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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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Get the hell out, and send more money! :-)
I sure hope that Californians are brushing up on their Chinese, and "China Culture and Customs for Dummies."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Honey, should we eat Chinese Chinese, or Jewish Chinese tonight?"
Where can I get a good Spanish to Chinese dictionary?
Dictionary, it's like a book, that's sort of a papery blog, ... never mind.
Author avoids the elephant in the bathtub with GeoEngineering stamped on his forehead. Author claims its all a desert. Well, maybe it is now, but during the extent of the American experience, everything north of SLO was not.
There is a price to be paid for shutting-up and playing along. Good-bye California Dream. We had some amazing times together. Thanks for what you gave me.
Government contractor, maybe the author, has already got his downvote in, of course without explaining why.
The sealife dying off the west coast is most probably a result of "the Blob" which is a persistent 1,000 km wide pool of much warmer than normal water running up and down the coast from Alaska to California. Since the stationary warm surface water stops the nutrient rich cooler waters from rising the food chain simply breaks down and everything starves to death. It also apperas to be making the California drought problem much worse
From today...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/04/20/blob-weird-weather/2607...
And its growing...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/21/north-pacific-update-the-blobs-str...
Then again Fukushima radiation almost certainly caused the lesions on the seals and polar bears in the year following the accident and it is not a stretch to think that the immune systems of seastars have been compromised to a point where viral or bacterial infection loads have simply killed them off.
This is a time we should be installing more radiation detectors not shutting down existing ones. The system is so corrupt these days you don't know if the problem is so large that it would cause a population exodus (to where?) if known or if the government is just trying to protect a favorite industry from more bad press and regulation.
People really need to get together and gather this information independantly.
Blame it on the Blob! What's japanese word for Blob?
O.k., more radiation detectors? - good idea, set up a kickstarter!
But I warn you - they don't want you to know the truth...
ZerOHead states: "The system is so corrupt these days you don't know if the problem is so large..."
Lily Tomlin replies:
"Being a cynic is tough these days. It's so much work to keep up."
Yea I knew right off that Fukushima would result in a nuclear pacific. Not surprised. And yea the gov has hushed the idea as it is the gov who pushed nuclear in the first place.
The predictive bot predicted years ago that we would have large nuclear zones bout these times.
It recently has been predicting this blob thing that has appeared now.
Fuck I'm going crazy cliff hasn't put out this weeks report!
Fukushima is of course worse than terrible, but it is not the cause of the Heat Blob. For that you have to look elsewhere.
The Blob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUsyXQ8Wrs
yup
But logic and science are not propah Doom Porn, zero;)
Is anyone else having problems accessing the home page of ZeroHedge?
Seriously?
Did this guy do all his research on Uncyclopedia? This is inane tripe.
Like, you ever heard of GOLD? Or SILVER? Or OIL? Or how about mother fucking TREES? California had the largest rare earth mine up until a few years ago. Water is abundant, despite the recent doomporn. It just gets used in stupid ways (no, really, we need more golf courses).
These California bashing articles are entirely stupid. California is a great fucking state with amazing resources. The problem is the Democratic party has a lock on the politics of the state, and this is what happens when you leave governance of a state of this size and diversity in the hands of fucking socialists.
I am Chumbawamba.
James T Kirk will save California.
But Cp'tain, were given her all she's has got, she just won't go anymore!
dup
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102605559
"A barren state with no substantial natural resources,... also the state with the highest population per capita of lawyers."
Lawyers aren't a natural resource? :-)
They taste like shit. But you can feed them to the pigs...
And have your bacon tasing of fucking lawyers...
Perish the thought...
Feed them to the sharks. It would only be fitting...
Sharks won't touch them--it is a professional courtesy.
The pigs like them best after the lawyers have been on fire for a while...
and the ones the pigs won't eat (politicians, largely) the goats will, usually.
"A barren state with no substantial natural resources"
Who was the moron that wrote this? Last I knew, California was the focus of the largest gold rush in the US (and remains rich in unmined minerals), produced oil and natural gas (which it's still producing) and was the agricultural center for much of the produce grown in the US.
Sooooo......what exactly is considered to be 'rich in natural resources' - Washington DC - home of hot air and bullshit?
Also, they harvested something like 40,000 tons per year of seaweed prior to synthetic production of nitrates, for fertilizer and gunpowder. Pretty important resource for a while.
I believe you have completely omitted California's contribution to Cannabis Culture.
You forgot to mention all the great wine that is produced in this state!
But once you're exposed to Fuki radiation, don't you acquire immunity?
... like measles and stuff?
Or is that just a myth?
First off, So. Cal and Nor. Cal have about zero to do with each other. One has the biggest trees, lakes, ag on EARTH, the other has Jewish entertainment, MIC industry, porn and In and Out Burger, take your pic, I like trees myself. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind 3 days at a time in So. Cal, but that's it, 3 days...after that your brain turns to mush.
No, article fails to explain, Nor. Cal is the best place to live, BY FAR, in the US, period. Until the water is completely gone it will remain the place to be.
...except that northern California is still in ... California. Great geography. Shitty politics. State of Jefferson anyone?
Saw the band in State of Jefferson in Bend a few years back, pretty good too.
"A State whose current large agricultural industry is greatly dependent upon imported water" might have been better.