Look up the “Quarry Fire” on any search engine, and you will be as up-to-speed are we are, that is, wanting a little more information. The best I can usually do is information that is 11 hours or one day old. When I use the Brave search engine, it rolls  its AI down from the top and is not reliable. Yesterday it said that the fire was at 9,000 acres and was definitely caused by arson. The fire is at 450+ acres, and arson is suspected. Authorities will only say “human-caused”.

There’s a somewhat wild area to the east of us, and last Wednesday at 9PM a deputy on patrol saw something on a steep trail, one that has switchbacks. He saw a 10×10 area of fire. By morning it was at 200 acres and growing.

We’ve had no rain, no lightening. How that 10×10 area came about is under investigation, and is, according to law enforcement, “very suspicious”. That’s all we know.

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I had a vague memory of an exciting idea some years ago. I watched a report where a Treasury official held up what he called a “Trillion dollar coin*.” He claimed he could use it to march across the street to the Federal Reserve, and pay down the national debt.

I ran with that thought, but did not understand what was going on well enough. I thought the Treasury official was merely making light of our monetary system. At that time I had not theorized deeply on things, but all by myself in subsequent years came to believe

• We could eliminate the national debt tomorrow, and nothing would change. Just eliminate it, draw a line through it with a #2 pencil, not pay it off. It’s all funny money.
• Budget deficits are political tools used to deny funding to some things while funding others. For instance, what I consider a noble cause, funding college education for well-performing students, would be denied due to “deficit constraints.” But a new war? We have tons of money, no restraints!
• Social Security and Medicare could be perpetually funded.
• The Social Security Trust Fund, an illusory “fund” at best, could be eliminated.
• Medicaid, which is in part funded by individual states, could be funded in full by the federal government. States are truly constrained by real budgets and would be relieved to be free of paying for Medicaid.
• Taxes on the public, merely a means of controlling spending and inflation, would continue. But the idea that the federal government is using that money to pay its bills is nonsense. The money just evaporates.

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By: Steve Kelly

Newsflash! Property law in the U.S. is not rooted in the Constitution. America’s legal foundation for property law (possession), “anti-Indian law,” and the concept of nation-states is religious, not secular.

Where did this deep sense of entitlement, hierarchy, and dominion over unknown lands and its original sovereign peoples originate?

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