[Peak Prosperity] We were foolish enough to believe we could water the entire southwestern U.S. with the Colorado River. Nothing could go wrong. Now it has, and tens of millions of people are staring down the barrel of real trouble.
As much as 75% of the water from Lake Mead (fed by the Colorado River) goes to agriculture...so now we have a potential food production problem. Major cities like Las Vegas depend on that water for its citizens...now we have a potential personal survival problem for local residents.
More than 40 million people in seven states need to decide how they go on living if the rains do not return. Is anyone worried? Is there an emergency management team in place? Doesn’t seem that way if you review the local news there.
Are they prepared? No. Maybe 3% of the population has anything in place for survival. What do they do? Where do they go?
Is Kansas ready for an influx of evacuees from California? Can the East Coast handle another few million people?
#3
Those of us old enough remember the Great California Drought emergency orders issued between 1988 and 1990.
The incoming water was diverted to from the food growing Valley, to many LA and its many swimming pools.
California in the last 100 years has experienced many droughts: 1924, 1928–1935, 1947–1950, 1959–1960, 1976–1977, 1986–1992, 2006–2010, 2011–2017, 2018 and 2020-2021. So it's not like California only occasionally has a Drought.
Hell, just 40+/- days ago (May 12, 2022) despite being in a declared drought already. The California Coastal Commission rejected a proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn ocean water into drinking water.
#7
The southwest was a lot wetter 750 years ago, then got hit with a huge drought some 500 years ago that lasted 75-100 years. Completely destroyed the Anasazi civilization as they couldn't grow enough food. It has happened in the past and will happen in the future if it isn't happening right now.
#8
Sad about the Anasazi, not so much for most of the populace there now imo.
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#9
The libs still living in Cali are only there because of things they disagree with and could not duplicate for themselves, ever. Reality will take hold of the land if not the people.
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#10
Is Kansas ready for an influx of evacuees from California?
Something, something, garden hoses with gasoline.
We don't have the water either, unless you can convince the Denver area to give up green lawns and golf. I'd suggest the Panuco Basin, or Seattle/Vancouver area...I understand they have something called a CHAD district, very youthful, very urbane. Ashland Oregon is supposed to be very progressive, I'm sure they would welcome all the Joad family with open arms. Otherwise, keep'em moving until at least Kansas City.
#11
Nah, Lawrence Kansas, they love them some refugee shit. Even have an official homeless camp just north of town, follow the train tracks east. Downtown panhandling program, hots and a cot, Berkely-on-Kaw so they say.
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#13
"Climate change" is religion for people who don't believe in God. And for some people who think they believe in God, but swallow whatever their clerisy tells them.
Reality is the thing that does not go away just because you don't believe in it.
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*slightly off topic, saw estimates that possibly up to 10,000 head died from that heat shock. Officials say the cause of death is Big Meat making Record Profits™. Everyone is flailing a bit, so salt to taste.
#15
And this will add to the "demand inflation" if crops fail or are hard to come by. It's not the Fed, and it sure as hell isn't Putin (a pathetic and absurd concept). People discount the vicissitudes of Mother Nature.
Maybe the Harris-Biden Administration will begin to blame the climate for these problems. Oh, wait....
#16
"Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. 35 Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it. 36 Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”
We're a bit short of three wise men or a virgin in the Beltway.
#20
A drought, or just CA weather? Meanwhile, CA continues to dismantle reservoirs and even denies permits for desalinization facilities. It's not the rainfall.
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#21
remember the Great California Drought emergency orders
"If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down."
#22
tank Abrams is fiction. I have to listen to this goddamn bitch daily on her ads with her resume. Can't stand the sound of he voice and hopes she drops dead of whatever hurts the most. I'll let y'all know how this Georgian feels later about that fat whore.
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[Washington Examiner] The United States may cease to be a constitutional democracy if the country becomes more polarized, warned former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday.
In a guest appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden, Clinton said he was not always optimistic about the future of the nation but said citizens should not respond to hatred with more hatred.
"I actually think there is a fair chance we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we make bad decisions," Clinton said on CBS. "I am not naive about this. I have been in a lot of fights. I have lost some and won a bunch. I have been elated and heartbroken. But I have never before been as worried about the structure of our democratic form of government. So far, every time we were faced with our own undoing, our conscience kicked in and we stepped away from the brink. And that is kind of what I think will happen here, but I don’t know when or how."
#2
Well, Bill, you and yours entered the Oligarchy in a couple decades ago. You're expressed concern is that the rubes are starting to notice. OK, what's the next Executive Decree Order coming from the White House today to cover their rear for their incompetency and overreach.
#6
So far, every time we were faced with our own undoing, our conscience kicked in and we stepped away from the brink. And that is kind of what I think will happen here, but I don’t know when or how."
Now that he isn’t president anymore, he makes his money pretending to be profound for those foolish enough to pay. I bet he wrinkled his brow to show deep thought when he said the above.
#9
Oh, he and his ilk WANT the US to lose the Republic and they want to rule what it becomes.
Yeah, he's talking about it now so people can get used to the idea.
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#10
Even with Bill Gates' infant blood infusions, I don't think Billy Jeff is gonna live to be anywhere near as old as Jimmuah Cahtah...
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#11
They're preparing the balloon drop already. What do they know that we don't?
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#12
Something before the mid-terms that suspends them, or makes them more vulnerable to fraud. Many in power now are all-in on the now or never nature of or political/cultural divide, and are terrified of what a Red Wave would empower in investigations, prosecutions and punishments.
#17
"I actually think there is a fair chance we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we make bad decisions,"
I agree with him entirely but I bet we disagree on which party is responsible for the growing authoritarianism.
[Townhall] I get that people don’t like the idea of scumbags murdering kids. I don’t either, which is why I want criminals prosecuted and cops in schools. And I understand the appeal of a process to take away the guns from people we would all agree are bad but who have not yet actually gone and become felons or certifiable crazies. I have friends who argue for these laws, confident that our rights will be protected by due process. But I do not share their faith; if the last few years has taught us anything it is not to put our trust in institutions to do their constitutional duty when it conflicts with their political preferences. But even if a fair process could be established, the idea of red flag laws is entirely based upon a flawed premise. The premise is that you can just take a right away because you think it’s a good idea. It’s hard to see the due process when someone being processed has done nothing wrong. That’s key – if they have done something wrong, there are already constitutionally sound ways to restrain them.
You don’t get to take people rights without convicting them of a crime, or showing they are nuts and need to be in the booby-hatch. There’s no special exception to the Constitution because ten invertebrate Republican senators want to “do something.” We already have well-established and constitutional ways of “doing something.” If someone is a convicted felon, he’s banned from having a gun. If someone is making threats, get a restraining order or, better yet, arrest him. If someone is crazy, then channel that old Van Halen album and 5150 him. But the Founders would look upon you if you told them “Hey, we think it’s cool to strip people of their sacred rights because someone complains about them and a judge is too scared to actually demand real evidence and risk letting him keep his rights,” and they would say, “Taketh ye head from inside your rear endeth, for thou art a fool.”
Red flag laws are ripe for abuse. You can tell because the left is slobbering to get them enacted. Do Dems arrest the myriad scumbags wandering the streets of Democrat cities? Do they prosecute them? No, and these animals commit an Uvalde every few days. If Dems cared about “gun crime,” they would arrest, charge, and lock-up gun criminals, but they don’t. They care about thought crimes – yours. These laws might be used to disarm a few nutballs, sure, but they will also be used against us when we dissent too much. We’ve seen how they use the power of government against political opponents like us – IRS targeting, FBI entrapment, selective prosecutions, to name a few – and why the hell would we give them a new weapon when they have abused the ones they already have in the service of the regime? Read the rest at the link
#1
Tighten up perjury laws. Make the penalty for any false swearing permanent ineligibility for any federal or state benefits, voting, jury duty or right to jury trial.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. About Russian literature. Well-known writer and literary historian Igor Petrovich Zolotussky answers questions from REGNUM news agency.
[REGNUM] Baku Today: Igor Petrovich, what do you think is the most important thing in Russian literature? What does she teach?
Igor Zolotussky: I think that the most important thing in Russian literature is its confession. No one can write, as Gogol said, "past himself." Everyone contributes to it their life, their experience. This begins with Derzhavin and continues in Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky.
Its other important property and lesson is the literature of philanthropy and conscientiousness, aggravated conscientiousness in the face of God and in the face of one's people.
Baku Today: What are the most important faces in Russian literature? What are they teaching us?
Igor Zolotussky: Russian literature teaches us frankness, sincerity, the inseparability of personal, private life and Russian history.
Take Eugene Onegin. What's this? A novel about Onegin and Tatyana? This is the story of Pushkin's inner growth. This is also evidenced by his remarks accompanying the fate of the heroes. And it is no coincidence that Pushkin at the end of the novel, touching on the defining thoughts of Onegin, writes the word Confession , moreover, he writes with a capital letter. Confession is present in all his creations.
Or "Hero of our time." The history of Lermontov's soul is openly visible in Pechorin.
Finally, Tyutchev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. We read in their writings the stories of our own souls.
At the same time, Russian literature is the Educator. Also capitalized. She brought up entire generations, including mine: both outstanding heroes and simple workers. This is the most important feature of our tradition, that literature should be in the first place in Russia, in high esteem. Russian people will always think so.
Baku Today: What are the most important conclusions from Russian literature that we can draw in relation to our days? What is the most important thing about her right now?
Igor Zolotussky: It is impossible to name any specific advice that Russian literature gives in order to solve the ripe problems of the day. It's all about its general influence, the comprehension of its spirit.
Since childhood, we get used, reading the classics, to the beautiful Russian language, which sounds like music and enters our souls. Having already matured, we think about how her characters live. And we want to participate in what happens to them: we take them so close to our hearts. And their hearts are full of compassion. Today it is in demand more than ever.
Baku Today: There is no doubt that Russian literature is alive. Or is there? Who are the main figures in Russian literature now?
Igor Zolotussky: In recent years, I have read little contemporary authors. Basically, I was busy with the same classics.
For several years in a row, we made films on the Kultura channel. Here are my heroes: Gogol, Karamzin, Bunin, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Turgenev, Nekrasov.
And plus more writers of the 20th century: Fedor Abramov, Viktor Astafiev, Vasil Bykov, Konstantin Simonov, Vladimir Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn.
But, despite the fact that I am not very familiar with modern Russian literature, I hope that it is alive. Because she inherited a powerful, wonderful legacy, which I mentioned above.
Baku Today: What should a writer be like if he wants to be a Russian writer? What should be a Russian reader?
Igor Zolotussky: As for the question of what a modern writer should be, I would like him to write in good Russian and give his reader at least some hope for the world. One thing you definitely cannot live without is without such hope.
In the reader, I hope for his sensitivity and thoughtfulness.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Peace has finally come to the liberated Mariupol. Shots and the roar of guns are not heard, only explosions of mine clearing are occasionally heard. Ukrainian troops have mined the territory for more than one year, so the process of getting rid of mines will not be quick. The war is gone from the city (hopefully forever), but have the problems disappeared?
No, a lot of problems remain - in most of the city there is no electricity, water supply and gas. Well, in the cold period, heat will obviously not come to all Mariupol houses. Are these problems being solved? Yes, but the process of completely rebuilding the city will take several years, given the extent of the destruction.
And what do the Ukrainian media say about this, which back in March unanimously claimed that Mariupol is better protected than the famous Fort Knox? Now these journalists have a new "song" - no one will restore the city, since the Russian budget will not pull such a feat. I would like to recall the restoration of the city of Grozny, which was destroyed during the Chechen war more than Mariupol. Now many European cities can envy the skyscrapers of this settlement.
Lies of the Ukrainian media number two. Specialists who came to the city (and Mariupol, as we remember, no one will restore) occupy the few surviving houses in the city, driving residents out onto the streets. Personally, I saw a large tent city in the village of Melekino (about ten kilometers from Mariupol), where employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry live. Lots of tents...
Each district of Mariupol will be restored by one of the Russian cities.
The central district of Zhovtnevy, where I lived, will be restored by the forces of St. Petersburg. Municipal equipment from St. Petersburg is present on Mariupol roads and streets in considerable quantities. At the moment (almost around the clock) garbage and debris are being removed, rubble is being sorted out, under which there are still bodies of people and, possibly, unexploded ordnance.
Along the way, commissions work in the city, which decide whether it is technically possible to repair the house or whether it needs to be demolished “under the root” and a modern high-rise building should be built in its place. And after that there will be a special map of the city, on which the picture of the upcoming work will be fully visible. But it is already clear that a lot of construction work is underway, and it began before the hostilities in Mariupol were fully completed ...
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] Yesterday there was an advance to the northeast of Slavyansk, the encirclement of enemy forces in the Novolugansk region (north of Svetlodarsk), the ring was partially closed in the Zolote region - only the road to Lisichansk remained under fire
Promotions are marked with red arrows. See the link for the map
Meanwhile, the wonderful revelations of the next whiners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
1. There are no contractors left in the unit - ALL ARE KILLED. Reservists and the Volkssturm remained, with which they scored the state.
2. There are no heavy weapons. There is no cover.
3. Uncleaned corpses of their own are still lying in positions, and we are talking about weeks.
4. Dissatisfied people are imprisoned for a month in a pre-trial detention center, and then they are thrown out into the field and they say “Do what you want.”
5. All such corpses - bullet.
6. The soldiers were driven to attack the positions of three Russian companies in the amount of 20 people. Many dead.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Captured American mercenaries Alexander Dryuke and Andy Hyun.
They were taken prisoner near Kharkov. This is the first confirmation of the capture of American mercenaries.
There is an opinion that they don’t talk about the dead in principle, but they start talking about the loss when the mercenaries are captured and they know that sooner or later they will be shown anyway.
[REGNUM] Another American “fighter against Russia” went missing on the territory of Ukraine, Ned Price , a spokesman for the US State Department, told reporters on June 16.
According to him, the person in question disappeared several weeks ago.
"I can’t talk about the specifics of this case. We understand that this person went to Ukraine to participate in hostilities. Unfortunately, we don't know all the details," Price said.
“We continue to urge US citizens in every possible way not to travel to Ukraine because of the great dangers posed by Russia,” the State Department spokesman added.
As REGNUM reported earlier, the British media previously announced two American Ukronazi mercenaries, 39-year-old Alexander Dryuk and 27-year-old Andy Hune, captured by the Russian military.
#1
The process is pretty straight forward.
If they had enlisted into the Ukraine military, they will fall under the Geneva convention for POW status. As should all the Ukraine military captured. If they did not, they will fall under spies and mercenaries as far as Geneva is concerned and Russia will use them as political tools or put them on trial and execute them. They had to know the cost of being captured.
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If they were nonofficial combatants, I can't see getting worked up over them and sure can't see the US gummint grabbing its ankles to get them out of the stew.
Of course, that will all happen. Media hair on fire in 3..2..1...
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#3
Being involved in war fighting is bad on several levels. Being involved in somebody elses war fighting really is asking for trouble.
#6
I actually heard Secretary of Energy Granholm use the term "war footing", and Biden is talking about the Defense Production Act. It sure seems like the administration thinks we are back in the Cold War.
WIKI citation: "The Defense Production Act of 1950 (Pub.L. 81–774) is a United States federal law enacted on September 8, 1950 in response to the start of the Korean War.[1] It was part of a broad civil defense and war mobilization effort in the context of the Cold War"
[TomLuongo] With the Fed raising by 75 bps yesterday I have to believe we’ve reached a major turning point in the War Against Davos. The deflation of asset prices and, most especially the Eurodollar markets is putting many other, over-leveraged central banks on a path towards bankruptcy.
There are a ton of moving parts, a lot of factions now warring against each other. When cartels break, the former members of the cartel always turn on each other. It was always going to be this way. Davos turned on its allies in the US commercial banking sector and they fought back.
Hard.
Everything I wrote about in my last post — SOFR/LIBOR spreads, US/German 10 year Spreads, Lagarde’s incompetence — were proven correct in the response yesterday by the markets to Powell’s hawkishness.
Davos has spent so long and so much money trying to convince us to ‘abandon all hope’ but it is they who now can do nothing but ‘enter here’ into our dragon’s den of asset deflation. The adjustment will be biblical. It will be painful.
And it didn’t have to be this way, but the solipsism and arrogance of evil people who have always known power and feel entitled to wield it in perpetuity is boundless.
Enjoy the rants and the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the very worst people in the world today.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Washington Examiner] The United States may cease to be a constitutional democracy if the country becomes more polarized, warned former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday.
