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Inflation's REAL CAUSE: Millions of NEW JOBS at HIGHER PAY puts a LOT More Money In Play... and Corporations Raised Prices Because They Can Without Losing Sales.

With Millions of Americans Suddenly Having MORE MONEY in their Paychecks than Ever Before... Companies SEE THE OPPORTUNITY to Get Some of that Money Themselves... WHY NOT? People Can AFFORD to Pay Higher Prices... When I Got a New Job at DOUBLE the Pay, I Started to Shop at Safeway's Deli and Bought the Really Good Cheese... A Luxury I Couldn't Afford Before... 




SAVE MONEY by NOT BUYING CHINESE JUNK! Thrift Store Treasures are "What's Happenin'" Now!

I See in the News That There is Trouble Unloading Cargo Ships from Overseas... Well, SO Freaking WHAT? 

I Already Have Everything I Want... The Secret Trick is NOT Wanting Much! That Way It's Easy to Get Everything I Want.

http://www.eurekarescuemission.org/Thrift_Store/Thrift_Shop.html Link to The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop on Highway 101 in Eureka, CA... I Bet with a Little Research You Could find a Similar Store in Your Town! Goodwill, Saint Vincent de Paul, Volunteers of America... 


Remember! Buying Used is 
Ecologically Friendly! 

Refuse to buy Chinese Junk - meme

I won't be Buying any of This...

boats waiting to unload cargo

When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. Their Computers Automatically Order another Product to Keep the Shelves Stocked... 

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

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On the Other Hand... You Can Buy Stuff that's Already Made in the USA... For Example: Zazzle/Gregvan offers Gifts that are Made in Reno, Nevada... and The Corporation Headquarters is Located in Fremont, CA... 




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All my Royalties are Donated to Charity... 
No CEOs Addicted to Corporate Greed Here... 

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It's the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Failed War on Drugs. June 17th, 2021... Doing the Same Thing Again and Again and Again While Expecting Different Results IS INSANE!

"Everybody" says that the Failed War on Drugs Has Caused Massive Incarceration of Black and Brown Men... While that is True... Is that a Bad Thing? YES, It's a Bad Thing. 



Isn't the Failed War on Drugs Just a "Sneaky" Way to Perform Genocide? While those Men are Locked Up, They Certainly are NOT Fathering Children... Making Entire Generations of Americans Whiter... Because Women Select a Sperm Donor from the UN-Incarcerated Population... A KKK Dream Come True... 

50th Anniversary Nixon's Failed War on Drugs 6/17/2021

Marijuana has become Legal in Many States... Over Half!

Psychedelic Plants have become Decriminalized in Many Towns... So... Nixon's Attack on Hippies Failed... HA HA... LOSER... 

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - gvan42


Now I Read in the Newspaper that Black and Brown Men are Dying from Fentanyl Overdoses... Huh... Isn't THAT Convenient? 

An Absolutely Certain Way to Prevent Their Genes from Showing Up in Future Generations... 


Here's a Classic Sermon on this Subject: 

June 17, 2021, will mark 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared drugs to be “public enemy number one,” launching a national campaign to criminalize drug use. War on drugs policies have led to mass incarceration, civil liberties abuses, over-policing and mistreatment of people of color, and human rights violations in the United States and around the world. Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 people died in the United States alone from opioid overdose in from 1999 to 2019, with death rates still accelerating steadily. 

To mark this milestone, faith leaders, as part of Open Society grantee Faith in Harm Reduction’s sermon series, will memorialize the victims of the war on drugs and affirm that people who use drugs are deserving of life, dignity, and rights.

IS THAT TRUE? ARE THEY VICTIMS?https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/sermon-series-50th-anniversary-of-the-war-on-drugs

Legalize Medicine - meme for Facebook

It's Amazing that Within a Week of the Thousands of Haiti Refugees (Black People) were Spotted Living Under a Bridge in Texas... They Were Airlifted Right Back Where They Came From... 

That Same Week the Federal Government Allowed Thousands of Refugees from Afghanistan to Immigrate to The Good Old USA... 

Obviously Racist... 

Legalize Hemp and Marijuana - meme


ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “WAR ON DRUGS,” POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT ENDING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR DRUG POSSESSION, THINK DRUG WAR IS A FAILURE... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/50th-anniversary-war-drugs-poll-shows-majority-voters-support-ending-criminal


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - swirling colors

I Heard It Said That LSD Was Invented at the Same Time as the Atom Bomb... In Order to Balance the Universe... 

ask your doctor meme


"War, Ungh, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing... say it Again... Headline: After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us?' https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us


Digital Rainbow Spiral by gvan42


America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting Richard Nixon's Failed war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html


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FACT CHECK #SOTU: tRUMP Said That the Economy is the Best It's Ever Been. THAT'S FALSE - Ask Yourself: "Are You Better Off Now or Four Years Ago? Everyone I Know Was Better Off Then.

MEME gvan42 Abandoned Pulp Paper Mill in Eureka, California
Abandoned Pulp Paper Mill in Eureka, California
NOTICE REALITY - Massive Layoffs and Business Bankruptcies... Yes, The Super Rich are Winning A Lot of Money on the Stock Market but SO FREAKING WHAT? 90% of Americans Own No Stock. Most Jobs Nowadays Have No 401(k) - No Retirement Plan at All. Massive Increase in Homeless Tent Cities... WAKE UP! tRUMP IS LYING... and The "Talking Heads" on TV Are Lying TOO... They PRETEND We are Not In a Disaster Economy SO YOU WILL BUY BUY BUY Consumer Goods...  CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Bloomberg TV, ABC, CBS and NBC are All Brainwashing You to Benefit Their Corporate Sponsors... Big Pharma, Cars, Trucks and Booze! It's Crazy! Eat Some Doctor Drugs, Drink a Beer and Drive Your Brand New Truck into a TREE! Makes me MADD...  




PATRIOTS AGAINST TRUMP. His Trade War is Dangerously Stupid. Could Cause Global Economic Collapse. Who will Bail Out The USA when Trump Drives the Entire Country into Bankruptcy?

This week the Stock Market WENT UP when Trump announced that He Would NOT be Doing Tariffs on China until December 15th... That way American Businesses Could Buy Christmas Presents without PAYING EXTRA. And then the Stock Market went down when they Noticed that The Basic Ideas of Trump-0-Nomics are Insane... He is an Idiot when it comes to Business... That's why he declared Bankruptcy FOUR (4) TIMES... and every time his Father would give him more money...

MEME - Trump5150 - gvan42


His Trade War has Caused China to Refuse to Buy any American Agricultural Products. A Disaster for Farmers... When Obama was President Farmers Earned a Living by Growing Crops and Selling Them. Now with Trump-0-Nomics... Farmers get a 16 Billion Dollar Welfare Payment and the Crops Rot in the Field... and it's not Just Farmers... John Deere Tractor Sales are Down... You don't need to buy a Tractor when there is no need to grow crops... Consumer Prices GO UP... Who do you think PAYS for the Tariffs? YOU & I Pay... Trump Lies again and again and again about how China Will Pay but DING DING DING! Reality says AMERICANS PAY... Believing Trump's Lies Does Not Change Reality... Prices are UP, Wages are DOWN, Layoffs, Bankruptcies... WAKE UP! It's FUN, It's FREE and Everybody's Doing IT!

Why Not Set Off a 130Db Personal Alarm at the White House? Let Mad King Donald Know that We Think He is Crazy... You could stand in Lafayette Park Right Across the Street and Create a Sonic Protest! Wait for a Day When Evil Trump is at Home... I remember we played the Drums during an Anti War Protest when George Bush was President... It Disturbed His Sleep and reminded him that he was doing evil... and we knew it.  It would be wonderful if another set of protesters set off Sonic Alarms on the Ellipse side of the White House... That way CZAR Donald would be Surrounded! 






Trump's New Tariffs Likely to Cause Popular Consumer Prices to Rise. Well, SO WHAT! Simply STOP CONSUMING... Do You Really WANT all that Cheap Chinese Junk? Do Not Buy That Crap! Really...

Don't you already have everything that you want? If Not, Simply Want Less... Another new Smartphone? Why not Keep the one you Have and Just Be Happy? More Plastic Toys? More Dresses? More Shoes? More, More, More? An Ostrich Coat? More? More? More? More? More? More? More? More? That's Compulsive Hoarding Of STUFF! Buy High Quality Tools and Fix What You Have So It Lasts For Decades... Buy USED... Recycle... Reuse... Thrift Store Bargains are HIP! 

Remember: All You Really Need Is Enough Food and a Safe Place To Sleep. 

Do You Really Want To Be One Of The Plastic People of the Universe?  Believing That You Can Consume Your Way To Happiness! Pathetic Dupe!

Trump fires all members of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Another disaster for Americans... Help for the Super Rich!

Since the goal of the CFPB is to protect Consumers from Banks... Closing the Bureau helps Banks do evil... The CFPB was created after the economy meltdown in 2008... when bankers gambled away all our money and had to be bailed out by the Federal Government. Dodd-Frank law was passed to prevent Banks from gambling with people's money... Now that law is being repealed setting up the Economy of the USA for disaster again!

Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/06/mick-mulvaney-fires-members-of-cfpb-advisory-board/ 

Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/congress-passes-dodd-frank-rollback-for-smaller-banks.html

THE UMMAGUMMA OF CAMBRIDGE [fiction] - MKULTRA [fact]


When the aliens found out that their spaceship was infested with Ummagumma they stopped at the first planet (eARTh) and dumped them. The place was called Stonehenge. The Ummagumma are an annoying life form that supports themselves by petty thievery. They were first reported in Dickens books...you know... Oliver Twist...Pickpockets...They also have an annoying habit of taking things apart and not putting them back. Have you ever noticed that for some unknown reason things just "go on the blink" ? That's the work of the Ummagumma. For centuries they lived in the swamps near Oxford (Cambridge, England - the land of Eng) but one day they walked down to the docks and snuck aboard a boat. When the captain found out that his boat was infested with Ummagumma he stopped in the first port and dumped them. He threw them right overboard and into the San Francisco bay. They swam to shore and quickly blended into the population. You see, they are short and brown and could be mistaken for Chinamen...............................Stay tuned... next time they disassemble Sutro tower in a futile attempt to "call an intergalactic taxi". ............................And then they wander down the coast and climb... Mount UMUNHUM... The giant box on the mountain overlooking the city of Saint Joe. ...................................................The Ummagumma always stowaway and they just had to get off the planet eARTh. This planet's just too boring. Got to get back to the Swinging Planets in the Crab Nebula...That's where all the Fun Is. and so, gentle reader Ta Ta For Now... Read another story? Click Here!

Idea by Arthur C Clarke - Book "Sunstorm"
Instead of Complaining about Global Warming,
Why Knot Actually Do Something?
Ya Think?

bathroom closed to tourists
only open to card holding members
woodley island marina eureka ca
photo by gregory vanderlaan 420
Gee, I have a Great Desire to Piss on the Sign.
And then smoke a cigarette...


So, Only the Rich have to take a piss?
UckFay OUYay
Is Woodley Island the new INGOMAR CLUB?

MKULTRA CIA/LSD * - American History
(Official Verification that MKULTRA was real)


Source: "Studies in Intelligence DCI first 100 days."
web.archive.org/web/19991008114355/http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclas/100.html

After his reelection in 1972, President Richard Nixon fired Richard Helms, who had led the CIA throughout his first term. Intent on reforming the Agency, he appointed James Schlesinger, 43, as DCI on 21 December 1972.

The Office of the Inspector General gave Schlesinger a 693-page list of "potential flap activities," which detailed Agency involvement in MHCHAOS, mail-opening programs, the Huston Plan, MKULTRA and drug testing, and the training of local police. Other revelations included details of CIA's attempts to assassinate foreign leaders. This is the list that became known as the "family jewels."

Video Cameras on the Bus to make sure no one sprays graffiti...
or something... are they fake? Who is Watching You?
Big Brother? Is the Book "1984" a Blueprint for the
Violet Overgrow of the GubbermintyFRESH!
Why to the poLICE fear Citizens with Cameras?
Because they feel ashamed of what they do.

Off by 22 Years... Sigh... 1984 became true when the USA passed the Patriot Act



Coral Sea Research Vessel, Arcata CA in the Humboldt Bay.
Oceanography 109 HSU photo by Gregory Vanderlaan 420
Coral Sea Research Vessel Arcata CA in the Humboldt Bay Oceanography 109 HSU photo by Gregory Vanderlaan 420
Coral Sea Research Vessel Arcata CA in the Humboldt Bay Oceanography 109 HSU photo by Gregory Vanderlaan 420

Man sitting with a giant Cannabis rug in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse and Jail.
 420 photograph by gregory vanderlaan 420 

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I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

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 and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad 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...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

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