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"Indeed, in the 1980s the free-market tax-cutting former California governor Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and many californians no doubt continued to believe that their economy was in the vanguard of the world. Another economic recession occurred in 1990-91, and this helped bring the real estate booms of the 1980s to an end. This time, price declines were severe. In Los Angeles, after peaking at the end of 1989, real home prices declined 41% by 1997. However, it is not clear that the recession caused the ends of the booms." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "California had grown with relatively few zoning restrictions, but, starting around the 1960s, californians decided collectively to do something about this. The effect was to make California, around the 1970s, one of the most difficult places in the country to build new houses.40 This political change limited the supply of new homes, so that the safety valve that had prevented price increases from taking place was no longer so effective. It was viewed by some critics as a victory for the haves versus the have-nots, the people who already owned homes versus those who did not." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Meanwhile, californians watched expensive houses slide down waterlogged hillsides. In Peru the small coastal fishing villages of a century ago are now cities. The 1982 ENSO debilitated the anchovy fishery and sent roaring floods cascading through poor urban neighborhoods; hundreds drowned. The two great El Nifios of the late twentieth century brought home a harsh reality: With millions more people on earth than even a generation ago, packed into cities or cultivating semi-arid lands and the margins of tropical rain forests, we are highly vulnerable to protean climatic shifts." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Heard at a conference on El Nino, May 1997 It was 1983 when El Nino became an international media event, largely because californians suffered through a winter of capricious storms and mudslides. In October few of us had heard of El Nino. Six months later we had lived through the most thoroughly monitored and most expensive El Nino in history. The royal yacht Britannia lay in Long Beach Harbor, about to sail for Santa Barbara to bring Queen Elizabeth II to visit President Reagan at his nearby ranch." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Californians followed for over seventeen years. The results echo the transnational experience with income gap. People of low ses who resided in wealthier neighborhoods had a higher mortal risk than people of low ses who lived in poor neighbor- hoods. Proximity to resources and to neighbors who are advantaged does not compensate for a meaner and more meager lifestyle. Rather, it magnifies the toll. It turns out that social hierarchy influences the health of primates other than humans." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"For the past half century, members of this community, whose faith endorses healthy living, have participated in a groundbreaking health and dietary study of californians over the age of 25. The results of this study hold promising clues to another remarkable fact about these Adventists: As a group they currently lead the nation in longest life expectancy. Marge Jetton, I decided, was the Adventist poster girl. She had sucked me into the whirlwind of her 100-year-old orbit an hour earlier at the Plaza Place hair salon just outside of Loma Linda. For the past 20 years, Marge has kept an 8 a.m." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"With Sierra Nevada snowpack declining and earlier melt producing earlier spring run-off, surface water supplies to 85 per cent of californians - orange growers and city dwellers alike - will be reduced. Nor would the changes be limited to California: a second study projects snowpack declines in Oregon and Washington too, with the northern Rockies and Cascades seeing declines of 20 to 70 per cent. With more rain and earlier snowmelt, the likelihood of winter flooding will also increase, even whilst reduced run-off causes water shortages in the summer." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Spanish californians boiled the leaves in olive oil, then added perfume to make a hair dressing. Marijuana users sometimes smoke this when their herb of choice is unavailable. Constituents Flavonoids (rutin, zeaxanthin), alkaloids (protopine, allocryptine, berberine, sanguinarine) Energetic Correspondences • Flavor: bitter • Temperature: cool • Moisture: dry • Polarity: yin • Planet: Sun/Mercury • Element: air Contraindications Avoid in cases of depression. Excess use can cause one to feel hung over in the morning." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"It is predicted that by 2025, 820,000 elderly californians, 114 712,000 Floridians, and 552,000 Texans will be suffering from Alzheimer's disease.4 The high costs of caring for these millions of demented elderly may wreak havoc on the healthcare system. This paradox has been called the "failure of success" because it was a major problem that was largely attributable to progress in medical care.5 As E.M. Gruenberg and his colleagues point out, "the old man's friend, pneumonia, is dead - a victim of medical progress." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"In the fall of 2006, he teamed up with the NGO californians Against Waste to advocate a bill in the state legislature that actually asks that California adopt the language of Europe's RoHS, tying state law, for the first time in American history, to the law of another government. It is now pending in the state legislature. The reasons for the EIA's turnabout are revealing. The vacuum at the federal level has prompted states to take matters into their own hands." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"He arrived just as californians began shaking off gold rush fever to worry about how to farm rhe Central Valley's alkali soils—salty ground unlike anything back East. Newspapers were full of accounts of crops that withered mysteriously or produced marginal yields. The extent of alkali soils increased as irrigation spread across the golden state. Every new irrigated field raised the local groundwater table a little more. Each summer, evaporation pumped more salt up into the soil. Hilgard realized that, like a lamp's wick, clay soils brought the salt closer to the surface." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Californians to become ill. Farmers said labeling on the pesticide aldicarb states that the insect killer will leave the soil within 100 days, yet traces were found infields as late as six years after the last application. Seal of Approval Under a new plan to certify fresh fruits and vegetables with "quality and safety" seals, California's produce industi is hoping to regain consumer confidence. Mississippi Fish Kill, California Farmer. April, 1964; "Melon Probe Sparks Clash on Pesticide." LA rimes, T.ilir 7 1QRC.. "V^ctir-iAa R~?l^ T "IB T;?? 1UI___00 1 QOO." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"The number of californians at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure more than doubled in the three months ending September 30, 2006.18 In the winter of 2007 came word that New Century Financial Corporation—the nation's second largest provider of subprime mortgages—was having a rough time of it. When its mortgages go bad, it is supposed to buy them back. Now it finds that it doesn't have the money. On February 8, investors marked down the stock by more than one-third. In April, it went broke. It must have been a bad day for the insiders and large shareholders." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The reaction so far has mostly come in the form of ballot measures to clarify and enforce entitlement distinctions between citizens and illegal immigrants. californians have passed initiatives against the granting of driver's licenses and social services benefits to illegal immigrants and to terminate bilingual education. In 2004, voters in Arizona passed Proposition 200, requiring new voters to offer proof of citizenship and state and local governments to verify legal residency before extending "public benefits" to people who apply." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Partly due to the "Don't Tax Food" initiative, led by an assemblyman, the California Grocers Association, and others who lobbied aggressively against the tax, 60 percent of californians voted for repeal in 1992. Following the repeal, store owners reported that snack food sales rose 16.7 percent above those of the previous year.38 The tax generated revenues of approximately $200 million, and snack sales dropped an estimated 10 percent during the period the tax was in effect.39 Maryland also experimented with a snack tax, levying a 5 percent tax in 1992." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Californians for Pesticide Reform," February 1998 (3). 415.495.1149. www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/kidsPois.html). 43 Terrance Gray, "Ag-Culture Media Project," 502.244.9444; "Green Blood—Red Tears," 1999, 87 minute video, $55.00. 44 Bosweg, Ritzema, "Environmental and Occupational Health", P.O. Box 238, 6700 AE Wageninen, The Netherlands. 45 US Food and Drug Administration. "Residues in Food, 1990," September/October 1991, pg. 16-17.f 46 US General Accounting Office, "Pesticides: Need to Enhance FDA's Ability to Protect the Public from Illegal Residues," October 1986." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"The story varies geographically: californians say she ate only one or two seeds, while Eskimos say she ate the whole thing.) Muhammad advised his followers to eat pomegranates, for he believed they purged the system of hatred and envy. P Buying Tips A pomegranate of good quality should be fresh looking, plump, and heavy for its size, with a hard, reddish-brown rind. Favor larger fruits over smaller ones, and heavier over lighter, as these promise more juice." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Both states may be overwhelmed additionally by sheer numbers of californians fleeing the disorders there. The Northwest may find itself in a whole other strange kind of trouble. Exposed to the Pacific, the region may be molested by military or paramilitary seaborne adventurers originating from the far side of the Pacific rim. In the Long Emergency, Asia will find itself in turmoil at least as severe as anything happening in North America, and quite possibly a lot worse because of its swollen populations. China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia are all populated by seafaring people." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"While automobiles may seem to be a far greater source than a little can of hairspray, in California alone, the annual emissions of 176 million pounds of VOCs from 30 million californians using consumer products are the same as if 20 million cars were added, each driving an additional 10,000 miles that year" (Source: Air Quality Resources, www.aqs.com/iaq/vol_org_compounds.asp). Hairsprays containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol, listed as SD alcohol followed by a number), hydrocarbons, isobutane, and butane all release vapors into the air that generate ozone in the lower atmosphere." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

"Johnson's Texans or Carter's Georgians or Reagan's californians. The style and content of the nation's capital reflects the origin, companions, and prejudices of the Ptesident as much today as ever. 32. Even now, there are traces of settlement in the emptier parts of Virginia and the Carolinas which show that a farm was abandoned as long ago as the 1780s. The same was even more true in the less populated times of the Civil War, when huge numbers of soldiers of both sides invaded uninhabited areas and came across one-time habitations dating back to the 1660s. 33." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"WHAT californians DONT KNOW—Many californians are living in an enormous nuclear bunker and they aren't aware of it. The large-scale, secretive, and virtually self-regulated use of radioactive materials by military bases in California include an estimated 1200 nuclear weapons on at least 12 bases (more than half of which are located in or near major urban areas and some are sitting on active earthquake faults) and as many as 19 Navy vessels powered by 29 nuclear reactors with home ports in California harbors. SOURCE: New West, April 1981, "Where the Bombs Are," by David E. Kaplan." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"After the public learned about the funding source behind "Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions," opinion turned decisively against the referendum and it was voted down. "The $25 million smokescreen the tobacco industry created to dupe californians into voting for Proposition 188 has cleared, and the voters have spoken," declared the American Cancer Society.22 The tobacco industry's PR campaign is not really about swaying public opinion, a battle which the industry has already lost. Even half of smokers favor stricter government regulation of their deadly habit." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"Because the cactus tastes extremely or even disgustingly bitter, many californians pour the powder into gelatin capsules that hold 1 g each. This practice makes it easier to ingest the powder and also makes it easy to determine the dosage. The powder should be stored in a dry, dark location. Because mescaline is a relatively stable compound, the powder will remain active for a long time if stored properly. If the powder is dissolved in milk, water, apple juice, tea, or some other liquid, it should be consumed as quickly as possible, as otherwise it will congeal into a disgusting mass." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"California Governor Schwarzenegger has acknowledged the importance of our financial future by proclaiming April as "Financial Literacy Month," and states, "by increasing -? Californians' fiscal knowledge, we contribute to per- On my three highest sonal financial stability and strengthen the economic values-spirituality, climate in our state." family and friends-combined, I spent less m ^te ^0M' of Money, Lynne Twist speaks of overthan five percent of spending as, "the logical response if you fear there's my earnings. not enough, but the idea of 'more is better' drives a -?" - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"WHAT californians DONT KNOW—Many californians are living in an enormous nuclear bunker and they aren't aware of it. The large-scale, secretive, and virtually self-regulated use of radioactive materials by military bases in California include an estimated 1200 nuclear weapons on at least 12 bases (more than half of which are located in or near major urban areas and some are sitting on active earthquake faults) and as many as 19 Navy vessels powered by 29 nuclear reactors with home ports in California harbors. SOURCE: New West, April 1981, "Where the Bombs Are," by David E. Kaplan." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

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