Showing posts with label water shortages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water shortages. Show all posts

July 22, 2008

Tomgram: Elizabeth de la Vega, Those Hard Rains Are Gonna Fall

Call it a bizarre water season or think of it as our future. In the Midwest, 500-year level floods. That means hydrologists believe that "a flood of this magnitude has a 0.2 percent chance (1 in 500) of happening in a given year in a specific location." Of course, the last 500-year Midwestern floods happened only an uncomfortable 15 years ago in 1993. In the Southwest and Southeast, there have been droughts that, in the last year, have threatened to outrun recorded history, and then, of course, there's California. That state has received a "record lack of rainfall" -- state capital Sacramento got only 0.17 of an inch of rain this spring, thoroughly wiping out the previous record set in 1934. The result, of course, has left the state burning up well before its normal fire season officially begins about now.

You might think that Mother Nature, acting like some vengeful goddess, was sending a message to our legislators, but, as former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega points out below, don't count on them paying much attention. We seem, in short, to be up a swollen creek without a paddle. (Or is it a dry gulch with lots of tinder and too many matches?) De la Vega "indicted" George W. Bush at this site back in November 2006 and wrote the popular book -- a TomDispatch spinoff -- United States v. George W. Bush et al.. She now returns focused on a remarkably crucial long-term problem -- water -- and a remarkably consistent, do-nothing Congress. Tom

Our National Water Policy...

Oh, Wait, We Don't Have One
By Elizabeth de la Vega

"Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back. Our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?" -- Homer Simpson

On June 24, 2008, Louie and I curled up on the couch to watch seven of the nation's foremost water resources experts testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

This was a new experience for us. For my part, the issue to be addressed -- "Comprehensive Watershed Management Planning" -- was certainly a change of pace from the subjects I ordinarily follow in Judiciary and Intelligence Committee hearings. I wasn't even entirely sure what a "watershed" was. I knew that, in a metaphorical sense, the word referred to a turning point, but I was a bit fuzzy about its meaning in the world of hydrology. (It's the term used to describe "all land and water areas that drain toward a river or lake.")

What was strange from Louie's point of view was not the topic of the day, but that we were stuck in the house. Usually at that hour, we'd be working in the backyard, where he can better leverage his skill set, which includes chasing squirrels, digging up tomato plants, eating wicker patio chairs, etc. On this particular afternoon, however, the typically cornflower-blue San Jose sky was the color of wet cement, and thick soot was charging down from the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. Sitting outside would have been about as pleasant as relaxing in a large ashtray.

Click here to read more of this dispatch.


February 14, 2008

the KlusterfucK explained

Eco-economic Warfare and the Planned Collapse of Western Civilization

By Matthew D. Jarvie


Recently, when New World Orderly Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife in Denver, he remarked that
�we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions �cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.� (Of course it's always about "the children" with these people.)
This is not simply Clinton's opinion, but that of his globalist handlers, who have for many years been using the issue of the environment and climate change as the pretext to grab private land and deindustrialize the West, sending US jobs over to third world countries such as the UN's "Most Favored Nation" of China.

To some of us who haven't swallowed the environ-mental lies being peddled by these criminal psychopaths, it's painfully clear to see that this has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with ushering in a fourth world system of socialistic, fascistic control. This will be a completely controlled system where people will be confined to overcrowded cities. The land surrounding these cities will be off-limits to the general public. Private property and vehicle ownership will be a thing of the past, and everyone will be made to live in single-dwelling, "eco-friendly" housing as mandated under Agenda 21. Everyone will be made to get along with their neighbor, and should you decide you're not a "team player" in the socialistic, multi-cultural society that you will be forced to adapt to, you will be deemed "mentally unstable" or "dangerous" and either jailed or killed.

Since most people will be out of work, there will be no money. Money will become credits, and these credits will be issued weekly by the state. This was discussed by Bertrand Russell, in his ironically-titled book Roads to Freedom (1918). Since this will be a completely automated control system, punishment will be able to be administered by the withholding of these credits should one dissent against this system. Under this totalitarian nightmare, the world's population will be greatly reduced by way of plagues, HAARP-induced famines and water shortages, and perpetual wars, to a more "manageable" number of peasants to serve the elite's utopia on earth. One-child policies will become mandatory and eventually the only humans born will be purpose-bred to serve the "Great Work."

This is what we are really looking at when we hear about "sustainability" and "slowing (or greening) the economy." Once you can better understand what's going on, you can see why oppressive communist countries such as China are awarded "Most Favored Nation" status by the UN. China, which has been under globalist control for the better half of the past 100 years, is merely the test bed for the system that will soon be installed in the US and across most of the world. The only difference is that the coming system will be more scientifically controlled, and of course technology will play a huge role in this.

The aforementioned quote by Clinton is fairly tame compared to what some of these elitists are calling for. Enter Maurice Strong...

Maurice Strong (pictured above) is perhaps most widely known as the co-author of the 1994 Earth Charter with the communist and former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev, who once stated that the threat of environmental crisis will be the "international disaster key that will unlock the New World Order." Strong's rise to prominence as internationalist gofer to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers goes back to 1946, when Strong was just 17 and working as a clerk at the United Nations in New York City. It was here that Strong was befriended and recruited by David Rockefeller. Despite his minimal credentials of only a high school diploma, Strong is moved up the ladder quickly following his introduction to Rockefeller, becoming a millionaire by his mid-20s, during the Alberta oil and gas boom. At the age of 25, Strong became the President of Dome Petroleum in Calgary. By the age of 35, he is the CEO of the Power Corporation of Canada. While at the Power Corporation, Strong hires Paul Martin and James Wolfensohn, both of whom would move up the ladder quickly and go on to hold high positions of power -- Martin as Prime Minister of Canada, and Wolfensohn as President of the World Bank. (Strong would later become an advisor to Wolfensohn at the World Bank.)

At the UN, Strong would go on to become Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Senior Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Chairman of the Earth Council. He would also become Chairman of the World Resources Institute, Co-Chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum, and a member of Toyota's International Advisory Board. Strong's most influential role to date, however, has been as the Secretary-General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED -- aka the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro. It was this conference that gave birth to the Earth Charter and Agenda 21, which would lay the groundwork for a completely managed global society run and managed under the auspices of the UN, under the guise of saving the environment.

It is people such as Maurice Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Al Gore, and Ted Turner that are at the forefront of the UN's environmental/depopulation agenda, at least at the visible/gofer level. The four are also members of, or have close connections to the Club of Rome. It is the Club of Rome that has been guiding the environmental movement since its creation at the Rockefellers' estate in Bellagio, Italy in 1968. It's aim is to reduce a large majority of the global population, as well as manufacture crisis through which the world can be "united" under a one world government, as was admitted in their 1991 publication, titled The First Global Revolution.

Strong, along with Mikhail Gorbachev, is also at the forefront of the New Age movement being promoted from the highest levels of the UN. The purpose of the New Age movement since its introduction to mainstream culture by people such as Madame Blavatsky and Alice Bailey (the founder of Lucis Trust) has been to destroy Christianity, which is to be replaced by a new (but in reality very old) earth-based religion. This all ties in with the green agenda of depopulation, because the religion of Gaia worship sees mankind as a sort of parasite to earth. So what we have is a new religion, for a new system of control, for the New Age of Aquarius.

In May, 1990, Strong was interviewed by WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada. Strong finishes the interview with a very bizarre and apocalyptic narrative about a novel he wishes to write.


"Each year the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend meetings and set the economic agendas for the year ahead.


What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? Will the rich countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will they agree to save the earth?


The group's conclusion is 'no.' The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?


This group of world leaders form a secret society to bring about a world collapse. It's February. They're all at Davos. These aren't terrorists - they're world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world's commodity and stock markets. They've engineered, using their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets from closing. They jam the gears. They have mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davos as hostage. The markets can't close. The rich countries...?"

(The author of the article then goes on to say...)

...and Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out of the window.

Strong's twisted little fantasy is a perfect example of the deranged, psychopathic mentality of these elitists. These people see the general public as cattle, and much of the public truly are like cows waiting in line to be slaughtered, blissfully unaware of anything other than the reality they're fed through the TV. We are now at the tail-end of what began (in terms of Western deindustrialization) as the post-industrial era of the 70s. Now that most of the United States' manufacturing capabilities have been sent abroad, the US (along with much of the West) is a predominately consumer nation riddled with debt and a deliberately devalued currency. The long-term goal of the elite has been to destroy the US economy (which will no doubt be felt across the board), because to bring in their new system they must destroy the old one. The planned chaos that will ensue will be used as the pretext to usher in a more controlled system and to implement the plans laid out in Agenda 21. When people like Clinton, Gore, and Strong speak about a slowing of the economy to "save the environment," they are conditioning us to a grim reality that lies ahead -- one in which they and their masters have been planning for a very long time.

http://sovereignsentience.blogspot.com/2008/02/recently-when-new-world-orderly-bill_11.html


Klusterfuck: Looming water supply crisis


Scientists warn of looming water supply crisis (Jan 31)
They argue that radical water cycle changes will be widespread and that past trends can no longer be relied upon when planning future water management. "Our best current estimates are that water availability will increase substantially in northern Eurasia, Alaska, Canada and some tropical regions, and decrease substantially in southern Europe, the Middle East, southern Africa and southwestern North America," said lead author Christopher Milly, a research hydrologist with the US Geological Survey. More frequent droughts can also be expected in drying areas, he added. "Even with aggressive mitigation, continued warming is very likely given the residence time of atmospheric carbon dioxide and the thermal inertia of the Earth system," the authors concluded. The article says that new models must be used to prepare for floods or droughts, determine the size of water reservoirs and decide how to allocate for residential, industrial and agricultural uses. This is a massive undertaking seeing as annual global investment in water infrastructure is more than 500 billion dollars a year and these are made under outdated assumptions that the water cycle will fluctuate within a relatively narrow historical band. "Historically, looking back at past observations has been a good way to estimate future conditions," Milly said." But climate change magnifies the possibility that the future will bring droughts or floods you never saw in your old measurements. "Climate change has already resulted in changes to rainfall patterns and river flows and created a greater risk of flooding in some areas, the authors wrote. Rising sea levels will "heighten risk of contamination of coastal freshwater supplies" while a "poleward expansion of the subtropic dry zone" is reducing water runoff levels. CLIP

Ban Ki-moon warns that water shortages are increasingly driving conflicts (6 February 2008)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25527
Many of today's conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today.Briefing an informal Assembly session on the crises in Kenya, Darfur and Chad, as well as his recent trip to Europe and Africa, Mr. Ban noted that he told the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month that "increasingly, fights are erupting over such basic human needs as water or arable land."I find this trend deeply worrying, especially because such shortages are only projected to grow in coming years," he said, adding that water also underpins many of the world's key development challenges - food, the environment, health and economic well-being."Water shortages are at the core of many of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), one of which is to reduce by half the number of people without safe access to water by 2015. When you consider the health and development challenges facing the poorest of the world's population - diseases like malaria or TB [tuberculosis], rising food prices, environmental degradation - the common denominator often seems to be water."


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