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California Diaspora
California is an interesting place. Probably something like California never existed before. A barren state with no substantial natural resources, with cities constructed mostly directly over major fault lines, no water, the highest per capita immigrant population of any US state, and of course, also the state with the highest population per capita of lawyers. "Land of fruits and nuts." or "La La Land" according to the LA Times:
The Oxford English Dictionary made some stellar updates on March 24, which are now online. For instance, "e-mail" is now "email." You can now, with reference to the OED, eat a banh mi sandwich or a taquito. And FYI (newly added), OMG is there too -- and it dates back to 1917. (OMG!).
But then there's this: La-La Land is in the newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and it defines our fair city. Here's the definition:
la-la land n. can refer either to Los Angeles (in which case its etymology is influenced by the common initialism for that city), or to a state of being out of touch with reality—and sometimes to both simultaneously.
What is it, the sun, the palm trees, the nightclubs, the limos, the fact that Spiderman can get arrested on Hollywood Boulevard? Do we deserve this (new word) smack-talking from a bunch of dictionary writers? Maybe they should all be wearing (new word) tinfoil hats.
But practically, California is now an industrial powerhouse, home to some of the world's largest corporations, a massive agricultural belt, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Biotech, and Charlie Sheen. But all this happened in the last 60 years, during a post WW2 technology boom, such as the relocation of firms such as General Atomics and others; the connection between Hollywood and the US Military propoganda machine (did Hollywood really win the war for us?). California is a place filled with mystery, hypocrisy, and dreams. "The American Dream" can even be credited to coming from California. For example, when you are in Washington DC, there are no qualms or confusion about what they do. But there is a huge Military presence in California, probably even more than Washington, that is more subtle, unknown, and not admitted. For example in the tech sector, recent Snowden relevations have showed us the real relationship the government has with Google, (not to mention being an initial investor/founding partner) Microsoft, Facebook, and other tech giants. It is naive to believe that the organization called the US Government, possibly the most powerful in the world, created the internet, but then allowed it to be dominated by 'whiz kids' from their garages (mostly from California). The 'Disneyland' and 'Hollywood' model is uniquely Californian. But is the economy really a potamkin village, fuelled by these dreams? When your car runs out of gas - you cannot keep going based on hope and love alone. Or is it as simple as a demographic shift, combined with environmental and other factors?
Checkout the data from a report titled "The California Exodus":
For decades after World War II, California was a destination for Americans in search of a better life. In many people’s minds, it was the state with more jobs, more space, more sunlight, and more opportunity. They voted with their feet, and California grew spectacularly (its population increased by 137 percent between 1960 and 2010). However, this golden age of migration into the state is over. For the past two decades, California has been sending more people to other American states than it receives from them. Since 1990, the state has lost nearly 3.4 million residents through this migration.
This study describes the great ongoing California exodus, using data from the Census, the Internal Revenue Service, the state’s Department of Finance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and other sources. We map in detail where in California the migrants come from, and where they go when they leave the state. We then analyze the data to determine the likely causes of California’s decline and the lessons that its decline holds for other states.The data show a pattern of movement over the past decade from California mainly to states in the western and southern U.S.: Texas, Nevada, and Arizona, in that order, are the top magnet states. Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah follow. Rounding out the top ten are two southern states: Georgia and South Carolina.
Water Concerns
Recently there is a quiet exodus from California from those who are concerned about the water situation, that it will eventually collapse the real estate market. From Intellihub:
With over ten percent of the U.S. population living in California a new problem is emerging as the wet season fell short of delivering adequate rainfall to sustain the populace. In fact snowpack and groundwater levels are now at historic lows and it has even been admitted that the state only has a 1-year supply of water left for residents to consume before California officially becomes a dust bowl.
Shockingly according to NASA satellite data water levels in just two area river basins were “34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014? showing the vast extent of the problem, as reported by the LA Times in a recent piece. Moreover the report concluded that the state has been losing “12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011? which is not good by any means.
What's interesting, is that it was mostly environmental factors, i.e. Good Weather, and lack of rain, that brought so many to California willing to pay the high "Sunshine Tax." In other words, the lack of water is correlated with the good weather. It is a desert climate. Of course, in recent years it has gotten worse, due to a long term trend of more people living in California, overdevelopment, rampant pollution, and climate change. LA was able to get rid of the smog - you can see the foothills again!
And let's think about this like a Californian - if Anthony Kiedis, General Atomics, the Chemtrail program, and Arnold Schwarzenegger can't make it rain, it doesn't look good.
Radiationgate
The water situation is nothing compared to the radiation in the water, air, and food coming from Japan since 2011. Already much of the country has boycotted foods and wines from California. But try telling that to a SoCal native, even considering that the swallows didn't come to San Juan Capistrano and that scientists are saying that the Pacific ocean is dying and we can be on the verge of an Extinction Level Event.
Williams Lake Tribune columnist Diana French, Jan 13, 2015 (emphasis added): Out of sight is out of mind. Those of us living in the Interior might not know or care that sea creatures are sick, dying or disappearing at an alarming rate all along the Pacific coast. There are dying oysters, bleeding herring, melting star fish, hungry Orcas and sick seals. The latest are dead seabirds… Some blame ocean acidification for the devastation, others wonder if it’s radiation fallout from Fukushima. Whatever, it might be helpful to find the cause before all the creatures are gone.
University of California Santa Barbara, Jan 15, 2015: A consortium of scientists, including UC Santa Barbara’s Douglas McCauley, has found that the same patterns that led to the collapse of wildlife populations on land are now occurring in the sea… Their findings are published today in the journal Science… “All signs indicate that we may be initiating a marine industrial revolution,” [McCauley] said. “We are setting ourselves up in the oceans to replay the process of wildlife Armageddon that we engineered on land.”
New York Times, Jan 15, 2015: A team of scientists… has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. “We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.
When these health conscious individuals learn the teratogenic effects caused by radiation not only in the environment, but in the products such as Spinach and other greens coming from Organic farms in the north, they will change their thinking, and probably move.
So what is the key information - why this isn't on the nightly news? Why don't our radiation networks that we built during our period of paranoia and Russophobia sound alarm bells? Simply because most of the stations on the west coast have been 'decommissioned' or are 'under repair - indefinately' and the EPA under the guidance of President Obama has raised the acceptable levels of radiation by thousands of percent.
Investors hang on to your hats - and beware of the looming 'perfect storm' (demographic shift, environmental problems, economic issues) that will change California forever.
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Seems it never rains in Southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya
It pours, man, it pours
Fukushima reactor site had a 30-40 foot bluff which would have protected the reactors from the force of the tsunami. BUT GE determined that it could save $250,000 over the cost of running pipes and conduit under the bluff by simply demolishing the bluff so that the reactor site was exposed to the full force of the tsunami.
So there you have it: the entire Pacific Ocean and the health of the entire planet has a price tag of exactly $250,000 for a dull normal, sloppy assed fucking AMERICAN conglomerate!
Stupid fat sloppy lazy greedy evil retarded fucking AMERICANS.....
The Japanese should have trusted German engineers to do the nuclear energy plants, if it was going to be done, instead of GE. There should have been NO nuclear energy and should not be anywhere, but human greed always wins out against good judgment. Say goodbye to the Pacific and then to a whole lot of so called "humanity".
German engineers would have had the intelligence to keep the bluff in front of the reactor site.
GE: typical cheesy fat stupid lazy american engineering
CA is filled with resources, water, millions of acres of arable land, oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, Iron and a thousand other economically viable minerals, also has great road system as well as excellent ports.
The only problem is we have a criminal alien Communist Socialist occupation in full retard looter orgy-with no end in sight.
CA is like Greece under Syriza with a Mexican mafia zionist cartel loan fraud twist.
How did I end up at BeforeItsNews again?
TIME, as in "TIME" magazine on consensus science on "global cooling in the seventies to global warming to just plain "climate change". The covers say it all!! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJz41fofy0k/VQXNF7Apd9I/AAAAAAAAC34/AljPAlRyu1...
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What is a "glorified Meteorologist called"; a Climatologist. What do they have in common? Sophisticated computer models that are wrong much more than right by design.
I'm old enough to remember those covers and how everyone was scared we were headed in to another ice age. OMG - how will we grow food in the snow and cold, no energy to keep us warm.
Same old shit, different 'crisis'.
The impacts of climate change on the west coast are *rated* in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report / Working Group 2 / Impacts, Adaptations, and Vulnerabilities. There's a world map on page 8 of the "Summary For Policymakers" pdf.
AR5 (six years in the making, based on 30,000+ published science articles, and ~150,000 professional comments) was finally able to say that some events (~120 of them) were virtually inexplicable by anything else other than global warming (yes, they still call it that).
WG2 SFP
WG2 webcast press release video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZONwnqWFe8&feature=player_embedded
Fallacy of "appealing to authority" and the fallacy of "consensus" as science. We could add the fallacy of "presumption"; meaning the models presume much, which is very subjective and real science is operative, observable and repeatable.
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Global warming does not fit into that; yet climate change can because climates routinely change based on many factors and from a scientific point of view, the sun's solar activity has great influence on the earth's climate. Then again the earth is a disposable planet; it has a beginning and therefore an end; just as we do. One's view of the starting point will determine their bias as to the ending point and the interpretation of facts pertaining to historical science.
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The easiest example would be the case of Mt St Helens and the subsequent canyons formed over the few short years after the known event. If you took a group of geologists, who had no knowledge (science) of the event and asked them to determine the date of the canyons and the mountains; you would receive a variety of answers and none would be in a range of 40 years or even 400 years.
This 40 seconds should make anyone pause and think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqbRbjM_B68
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Another example of conjecture, made by the same and similar groups of "scientists". A picture speaks a thousand words.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJz41fofy0k/VQXNF7Apd9I/AAAAAAAAC34/AljPAlRyu1...
The picture can also manipulate. Do you really want to hold that up and say, as you implied in your earlier comment, that AR5 is not worth considering? That's the intent of guys like Senator Inhofe when they hold up the global cooling story from the 70's and proclaim computer models this and climate science / consensus that... because the 1970s.
So here's a brief article from just over a year ago in Scientific American interviewing an author named Peter Gwyyne who also did a 'global cooling' story in 1975 and how he views that today:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-global-cooling-story-c...
It is unreasonable to suggest that sun activity is not intensely studied and incorporated into the findings of AR5. That's Inhofe's ("these are scientists who can not be challenged") Dr. Willie Soon's schtick, the endless mysteries of the sun right?
thanks for the reply : )
Eric Hoffer — 'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.'
global warming is a broken racket.
read some Thomas Kuhn on scientific paradigms.
apply what you read here on banksterism and the rot that permeates the guv to the scams that is global warming.
Ok, btdt, rackets/scams are intended to rob people in order to make a few people rich and powerful. Do you agree? If AGW is a "broken racket" / "scam", how would you quantify the $$$ involved? How would you compare that to the $$$ involved in the 'war on drugs' scam? That's not a fair question because I doubt there's much in the way of reliable data. But how much 'money' has been spent so far on this 'war on AGW'? Bunch of B.Sc grads (yeah, they're all wildly wealthy) writing reports, some equipment suppliers making thermometers and some SUPER DUPER expensive satellites, bunches of meetings? Yeah that pretty much covers it. War on drugs? Now let's add in the cost of the 'war on terror' ok?
The real difference is that evidence keeps piling up that AGW is a potentially ELE problem and marijuana isn't.
Apply what you read here to SoS Kerry's grandiose presser from COP 20 last December in Peru. There's the bullshiting.
AR5 is available free on line. WG2 alone is some 1800 pages. See it's not really about the physical science anymore, it's the political science that is getting closer examination...
The information in this article concerning California radiation is a complete lie. The statement that the EPA no longer is collecting data is false. See the epa link below to see the readings of all the hundreds of government sites reporting. These readings correlate directly to the several thousands of private recording sites being reported daily (see the remaining links for all of the sites and their readings)
Go to the Safecast link to see what the readings in Japan are. They are all very normal, except for Fukushima, which is only about twice normal background. The waters directly off Fukushima coast no so much. However, it turns out that the Pacific Ocean is a tremendous radiation sink.
I monitor radiation at my site 24/7 (BlackCat site just east of Sacramento CA). Everything is normal. I periodically check my car air filters to see if there is anything off my property. Nothing but normal background radiation around the Sacramento/Tahoe area. My wife loves fish sticks. They all are Alaskan paddock. I check every bag she buys. All normal background radiation.
The destruction of the CA coast has to do with the unexplainable gigantic blob of extremely warm water sitting off of Baja and souther california. That is what is causing the eco disruption.
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html
http://blog.safecast.org/maps/ (Japanese sites)
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
http://www2.epa.gov/radnet
yes. data based approach. imagine that.
however I would add:
the only measurable radiation event in CA from Fukushima was in the intense rain event that April which impacted a few spots in central CA and souithern CA.
as for the EPA and its sorry job of managing some sites in CA with volunteers... well it is the guv.
beware of the Blob...
all winter we had repeated drops in the relative humidty often to single digits, so even if it does rain the moisture is sucked right back from the ground. then after a few days of uber dry winds the wind shifts and blows onshore, but no help really, the dry air that was sitting over the ocean simply returns. fires fueled by high winds can come from either direction and the seasonal fire pattern no longer applies. home owners are cutting back on water, and now their supposedly safe green space is getting dangerously dry. socal will probably go up in flames, and since most of the large open areas are already burned off, and calfire watches them closely they are not where the problem will start. the combination of high winds low humidity and compromised green zones will cause the sort of macrofire event which will wash over us like a tsunami. of course usually after a few dry years it rains and everything gets back to normal.
Selling Geiger Counters are ya'? I see none in the water; do you? Have any underwater Geiger Counters for sale?
Never let a good crisis go to waste (i.e. Fukushima); now Haliburton can and has been dumping their radioactive waste into the Pacific, but it is Fukushima that is to blame. The same Haliburton that went to court in order to HIDE the fracking "solutions" being used; another good way to get rid of industrial waste; you know like the floride in your water that now accumulates in your brain.
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FACTOID (BP's Deep Water Horizon) Goldman Sachs and Vanguard Funds sold off 50% of BP stock and Goldman shorted Trans Ocean stock just ahead of the explosion; in addition Trans Ocean double insured the rig just prior. The point? Everyone was covered. Halliburton caused the failure of the Well Foundation and had purchased "Boots and Coots", the world's largest Oil Spill Clean-up company just prior, raising its profits 80%. The "Black Box" was never recovered (1st time in history) and the last 6 hours of recordings from the Bridge mysteriously vanished (used same servers as Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton). Oil and Corexit are destroying the Ocean ecosystem; Methane is dispersing into the New Madrid Fault with the predictable result of a major natural gas explosion. Happened on Earth Day of course; the psychopaths have a very sick sense of "humor"; worship the earth rather than the Creator of the earth...
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http://www.businessinsider.com/tons-of-hedge-funds-are-losing-big-on-bp-...
Already planned by the BORG. Use ENMOD / HAARP / SRM / Geo Engineering to create / manufacture a Malthusian Crisis to create the diaspora for Agenda 21. The Monsanto GMO's / Agenda 21 coming into focus more & homogenizing / integrating etc.
The stoopid it burns...
too funny, but, as difficult as it may seem, Bernie Sander's Vermont has upped the pot for dissonance, MHs eating and smoking their own excrement, in a much shorter duration mismatch.
Got this far, " . . . no substantial natural resources . . ," chuckled, quickly realized that the author is an idiot, and stopped reading. Whew; saved myself from wasting anymore time.
But you wasted even more your time by annoying us with your deranged comment. Thanks.
and then immediately scroll down to waste time posting a comment :) good one!
add to list of problems gross govt mismanagement.
"also the state with the highest population per capita of lawyers" - the gov't mismanagement stems from a state that has mitigated itself to death; like the nation...you know sentence someone for 20 years for killing a hummingbird and let the child molester off on probation...that is one aspect of California.
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Another is axiomatic - Jerry Brown
I'd argue if there is a lawyer thers is a problem if there are a lot of lawyers there are ....
Same holds for government people also. It's as easy as this. Thee more of them ther more pain for anyone else...
If there are subsidies there is always waste. California just proves that
The band Tool said it best, "learn to swim".
Last time I was driving through there (Cali) on I-5,I actually saw a man wearing a Groucho Marx disguise pull down his pants at a public rest area,and insert a cucumber up his anus..The other motorists didn't even seem to notice,or didn't care..
Is there enough water to keep Zuckerberg's lawn green?
Yes and he can use rain barrels as well, but you better not.
Should be interesting to watch. I wonder what the Hollywood billionaires are eating these days, if there is so much nuclear fallout in the Pacific? I can't picture them eating Tilapia.
Tilapia is SO, like yesterday. They are eating $35.00 hydroponically grown arugula salads topped with Delta Smelt at all the trendy places.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
When I moved to CA, we had Nissan, Toyota, and Honda with US HQs in/around Torrance.
Now, Nissan moved (bankrupt/bought by Renault) and Toyota's moving to TX.
I don't think Honda's going to stick around for too long...
Kawasaki just sold their building to a Real Estate PE firm and now they're renting it from the new owners.
Im willing to bet they're going to follow Toyota and setup shop in the DFW area.
http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2015/04/06/kawasaki-sells-hea...
Where the hell does ZH find such idiotic, uniformed twits to sumbit this drivel?
I'm finding less and less value in coming here.
"Where the hell does ZH find such idiotic, uniformed twits to sumbit this drivel?"
Same place it finds idiotic, uniformed twits that respond to it, I suppose.
and we need to admit our weakness for men, and women, in uniforms. they pretest and swerve.
It's at least a 5 year trend for ZH. The dumber the average reader gets, the dumber the content must become to keep them satisfied.
I've noticed that, too. More and more Fox/Washington Times/Rush morons posting on this site.
which includes you btw
It takes a lot of dumb asses to drag my stats down to the average.
I thank you all for showing up and voting!
You are the epitome of "a legend in your own mind."
Christ that's clever. Do I have your permission to use that line?
When the going gets weird, read more ZH.
Just in case we weren't enough poisened by radioactive contamination for thousands of years to come,
October 29, 2014Meanwhile... U.S. Sends Planes Armed with Depleted Uranium to Middle East by DAVID SWANSON
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/29/u-s-sends-planes-armed-with-deple...
Why do I get the sense this post was written from NY? It's got everything from vitroilic homophobia to outright jealousy.
Globalintelhub, a website that needs to post this to assist their users:
Says a lot about their readership.
This is some of the most moronic drivel I've read on ZH in quite some time.
I missed the homophobia part. Then I re-read, and saw the line about swallows. Is that it?
california is dying, get out while you can, good bye, thank you for leaving