January 14, 2025
Water Barrons
Timothy Birdnow
Meet the leftist billionaire family that controls 60-70% of all California water.
This is Lynda Resnick. According to the Revolver article:
Seems the Resnicks own massive agricultural holdings (as well as the Franklin Mint) and control the massive Kern Water Bank, which was privatized by California some years back (and sold to a big Democrat donor).
The Kern Water Bank was funded by taxpayers but now California has to beg the Resnicks for water form it.
The way water is handled in the west is entirely different from back east. Here east of the Rockies we just drill down for water or dam up a stream or just suck water out of a stream or lake without much thought to the matter. We don't have to suffer from the complicated issue of water rights; if you can get to it it's yours, by and large. In the dry west there is a hellishly complex legal mechanism over water, and you can get in some major hot water if you don't follow the law. Pull too much water out of a stream and the government comes a-knocking.
Any time you get the state involved you have problems with corruption and the abuse of the system.
At any rate I am going to bring up something I have discussed previously in other contexts - hydraulic empires, or as they are sometimes called water monopoly empires. We have had such in history and they are usually completely tyrannical. How they work is simple; the King or Pharoah or emperor owns the water and controls the devlivery systems. Piss him off and you go thirsty and so do your crops. As a result nobody ever rebels in a hydraulic empire; the big cheese controls life and death, literally.
IF this number is correct about how much water the Resnicks control (and the article doubts it) then they largely have a water monopoly empire. They say "jump" and California says "how high". This is not a good or stable situation. It means Newsome and everyone else danced to their tune (and Newsome dances with lots of gesticulations thanks to the coke he snorted, or so some believe - see the previous article this morning). Control of water gives immense power.
I have little doubt the Left - at least some of them - have thought this out carefully and realize the power they have. Places like the Imperial Valley, which is Republican country, are limited by fear of losing their water.
And the Imperial Valley suffered that very fate during the Obama Administration when the BHO cut off water to them from the Colorado river to save the snail darter. Many Imperial VAlley farmers lost their land or suffered in other ways as a result.
Water is the stuff of life. The Greek philosopher Thales believed life itself came from water, that water was the essence of the soul. That may not be the case but water certainly is a necessity, a very serious one. Only oxygen is more seriously needed than water.
Do we really want the Left controlling it?
Meet the leftist billionaire family that controls 60-70% of all California water.
This is Lynda Resnick. According to the Revolver article:
– Her family donates HUGE amounts of money to Democrats
– She donated to stop Gavin Newsom’s recall
– They use over 150 billion gallons of water every year
– Her family was in the 1994 secret meeting that officially ended water being a public right in California
– They’re the largest agricultural owners in California, and their farms use more water than all homes in Los Angeles combined
– Lynda and Stewart Resnick own Fiji Water, POM Pomegranate Juice, Wonderful Pistachios, and many other food companies
– They’ve faced lawsuits related to their water management practices, with allegations of profiting from selling water stored in the Kern Water Bank to non-members at a profit, violating public utility laws
– The Resnicks have been accused of using their wealth to influence water policy and politics
They pay off Democrats and Gavin Newsom specifically to keep their scam going
– She donated to stop Gavin Newsom’s recall
– They use over 150 billion gallons of water every year
– Her family was in the 1994 secret meeting that officially ended water being a public right in California
– They’re the largest agricultural owners in California, and their farms use more water than all homes in Los Angeles combined
– Lynda and Stewart Resnick own Fiji Water, POM Pomegranate Juice, Wonderful Pistachios, and many other food companies
– They’ve faced lawsuits related to their water management practices, with allegations of profiting from selling water stored in the Kern Water Bank to non-members at a profit, violating public utility laws
– The Resnicks have been accused of using their wealth to influence water policy and politics
They pay off Democrats and Gavin Newsom specifically to keep their scam going
Seems the Resnicks own massive agricultural holdings (as well as the Franklin Mint) and control the massive Kern Water Bank, which was privatized by California some years back (and sold to a big Democrat donor).
The Kern Water Bank was funded by taxpayers but now California has to beg the Resnicks for water form it.
The way water is handled in the west is entirely different from back east. Here east of the Rockies we just drill down for water or dam up a stream or just suck water out of a stream or lake without much thought to the matter. We don't have to suffer from the complicated issue of water rights; if you can get to it it's yours, by and large. In the dry west there is a hellishly complex legal mechanism over water, and you can get in some major hot water if you don't follow the law. Pull too much water out of a stream and the government comes a-knocking.
Any time you get the state involved you have problems with corruption and the abuse of the system.
At any rate I am going to bring up something I have discussed previously in other contexts - hydraulic empires, or as they are sometimes called water monopoly empires. We have had such in history and they are usually completely tyrannical. How they work is simple; the King or Pharoah or emperor owns the water and controls the devlivery systems. Piss him off and you go thirsty and so do your crops. As a result nobody ever rebels in a hydraulic empire; the big cheese controls life and death, literally.
IF this number is correct about how much water the Resnicks control (and the article doubts it) then they largely have a water monopoly empire. They say "jump" and California says "how high". This is not a good or stable situation. It means Newsome and everyone else danced to their tune (and Newsome dances with lots of gesticulations thanks to the coke he snorted, or so some believe - see the previous article this morning). Control of water gives immense power.
I have little doubt the Left - at least some of them - have thought this out carefully and realize the power they have. Places like the Imperial Valley, which is Republican country, are limited by fear of losing their water.
And the Imperial Valley suffered that very fate during the Obama Administration when the BHO cut off water to them from the Colorado river to save the snail darter. Many Imperial VAlley farmers lost their land or suffered in other ways as a result.
Water is the stuff of life. The Greek philosopher Thales believed life itself came from water, that water was the essence of the soul. That may not be the case but water certainly is a necessity, a very serious one. Only oxygen is more seriously needed than water.
Do we really want the Left controlling it?
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