People Who Care

People who care about others, and involve themselves in the political process to express that concern, always read across the political spectrum. Often the right press will discuss issues that the left press ignores, such as the mayor of Houston subpoenaing the sermons of local clergy. With a different focus, certain issues gain more attention. I read a left article about horrendous slave labor factories in North Korea that export into the USA with fake "Made in China" labels. It rang true. If we didn’t owe the Chinese so much money and had different leadership in Washington, we could reduce this source of revenue to an insane dictator. But while the solutions may differ, the analysis is sometimes the same. This is where insight can begin. People who care - that is care enough to want change for the better - often begin here. Look at the awareness raised about the Trans Pacific Partnership by both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Politics is the art of the possible.

Of course, there are bad information sources across the political spectrum, just as there are bad people within any grouping of people. That is human nature and a common sense understanding that begins any inquiry. However, there are those who, like our local Don Dowell, immediately reject any news source that doesn’t agree with his preconceptions of reality. He called them “disreputable” in his Facebook response to my posting entitled “Finally, A Choice”. When I called him on that, his slander and his ongoing refusal to even acknowledge further evidence, he went so ballistic to make the threatening statement: “…to deal with you properly…”

A David Nicholson jumped into the conversation, and accused me of the serious crime of incitement. He went on to say: “If you don’t like fair criticism stay off social media.” To his mind, being called a nativist for defending our sovereignty, of having a deranged position and grand delusions, of not having a grasp on reality, of being kooky and of not even living in the same time-space continuum is considered fair criticism. These are, knowingly or unknowingly, Saul Alinsky tactics to smear the perceived enemy. It is not about democratic discussion, it is about victory at whatever the cost. This is the same theme I discussed in my 3/16 posting, “Is This Leninism?”

I wrote this and the prior post as a warming to this county I love. The existing narrow vision folks have growth in strength aided by a new and growing demographic. But perhaps an even greater threat than their myopic view and self indulgent expertise is their tactics. Anyone can read them on Facebook’s Amador/calaveras Uncensored Politics under my "Finally, A Choice" posting. They may even cure low blood pressure.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

Finally, A Choice

For decades now we were presented with only the Republican or Democrat versions of globalism. But this year we now have a choice between patriot Trump or globalist Clinton. My introduction to the globalist menace began as an early 1960’s Buffalo teenager. Nelson Rockefeller was elected governor with the promise of change from the “rotten borough” Democrats. He delivered. The new university campus was in a far suburb, increasing racial and ethnic segregation and accelerating the decline of the central city. The port was designated a nuclear port; a nuclear waste dump was installed outside the city, and a nuclear reactor was build in the middle of the old university campus. We were ready for the new age of nuclear technology. The skills, talents and desires of the local population were irrelevant and ignored. These were decisions by experts located elsewhere. As time passed, I became aware that actions such as these were implementing a choate globalist agenda. Part of this is multiculturalism (not be confused with diversity or pluralism) to destroy the sovereign nation states.

Since before the beginning of recorded history, nations have invaded other nations. Sometimes the invaders are repelled, and sometimes the invaders conquer. But the current governments in Europe (including that former devoted East German communist Angela Merkel) and Obama here at home have not only invited the invaders in, but even subsidize them with welfare benefits. The Paris and Brussels Jihadists collected a total of $56K in welfare benefits which, in effect, paid them to plan their attacks. The UK government is offering asylum to Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Ordinary citizens in these host countries are being murdered, raped, mutilated and beaten daily. Since Islam hasn’t changed in 1400 years, the leadership’s decisions can’t be based on ignorance. It appears impossible to understand this official perverse government behavior, except to implement the globalist agenda.

Ordinary people who speak out are often labeled as racists, and sometimes even prosecuted. These government attitudes have forced vigilante actions. As of a few months ago, about 80 German mosques were torched. Innocent Muslims suffer. Terror also keeps people at home, so the countervailing force of social discourse declines. The entire social order evaporates. Who benefits from troops in the streets? Fitting right into this globalist initiative is Obama’s efforts to Federalize local police forces.

Encouraging dependency and harassing self reliance are another part of this diabolical future. I have a bad ankle. My orthopedist looks at my x-rays while he watches me walk, and says: “It’s a miracle.” But it’s not; I simply take affordable, over the counter herbal medicines that any literate person could research.  All medical science can offer are expensive surgeries with long and painful recuperations, including replacement surgeries in the future at an even more advanced age. But these are subsidized by government health programs, fulfilling the medical industry’s lobbying efforts while squandering our tax dollars. My individual solution is based upon taking responsibility for myself. Once considered an American virtue, it’s now a threat to government programs of dependency. And they remind me of this daily, since all the herbal medicines I take contain a Prop 65 warning label (which must also add to the product’s price) threatening me with cancer as the result of taking responsibility for myself and defying the government/medical complex. They are the real cancer.

There is no crisis with herbal medicines or dietary supplements anywhere in the world, but reasons, real or contrived, aren’t always necessary for the destruction of freedom. My very ability to walk, and similar situations for untold others, have been under assault for decades by the globalists. Presently we are under a reprieve, thanks to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994. Senator Diane Feinstein led the opposition. The torch has since been picked up Democrat and Republican globalists: Democrat Congressional Representative Henry Waxman, Republican President George W. Bush, Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain. These domestic initiatives, while intended to blend into a global law, are still tame compared to a system called Codex being developed worldwide and centered in the European Union.

The Codex scheme will limit dosages to the bare minimums that prevent deficiency diseases such as scurvy and while disregarding real health. Differences in age, gender and ethnicity are ignored. One size fits all for the globalist; diversity is not a reality, but only a tool used to divide us. Micronutrients are ignored. Over the counter herbal medicines will be banned or available only by prescription, profiting the pharmaceutical/government cabal behind this as health problems spread to more and more people. Countries, even those not signing on, will have their import and export possibilities diminished creating more poverty in third world countries under this new form of scientific colonialism. Indigenous traditions must fade into worldwide homogenization. Codex is being formulated by over 40 committees, task forces and expert groups. Decisions are by consensus. If this sounds like the process that turned our healthy forests into dangerous tinderboxes, you are probably not alone in your conclusion. Implementation for Codex uses the same subterfuges and devious processes, as did Common Core to dumb us down and Agenda 21 to physically confine us.

Fortunately, people around the world are rebelling. The British have voted to leave the EU helping secessionist movements around the world. We have the Trump candidacy here, and closer to home, the State of Jefferson thrust. But sadly, Amador County is going the other way. We have a globalist, new world order General Plan that consigns us to a specific role in our regional economy as recreation providers for the more affluent elsewhere. After the mill workers, tree fellers and others left, the void was filled with a new demographic that subscribes to this limiting vision. Mere mention of anything related to globalism or Agenda 21 on Facebook leads to an intellectual gang rape by a self-appointed slander cadre. Usuallym there is more than one since thugs, even verbal thugs, prefer both the safety and intimidation qualities of groups.

One regular participant is a Don Dowell. His method is consistent; he rejects your news source, and then resorts to insults when challenged. When backup information is provided, he withdraws. Recently, a Steven Frisch joined the slander cadre. He is so ignorant that he accused me, without even knowing what globalism is, of negating all the normal and traditional relationships between nations and peoples when I attacked globalism. But the ringleader, a George Soros devotee, is known as Eric Winslow at the Ledger Dispatch and Aham Svarupa on Facebook until this past week, when he assumed both identities at the Ledger. Probably readers are to assume that more than one person believes in the same propaganda. But despite the aliases, he does not appear to have a split personality. He is equally vicious in either persona. In fact, his personality is so integrated that he can’t differentiate between an article and an editorial. Certainly, this unitary quality aids his ability to immediately reject any thoughtful ideas that question his dogma and prompts his defensive response of slander and insult. But there is a Jekyll and Hyde split between these behaviors and his comment in a recent Ledger article: “… of the overarching rancor that obscures communication in the virtual and actual public spaces of our beleaguered society.”

I was called a nativist for defending our sovereignty, of having a deranged position and grand delusions, of not having a grasp on reality, of being kooky and of not even living in the same time-space continuum. In addition, I was accused of believing that science, education and independent thought are bad because they are elitist. These examples show the irrational extremes this growing local demographic will go to in attempting to marginalize and discredit anyone opposing their agenda for our future within the globalist nightmare. This election is about tyranny versus freedom. Donald Trump maybe imperfect, but he’s our only hope and I thank God he is here.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

The Natural Environment and the Foothill Conservancy

At the Amador Water Agency public discussion of the Amador Canal’s small diameter pipe, Cecily Smith read the Foothill Conservancy’s position on the project. Given its convoluted bureaucratic rhetoric, I was confused at times, but they seemed nominally in favor of the project. Upon reading the material on their website, it became clarified. The opposing points of view discussed there had uncovered a primary flaw in the dominant environmental dogma. The now 150+ years of the canal had spawned a new, desirable and natural environment. What, then, is the natural environment?

Many large forest preserves dot the northern suburbs of Chicago. For one reason or another, I have observed them for almost 40 years now. On my last visit, I witnessed rotting logs, dead limbs and half fallen trees. It seemed like an unsafe place to hike. A local told me of a change in policy to keep these woods in their natural state. That seemed like a strange assumption to me, since Native Americans would have been cleaning the forest for firewood, construction, tool making, etc. As I noted in one of my prior posts, the absurdity of New England environmentalists, proclaiming "Save This Natural River" when ground penetrating radar and similar techniques, reveal that the course of the river was determined by stone fishing weirs built thousands of years ago.

In the BLM land south of Chaw’se lies a blackberry patch. One year when I went to pick, the berries were sparse because a tree had fallen and blocked the creek’s flow. If a tribal group had been dependent upon that patch the tree would have been removed immediately. As I realized that likelihood, it also seemed likely that the bend in the creek which created that berry bog was also a human endeavor. Practices like this are called intentional agriculture. Hunter/gatherers didn’t wake up one morning and say: "This is getting boring, let’s become farmers." They observed how and where certain plants or animals flourished and customized the land and rivers for their convenience and survival. This has occurred for probably 500,000 years and possibly a million years. The aborigines in Australia had absolutely no concept of a park or preserve. But here in Amador County we have a so-called wild and scenic river created by dam release water flows on a river that has been artificially controlled for over a 150 years. Its natural summer condition is bone dry.

The Amazon basin is filled with “natural” groves of fruit and nut trees. To justify the current mythology of the Amazon, some scientists have published articles of twisted and convoluted logic to prove these groves natural, despite the first (and probably disease carrying) Spanish explorers describing a vast and thriving culture. Their arguments read as disgusting racism trying to prove that these “primitive” people were not capable of transforming their landscape to their advantage. It was a sophisticated and acceptable liberal academic version of KKK literature. Not only are these groves probably a vestige of a once elaborate human society, but some have hypothesized that much of the Amazon Basin was once a savannah forested by humans. While I have no idea if that is true, I feel certain that research money to investigate is unlikely to be available. But there is lobbying, deemed important enough for two and half pages in our local Ledger-Dispatch, to save the now naturally wild horses and burros descended from escaped or abandoned animals.

The Native Americans burned the forests to eliminate underbrush, etc and create a grassy environment to promulgate the desirable deer population. This practice amazed the first British settlers and gave birth to our current controlled burns. Many of our current forest preserves were farmed for over a 100 years before being turned into forests during the New Deal. And locally we have a 150 year old mining district being called pristine by the anti-Newman Ridge enthusiasts. The so-called natural environment developed in symbiosis with human habitation. The Bible giving us dominion over the land and other life forms was simply a codification of ancestral belief. Much of the official academic literature seems present centric and ethno-centric. The Ancients had technologies for remaking the earth often hard to grasp today, given our prejudicial blinders. They were as intelligent as we are, despite not walking around staring at iPhones. When I hear this prideful present attitude, I ask: How long did it take us to go from electricity to electronics?

The difference between then and now is simply a oneness with the land; people did not see themselves as separate from the wholeness of creation. Today’s common environmental belief is one of separation, that people are an unnatural, alien intrusion. This is an invented ideology that serves other purposes. I find it a bone chilling religion of self rejection, not unlike white guilt and other propagandized distortions prevalent today. It isn’t very holistic is it?

When you start with the wrong assumptions, you end up with the wrong conclusions. In 1962, Decca Records decided that guitar-based groups were passé (remember those great tenor sax choruses with The Coasters and other groups), and therefore refused to sign the Beatles. In 1948, the Pentagon added up planes, tanks, guns and bullets and told President Truman nascent Israel couldn’t defend itself. What army would you bet on: probable conscripts of feudal monarchies, or concentration camp survivors fighting for their own soil? When you conceive the situation incorrectly, the answers don’t work. We can’t get there that way, despite all of us caring about the earth.

PS: A similar situation seems to also exist with historic preservation. In the 1970’s the 20 th Century-Fox Ranch became Malibu Creek State Park. Great lengths were taken, which I wholeheartedly endorse, to preserve the remnants of Native American settlement. But the ruins of a Chinese village and other old movie sets were destroyed. Aren’t they both our history?

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

The General Plan that Isn’t

I spoke at Tuesday’s hearing to approve our General Plan EIR, and said this:

“Before I begin, I want to remind everyone here that I have a Masters in planning and have worked much of my life in that field. So while some may regard me as a nuisance to their goals, I am an expert nuisance. My sympathies to all you commissioners. Tonight has been one of the most masochist experiences of my life. I wish it were possible to debate almost every one of tonight’s speakers. I turned in numerous pages of plan and plan DEIR criticism. If anyone wants to read them they are all still available on Amador Community News under my blog, Outside the Ivory Tower. The draft EIR reviewers considered my comments to be primarily personal opinion because they did not discuss the adequacy of the General Plan. While technically correct for this EIR review, it was a set up because it’s impossible to discuss a General Plan that isn’t general. A General Plan is supposed to set aside sufficient land for various uses to provide choices for people in the future. Yet the Foothill Conservancy has criticized this plan as vague. They want an even more proscriptive plan than even this proposal.

By what Godlike omnipotence does anyone know what the world will be in the future? No one does know, but after reading the entire General Plan and the Draft EIR it’s rather apparent that this is not a plan in the tradition of freedom but a very specific program to create a very specific future. A future where people are removed from the land into service worker strategic hamlets called town centers. It is social engineering that should include, according to the Foothill Conservancy, even what type of stores people have the freedom to open here. It is an Agenda 21/globalist agenda cookie cutter plan so we can all goosestep to the new world order. A certain political faction with time and financing was able to pack the early committees that selected this consultant. That was a mistake I hope is never repeated.

I am well aware that much of this plan is required by the Sacramento overloads. Included in this is the total fraud of human induced global warming and the degradation of science that has accomplished. The Foothill Conservancy statement on this plan adds to that fear mongering with a laundry list of frightening outcomes they envision if this plan is not even more specific. Personally, if I had a few extra million, I’d give it to the County to start fresh with new plan. In that case, this plan could be put to good use by being recycled into bathroom tissue.

While I may appear to be speaking as an isolated individual, I would not be here today unless I was completely confident that I am representing a large number and possibly a majority of Amadorians. We don’t like losing our freedoms. People have just voted for freedom in the UK and we have the Trump candidacy here. Most likely the plan’s prescriptive future will take hold in a manner similar to that of the abusive EPA. Relatively powerless property and homeowner’s will be picked off one by one when a change in their circumstances trigger a new procedure. Some will sue and others may not be so polite. While I hope and pray nothing truly horrible happens, this plan and its draft EIR are asking for trouble.”

PS: We, the American people, are mostly descended from the n-word people of Europe. Because of this we built a country based on freedom and opportunity. When I listened to people tonight it seemed like they see themselves as little aristocrats. Perhaps Sartre’s statement that "America is Super Europe" was prophetic.

Reality Intruded

This follows in the same vein as my last posting. They started with the suggestion of a writer friend who loved my stories and suggested doing an oral history. So here is another episode of my political evolution from starting adult life as a liberal and learning through reality intrusions. I don’t want this to be interpreted as sour grapes; I’ve had my successes, along with the evitable mistakes.

In the early 1980s, I bought a vacant lot in LA along with a business partner. It was to be politically-correct infill housing, and we hired the absolute best to design and engineer. The building department plan checker was in awe. I can’t imagine the most strident environmentalist objecting to anything. We were then ready for a construction loan, but interest rates soared (the lesson I learned was to never be late in an economic cycle). My partner said to wait, and I couldn’t risk it alone without putting up my home. While we were sitting it out, I received a citation for having an unweeded empty lot. So my partner and I, along with his teenage daughter, worked a long day and manicured the lot, leaving some isolated and healthy green plants. But we then got cited for an incomplete lot cleanup, and therefore were forced to kill those remaining plants (they were edible plants we could have harvested. But this was our private property in theory only). Now in full compliance, but without any vegetation, the winter rains pushed much of this downslope lot into the property below. We then got cited for this problem that was created by our compliance with the previous citation (the lesson I learned here was that while regulation and reality seem like separate worlds, they are not. Regulation is government profiteering). So I put a crew together, and we moved all the dirt back to the vacant lot and built a retaining wall.

(An added irony to this was that, in my much earlier appearance before some environmental board, I had to promise to replace imaginary former trees. I told them I had approved plans without trees and that there were never any trees on the property beforehand. A board member then quietly told me that I was being naive, and that I should understand that this is necessary for approval despite everyone knowing that it’s total bull. Agree and forget it.) While we watched the interest rate climb, I had to renew my approvals. But the building and planning departments kept giving me different answers since each was controlled by a differing attitude and probably involved in an inter-agency power struggle. I also went before a property tax reduction board. I might as well have been a priest being entertained at an ISIS camp. By this time, a new tenant had moved into the building next door and decided my lot needed fertilization. So they threw their child’s diapers there. So now they really had me. Raw sewage. The citations became so frequent I forgot how many there were because I quickly discarded them (but not by tossing them into a vacant lot).

So why did these situations occur? It probably wasn’t because they were mean and nasty; most people aren’t, and I have no reason to assign those motives. But it’s possible that they saw me as a capitalist pig that was OK to abuse. And while there is truth to that possibility, the likelihood wasn’t as overwhelming then as it may be today (I was certainly a bootstrap capitalist; my capital was saved up living in a studio apartment and later working two jobs). But the real reason was obvious. They got promoted on the number of supposedly valid violations and citations they wrote up. Those inspectors are probably now retired with fat pensions. That is how the system is set up. It benefits its enforcers and designers at the expense of everyone else.

In the name of the poor or the unprotected, the Progressives steal from the middle class and share the take between themselves, the expert and enforcer class, and the governing elites. I see this consciousness all around me. Some people believe that taxing poor people five cents a bag at store checkout will cleanup ocean pollution. Others think that a sales tax increase for roads that subsidizes Cal Trans corruption is the way to go. And some feel that our one railroad is so unimportant to our economic well being that they are willing to sacrifice it for an imagined Utopian future. 

So I started out being considered a liberal, and now I’m considered a conservative. But in many ways, I don’t see where I’ve changed. My sentiment is the same. I’ve always been for the everyday person, the average citizen, “the little guy”. When I planned the bus system in Modesto, I increased service in black and Hispanic areas. I asked my assistant if I did this because I’m a bleeding heart liberal and I believe that these people deserved it, or did I do this because I’m a hard-nosed conservative who believes that bus service should go where more people put money in the fare box. “Good question,” she answered.

Finally my partner said that he not only wanted out of the development project, but that he’d totally had it with the liberal tyranny and was leaving the United States. At his time many of my other friends were leaving LA and scattering across the map. This added to my growing decision to leave. No one would buy the project until finally an immigrant from Iran purchased the land and plans. We took a huge loss. He must have bought it under the illusion that America was the place presented on Voice of America broadcasts. I picked up the pieces of my finances and bought a cheap house in Amador County. And I never returned to that site to see what happened.

PS: Where and when I grew up was in arguably the most organized crime controlled community in the US.  At first California startled me with how clean everything was. But it didn’t take me long to see that what the Mob skimmed off in Buffalo is the government take in California. And while I can hardly condone organized crime, I do appreciate their honesty about themselves compared to the sanctimonious attitude of the experts and bureaucrats here.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

Bathrooms and Changing Perceptions

The recent controversy over the “right” of transvestites to use women’s restrooms has understandably made me recall the changing perceptions regarding my own masculinity. I grew up in the 1950’s. The most admired children on our block had fathers who owned Lugers and Mausers from German officers they had killed and ID’d. If I had a time machine I would have joined 14 year old Johnny Tremaine and the Sons of Liberty dumping British tea into Boston harbor. Davy Crockett was another of my heroes. My father was a strong male figure who had kept his own while having to deal with organized crime to make a living since he was 14. I was quite secure in my maleness. But at the same time I was raised by three feminists, my mother and both grandmothers.

My mother’s mother was a suffragette and had traveled around the country before the First World War as the secretary to a leading suffragette. Her picture may even be in some history books. She raised my mother to be a trailblazing female journalist. In college my mother was in freshman Introduction to Journalism with Mike Wallace who she said grilled the instructor in the same style he used years later on 60 Minutes. But my mother was not allowed to continue. The scene with her advisor sounded just like the scene in the Autobiography of Malcolm X when his 8^th grade guidance counselor asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Malcolm said a lawyer and his guidance counselor answered by asking if he had ever considered a carpentry apprenticeship.

I went out into the world during the women’s movement in the 1960’s. Many women I met assumed that I had a sister and were shocked when I answered no. Later when I had my first professional job all the female assistants were assigned to me because most of the other men there had treated the women as if their wife had burnt the morning toast. It was disgusting. But much of the women’s movement for equality and freedom degenerated into a man hating radical feminism. In today’s news we see a parallel with Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Party. When I listen to them I remember the desegregation sit ins and hearing the arrested sing: “Black and white together, we shall not be moved.”

A type of woman has emerged that Rush Limbaugh as aptly called feminazi. They always sense a 1950’s maleness in me, and hate me immediately. This even happened in my own congregation in LA. Once some chit chat while waiting in line at a chain store turned into a glare so hateful that I swear she would have killed me given the opportunity. When my bank account got transferred to another branch the female manager’s instant dislike was so intense I had to threaten violence in a subtle way to conclude a transaction. That was the only time in my life I ever had to act like that in a commercial transaction and the memory still unsettles me.

But I still believed in the American Way. I was hired as a part time instructor at ITT Tech in Lathrop. I worked hard, won every award they gave, and got promoted to full time instructor followed by a promotion to chair of two academic departments.  Then the accrediting association visited and I was interrogated by a feminazi with a definite political agenda. She asked me to lie and I refused. As a result I lost my position. Aside from the financial loss and the ending of career advancement, others suffered. I was counseling a student working three jobs to pay her tuition along with a crippling math anxiety. We got her finances straightened out and weekly meeting began to conquer her math anxiety. But that ended when I lost my academic chair position. She responded by dropping out.  Obviously this feminazi didn’t care about what she did to people, her political agenda was far too important. This seems standard today. Once upon a time liberal meant liberal minded. Then it became Liberal which transformed itself into Progressive. That means it’s acceptable and perhaps even noble to sacrifice the individual to the collective.

Recently a women interested in me told me that she liked my shirt. I answered by saying I always wear green because it lights up my eyes.  Her countenance changed with a certain realization of who I was. I have never hidden my “feminine side” or my 1950’s maleness. I’ve not changed, but the attitudes of the world around me have been in maelstrom mode.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

Gone, or Rebirth Possible?

Every day when I taught economics I would first write on the whiteboard: Market Rules! While markets are subject to distortion and manipulation, in the end they always tell the truth. Gold is soaring around the world. Analysts I trust are saying that it’s a response to the Clinton Crime Family exoneration. While we all know this a watershed event, the whole world is seeing it that way, too. Here is what one foreign news media now says about us: http://www.xyz.net.au/clinton-cleared-end-of-rule-of-law-in-america/

If we become weaker internationally, we must depend upon our internal strength more. The economy, while seemingly slow but steady from most government numbers, has endured deteriorating internals. Politically, we are in a pre-civil war like polarization.

In a recent Facebook discussion, Katherine Evatt built a case to preserve certain former PG&E land along the Mokelumne River, prompted by my statements about the Mother Lode Land Trust. But do we want this land to be governed by an unelected body? And do we need another organization to manage public or semi public land? We now have a service economy based upon borrowing money from often hostile foreign powers. We produce less and less of what we consume. We don’t use our own resources. How many Saudi oil presidents have we had? I see in the Mother Lode Land Trust existence both the internal economic decline and the political attitudes that defend self destruction.

PS: Does anyone know of a county with lots of unmined gold?

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett