It’s not just rocket engines that the U.S. space industry depends upon Russia for. An article in Forbes Sept. 13 details the fact that less than 20% of the in-space electric propulsion units used in American-made satellites to maneuver them to keep them in their proper orbit, are made in the
U.S. The rest are imported, mainly from Russia
The U.S. Defense Industrial Base Depends Upon Russian Space Technology
A Note To Readers
The above quote (the full item is the last item in this report) illustrates just one area in which the U.S. is actually unable to produce key advanced technological elements required by a 21st century economy. I highlight it in order to disabuse some who do believe that other nations could not be more advanced than our own. It is the same with infrastructure. Just one example: Until China built the Move Water North project, it was the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project that were the largest and most complex water management system in the world. But, as noted below in the article, “Reps. Denham, Costa bring water storage to the Valley,” that “California’s last large-scale water storage facility was built in 1979.” For almost 50 years the system that was adequate for the state's population of 20 million people has seen no expansion. With 40 million people now in the state, only a revival of the spirit that did build those great California projects will do. In 1962 and 1963, President John Kennedy inaugurated more than half-a-dozen water projects in mainly the western states of the nation. In each of his speeches he made this point: We are not building these projects for ourselves but for those who will benefit from them 20 to 40 years from now. Here are that President's speeches to some of those dedications. I hope you will watch them and pass them on to others.
President John F. Kennedy’s Speeches Toward a Nation Wide TVA
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-one.mp4
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-two.mp4
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-three.mp4
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-four.mp4
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-five.mp4
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/videos/20111206-reclaimjfk-part-six.mp4
Now, contrary to that spirit is that of Governor Jerry Brown, who not only is the most extreme of the public officials in his demand that the nation adopt his zero-growth ideology, but now goes as far as implicitly calling for the assassination of President Trump:
September 19, 2018
California Gov. Jerry Brown ramped up his criticism of President Trump in an interview that aired Monday – calling the president a “saboteur” in the fight to combat climate change and saying that “something’s got to happen to this guy.”
Speaking to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell at an environmental summit in San Francisco last week, Brown tore into Trump for the president’s controversial tweets about the death toll in Puerto Rico from last year’s Hurricane Maria and urged voters to vote for Democrats in November’s midterm elections in an effort to thwart Trump’s agenda.
“We never had a president who was engaged in this kind of behavior,” Brown said. “I mean he’s not telling the truth; he keeps changing his mind; he’s sabotaging the world order in many respects.”
Brown added: “It’s unprecedented, it’s dangerous, and hopefully this election is going to send a strong message to the country; the Democrats will win…something’s got to happen to this guy, because if we don’t get rid of him, he’s going to undermine America and even the world.”
In This Week's Report We begin with the U.S. Drought Monitor and then a review of the Summer weather and coverage of the El Nino forecast to arrive this Fall. The Oroville Dam Update includes one video and an item on the repair cost is now estimated at $1.1 billion. A study that identifies the challenges the water management system of the state faces does identify the factors that define the future in regard to the State's water management system.
The last large-scale water storage facility to be built in California was constructed in 1979, and now, almost 40 years later, the drought-stricken state will receive funding for projects to help secure its water supply thanks to two local representatives.
And sure to set off a new round of controversy is a Department of Water Resources release of an economic analysis showing value of investing in WaterFix (the Delta tunnels). The water war continues, also with, in addition to the state water board proposal to impose average unimpaired flows of 40 percent on the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced rivers, and a second, lesser-known phase to the plan would impose flow requirements on the Sacramento River, which could have the same impacts on West Side agencies.
The last item this week is the article, “U.S. Defense Industrial Base Depends Upon Russian Space Technology.”
