(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231116-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
Following this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor’s map for California, is an article on California water storage, highlighting the fight to raise Shasta Dam.
The Sites Reservoir, almost fully approved now, has been put on a fast-tracked permitting schedule, by-passing and accelerating any court challenges.
Then more follow-up on “The Silicon Valley zillionaires getting a few more kicks in the teeth from Solano County.”
On the Colorado River, the Bureau of Reclamation reports that Lake Mead will be down to 1,040.77 feet in September 2025. That’s nearly a foot lower than Lake Mead was on July 27, 2022 — and the lowest the lake has been since it was filled in the 1930s. The lake is presently at 1,064.70 feet — 34% full.
The Feature this week concludes with an article by my associate Robert Ingraham: “A Month of Satanic Oligarchical Conspiracies.” The zero carbon emissions cult threatens the entire human race, but there is an alternative. Here is an excerpt from the conclusion of the article:
“It must be faced—even if the implications are terrifying—that the most powerful political, financial, religious and cultural institutions in nations throughout the world are now under the control of people who have defined Man as a destructive force in the universe. This is blatantly the case in Europe and North America, but we have reached a point where this sickness is no longer limited to the “advanced” nations. The oligarchs proclaim: “Mankind is destroying the planet through our greed and sinful appetites. It is in our nature.” Human upward progress, human creativity, higher rates of what Lyndon LaRouche called Potential Relative Population Density—which can be achieved only through increased human consumption, increased energy usage and new scientific breakthroughs—have been defined as evil by the oligarchical elite. A cultural evil which is to be eradicated.
“Despite Pope Francis’ pessimism, we must proclaim, “We are human beings made in the image of the Creator. We contain within us the spark of Prometheus. We can build thousands of fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. We can develop fusion energy. We can move rivers, turn the deserts green and provide every human with a protein-rich diet. We can explore and colonize the solar system. We can unlock the secrets of the universe. This is not arrogance. It is what God intended for us.”
“We live within the pale of oligarchism. We must break out. We must shatter the oligarchical culture. We must proclaim the as yet unrealized potentials of the future. We bequeath that to our posterity as our gift.”
