Susan Shelley in the Orange County Register
A Note To Readers
The above headline I like. It is an excellent summary of the state of California water policy, and this week’s developments, as the phrase puts it, takes the cake. While the tunnels under the Delta slowly move toward the moment of construction, the State Water Board of Governor Brown now proposes to take a million acre feet away from the tunnels and send it into the Delta and out into the Bay. Not only are the two projects mutually at logger-heads, but this new proposal will throw 6,500 out of work and idle 240,000 acres of the nation’s most productive agricultural land.
Well there is an alternative to the idiocy, and that is, as President Trump shall demonstrate once again on Monday as he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that a fundamental reorganization of how the world economy and trade system operates can unleash the greatest real economic development of the United States and the rest of the world ever imagined. And it is the imagination being made a reality that already has brought 700 million people out of poverty in China. President Trump, in partnership with China and Russia, now has on his plate such an opportunity. A new system defined by physical productivity, not money, awaits the decision by these three nation’s leaders to just do it. The three leaders accurately described are: President Xi of China, the Philosopher King; President Putin, the world’s greatest living strategist; and President Trump, who is the courageous warrior tearing apart the institutions of the empire.
In This Week’s Report
The drought is intensifying throughout the West and early summer heat waves are baking Southern California and expected to do the same in the Northwest this weekend. The wildfires in California are bigger and more dangerous for this time of the year than anytime in at least a decade.
Next is the Oroville Dam Update, which is only a construction report this week.
Then comes the report on, “The blithering idiocy of California’s water crisis.”
The following section is titled, “Infrastructure, Tariffs, Greening the Deserts and More,” and includes a wide variety of reports, both foreign and domestic.
Finally, our Feature is Class #3 of the eight-part series on the method of Lyndon LaRouche’s economics.
