http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190301-High-Speed-Rail-Do-It-Right.pdf?_t=1551658490 California’s High-Speed Rail Project Should be Shut Down With California’s high-speed rail project years behind schedule, tens of billions over budget, and plagued by mismanagement, newly inaugurated governor Gavin Newsom in his State of the State address on February 12, 2019, declared that the project as now planned must…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190228-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1551474208 The Hubble Space Telescope found evidence that our universe consists of at least two trillion galaxies! Wow! This means that the people promoting the Green New Deal (essentially, Wall Street) are not only greedy, but also completely off their rocker! Because we are not living in a closed system…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190221-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1550855687 And we think of our lives not as something lived from moment to moment, but as a very small piece of experience, with a beginning, and not too much later, an end. And think of our lives not as things which are lived for pleasure in and of themselves,…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190207-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1549591068 “NAWAPA XXI is a resource development plan for a continental water management system, built in collaboration with Canada and Mexico. This proposal will launch the greatest development of North America in history; it will double irrigated agricultural farmland, provide ample hydroelectric power, mitigate or eliminate the risk of floods…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190131-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1549046698 There is another side to the trade balance, which is not the current account balance but the capital account. This means that there could be Chinese investments in the United States, for instance, in infrastructure. The Chinese showed that they are very good at this and the U.S. needs…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190124-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1548381203 “This is everything FDR dreamed about, the New Deal to put America back to work. Think of LBJ, he gave people food stamps & welfare. Donald Trump’s giving them a job. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about. News stories do not accurately cover him, should…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190117-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1547831806 “It may appear easier for Board members to file for Chapter 11 – shifting the burden of dealing with the myriad issues that will face the Board and placing it squarely on the shoulders of the Bankruptcy Court and the companies’ advisors – but it will destroy value for…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190110-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1547175424 Krafft Ehricke, one of the space pioneers and architect of much of the Apollo Project to land a man on the Moon, summarized his philosophy of astronautics in three laws (1957): First Law: Nobody and nothing under the natural laws of this universe impose any limitations on man except…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190103-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1546657776 For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20181227California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1545965115 Many Americans have been subjected to the myth which falsely asserts that cheap labor means lower unit-costs of production. A Note To Readers An economy is not something created by nature. It is created by human beings. An economy is how we humans organize the creative processes of…
