Trump Authorized Sale of Bomb that Killed 40 Children in Yemen. A laser-guided MK 82 bomb from Lockheed Martin... American Terrorists.

Why are we arming the Saudis? They are the people that caused 9/11... and they sponsor terrorism worldwide. 

https://www.axios.com/report-bomb-that-killed-children-on-bus-in-yemen-was-us-made-3f52ec89-7422-41df-bcd0-160546abf90a.html 

The bomb responsible for hitting a bus and killing dozens in Yemen last week, including children, was made by U.S.-based Lockheed Martin and sold to Saudi Arabia through a State Department-sanctioned arms deal.

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

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155 

 There was a siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca in Saudi Arabia in 1979. It is the holiest site in Islam, and gunmen held it for two weeks. It was one of the events that gave rise to al-Qaida, and Yaroslav wrote about it in his book The Siege of Mecca. Following the attack, the Saudi King Khaled implemented a stricter enforcement of Shariah (Islamic law), he gave the ulama and religious conservatives more power over the next decade, and religious police became more assertive.

My Best Videos: Singing and Playing the Guitar. "Fixing to Die Rag", "Woodstock", "Time Warp", "Hotel California", "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" and Others...

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos 
Click on this link to see them all... 

Drumming at the Rainbow Gathering in California
at the Marimba Tent... 

Video: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Written by Bob Dylan sung by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/M-0FuQTzARk

The Lyrics say: "Everybody Must Get Stoned"... as always, Bob Dylan Lyrics have Multiple Meanings and you have to look in a mirror to grasp what he is trying to say... BUT, This one is pretty obvious to me... He's NOT talking about throwing rocks at people for bad behavior... Like they did in Biblical Times... Getting Stoned is slang for Smoking "The Kind Herb",  Marijuana...

Video: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" written by Pete Seeger sung by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/LLjpvJP9MmY  

Classic Anti-War Protest Song. It circles around and starts again at the beginning. We go from flowers to soldiers to graveyards and back to flowers again. 

This was one of the most requested songs of my "Miss Piggy Song Book" (a hand written set of lyrics and chords of my favorite hundred songs... with Miss Piggy and Kermit on the cover... It lived in my guitar case for decades... )  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gone%3F  

Seeger created a song which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962. He recorded a version with three verses on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) released in July 1960. Later,
 Joe Hickerson added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first^[3] in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.^[7]

Peace Sign made out of Rocks on Mount Shasta, California

Trump's Enemies List. Taking away Security Clearances in order to stifle free speech... Ex-CIA Director John Brennan said Trump was a Traitor.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/politics/john-brennan-security-clearance/index.html

"This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics." - John Brennan

Trump said in a statement Wednesday he is still considering revoking the security clearances of several others: 

former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, 
former FBI Director James Comey, 
former CIA director and National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden, 
former deputy attorney general Sally Yates, 
former national security adviser Susan Rice, 
former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, 
former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, 
and Bruce Ohr, a current Justice Department official.

Trump, enemies, list, Nixon, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Hayden, Yates, Rice, McCabe, Strzok, Ohr, Lennon, McCartney, Jesus, Moses, JFK, RFK, MLK, LSD,  CIA, NSA, EIEIO, Old McDonald, 

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Links to other Blog Posts....

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http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warrens-accountable.html 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-need-one-thousand-fire-fighting.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/aa-bar-and-grill-in-eureka-ca-bands.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/artists-painting-dolphin-on-storm-drain.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-book-fine-mess-global-quest-for.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-book-healing-of-america-by-t-r.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/hotel-california-by-eagles-sung-by_12.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/steal-your-smiley-face-text-art-emoji.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-camping-if-you-see-someone-from.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-ummagumma-of-cambridge-fiction.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-book-how-to-fix-future-by-andrew_11.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/video-of-me-singing-time-warp-from.html

Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act... An idea whose time has come... Require 40% of the Board of Directors to be employees.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations

Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism.
She’s unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. she’s introducing a bill Wednesday, the Accountable Capitalism Act, that would redistribute trillions of dollars from rich executives and shareholders to the middle class — without costing a dime.

The conceit tying together Warren’s ideas is that if corporations are going to have the legal rights of persons, they should be expected to act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of the social contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole obligation is profitability — as is currently conventional in American business thinking.

Would increasing Logging actually help California with wildfires? No, it's just a convenient excuse for Lumber Companies to avoid Environmental Regulations and Earth First!

https://www.outsideonline.com/2244376/could-logging-reduce-wildfires

What WOULD help is controlled burning of forests near roads.

 The Forest Service’s consensus view that a century of fire suppression has created dense low-elevation forests primed to burn. He says foresters can log sustainably there—as long as they light prescribed burns after the cutting’s done. “Preventative medicine,” Finney says, “is more effective than emergency response.”

Chad Hanson, an ecologist and director of the California-based John Muir Project, says the Forest Service’s scientists “are under a lot of pressure to not say things that contradict the Forest Service’s management program.” He holds that we should simply create defensible space around communities—essentially, massive fire breaks clear of fuel—but otherwise keep logging to a minimum and let large wildfires burn.

Map of redwood forest and active fires in California on 8-15-2018

Great Biography Movie: Heather Booth. A 1960s Civil rights activist who organized protests about Vietnam, Women's Liberation.

http://heatherbooththefilm.com/ An inspirational film about a person that made a difference in the world thru activism.

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

She founded a school and taught how to become a community organizer.
Campaigned for Mayor Harold Washington in Chicago.

A Utopia That Works... Freetown Christiania is Copenhagen’s alternative neighbourhood... in Denmark... and NIMBIN, Australia - Arcata, California

https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/culture/alternative-christiania

Christiania is a mix of homemade houses, workshops, art galleries, music venues, cheap and organic eateries, and beautiful nature. It is still a society within a society. The area is open to the public – even with guided tours, run by the local Christianites.

For your own safety, visitors are advised not to film nor photograph in Christiania, especially not in the area in and around Pusher Street, mainly due to the hash dealing, which is illegal in Denmark.

Christiania Rent a Bike is a bike rental and bike shop in freetown Christiania in Copenhagen. They are also the only place in Scandinavia where you can find the handbuilt Pedersen Bicycle and the place where the famous Original Christiania Cargo Bike was invented.

https://www.milesofhappiness.com/blog/a-trip-in-nimbin#.W3PQ7ehKiM8
There is another Utopia in Australia Called NIMBIN... In New South Wales... 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-california.html
Did you ever Notice Arcata, California? It's Simply Wonderful. Near the Oregon Border on the Coast... 

Great Show: BOOK TV on CSPAN. Each Author gets to explain their ideas for a half an hour and that's enough to understand them. No need to read their books.

https://www.c-span.org/series/?bookTv

Here is an interesting Book: "God: a Human History" by Reza Aslan 
https://www.c-span.org/video/?443471-15/god

He explains why Christians have created God in our own image... and why Muslims do not... They feel that God is UNLIMITED and if you paint a portrait of God you place LIMITS. That's why there are no Religious Paintings of God in the Islamic World...

Here is another Interesting Book:

"Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447453-2/rendezvous-oblivion

Thomas Frank examined economic inequalities in cities across the country... 

and how there will be fewer and fewer good jobs in the future. His example is newspaper reporters... while they personally are suffering loss of jobs they loudly trumpet the wonders of future work in the digital economy...

WHY? Because they are not in the business of telling the truth but they are in the business of telling what the boss wants to hear... and what advertisers want to hear... 

Here is another Interesting Book:

"The End of Work"

Economist John Tamny offered his thoughts on America’s future job market.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447430-2/the-end-work

Preventing California's Wildfires: Stop Climate Change OR Increase Logging to remove fuel? Or Do Both? We Are Burning Up Now and Next Year Will BE WORSE.

Interior Secretary Zinke says that increasing logging would make people safer because there would be fewer trees to burn... and firefighters could put out the fires easier... Of course, if we simply used ONE THOUSAND helicopters to dump water on the fires we could put them out. Why not bring all the Helicopters home from the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Africa? We could employ the soldiers as firefighters... bring them home and keep them safe...

Do not increase logging in the Redwood Forest. We are logging at a good rate already. The people that run the Pacific Lumber (Now known as Humboldt Redwood Company and Mendocino Redwood Company) are doing a fine job already. No Logging of OLD GROWTH... Cut only as much as grows every year and we can log forever. Redwoods grow in a cool and rainy climate and we have not had a lot of wildfires here...

Should we remove trees in Pine, Oak and Douglas Fir forests in order to reduce hazards? Does that makes sense at all. The people at "The Earth Island Institute" say that increased logging does not make us safer...

But Pine, Oak and Fir trees grow quickly and if we cut down the forest... or "Thin" the forest (as Zinke says) we can plant new trees and they will grow quickly... We do use boards to build houses... but there is no real need to Log OLD GROWTH REDWOODS for lumber... It is possible to build a fine home without Redwood Boards... Why NOT log pine, oak and Fir forests?

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/bill_relies_on_fear_of_wildfires_to_expedite_logging_on_public_lands/

Bill Relies on Fear of Wildfires to Expedite Logging on Public Lands.

HR 2936 was pushed through the House by lawmakers whose campaigns are bankrolled by the logging industry

http://johnmuirproject.org/

DID YOU KNOW...

that dead trees do not increase the occurrence or intensity of wild fires? 

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/radical_environmental_activism_and_whole-system_change

Great TV News/Talk Program: "The David Pakman Show." - Insightful introspection of News and Callers Questions.

https://davidpakman.com/ 

Why let Trump Pour Poison In Your Brain?
STOP READING TWITTER!
It's Been Infected with Lies and Propaganda.

Great TV News Show: Rising UP with Sonali. on Free Speech TV or KPFA Radio. Not Corporate News. Today: Monsanto RoundUP Causes Cancer.

http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/ 

http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/jury-awards-cancer-stricken-man-289m-from-monsanto/
FEATURING RONNIE CUMMINS – A major trial against pesticide and chemical manufacturer Monsanto has resulted in a historic $289 million settlement. 

Ronnie Cummins is from the Organic Consumers Association. 
https://www.organicconsumers.org/