There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit.

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Think for Yourself and Question Authority

eBook: AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS [Since 1945, The Pentagon Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once] by Gregory Vanderlaan

Chapter Zero. 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?

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A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 American Soldiers Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School... "Too Controversial"

During the 1950s Americans went into a 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 that one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon they would take over Mexico and threaten the American Way of Life. Soon, President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. Then President Johnson sent even More American Soldiers to fight the Viet Cong. Then President Nixon continued the War for another 5 years before eventually he decided to allow the South Vietnamese to fight their own war and we left. Quickly the South lost and thousands of Boat People fled South Vietnam because they thought they would be killed. As it turned out, The Domino Principle was false. Communism did not take over the world. The entire war was a waste of lives and money.

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

Photographs from an Anti Iraq War Protest March in Eureka, California. We had MANY protest Marches and History Has Proved Bush was Totally Wrong. Dumb as a Rock!

Impeach Sign and Political Theater Actors posing as a Widow with a Baby Buggy and a Gitmo Prisoner... at a Peace March in Eureka, CA... The Iraq War was an IDIOT Action by G W Bush (the son) and his evil henchmen Cheney and Dumbsfeld...

Why Fly All The Way To Europe or Hawaii For Your Vacation? We've Got It All Right Here in California... NOW WITH LEGAL WEED!

Sure, They Have Amsterdam, Rome, Liverpool and Copenhagen but We Have San Francisco, Arcata, Chico and LA... Sure, They Have The Banzai Pipeline and Waimea Bay in Hawaii... But We Have Maverick's, Blacks Beach and All those Surfing Spots in SoCal that the Beach Boys Sang About... 

If You Visit Humboldt County you can see the Tallest Trees in the Entire World, The Redwoods... and Smoke The Finest Marijuana... The Kind Bud is Legal for All Adults. 

But If You Can't Come Here in Person... Try These Links... 

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I Read Banned Books! The Reason Republicans Hate Books is: THEY CAN'T READ! Books are SCARY! What Do They Say??? They Don't Know! Danger! Danger! #RUNAWAY

Great Books that Everyone Should Read - 

Insight & Wisdom - Free at the Library!

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abbey
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Remember, Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Start with these Five Books... They Explain a Lot... Then Continue With These Classics!

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Other Great Books!

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Silent Spring - Rachael Carson

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

Alice in Wonderland

Thru the Looking Glass

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Whole Earth Catalog

Treasure Island

The Old Man and the Sea

Moby Dick

Robinson Crusoe

The Count of Monte Cristo

Don Quixote

Steal this Book

Revolution for the Hell of It

I, Robot

Foundation

Caves of Steel

Grapes of Wrath

Tortilla Flat

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The Man in the High Castle

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

Still Here

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Around the World in 80 Days

Stranger in a Strange Land

Slaughterhouse Five

Cat's Cradle

Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge

America's Bogus Wars

The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby

The Armies of the Night

Trout Fishing in America

Island

The Psychedelic Experience

Fahrenheit 451

The Doors of Perception

Ender's Game

The Cult of Cthulhu

Dune

Chariots of the Gods?

Autobiography of a Yogi

Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

All Quiet on the Western Front

Catch 22

Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King... 

and... 

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds... 

Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!

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What Did I Learn from My Near Death Experience? I've Always Had a Feeling that I Had Some Important Goal to Accomplish. Then I realized...

It wasn't so much of a BIG Goal that was Needed 

to Be Done but Helping People Daily Thru My 

Entire Life. Simply Making the World a Better 

Place To Live. That Was The Lesson.

Since I Did Not Die at Age 19... READ MORE:
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Trump Received Money From a Russian for His 2016 Campaign. GOP operative Jesse Benton was convicted of funneling Russian donations. Why Hasn't Trump Been Arrested and Convicted for This Crime?

The "Russia Hoax" was Not a Hoax After All. Trump Actually Got Rubles to Help Him Campaign!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/trump-got-russian-money-2016.html

Fox “News” Fined $787.5 Million for Intentionally Lying... Further Proof that we are Moving Towards a World Where Truth Matters, Honesty Matters, Justice Matters and...

DOING EVIL GETS PUNISHED!

Many More Lawsuits Coming: Smartmatic is Suing Fox, OANN, Rude Julie Anna, Sidney Powell and the My Pillow Guy...

Will Fox “Learn its Lesson? or Will They Keep on Lying Because That’s All They Have? Time Will Tell!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/03/woke.html


Rainbow Gathering 2024 - July 1-7 in California.

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/rainbow-gathering-2023.html

Stay Away from Florida! Civil Rights Group Issues Warning Against Travel to Florida... They Have GUNS, Floods, The Giant Stinky Seaweed Blob and The Red Tide.

It's A Horrible Place to Take a Vacation!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/no-travel-to-florida.html

Forcing Women to Give Birth to Unwanted Babies is the GOP "Solution" to the Death of Children by Guns. Just Breed some SPARES!
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/forced-breeding.html

Rick Scott: Republican Criminal - He Oversaw the Largest Medicare Fraud in History - Why Isn't He in Prison? DOJ: Do Your Job - OUTLAW CRIME
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/03/republican-criminal.html

It's Wonderful That Anti-Vax Idiots are Dying in Record Numbers. THANK YOU! We Certainly Don't Need People LIKE THAT in the Future...

WebMD Says: Almost All U.S. COVID-19 Deaths
are in the Unvaccinated.
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210629/almost-all-us-covid-19-deaths-now-in-the-unvaccinated
Of more than 18,000 people who died from COVID-19, for example, only about 150 were fully vaccinated. That's less than 1%.

and then I read on Social Media... https://social1776.com/

"I’m the bad man because I speak the truth! I’ve been sounding the Alarm on vaccines for years way before CV19 hit but now that the crossing of the lexicon has happened the line is drawn in the sand it’s do or die time! We are all being given a choice taking the Mark of the beast vaccines or face life in prison and forced into death camps. You simple small minded people who have no vision think that I’m crazy but who told you about what is happening now before it happened I did and others who have eyes to see. You idiots called us crazy conspiracy theorists. So you snicker and laugh and take your kill shots I hope you enjoy that slow agonizing death.“ In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” Mark Twain
- Notebook, 1904
The answer to 1984 is 1776

Social1776.com"

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Massive #ArrestTrump Movement on Social Media. Millions of Americans are Demanding That The DOJ "Lock Him UP!"


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Everyone Says Trump Was The Worst President Ever... However...

George Bush The Son was an American Idiot TOO... 9/11 Happened on His Watch... and Then He Started TWO Insane Wars Killing Thousands of American Soldiers... and the USA PATRIOT ACT: Pure Evil... and Wrote a $700 Billion Check to Wall Street when They Failed in 2008... Free Money that the The US Government Created From Nowhere... Like a Magician Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat...


Richard Nixon allowed the Vietnam War to Continue for FOUR MORE YEARS. He Campaigned on Ending the War in 1968 but Failed to Surrender until 1973... Killing Thousands of American Soldiers...

Ronald Reagan Sold Weapons to Terrorists... He Helped Saddam Hussein become President of Iraq... Blew up Nicaragua... and Started the Disastrous "War On Drugs" which has filled American Prisons with Millions of Black and Brown Men but did not actually reduce drug use...

Yes, It's True that Republicans are the Worst Presidents Ever... but don't forget Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld... They did Evil for Decades...



BREAKING: Trumper radio host launches unhinged rant, demands that Taylor Swift and her profesional football player boyfriend Travis Kelce be “prosecuted and hung” for leading Americans “to their slaughter” by promoting the new COVID-19 vaccine.
But it gets even WORSE…
The Trumper host, far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, dangerously declared that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce “are responsible for murder” because they’re “selling their souls and knowingly killing children with a DOD-manufactured, U.S. government-owned and deployed weapon of biowarfare” and “deserve to be publicly prosecuted and hung” because “their God is Satan and they value money instead of human life.”
Simply deplorable. Trumper hosts are so unhinged and ignorant about the safety of the Covid vaccine that they are now actively encouraging physical violence against, and even the death of, those who help spread awareness about the need for Americans to protect themselves by getting vaccinated against the deadly disease that has already claimed the lives of over 1.1 million Americans.
Adding insult to injury, Trumper host Stew Peters ended his dangerous rant by falsely declaring that Taylor Swift and Travis Kielce’s campaign to promote the COVID vaccine is a “government psy-op” that is “leading” kids “to their slaughter.”
Let’s hope that Swift and Kelce have good bodyguards…
Stew Peters and others who spread conspiracy theories should be criminally prosecuted just as those who shout "Fire" in a crowded indoor venue. This is callous abusive behavior that continues without any reprisal nor prevention of their broadcasting on FCC airwaves. It should never happen.

Donovan's Mountain Song: What Does It Mean? First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is…. The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach Record.

At the heart of Buddhist teachings we are told that all things are impermanent and subject to change and flux. Simply stated, nothing in the world around us or our self is fixed or solid. There are no things, just process and flux.

OR... Maybe it's describing the Motion of an Inchworm... 

Donovan in Concert... 1972 BBC TV... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkLp9d7HKuA 

Allman Brothers Mountain Jam - Eat a Peach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuNz2idDtY 

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

Butch Trucks suggested they name the album Eat a Peach for Peace, after a quote from Duane Allman. When the writer Ellen Mandel asked him what he was doing to help the revolution, he replied:

I'm hitting a lick for peace—and every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace. But you can't help the revolution, because there's just evolution. I understand the need for a lot of changes in the country, but I believe that as soon as everybody can just see a little bit better, and get a little hipper to what's going on, they're going to change it. Everybody will—not just the young people. Everybody is going to say, 'Man, this stinks. I cannot tolerate the smell of this thing anymore. Let's eliminate it and get straight with ourselves.' I believe if everybody does it for themselves, it'll take care of itself.^[23][22]

Drummer Butch Trucks considered Allman's comment a sly reference to the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, one of Allman's favorite poets.^[22]

Eight Sided GO Sign - 

Similar to a STOP Sign but 

with a Positive Message.

The chorus of this song: "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is," may sound incomprehensible or silly, but the lines are a Zen saying Donovan borrowed and which have a meaning. The lines are intended to succinctly describe three stages of Zen. Pre-enlightenment, one's aware of the Universe as physical (there is a mountain). Then through meditation one may experience a visionary state where the physical Universe seems to disappear (no mountain) where the "Buddha Mind"/Tao [Zen first developed in China as a blend of Indian Buddhism & Chinese Taoism] root of reality behind physical appearances is experienced as non-physical. After that vision, the mountain reappears, except in ones new enlightened state one is simultaneously aware of the physical mountain & the Void/Tao non-physical reality behind it & at its root... And now you know the rest of the story!

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Most People FAIL To do anything to Stop Causing Climate Change... Expect More Disasters! The Hurricane in SoCal Over... Not Much Damage... Some Flooding but MY Family Wasn't Harmed... I was Worried...

a friend and I were Discussing the Climate Change Protest at Burning Man... 

I Said: I think a climate protest at Burning Man is a Bad Idea... It seems to me that we are doomed to experience worse and worse climate and there is NO HOPE... So Why Cause a disturbance when we are DOOMED?
The people that Drive Cars and the People That Fly in Jet Airplanes are Continuing to Drive and Fly more than ever before... and THOSE Actions are what's Causing Climate Change...

She Replied: Well, I’m such nature lover and nomadic homebody (I know, it makes no sense🤨). I dislike big crowds for any reason. Especially, those that bring disruption and destroy the natural environment, even the tiniest of eco-systems. And for sure, the Burning Man event destroys all kinds of natural things of various sizes.

I think wind turbines and solar panels are destructively unacceptable for the planet/ environment and electric cars are as well— for all the earth and eco-systems destroyed through mining for all that’s required and the power and space it takes to manufacture them. Solar panels too, destroy vast areas land full of eco systems and they are only good for a few years at a time before they have to be replaced. Its a lose, lose idea. So even if that’s all there was, was EVs to drive and we used way less fossil fuels, we are still destroying the planet by a billion-other cuts. Human life is the only life destroying this planet and all other life on it. We are unsuitable and should get the hell outta here!

and I Replied: 

WELL... This email is truly sad... with no hope for the future... I agree... everything looks like the quality of life is going to get worse until I'm Dead... then it will continue to get worse but I won't Know about it or Care...

Since the Vast Majority of people refuse to reduce the amount of gasoline they burn... and our entire civilization REQUIRES cars and trucks for survival... and the "Jet Set" is still flying like crazy... Even my own family continues to destroy the climate...

The only thing we can really do is to live in a place that is unlikely to be destroyed by climate Change...

I feel that Orangevale (near Sacramento, CA) is Unlikely to BURN or FLOOD... Even if we Had a Wildfire, the Local Fire department would be able to put it out... before it burned my house down... and I'd go swim in our creek until the fire had burned everything... and anyway... I have a Bag Packed and I'm a renter so... I'd just go live in San Francisco or Eureka...

My Family Lives near the Coast of California... a great Place to Live to survive Climate Change... San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Eureka... and Of these Places... only San Diego is Having Hurricanes... But my cousin had to evacuate from a Wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains... However, if his Cabin burned down, he can just go live with his girlfriend... permanently...

80% of the USA is in Danger from Climate Change... and SO MANY are "Climate Change Deniers" and they Refuse to Learn... or take action... to save their own lives...

We are taking some action but NOT ENOUGH... Solar Panel and Windmills are a Good Idea... Electric Cars are a Good Idea... but it's too little too damn late...  

On 8/17/2023 I said: "Possible Hurricane in California Next Week. A Foot of Rain Predicted... Climate Change has Made The Weather on Planet Earth Bizarre!"

Hurricane Hilary 2023: 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2023/08/17/hurricane-hilary-2023-path/70610221007/

The hurricane could potentially bring “significant impacts” to parts of the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States this weekend, including rainfall of up to 12 inches in the Southern California mountains, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Hilary could be first tropical storm to hit California in 84 years...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4156774-hurricane-hilary-could-be-first-tropical-storm-to-hit-california-in-84-years/

How climate change makes hurricanes more destructive...

https://www.edf.org/climate/how-climate-change-makes-hurricanes-more-destructive

As our climate warms, we’re experiencing stronger winds, higher storm surges and record rainfalls during hurricane season — which is also why these storms are becoming more destructive and costly. Evaporation intensifies as temperatures rise, and so does the transfer of heat from the oceans to the air. As the storms travel across warm oceans, they pull in more water vapor and heat.

That means stronger wind, heavier rainfall and more flooding when the storms hit land.

https://www.edf.org/get-involved

NASA: A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate. 

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3184/a-force-of-nature-hurricanes-in-a-changing-climate/

and Now for Something Completely Different... Jokes!

Apple Puzzle - With Two Solutions - an Opportunity to Truly "Think Outside the Box" 

Answer: Line up the apples, make one knife stroke cutting each apple into two pieces with 2/3rds on one side of the cut and 1/3rd on the other side of the cut. Distribute... 

Alternative Answer:  Murder one of the people in the picture. The remaining two get a whole apple each. 

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