http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20180531-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
Alexander Hamilton would look in horror at what has become of the United States he helped to found. His system of economics, enshrined in our Constitution, recognizes that the source of economic wealth is the development of the productive powers of labor, the genius which results in fundamental scientific discoveries. To create structures capable of acting on a national basis to achieve such development, Hamilton’s system mandates that the Congress — responsible for large-scale improvements in national productivity — create credit rather than borrowing money from predatory banks operating only to enrich themselves. By directing that credit through a national bank and the private banking system, it is possible to fund those infrastructure projects and fundamental scientific endeavors essential to create sustained economic growth in the long term, over spans of two or more generations.
From: CAMPAIGN TO WIN THE FUTURE– A NEW PARADIGM FOR MANKIND
A Note To Readers
The above quote is from the new edition of the LaRouche PAC pamphlet, which our Feature this week highlights with excerpts from the introduction. See the last item in this report.
For, as this report emphasizes every week, to solve virtually any problem our nation faces requires the end of the London-based and U.S. infected speculative financial parasitical system that has now made the U.S. second to China in healthy life expectancy at birth for the first time, according to World Health Organization data. That report can be found on page 11, below.
As we have reported over the last several weeks, more than one-half of the American people are unable to meet their fundamental economic needs. Those who will shrug that fact off, perhaps, need to read no further.
But, at least President Trump will not quit from his commitment to make America Great Again, and as the last paragraph of a new statement puts it:
“All of Asia is uniting around the spirit of the New Silk Road. President Trump is in the process of working with Asia to resolve the Korea crisis once and for all, through a ‘peace through development’ approach. With Russiagate being transformed into Spygate within the U.S., due in great part to the LPAC intelligence reports on the subversive role of British intelligence and the Obama intelligence team, Trump should soon be free to bring the U.S. into full cooperation with the New Silk Road in building a new paradigm for all of mankind. The opportunity must not be missed.”
https://larouchepac.com/20180530/no-john-bull-markets-do-not-supersede-humanity
In This Week’s Report
The U.S. Drought Monitor for California shows no change in either the intensity nor the extent of the drought this past week.
But, fear not, long-term and medium-term problems are on the horizon as the climate does change, as it always has. The often repeated mantra from the environmentalist crowd that it is all due to mankind’s activity does get tiring and deflects from an honest discussion of the dynamics of climate and weather. This is not a subject of this week’s report, as I have covered that in past reports. So, when I do include articles and items that may or may not reflect that environmentalist bias, know that I think there is something useful in the article despite that problem with it.
The first two items below the U.S. Drought Monitor are a case in point.
The problems with an adequate supply of water for all the requirements of all the people and their activity in the state is highlighted by both the State Water Project and the Federal Central Valley Project allocations of less than 50% of that requested by water contractors. As reported last week, over the past more than 20 years there have only been two or three years in which full allocations have been made. So, this week the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which runs the Central Valley Project, announced it was upping its allocation to contractors to 45% of that requested. That is covered in the article, “Water allocation inches up despite abundant supplies in reservoirs.”
The Oroville Dam Update this week has a new video and an update on construction from the Department of Water Resources.
Shasta Dam has become somewhat of a symbol of the battle between the Trump administration and the Brown government. The Feds wish to raise Shasta dam, adding 18.5ft of steel and cement to the rim of the dam. This would add 634,000 acre-feet of extra storage space to Lake Shasta. It is the right thing to do, but, as I always caution, just adding more water storage in the state will not ensure adequate water supplies for 50 years from now. That requires NAWAPA and dozens of nuclear-powered desalination plants.
The Huntington Beach desalination plant continues to move forward in the permitting process and a short report on that is included below.
Another report on the Colorado River’s future, and thus the water supply for 40 million people, comes next.
That is followed by Cal Fire’s report on the “Cause Of Wildfires In 2017 Northern California Firestorm,” which blames PG&E. The response from PG&E is included.
News items this week include the report on China now surpassing the U.S. in healthy life expectancy, the Opioid crisis in California, and the world’s first floating nuclear power plant.
As mentioned above excerpts from the new LaRouche PAC pamphlet’s introduction is our feature this week.
