http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20180607-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
June 1 (EIRNS)—The “Annual Industrial Capabilities” report to Congress was “quietly released” on May 17 by the Pentagon’s Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, according to Defense News. While EIR has not yet reviewed the full report, Defense News’ May 22 summary of the report’s findings makes clear that the United States defense is not threatened as much by foreign powers as by our own policies. Decades of post-industrial, rock-sex-drug culture, “information theory” replacing Classical science, remains the greatest threat to national security, and has resulted in more youth on drugs than capable of skilled labor and engineering.
Biggest Threat to U.S. Defense Is Collapse of Skilled Labor Force and Industrial Base
A Note To Readers
The introductory quotation above from the article on page 13 of this report highlights the more fundamental problem of the U.S. economy: We are losing, and have already lost, the productive capacity and the skills required to not only put a man on the Moon once again, but also to build and rebuild our infrastructure.
Underlying the absurdity that the once most powerful and scientifically leading nation on the planet is a virtual basket-case today is the report on page 14 below on “China Will Surpass the U.S. This Year in Investment in Scientific Research.”
So, that is the bad news. The good news is that President Trump will meet with North Korea President Kim next Tuesday, while that nation’s Asia neighbors (South Korea, China and Russia) are ready to bring North Korea into China’s New Silk Road of infrastructure development. So, peace finally will be established ending the Korean War after 68 years, with the expectation that integration of North Korea into the Belt and Road will complete the original conception of the New Silk Road formulated by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in the 1990s — a railroad development corridor from Pusan to Rotterdam. That concept has now been expanded to become a World Land-Bridge, as the Silk Road extends into Africa, Ibero-America, Europe, and, potentially, the United States.
In This Week’s Report
Drought is with us and intensifying in the West. While California had a one-year reprieve from the five year, worst drought in 500 years, we are back in it. The other Western states are even deeper in drought than California, and Oregon has now declared a drought emergency in four counties.
A couple of lasting affects from the five-year drought include the California fire season now being year-round, and yet thousands of families still do not have access to running water as their wells went dry over the past few years.
This week’s Oroville Dam Update includes a video and a report on construction progress repairing the blown-out spillways.
Then we have a report on Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signing a pair of bills that will require strict limitations on how much water California homes can use. And no, contrary to some press reports, individuals will not be fined $1,000 if they shower and do laundry the same day.
For space reasons this week’s report will not include an installment from the LaRouche PAC report: Campaign to Win the Future– A New Padadigm for Mankind: LaRouche’s Four Laws for Economic Recovery.
But, you can read the whole report here:
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/documents/20180503-LPAC-2018-Campaign-web.pdf
