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Blackouts Loom With California In Power Grid Emergency: “All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power”

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer.

The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was ongoing for  four months as an intense summer heat wave sets in.

According to Reuters:

California will have its first test of plans to keep the lights on this summer…

With record-setting heat and air conditioning demand expected in Southern California, the state’s power grid operator issued a so-called “flex alert,” urging consumers to conserve energy to help prevent rotating power outages – which could occur regardless.

Electricity demand is expected to rise during the unseasonable heatwave on Monday and Tuesday, with forecast system-wide use expected to top 45,000 megawatts, said the California Independent System Operator (ISO), which manages electricity flow through the state. That compares with a peak demand of 47,358 MW last year and the all-time high of 50,270 MW set in July 2006.

That could put stress on the power grid, particularly with the shut-in of Aliso Canyon, following a massive leak at the underground storage facility in October [Editor’s Note: which was not stopped fully until mid-February 2016].

The large-scale natural gas disaster – which curiously escaped media frenzy and widespread environmental concern – has resulted in the shutdown of key storage facilities that supply most of the power for the southern portion of the state.

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Another Reason To Consider…

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Voting against Hillary.

You may have heard that a California appellate court (see below) has ruled in favor of California laws that give government bureaucrats the power to deny citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon unless they show “good cause.” This “good cause” to be defined by the government bureaucrats and which definition does not include ordinary self-defense.

The bureaucrats use the “good cause” verbiage to effectively outlaw concealed carry (and thus, armed self-defense outside the home) for ordinary citizens.

It is the polar opposite of “shall issue” requirements (as in my state, VA) which compel the government to issue a permit to any citizen who applies, who has not been convicted of a felony.

This case will almost certainly become a Supreme Court case – and in that case, it will decide national policy regarding concealed carry.

And, perhaps more.

If Hillary becomes Dear Leader, she will almost certainly appoint at least two and likely three new “justices,” all of whom will be (like her) very much interested in “sensible gun control.” Which (if you need me to translate) means: No guns for you.

It is a certainty that a Hillary Court will rule in favor of the appellate court. Which will result in more states enacting “good cause” requirements and possibly rescinding existing “shall issue” requirements and quite possibly concealed carry and open carry altogether.

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California Braces for Unending Drought

Via NYT

Gov. Jerry Brown of California last month in New York. He signed an executive order on Monday making permanent the water conservation efforts put in place during the state’s five-year drought.”

Gov. Jerry Brown of California last month in New York. He signed an executive order on Monday making permanent the water conservation efforts put in place during the state’s five-year drought. Mary Altaffer/Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — With California entering its fifth year of a statewide drought, Gov. Jerry Brown moved on Monday to impose permanent water conservation measures and called on water suppliers to prepare for a future made drier by climate change.

Under the governor’s executive order, emergency drought regulations, like bans on hosing down driveways or watering lawns within 48 hours of a rainstorm, will remain indefinitely. Urban water suppliers will be required to report their water use to the state each month and develop plans to get through long-term periods of drought.

Despite winter rains that replenished reservoirs and eased dry conditions in parts of Northern California, Mr. Brown suggested that the drought may never entirely end, and that the state needed to adapt to life with less water.

“Californians stepped up during this drought and saved more water than ever before,” Mr. Brown said in a statement. “But now we know that drought is becoming a regular occurrence and water conservation must be a part of our everyday life.”

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VIOLENT LEFTISTS IN ACTION

How come Trump supporters never get violent at Hillary rallies? Who are the real problem in this country? The right or the left?

Trump protesters rallied outside the Hyatt Hotel in Burlingame, US, to denounce Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump who was set to deliver a speech at a GOP convention inside the hotel. Tensions flared after a group of protesters attempted to break down barriers set up by the police and storm the hotel.


WHAT A F**KING JOKE

This is the shit we have our government leaders, court system, and “religious leaders”, aka Muslims and Jews at the ACLU, fighting over??? A tiny cross on a Mission on a County Seal that no one gives a shit about??? As if anyone’s rights have been destroyed by the tiny historically accurate cross. This is another example of trying to rewrite history, as California was settled by Franciscan missionaries from Spain and the Mission which is pictured has a cross on top. This country is a fucking joke. The morons who occupy elected office are a joke. The judicial system is a joke. But I’m not laughing.

Los Angeles (AFP) – A federal judge in California has ruled that including a small Christian cross on the official seal of Los Angeles County is unconstitutional, siding with civil liberties advocates.

Thursday’s decision, following a two-year legal battle, was handed down by US District Judge Christina Snyder, who said that including the religious emblem in the government symbol “places the county’s power, prestige and purse behind a single religion, Christianity.”

The case erupted in 2014 when the county had the cross drawn on top of the San Gabriel Mission which appears in the logo.

The move reversed a decision by officials a decade earlier to remove the cross from the seal, amid threats of legal action by various groups opposing the inclusion of the crucifix on the county symbol.

The LA county seal appears on flags and official stationery and government buildings across Los Angeles County.

Supporters of keeping the cross on the mission in the seal said it is a historically accurate symbol, given California’s early settlement by Franciscan missionaries from Spain.

They also noted that courts have upheld the constitutionality of the phrases “in God We Trust” on US currency and “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thursday’s ruling is a victory for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought the suit.

Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California and attorney Linda Burrow who represented plaintiffs in the case said in a statement Thursday that they were “heartened” by the ruling.

“It recognizes that Los Angeles is a diverse county comprised of adherents of hundreds of faiths as well as non-believers, all of whom are entitled to be treated with equal dignity by their government,” they said.


California Says To Hell With Economics, Will Hike Minimum Wage To $15/Hour

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/28/2016 10:21 -0400

Over the past 12 months, America has had front row seats for a real-life experiment with across-the-board wage hikes.

In January of last year, a grinning Doug McMillon appeared in a video message posted to Wal-Mart’s website to announce that the world’s biggest retailer was set to implement one of the “largest single-day, private-sector pay increases ever.”

Now first of all, McMillon and the rest of the executive suite probably should have reread the statement in quotes above and asked themselves whether that sounded like something that was likely to turn out well. Wal-Mart employs a whole lot of people, and giving everyone a raise is the kind of thing that can end up having unintended consequences – especially when your business runs on the thinnest of margins.

But Wal-Mart pressed ahead anyway and almost immediately, things started to unravel. First, Bentonville moved to squeeze suppliers by forcing them to plow their excess cash into savings rather than in-store advertising. Next came storage fees and eventually, Wal-Mart even tried to compel vendors to pass along any savings they might have recognized from the yuan devaluation.

But squeezing the supply chain proved inadequate to make up the money spent on higher wages and so, Wal-Mart did what anyone with any common sense knew they would end up doing: they fired thousands of people and closed hundreds of stores. Or, visually:

A valuable lesson was learned by all. Or maybe not, because over the weekend, California lawmakers and labor union reps struck a deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15/hour.

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Big Brother Shows Up In My Front Yard

Guest Post by Gayle

I moved to my community in Southern California in 1999.  I wasn’t here very long before I recognized the high quality of life the citizens enjoyed; in fact, I was heard to murmur that I would be content here until I died.  There is a lot of money (much of it medical) in our fair town, which is generously shared with the community in a number of ways, especially the arts, youth programs, and charities serving the poor.  Generally speaking it is a peaceable and beautiful place despite the recent bomb factory that was uncovered here.

There have been a lot of changes in the past ten years.  A chunk of land of several thousand acres next to our city but owned by the county was unavailable for development of any kind.  That changed about ten years ago, and now the area is filled with unimaginative shopping centers, many large concrete warehouses (including Amazon’s two), large apartment complexes, and lots of traffic.  This was preceded by the ripping out of productive orange groves. I am fortunate to live on the old side of town, so I can avoid this area unless I need my Target fix.

In the older neighborhoods, there are many mature and beautiful trees shading lovely lawns and flower beds.  These make life much cooler and more pleasant in our very long and hot and dry summers. They also require a fair amount of water to maintain, and the drought has put pressure on our water supply.  Last year most of us tried to reduce our water usage.  I started doing laundry every other week and tried to significantly reduce my lawn and garden watering.  Some people just let their lawns dry up and left them.  Others paid landscapers to rip out lawns and put in desertscapes, some of which are quite attractive, especially if brown is your favorite color.  Others tried the do-it-yourself route and they are not so attractive.

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“Fukushima Class Disaster” – L.A. Gas Leak Spewing Lethal Levels Of Breathable Nuclear Material

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

In a breaking development that has been completely ignored by mainstream news sources, the leaking natural gas well near Los Angeles, California is now reportedly spewing lethal levels of radioactive material, according to a report from Steve Quayle and a group with expertise in nuclear material.

A leaking natural gas well outside Los Angeles is spewing so much naturally-occurring Uranium and Radon, that “breathable” radiation levels have hit “lethal levels” according to a Nuclear Expert group.

Hal Turner of Super Station 95 reports that the well is releasing 1.91 Curies (Ci) of radiation per hour.

This rogue well is spewing huge amounts of natural gas and about 1.91 curies an hour of natural radioactive material in the natural gas… 1.91 curies an hour is about 45.9 curies per day… It’s a really, really big leak.

 

A curie is a unit of measure in the U.S. to describe very large radioactive releases.

The French utilize a unit of measure called a Becquerel to measure radiation levels. A single Becquerel measures the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second.

To put things into perspective, Turner explains that a single Curie is equivalent to about 37 Billion Becquerels (Bq) of radiation:

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“Unstoppable” California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 08:19 -0500

Since initially reporting on California’s Alison Canyon gas leak, more details have emerged on the scale (and potential for no solution) of the problem as the infamous Erin Brockovich writes, “the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping,” as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane – a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide – has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now.

New infrared footage exposes the massive leak..

 

Infographic of leak (and potential solution)

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Radiation from Japan nuclear disaster spreads off U.S. shores

Don’t worry. The government drones say it is safe. Go swimming. Go fishing. What’s the worst that could happen?

Radiation from Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, scientists said on Thursday.

Tests of hundreds of samples of Pacific Ocean water confirmed that Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant continues to leak radioactive isotopes more than four years after its meltdown, said Ken Buesseler, marine radiochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Trace amounts of cesium-134 have been detected within several hundred miles (km) of the Oregon, Washington and California coasts in recent months, as well as offshore from Canada’s Vancouver Island.

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The remaking of an American housing bubble: Home prices are up 78 percent since 2000 and 30 percent since 2012

Guest Post by Dr. Housing Bubble

You have to realize what makes a bubble tick.  People get caught up in a deep rooted herd mentality.  The absolute blindness that occurred between 2005 and 2007 was incredible.  Yet a decade later, people have forgotten many of the reasons why the bubble hit in the first place.  Toxic loans were merely a symptom of the bigger issue – and that bigger issue was that stagnant incomes need riskier debt to keep prices moving higher.  The system is built on everything moving higher and the Fed lives off of this.

Yet somehow, we had an enormous housing collapse.  Today, prices are being driven higher by investors and foreign money.  In a previous post we discussed how one housing development in Irvine had 80 percent of buyers from China paying all cash – all cash for a median price of $1.16 million.  Even a couple of professionals can’t compete with all cash offers.  The driver for pushing prices higher today is different but the result is the same – local families need to take on more precarious levels of debt to buy in today’s market.  And the homeownership rate shows that many simply can’t compete.

The remaking of a housing bubble

There is now a growing voice of people echoing the views that a new bubble is emerging:

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LOOK – IS IT A METEOR, MISSILE OR UFO?

A large bright comet-shaped object with a blue-green-white tail streaked over Los Angeles and San Diego. The phenomena has led spectators and social media to spectulate it was a UFO. The US Navy has confirmed that the mysterious ‘meteor’ was a scheduled Trident II ballistic missile test flight.

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Why do so many young adults live at home? A record 34.5 percent of Millennials live at home with their parents in California

Guest Post by Dr. Housing Bubble

A record 34.5 percent of Millennials live at home with their parents in California.  This rate is higher than the national rate of 30.3 percent which is already incredibly high.  There is ample evidence suggesting that Millennials simply do not want the same things as their Taco Tuesday baby boomer parents.  And many simply don’t want the McMansion aspiration since many are going to have small families.  This is an interesting shift.  Boomers are trying to off load larger crap shacks to an audience that is more interested in smaller more centrally accessible properties.  In California, those young adults that aren’t living at home are likely living in a rental and paying close to half their income on housing.  Good luck saving that 20 percent down payment on a $700,000 crap shack (or $1 million crap shack in the Bay Area).  So why do so many young adults live at home if the recession ended in 2009, more than half-a-decade ago?

Young adults living at home

It should come as no surprise that there are a record number of young adults living at home.  A Fed study found that one major reason stems from younger Americans having massive debt, largely in the form of student debt.  The latest figures show student debt outstanding at $1.3 trillion.  This is an increase of $1 trillion in the last decade or so.  So many young adults are starting life with a mini mortgage already.

Let us look at the changing trends here:

living at home with a parent

Source:  Census

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