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Timmy Taes's avatar

I've read the letter the Farm Bureaus sent to Trump. It is very good. If the dams are removed, it proves beyond doubt, that the government of California is insane and run by lunatics.

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Ted's avatar

"If the dams are removed, it proves beyond doubt, that the government of California is insane and run by lunatics."

That is a charitable assessment, M. Taes, that is to your credit but may perhaps be a bit too charitable.

The government of California, when appraised objectively, appears to be run by homicidal totalitarians. I suppose we could meet in the middle and refer to them as psychopathic homicidal totalitarians, which is to your point regarding insanity.

I've been here a long time, Timmy; long enough to have bathed in the hot springs flooded by Lake Sonoma. Long enough to have seen a train in downtown Sebastopol and to have watched the strip-mining of the apple orchards. Long enough to have interviewed the Hoedads replanting Masonite clearcuts and to have seen The Sea Ranch before Castle and Cooke built The Lodge.

I watched the original ticky-tacky houses built on the western hills dividing South City from Pacifica and wandered the pastureland where highway 280 was laid. I remember when Alfonso opened his little shop in Mendocino and how he looked when his hair was white and his hands trembled with age.

I stood on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in 1964. My brother's ashes were scattered up at Pillsbury, nearly three decades ago.

Yes, I remember when California government worked to build water and power projects to support the people who came here to live, people attracted by industry, agriculture and of course, the weather.

I remember many things and dreamed many dreams (a couple of which came true,) but never did I dream that a murderous junta would seize power in California, deliberately labor to increase the population pressure on limited California resources and then cut off the power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of people.

You are infinitely kind to call it insanity.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Ted, I was trying to be diplomatic. IMO, you are right. California is run by psychopathic, homicidal Marxists who want most of us dead and gone. The elites want this area as their personal playground.

You have been in this area for a long time. Did you know any of the WWI vets who did the lynching of the gang that killed Sunny Jimmy Petray, Sheriff of Sonoma County at the time? One of the members of the lynching crew, who all came from Healdsburg, told the story of the lynching to the Press Democrat a few years ago. The man was 106 years old.

I moved here in 2000, but I like to know the history of where I live.

My wife and I have been to the Grateful Dead Victorian house on Ashbury, SF. We are friends with the owners. The wife is a Rossi and grew up in Asti.

Lots of history around here and many interesting characters.

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Ted's avatar

If I had met any of those storied vigilantes, Timmy, they never spoke of that rough justice. Sunny Jim was a name that I'd heard at the knees of the older folks. There were still porches and rocking chairs then.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Ted, there used to be a big bronze plaque at the county courthouse in honor of Sunny Jim Petray. His house still stands on Johnson Street in Healdsburg.

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Sarah Catherine Worley's avatar

All in the name of C40.org cities LA 2.0 C40.org = No cars.. No Dairy..Dietary restrictions …and restrictions on travel and clothing purchases. And everyone be eating lab grown meat and dairy… why do you think that they are destroying all farms.. all dams and making all land into conservation land…

Thanks to comrade Karen Bass and the mayor before her.. and you can also thank Newsom for this insanity .. that was signed by Bush, Sr.. Baby Bush.. Clinton and Obama. This is all in the name of saving the planet.. you know the climate change hoax..

Read the book Behind the Green Mask by Rosa Korie and listen to her interviews and speeches.. especially the one she gave In Denmark 🇩🇰 and you will find out how this was all planned and she explains the America 2050 Mega Regions plans.. she even shared a map of the Mega Regions… no one will be living in the gray areas.

Rosa (she was a very smart California gal) who was a commercial real estate appraiser… and this is how she found out about the Agendas… sadly .. She doesn’t walk this earth anymore .. but she left behind her knowledge about the Agendas .. Agenda 21.. Agenda 2030.. The Great Reset.. and the America 2050 Mega Regions project…

She also has a website that her partner Kay has been keeping updated about the Agendas… it’s designed to help folks learn more about the Agendas..

Democrats Against U.N. Agenda 21…

You can Google YouTube and listen to her interviews and speeches.

Good luck and please share her knowledge and her insights and experiences …and how she discovered the plans for the masses…

Klaus has been warning everyone that you will own nothing and be happy eating ze bugz.. and LA will be a car free city…and now Bill Gates is telling the masses who are awake and aware and not asleep at the wheel.. he is warning them …that within 10 years …there will be no jobs due to AI … everyone will be living on their universal basic income handouts.

One more thing… they are buying up land for their Data Centers .. just look at what they have done to rural Georgia and all the land it takes to build a data center.. and then there’s the mucho electricity to run the data centers and sadly folks who live near the data centers .. or next door to one .. they are suffering from the nightly light pollution.. and their electricity bill have doubled …since the data centers were built.. and now they can’t even drink their water .. it isn’t fit to drink.. sad but true.

We are the carbon that they want to get rid of.. Good luck.

I hope people will start waking up and preparing for themselves and their families and children.. and their animals..

you’ll see on the Mega Regions Map what states will be the best states to live in.. and Florida is one..

right now they are building a farming community in Green Cove Springs Florida… it’s called AGRI-Hood… and all of the homes that will be built … they will not have lawns … but they will have gardens where the home owners live and they will grow all of their vegetables and herbs.. and there will be a farm and a school where they will teach the children how to farm and be self sufficient.

It’s either live there.. or you’ll be living in their high density cities .. in their high rise condos or apartments.. it will be like living in East Germany 🇩🇪

Again, good luck 👍

PS.. Note all the gray areas on the America 2050 Mega Regions map.. No one will be living in the gray areas.

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Logcutter's avatar

The changes being sought and wrought in the Trump Administration are the only hope to save the dams. The fix is in and beyond hope for sure with the state, and it is likely beyond fix with the current overwhelming anti-dam mindset within federal agencies. The Trump outfit could pull victory out of the jaws of defeat, though. Before I worked for Siskiyou County, the decommissioning train for 4 Klamath River dans was already well on the tracks with the irrigation shutdown in the Upper Klamath Basin begun under the Clinton Administration. George Bush bought the farmers temporary respite until Obama came in. By then, I was working for Siskiyou County, and had an active role in trying to save the dans, and the campaign to take them out was in high gear. The fix that was in was re-empowered, and there was nothing that could be done to stop it with a complicit federal administration in place. They were eased in their goal because our 4 dams had no agricultural or flood control value. Electrical generation was almost the sole role of the dams. Just the few lakeside resident communities and lake recreationalists were the primary long term victims. The campaign to take out the two remaining dams which are the lifeblood of the agricultural community in the Upper Basin is now building. With Trump in office, it’s going to be a tough slog for the decommissioning lobby. But an administration change will likely supercharge the demise of those dams. If people are successful in getting relief on the Potter Valley dams thanks to the Trump administration, I STRONGLY urge striving for a permanent solution and not to get complacent with something that can be undone with a change in US Presidents!!!

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In2ition's avatar

When you follow the money, what do you find motivating those who want to ruin our farms, ranches, and rural communities in California?

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Ted's avatar

"When you follow the money, what do you find"

Dark triad traits, In2ition, expressed and gratified, virtually unopposed.

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Ted's avatar

Ms. Covello, your writing is concise, but has a subtle poignancy that can make my heart ache and move me to tears.

Don't stop writing; you have a gift, and your message weaves a tapestry knitting the past into the present. The new generations have lost their heritage, and a voice like yours is all that can tell them how to find it again and pass it along to the generations that I will never see.

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