Trump #TACO Cuba - and just like that... Russian oil tankers are allowed to deliver to Cuba! Amazing!

Russian oil tanker begins discharging cargo in Cuba's Matanzas terminal... 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-oil-tanker-enters-anchorage-cubas-matanzas-port-ship-data-says-2026-03-31/

We the People Do Not Like Trump's War in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Portland, Minneapolis, Washington DC or Los Angeles... And We Don't Like High Gas Prices!

What If All the Middle Eastern Oil catches on Fire? Ecological Disaster? A Massive Drone Attack Aimed at an Oil Field was Repelled by Saudi Arabia.  It's possible those things could burn for years... Maybe decades...  Refineries burn too... So do tankers!  And they have Oil spills... 

Saudi Arabia repels drone attack on Aramco oil field.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Saudi-Arabia-repels-drone-attack-on-Aramco-oil-field/65823578

However... Israel set an Oil Depot on Fire... Burning Uncontrollably... 

Remember that there is an underground coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning for 50 years... In the Gulf of Mexico there was that oil well that was on fire? For weeks... All those countries over there have a lot of oil wells and refineries and tankers... all of those things are flammable... A saboteur with a match could do the trick... Or one of those Highway Emergency FLARES...

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and Now for Something Completely Different!

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Rainbow Gathering 2026 Rainbow TrashPanda 
Nepal Rainbow Gathering
March 19 - April 17, 2026
Close to Kailash Parbhat,
on the only land of the sacred tree Rai Sallo,
our home for the last Rainbow gathering,
where we lived with the tiger,
beneath his den,
a divine and fearless vision came.
A vision to gather once again under the full moon of April known as the Pink moon named after the species of early blooming wildflowers, as the wild family will come together to our mystical magical home from 19th March to 17th April, in the lands of Nepal

Political Nation
When You Care Enough To Send the Very Best.
The War is, aside from destroying the reliable international order that has successfully made it possible to exchange goods and legal commitments between nations, has hidden in there press many domestic matters that continue to fester and grow, such as the Epstein investigations, ICE concentration camps and ethnic persecutions, and the cost of megadeath in the Middle East.

The cost of stupidity in the Trump Administration will be profound as all these remain after the bombing, adding to the bankrupting of the US budget, already trillions in debt . . . a condition inviting a fair billionaires tax . . . certainly coming up for debate in the next chapter! - Steve Brodner

I Have Lost my Love of Fire. Years ago, I took delight in a campfire while backpacking... Or in the fireplace at my parents house... But now that wildfires have destroyed three of my friends homes... It's not fun anymore!

I really noticed this on the 4th of July when people were setting off fireworks and firecrackers and guns and bombs... And I just wanted it to stop... I was concerned that some idiot was going to set the forest on fire in our neighborhood and we would have to evacuate... 

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

When I was a kid and we had family gatherings I always built a fire in the fireplace and included a few Buckeye seeds... A few minutes later the seeds would POP surprising the people at the Gathering... Harmless fun that worked well if I didn't tell anybody what was going on and then all of a sudden pop!

Looking back, that probably wasn't a whole lot of fun for people who were War veterans or had the possibility of suffering a heart attack due to a surprising noise... But I was a kid and it was just something I did... 

I planted that buckeye tree in the backyard. I was hiking in the mountains behind Los Gatos up past the Novitiate and found some sprouted Buckeyes. I brought three of them home and planted them in the backyard and one grew up to be a tree... And then when we sold the house the new owners cut it down to build a McMansion... You can see from recent Satellite photographs that it's not there. 

I also remember the giant bonfires at the Utah Rainbow Gathering... About a quarter of the trees in the forest had died due to some kind of insect... So the Rangers chainsawed down many trees... And the hippies gladly pick them up and put them in the bonfire... And a whole bunch of people would play the drums... And dance... 

Our version of time travel... back to 10,000 years ago when we lived in caves... And fire and drumming was a way to keep the saber tooth tigers away... I also feel that that Grateful Dead song "drums/space" was a time travel event... Especially if you're high on LSD... One time in Maryland there was a thunder and lightning storm and the power went out at the concert venue... Electric guitars are silent without electricity... But the drummers just kept on beating away... And I swear they timed the rhythm of the drumming to the lightning thunder flashes... You know that famous Tom Tom fill... batter batter, batter batter, batter batter --- BOOM!

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The sad story of a boy and his dog on the 4th of July.

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When I was about 6 years old my parents got a toy collie dog for me... It lived in the backyard of our house and slept underneath the deck in a special area that we had lined with eucalyptus leaves and berries so it would be flea free... 

We had a fence that blocked the backyard off that was tall enough so the dog could not jump over it. One fourth of July we went over to a friend's house and enjoyed the "world famous" chocolate chip cookies baked by their son, Kit... barbecued hot dogs and ice cream... We set off our own fireworks but also admired the big displays at San Jose State that we could see in the distance... 

When we got home the dog had vanished... And then a couple of days later the police called and said that our dog had been run over on Highway 9 on the 4th of July... Evidently the loud explosions in our neighborhood caused enough fear in our dog so that he was able to jump over the fence... 

And we never got another dog, and I never got another dog for the rest of my life... But the only thing that is wonderful about this story is the memory of the "world famous" chocolate chip cookies that our friend's son baked... And the barbecue hot dogs and ice cream... 

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My experience with having a dog as a child was that it was just more trouble than it was worth. Sometimes the dog would follow me to school and I would have to walk home from school and make sure he was locked in the backyard so he wouldn't follow me again... When we were hiking in the mountains behind Los Gatos the dog would run around in the bushes and get poison oak oil on his fur... And then later I would pet the dog and the oil would rub off on me... I found that swimming in the chlorinated swimming pool was a good cure for poison oak skin disease... And acne!

I think my parents were just part of that generation that was raising up baby boom children and following the instructions in Dr Spock's book... And an American boy should have a dog... Part of the traditions of Life in the suburbs... 

They also bought a parakeet and dad had tropical fish... The parakeet would repeat a sentence that it heard often... " brush your teeth" - I guess Mom said that everyday after meals and the parakeet picked up on it... 

Anyway... I've never had a pet... My parents bought that dog and so it was really their dog... Mom fed it and Dad trained it to not go to the bathroom in the house... On occasion I would wash the dog... And then he would go roll in the dirt because he hated being clean... 

Much later I got married and Victoria really loved cats... So over the 20 years so we were together I must have lived with eight different cats... But I never cleaned the litter box nor fed the cats... My entire responsibility was ignoring them until it was time to go to the vet and then I had to capture the cat and put it in the travel bag... Sometimes that was quite difficult because the cat had Claws and was strong... 

Thankfully Victoria never had a dog while we were together... She had dogs with previous husbands... 

For many years we lived on the edge of a redwood forest and in the meadow out back we placed a salt lick... And many deer came and licked on it, enjoyed it and on one occasion we had a red fox...

The same company that made the salt lick also made a human grade spice out of the same materials... Basically salt, pepper and garlic... I really like cooking brown rice with that spice and a can of tuna... One of the few things I learned how to cook for myself... With white rice, you use one cup of rice and two cups of water... But with brown rice, you use one cup of rice and three cups of water... Bring the mixture to a full rolling boil, put a lid on the pot... And go do something else for 10 minutes... When you get back it's done... 

And that's the story of our dog Prince... 

Family photo. Karen, Robin, Greg, 

Martin and the dog Prince

I Oppose Sending Any Money to Israel and I Oppose Cutting IRS Budget. Mike Johnson's Bill in the US House of Representatives.

END THE WAR! No Money for Israel. They Just Buy Weapons and Kill People. When they Run Out of Weapons They Can Fight Using Sticks... Much Better! The United States has given Israel more than $260 billion in combined military and economic aid since World War II. What did We Get for All That Money?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-10-10/how-much-aid-does-the-u-s-give-to-israel

On October 7th Hamas Murdered 260+ People for Dancing at a Techno Pop Festival. This was an Astonishingly Stupid Action as the BLOWBACK has Caused Over 4,000 Dead Residents of Gaza. OOPS! Hamas is the #FAFO World Champions! They F*CKED AROUND AND THEN THEY FOUND OUT!

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-music-festival-6a55aae2375944f10ecc4c52d05f2ffe

 
The United States committed over $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the most recent year for which data exists.[1] About $8.8 million of that went toward the country's economy, while 99.7% of the aid went to the Israeli military.

Israel received the second-largest amount of US aid in 2022 after Ukraine, where the US committed $12.4 billion. The two countries received 4.8% and 18.1%, respectively, of all foreign aid granted that year.
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/

Israel-Gaza: How much money does Israel get from the US?
In 2020, the US gave $3.8bn (£2.7bn) in aid to Israel - part of a long-term, yearly commitment made under the Obama administration. Almost all of this aid was for military assistance.
This support came as part of an agreement signed by former president Barack Obama in 2016 for an overall package of $38bn (26.8bn) in military aid over the decade 2017-2028.
This represents an increase of about 6% (adjusted for inflation) over the spending commitment for the previous decade.
https://www.bbc.com/news/57170576

US aid to Israel and Ukraine: Here’s what’s in the $105 billion national security package Biden requested...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/us-israel-ukraine-aid-package/index.html

$61.4 billion in aid for Ukraine
$14.3 billion in aid for Israel
$7.4 billion for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region
$13.6 billion to address security at the US-Mexico border
$1.2 billion to counter fentanyl, including inspection system deployment, additional Customs and Border Protection officers, and testing and tracing activities.
$1.4 billion for migration needs to support Safe Mobility Offices, for host communities and legal pathways in the region, for foreign government repatriation operations and to combat human trafficking and smuggling in the Western Hemisphere.
$100 million for child labor investigations and enforcement, particularly to protect migrant children entering the US through the southern border.

and then an AI Said: 

https://anyword.com/performance-demo/

Title: Fostering Harmony: Pathways to Peace in Israel and Gaza.

 

The Middle East conflict, particularly the seemingly intractable dispute between Israel and Gaza, has cast a long, divisive shadow over world politics for several decades. Numerous peace attempts have made some progress but have also met roadblocks, as evidenced by recent clashes that yet again pit Israel against the Hamas-run Gaza. To contribute to the search for sustainable solutions, this blog post outlines potential pathways to establish long-lasting peace in the region. 1. Dialogue and Mediation: Both Israeli and Palestinian leaders must commit to an ongoing dialogue to find a resolution that both sides can live with peacefully. This commitment should extend beyond intermittent peace talks to continual communication channels that enable problem-solving discussions in a calm and conducive atmosphere. Here, the involvement of impartial, reputable mediators could be critical to ensure both sides feel equally heard and respected. 2. Shared Economic Interests: Common economic interests can often unite warring factions. Shared regional economic projects that require cooperation could, over time, help to build mutual respect and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. 3. Role of International Community: A strong and unified international community must back any resolution. Major world powers must rally behind peace initiatives to ensure their effective implementation and sustainability. More importantly, it must abstain from unilaterally backing one side, as this often emboldens and enables aggression, sabotaging peace efforts. 4. Education and Awareness: The people on both sides of the conflict must learn about each other's perspectives and understand the legitimate aspirations of their 'adversary.' While government propaganda often paints the opposing side as evil incarnate, actual change could stem from community-led efforts to educate children and adults about their neighbors, leading to a peaceful coexistence. 5. Law Enforcement: Irrespective of religion or ethnicity, anyone perpetuating violence should face justice, without exception. It could include enacting new laws or enhancing the enforcement of existing ones. In essence, the justice system should not discriminate based on political ideology or affiliation. 6. Equity in Resource Allocation: Issues like the fair distribution of natural resources (like water) that currently cause resentment and unrest between Israel and Gaza need to be resolved. An international neutral body could be entrusted with this task, helping manage resources with an equitable outlook. 7. Recognizing Human Rights: Last, but by no means least, all peace attempts must acknowledge the fundamental human rights of all individuals in the conflict, be they Israelis or Palestinians. Policies must emphasize the preservation of these rights, building an atmosphere of respect and dignity. In conclusion, to bring peace in Israel and Gaza, the cycle of violence must end, which will only happen through mutual respect, negotiation, shared goals, justice, and understanding. International cooperation is essential, but the central change will happen within Israeli and Palestinian communities. While the path to peace is riddled with complexity and no easy solutions, all parties involved must recommit to trying because a peaceful Middle East benefits the whole world.

I Remember Eating at FOOD NOT BOMBS in Chico, CA... It was a Wonderful Free Dining Organization that served free vegetarian lunches in the Train Depot park...

One Day, I Met a Woman and Later Be Became a Couple... I'm always Grateful for That Introduction!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/chicofnb/

...another EPIC Free Meal is "The Jesus Center" - on Park Ave in Chico. They Serve Breakfast and Dinner to about 200 people a day... and then on Sunday there was a Free Meal at The Salvation Army... Neither Meal Required Listening to a Sermon... After I Got a Job, the Lady That Ran the Jesus Center asked me to stop coming... Maybe since I Could Buy My Own Food and Did not need their services I Could DONATE to the Less Fortunate... That's How It Works...

Then I Bought a Used Truck from "The Well" a Prisoner Halfway House that helped People STAY OUT of Prison... I Bought That Truck on a Handshake... The Man Called my Job and My Boss Verified that I Worked there... and Since It's a Small Town, They ALREADY Knew Each Other... and... If MIKE SAYS You are OK... That's Good Enough...

Let's Cut Defense Spending in Half and Use The Money Currently Wasted to Pay for Medicare for All and Free College... Since the Military Has NOT ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA since 1945, Why Spend Billions on Something we Do NOT USE?

Since August 15th, 1945 [Victory in Japan Day] ALL WARS HAVE BEEN BOGUS... We have Invaded Foreign Countries and Taken Sides in THEIR Civil Wars. Remember Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq and Afghanistan? Why Did We Spend Taxpayer Dollars to Blow Those Countries UP?

There was an ACTUAL NEED to Defend the USA on 9/11/2001 But the Military FAILED COMPLETELY... Civilians took down the Hijacked Airplane in Pennsylvania...

All those Bogus Wars Have Just Been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons. Corporate Welfare... The Worst Example is Lockheed Missiles and Space... They Used to Build Spaceships but NOW they Build Bombs to Kill Children in Yemen... What a Tragic Waste... Not only a Waste of Civilian's Lives but a Waste of Engineering Talent... Imagine What Could Have Been if Lockheed Hadn't Turned to the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE? 

Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter... Minds, Ello, Wordpress, Blogger, Mastodon and Tumblr... I publish my ideas on all of them...

Boycott Facebook and Twitter... At LEAST Refuse to read that Harmful Propaganda... It's OK to WRITE to Facebook and Twitter and Force your opinions on the masses but NEVER READ IT. Too Many Russian/TrumpNik Bots Spewing Hate...

https://www.minds.com/ 

https://ello.co/ 

https://wordpress.com/ 

https://www.blogger.com/

https://mastodon.social

http://www.tumblr.com

Fallout Map - Atomic Radiation in the USA

I remember that We were sent home from elementary school as a safety drill to practice what to do in the event of an Atomic War... When I got home, Mom recommended that we climb the hill at the end of Bruce Ave so we could have a good view of the blasts... a cynical opinion... we didn't have a bomb shelter. It was assumed that we would die and our last moments on Earth should be interesting. 


We also went outside at Night to see The Sputnik, a communications satellite sent up by the Russians. We could see it, which was kind of surprising since San Jose had a lot of air pollution and lights...  

At my folks house we had a Parakeet named "Pretty Bird", Tadpoles and Tropical Fish. We had a bird and it said the words "Brush Your Teeth". Mom told me that after every meal. The bird heard those words so many times that it became one of it's phrases. It also said "Pretty Bird". Dad raised Tropical Fish. I remember that we had Neon Tetras. He only did it for a couple of years because it was a lot of work to clean the tank and replace the dead fish. He had no talent for raising fish. I remember that it was more fun to go to the pet store than to own our own. The tadpoles I got out of the creek at the end of our street. I brought them home in a jar and kept them in a bucket out back. I saw them grow one leg, two legs, three legs and then the vanished. They just jumped out of the bucket and lived in the backyard. They were still living there today as far as I know. 

END THE WAR IN YEMEN. Clearly NO Mission except Corporate Profit of Lockheed. USA Selling Death. Congress passes Bill to stop war. Trump is in Favor of Death.

Both the House and the Senate Voted to Stop our War in Yemen. Trump may Veto bill or he May Cave In... Obviously, Yemen poses no DANGER to the USA... All we are doing there is just Mass Murder... For Corporate Profit...

https://www.apnews.com/263d2069e3a0450b9f6329d01004de0c
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting a plank of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the House on Thursday invoked never-before-used powers to demand that his administration withdraw support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen . The Senate passed the same resolution in March with bipartisan support.

Trump is expected to issue a veto of the measure , his second as president, and Congress does not have the votes to override him. But the action was nonetheless a milestone for lawmakers, who have shown a renewed willingness to assert their war-making powers after letting them atrophy for decades under presidents from both parties.

End the War in Yemen. The USA is selling bombs to Saudi Arabia that are used to Kill Civilians. Massive Starvation Crisis.

Pompeo and Mattis call for end to Saudi-led war in Yemen

"We’ve got to move toward a peace effort here. And we can’t say we’re going to do it sometime in the future. We need to be doing this in the next 30 days."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pompeo-mattis-call-end-saudi-led-war-yemen-n926646

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Corporate Profits are More Important than Children's Lives in Yemen. We will keep on selling BOMBS to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/20/us-bombs-killing-kids-yemen-sanders-tells-pompeo-human-lives-worth-far-more-defense

American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, and new reporting shows that the Trump administration is allowing this carnage to continue and escalate in order to protect the profits of defense contractors.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/12/outrageous-fury-pompeo-puts-us-rubber-stamp-approval-saudi-slaughter-civilians-yemen 
"Pompeo overruled concerns from most of the State Department specialists involved in the debate who were worried about the rising civilian death toll in Yemen," the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a classified State Department memo. "He sided with his legislative affairs team after they argued that suspending support could undercut plans to sell more than 120,000 precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)."