Posted on 01/11/2025 7:10:24 AM PST by TigerClaws
The wildfires engulfing Los Angeles have put an uncomfortable spotlight on two of its richest residents — Stewart and Lynda Resnick — agriculture tycoons whose farms guzzle a vital and scarce resource: water.
So far, the Resnicks' Beverly Hills mansion, and the Picasso artworks that adorn its walls, have been spared the nearby Palisades and Eaton fires, even as their celebrity neighbors' homes go up in smoke.
But they cannot so easily escape criticism for their agriculture empire, which sucks up more water than whole cities, even as LA firefighters cannot get a drop of the stuff out of the hydrants that line its streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Me: I don’t like socialism
Socialist: I guess you don’t support having a fire department
Me: Not when the fire department is run by socialists.
Related story that details how they took control of a taxpayer-funded reservoir (story from a couple years ago):
How This Billionaire Couple Stole California’s Water Supply
https://perfectunion.us/how-this-billionaire-couple-stole-californias-water-supply/
From the article:
And importantly, the meeting changed ownership of the Kern Water Bank. What once belonged to the state was transferred to a few private water contractors. One of which was Westside Mutual, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wonderful Foods. The Wonderful employee who runs Westside, Bill Phillimore, is the chairman of the ‘public’ organization that manages the Kern Water Bank.
Boom. One secret meeting and the Resnicks owned nearly 60% of an important California water resource, built with hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
The new ownership combined with the rules on paper and surplus water meant that during times of drought the Resnicks could sell Kern water back to the state water systems.
Does Daily Mail not understand the relationship between water, plants, food, and people?
March 26, 2021
Big Ag Billionaires Donate $250,000 to Newsom’s Campaign Against Recall
So it wasn’t the smelt!
Newsom was protecting the water control his backers have.
The more you know...
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.
Resnick and associates spend nearly $4 million on campaigns
Stewart Resnick, his wife, and executives of his companies have donated $3.97 million to candidates and political committees, mostly in the Golden State, since 1993.
https://revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy-images/resnick/resnick_donations.html
Musk needs to open a desalination company and fix the problem!
You can live WITHOUT PISTACHIOS!
So, politicians are feeling the heat, and need to redirect attention...
Farmers fronted much of the money for the construction of the Central Valley Water Project back in the ‘60s in return for a “fixed” share. Those in the San Joaquin Valley have been taking it in the sheets for water since the listing of the Delta Smelt as endangered about which I have a fair bit to say once I lock down a couple of sources following the money involved both in that case and its precedents.
Hence, an article like this one stinks of blame shifting from crooked enviros to agriculture, as the amounts allocated to farmers are so much smaller than they were, while the flows out to the San Pablo Bay and Delta are unprecedented before that listing.
Not buying this attempt to blame business for what happened rather than the environmental policies that caused it.
This is just millionaire sleazy politicians trying to shift blame blame to corporations.
Typical communists villifying the farmers rather than the wasted water for a fish fraud.
"We have deserts in our country, we just don't live in them, *******!!!" -- the late Sam Kinison, whose joke has been overtaken by events.
I find this hard to believe. The city of L.A. must need millions of gallons daily, but the point is valid, cut off the water for everything else except fighting the fires. Or just let the damn place burn, who’s gonna pay them? FEMA is broke. City of Angels run by a bunch of elite clowns.
Yes, they want nothing more than to have everyone working on Soviet-Style Collective Farms.
Exactly.
Think what these filthy communist animals do. Flush water into the sea. Sit on all the energy in the world and make it illegal.
We need federal laws passed to stop this insane crap.
And I’m not inclined to blame the existence of agriculture.
Of course they have to donate to the democrats.
There’s so much blame to share that everybody is pointing fingers at everybody else. Plus, redirecting attention in this direction would not be in Newsom’s best interest since he’s in bed with these nut farmers.
“Musk needs to open a desalination company and fix the problem!”
Desalinization, though rather costly, is better than drinking treated sewage, as was proposed for San Diego a while back.
Ag uses tremendous amounts of water, and tremendous amounts of electricity pumping it out of the ground and all around the state (think California Aqueduct, and the gigantic pipes leading over The Grapevine into the L.A.basin.). Most people, esp. lefties, have no idea how food actually gets produced, and how our economy actually runs. And these are out politicians. No vision, no understanding, and raw ego on parade.
Control the food, control the people.
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