Today the warning is even more urgent. Trump has shown the courage to stand up to the traitors in the intelligence community, in the Congress, in the press, who, Trump noted in a tweet this morning, “HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather GO TO WAR than see this.” He gave it a name: “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
https://larouchepac.com/20180719/lyndon-larouche-once-said-get-tractors-rolling
A Note To Readers
Nothing is worth talking about– neither the water supply, the drought, the tunnels, nor building great infrastructure projects– unless the actual and real danger of a nuclear war is ended. So, that is what is most important for our nation, and the world, in the President’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday this week.
Trump, in his statement at their joint press conference, said he had determined to “continue the proud tradition of bold American diplomacy. From the earliest days of our republic, American leaders have understood that diplomacy and engagement is preferable to conflict and hostility.” He said that the relationship between the two nations “has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed, as of about four hours ago.” He said that “I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.”
Now that that is clear, we can look at those other things.
In This Week’s Report
Immediately following the opening section of this week’s report on the drought and the weather forecast, you will find the commemoration of 100 years ago yesterday, the first public proposal for building one of the world’s greatest dams– the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. It was my first project, writing about the battle to build that dam, that led me to study and write on the California water management system and writing these reports, beginning four years ago.
The Oroville Dam Update this week includes two new videos and a construction progress report.
Last week we noted that in California the acreage burned by wildfires so far this year is double the acreage burned at this time last year. That all the authorities are warning that this year may see an extreme number, intensity and destruction from wildfires has been a narrative for the past several weeks. And it is not just California. The entire west, while not literally on fire, is experiencing already a very terrible fire season, including Washington State and Oregon.
Subsidence of the land in the Central Valley is not only doing millions of dollars in damage, but is also wrecking a key canal supplying Fresno, farmers with water. Two articles covering this are included.
There is not much new this week on the Delta Tunnels, just a request for the Trump administration to throw in a loan of $1.6 billion. Proponents claim that if this goes through then the money to begin construction will be in hand.
Under “Infrastructure” this week is the threatened collapse of the entire nuclear energy industry.
The “Feature” this week continues with class #4 of the LaRouche economics series.
The final item is the release this week of the more than 400 page report: “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge, Vol. II.”
