NAWAPA's Neanderthal Nonsense

For shame! Disparaging cavemen again!

Thought I would pass along the latest blather from the LaRouche NAWAPA folks.

"As is now painfully obvious to our citizens, the recent midterm elections have done nothing to solve the crisis. For the moment, the Republican Party leadership appears only to be interested in “out- Obama- ing” Obama and the Democrats, in the brutality of their budget cuts. The unnecessary deaths of our elderly and other vulnerable citizens by the dismantling of Social Security and eliminating Medicare will not balance the budget any better than destroying our cities through allowing police and fire departments to be gutted. Nor will our crisis be solved through the sale of our nation’s vital infrastructure. We can never cut our way out of this crisis- we must build our way out."

"For those patriots whose allegiance lies to their nation first, and party second, the discussion has gone in a far different direction than how deep and severe the budget cuts should be. This discussion is centered on the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), as the platform on which we will build our way out of the physical economic collapse by leading the world again in pushing the frontiers of science and technology."

"Conceived and designed in detail by the Parsons Engineering Company in 1964(!), NAWAPA will divert a portion of Alaska and Northern Canada's annual fresh-water run-off, and bring it down to the Prairie Provinces of Canada, the arid, but potentially fertile lands of the Great American Desert, and the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts spreading into Northern Mexico. By the strategic creation of dams, reservoirs, tunnels and other elements along the natural topographical features of two-thirds of the North American land mass, NAWAPA achieves the greatest possible efficiency in water development in the continent's history, with the least amount of elements involved in its construction." [WW comments: Least amount? WTF?]

"Initial phases of building NAWAPA will not only immediately create three to four million jobs in some of the most highly skilled professions existing, but will require an integration of whole areas of our presently disintegrated physical economy, such as water, power, transportation, machine-tools, steel, etc. The “can-do” spirit of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal projects and John F. Kennedy's moon-mission will be revived in the new challenges and obstacles that NAWAPA presents to all scientific frontiers. Economist Lyndon LaRouche and collaborators have also elaborated new ways in which this project can be thought of today as we push to implement it in 2010, including the role which nuclear power can play, and NAWAPA's role as an experiment in potential continental climate engineering and terraforming, to which NASA scientists who rightly wish to see mankind on Mars in this century can look forward."

"In recent months, the conception of this economic recovery program for the continent has been refined through many conference calls, interviews with individual experts, and video studies. We are now issuing an invitation to individual patriots and representatives of institutions involved in diverse sectors such as nuclear and rail engineering, soil science, agriculture, geotechnical, hydrology, meteorology, and other related investigations, to participate in further bringing the idea of NAWAPA and its implied features into focus at various upcoming, regional conferences."

 They are also having a meeting on 4 December, noon - 5 PM. Information below.

Location:
Hilton Garden Inn (Columbia Club Room)
701 North Young Street
Kennewick, WA, 99336

Schedule:
12pm - 1pm Opening Remarks: Strategic and Scientific Importance of NAWAPA

1pm - 4:00pm Panel Discussion and Q &A with Experts on the Engineering Aspects of NAWAPA's Implementation, featuring City and Nuclear Design for Idaho's 'Sawtooth Lift', and NAWAPA's required Rail Road Development Corridors

4:00pm - 5pm Closing Remarks and Discussion: NAWAPA as U.S. Policy Shift.

Registration Required. To register, contact: (206) 250- 7398.

Unfortunately, I will be in Paris for a meeting so will have to pass on the Tri-Cities soirée. Otherwise I might have gone - seriously.

Unless I needed to wash my hair.

Here's my take on all this.

Maybe we should turn these guys loose on the Bay-Delta!

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson

Comments

[Michael]

Hi, John.

Thanks for commenting. A 'video study' is a 21st-century version of an artist's conception. To me it merely proves that these folks have vivid imaginations and people skilled at CGI.

DeLorean Desert? Cute. I was thinking more along the lines of Datsun Desert.

[John Fleck]

When I shared my wisecrack over on the Twitter, Larry Hogue suggested we could call it DeLorean Desert.

Kaching!

[John Fleck]

Michael -

Every time a write a "we're doomed" story featuring the obligatory cracked mud photo, I can count on getting a call from a well-intentioned reader offering the helpful suggestion that we divert vast quantities of water from a wet place into the Cadillac desert.

What's even more expensive than a Cadillac? Will we have to rename our desert? Also, what's a "video study"?