What the main stream media hides / white lies about, a very short list!:
1= Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the USA, with ground water super-toxic contamination mainly from the infantile and childishly irresponsible computer industry, still not 'mature'.
2= SFO does not really have 'weather delays', but 'runway design delays'. The relatively new rules for airports mandate 1000ft separation between parallel runways. SFO's are only 750ft.
3=raw sewage is still ,,, still being released into SFBay. Because of the 3 major airports, SF and Oakland and SJose, politicians want it to be a dead-to life dumping ground / open sewer, but when the Indians were in charge and thriving by the thousands around the SFBay only a few hundred years ago, the surface of the Bay was 1/3 larger and completely covered in birds.
4=California farmers, mostly corporate tho they conveniently call themselves 'family farms' get a HUGE subsidy in 70% of the water in the state going dirt cheap at less than $100 /acre foot. Yet hard working and retired seniors , like my 93 yr old parents in San Jose, pay over $100/month, for 2 people in a 3br- 2ba ranch house , taking only a couple showers each a week. And the City of San Jose allows this 'highway' robbery?!
5=Silicon Valley, Ca. , the birthplace of the computer industry, does not have one major expressway or boulevard with computer timed traffic lights, but it does have a terrible traffic problem for decades. Not one. They make computers there ,but they obviously do not know how to make the best use of them. City vs City and County lack of cooperation,,, or political corruption-stasis?
6=KQED use to have a great new show "the newsroom". But it is not on tv anymore,,, Why? Fear of retribution from discussions about politicians? Or Corporate ,,, Chevron?,,, interference. "the newsroom" would make great University study material about great political reporting. And with gerrymandering still in California, we need it so much today. And not just about what goes on behind closed doors in Sacramento.
7=Soda Springs, Ca. use to be a major snow DEPTH (not 'snow fall') measuring station. Why does the State and the weather tv people and the news media hide the historical records of snow max. depth here, near famous Donner Pass?
8=Why it is allowed for cash register receipts to quickly fade so you have no record of sale but ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS CHEMICALS? We suffered thru LEAD PAINT and LEADED GASOLINE to the detriment of all, especially children, but why when it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT LEAD IS A VERY DEADLY POISON. MERCURY in adult and CHILDREN DENTAL "silver amalgam" fillings!? Just shocking !! The Congress and chemical industry are slowing poisoning us and the USA environment, with stupid choices. Now too much ARSENIC in apple juice and grape juice !? The EPA is becoming a joke,,, like the FTC,,, and the FDA,,, and the SEC,,,Spineless agencies employing thousands of govt workers, doing little about their reason for being.
Shameful.
