“In the spring of 1212, a twelve-year-old boy named Stephen, from the village of Cloyes in France, began preaching in the village and surrounding areas, declaiming that he had been selected by God to lead a Crusade of Children to rescue the Holy Land. He traveled to the Shrine of St. Denys in Paris. There, the shrine was turned over for his exclusive use, and thousands, mostly children, came to hear him. Many of them returned to their villages and their message soon became a contagion. According to contemporary reports, perhaps more than half of these recruits were young girls.”
What Are the Children Telling Us?
A Note To Readers
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “eco-warrior” has declared again and again that there are only eleven years remaining to “save the planet” from the destruction wrought by human beings, and on January 23 of this year she predicted: “The date is January 23, 2031. The world has just ended. No humans are left on the planet once known as ‘Earth.’”
On the other hand, we have a 12-year-old boy in Texarkana, Arkansas who has built a working nuclear fusion device in his parents garage. No pessimism, end of the world for him; there is a future and he is going to help create it.
Both stories can be found in The Feature, below, this week.
Also In This Week’s Report
We begin with, once again, the California drought is gone. At least for now.
More than 100 years ago the Los Angeles Aqueduct began bringing water from the Sierras to Los Angeles. We use a news article to provide the reader with some background to that spectacular project.
Though officials of both the California State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project have increased the amount of water that contractors have requested, still, even with abundant precipitation, there is not enough water in the state for all the requirements of all of its people. We also include a couple of items of why that is so.
The Drought Contingency Plan legislation for the Colorado River was signed by President Trump this week. Though the Imperial Valley Water District objects and files a suit over the potential threat to exacerbating the crisis of the Salton Sea.
An article that I characterize as ”Even Fox News Gets It Right Once In Awhile– Build Infrastructure,” does provide some useful comments on both the current disaster and on what we used to do: “Overbuild,” providing not only that which was required at the time, but also what future generations would need.
On the economic policy front you will find an article on how the repeal of the Glass-Steagall law in 1999 created the 2008 collapse and has, at least until we restore it, permanently robbed the American people. Also we have an article on how China Has Adopted the American System.
This week’s Feature, as discussed above, concludes the report this week.
