More protest signs.

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California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) | Pumping water and cash from Delta

No one appears to have benefitted more
than companies owned or controlled by
Stewart Resnick, a Beverly Hills billionaire,
philanthropist and major political donor
whose companies, including Paramount
Farms, own more than 115,000 acres in
Kern County.

Resnick’s water and farm companies
collected about 20 cents of every
dollar spent by the program.

Those companies sold $30.6 million of
water to the state program, participated
as a partner in an additional $16 million
in sales and received an additional $3.8
million in checks and credits for sales
through public water agencies, documents
show.

“For a program that was supposed to
benefit the environment, it apparently
did two things — it didn’t benefit the
environment and it appears to have
enriched private individuals using public
money,” said Jonas Minton, a water policy
adviser to the Planning and Conservation
League, a California environmental
advocacy group.

Representatives of Resnick’s farm and
water companies did not respond to
repeated requests for interviews. A
woman who answered the phone at the
Resnick’s holding company last week said,
“We don’t talk to the press. It’s company
policy.” She transferred the call to a
company official who did not respond for
an interview request.

Same as the Klamath Valley Clinton regime
fascist/communist enviro-nazi fiasco???

It comes too late to save the farms and
livelihoods of hundreds of southern Oregon
farmers left high and dry last summer, but
the National Academy of Sciences released
a report Feb. 5 bearing out what those
farmers have been saying all along —
the federal government did not have
sufficient scientific evidence to cut off
irrigation water to the farms below
Oregon's Klamath Lake Dam.

Two hundred thousand acres of the Klamath
Valley in southwest Oregon went without
irrigation water last summer, with 1,500
affected farm families suffering losses that
may total $250 million, dwarfing a $20 million
emergency federal aid package.

But the problem wasn't drought — there's
still plenty of water behind the dam which
the federal government built in 1909,
thereafter holding "land lotteries" for
veterans of both the First and Second
World Wars, encouraging the winners
to settle the valley and set up farms by
signing contracts which promised
irrigation water would always
be provided.

Rather, the farmers were effectively put
out of business — 90 percent of farms in
the area being left entirely without water
and thus condemned to total crop loss —
when the Bureau of Reclamation broke the
irrigation contract, supposedly to save two
species of "threatened" sucker fish living in
the lakes above the dams and to avoid
harming the Coho salmon in the river below.

The farmers have contended all along that
populations of suckers (previously regarded
as a "nuisance" or "trash" species) above
the dams have actually been not diminishing
but skyrocketing — from 5,000 in the lake
when the species were listed as endangered
more than a decade ago, to at least 100,000
today. And the NAS review now agrees there
was not sufficient scientific evidence to justify
the actions of the National Marine Fisheries
Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service in
withholding the water previously promised to
the farmers.

The decision was made without even
checking to see whether populations of
suckers above the dam have risen, fallen,
or stayed the same (a study which would
take years), reports Peter Moyle, a
professor of fish biology at the University
of California, Davis (and one of the study's
authors.)

As for the Klamath River coho salmon, the
data available doesn't prove increased summer
water flows would benefit the fish, Moyle said
last week. In fact, he pointed out that water
used to increase flows would come from
reservoirs where the water is too warm for
the fragile coho, anyway.

The Klamath Valley abomination has never
been about saving fish — it's been about
the antigrowth agenda of radical environmental
groups like the Oregon Natural Resources
Council, whose spokesmen hate the region's
very lushness because it's artificial.

Such groups forthrightly state
their goal is to force farmers
off the land.

In this case, the Oregon "greens" drafted
a plan which calls for the federal government
to buy much of the basin's farmland, turning
a lush and verdant valley which feeds hundreds
of thousands of Americans back into as a
"desert preserve."

"Rural Cleansing," the local farmers call it.

And it's working. Businesses were already
closing — and school populations falling by
as much as 30 percent — in towns like
Klamath Falls, population 17,000, and
Tulelake, Calif., population 1,000, as early
as last June.

What an interesting new religion, this
doctrine that man's proper role in the
world is to be less fruitful, do less
multiplying, and to turn the gardens of
the earth into deserts. What ever shall
we call it?

A religion or a disease???
Gang Green brain rot???

The Demonrat socialists made a studied
political attack on Dick Cheney for day
one because vice presidents often become
presidents.

He would have made a much better
candidate than the rino McCain.

The opposition used every opportunity
to attempt to assinate his character,
even yesterday our captive communist
LG used PC terms to imply Cheney is
some sort of capitalist pig.

At no time was he more visciously attacked
than when he almost singlehandedly overturned
the Klamath injustice and got water back to
what was left of the farmers there.

If you want to see America turned into the
hell holes that are now Zimbabwe and South
Africa, where the money is bebauched and
practically worthless and whereas they were
known as the breadbasket of Africa but now
have to import food, then continue to vote
for Democrats and their Rino associates.

This is reminiscent of the breadbasket of
Europe, the Ukraine, where millions of it's
peoples were starved to death and such
respected news outlets as the NY Times
reported everything was just all hunky dory
under progressive communist leadership,
who also said Nazi concentraion death
camps were only rumors.

More to follow.

 

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to quote Lawgator, "what a bunch of right wing racists"

 

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to quote Lawgator, "what a bunch of right wing racists"

:lolabove: lol: lol: lol:

Bigots I say, bigots who need to be
reeducated immediately!!!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

I've driven the almost 400 mile stretch
of Interstate 5 from L.A. to Sacramento
dozens of times. Quite honestly, it's as
boring as it gets, with only the usual gas stations,
mini-marts, fast-food, home-cookin' restaurants,
and strangely a newer batch of Starbuck's
Coffee shops sprouting up everywhere.

In between... farms, orchards, cattle, and dirt.

On July 15th, as I began my trip to Utah,
I came off the Grapevine decline and hit
the flat 250 or so mile stretch of interstate
which begins the farming belt in the valley.

Almost immediately I noticed what I had only
heard about on the radio and in the papers.

Where once there were vast fields of green,
now there where empty, barely recognizable
rows of unplanted dirt and growing weeds.

Only sporadically at first, but once I passed
Bakersfield and for about a 200 mile stretch,
I could not believe my eyes.

Field after field laid fallow. And not really
fallow, but unattended... as if it was not
going to be planted in the near future either.

Signs were staked in the ground on almost
every patch of barren farmland.

The most common one, which was yellow
and obviously a group effort to wake up the
sleeping travelers of their future plight, read:

"CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL"

Others, which looked more homemade were
posted on non-operational farm equipment
parked as close to the freeway as possible,
stated things like:

"FOOD ONLY GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS"

-and-

"NO WATER = NO JOBS = NO FUTURE"

At one point, after 150 miles or so of seeing
this horror, I broke down in tears and had
to pull over to the side of the road.

I saw the aqueduct, which followed Interstate
5 most of the way, and large fields of dead
trees which were planted just a few feet
from the flowing cement river.

I imagined how those trees would feel,
imprisoned in the dying dirt by their own roots,
if they could indeed comprehend that their
source of life was just a stones throw away.

It was like some horrific story-book come to
life; science fiction in real time.

I was thinking of the farmers and their
families and wondering what would become
of them and their land.

I was thinking about the consequences
of hundreds of miles of food no longer
being grown, and adding together the other
states like Campo, Colorado which have the
same situation... only planting 60% of their crops this year.

This deadness went on until the brink of
civilization once again began to show.
When I approached the Stockton/Modesto
highway interchange area the carnage
seemed to stop, and the fields appeared
to be healthy and bountiful.

I can only guess that this is because more
people drive on that stretch of the freeway,
and so the powers that be are trying to keep
up appearances.

No other explaination came to mind.

To the readers of this, I can only say that
living in the city has literally blinded me to
the truth, even though I knew it was happening.

I wonder how many other things I ignore?

Many economists and trends predictors
have called for food shortages and food riots
in the fall, and with what I saw last week,
I have new reason to believe them.

But then, that's the real problem isn't it? Belief...

If you believe that the food will continue
to flow (magically appearing on store shelves
in a grocery store near you) and just dismiss
the very real claims of shortages worldwide,
including a severe wheat shortage in this
country due to a harmfull fungus, then
I might boldy say that you deserve whatever
fate befalls you.

I challenge you all to take a drive up the 5
and see this for yourself. Please!

Don't let this go unseen. If you are camera
or video savy, I think it would be a really
great photo exibit or website showing the true
nature of our common problem. And you better
believe, as you take your daily shower, flush
your toilet, and water your fertilized-non-edible
grassy yards, that this is indeed a Congress
created crisis.

So please tell as many people about it as possible.

Lastly, if you haven't already... buy storable
food! Go to the dollar store and buy rice and
beans. Buy pasta, canned and jar foods,
or anything with a shelf-life of more than 6 months.

What's the worse that can happen?

You'll have food for 6 months.
What's the best that can happen?
You'll have food for 6 months.

Take care. Spread this information. Get mad. Fight tyranny. And...
Don't be a sheeple.

Clint Richardson

"Farming is easy when your plow is a pencil and you
are a thousand miles from the nearest corn field."
Dwight David Eisenhower

Crops rot and people stand in line for food while
the EPA engineers a drought.

The Obama administration is now demanding even
greater water restrictions beyond what has been
diverted for the smelt. ........

What is precious and what President Barack Obama
should come to see for himself are the 40,000 people
in the valley who are desperate for water so they
can get back to work.

Mentioned in the article is the exemption given
Albuquerque but what isn't mentioned is the rest
of the farming country farther down the Rio Grande
river, I've seen film of famers who were pulling up
fruit trees with backhoes because the have been
denied traditional irrigation rights by the EPA.

Central agricultural planning by socialists the world
over has a horrible record of failure and bureaucrats
in Washington DC are doing no better.