California Water and Infrastructure Report For May 23, 2019

California Water and Infrastructure Report For May 23, 2019

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President Trump has announced that he wants to put America back on the Moon by 2024. You can hear Lyndon LaRouche, if you knew him, absolutely roaring with approval. This is the key flank. After all, what has been the central issue ever since Roosevelt’s death? Defeating the optimism which John F. Kennedy once again evoked in the American population. Any colonial regime must lower the expectations of populations both for themselves and their progeny which, being human, tend to be robust, tend to be excited by the frontiers of knowledge and exploration, tend to demand competent politicians and policies.”

A Note To Readers

The quote above is from our “Feature” this week on Project Artemis, the policy now underway to return to the Moon by 2024, with a man and a woman, to begin building a colony on the Moon as a jumping off base for the trip to Mars. Never has a President, nor has any government, put into motion a policy that will establish a permanent human settlement on another planetary body in our Solar System. Like the Apollo Program of fifty years ago, this is the mission that can evoke from especially the younger portion of our population the kind of optimism that made the landings on the Moon possible.

Wow!, you may say, but why has not the media reported on this? Well, I think most readers here know why, but then, that leads to our job– to create the direction that legitimate anger– that not enough Americans are expressing yet– can be focused on.

As President Kennedy launched the Apollo Project, he also undertook the funding, promoting, and building the most aggressive program of water infrastructure construction the nation had undertaken since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is no separation of science, space exploration and the building of the foundations in advanced infrastructure required by a modern economy. The Feature this week develops these ideas. Next week we will present the Water Infrastructure Projects of President John Kennedy.

The Rest of this Week’s Report

We begin with a weather report, which includes in the first article a clear and coherent discussion of why the May rain and snow in California. Its the Jet Stream, or its El Nino, my friend. But it is also more than that.

While the California drought is gone, and also related to the Jet Stream shifting, Washington State is drifting deeper into drought each week.

Now too much rain and snow does have affects that are serious, especially in relation to agriculture. Several items provide that story.

But, as the report below under the title, “So, Why With All This Rain and Snow Is There Not a Full Allocation of Water to Farmers?,” makes clear, even with near record precipitation this year the Bureau of Reclamation is still unable to provide agriculture with the water in requires from the great Central Valley Project.

The headline, “Oroville Dam is fine, despite what the internet says,” adequately summarizes our Oroville Dam Update this week. The hysteria generated on Facebook about the dam and spillways does continue this week. Several items report on it.

It is now apparently against the law to even try to build more storage in California,” so begins a comment from Families Protecting the Valley, referring to the suit by the State of California against the Westlands Water District in an attempt to stop the raising of Shasta Dam. The “Friends” do have good polemics.

The final section of this week’s report is our Feature, which is summarized above. And the Feature ends with this item, which is too good to just leave it to the end of the report:

Green Entropy Invades Space

May 17, 2019 (EIRNS)–A study that was published on April 16 in the well-respected journal of the worldwide astronatics community,
Acta Astronuautica, calls for designating 85% of the Solar System as protected “wilderness,” to prevent mining on extraterrestrial bodies, reports Space.com. If steps are not taken soon, the authors intone, “On a timescale less than a millennium we could have super-exploitation of the entire Solar System out to its most distant edges. Then we are done.”


The paper warns that if the growth of the space economy is anything like the Industrial Revolution, the Solar System could end up a “dried up wasteland in as little as 500 years”! Resources will be depleted, especially metals, and water. “Limits to growth” for space. If the exploitation of resources on other
worlds is limited now, we might avoid a “crisis of potentially catastrophic proportions.”

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