Wednesday, December 19, 2012

December 18-19, 2012 Delta Water and News Links

Delta News
Delta Tunnels for Oil. Not Irrigation, Says Critic
Central Valley Business Times
Burt Wilson Audio Interview

Will Oil Companies Benefit Most from Delta Tunnels?
Burt Wilson's Public Water News Service

California Water News
Farm Water News

Water News
Shell to Build Canada Water Project
(Come on Tribes...Haven't you learned yet not to trust??  Shell might have given up developing oil; but I would keep an eagle eye on that water. )
Bloomberg.com

The Power of Atmospheric Rivers, As Seen From Space
Inkstain Blog

Agriculture News
California State Fair Choose Chief Judges for Commercial Wine Contest
Sacramento Business Journal

Levee News

Science News
Geo-engineering Against Climate Change
Science Codex

Back-lit Saturn
(Beautiful image.)
WiredScience.com

Fisheries News

Wildlife News

Environmental News
California Issues Early Draft of Fracking Regulations
Environmental Working Group

Analysis of Marcellus Flow-back Finds High Levels of Ancient Brines
(Maybe there's a darn good reason this is buried 8,000 feet below the earth's surface.)
Rose said the naturally occurring radioactive materials being brought to the surface after having been 8,000 feet deep were deposited with formations in that era. He noted that while much attention has been focused on the chemicals that are injected into the shale formation during the fracking process, also of concern is the release of elements such as barium and radium that have been in the ground for millions of years.
ScienceCodex.com
http://www.sciencecodex.com/analysis_of_marcellus_flowback_finds_high_levels_of_ancient_brines-104120

Habitat News

Infrastructure News

Economic News

Tourism News

Tribal News

National Political News
Lawmaker Wants FAA to Publish Names of Drone Licensees
The Daily Caller

Obama Taps Biden to Craft New Policies to Curb Gun Violence in Wake ...
(I don't know whether to laugh or cry.)
FoxNews.com

Sandy Hook, Dark Night Rises, Auror, Skull&Bones
Jon Rappaport

Feinstein Statement on Review of Benghazi Terrorist Attack
Senator Feinstein's Website
(Her writers have been earning their keep since Friday.)

Feinstein to Introduce Assault Weapons Bill

LATimes.com Editorial: Trying, Again, to Ban Assault Weapons

SF Chronicle Editorial: Stop the Sale of Assault Weapons

Contra Costa Times Editorial: Solution to Mass Shootings Must Become Priority 

LA Daily News Editorial: Guns and Mental Illness, Curb Assault Weapons, Improve Mental Health Care and Intervention

California Political News
California Senators Propose Tighter Gun Laws After Newtown Deaths
LATimes.com

High Speed Rail News
Rail Series: Who Will Own It? Who Will Pay For It?
CalWatchdog.com

High-Speed Rail's Fiscal Cliff
National Center for Policy Analysis

Sustainable Development/Agenda 21

Written Comment Opportunities

Litigation News
Court Hears Challenge to Obama NLRB Recess Appointments
National Legal and Policy Center

Events Calendar

Just For Fun


Monday, December 17, 2012

December 17, 2012 Delta Water and News Links

Delta News
Former Fed Judge Oliver Wanger Earns Trial Victory
Hmmm...coupled with Judge Wanger's first public speaking event immediately after his retirement from the bench was at the Southern California Water Committee's 4th Quarter dinner in which his parting shot off the stage was (paraphrasing)...blah, blah, blah and guess what folks? I was born and raised in Beverly Hills....looks like some chumminess paying off as stated in the article. Amazing?  What was amazing was how easily Resnick got out of testifying to anything under oath.
The trial in Black's courtroom was supposed to dig deeper into the water-for-pistachios allegation against Paramount. A key witness was going to be billionaire Stewart Resnick, who owns Paramount. Because of Wanger's trial-ending move, Resnick no longer has to testify.
"It's pretty amazing," Wanger said of the trial's quick ending.
Fresno Bee

http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/12/10/3096478/former-federal-judge-oliver-wanger.html#storylink=misearch

h/t Bill Wells, Delta Chamber of Commerce
Water Weed Chokes Marina
TracyPress.com
http://www.tracypress.com/view/full_story/21125232/article-Water-weed-chokes-marina?instance=home_news_lead_story

The Battle to Defend Drakes Bay Oyster Farm
Defend Rural America
Dr. Corey Goodman Speaks Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7NiX5QrO24&feature=youtu.be
Kenny Lunny Speaks Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9zY4W840A&feature=youtu.be
Ginny Lunny Reveals Human Tragedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1ZLyGHwjM&feature=youtu.be


California Water News
Aquafornia.com
Weekend Wrap-Up
http://www.aquafornia.com/index.php/2012/12/17/weekend-wrap-up-siskiyou-county-supes-refer-dfg-das-office-san-diego-sells-bonds-towing-icebergs-news-calendar-week/

Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/12/news-articles-and-links-from-december_17.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/12/news-articles-and-links-from-december_11.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/12/news-articles-and-links-from-december_12.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/12/news-articles-and-links-from-december_13.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/12/news-articles-and-links-from-december_14.html

Water News

Agriculture News
GE News: Monsanto Gets Its Way in Farm Bill
EcoFarm.com
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=76c0bb8f4637459fcb1d94bf3&id=4d08c8b758&e=70f6a0af54

Levee News

Science News
Study Uncovers Mechanism Used By BRAC1 to Suppress Tumors
Science Blog
http://www.sciencecodex.com/study_uncovers_mechanism_used_by_brca1_to_suppress_tumors-103971

Fisheries News

Wildlife News

Environmental News
Daily Kos: Protesters Rally Against Fracking as Oil Industry Claims It's 'Safe'
Dan Bacher
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/17/1171121/-Protesters-rally-against-fracking-as-oil-industry-claims-it-is-safe#

FrackNation to Premiere January 22 on AXS
EconomicPolicyJournal.com
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/12/fracknation-to-premiere-january-22-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FYZSb+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29

Habitat News

Infrastructure News

Economic News
More Unemployment for Consultants?
(One can wish, I suppose.)
Aguanomics.com
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/12/more-unemployment-for-consultants.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29

Tourism News

Tribal News

National Political News
Hurricane Sandy and FEMA Abuse
The Foundry
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/14/hurricane-sandy-and-fema-abuse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hurricane-sandy-and-fema-abuse

Feinstein Plans to Reintroduce Assault Weapons Ban Next Year
FireDogLake.com
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/12/16/feinstein-plans-to-reintroduce-assault-weapons-ban-next-year/
California Progress Report
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/feinstein-plans-reintroduce-assault-weapons-ban-next-year

Feinstein Statement on CIA Detention, Interrogation Report
Press Release from Senator Feinstein's website
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=46c0b685-a392-4400-a9a3-5e058d29e635

Armed Citizens Thwart Criminals
GodFatherPolitics.com
But liberals like Bob Costas, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to disarm Americans and take away their ability to defend themselves.  They only see the evil that some people create by using their guns illegally.  They seem to be blind to incidents where law abiding citizens use their guns to prevent those evil people from making them victims.

California Political News
CalPERS Seeks to be New California 'Octypus'
CalWatchDog.com
The Wall Street Journal calls CalPERS’ assertion of unlimited powers a “ploy.” Real octopus animals squirt an “ink” that serves to keep themselves hidden or as a decoy from predators. Expect some of the same from CalPERS.
High Speed Rail News
California High Speed Rail Blog:
Sacramento Bee Slams Valley Republican HSR Opposition
(Well bless his little heart, ya gotta love the far left perspective. I know where I'd like to put the track; up where the sun don't shine.)
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2012/12/sacramento-bee-slams-valley-republican-hsr-opposition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sacramento-bee-slams-valley-republican-hsr-opposition

Rail Series: Surmounting the Tehachapi Barrier
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/17/rail-series-surmounting-the-tehachapi-barrier/

Sustainable Development/Agenda 21

Written Comment Opportunities

Litigation News

Events Calendar

Just For Fun
Strolling Down Memory Lane
Late Late Night FDL: Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol from 1962
http://firedoglake.com/2012/12/15/late-late-night-fdl-mr-magoos-christmas-carol-2/

The Sword and Sovereignty
News With Views
(Edwin Vieira, Jr., PhD, JD see bio at end of post)
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin254.htm


Sunday, December 16, 2012

December 11-16, 2012 Delta Water and News Linka

Delta News
And now a few words from my Hero, Supervisor Nottoli!
Viewpoints: Delta Plan Threatens Water Rights
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/14/5053576/delta-plan-threatens-water-rights.html
(Comments worth the read!)

Sacramento River Delta's Link to Mr. Nottoli's Article
http://www.sacramentoriverdelta.net/2012/12/14/sacramento-bee-viewpoints-delta-plan-threatens-water-rights-supplies/

Defend Rural America 'For the Good of All'
Here is an excellent, well-documented example of how a national park is created through intimidation and destruction of the people and communities.  Please take the hour to watch line program.  While it specifically talks about creating a National Park, the process of creating a National Heritage Area is disturbingly similar.
http://www.landrights.org/VideoForTheGoodOfAll.wmv

ICLEI Primer: Your Town and Freedom Threatened
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/illegitimate_government/iclei_primer%3A_your_town_and_freedom_threatened_20090804364/
Please take the time to read this and follow the provided links for more information, especially all of the public employees and politicians on this list.  I thank you.

And THIS is the reason for the prior link.  This is very disturbing, especially given Great Valley's Packard-provided funding and influence in the greater San Joaquin Valley.  For my rural naysayers on Agenda 21, if this doesn't open up eyes, I'm coming to the conclusion nothing will.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3a73aa38da7c23a78b6b24765&id=30fe9b22db&e=10e5b0d4e3

Senator Wolk Introduces Bond to Address Delta Crisis
Dan Bacher on Indybay.org
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/12/18727858.php

The California Spigot
Climate Shift From Snow to Rain Demands Revolution in California's Water System
http://www.californiaspigot.blogspot.com/
How about privatization issues? If the recharged basin water belongs to landowners, then the massive Kern County Water Bank (taken over by private interests in a secret deal by the state in the late 1990s and supplied by the State Water Project that pumps from the delta) would further enrich a small group of wealthy farmers, as they sell water for new developments in the southland.
News From Restore the Delta
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=xp76ilcab&v=001zcvTRfzfKBG2ao4eXoLOZKed9DXNlrx7Sb-reEfJ3wfX_CLXKuTJdt4erzvJCw4_g18mbBRNwZ5o47k5-y-VEia2jlre2bqXSa16gRrdIRIdq7rH3cF4kg%3D%3D

DWR's Delta eNews
http://www.water.ca.gov/deltainit/docs/Delta_eNews121312.pdf
 
California Water News
Most of California's Water Footprint Tied to Food Production
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-california-water-footprint20121211,0,3917096.story

Colorado River Study Bad News for Thirsty Californians
KCET
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/colorado-river-study-bad-news-for-thirsty-californians.html

Obama on California Water
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/12/13/obama-on-california-water/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29
 
Water News

Agriculture News
Vilsack Gets Earful at Town Hall
CapitalPress.com
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-vilsack-california-w-photos-infobox-121112

Levee News

Science News
Water-Activated Seat Belt Release Could Prevent Drowning Deaths
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/12/water-seat-belt/

Coconut Oil: A Prepper's Panacea
LewRockwell.com
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/luther2.1.1.html

Fisheries News

Wildlife News

Environmental News
Former MLPA Chair Says Hydrofracking 'Safe for California'
(Read the comments, one posted a map of where the gas and oil deposits are located.  Notice the HUGE swath in the San Joaquin Valley in general and Bakersfield in particular.  Kinda further clarifies the need for WWD, et al to have stolen the Kern County Water Bank, don't it?)
Dan Bacher, Daily Kos
http://www.elections.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/12/1169401/-Former-MLPA-chair-says-hydrofracking-is-safe-for-California#

Habitat News

Infrastructure News
New Northern California Arena Promises to be a Jobs Creator
(Besides Agenda 21-based, does anyone else from the Bay Area see what's wrong with this picture, too??  Holy Smoke, I wouldn't step one foot into that area, let alone onto the pier.  After all San Francisco's documented earthquake history keeps coming to mind.  Not to mention all those thousands of sheeple, I mean people stuck out at the end of a pier into San Francisco Bay??...think I'll just skip it, know what I mean?)
California Economic Summit
http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/new-northern-california-arena-promises-to-be-a-jobs-creator

MWD Votes to Support Raising Shasta Dam
The Fish Sniffer
http://www.fishsniffer.com/reports/details/mwd-votes-to-support-shasta-dam-raise/

SoCal Water District Supports Raising Shasta Dam
"But with up to 14 percent more water in the lake, there would be more opportunities for selling and transferring some of that water among agencies, including the MWD, he said."
(I take it, this is one of MWD's schemes to make up for lost Colorado River Water and curtailment of Delta Water, 14% additional water kinda adds up to what MWD needs to fill the difference.)
Redding.com
http://www.redding.com/news/2012/dec/11/socal-water-district-wants-shasta-dam-raised/

Economic News
Can we say 'Inaugurations Gone Wild'?? 
Big Price for Inaugural Pomp: Much Private Money
FoxNews.Com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/16/big-price-for-inaugural-pomp-much-private-money/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29
 
Tourism News

Tribal News

National Political News
(Disgustingly convenient, don't you think? My belief is if one responsible adult properly armed would have prevented this young person from taking so many lives.  Instead of gun control, why aren't we addressing the side effects of Prozac, Zoloft, Adderal, etc.  Deplorable that political ideology in any form uses the massacre of little children, the deliberate destruction of a beautiful "Americana" town (if it can happen here, no one is 'safe') to further their illogical and unconstitutional agendas.)
Feinstein Leads Democratic Senators in Call to Renew Gun Debate, Vows Legislation
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/16/durbin-says-will-reopen-capitol-hill-debate-on-gun-rights-in-coming-weeks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29 
 
Publius Huldah Tennessee Governor Must Obey Tennessee Law: No State Insurance Exchange
http://www.newswithviews.com/Publius/huldah113.htm
News With Views 

Stop 2012 Fraud or Forget About Elections
News With Views
http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams225.htm

Freedom Threatened by Plan to Federalize Local Governments in Florida
Bear Witness Central
http://bwcentral.org/2012/12/freedom-threatened-by-plan-to-federalize-local-government-in-florida/
 
California Political News
California Appoints Carbon Watchdogs for Cap-and-Trade Program
(This is another inbred scam...if you read MWD's Board Report for upcoming 2013 programs, they are HEAVILY into 'carbon sequestration'.  I thought that was a bit odd, then this article comes out, I research both organizations; lo and behold, the second one California Climate Action Registry through Climate Action Reserve, I find Jeffery Kightlinger on the BoD as well as a member of World Wildlife Federation (William K. Reilly sits on board of WWF...damn inbreeding, self-serving, conniving cohorts, but I digress.)
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/15/5055809/california-appoints-carbon-watchdogs.html

h/t Nature Watch
Feds Auction Prime California Land for Oil Development
http://www.sfgate.com/business/energy/article/Feds-auction-prime-Calif-land-for-oil-development-4112573.php#license-50c908f6cfe19

California Institute for Federal Policy Research
http://www.calinst.org/bul2/b1931.shtml

Newsom Begins New Anti-Gun Campaign
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/15/newsom-begins-new-anti-gun-campaign/

Gun Control Quickly Rears Its Head in Calif.
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/15/gun-control-quickly-rears-its-head/

High Speed Rail News
Green Water Grab Sinks Farmland, Blocks Salmon Run
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/11/green-water-grab-sinks-farmland-blocks-salmon-runs/

Rail Series: A Capitalist Solution for California Train Travel
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/12/rail-series-a-capitalist-solution-for-california-train-travel/

Rail Series: Single-Track Bottleneck Slows California Trains
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/13/rail-series-single-track-bottleneck-slows-ca-trains/

Rail Series: Medium Speed Train Tracking Costs Less Than High-Speed
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/12/14/rail-series-medium-speed-train-tracking-costs-less-than-high-speed-rail/

Sustainable Development/Agenda 21
Fighting State and Regional Planning in the Bay Area
Barbara Simpson Interviews Mimi Steel
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=sksdkygab&v=001laauDGMXfkUPrrWXYL9yCSy1xMpwW4hY2mZzrzExPPlTSRqPmQXHF_psGu2FJtD7lbc2zq6kPhNL8u9VMw0gfDT1FM_VoGuArrySIPNGae_9EMr-sBmCdpF0X5kGXZRHPvwebYspuE8%3D

Regionalism: The Blueprint for Your Serfdom
A leading example of regional control is emerging in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, the COG is known as ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments. ABAG, in association with ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) has launched the “One Bay Area” program. One Bay Area is the local federalized and internationalized plan for the implementation of Agenda 21. This 9 county, 101 city (with a combined population of 7 ½ million people) “regional” plan is designed as a full commitment to the collectivist program of Smart Growth and wild area set asides.
(This matters to in-Delta interests as the National Heritage Area boundary was moved west far enough to abut the Delta with the Bay Area at Carquinez Straits.  ABAG and One Bay Area most certainly affects us in the Delta and Valley.)

http://www.newswithviews.com/Shaw/michael134.htm

The Red List
Exurbia Chronicles by Mary Baker
http://www.exurbiachronicles.com/?p=328
Refer to her bio at the end of the article for more references.

Defend Rural America 
US Fish and Wildlife Sierra Cascades Dialog Sessions
(WOW, folks we've graduated from 'Preschool/Visioning' into 'Kindergarten/Dialoging' doesn't that make us 'special'??  Either way, this is Agenda 21/Delphi Technique in operation.  These forums are supposed to 'inform' the decision-makers and these are consensus documents and processes...no matter the color of the lipstick, a pig is still a pig. )
http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/workingtogether/?cid=STELPRDB5349218
Consent Agendas:
Terry Nielson of Amador County, CA offers the following information and suggestions.
Background

Counties (This also included all public entities, Councils, Commissions, Advisory Boards, etc.) use "consent agendas" to lump a lot of separate actions into a single up-down vote, similar to how omnibus bills are used by legislators. Unless someone objects to an item, it can be passed without discussion and without separate vote. County approval of endangered species listings have been approved in this manner.  If someone does object, however, the challenged item must be separately considered, discussed, and voted on. By law, consent agendas must meet the same public notice requirements as normal agenda items.

Terry's Recommendations
o Have someone in your group monitor consent agendas and alert your group of items that should not be passed without challenge.
o Formally object to items that are objectionable to force open discussion and make county commissioners accountable/liable for their actions.
o Object to all ESA listings. During discussion, demand proof the science and EIS/EIR behind the proposal are factual, and that the proposed action has a quantitative and measurable objective as to the numerical threshold that justifies delisting.
The Dawn of the Era of Common-ism 
American Policy Center
http://americanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Commonism.pdf

Resist DC Part 1 and Part 2 A Step-By-Step Plan for Freedom
American Policy Center
http://americanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Resist-DC-Part-1-and-2.pdf

ICLEI-Special Report
Sustainable Development:  The Root of All Our Problems
TEA Parties and End the Fed Protests Cannon Win Back the Republic Without This Information
http://americanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ICLEI-special-report-sust-develop.pdf

Is Agenda 21 a Danger to Your GRANDMOTHER?
American Policy Center
http://americanpolicy.org/2012/12/12/is-agenda-21-a-danger-to-your-grandmother/

Written Comment Opportunities

Litigation News
Virginia Takes EPA to Court Claiming Water Regulation Plan is Illegal Land Takeover
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/13/virginia-sues-epa-to-stop-land-takeover/

Income Tax Truth: Income Is NOT Wages
IRS Taken to U.S. Supreme Court for Unconstitutional and Illegal Actions
http://www.foundationfortruthinlaw.org/Griffin-article.html

Events Calendar
Delta Stewardship Council Brown Bag  
Delta Watershed Unimpaired Flow Index and Analytical Tools to Evaluate System-wide Changes since the 2006 Water Quality Control Plan
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/science-event-detail/8136

Just For Fun
News With Views
What If They're Wrong?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave155.htm

If Not Now, When?
News With Views
http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave303.htm

Laurie Roth - God Can Save US No Matter Who Is In the White House
News With Views
http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie352.htm