index.html

Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani -- who exhorted Trump supporters in Washington on the day of the Capitol riot to "have trial by combat" -- are now arguing that he wasn't literally advocating for an insurrection over the 2020 election results.

The assertion comes in Giuliani's response to a lawsuit filed by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell seeking to hold Giuliani, former President Donald Trump and others accountable for inciting the violent siege on January 6 at the US Capitol.

In a court filing Monday, Giuliani wrote that his words to Trump supporters were "hyperbolic." AND ALL THE MATH GENIUSES IN QANON KNOW ALL ABOUT HYPERBOLA... 

Trump is Actually Broke... an Entire Year of His Hotels Losing Money Every Day Has Depleted His Bank Account... and NOW... Deutsche Bank is Refusing to Loan Him any More Laundered Russian Money... https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-wasted-no-time-claiming-presidential-pension-says-report

tRUMP's Coronavirus is Helping With the Problem of Overpopulation! Now The Vast Majority of Deaths are in People That DID NOT GET THE VACCINE... SEE? Behaving Stupid Can Be Fatal!

and there were a Half a Million Americans That Died from Drug Overdoses... and Really, If you are so Stupid as to Die from a Drug Overdose... We Are All Better Off That You've Gone... Thanks!

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Let's Make Birth Control and Abortion Free and Legal Worldwide... The Troubles of OVERPOPULATION are More than Just Too Many People Living in the Bay Area... It's Too Many People EVERYWHERE! Ever notice that there are Thousands of People walking from Central America to Texas looking for a Better Life? That because they Can't FEED THEIR CHILDREN in Central America or Mexico... The Catholic Church is Opposed to Birth Control and so there are Millions of Starving Children... I've Actually Traveled to Mexico and The Starving Children Really Upset Me... SO... I Never Traveled there Again... 

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Not Surprisingly My Catholic Friend Disagrees...  

MD Said: There is no problem with over population. In fact the opposite is true. Europe has a declining birth rate except for Muslims. The US also almost has a declining birth rate except for Hispanics. In fact the problem is the replacement rate is not sufficient to support the social welfare nets for Seniors. Overpopulation is a myth.

and I Replied:
So You Say... In Fact, Traffic Jams are Directly Caused by Overpopulation... So are High Rent and High Food Prices... Too Many People Competing for Limited Resources... and Climate Change is Caused By Too Many People Polluting the Air... Back when we had a Billion People, You Could Heat your House with Coal, Wood or Cow Dung... NOW, That Behavior Causes Global Warming... Whatever... YOUR Children and Grandchildren Can Share the Misery... Free Advice! Move to the Coast of Oregon... Cool, Rainy and No Problems of The City. 

and Don't Forget The Mormons... They are Reproducing TOO... Senator Mike Lee's Rebuttal of Green New Deal... the “real solution to climate change” is to have more children... He Displays a Painting Of Ronald Reagan Riding a Dinosaur while Firing a Machine Gun... His Hope is that Children are Smarter Than their Parents and They will Figure out a solution... Really! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/04/senator-mike-lees-rebuttal-of-green-new.html

MD Said: that’s called capitalism. The whole point of capitalism is to create demand has nothing to do with overpopulation. High rent and high prices are again caused by demand and inflation, and they have nothing to do with overpopulation. We have enough food to feed the world many times over, but it’s because of poverty and corruption in political governments and lack of education not overpopulation.

Companies create demand by limiting their products thus increasing their prices for their products. Harley Davidson is famous for this. We do not have limited resources nor do we have overpopulation.

Climate change has nothing to do with overpopulation.

I Replied: A small number of People Polluting the Air is Not Significant. a Large Number of People Polluting the Air is a Problem... Biology/Thomas Malthus. Just Like The Quantity of a Herd of Deer will be Limited by Starvation in the Winter... He published the Principle of Population where he made the observations that the human race would be likely to overproduce if the population size was not kept under control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

and then SE Said: One thing that drives me crazy about the "we need more housing" people is the fact that they never, EVER address the issue of water. Santa Clara Valley is in a severe drought right now, yet we have around 2 million residents currently, and we will have thousands if not millions more residents when all of the neverending high-density apartments are finished and occupied. If the current 2 million residents are being asked to conserve water, where do they plan to get enough additional water for the million or so more people who will eventually move here? This is the point where someone usually comes along and says, "But apartment dwellers don't use nearly as much water as people who live in houses," and "The biggest use of water is a lawn. People living in apartments don't have lawns." Okay, fine. But we're talking THOUSANDS, maybe even MILLIONS of people in addition to the 2 million who are already here. The fact that they don't have a lawn doesn't change the fact that there will be so MANY people using a limited amount of water. Even 2 million additional people taking a daily shower will use a ton more water than whatever is currently being used! And not everyone is conscientious about trying to conserve water by taking shorter showers or turning off the faucet while they brush their teeth or whatever. Some people are wasteful by nature, and some are jerks who feel entitled to use as much water as they want. I knew a guy a few years ago who used to turn on his shower and let it run for TEN MINUTES before getting in. I have no idea why anyone would do such a thing, but in his case, I think he was trying to rile me up because he knew I cared about the water supply and the environment. I never said a word because I don't like confrontation and I don't like to argue, and I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that his blatant waste of water was upsetting me, so I never once said a word about it. But my point is, there are people like that who feel entitled to waste water. When you're talking about hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions, of additional residents, it really doesn't matter if they live in a house with a lawn or whether they live in an apartment building. And sure, you can encourage people to take shorter showers or to shut off the faucet while they brush their teeth, but there is no way to monitor millions of apartment dwellers to make sure they actually ARE doing those things. And even if each and every one of them DOES take extra steps to try and conserve water, the sheer number of additional people WILL put a drain on the already-stressed water supply. Why don't the "we need more housing" people ever talk about this? 

We DON'T need more housing. We need fewer people. The only way we're ever going to be able to have a decent quality of life again is if we STOP making it so easy for more and more people to move here.

VK Replied: My dad is one of those "people need more housing" folks but I guess I sort of understand because that's how he earns a living. He got some land development deal in Cupertino where he might be earning some $200k commission from. In all honestly I'm kind of bad about letting the water run while brushing my teeth, mostly because I'm always rinsing my mouth out and don't brush that long. It's terrible and Pat actually is the one who reminds me to shut it off. As far as the shower, I usually have to let it run for a minute or two because it takes a while to heat up, but 10 minutes is kind of ridiculous.

SE Replied: The water in my kitchen takes a long time to run COLD, if you can believe it. I need it to get cold before I can run it through my Brita filter, so sometimes I have to let it run for a minute or 2 before it gets cold. I always feel terrible about that, though, because I know it's a waste of water.

MM Said: We need to invest in better technology in agriculture here in CA—ones that conserve water and use it in a more efficient manner. Look at the pie chart. Most of the water is consumed by agriculture.

And the water use is different for the regions here. Our area really doesn’t use as much water as other regions. But yes there is a drought but are we the only ones that should be encouraged to use less water? How about asking agriculture to invest in more efficient ways of utilizing their part of the pie chart? Government incentives for them to do so?

I drove down HWY 5 a few years ago and noticed that many of the orchards there were abandoned, the owners couldn’t afford their water supply—profit margins dwindled and they had to pack it in. This of course affected our economy as well.

We need better water management, better tech to conserve water in agriculture by making the irrigation process more efficient and less wasteful. Education and technology can help farmers manage their crops better too—cooperating with folks who own cattle to rotate fields and provide time for one section to be pasture and naturally fertilized with manure while others actively grow crops. The State and County Fairs need to provide free seminars paid for by our State government towards these aims.

Anyways, my two cents.

MM Said: And it’s a major hill to climb, considering most farmers are quite set in their ways—they don’t like being told what to do with their crops or farms. But they use most of the water and are not considered in this push to conserve water. They are overlooked. So it unfairly falls on the urban areas to take up the slack?! We don’t use as much water as they do!

SE SAID: But it pisses me off about the "we need more housing" crap. We wouldn't have a water shortage if there weren't so many people needing the limited amount of water that we have. This is not the time to encourage more people to move here.

VK SAID: Yeah, I agree. I was actually just saying that the bay area is one of the places I'd never move back to. We moved here because the cost of living was cheaper, but it's gone up a lot and I feel like at this point we could move to SoCal and pay around the same. This isn't my dream place to live, I'd love to be close to the beach and have consistent weather that isn't too cold during the winter. Maybe after we build up some equity in the house and have more income we can make it happen.

 SE SAID:  Yeah, I feel so stuck here in San Jose, but I don't know how I'll ever get out. I'm from this area, and my whole family is here, and I've lived here most of my life, so it's 'home.' And of course, if I move away, first I'd have to save up enough to get myself set up in another city where I don't have any family nearby...but how can I ever save when it's almost impossible to find permanent employment anymore? Contract work means you end up going long stretches of time in between jobs, and that makes it impossible to save money. I get really depressed sometimes when I think about it because I don't really see any way out. It's like being on a merry-go-round or something.

VK SAID:  Yeah, I totally feel that. I'm fortunate that I could keep my current job and work out of the Irvine office if I wanted to, but I don't know if I'll still be at this job at that point in time. I'm hoping to eventually be 100% freelance, but we'll have to see. Pat said he could always do UberEats full time until he found something, he's been having better luck with that vs rideshare. I was just lamenting recently how we wished we could have moved away sooner, but like you said it's really hard if you don't have a job lined up. The only way we were able to move here is because we had somewhere we could stay and Pat was able to transfer his job while I was on unemployment. It was pretty rough for a while. Moving out of state would be even harder, especially if you're buying a house because like my current loan is restricted to CA only and you have to have 2 consecutive years in the same employment industry, or buying a house outright in another state would be dicey for us because we'd both need new jobs. If I was 100% freelance, I'd need at least 2 years worth of that income as well.

VK Said: The water at my dad's house takes FOR-EVER to heat up so it can easily be 10 minutes of letting the water run. I heard it's because he has the water heater turned turned way low and he thinks he might be saving money that way, but in reality he's wasting a lot of water that way and as a homeowner, you do pay more for water/garbage in a house, so it doesn't make sense.

CB Replied:  My MIL puts a pitcher under her faucet to catch the cold water while it’s heating up before she showers/hand washes dishes or whatever and then waters plants with it. You could suggest/try that if you need to let it run for a bit to heat up.

and then I Said: Let's Make Birth Control Free and Legal Worldwide... The Troubles of OVERPOPULATION are More than Just Too Many People Living in the Bay Area... It's Too Many People EVERYWHERE! Ever notice that there are Thousands of People walking from Central America to Texas looking for a better Life? That because they Can't FEED THEIR CHILDREN in Central America or Mexico... The Catholic Church is Opposed to Birth Control and so there are Millions of Starving Children... and... Abortion Should be Free and Legal Worldwide...

OVERPOPULATION Is THE Major Problem Today. It Causes Traffic Jams, High Food Prices, High Housing Prices, Plagues and Global Warming.

Thankfully, Mother Nature is Inventing New Diseases To Reduce Overpopulation. tRUMP's Coronavirus Is Just The First of Many Plagues to Come...

I Believe the Needs of The Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few or the Stockholders. 

I Question the Validity of the Entire Profession of Medicine. People are Living Longer, Thanks to the "Wonders" of Modern Medicine. A Classic Example of the Needs of the ONE Outweighing the Needs of the Many. Old People are Refusing to Die and We Consume Housing, Food, Air, Drinking Water, Plastic, Computers and Electricity. 

The Polluting Actions of ONE Billion People Did NOT Cause Global Warming. HOWEVER, When that Same Actions are Done by SEVEN Billion People... The Temperature Goes UP!

Recommended Action: Make Birth Control and Abortion FREE and LEGAL All Over the World. Did You Notice that in Catholic Countries Like Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras the QUALITY OF LIFE is so bad that they are Walking North to the USA to Escape Their FAILED CULTURE... Really! I'm Not Making This UP!

Massive Overpopulation in Mexico where Birth Control is Prohibited by the Catholic Church. 

We should teach Trump Voters HOW TO READ BOOKS. For Example: "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." We could Read it Out Loud to Them and Point to the Words... Help Prevent The Boogaloo!

Education is a great way to prevent people from swindling you. For Example: What if someone offered to teach you how to make millions of Dollars in Real Estate but the Teacher was a #BillionDollarLoser? Maybe if you could THINK FOR YOURSELF you wouldn't get fooled by Con Artists like "Donald the Dumpster. ? AKA D.J. TRUMP... 

Drumpf had to Give Back $25 Million Dollars in  Tuition to his Students when he GOT CAUGHT committing FRAUD. 

How to BEAT TRUMP in 2020?

I Prefer Democracy to Monarchy. #BillionDollarLoser Trump wants to Cancel the Next Election and Crown Himself CZAR for Life...

Gun Nuts Keep on Talking about How They Will Win the Coming Civil War... 

Random Thoughts About Guns and The Next Civil War... a Blog by Robert Farago... 

Maybe He Is Right! If Trump Loses the Next Election Trump Ought to Challenge the Results and Stay in the White House Protected by Military Might... Just like they Do in Venezuela... and Panama and Nicaragua and El Salvador... Those Countries REALLY are a Wonderful Example of How to Run an Election... We Ought to Study their System and Learn! NOPE... He Is Wrong... Democracy is Better than Monarchy... Just Ask George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin...   

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/06/robert-farago/random-thoughts-about-guns-and-the-next-civil-war/

http://regularguyguns.com/2018/10/02/Civil-War-But-Not-In-The-Way-You-Imagine/

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/watch-trump-laugh-over-a-comment-about-shooting-migrants.html

Global Awakening is Real and Happening Now! We Will Join With Perhaps a BILLION PEOPLE Worldwide Celebrating the Earth on 9/20... Global Climate Strike!

and then... on 9/23... Eco-Warriors Plan To SHUT DOWN WASHINGTON DC... Good Luck!

Climate activists plan Washington DC protest to 'disrupt workings of power'

Local groups join together for an event that seeks to shut down traffic on 23 September, during the UN Climate Action Summit... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/27/climate-activists-plan-washington-dc-protest-to-disrupt-workings-of-power

Infinite Rainbow in the Forest Coffee Cup for Sale!

Cosmic Rainbow Spirals in the 

Redwood Forest of Eureka...

Infinite Rainbow in the Forest Mug
by gregvan

Link to see ALL My Playing Cards for Sale... 

With Psychedelic ART Printed on the Back!

 https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=Playing%20Cards&dp=252911154724730613

Hexagon Yin Yang playing cards
by gregvan

Classic Rainbow Spiral Playing Cards
by gregvan

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!"

PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
by gregvan

NSA CyberWeapon "EternalBlueScreen" escaped the Agency and has wreaked Havoc as Malware... Your Tax Dollars at Work. Also Know as "EternalBlue" Ransomware.

The NSA designed this CyberWeapon to exploit a Flaw in Microsoft Software... Instead of REPORTING this flaw to Microsoft so they could fix it, the NSA built Malware... An absurd waste of Taxpayer Dollars and COMMON SENSE. There is a formal tip line that allows anyone to report bugs... by the NSA FAILED TO REPORT THIS... and It has caused a Billion Dollars of Damage Worldwide... 

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Headline: In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc... For nearly three weeks, Baltimore has struggled with a cyberattack by digital extortionists that has frozen thousands of computers, shut down email and disrupted real estate sales, water bills, health alerts and many other services.

But here is what frustrated city employees and residents do not know: A key component of the malware that cybercriminals used in the attack was developed at taxpayer expense a short drive down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at the National Security Agency, according to security experts briefed on the case.

Since 2017, when the N.S.A. lost control of the tool, EternalBlue, it has been picked up by state hackers in North Korea, Russia and, more recently, China, to cut a path of destruction around the world, leaving billions of dollars in damage. But over the past year, the cyberweapon has boomeranged back and is now showing up in the N.S.A.’s own backyard. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html

N.S.A. Denies Its Cyberweapon Was Used in Baltimore Attack, Congressman Says... BALTIMORE — A Maryland congressman said on Friday that the National Security Agency had denied that one of its hacking tools, stolen in 2017, was used in a ransomware attack on Baltimore’s government that had disrupted city services for more than three weeks.

The statement, made by Representative C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, came in response to an article in The New York Times last weekend. The Times was told by people directly involved in the investigation in Baltimore that the N.S.A. tool, EternalBlue, was found in the city’s network by all four contractors hired to study the attack and restore computer services.

Investigators are still trying to determine the exact chronology of the attack. The leading theory is that hackers broke in through an open server in Baltimore’s network, installed a back door and then used EternalBlue to move across the city’s computers searching for valuable servers to infect, said the people involved in the investigation.

This week, the contractors discovered an additional software tool, called a web shell, on Baltimore’s networks. They believe the web shell may have been used in conjunction with EternalBlue and another hacking technique known as “pass-the-hash,” which uses stolen credentials, to spread the ransomware.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/nsa-baltimore-ransomware.html

Trump: Billion Dollar LOSER... Tax Fraud? Bank Fraud? Cheat on your taxes, don't be a fool, Now what was that they said about a Golden Rule? Never mind the rules, just play to win, And hate your neighbor for the shade of his skin. Skip a Rope... (a Country and Western Song)

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/8/billion_dollar_loser_nyt_report_on 

Billion Dollar Loser: NYT Report on Trump’s Taxes & Massive Losses May Prompt Fraud Investigation...

In Other News:

Senator Jon Tester of Montana says that American Farmers Hurt by Trump's Trade War. 

 https://www.tester.senate.gov/?p=news&id=6553  

During his monthly press call, Democrat Jon Tester characterized the Trump administration's growing trade war as, "Our country's self-inflicted problem that really doesn't seem to have an end in sight."

President Donald Trump says he plans to escalate tariffs on over $200 billion worth of Chinese imports at the start of the new year.

Sen. Tester, a north-central Montana farmer, says the United State's ongoing tariff disputes with its trading partners are putting the pinch on Montana agriculture.


"Farmers across the state, including my operation, still have some of last year's grain in the bin because we've lost access to some of those markets. These tariffs have caused commodity prices to fall and they've loaded family farmers and ranchers with uncertainty just as we're planning for next growing season."

Devin Nunes and other Congressmen say: Trump's Tariffs are “threatening the economic livelihood of our businesses and communities” - Especially Almond Farmers.

California Republicans complain Trump’s farm aid plan unfair...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article215654035.html

Devin Nunes, who traditionally is a Trumpist Zombie... Chooses to Represent his ACTUAL Constituents instead of "Our Glorious Leader, Czar Donald The First."

Trump's Tariffs cause sales of Almonds and Walnuts to drop... Because China, India, Canada and Mexico have raised Tariffs of their own... and the 12 Billion Dollar Farmer Bailout is for Soybean, Corn, Wheat and Sorghum ONLY...