www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20200521-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1590118523
“Now, that is completely insane, and that in part is the result of the neo-liberal policies which denied development of the developing countries for the last 50 years at least; which is the result of an absolutely profit-oriented system of agriculture under the control of only five cartels — this is why these labor conditions are so absolutely horrendous. And that has to be changed: We need to go back to family farms. We have to have a parity price for agricultural goods, the farmers have to be able to live off their work. We have to double world production — this is a call I already made in 2008, that the 2.5-2.7 billion tons of food production has to be doubled! If you consider that the world population is increasing and you already have almost a billion people — not food secure, now being threatened with starvation — 2 billion people not having clean water, you need to build up agriculture. If you look at the condition of the world, it is now the time to completely reverse that and really industrialize the developing sector.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
A Note To Readers
As of May 15, the COVID-19 pandemic is now truly worldwide and has already killed almost 300,000 people, with months and likely years to go. It should have struck down the “globalist” illusion that the system of free trade, low wages and financial speculation which has run the world since the 1970s, is compatible with human survival, let alone human invention and progress.
The major nations were not prepared to treat the victims of a serious pandemic pneumonia; they did not have the hospitals, the most modern medical devices, the health workers equipment ready. The unindustrialized developing nations are fighting to develop any defenses against it.
There is now very clearly a second, worse, global pandemic—of hunger and extreme life-threatening impoverishment. Half of the workforce of the entire world is unemployed, more than 1.6 billion people who overwhelmingly survive on “informal work” which has disappeared in broken chains of supply and demand, closed borders, public health lockdowns. The judgment of the experts of the World Food Program is firm: “Abject poverty” and food deprivation is becoming so widespread that 300,000 people could very soon be dying every day from the hunger pandemic.
Our Feature this week is titled, “Why the World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs.”
In this week’s report:
We shall let a news item begin the report to illustrate just how fragile the nation’s infrastructure has become, and why the President’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure building program is how the U.S. can really begin to put the nation “back to work.” Two dams in Michigan collapsed this week.
Next we cover water issues, both in California and the broader southwest, under the title, “Drought, the Colorado River, Water Allocation and More.
How do we get that? Once again it can only be done with:
LAROUCHE’S FOUR LAWS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY
http://media.larouchepac.com/larouche/documents/20180503-LPAC-2018-Campaign-web.pdf
(1) The immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall law instituted by U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, without modification, as to principle of action.
(2) Return to a system of top-down, and thoroughly defined, National Banking.
(3) The purpose of the use of a Federal Credit-system, is to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the accompanying intention, to increase the physical-economic
productivity and the standard of living of the persons and households of the United States.
(4) A Crash Program for Fusion and an expanded Space program.
Next is a short item illustrating once again that California has the the most productive farmers in the world, as a new forecast issued this week predicts a record-breaking California 2020 almond crop.
Then, more on the breakdown of the nation’s food chain during the pandemic, and a few introductory paragraphs from a new report to be issued later this week from LaRouchePAC, “Stop the Hunger Pandemic! Save Farmers, Deliver the Food.”
Under the title, “Once Again: This is the Big One,” you will find two items highlighting the pandemics of the Corona virus and world hunger, and, secondly, how the global casino is being bailed out, as it was in 2008, while the investments in infrastructure and health systems are no where to be seen.
Two videos are presented next: The first is a ten minute video on the lies about the Corona virus. The second focuses on Federal Chairman Powell’s bailout of Wall Street with trillions.
The final item is our Feature this week.
