Comments on: NASA Satellites Can See California’s Wealth Transfer All The Way From Space

By: j. nop

j. nop — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:01:57 +0000

Billionaire Stewart Resnick owns the Kern Aquifer. He parties with Feinstein, Schwarzenegger and gets private deals to spray us with his pesticides here in Central Ca. Subsidies to chemical and industrial ag. are unsustainable and concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer, thus capturing our “elected” politicians, and ruining our democracy.

By: Freepony

Freepony — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:52:59 +0000

Let’s see, the water bond turns over publicly owned recourses, 48% of water exports, to private enterprise, i.e. the Westlands water agency, allows the agency to sell it back to the public. Calls for a urban water reduction target of 20% by 2020 but effectively twilights the mandate on Jan.01,2021. Asks the Delta Stewardship Council, the same agency which increased delta exports by 1.3 m.a.f. this decade, to police environmental protections within the ecosystem. Allows a change to the diversion point on the Central Valley Project, and increases flow as needed thus allowing the Governor’s Delta Vision Process to proceed with its mandate of the cheapest and best plan to save the Delta by moving water around it. You and I will be paying the 1 billion a year bond service, while buying subsidized water at premium rates from billionaire agribusiness tycoons. Recreation will not be a problem because former state parks will be reduced to salt marshes and poisoned tidal flats not needing maintence. We won’t need fishing licenses or hunting licenses anymore because endangered species rulings will be overturned to protect agriculture. And finally when the selenium rich central valley is taken out of production along with the stagnant delta cesspool we can stand with our fellow Californians and say well done our beloved “Golden State.”

By: Necronomic Justice

Necronomic Justice — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:02:00 +0000

@10, and @11 And I would add some Boots Riely for a sound tract.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAaDVJ1OWbA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2jcGbYbQo

By: Expat in BY

Expat in BY — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:10:12 +0000

I’d further Proletariat’s suggestion by putting the astroturf golf course in a nuclear test range… and restart atmospheric nuclear testing in the range shortly after.

By: proletariat

proletariat — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:48:58 +0000

Or, you could just force all the cigar chomping rich assholes to play their silly little ball game on astroturf instead of hundreds of gallons of over-irrigated water in the middle of a desert.

I think my idea is a little easier to implement.

By: Donald Canaday

Donald Canaday — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:50:25 +0000

heres another way to make rain.first get a b-52 pane and oad it up with an machine,that keep moisture and humidy in super computers cool,like version called”enterprise”.secound,after dispursing an moisture,spray with another b-52, dry ice into first dispersal.third create a static discharge of ectricity into first two mixtures and pray that you have got rain mopisture…

By: proletariat

proletariat — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:18:03 +0000

I don’t disagree with giving farmers first crack at water, but this is just ridiculous. Of course, we wouldn’t even be having this crisis in the first place if rich white assholes didn’t see it fit to have nice green lawns in the middle of a desert and 18 golf courses, each of which consumes more water than a 1000 acre farm.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:37:27 +0000

i am willing to suck turds out of your bunghole, oh great one

By: eric

eric — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:17:47 +0000

“She’s my daughter!”
(slap)
“She’s my sister!”
(slap)
“She’s my daughter AND my sister!”

By: brian

brian — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:57 +0000

“Its Chinatown Jake”

By: Expat in BY

Expat in BY — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:09:02 +0000

“We farm, you eat, any questions?”

Yeah, you waste water, Americans eat someone else’s products, get a real job.

I can see in 20 years these same bloodsuckers holding signs that say: “We sell you water, you drink, any questions?”

Keep up the good reporting Yasha.

By: Rubicon

Rubicon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:43:31 +0000

If farming for cotton and rice stopped in Caif, then I reckon most of the water wasting would be handled since those two crops use enormous amounts of water. And cotton is also huge with pesticide use. And cutting off subsidies, like Charles Schwab gets for growing rice and having a “waterfowl protection area” on his extensive Delta acreage. So, when do the guillotine-ings start?

By: hmr80

hmr80 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:24:19 +0000

Here’s a good book on the Boswell’s cotton empire and how they drained Tulare Lake (the largest freshwater lake west of Mississippi).

The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

By: Anomynous

Anomynous — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:44:31 +0000

“sued the government for “taking” what they claimed was their private property.”

What a bunch of bullsh8t. Anything thats overnment subsidized should not be considered private property.

Pay in full the market price of water with your own money then its your private property. Until then piss off.

Fuwggin welfare queens taking handouts taking money from the productive class.