What you need to know, April 16, 2025: Public Lands?

No trespassing sign

Our President has created a "sovereign wealth fund," which considers all government holdings as assets, investments for return of capital. This business enterprise immediately turns the federal holdings from their original purpose of public service into assets to be used to make money. Public land is now an asset.

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What you need to know, April 7, 2025: Apples, silos, and you

Red apples

I link to an informative article on the Presidential order outlawing the siloing of personal data by various governmental agencies. Around this news, I weave comments on the kind of thinking that leads to this prohibition and what that tells us about our loss of a government.

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The visionary godfather as president

Map of Arctic.

It's business as usual in this country. Since the country is now a business, we look at how planning is a necessary part of any business, and we conclude that what looks like chaos is actually planned (as Secretary Kennedy claimed), visionary, even with a 20% error rate.

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Trump’s targeting of immigrants prompts classical music quartet to cancel performance at downtown T or C venue

Image of Camerata Del Sol members courtesy of their website

Trump's disdain for the woke and immigrants, in combination with his professed unlimited executive powers, has unleashed ICE to target dissidents, intellectuals, artists, scientists, educators and journalists. Border Patrol check stations are to be avoided.

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