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As salmon, steelhead and other fish species move closer to extinction and the Delta smelt is now functionally extinct in the wild, a coalition of environmental groups and the Central Delta Water Agency are demanding that the State Water Board take...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 09:38 AM PDT
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Here we go again, with our weekly revisit to the topic of staying prepared for life, often called prepping.
Here is the link to the ready kit:�
www.ready.gov/ …�
Water (one gallon per person ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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No, not that kind of charging!
I do not even have a car, gas or electric.
I just wanted to express my way of living my life, as I try to maintain my prepper ways of doing things.
Here is one page ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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A California three-way! Polls shift toward Biden Republican scam artists pay the price Trump rejected again in NY criminal fraud case, facing trouble for phony $175M bond in NY civil fraud case... Keep hope alive. We've got a bunch of mostly good news...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
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Climate chaos is here. �Let’s talk through our options, choices, decisions, and plans, and share if we’ve got anything we think can help with survival. �Each week I’ll present a question or a ...
by birches
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The State Water Project (SWP) and Central Valley Project (CVP) Delta “death pumps” have been the biggest killers of salmon, steelhead, Sacramento splittail and other fish species in California for many decades, as I have documented in hundreds of...
by Dan Bacher
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 06:55 PM PDT
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Okay, let’s start with this:�
www.ready.gov/…
Hazard Information Sheets: � Download the Full Suite � or download individual sheets for �
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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“Globally, we are ingesting an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent of a credit card, a new study suggests…This plastic contamination comes from “microplastics” – ...
by nailkeg
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 05:13 AM PDT
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Okay, two weeks ago, I posted a little bit of what FEMA has posted online.
I will now post a little bit of what I posted two weeks ago, plus explore more of their nice, useful, information.
As I ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
15 comments
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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CalGEM is set to vote today on the plan to formally phase out fracking in California. Yesterday, over 1000 individuals across the state and country sent comments to Governor Newsom asking him to direct CalGEM to amend the ban to address all fracking...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 01:24 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 09:39 PM PDT
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Stockton — On March 15, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Stephen Acquisto ruled in favor of the State Water Resource Control Board’s 2018 Bay Delta Plan update, denying all 116 claims by petitioners. In December 2018, the State Water Resources Control...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 08:31 AM PDT
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Okay, what if all the stores are out of business, looted, and empty?
What if the cops all quit?
The city water stops flowing.
No electricity.
I truly do not know how all that might happen, in ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
16 comments
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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The states comprising the Colorado River Compact — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico for the “Upper Colorado” and California, Arizona, and Nevada for the “Lower Colorado’ — now have negotiating offers on the table. And they leave as big a gap as...
by tjlord
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 02:55 PM PST
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Relationships have great value to me, for emotional support.
And relationships�give me comfort, as I think about a bugout scenario.
Alright, here we go again.
Here is the Red Cross link:
www....
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
28 comments
on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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As salmon and Delta fish populations continue to crash due to massive water diversions to corporate agribusiness, the State Water Resources Control Board just issued a public notice regarding the Delta Conveyance Project Change in Point of Diversion...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:44 PM PST
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Welcome back, my fellow preppers.
Here is the standard list from the Red Cross:
Alright, here we go again.
Here is the Red Cross link:
www.redcross.org/…
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
9 comments
on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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Scott Artis, the Golden State Salmon Association’s executive director, responded to the latest California salmon return numbers reported in the Pacific Fishery Management Council report released on February 16, 2024: “Under Governor Newsom, the upper...
by Dan Bacher
12 comments
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 11:55 AM PST
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How the U.S. has fallen prey to a decade-long Russian intel op Also: Lindell owes $5 million for 2020 'election data' challenge Media ignore good Biden polling amid ill-considered bids to replace him... On today's BradCast: As of this week, if it...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 06:50 PM PST
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