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California: Davis adviser's influence shows water and money can mix?
napaNews.com ^ | Sunday, June 2, 2002 | DON THOMPSON AP

Posted on 06/02/2002 4:01:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Robert357
I think this is most interesting:
An early Davis supporter, Brackpool is a prominent example of the entrepreneurs who have contributed heavily to Davis and been rewarded with high-profile appointments and
other assistance.

21 posted on 06/02/2002 6:11:25 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hah!! Politicians are great! Everyone should own one!!
22 posted on 06/02/2002 6:25:51 PM PDT by meyer
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To: meyer
Right!!!

Davis might not be that far away from tapping into the Saudi money!
Brackpool would be in the intermediary!

23 posted on 06/02/2002 6:47:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Condit and Saudis and Cadiz and California and .....Ron Burkle!!!!

Remenber him of Doritz fame?

24 posted on 06/02/2002 7:23:23 PM PDT by Betty Jo
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh, what a wonderful post!

A Saudi Prince owning half of the Cadiz Water .

He might get shot if seen inspecting his property by being mistaken as a Saudi terroist attempting to sabotoge a water supply!

I spelled "Beth Dozoretz" wrong above. I hope I have it right now.

Maybe we can find that Condit has met the Saudi Prince?

Oh, the power of Google!

From your article we have Saudi Princes,Condit,Burkle,Dozoretz,water, Gray Davis, California!

25 posted on 06/02/2002 7:51:02 PM PDT by Betty Jo
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To: Betty Jo
So who was Beth Dozoretz?
A condit cuddly?
26 posted on 06/02/2002 8:18:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Kadco project in the Egyptian sand dunes may not be financially sound because of the water problem there.

Critics are saying that "this making the desert green" is not doable.

So if this Saudi millionaire Prince has all his $$$$ tied up in a sand trap, he better have more $$$$$ somewhere else, cause it seems that Cadiz got him because of that.

27 posted on 06/02/2002 8:28:25 PM PDT by Betty Jo
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Check out Feinsteins husband Richard Blum and his Catellus Corp connections.
28 posted on 06/02/2002 8:32:49 PM PDT by Betty Jo
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To: Betty Jo
The Saudi - GraYout Connection ...I Like It!!! :-)
DUMP DAVI$



GO SIMON

29 posted on 06/02/2002 8:58:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Tacis
We here in California, have been asking how Davis stays out of jail .
We also would like him out of office!
30 posted on 06/02/2002 9:10:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Betty Jo
From the original article :

Brackpool accompanied Davis on a 1999 trade mission to the Middle East, after securing a $300 million investment from a Saudi prince for a Sun World project to divert Nile River water for irrigation.

So I guess that Davis may have met the Saudi Prince.. Wonder what came out of the trade mission?

31 posted on 06/02/2002 9:18:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Grampa Dave
Ping!

See you are back.

Put a lot of stuff on the Napa Valley article,

Doesn't prove anything but does show that Brackpool
could certainly benefit from help in high places!

32 posted on 06/02/2002 9:24:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think this makes sense

All things being equal it would, but my understanding is that most years the Colorado doesn't make it to the Pacific Ocean because so much water is removed from the river. That would mean that during dry years the river doesn't reach the Pacific and during wet years they want to remove more water thus making the Colorado flow into the Pacific even less of the time. From what I know about marine estuaries, they are considered extremely productive habitat. This has to have some fairly steep environmental impacts if I understand it correctly.

33 posted on 06/02/2002 9:52:17 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Ron Dog; Elk Grove Dan; Sierra Wasp; Liz; Dog Gone, d14truth, Howie
Ernest, what a great job you did on this. What an incredible story with your investigation into this and the added value of other Freepers.

Besides the more than $250,000 dollars that Brackpool (What a great surname for a Brit Water Robber Baron with Saudi Connections!) there are more entanglements/plots/criminal actions than in a James Bond movie.

Remember gang, the Department of Water Resources beside buying the outrageous power was the group that sent zillions of gallons of water from a drought hit N. Cali last year. Besides going through a lot of turbines to make electricity to keep the lights on during that phase of the power crisis. Apparently a lot of water from N. Cali has been stored in underground storage units in S. Cali.. I can't document this yet, but it will come around. Whom would benefit $ wise from massive amounts of water shipped down South and stored in underground storage areas?

If we had not had a really wet year in N. Kali this past winter/spring, we would be in a severe water shortage situation as all lakes which were pretty well drained after a drought winter starting after Memorial Day last year.

I just thought that extra water was producing power to keep the pitchforks out of Davis's clymer if we had a lot of blackouts.

The Davis saga if we really had some great investigative reports with good editors could be a Pulitzer Prize story. However, as a young man told us this afternoon, these stories are released on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and buried in the news paper. Then no one in the media connects the dots from Monday thru Thursday for the voting people. He is on my email list of stories like this, and no one that he knows even has an inkling of what we know.

34 posted on 06/02/2002 10:00:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Apparently a lot of water from N. Cali has been stored in underground storage units in S. Cali.. I can't document this yet, but it will come around

Not in the Cadiz aqueifer (sp?) . There is no direct link, Cadiz is in Eastern San Bernandino County and a bit south of the I-40.

35 posted on 06/02/2002 10:21:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Miss Marple
I have no idea where the water has been stored. That was the word coming from the reservoirs up here last fall when they were basically running about dry, that the water was be sent south to be stored in underground storage areas. So when you posted this re the water and Cadiz, I wondered if our water went down there. So I still don't know where our water went and is stored for whom.

Miss Marple, this may be that tie in that you were looking for last year between ConDidIt and Davis.

36 posted on 06/02/2002 10:26:35 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach
If we had not had a really wet year in N. Kali this past winter/spring, we would be in a severe water shortage situation as all lakes which were pretty well drained after a drought winter starting after Memorial Day last year.

Hey, I remember those threads! You've done yoemans work on this thread Ernest...BRAVO!

37 posted on 06/02/2002 10:30:03 PM PDT by forester
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud, the member of the Saudi royal family whose $10 million contribution for post-September 11 reconstruction was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is behind the Sun World companies finances.

Saudis want to control a large part of California water supplies!

So besides a democrat (Davis) and his banker there are a few of us who see this!

Why are the democrats always so willing to take such huge contributions from foregin sources????

38 posted on 06/02/2002 10:36:27 PM PDT by Kay Soze
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To: Grampa Dave
OK, they did extend via pipeline from west side of Victor Valley water flow up to Barstow and on over to Dagget/Yermo to recharge the Mohave Aquifer and also to supply cooling water to a new Natural Gas Power Plant being built on the old George Air Force Base in Victorville.
39 posted on 06/02/2002 10:38:24 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Got a map here:


40 posted on 06/02/2002 10:47:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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