Chords and Lyrics for "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell

G                                        D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

       G              A              D

With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot

[Chorus 1]

D               A

Don't it always seem to go

          G                                   D

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

      G                 A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Verse 2]

     G                                        D

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

         G                    A                         D

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

[Chorus 2]

D               A

Don't it always seem to go

          G                                   D

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

      G                 A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Verse 3]

    G                                D

Hey farmer farmer, put away that D.D.T. now

        G                      A                          D

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees

D

please

[Chorus 3]

D               A

Don't it always seem to go

          G                                   D

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

      G                 A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Verse 4]

G                                       D

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

      G               A                D

And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

[Chorus 4]

D               A

Don't it always seem to go

          G                                   D

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

      G                 A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

x2

[Outro]

D         G               A                D

Yeah they paved paradise, put up a parking lot

D           G               A                D

I said they paved paradise, put up a parking lot

When We Come Back from Coronavirus Shutdown... We Have The Opportunity To EVOLVE... and Build a Wonderful World... I'm Collecting Plans for How to Rebuild a Sane Post Coronavirus Society. Please Comment and I'll Add Your Ideas to The Web...

Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. 

#1: Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water. Let's Build a Giant Plant Halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles... Using Mirrors to Boil Seawater We Could Create PURE H2O, NaCl and Electricity... Simply Drive a Turbine with The Expanding Steam... 

#2: Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax it, Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. Refund the Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement To The Taxpayers... 

#3: Cut The Defense Budget in Half. Since We Have Not ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA Since 1945, Not Even Once, Couldn't We Do Nothing For Less Money? 

#4: Layoff Half the Police. Actual Crime is Down... They Are Bored, Armed, With Nothing To Do... No WONDER They Get In Trouble... 

#5: Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

Solar Panels on the Roof of the House That They Power Eliminate the Need for Long Dangerous Wires That Cause Wildfires. ---> Question The GRID... Generating Electricity in a Central Location and Distributing it To Where it is Used. Is Wasteful and Dangerous. Let's Replace Standard Streetlights With Self Contained Solar Powered Streetlights. No Need For Long Dangerous Wires. --->What Paradise Was Like Before it Burned. My Memories of a California Town. [personal autobiography of everything I ever did in Paradise...Just to keep the Town's Memory Alive... If you are reading this in the Future. Paradise, California Burned to the Ground in 2018 and all buildings were destroyed.] I was lucky enough to have visited the town of Paradise. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-paradise-was-like-before-it-burned.html

Let's Move Work Closer to Home. Save Money, Time and Gasoline Currently Wasted Commuting. ---> Here Are Some Things We Can Do About Climate Change... Drive Cars Less. Use Less Electricity. Breed Less. Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/09/here-are-some-things-we-can-do-about.html

Solar, Wind and Hydro are Essentially Free Once Built. Safe, Clean and Infinite. ---> BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/biomass-electric-power-plants-could.html

Once a Person Has a Billion Dollars, What is the POINT of Getting More Money? It's a Hoarding Sickness... One Thing We Ought To Do is Tax the Rich and Distribute That Money to The Poor. The Robin Hood Concept...

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Other Questions...

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Are CITIES VALID? Why Not Live Way Out in the Woods and Telecommute? It's Wonderful!

Question IF... Flying in a Jet Airplane is REALLY NEEDED... Just ZOOM To Your Destination...

We Have Learned That Commuting to Work is an Obsolete Idea... Working From Home is GREAT for Some People.

What Can We DO To Build a Better World?
The Old Ways Do Not Work...

I Have Noticed that TV NEWS is a Fear for Profit Machine. They get Higher Ratings by Shouting DANGER DANGER!

War for Corporate Profit is an Obsolete Idea. Every War Since 1945 Has Been ABSURD! Marketing for Defense Contractors.

My LOGO - PiFOG - People In Favor of Good - gvan42

"Water, water all around but not a Drop to Drink." NO LONGER TRUE! Dramatic Engineering Improvements of Solar Powered Desalinization Plants have made turning Seawater into Drinking Water in VAST Quantities a Reality. Useful for Watering Plants, Livestock, Taking Showers, Filling Swimming Pools, Lawns and Making Ice Cubes for your "Scotch on the Rocks" Beverage. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/water-water-all-around-but-not-drop-to.html

and Then I Got This Email:

Hi Greg,

Like your thought provoking email encouraging folks to think of ways to make the world a better place.  

Your comprehensive list of ideas contains ones I agree with, ones I don't, and ones I'd like to think were feasible.  My biggest immediate concerns, other than my mom's welfare, my self-preservation and that of friends and family, are containing the pandemic, eliminating racism, and ousting the dishonest/clueless POTUS, Senate Majority Leader, the U. S. Attorney General, and others in the current administration that have contributed to the ongoing total chaos that's consuming our nation, negatively impacting our relationship with once strong allies, failure to actively participate in meaningful discussions with other countries to reduce global warming, and significantly losing respect of other nations, not to mention that of the once proud citizens of the United States of America.  

Still waiting for a safe/proven/over-the-counter SMART pill and an antiracist vaccine.

Stay well Greg.

Craig

Where is all that BURNT DEBRIS (Homes in Paradise, California) Going TO? Disposal by CalRecycle... Dump Trucks Seen going to Beale AFB... One person's observation...

A Person that Chooses to Remain Anonymous said: 

We were close to Chico/Paradise area today. There was a constant stream of dump trucks traveling North & South. We wondered where they Paradise debris was being dumped. WELL, they all turned at the Beale Air Force Base road. Empty (uncovered) were headed back North towards Paradise. A strong suspicion, it's being loaded on huge cargo planes - to what country? An expose' we saw a few years ago, outdated computer monitors, etc., including heavy metals, were dumped in 3rd world countries to be disassembled in open junk yards. More "stuff" no one talks about because it's deplorable.   

Wildfire Debris Cleanup and Recovery

https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/disaster/wildfires

Wildfire debris removal programs are implemented under the leadership of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) and local governments.

https://buttecountyrecovers.org/

https://buttecountyrecovers.org/agencies/debris-removal/

Very Interesting... Speaking of PG&E... I remember many years ago... PG&E had a massive need for shredding their documents and the Retarded People who work shredding near the Silver Dollar Fairground got the contract... This was exactly at the same time as the ENRON Scandal and Governor Grey made insane deals to buy power at extremely high prices... and the we got Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace Grey... American History Repeats Itself... 

ARMED TrumpNiks Will Be Unhappy WHEN He Loses in 2020. Will He Refuse to Leave the White House and Crown Himself CZAR? Will TrumpNiks Surround Him and Use Assault Rifles to Prevent the US ARMY from Defending Democracy? Will They Start the Second Civil War?

 Will It Will Be Fun To Watch on TV? 
I Certainly DO NOT Plan to Participate in Any Riots... 
Nope, Not Me! That's for YOUNG People! 

Opinion: What are the chances that America’s disunion turns into Civil War? Strong rhetoric and violence on both sides of the political spectrum are reaching a fever pitch.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-are-the-chances-that-americas-disunion-turns-into-civil-war-2018-11-07

Boston University Historian Answers: Are We Headed for Another Civil War? Mueller report has Democrats and Republicans feuding—just how bad could it get?
http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/are-we-headed-for-another-civil-war/


Groups like Antifa and Alt-right, who lack any centralized structure and are both incapable and unwilling to coordinate on the national level can use their decentralization to their advantage. They would wage asymmetric warfare, aimed at maximum effect through violence and casualties.
https://foreignpolicyi.org/what-a-second-american-civil-war-might-look-like/

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and some people are trying to Make a Buck on the Fear!

Selling "Investment Advice" for a Post Apocalyptic World...
or selling Psychedelic Art Painted on a Coffee Cup!

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Underwater Paradise Mug FOR SALE!

Plenty of room for Words on this Coffee Cup... or just enjoy it as a Tropical Fish Fantasy... with no fish... oops!

Underwater Paradise Mug
by gregvan

Is America On the Brink of Civil War?

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Something big is looming...

I know you've felt it in the pit of your stomach... that feeling that the market is going up for all the wrong reasons and will soon come crashing down, yet again...

That feeling that somehow, somewhere along the way, America has gone terribly wrong.

I can't tell you when things got this bad.

I can't tell you why millions of Americans continue to vote for the most corrupt government in U.S. history, hoping the next guy will somehow be better than the last... or when money from their corporate masters overtook the concerns of you and me.

But I will tell you that people are starting to notice. And they're not happy about it.

Colorado, Texas, Maryland, and California all have secession movements underway. Congress is so divided, it actually allowed the government to shut down.

Some are saying it's a Civil War-type environment.

It's no wonder more citizens think the American Dream is dead than alive.

And you may be one of tens of millions of Americans who agree. If so, you'll love this...

I recently created a highly controversial report outlining some of the main reasons this country has gone downhill... and what concerned citizens like you are doing about it.

It's called: "America: On the Brink of Civil War?"

It's a must-read for anyone afraid of disappearing rights and liberties, or for anyone simply wondering, “What the hell is going on in America?”


And I'd like to give it to you...

Interesting Documentary. "ANGRY PLANET - BURNING AUSTRALIA" People are BUILDING HOUSES UNDERGROUND TO AVOID THE HEAT AND WILDFIRES... Smart!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4581210/

Will climate change make Australia uninhabitable? What About The Rest of the World? We Are Already Experiencing Wildfires in ALL of the Western USA...

In this movie... they Follow storm chaser George Kourounis as he explores the now brutal Australian summer and imbeds with the firefighters battling one of the biggest bushfires in recent years.

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We Need A LOT MORE Fire Fighting Helicopters and Airplanes. Simply Bring them Home From Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Behave SMART, Government!

We need to defend the USA from Wildfires. Every Year there will be fires in Colorado, Oregon, Washington and California... the entire West is Burning... and our Soldiers are Wasting their Time fighting a war that cannot be won for people that do not want us there. Bring 'em Home. I feel certain that the Soldiers would rather be home fighting fires that threaten their families and friends...

Imagine if we had a Thousand Helicopters dipping water from Oroville Lake and dumping it on Paradise. That would have saved lives and houses.

CDF Helicopter Dipping Water For Fighting Forest Fire

Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES...

When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using the Grid. WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...
https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
Lighting for Streets and Roadways Provided by Sustainable Solar Power... SEPCO’s solar powered street lighting systems are an efficient means to provide lighting without the need for standard utility power. Every system provides cost savings by eliminating the need to trench standard electric wires for installation and providing no electric bill for the life of the system. Solar street lights have been installed on highways, freeways, neighborhood streets, rural roads, etc. and provide security, sustainability and an overall green image.

Vote for Jessica Morse - US House CA03 - A Democrat Seeking to Beat Republican Kevin Kiley - The CA03 District is from Mount Lassen to Lake Tahoe to Death Valley... and the Sacramento Suburbs near Folsom Prison. Let's Make the US HOUSE BLUE!

https://morseforcongress.com/

The Primary resulted with Kiley getting 55.1% and Morse Getting 42.9%... With 47% of the Votes Counted... SO... They Both are in the Runoff Election November 5th... GO GO GO!

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/california-elections/article286147816.html

Candidate	Party	Votes
Kevin Kiley *	Rep.	69,067
Jessica Morse	Dem.	53,842

Remember that Kevin Kiley was part of the Idiotic GOP Failure to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom... 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/15/how-gavin-newsom-beat-the-recall-511783

The turning point for the campaign, according to Newsom’s strategists, came in the governor’s adoption of aggressive mask and vaccine mandates — both widely popular in California — and in Newsom’s avalanche of spending depicting his top Republican opponent, Larry Elder, as an anti-science clone of former President Donald Trump.

Jessica Morse

I applaud the House of Representatives for passing these critical aid packages. We cannot allow Russia’s authoritarian aggression to go unchecked. For months, MAGA extremists have played politics with funding for Ukraine, and today, they failed. The consequences of Ukraine losing are too high. If Russia advances further, a NATO ally could be next — drawing in not just our dollars, but our troops. As your next Congresswoman, I look forward to continuing the fight to protect democracy at home and abroad.

Headline: Who is Kevin Kiley and what would he do as governor? He's an Anti-Vax Freak!

https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-candidates-kevin-kiley-interview/

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I’m so honored to have earned the endorsement of the
League of Conservation Voters Action Fund in my race to represent #CA03 in Congress! LCV are on the frontlines in the fight to tackle the climate crisis. They are a leading force for good – working to keep our communities healthy and sustainable, confront environmental injustice, and strengthen our democracy. I’m honored to have their support!
— with League of Conservation Voters.

Jessica Morse

Congressman Pete McCloskey established Earth Day more than 50 years ago. His work to protect our environment laid the foundation for the progress we continue to make here in California.
I was grateful for the opportunity to visit with Pete today to thank him for his support and advice over the years. Please join me in sending love to him and his wife, Helen.

#CA03 is not only home to the most beautiful mountains of California, it’s also the headwaters for 60 percent of California’s water supply.
This Earth Day, help me ensure we flip the seat and get an advocate who will protect this vital ecology while fighting the climate crisis that threatens our homes and future.

Jessica Morse

Did you know that I'm the only woman challenger in California to move forward after our March 5th primary?

In a year where reproductive freedom is unquestionably on the ballot, the fact that I’m the only woman left to draw the contrast is both sobering and cements my commitment to ensuring that we have a voice in Congress.

I have a big fundraising deadline for the end of the first quarter of 2024 this Sunday, and if I’m going to be the last woman standing in California after polls close on November 5, I need your help to reach our next major benchmark. Chip in before Sunday to send me to Congress this November so we can get to work!

Let’s do this for your daughters and granddaughters.

Jessica Morse

Mourning the passing of former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin. I had the privilege of running alongside Delaine on the campaign trail in 2018 when she was running for governor. She embraced my campaign and supported it with great enthusiasm. I will forever be grateful for her advice and friendship.

Delaine was a model for how to lead as a public servant. She paved the way for more women to run for office and serve in leadership roles, and she was incredibly generous with her time and energy — uplifting me and others even during her own campaigns.

I loved watching Delaine deliver passionate speeches about her efforts to ensure our education system provided students with the necessary support and tools for success in the classroom. She was a fierce advocate for school food programs, ensuring our kids had the nutrition they needed. Delaine also fought for smaller class sizes and advocated for inclusive policies, pushing for our schools to provide essential resources to students with disabilities. Her work directly improved the educational experiences of countless students in California, and will reverberate for generations to come.

I’m sending love and support to Delaine’s family and friends. Let us honor her legacy by continuing to advocate for the causes she cared about so deeply. Rest in power, Delaine.

Jessica Morse announced on Tuesday that she’ll run in Eastern California — in an attempt to unseat Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley in District 3.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/california-elections/article279212394.html#storylink=cpy

Remember: Kevin wasted the Taxpayer's Dollars with a Failed Recall Election against Governor Newsom. Obviously, He Thinks He's Amazing!

Five years ago, shortly after the #CampFire decimated the town of Paradise, I went up to help. I filmed this video thinking I was going to help for a few days but ended up on the ground through the next month working side-by-side with local heroes who, with resilience, strength, and courage rebuilt their community. https://www.facebook.com/jessica.morse.336/videos/10215833174875001

I met a paradise school board member who had lost her home in the fire, but was going shelter by shelter to track down each of her students to ensure they were safe.

Emulating their resolve, I spent the next four years working every day to prevent wildfires like the Camp Fire. I didn't relent until we had a state-wide strategy and resources to actively mitigate these fires. We now have tools and resources to meet the fire crisis head on so other communities don't need to test their courage and grit like the people of Paradise. #ParadiseStrong #CAWildfire

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/morseweb

When Jessica Morse sees a problem, she runs toward it and wants to help solve it. In Congress, she will do what she always does when facing a problem: listen and learn, find common ground to build a coalition of support, and put forth the best ideas to solve it. Jessica needs your support to protect what’s important – our homes from wildfire, our paychecks, our healthcare, and abortion rights.

https://ballotpedia.org/Jessica_Morse

https://kiley.house.gov/contact 

Email Kevin and tell him what you think!

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The Bridge was destroyed by Wildfire on 11/9/2018
So Sad... It was a Historical Landmark.
The Entire Town of Paradise, California Was Burned Also.


There is Now A Plan to Rebuild the Covered Bridge...
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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/swimming-at-bear-hole-in-upper-bidwell.html

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Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

At First, The CIA Allowed Millions of Doses of LSD to be Distributed at Grateful Dead Concerts JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE CURIOUS... and then Later, The CIA Deployed All Those Vendors BECAUSE IT WORKED! Many People Who Took LSD Became "NOT A THREAT" To The Ruling Class. People Became interested in Learning How to Play Guitar instead of Being Interested in The Violet Overgrow of the US Government... People Became interested in Organic Farming... Again, Remote Marijuana Farmers and Organic Vegetable Growers DO NOT POSE A DANGER TO THE IVY LEAGUE EAST COAST ESTABLISHMENT...

They Even Had a CIA Consultant Touring Coast to Coast Advising Young People to "Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out." Yes, Dr Timothy Leary Worked for the CIA Designing the Leary Personality Test. --- AND --- People who "Drop Out" are Mostly Harmless... There were a Couple of Exceptions: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin Started the "YIPPIES" and Protested Against the Vietnam War... Causing Thousands of People to Surround the Pentagon to Try and Levitate It. They also Created the 1968 Chicago Riots...

Charles Manson Was a Product of Decades Spent Incarcerated in the USA Prison System... He used LSD to Brainwash Teenage Runaway Girls in Los Angeles... Creating What He Called "Charlie's Angels" - Later Made into a TV Show... In a TV Network Planning Meeting they FLIPPED THE SCRIPT and Made Charlie GOOD instead of EVIL. Higher Ratings with a Good Guy. And They made the Angels Beautiful Women instead of the Plain Looking People in the Manson Family...



The FBI KNEW What was Going On. Observe this Official Report Published Due to a Freedom of Information Act Request. Heavily Redacted. Note Page 14.
https://vault.fbi.gov/The%20Grateful%20Dead%20/The%20Grateful%20Dead%20Part%201%20of%201

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cia-project-mkultra-was-wildly.html

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

The culture of the United States was
radically different After the 1960's...

The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html

HEY, ECO-WARRIORS! I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. I Remember I was able to get to work on the Bus ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN...


On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail... BIG FUN!

More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the San Jose Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/i-loved-riding-bus-and-light-rail-in.html

It's Sad that So Many Smart People Go to Work on Wall Street and Accomplish Nothing With Their Lives. Is There a Cure for the Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome?

Imagine a World Where the People That Spent Four Years at Harvard, Yale and Princeton Took Jobs Inventing Things... Useful Things... Making the World a Better Place...

Years Ago The Stock Market was Involved in Getting Loans for Businesses to Finance Their Growth... NOW? It's Difficult To Say What They Do... Except When They Lose all their Money, The Federal Government Bails them Out... and If They WIN, They Get to Keep their Winnings in Tax Free Shelters Overseas...



I See on the TV News That Convicted Felon Michael Milken has founded an "Institute" where he will teach you how to play the stock market... and the Teaches at Stanford University... I Guess that's all he CAN Do Because he's Forbidden for Life from actually Playing the Stock Market... Even though He was Pardoned by Former Guy Donald Trump... A Classic TrumpNik® --->Absurdly Corrupt<--- He Got Caught, Did Some Time BUT Got to Keep Millions of Dollars!

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






Arcata, CA Decriminalizes Possession of Psychedelics - Nixon's Crazy "War on Drugs" is OVER! - His Plan Eventually Failed... But Not Before it did Horrible Damage to the USA...

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/10/they-accomplish-nothing-with-their.html

Mary Pinchot Meyer gave LSD to JFK and Then He Decided to End the Vietnam War in 1963. Defense Contractors had him Assassinated to Protect their Profits. Mary was a Girlfriend of JFK and...

She was part of a movement to give LSD to the Leaders of the World. The top scientists, business leaders, artists, poets, actors, politicians, writers, musicians and athletes were to be given LSD and then they would use what they learned while high to rebuild society. The cosmic knowledge was to be distributed from the top down in order to create a better world.

We Will Never Know If This Is True or Just a Conspiracy Theory... Mary did keep a diary and right after she was assassinated, her friend Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee took the diary to The CIA and they gave it to Mary's Sister and She BURNED IT! One of The Many "Summertime Bonfires" that Year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer

I've always wondered about the MOTIVE for JFK's Assassination... Dow Chemical and Hughes Aircraft Made a Fortune selling Supplies to the US Military during the Vietnam War... a Newly Enlightened JFK was a "Problem" - Solution? Have a Patsy "Hit" Him... The "Hit" the Patsy...




Great Books: Project MKULTRA:
CIA/LSD American History
"The Search for the Manchurian Candidate"
by John Marks

MKULTRA: Was a CIA Mind Control Project in the USA during the 1950's and 1960's. They were looking for a way to use drugs as weapons of war. For example: LSD as a way to simply get the "enemy" to lay down their arms, voluntarily... like, too stoned to fight...

The project conducted tests on college students at Stanford University. Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter both were employed. Later, Ken started having "ACID TEST" parties where the participants took LSD and danced to the Music of the Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for the Dead. and The "Whole Earth Catalog" was Written by Stewart Brand... His Book was Useful for Hippies that wanted to Go Live Off The Land and become Subsistence Farmers... or Marijuana Farmers... He was Also a Test Subject for MKULTRA.

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http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-project-mkultra-cia-lsd.html

Here is a great Hike in Yosemite... to the Top of Yosemite Falls... In 1973 We Ate [Censored Three Letter Word] and Hiked to the Top of the Mountain... and I'm Sure Glad We Did... BIG FUN!



We Started at Sunnyside Campground and
as We Got Higher and Higher in Elevation
We Were Getting Higher and Higher on LSD...

and when I was PEAKING ON ACID
I was on Top of the World!

I wanted to Go Look over the Edge but
the Entire Mountain Seemed to Be Dancing...

So... I Crawled on My Belly to Avoid Falling!

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/yosemitefallstrail.htm

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


This is the Map of the Trail...

That was my First Year at Chico State College and Four of Us wanted to be OUT OF TOWN during Pioneer Week... The Idea of Thousands of Drunken Frat Boys was NOT FUN... and So Many Strangers Coming to Raise Hell and then Leave...

So We went to Yosemite and Camped at the Overflow Campground. One Morning Bright and Early we Dropped Acid and Hiked to the Top of the Mountain... One Effect of LSD is it Gives You a LOT of Energy to Do Hiking or Dancing... It's a Powerful Stimulant so We Had NO TROUBLE Walking the 2700 Foot Change in Elevation...

Then we Rode the Double Decker Bus Around the Park to the Mist Trail. We Sat on the Top Layer of the Bus... It Had No Ceiling... Truly one of the Most Fabulous Adventures POSSIBLE... Outdoors on a Magic Carpet Looking Up at Half Dome...




Then We Hiked to Vernal Falls...

It appeared to Be a Living Multi Eyed Creature... and when I Looked Away, The Mountains Appeared to be Flowing UP... I'm Still Amused by this Visual Effect... For Example if I Read The Scrolling Letters on the Bottom of CNN TV News Show... and Then I Look Away... Whatever I see Appears to Be Moving Left to Right... Try IT!

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/vernalnevadatrail.htm

The Next Night We were Sitting Around a Campfire Singing Songs and Smoking Marijuana and a Park Ranger Ran out of the Darkness and Arrested ME... He said I'm Gonna Charge You with "Disturbing the Peace" but You Have to Leave the Park Tomorrow... or I'll Change the Charge to "Possession of Marijuana" SO... We Left... and I Paid a $35 Dollar Fine... I'm Sure Glad the Ranger Didn't Attack Me When I was High on LSD... That Would Have Been a BUMMER!

In Fact HE WAS DISTURBING THE PEACE... I was Playing the Harmonica and Smoking Marijuana... PRETTY DAMN PEACEFUL ACTIVITIES! But he was a Freaking PIG! Oink Oink!

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