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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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RE: YOUR DROUGHT YOU ARE ALLOWING TO HAPPEN
Experts: California drought, fire crisis man-made
Experts: California drought, fire crisis man-made
The 'political class' has 'done absolutely nothing – zero – to prepare the state'
The California water-shortage crisis, largely man-made, according to experts, is getting so bad in some areas that people are facing what is being described as “Third World” conditions.
With the severe drought now stretching into its fourth year, reservoirs are running dry and wildfires are burning thousands of homes. And the human and economic toll is growing fast.
Fox News reported on Monday a Monterey County fire had claimed another life and another 162 homes, pushing the total of loss of homes in recent weeks to more than 1,400.
Reports said more than 5,000 fires had burned six million acres already, and there have been several fatalities.
More fires were breaking out, and more evacuations were being ordered at the time.
Tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars have already evaporated. And with no end in sight, there may still be years of suffering — and painful decisions — waiting ahead.
Indeed, some experts say this could be just the beginning, with some worst-case scenarios foreseeing mass migrations out of the state if relief doesn’t come soon.
But it did not have to be this way. And sensible policies could help protect the state going forward, a number of experts tell WND.
Effects: From nuisance to disaster
For some Californians, the drought is mostly an inconvenience, with bureaucrats and politicians demanding that the public take shorter showers, flush toilets less often, and turn off the taps while brushing teeth, for example.
For others, especially in the state’s vast agricultural sector, the water shortage is proving devastating.
Andrew Lockman with the Office of Emergency Services for Tulare County, an agriculture powerhouse and one of the most severely impacted areas of the state, spoke of “Third-World-type conditions” now afflicting some families there as wells run dry.
Some farmers are already going under, workers are losing jobs, wells are drying up, more than half-a-million acres are lying fallow, production costs are soaring, and more pain is expected – potentially much more.
“With each year that California suffers below-average precipitation, the impacts on California farmers and ranchers have become more significant,” said Dave Kranz, communications manager for the California Farm Bureau Federation.
The impacts, of course, are not evenly distributed. After all, California is a large state with varying conditions in different regions.
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Particularly impacted with the most severe effects has been the San Joaquin Valley – home to some of the most productive farmland on the planet. That includes Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties.
“Those regions are particularly dependent on delivery of water from state and federal projects that have seen their allocations slashed due to a combination of drought and environmental laws that reserve water for protected fish species, and because farmers there often have less reliable sources of groundwater to make up the difference when surface water supplies are cut,” Kranz told WND in a statement.
Almond farmers have been forced to uproot their trees because they don’t have access to water during California’s drought
For now, with demand for California’s commodities still strong, high prices have helped ease the brunt on many farmers faced with soaring water-related costs from activities such as drilling more wells and pumping more water from deeper under the ground. But if markets turn down, the impacts could worsen quickly.
And despite record-high crop receipts in 2014, the fact that production costs are increasing due to water shortages – 2014 also featured record-high production costs for farmers and ranchers, according to the USDA Economic Research Service – means that farmers’ net earnings have decreased, Kranz said.
“California farmers and ranchers, their employees and the agricultural economy as a whole have certainly suffered during the four-year drought,” he continued. “Everyone is hopeful that the coming autumn and winter will bring plentiful rain and snowfall to help recovery begin, but we also know it will take several years of strong precipitation to replenish above-ground reservoirs and underground aquifers that have been depleted the past few years.”
The economic price tag is staggering and growing by the minute, with a recent study from the University of California, Davis, estimating the 2015 cost to the state at close to $3 billion.
A UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences analysis found that the water shortage was squeezing about 30 percent more workers and crop land out of production compared with 2014.
More than 20,000 jobs will be lost in 2015 due to the shortages, the researchers found. Some communities were especially hard hit, with wells running dry and unemployment soaring.
Another study on the water shortage, conducted by researchers at Fresno State University, found even more severe impacts, predicting as much as $3.3 billion in agricultural losses alone.
Effects on public health are also evident, with increased instances of Valley Fever, West Nile Virus and diarrheal illness that experts blame on the water crisis.
Potential increases in mental health issues, including anxiety, stress and depression, are also linked to the shortages, researchers said.
The Fresno State study found that some agricultural counties are already seeing reductions in household income and even migrations of workers to other areas.
Even beyond California, Americans may start feeling the impact of the shortages reflected in higher produce prices.
For the first time since 1977, the state has placed drastic restrictions on farmers’ water usage, even though they have water rights dating back more than 100 years.
And more cutbacks could be coming soon, officials have warned.
A man-made disaster?
But none of this had to happen.
Environmental, water and policy experts who spoke with WND were unanimous in blaming the increasingly severe water shortage on man – not nature.
“The drought came to California courtesy of mother nature,” explained Bonner Cohen, senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, adding that California’s climate, generally speaking, is arid or semi-arid.
“Mother nature serves up droughts to California on a very regular basis,” he said.
“Knowing this, one would think the political class in California would prepare for those droughts,” he told WND. “Yet, if you look at what the political class in California has done, the one thing that jumps out at you is that they have done absolutely nothing – zero – to prepare the state for something they knew was going to come sooner or later.”
Cohen, who also serves as a senior policy analyst with the environmental group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, said a basic function of government is to prepare for events that can reasonably be expected.
The USDA reveals that tiny segments of the state are “abnormally dry,” and those are the best conditions in the state. Except for small portions in the far northwest and far southeast, most of the state is in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought.
The most recent figures show more than 99 percent of the state in abnormally dry conditions, or worse. A full 71 percent is suffering “extreme” drought conditions, and 46 percent is considered “exceptional.”
Yet in California, policymakers have not allowed the construction of a single new reservoir in more than 30 years to store water for emergencies such as the current drought – a fact seized upon by several political leaders this year as the shortages intensified.
“Given the climatological history of California, policymakers had to be aware that droughts would come,” Cohen explained, saying the state should have prepared additional storage capacity, but it didn’t.
Secondly, policymakers expended a tremendous amount of time, resources and water in “what is ultimately a doomed effort to save a tiny two-inch-long fish known as the Delta Smelt,” Cohen said.
Citing researchers and biologists, he said experts have concluded that nothing can be done to save the fish.
“It’s eventually going to go the way of most species since life came along and disappear,” he said, adding that, ironically, the Delta Smelt is an invasive species.
In accordance with the controversial federal Endangered Species Act, Cohen said policymakers diverted an enormous amount of water into the San Francisco Bay in the doomed effort to save the tiny fish – all at the expense of California’s human residents.
“They continue to do that and are doing it as we speak,” Cohen added.
Pointing to Israel, widely regarded as a global water superpower and a leading example of sensible water policies, Cohen said California could have taken steps to facilitate the expansion of desalinization capabilities as well.
But California’s regulatory regime is so hostile, and energy prices have been artificially boosted so high on the basis of supposed environmental concerns, that such efforts have been largely impractical and uneconomic thus far.
Located
at the base of the Sierra foothills in Northern California’s Placer, El
Dorado, and Sacramento Counties, Folsom Lake Reservoir is one of
California’s most popular recreation areas with more than 2.5 million
visitors annually. Releases from the reservoir, managed by the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Central Valley Project, go to the
nearby American River for urban use, flood control, hydropower, fish and
wildlife, and water quality purposes
Global warming vs. policy
As the drought intensified, the blame game become more heated as well.
GOP presidential candidate and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina made headlines in April by blaming progressives and environmentalists for the water crisis.
“Droughts are nothing new in California, but right now, 70 percent of California’s rainfall washes out to sea because liberals have prevented the construction of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades, during a period in which California’s population has doubled,” she said. “This is the classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.”
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who represents the 22nd congressional district in the Central Valley, also blamed environmentalists and the control they have over California policy.
“The environmental groups did not expect to run everyone out of water, but they got greedy, shut down the whole system, and ran the whole damned state dry,” he fumed, pointing to how much water washes out into the ocean each year. “If we had stored water and built three new dams, the state would be flush with water.”
The federal government has indicated that none of California’s major reservoirs is in good condition. Shasta Lake is at only 37 percent of capacity and, except for Castaic at 38 percent, is the fullest in the state.
Lake Oroville is at 30 percent, Folsom at 19 percent, Don Pedro at 32 percent, Exchequer at 9 percent, Pine Flat at 12 percent, Perris at 36 percent, Millerton at 34, San Luis at 21, New Melones at 12 and Trinity at 24 percent.
Indeed, aside from a few politicians and environmentalists determined to blame global warming or climate change – even NOAA denies climate change is to blame – virtually everyone agrees that the deepening crisis is at least in part man-made.
“We are being told that this is further evidence of climate change, formerly called global warming,” Cohen said. “One look at the climatological record will debunk that completely.”
In the 20th century, he said, California experienced eight severe droughts. The most severe was from 1928 to 1937.
A worse drought struck the state in the early- to mid-1860s, he added.
“These cannot have been caused by man’s emissions of greenhouse gases, because they weren’t there,” Cohen said, adding that there’s no evidence man’s emissions drive climate change anyway.
“The climate in California is doing exactly what it has always done – serving up very severe droughts,” he added.
Policymakers and interest groups “created an absolute mess, and it never had to happen,” Cohen said.
“California is not suffering from water shortage,” he continued. “It lacks distribution system to get water where it is needed. It failed to build storage capacity. It has wasted unfathomable amounts of water resources to save a fish that can’t be saved.”
“What you have here is a complete failure on the part of policymakers – the Assembly, governors going back decades, and others – to prepare the state for something they knew was going to happen,” Cohen concluded.
Other Causes
In a 2010 paper for the “Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education,” agricultural and resource economics scholar David Zetland, Ph.D., concluded that “business-as-usual is over” when it comes to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a crucial source of fresh water for much of California.
He was right in more ways than one.
But the water-policy expert, who earned his doctorate at UC Davis, has a somewhat different view concerning the various causes of the water shortage, telling WND California already has “too many dams.”
“Additional storage is not necessary, as current storage is now underused,” said Zetland, who runs a blog called called Aguanomics, which focuses on the political economy of water.
What is missing, he said, is better accounting and systems for transferring water between where it’s located and where it’s needed.
“Groundwater is unmanaged and untracked,” he said. “We need systems for allocating the water we’ve got.”
Blaming “outdated institutions for managing drought,” Zetland explained: “Nature makes a drought, man makes a shortage.”
“The government has promised too much water to too many people and places, and has no mechanism for deciding who should get it in a shortage,” he said. “Senior/junior rights are supposed to work, but they are poorly accounted for.”
However, the “worst” water policies are those that subsidize sprawl and irrigation, he said, citing cheap water prices from government suppliers and subsidies for drilling wells as examples.
Zetland, who now serves as a professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands, has studied water policy for more than a decade. He has also written two books on the subject: “Living with Water Scarcity” and “The End of Abundance: Economic Solutions to Water Scarcity.”
Asked about California’s future amid the crisis, he said, in the short term, lots of money will be wasted on inefficient emergency actions.
In the medium term, the environment will be damaged as private parties take water from “the commons.”
And over the long term, people and businesses will likely have to leave California.
Smiling, he recommended Detroit and other areas that have abundant water supplies as potential destinations.
“It can get worse,” he added.
Even those pinning their hopes on the expected weather event El Niño may be disappointed, because even large amounts of rainfall “doesn’t fix anything.”
“It may cause floods, and additional supplies won’t help if people keep watering lawns,” Zetland noted.
Solutions: Markets and prices
California officials have responded to the shortage by implementing various rationing schemes, spying on resident usage through “smart meters” and fining citizens or businesses that use more than their allocated share.
Policy experts, though, lambasted the governmental approach as part of the problem.
As for solutions, Zetland and other experts support the introduction of more market forces in the distribution and allocation of scarce water resources.
Among other policies for “wholesale” water, H2O used for agriculture and the environment, he proposed reforming water rights, tracking and limiting the use of ground water, and allowing water markets to develop.
As far as retail water, or water used by urban consumers, Zetland proposed elimination of laws requiring green lawns, for instance, and hiking the prices of city water so demand falls in proportion to supply.
Of course, all of that would mean higher prices for farms, food and households. But Zetland said that would be a good thing, considering the alternatives.
“I prefer higher prices over regulations because people can find their own ways to adapt. Some will do nothing, but the overall impact is lower demand,” said Zetland.
He pointed to Singapore as a leading example of sensible urban water markets, praising its robust supply-side engineering projects complemented by “sound demand-side management and incentives.”
Another shining star when it comes to water, he said, is Australia, where, among other key differences with California, water rights are separated from land and can be traded in the market.
Without adopting sensible policies, California, and even the rest of America, will eventually see more water crises going forward, Zetland warned.
Learning from experience: Chile leads the way
Another water-policy expert, Fredrik Segerfeldt, wrote a book, “Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World’s Water Crisis,” on how to deal with precisely the sort of problems California is currently facing.
In his comprehensive review of why water shortages still plague humanity despite the fact that the planet has abundant supplies – about 8 percent of the water available for human consumption is actually used – Segerfeldt concluded that bad government policies are the primary problem.
To illustrate that fact, he examined, among other examples, the wettest place on earth – Cherrapunji, India. Despite the most abundant water supplies, Cherrapunji suffers from chronic water shortages due to bad government policy.
But while Segerfeldt’s work focused chiefly on how to get clean, safe water to the poorest one billion people – potentially saving millions of lives in the process – the conclusions are just as applicable to California or any other place.
Simply stated, privatization works, Segerfeldt said. And economic laws hold true in California just as much as they do in Cherrapunji.
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“California should overhaul its approach to water and introduce various market mechanisms,” Segerfeldt told WND.
“Subsidies, government involvement and too low prices are the root causes of the present crisis,” explained Segerfeldt, adding that the current crisis is also a result of the “tragedy of the commons” in which communally controlled resources are exploited.
But the solutions are already available, and have been used successfully in regions as diverse as Africa, Asia and South America.
“Private water rights and trade in such rights are efficient ways of safeguarding water and making sure we get the most value out of each drop of water,” Segerfeldt said.
He pointed to Chile as “probably the best example of how reforms in this direction helped save water and develop agriculture.”
When the government of Chile introduced private ownership of water in the 1980s, water supplies grew faster than in any other country, he observed.
“Thirty years ago, only 27 percent of Chileans in rural areas and 63 percent of urban communities had steady access to safe water,” Segerfeldt wrote in his 2005 book, “Water for Sale.” “Today’s figures are 94 and 99 percent, respectively – the highest for all the world’s medium-income countries.”
The reforms also led to drastically more efficient agriculture and lower water prices.
In other words, everybody wins – especially the poor – except the laid-off government bureaucrats formerly trying to oversee water.
Separation of water and states
Wayne Crews Jr. is vice president for policy at the nonprofit Competitive Enterprise Institute, which focuses on environmental policy and other subjects. Crews summed up his solution in five simple words: “separation of water and state.”
In 2013, Crews took his argument to Congress, testifying before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power that the real answer to water shortages, especially in the dry Western states, is to get the government at all levels out of the way.
“No one should be surprised in the 21st century when political management of water, and all its hostility to market pricing, results in shortages,” Crews told WND.
“The answer is the ‘separation of water and state,’ and market pricing in particular, but politicians lack the inclination, let alone vocabulary, to make that happen,” he added.
As a free society becomes wealthier, Crews continued, cross-industry infrastructure creation to bring about abundant water supplies should become ever easier, not harder.
“The vastly poorer America of 100 years ago built overlapping, redundant infrastructure,” he said. “So if we can’t do it today, shortages happen because of man-made policies, not genuine drought.”
Like other experts, Crews said water resources “should be better integrated into the property-rights, wealth-creating sector, an evolution toward abundance and larger-scale free enterprise long-since derailed not just in water policy, but elsewhere like in electromagnetic spectrum, electricity and transportation grids.
“Infrastructure can take countless forms when price signals, which are indispensable, let us know where to invest,” he said. “Better reservoir storage, pipelines and canals, trucking and transport, and crude oil carriers can aid supply and lessen artificial drought.”
Among other possibilities, Crews pointed to improving water trades between cities, farmers and private conservation campaigns.
Citing findings from a Competitive Enterprise Institute report, Crews also said shoring up existing infrastructure could reduce waste that now depletes almost 20 percent of the annual U.S. supply.
“All these can supplement sourcing alternatives including drilling; gray and wastewater treatment and reclamation; stormwater harvesting and surface storage,” he added.
The primary challenge, then, is “to discover the true value of water itself, to integrate modern water resources further into the market process and the sophisticated pricing, property rights, and capital market systems of the modern world,” he said.
“The good news is, water is not getting more scarce overall,” he concluded. “The bad news is, management and allocation of that constant supply does matter, and those in power inevitably foster ‘Declarations of Dependence’ on the state when it comes to infrastructure, and maintain a hostility toward free market pricing.”
Federal and state relief urgent
As debates over how to handle water heat up across California, long-term solutions are probably a long way away, experts say.
But there are some actions that the federal and state government could take right now to provide some much-needed relief to the people of California, according to Cohen, of the National Center for Public Policy Research and C-FACT.
Ironically, though, many of those steps involve reversing previous decisions that contributed to the crisis in the first place, making it politically much more difficult for policymakers who often refuse to acknowledge or correct mistakes.
At the state level, Cohen said California should get rid of its “renewable-energy mandate” purporting to require that some arbitrary percent of the state’s energy needs be met with so-called “renewable” sources – solar, wind and so on – by some arbitrary date.
“As long as they keep trying this, they’re going to drive up electricity costs, creating an even more hostile environment for things like desalinization and other energy-intensive options to expand water supplies,” he said.
Another option California policymakers could exploit, “but probably won’t,” is to expand the state’s network of reservoirs.
“Even one or two more could do amazing things to help alleviate California’s struggling residents,” Cohen said.
He also criticized the state for squandering massive amounts of resources on problems that “do not exist” – the multi-billion dollar “high-speed rail” scheme, for example – instead of focusing on problems that do exist, such as the crippling water shortage.
At the federal level, Cohen said policymakers could also work to help California, and other states, deal with the water crisis and numerous other government-created problems.
The Endangered Species Act, which forced California to bend over backward to save the apparently doomed Delta Smelt, for example, is an “absolute monstrosity” and a “monumental failure,” he said.
While ostensibly aimed at helping to save species, it was really designed to be a “land-control apparatus” in which federal bureaucrats impose draconian restrictions on property owners under the guise of protecting some species of plant or animal.
“As long as that law, which is very rigidly written, is on the books, when an emergency such as severe drought comes along, and that law covers areas where the drought is in effect, that law will keep certain necessary measures from being taken in the name of protecting some species,” Cohen said.
There are much easier, cheaper and effective ways of protecting species, he added.
Cohen also blasted the National Environmental Policy Act, noting that a project such as the Hoover Dam could never have been built today due to the statute and the “straight-jacket” it imposes.
“We have imposed on ourselves, just from those two statutes alone, restrictions that encumber our ability to deal with emergencies when they come along,” he said.
To fix it, though, requires action at the federal level, including an act of Congress.
What’s next?
None of the experts who spoke with WND sounded optimistic about policymakers undertaking the reforms they say are necessary to deal with the water crisis.
Instead, at least for the foreseeable future, officials at all levels are likely to continue doing what they have been doing – all-but ensuring more crises going forward.
“Evidence is overwhelming that policymakers are not sensitive to the suffering their policies have produced,” Cohen said, lambasting California’s “gigantically bloated public sector” at the state and local level. “They’re not about to blame themselves for a problem they are complicit in creating – the political class in California never takes responsibility for anything.”
It will be especially tough in California, he added, citing the state’s bizarre political scene, where so much of the wealth and power comes from the “la la lands” of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco-type urban dwellers and money managers, all of whom “live in a bubble and are largely unaware of reality outside the bubble.”
“Sometimes the only way to bounce back is to hit rock bottom,” Cohen said. “California is heading that way fast. It is becoming a basket case.”
“When the house of cards comes crashing down, maybe these people will come to their senses,” he said.
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http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/experts-california-drought-fire-crisis-man-made/
September 23, 2015. False flag nuclear attack in US?
REMEMBER OBAMA'S EARLIER STATEMENT?
SPECIFICALLY ABOUT MANHATTAN NY?
SEPTEMBER 23 2015
FALSE FLAG NUCLEAR ATTACK
IN US??
Monday, September 21, 2015 6:00 PM
D wrote:
Here you will see the aborted 2013 SyFy Channel drama titled REWIND in which a nuclear bomb is set to explode in Manhattan.
This concerns me -- that they decided not to broadcast it after expending such effort to produce this drama. What compounds the importance of this subtle televised warning is that 'president' Obama stated something which we all must never forget. He stated:
"I'm more conCERNed with a nuclear bomb going off in Manhattan."
I wonder if the date of 'president' Obama's statement might be subtly relevant to this perceived threat.
D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1aifunETmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_tn3LVSSGV4
TSA Agent Stole Passenger’s Money at Checkpoint, Police Say
(The Court can Claim that the
Federal Reserve Notes do NOT belong to the passenger, and therefore
there is no case that the passenger's Money was stolen!)
TSA Agent Stole Passenger’s Money at Checkpoint, Police Say
TSA agent arrested and charged with petit larceny and possession of stolen property
Joe Bangay, 37, was processing passengers at Terminal 1 around 10:30 p.m. Saturday when he swiped $61 in cash out of the passenger’s wallet, according to police.
When the victim noticed his cash missing, he immediately alerted Port Authority police and filed a complaint, sources said.
PAPD officers reviewed security footage and watched as the victim placed the wallet in a basket and laid it on the conveyor belt of the X-ray machine.
Read more
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-agent-stole-passengers-money-at-checkpoint-police-say/
Millions May Still Be Out There From '70s Murder
Millions May Still Be Out There From '70s Murder
FBI agent investigating heiress's murder may have lifted cash: reporter
(Newser)
–
During the last few months of her life, Marjorie Jackson became wary of
keeping her inherited fortune in the bank, so she withdrew $8.6 million
and stashed it in garbage bags, drawers, and toolboxes all over her
Indianapolis home, the Indianapolis Star
reports. And she may have had even more squirreled away around the
house, possibly up to $15 million altogether, per an attorney who was a
deputy prosecutor at the time. But when the heiress was murdered in
1977, her killers took only about $3 million of it ($1.7 million of it
was found buried in the Arizona desert) and about $5 million was
recovered at the home, leading to the question: Is more of Jackson's
money still out there? An 81-year-old reporter
who's been nominated for two Pulitzers thinks maybe, that an FBI agent
assigned to the case may have lifted it, and that the FBI may have
covered the whole thing up to save its reputation.
The
story is a fascinating one with plenty of curiosities, the Star
reports. One is Jackson herself, a recluse who left a place setting for
Jesus in her dining room and gifts scattered around her home labeled
"To God from Marjorie." The two convicted of killing her were an odd
couple, too, with one described by the ex-prosecutor as a "hip,
inner-city black," the other an "ignorant hillbilly." But reporter Don
Devereux is most intrigued by the info he uncovered while digging into
the case, including financial and property files he obtained from the
FBI that suggest a now-deceased agent may have skimmed some of the cash
from the desert dig (or from another location harboring more money),
funneled it into a Swiss bank account, and then used it years later to
buy real estate. "I'm not accusing the FBI agent of anything, but it
sounds like there could be something to it," Jackson's 69-year-old
nephew tells the Star. (Read about the puzzling case here.)http://www.newser.com/story/213222/millions-may-still-be-out-there-from-70s-murder.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_home
Brookvale Ski Park moves to mandatory helmets
Brookvale Ski Park moves to mandatory helmets
CBC – 17 minutes ago
CBC - Brookvale Ski Park moves to mandatory helmets
Brookvale
Provincial Ski Park will introduce a mandatory helmet policy for all
users of the downhill facility for the coming ski season, says Heath
MacDonald, the minister responsible for P.E.I.'s provincial parks.
"We want to ensure that all users of Brookvale's downhill
facility enjoy their experience and at the same time have some level of
protection against head injury," said MacDonald in a news release.The province has previously balked at making helmet use mandatory, saying there were no models approved for ski use by the Canadian Standards Association.
In 2011 it announced it was stepping up education campaigns.
The province noted very few
ski areas in North America have mandatory helmet policies, but recent
legislation passed in Nova Scotia, and new mandatory policies at another
hill in the region helped encourage the province to institute a new
policy at Brookvale.
The move comes as welcome news to Ken Murnaghan, president of the Brain Injury Association of P.E.I."I think it's great, you know. It's something that we have been fighting for, trying to enforce mandatory helmet use on Brookvale ski hill," said Murnaghan.
"I would have liked to see the government go a little further in making helmets mandatory on all ski hills. It's not just Brookvale that skiers go to to ski, you know, and tobogganing and whatnot."
Still Murnaghan says the mandatory policy at Brookvale is a step in the right direction.
Brookvale will invest in additional rental helmets ahead of the upcoming season.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brookvale-ski-park-moves-mandatory-154922128.html
U.S. Fuels War In Yemen, by Stephen Lendman (FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE v. ARAB SPRING)
U.S. Fuels War In Yemen, by Stephen Lendman (FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE v. ARAB SPRING)
September 20, 2015
Yemen is Obama’s war – cold-blooded genocidal slaughter and mass destruction, planned long before conflict began in late March, using Saudi Arabia, UAE, other Gulf states and Egypt to do his dirty work.
Terror bombing residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools and other non-military related targets continues.
US-Saudi enforced blockade prevents enough food, medical supplies, fuel, clean water and other essentials from reaching desperate people in need. Human Rights Watch said what’s ongoing “may amount to starvation of civilians as a weapon of warfare” – genocide by deprivation.
According to Save the Children’s Mark Kaye, “(a)t the moment we only have enough fuel in the north and center of the country for the next six weeks.” Hospitals still operating lack fuel to run to run generators “for their work.”
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien calls the scale of human suffering in Yemen “almost incomprehensible.”
More than 20 million Yemenis may perish from hunger, thirst and/or lack of medical treatment for serious injuries and diseases.
Western media are dismissive – largely ignoring an increasing US-created holocaust. Near silence substitutes for what demands daily headlines and condemnation of Obama’s latest imperial project – to destroy Yemeni sovereignty and return US-controlled puppet leadership to power, no matter the cost in lives lost, vast destruction and unspeakable human misery.
Official casualty numbers way understate the human toll. True figures are multiples higher than reported. Victims suffer out of sight and mind – mostly noncombatant civilian men, women and children in harm’s way.
Death and injury tolls rise daily. People are dying from lack of enough food to eat, thirst and medical treatment for serious health issues – likely many thousands already, maybe millions before conflict ends.
On September 15, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng and Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect Jennifer Welsh “expressed concern at the ever increasing impact on civilians of the ongoing conflict in Yemen, and the virtual silence of the international community about the threat to populations.”
“Unless there is a serious commitment of the parties to find a political solution to the conflict that will end the violence and ensure humanitarian access to all populations, without discrimination, the situation is likely to degenerate further,” they explained.
Major crimes of war and against humanity are being committed daily. Civilians are indiscriminately being slaughtered.
“The (UN) Special Advisers reminded national authorities of their primary responsibility to protect the Yemeni population. (T)he international community has a responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”
Ongoing mass slaughter and human suffering are largely ignored. The appalling toll on Yemeni civilians increases daily – exacerbated by Riyadh’s use of banned chemical weapons and cluster bombs.
UNICEF reports eight children killed or maimed daily. The true figure is likely multiples more, as well acute malnutrition taking a devastating toll on millions Yemenis of all ages.
Britain is complicit with Obama’s war – selling Saudi Arabia deadly weapons like Washington. Days earlier, Oxfam CEO Mark Goldring said Yemen “descended into a humanitarian disaster putting its people at risk of famine, and the UK is materially involved through its export of arms and military support to the bombing campaign.”
“It is time the government stopped supporting this war and put every possible effort into bringing an end to the carnage” it’s fueling – “causing unbearable human suffering.”
“The UK successfully lobbied hard over many years for a UN Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the arms trade which came into being last year.”
“This government has incorporated the treaty into national law, yet at the first test of the new law it has turned a blind eye to mounting evidence of potential misuse of its weapons and support.”
Jeremy Corbyn chairs Britain’s Stop the War Coalition. It issued a strongly worded statement last spring, shortly after US orchestrated, Saudi-led terror bombing began, saying:
“The Stop the War Coalition condemns the British government’s support for the Saudi-led attack on Yemen. This war is a further destabilising act of aggression in the Middle East, which risks embroiling the region and its peoples in a still wider war.”
“Saudi Arabia is now playing a leading part in almost every anti-democratic development in the Middle East, including joining in the current Anglo-American bombardment in Iraq, We repeat our long-standing demand that Britain end its alliance with the dictatorial and oppressive Saudi regime, and cease supplying it with arms.”
“This present conflict in Yemen reflects the determination of both Saudi Arabia and the western powers to destroy the democratic potential of the Arab Spring in one country after another.”
“Only the people of Yemen can resolve the crisis in that country and decide their own future, and their independence and territorial integrity must be fully respected.”
Bernie Sanders supports Washington’s war machine – refusing to condemn ongoing mass slaughter and destruction, ignoring the growing holocaust in Yemen. Instead, he urges greater Saudi involvement in regional conflict theaters – more slaughter, destruction and human misery than already.
All Republican and Democrat presidential aspirants support US hegemonic ambitions – color revolutions and genocidal wars the main ways to achieve it.
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Star Trek: The Original Series What Are Little Girls Made Of?
(Watch here for what Androids,
clones, are made from and this is 49 years ago!)
Star Trek: The Original Series What Are Little Girls Made Of?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/283805#i0,p4,d0
(20
Oct. 1966)
Star Date: 2712.4
Volkswagen Emission Scandal Widens: 11 Million Cars Affected
Volkswagen Emission Scandal Widens: 11 Million Cars Affected
Investors crush Volkswagen shares as company sets aside $7.3 billion to address software that manipulates emissions tests
The startling admission instantly makes the crisis one of the most expensive automotive scandals in recent memory.
The crisis also threatens to upend the company on its rapid path to becoming the world’s largest automaker. Volkswagen had seized the title from Toyota for the first six months of 2015.
“This could damage the Volkswagen brand globally for years to come,” said former automotive marketing executive Peter De Lorenzo, blogger at Autoextremist.com, in an interview. “Trust and belief in the brand has been broken.”
Read more
http://www.infowars.com/volkswagen-emission-scandal-widens-11-million-cars-affected/
There Are Indications That A Major Financial Event In Germany Could Be Imminent
There Are Indications That A Major Financial Event In Germany Could Be Imminent
According to disturbing new intel that I have received, a major financial event in Germany could be imminent
According to disturbing new intel that I have received, a major financial event in Germany could be imminent. Now when I say imminent, I do not mean to suggest that it will happen tomorrow. But I do believe that we have entered a season of time when another “Lehman Brothers moment” may occur. Most observers tend to regard Germany as the strong hub that is holding the rest of Europe together economically, but the truth is that serious trouble is brewing under the surface. As I write this, the German DAX stock index is down close to 20 percent from the all-time high that was set back in April, and there are lots of signs of turmoil at Germany’s largest bank. There are very few banks in the world that are more prestigious or more influential than Deutsche Bank, and it has been making headlines for all of the wrong reasons recently.
Just like we saw with Lehman Brothers, banks that are “too big to fail” don’t suddenly collapse overnight. The truth is that there are always warning signs in advance if you look closely enough.
In early 2014, shares of Deutsche Bank were trading above 50 dollars a share. Since that time, they have fallen by more than 40 percent, and they are now trading below 29 dollars a share.
It is common knowledge that the corporate culture at Deutsche Bank is deeply corrupt, and the bank has been exceedingly reckless in recent years.
If you are exceedingly reckless and you win all the time, that is okay. Unfortunately for Deutsche Bank, they have increasingly been on the losing end of things.
Prior to the “sudden collapse” of Lehman Brothers on September 15th, 2008, there had been media reports of mass layoffs at the firm. To give you just a couple of examples, CNBC reported on this on March 10th, 2008 and the New York Times reported on this on August 28th, 2008.
When big banks start getting into serious trouble, this is what they do. They start getting rid of staff. That is why the massive job cuts that Deutsche Bank just announced are so troubling…
Deutsche Bank aims to cut roughly 23,000 jobs, or about one quarter of total staff, through layoffs mainly in technology activities and by spinning off its PostBank division, financial sources said on Monday.Deutsche Bank has also been facing mounting legal troubles. The following is a brief excerpt from a recent Zero Hedge article…
That would bring the group’s workforce down to around 75,000 full-time positions under a reorganization being finalised by new Chief Executive John Cryan, who took control of Germany’s biggest bank in July with the promise to cut costs.
Cryan presented preliminary details of the plan to members of the supervisory board at the weekend. A spokesman for the bank declined comment.
The bank, which has paid out more than $9 billion over the past three years alone to settle legacy litigation, has become something of a poster child for corrupt corporate culture.Of course the legal troubles are just the tip of the iceberg of what has been going on over at Deutsche Bank over the past couple of years. The following is a pretty good timeline of some of the major events that have hit Deutsche Bank since the beginning of last year. It comes from a NotQuant article that was published back in June entitled “Is Deutsche Bank the next Lehman?“…
In April, Deutsche settled rate rigging charges with the DoJ for $2.5 billion (or about $25,474 per employee) and subsequently paid $55 million to the SEC (an agency that’s been run by former Deutsche Bank employees and their close associates for years) in connection with allegations it deliberately mismarked its crisis-era LSS book to the tune of at least $5 billion.
But it was out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak, because early last month, the DoJ announced it would seek to extract a fresh round of MBS-related settlements from banks that knowingly packaged and sold shoddy CDOs in the lead up to the crisis. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citi settled MBS probes when the DoJ was operating under the incomparable (and we mean that in a derisive way) Eric Holder but now, emboldened by her pyrrhic victory over Wall Street’s FX manipulators, new Attorney General Loretta Lynch is set to go after Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings PLC, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC,UBS AG and Wells Fargo & Co.
- In April of 2014, Deutsche Bank was forced to raisean additional 1.5 Billion of Tier 1 capital to support its capital structure. Why?
- 1month later in May of 2014, the scramble for liquidity continued as DB announced the selling of 8 billion euros worth of stock – at up to a 30% discount. Why again? It was amove which raised eyebrows across the financial media. The calm outward image of Deutsche Bank did not seem to reflect their rushed efforts to raise liquidity. Something was decidedly rottenbehind the curtain.
- Fast forwarding to March of this year: Deutsche Bank failsthe banking industry’s “stress tests” and is given a stern warning to shore up it’s capital structure.
- In April, Deutsche Bank confirms its agreement to a joint settlement with the US and UK regarding the manipulation of LIBOR. The bank is saddled with a massive $2.1 billion payment to the DOJ. (Still, a small fraction of their winnings from the crime).
- In May, one of Deutsche Bank’s CEOs, Anshu Jain is given an enormous amount of new authority by the board of directors. We guessthat this is a “crisis move”. In times of crisis the power of the executive is often increased.
- June 5:Greece misses its payment to the IMF. The risk of default across all of itsdebtis now considered acute. This has massive implications for Deutsche Bank.
- June 6/7: (A Saturday/Sunday, and immediately following Greece’s missed payment to the IMF) Deutsche Bank’s two CEO’s announce their surprise departure from the company. (Just one month after Jain is given his new expanded powers). Anshu Jain will step down first at the end of June. Jürgen Fitschen will step down next May.
- June 9: S&P lowers the rating of Deutsche Bank to BBB+ Just three notches above “junk”. (Incidentally, BBB+ is even lower than Lehman’s downgrade– which preceded its collapse byjust 3 months)
What makes things even worse is how recklessly Deutsche Bank has been behaving. At one point, it was estimated that Deutsche Bank had a staggering 75 trillion dollars worth of exposure to derivatives. Keep in mind that German GDP for an entire year is only about 4 trillion dollars. So when Deutsche Bank finally collapses, there won’t be enough money in Europe (or anywhere else for that matter) to clean up the mess. This is a perfect example of why I am constantly hammering on the danger of these “weapons of financial mass destruction”.
If Deutsche Bank were to totally collapse, it would be a financial disaster far worse than Lehman Brothers. It would literally take down the entire European financial system and cause global financial panic on a scale that none of us have ever seen before.
On a personal note, I apologize for not posting anything last week. I traveled to two very important conferences and was living out of a suitcase for about eight days.
There has been a bit of a lull in the action over the past couple of weeks, but I expect that to end very shortly. I believe that the rest of 2015 is going to be incredibly chaotic, and we are going to see some things happen that most people could not even conceive of right now.
In the days that are directly ahead, I encourage people to keep a close eye on both Germany and Japan.
Big things are about to happen, and millions are about to be totally shaken out of their complacency.
http://www.infowars.com/there-are-indications-that-a-major-financial-event-in-germany-could-be-imminent/
If You Live In These States You'll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights
(This
is coming into compliance with the Foreign Corporation of Washington
D.C. and the 'Trading with the enemy Act' of 1917!)
If You Live In These States You'll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights
Posted
By: Lymerick
Date: Tuesday, 22-Sep-2015 06:12:55
Date: Tuesday, 22-Sep-2015 06:12:55
John Vibes
September 18, 2015
September 18, 2015
(ANTIMEDIA) To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act,
which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past
decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced
to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane — even for
domestic flights.
The Department of Homeland Security and
representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have
declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but
starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana,
Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly
domestically. All other states will still be able to use their
state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs — for now, at least.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s guidelines on enforcement of the Real ID Act,
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
announced on December 20, 2013 a phased enforcement plan for the REAL ID
Act (the Act), as passed by Congress, that will implement the Act in a
measured, fair, and responsible way.
Secure driver’s licenses and identification
documents are a vital component of our national security framework. The
REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, enacted the 9/11 Commission’s
recommendation that the Federal Government ‘set standards for the
issuance of sources of identification, such as driver’s licenses.’ The
Act established minimum security standards for license issuance and
production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain
purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not
meeting the Act’s minimum standards. The purposes covered by the Act
are: accessing Federal facilities, entering nuclear power plants, and,
no sooner than 2016, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft.
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Muslim preacher: Migrants must breed and conquer
(True
Christian Patriots are to die for their country, and Love One
Another, so you are to Love Allah as well!)
A top Islamic preacher has come up with an idea on how Muslim migrants can show thanks to Europe and America for taking them in: Breed and conquer.
Sheikh Muhammad Ayed ordered Muslims fleeing Iraq, Syria and northern Africa to show the world what a fertile culture looks like.
“They have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will give them fertility!” the imam said during a recent sermon at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, the Blaze reported Monday. “We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries – whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the refugees!”
The sermon was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, a nonprofit organization started in 1998 to monitor Arab media.
“House of War: Islam’s Jihad Against the World” conveys what the West needs to know about Islam and the violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures and systems of government
“We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming caliphate. We will say to you: These are our sons. Send them, or we will send our armies to you,” Ayed said, according to the Blaze.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the U.S. will take up to 85,000 Syrian refugees over the next year and 100,000 by 2017, WND reported.
“This step … is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said. “[It] will be accompanied by additional financial contributions [for the relief campaign].”
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, or UNHCR, tallies the number of displaced Syrians at 4,806,70 as of Sept. 17. U.S. intelligence agencies fear Europe's handling of the situation will allow national security threats to slip into western nations with ease.
"We don't obviously put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sept. 9, according to the Associated Press.
A top Iraqi intelligence official concurred with Clapper's concern, saying terrorist groups will exploit the refugee crisis because it is "a chance that will never be repeated," AP reported.
Related stories:
House GOP pushing back against Obama's U.N. refugee plan
Muslim preacher: Migrants must breed and conquer
http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/muslim-preacher-migrants-must-breed-and-conquer/
Muslim preacher: Migrants must breed and conquer
'Oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians ... Take the refugees!'
Sheikh
Muhammad Ayed, a top Islamic cleric, gave a speech at the Al-Aqsa
Mosque in Jerusalem commanding migrants heading to Europe and America to
breed in overwhelming numbers. (Image: YouTube, MEMRI-TV)
A top Islamic preacher has come up with an idea on how Muslim migrants can show thanks to Europe and America for taking them in: Breed and conquer.
Sheikh Muhammad Ayed ordered Muslims fleeing Iraq, Syria and northern Africa to show the world what a fertile culture looks like.
“They have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will give them fertility!” the imam said during a recent sermon at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, the Blaze reported Monday. “We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries – whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the refugees!”
The sermon was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, a nonprofit organization started in 1998 to monitor Arab media.
“House of War: Islam’s Jihad Against the World” conveys what the West needs to know about Islam and the violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures and systems of government
“We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming caliphate. We will say to you: These are our sons. Send them, or we will send our armies to you,” Ayed said, according to the Blaze.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the U.S. will take up to 85,000 Syrian refugees over the next year and 100,000 by 2017, WND reported.
“This step … is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said. “[It] will be accompanied by additional financial contributions [for the relief campaign].”
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, or UNHCR, tallies the number of displaced Syrians at 4,806,70 as of Sept. 17. U.S. intelligence agencies fear Europe's handling of the situation will allow national security threats to slip into western nations with ease.
"We don't obviously put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sept. 9, according to the Associated Press.
A top Iraqi intelligence official concurred with Clapper's concern, saying terrorist groups will exploit the refugee crisis because it is "a chance that will never be repeated," AP reported.
Related stories:
House GOP pushing back against Obama's U.N. refugee plan
Muslim preacher: Migrants must breed and conquer
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