This lift from my December 2023 CD “Rock Ave.” illustrates how someone might take a visionary journey through life on a vehicle traveling over different forms of waves.
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The Beatles’ “Blackbird” includes a singing male blackbird & the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” has heavy rain & thunder. Now if a musician adds the tone of nature to a track, conservation can get a portion of the piece’s royalties.
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A female artist took the challenge to create a large outdoor version of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” by using squirt guns, & this clip shows how she succeeded in created a blasterpiece version of the famous work.

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While human civilization has had negative impacts on wildlife & biodiversity, efforts to reverse that trend can have highly-favorable results. We can’t always undo the destruction but conservation efforts worldwide have made the situations much better. ecowatch.com/conservation-e…

A Forbes report showed that Fauci increased his personal wealth by $140 million during one year of the pandemic. I don’t know the other figures but I do know that under a for-profit healthcare scam, some folks have a financial incentive to make other people sicker, NOT healthier.

A guy “who showed us how the super-rich steal from the American public” got labelled “a class warrior for the 99%” by the WSJ & he now faces a 5-year sentence as the upward transfer of wealth keeps getting worse.
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As Israeli bombs continue to fall on hospitals in Gaza and thousands of Palestinian children get killed, the U.S. MSM, which basically works for the mass murder business, sells tales that whitewash bloody reality. - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/eli…

If Gov. Hochul truly wants to make New York more livable & safer, then why wouldn’t she sign into law a bill to ban CO2 fracking that the state legislature passed more than a month ago? If you live in NY, please call her at 518-474-8390 & urge her to sign that bill!

My April 2024 ElderLetter has one more chapter of the US Dept. of Destruction’s ongoing War on Confusion. If you’d like to understand how & why Silence is NOT a true friend, subscribe at daveelder.com by 5/1 & I’ll do a resend for you on 5/2.

If you’d like an excuse to not have to mow your lawn so often, here’s a good one: the longer your grass grows, the better it will be for the butterflies & other pollinators. Relax!
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Not long after the pandemic arrived 4 years ago, the situation made it quite clear how the unique U.S. for-profit healthcare system screws average people in nefarious ways that don’t happen in the rest of the world. Medicare for All!
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The ultrarich have games they can play in the U.S. in order to hang on to more of their $. A fairer tax system would give us a more balanced economy, as it did back in the 1950s & 1960s, & average folks wouldn’t have such a hard time making ends meet. commondreams.org/news/jeff-bezo…

This song from my 2023 CD “Rock Ave.” comes from the 1980s. While living in Berkeley, CA, I wrote about the NYC subway, not knowing at the time that by the end of that decade I would ride on that MTA underground network a lot.
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This Soviet poster says “Helping the hungry the American way” & it still illustrates U.S. foreign policy quite accurately. W brought democracy to Iraq with “Shock & Awe” as well as finding Saddam’s WMDs, right? Kissinger’s feed killed a lot of Cambodians, & the list goes on & on.

The petrochemical gang now has a scheme to bypass the NY ban by using CO2. The NY legislature passed a bill to ban CO2 fracking in the state, but Gov. Hochul has not yet signed that bill into law. If you live in NY, please call her at 518-474-8390 & urge her to sign that bill!

A pair of photographers teamed up with a pair of pilots to create & capture a few remarkable images from the recent solar eclipse. This action took a lot of research, hard work, practice & preparation but got results that truly justified those efforts.
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