How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California's Water Supply | The Class Room ft.

[@NoSpam1891]

Quote: "Bottled water companies don't sell water. They sell bottles." Truest words ever.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

Look for this sign on pkg.(U). $--a % to... sziont jooz.

[@kennithchapman9689]

So all they sell is trash that will pollute the Earth for the next 10,000 years. Awesome 🤬😡

[@NoSpam1891]

@@kennithchapman9689 "Alberta home built with use of recycled plastic water bottles" 1 million of them!

[@jeremywales8]

Some sell plastic shards in the water too. 🤙🏻

[@angelbulldog4934]

Bottled water, for the most part, is from Municipal sources. I already have that. Why would I spend money on a plastic bottle that is so thin it collapses in your hand? It's like trying to wrangle smoke!

[@teledoink]

I worked for a large nonprofit, and that’s how I found out that philanthropy = control. It’s a great way to funnel wealth back to one’s own interests while pretending to be altruistic, and all tax free.

[@bertplank8011]

U2 the pop group use this strategy....so does Geldof (estimated wealth £80,000,000).....they have one thing in common with the Resnicks...their ethnicity.

[@parisp6629]

Aka Bill Gate

[@henryhenderson7051]

“Non-profit.” What a misnomiclatcrer.

[@curmudgeon1933]

By donating large sums to universities and colleges, it becomes easier to convince their administrations to hire certain researchers and professors ,who will be offered grants and tenured positions to study certain things, and return results that are favorable to the donors...and fire or blacklist those who try and publish papers that seek to challenge the current corporate agenda. Environmental and economics subjects are especially useful to the super-rich and corporations, to present 'scientific proof' which can be used to push policies which favor the elites.

[@teledoink]

@@curmudgeon1933 Absolutely. The gender and T stuff, make no mistake, is a big money maker also. One of the nonprofits I worked for was a large university teaching hospital, and the department I worked for did a sudden 180° shift away from helping schizophrenic homeless people during the height of the homeless crisis, and suddenly began concentrating all of its resources and energy into gender reassignment programs. Make no mistake, this is 100% because of grant money. I truly believe that the homelessness crisis is in large part worsened because all of these institutions are getting money from donors to support gender reassignment instead of mental health. I saw it with my own two eyes, and experienced it. That’s where the donor money wants medical care to go, so eff the people who need help, let’s concentrate on what I now consider “glamour” causes instead.

[@d.s.2016]

Unbelievable how greed can turn people into horrible monsters.

[@terriseaton3049]

Most don’t understand anytime a company is buying water from a State the residents are the losers!

[@offlier]

You have it backwards.

[@newtoncooper4085]

Seem's like you can buy immunity from anti-trust laws,

[@hvanmegen]

it's unbelievable how the American public likes to get fucked in the ass over and over, all under the guise of the 'Open Market' and 'Donations' (Bribery)... this is just PURE CORRUPTION.. for having so many 'woke' people, the sheeple are pretty much still asleep..

[@gsp49]

Greed helped me retire 12 years earlier than most folks. Nothing wrong or immoral about greed.

[@zendecibelsraw]

People like the Resnicks, the Getty's, the Duponts, & the many other families profiting from our resources need to be held accountable for crimes against humanity

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Good luck

[@erick5709]

They do I agree....but I don't think justice will truly be served upon them here..... hopefully God has judgement for them.

[@lazerbubbles3630]

Rothschild

[@shutinalley]

When Ai takes over. It may not be kind to them.

[@skidmarksteven69]

them and the politicians they own. pelosi, newsome, feinstein, obama

[@dexterplant778]

I really don't think bribing politicians should be considered as philanthropy.

[@iche9373]

It’s Neoliberalism

[@dexterplant778]

@Lind Morn I would like to point out that if your philanthropy donation is something that will help the struggle of the people then that's wonderful, however the bribing of politics in order to gain more money for the total greed of the whole corporate system while putting the people at risk from polluted water, oppressive government, and general athoritarian activities, I guess what kind of potential Nazi you must be.

[@AcidiFy574]

​@Lind Morn seizing their "wealth" is philanthrophy

[@kenos911]

Ok so how do we put an end to this? You can’t exactly rob them of their power supply, even if you rob their lives

[@kenos911]

Water* sorr

[@samsaxetaller]

The Resnicks just donated $50 million to UC Davis to build a new building for the study of agriculture and sustainability. The scariest thing about this is that it gives them control over the narratives surrounding the vital transition to sustainable agriculture when they profit off of the status quo and have a financial incentive to maintain it.

[@bizzyg5751]

Basically they are doing with Exxon Mobil does. If they find anything negative, they'll create a false narrative, put it out there, so that by time other people discover what that may be and release it to the public, people will already have their minds made up.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

Accusing multinational billionaire capitalists of controlling the education, science, and media systems? Wow, you must be a Nazi.

[@meligoth]

This is how corporations get access to new technologies and advances in science and medicine. New ideas realized by research outside their payroll, they get the credit and copyright.

[@kakyoin9688]

@@meligoth or just publish false findings like Exxon did

[@caneprints]

In some ways, big donations to universities are more dangerous than big donations to politicians because when you donate to a university, you are literally changing the thinking of countless young people who will be indoctrinated with your version of capitalism. Universities nowadays are nothing but money machines and they will take money from whoever wants to give it to them. Something will change only when average people walk in their bathroom to take a shower one morning to find that they have no water for that purpose.

[@guillermocortes3783]

As a resident of the Central Valley my frustration and anger at this current system is only exceeded by my anger and frustration at the fact that my fellow citizens are totally in the dark about what’s going on.

[@Opalmiller19]

💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

[@Opalmiller19]

I was always confused but my grandma used to live in Arizona by California and the agriculture there uses so much (and they don’t put covers over their canels. The canels let a lot of absorption happen

[@Opalmiller19]

C02 increasing (and methane which is 86 worse ((permafrost melting in artic releases this also)) Heat makes more stored atmosphere water (atmospheric rivers) so less on ground, or under the ground, more storm systems.

[@Luigi110067]

Just leave!

[@guillermocortes3783]

@@Luigi110067 🙄

[@6by6by6]

I’m a 65 yr old farmer from Oregon, my father in the early 90s after a visit from the State Water resources department told me I would live to see the next civil war and it would be over access to water.. I think we are there with California,Idaho and even now in Oregon water being denied and diverted from the public domain to private entities for redistribution in a for profit based system..Buckle up folks..

[@JerryCalvert-x9u]

I agree 100%.

[@SLF-o2w]

The Los Angeles Times did an expose article on the Resnicks years ago. Paramount Farms grows mandarin oranges Cuties with fracked water and almonds, almonds, almonds!!! Stuart Resnick quote, “I’m laughing all the way to the bank!”

[@KCBluesJams]

Farmers need to use the water rights for actual farming or lose the rights 👍

[@CrystalStarscape]

Man, here in Oregon we might as well be living in the ocean for most of the year, and even that is getting ruined by capitalism.

[@GettingNegative]

It’s crazy there are laws against collecting rain water…

[@Matt369oi]

The unfortunate thing is a majority of Californians don't know about this, and that's how these billionaires want it, in fact, this exists all over the United States and if the average American was in the know, we could put a stop to this, but unfortunately that probably won't happen anytime soon.

[@eliyahubenysrael6272]

The American public is not only ignorant but lazy and sympathetic to this kind of feudal overlordship as they erroeously believe they can join that class in rule. The wealthy are an enemy class as they obtain resources only to rig the system to gain more at everyone else's expense.

[@Editnamehere]

They rather watch the kardashians.

[@ReflectedMiles]

And some who do know about it recognize the hyperbole involved in this storytelling. Take another look at the video title. The LA water district "stole" far more of the water of the Owens Valley than these folks have stolen of California's municipal supplies. I'm not suggesting that it doesn't need to be re-negotiated, but they are just one large player in the multitude of interests at the table, agricultural, municipal, environmental, tribal, etc., all of whom are determined to have more water. Before inviting 40 million people to come eat pie to begin with, it would have been worth figuring out how possible and affordable and practical the available pie was going to be when sliced that many ways. California has long competed with Illinois for being among the worst states at seeing, and disciplining, its own financial and other resources future.

[@ryanwilkinson571]

Such a naive little boy!!!! 🙄

[@WrongThink_]

they know , they just have so much love and trust for their "state / federal leaders, the same politicians who have been bending them over for decades, the same ones who can't seem to figure out how to stop rolling blackouts that have been going on also for decades... every time a politician in CA has a solution somebody gets rich off said solution yet the problem never gets fixed...

[@kennethli8]

I read a super long article on these two couples over 7 years ago. It's insane how the can get away with these types of acts.

[@notrandom2]

we keep voting in old folks with long standing relationships with lobbyists and the wealthy. Unlike regular civilians, these rich folks have a direct line of communication with those very politicians.

[@Magus_Union]

@@notrandom2 Everyone under 40 needs to start running for office in every seat that they can. And as a generation, we need to only vote for these candidates.

[@keithc5729]

Was it in Mother Jones Magazine? I read an article in Mother Jones Magazine on this topic. It was even worse than this short video made it out to be.

[@newagain9964]

Get away with? The voters gave it to them. By proxy of politicians that YOU voted for.

[@writerconsidered]

@@Magus_Union The real issue is getting corporate money out of politics. We don't need a younger generation taking the same corporate money, you'll get the same outcome.

[@radiohill]

I encountered Ms. Resnik at a fundraiser at UCLA. She's basically a monster. They also own Fiji water.

[@noellebazzi5618]

Boycott fidji

[@latengocomoburro]

What did she tell you?

[@jackievilla6622]

They also own Wonderful Pistachios, Cuties, Teleflora I think, Pom juice...

[@1m2rich]

So many women have those plastic surgery cheeks and lips which are too big. Ugly.

[@1m2rich]

@@jackievilla6622 Their Cuties are not great Mandarin oranges. Not as sweet or big. Their mandarins are all I can get at my corporate food store in mid Florida.

[@maxfastest]

Never enough entitled jerks in this country ! Every day lately I'm thankful that I'm old and on my way out ! The fact that these people are allowed to steal everything and never get punished is unforgivable ! Maybe one day soon the people will get fed up and take serious action to stop this nonsense.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Lol, keep dreaming boomer imma take it all, they'res only power, winners and losers

[@fijianfalaa28]

I'm from Fiji. They own Fiji Water. They've done nothing significant for the community that's close to their big water bottle factory its so sad.

[@1m2rich]

We have that in Florida too. Draining so much fresh water for profit depletes our aquifers and causes sink holes. Wonder if they are doing that along the Mississippi.

[@josephfrechette9916]

What's worse if for awhile the government of Fiji was letting them buy the water for next to nothing. It took years before they realized how much the water was getting sold for at retail.

[@gsp49]

@@1m2rich It does not! Have you ever been to any of Florida's famous clear springs? No change in them since before Florida was even a state.

[@flymehome]

Is the Fiji water bad water???

[@xsweat1618]

@@flymehome some say it’s the best water *def the most popular amongst high schoolers*

[@kaceykelly7222]

THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL!! This couple is pure evil.

[@mcgruff7355]

They can do nothing without their democrats friends in high places you get rid of them a new set of Globalist to screw American Citizens take their place.

[@TheBusyJane]

Agreed on the first part. They're just as evil as the rest of the people running corporations. I propose, they're actually less evil than the people we elected and pay with our taxes to work for our interests, who are turning around and also taking money from the other side to work against us.

[@skp8748]

Antisemitic

[@ianmangham4570]

Yeah right 😅 like that's gonna help ,ya think they dont luncheon and vacation with the political elite. 😅

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Nah they're smart

[@darkamerika]

Legislation won't fix this problem as people like this will just buy the necessary politicians to get rid of any laws that threaten their profits. Public necessities like water need to be expropriated by the people. The economy needs to be reorganized around meeting social needs, not giving a few greedy people vast wealth.

[@grimaffiliations3671]

How sway?

[@WezMan444]

Viva la revolution!

[@Nota-Skaven]

The problem can't be solved from above when the "above" was literally engineered to protect landowner power, which was extended to protect capitalist power as a whole

[@JM-zg2jg]

@@Nota-Skaven Well…. It really can only be solved from above. The issue is that we need to retake control of the top. We need more education and democracy. People need to stop re-electing people based on the colors they fly, and start actually looking at how they vote on bills.

[@TheReaderOnTheWall]

Glad that the most upvoted comment is Revolutionnary.

[@Betts711]

If Cali knew this, I’m sure they would boycott all “Wonderful” products!

[@segura8053]

They can’t they build homes,schools,clinics etc. I live there we can’t live without them

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

This is outrageous. They probably lined the pockets of some Congress men. Meanwhile the people struggle.

[@iche9373]

Nationalize the water supply. Now!

[@spamcheck9431]

And you decide to not riot.

[@camazotzz]

definitively yes, they are in bed with Feinstein

[@TomTom-xp2jb]

@@spamcheck9431 👍👍👍

[@touchofgrey5372]

Check my comment above!

[@samueltucker8473]

When leadership becomes totally corrupt with no one to step in and call them out, the fall for such a place is near. Honest people are suffering under them. We can all see that.

[@danarzechula3769]

The garden must be weeded

[@samueltucker8473]

Such is the temporary world we live in. Seasons change, there is nothing new under the sun. Now is the time to work and prepare for tomorrow.

[@GaM3RaDaR]

​@@danarzechula3769Remove the honest people eh, what a Garden that would look like right lol

[@rogerstanton8192]

See the final comments in the movie The Big Short. Explains it all. There is no sheriff riding into town to stop it all !!

[@malhaven1]

I agree that water should not be "owned" by anybody. With that said, it seems rather odd that the county I live in has an ordinance that makes it illegal to catch rain water on your own property.

[@wtos9153]

I kind of wonder if we need a community-run project to genetically modify humans so we don’t need water and don’t get thirsty. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be more realistic than stopping the billionaires.

[@johngarrett8789]

That's INSANE

[@kenmosely540]

Tell them to stick it's your water it came down on your property

[@BrookeK92]

Rainwater ends up in rivers used by many many people (and animals). Those laws are meant to PREVENT people from hoarding water.

[@wtos9153]

@@BrookeK92 Thanks for the explanation. 👍

[@Skycouncil_Sentinel_777]

This is absolutely unacceptable! Boycott and oppose The so-called Wonderful Company at every turn!

[@powdork]

Justin Wines too

[@chasedownblocks1736]

I just bought a bag of their pistachios at Sam’s Club recently 😢 had no idea

[@mushyPeas602]

They have the money…but we have the numbers. ~ Don’t ever buy these products again and put them out of business. Tell your friends and tell your friends to tell everyone.

[@curmudgeon1933]

You can do without pistachios or pomegranate juice...harder to get along without water. Why do you think they want to monopolize these kinds of essential resources? Destroy public mass transit, and make it impossible to survive without a private car. Monopolize the oil industry...You can charge whatever you like when there is no alternative. 'It's All Part Of This Old Money Game' :- Ren

[@JerryCalvert-x9u]

It takes more than that. You also have to give the people alternatives that cannot be bought out or corrupted. Without that your words will fall on deaf ears!

[@ivd4154]

Luckily, pistachios make me physically sick, and I'm allergic to fruit juice including pomegranate. Count me in on the boycott 🙅🏻‍♀️

[@fourthgirl]

​@@curmudgeon1933 Better to keep an eye on local and state politicians who allow agricultural land to be sold for redevelopment like in Solano County and that new secret city.

[@jacrichardson5269]

Well said. We need to demand the public water back

[@krg038]

Its too political. I worked for a California water agency. In the 1920's they knew water was gold. Vp Harris was attorney in Ca. She decided if water would be pumped to farms or the ocean. The farmers often couldn't pay enough and lost

[@ddunning6207]

Up in Tehama county the big nut farms are buying up cattle pastures, putting in orchards and have ileaglly obtained well permits from the planning department. They are sucking dry neighbors wells while they keep adding wells. It happened to me when orchards put in on 3 sides of my property. The person that took money to pass permits is free and still working. We are told tehama is going dry.

[@jameshepburn4631]

Stuff like this is why I support the death penalty.

[@wizardofraw]

Learn about primary water and take back your power

[@wizardofraw]

@Karl with a K So what is your suggestion oh mighty one?

[@wizardofraw]

@Karl with a K You do not even know the REAL history of the United States so how can you even say that? But I am curious since you are all knowing, what needs to be done instead of "talking"?

[@richardrichard9953]

I just drove thru there 2 days ago on I-5.

[@truegrit7697]

I am so sick of corporate welfare.

[@aaronjohnson718]

This whole scenario made up by these greedy people is a huge crime against the people

[@Sams-Diego]

My man.....this was absolutely horrific to hear but I'm so thankful you all did amazing job connecting all the dots and presenting this truth to us all. Please continue this work, but be careful 🙏 because you are poking a hornet nest of 1% ers. Keep up the great work for all of us doing the heavy lifting and getting left out in a literal desert to fend for ourselves.

[@touchofgrey5372]

Check my comment above...That was erased! ! ! Because I dared to criticize a jboy and a jgirl! THEY get away with everything!

[@Skoopyghost]

I want to eat the rich now.

[@stephengolden6080]

@@Skoopyghost bon Appetit!

[@Skoopyghost]

@@stephengolden6080 All though using a Guillotine is a good touch.

[@carlsalazar4490]

This kind of story never gets reported. So many people are in the dark about what’s happening around them. I think this is by design. We as average working Americans deserve better.

[@mimusic1853]

The real problem is America is fixated on social media most specifically tik tok. Even if stories like this made it to a program like 60 Minutes it still wouldn’t reach most zombies I mean Americans. *From a disappointed American for the record*

[@cathjj840]

Establishment media is just that: 'information' by and for the establishment, i.e. these sorts of people, their government relays and their giant corporations. Closely curated, it just does not report on so many important things, so of course people don't realize they even exist.

[@venkats0iitk]

No you don't. It's average working Americans in large numbers who join the American armed forces that exploit and destroy the rest of the world.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

Why? Why do we deserve better when WE keep voting for pols from the same 2 parties?? If I'm a rich industrialist, I'm buying both sides & calling it a cost of doing business...& The idiot American public keeps voting for the pols from the parties I have bought. For 100 years now... I'd be a dumb unsuccessful business man if I hadn't figured out how to fix this static system by now?...while foolish people keep talking while actually changing nothing. Especially their voting patterns.

[@winninglifeyo]

@@mimusic1853 You disregard TikTok but it is a platform that is causing a massive awakening. Beto in Texas did as well as he did because of TikTok exposure. While it can create an echo chamber just like KZbin through algorithms there is less barrier to hearing other information bc as you scroll a video just auto plays and ppl take the time to listen and interact w the content the algorithm will expose them to it. Now that you can click a button similar to retweeting a tweet but with a video those videos are exposed to you.

[@mikepop6163]

Every state has its own Resnicks

[@robotube7361]

yes resniks are present in every single industry too.

[@jackdolphy8965]

Dare I say - predatory capitalism at it’s very, very best. I for one absolutely love that Diane Feinstein is 100% complicit. There’s plenty of water tales here in sunny AZ. I gather we have sold a lotta water rights to our dear , dear friends the royal family of Saud, Saudi Arabia. You’d have a good time’ doing an expose on this. Many Thanks for your comprehensive and articulate presentation.

[@madmow]

California bud

[@malegria9641]

I’m from Tucson. Some of the water that comes out of public drinking fountains here is literally repurposed sewage. I’m not fucking kidding.

[@az4555]

@@malegria9641 And if the Republic of Kaloifornia had treatment plants they wouldnt be slaves to people like the Resniks. Research what Arizona has done to conserve water over the last 50 years with the CAP and other legislation. Arizona uses less water now than ever per capita.

[@jett3332]

Not capitalism. That’s competition. This eliminates the concept. Rigging the system. .

[@jeanesingsjazz]

The Resik advocate, Ms. Weinstein is now dead and trying to explain her corruption to Saint Peter. She’s gonna wish that she had some water rights where she’s going.

[@giancarlogregoretti6186]

I’m from California and everything you said here is spot on!

[@small3687]

Isn't California where is some places it's considered illegal to capture rainwater on your own property because of how it can affect the water table? If that's the case the privatized water system feels like an even more heinous spit in everyone's face

[@joshuad1716]

That’s not just California, that’s the whole US

[@Mar-lz5xn]

No. You are probably thinking about Colorado. We have friends in there and they say that even in very rural areas where there is no city water if they are caught capturing rainwater in a container bigger than 100 gal. they'll be fined.

[@richardcranium3579]

@@joshuad1716 nope, not in the southeast. That’s government run amok.

[@montamiddleton9318]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Now I recall the question by a lot of folks about capturing the flood waters in California couldn't be done. Or was it will not be done cause its rich peoples flood water. Lol...most insurance companies have that clause ACT OF GOD in policies so forget all you little people.

[@montamiddleton9318]

@@joshuad1716 I live in Alabama ( I know, don't start) and I'm not aware of that being illegal here. But it is illegal to ride a horse drunk to the 3rd floor of the court house. So much for going off grid, they in the grid.

[@KimSmith-b9v]

Stewart Resnick was born in 1936, and raised in a middle-class Jewish family in New Jersey and later moved to California with his family in the 1950s. His grandfather had immigrated from Ukraine when his father was 3. Lynda Resnick was born 1943 as Lynda Rae Harris to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[@hoboonwheels9289]

"Jews" again, every corrupt thing going on seems to be happening by them.

[@zoltancsikos5604]

F A S C I N A T I N G ✡️

[@theragoooverlord5021]

EST

[@toxsickdog]

I figured he was a stinking jew.

[@imzjustplayin]

So if he wasn't Jewish, then what? Why bring this up?

[@MrZZooh]

I subscribed. The more we know about all this shady stuff they don't talk in the news about, the better and the more informed decisions we can make.

[@aprilk141]

Pitch forks 2024

[@judahtribe7]

I subscribed too

[@sparks991]

Awesome story guys. I live in the valley and had no idea the impact agricultural interests had on our water distributions. I can only water my lawn on wednesdays so that the water is available for thirsty high end crops.

[@dirkdiggler2379]

rules for me but not for thee. Thats what it is..

[@1m2rich]

Reagan moved NYS farm crops and milk to CA and AZ desert areas. He put NYS land in "conservation". Farms located in areas where they can't exist without watering.

[@SandrA-hr5zk]

It’s not even crops you eat to sustain yourself. It’s expensive foods for the karens. Most of our greens and vegetables come from the coastal area (that don’t rely on the Valley water) or the Asian communities in the Valley.

[@snooka2484]

It always boils down to politicians and money.

[@missroseiam]

And power

[@missroseiam]

Until the true power of all power comes❤

[@missroseiam]

❤

[@JP-jd8wr]

Y'all say violence is never the answer but these billionaires don't play by the rules and only understand violence.

[@jeanesingsjazz]

no, the only thing they understand is bankruptcy.

[@biran44r]

violence through tougher taxation. get half of their money through taxation. this is violent too!

[@Maaad-maaan]

@@biran44rDid you watch the video? Have you watched or heard anything relating to politics and billionaires? They’re in bed together. They’ll never tax the rich. They only create more loop holes for them and tax the upper middle class who don’t know the loopholes. Even democrats are corrupt. All politicians must go and we need to create a new government system where no laws or regulations get past without the overwhelming majority vote of the people

[@andrewtessman9921]

Just saying: supermarkets in Germany offer cheap bottles of water in 1,5 litre bottles (1.6 quarts) for a staggering amount of 25 cents (before the inflation boom this past year, they were actually 19 cents). The capitalism on water is yet another horrific scandal on top of all the other malfunctioning aspects of the system in the USA.

[@danusdragonfly6640]

I knew it was crazy when I first saw bottled water show up. Water used to be basically free. Now even Germany has water problems. You might want to look into it and realize your cheap water doesn't mean there's plenty of it.

[@d_all_in]

What is really happening in your example is the working class are paying several dollars for each bottle out of their paycheck, and the politicians get a cut. Congratulations I guess?

[@Loj84]

@@d_all_in ?

[@LucinaMeow]

@@danusdragonfly6640 drinkable water (tapwater) in the Netherlands. Which is totally safe to drink is 0.87 euro per m³. which is €0.87 per 1000 liters. I think most people just drink tap water instead of bottled water unless we go on vacation since we don't trust foreign tap water.

[@danusdragonfly6640]

@@LucinaMeow Same here. Tap water is just fine for me unless traveling. Even in the U.S. some tap water isn't good because of very old piping. I don't generally buy bottled water. I do have a water filter on my fridge though.

[@thomsghost769]

it's great to have folks like you, attempting to enlighten the beliefs of the mostly ignorant public to the greed, corruption and theft, by the people who the general public hold in high social and financial standing. High level criminality is always found in the investor class of society.

[@camazotzz]

Thank you for making this video! I'm trying to raise awareness of the Resnicks at UC Davis especially in the Sustainable Ag major, because they dropped $50 million on the university to build a "sustainability Center". Aint nothing sustainable about water privatization.

[@RussianBot382]

Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.

[@camazotzz]

@@RussianBot382 I have no idea what your talking about

[@marybeasley8219]

@@RussianBot382 yeah, identifying globalists, bankers and financiers is 'antisemitic' too - right?

[@blackkennedy3966]

@@marybeasley8219 “they” don’t rule the world they say it’s a conspiracy but when you call out the bankers, politicians and business capitalists they cry and winge it’s antisemitism!! It’s an attack!!

[@abdullahalibutler4703]

There's a very simple solution. Sooner or later people are going to consider what to do. Water is a natural resource and belongs to everyone.

[@sydney2292]

I'm never going to buy any of their products again!!!!!!!!

[@tuckerbugeater]

you never should have

[@ChiliForEveryone]

Remember the Bond movie where the villain wanna monopolize water supply of some obscure Latin America country? Yea

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Quantum of Solace Yeah lol

[@carlc5748]

The elites always make a movie of what they plan for us in the future, learned that from Lindsey Williams who wrote the books "The Energy Non Crisis" and "To Seduce a Nation". He said that while working doing pastoral counseling when the Alaska pipeline was under construction, that his eyes got open to these elites, and what they planned in the future, and this was in the mid to late 1970's!

[@ecoRfan]

Real life Bond villains

[@dokopal]

And a very old sci-fi movie a vilian was selling frozen air, was it a Russian movie "Продавачът на въздух" "The air seller"?!? or something !!!!

[@montamiddleton9318]

Let's hope we don't have to remake the movie SOLVENT GREEN just to get some recipes. Lol

[@cabojacks5106]

Protect our water, boycott pistachios, almonds, and walnuts! These are the crops that are most water thirsty that are really not necessary for our diet!

[@akshonclip]

Tell that to someone lactose intolerant.

[@dreamlife2351]

I had a discussion with a local businessman about the lack of knowledge, by people, in LOCAL POLITICS. He said “ oh no” “ that’s not as important as the presidency “. Furious, I’m furious over the ignorance and lack of civics.

[@ShainAndrews]

Your punctuation, and sentence structure, indicates you are in the same boat, just on a different oar.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

He is a fool. He would be much better off focusing local and at the state level. DC is a lost cause it's wholly owned by Wall Street and the war profit industry. Total lost cause for average Joes like us even average business people. The sooner he wakes up to that fact the sooner he can more usefully direct his efforts. I believe lots of progress is possible but we're going to have to start regionally.

[@1m2rich]

Keep focused. It is a real problem since corporate media fails to inform people or even do real journalism. Discussion by "four talking heads" is not real news. Some know less than I do. Red States ranking low in education is purposeful. The media buy British news. It is all about profit. I resent I fund corporate news with my consumerism yet have to buy better information from other sources such as You Tube truth tellers. FOX Entertainment is allowed to lie since they are cable and not news but entertainment. Maybe so but it is very destructive and causes chaos.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@karlwithak1835 Well I'm not sure that's true. Besides Karl even if it was, what's the other option? We don't have a secret army. Most people are not politically engaged. Most people are busy working or doing whatever it is they do during the day. Only half of all citizens vote. I believe it's possible to organize a workable third party on the Left and offer voters different options. It may not be exciting because it's a long-term plan but it's the only real option wouldn't you agree?

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@karlwithak1835 I don't know what you're talking about. I'm asking you to be specific. If you don't have something tangible to add that's okay- but I'm going to have to move on. I'm not here to talk about vague generalities. I thought you were making a tangible reference to the fact that if all we do is sit around talking about this or similar problems we're never going to fix it. I have an action plan in mind. All you did was just just restate yourself and you didn't say anything of substance. When you're ready to be more specific, please do so.

[@AmericanCoverArtist]

That explains why we have such scarcity. I'm sure by now you might have heard about cloud seeding. They invest so much into scientific studies and research, that they would have at some point used that type of experimentation for their benefit. And the publics detriment. Great video

[@noellebazzi5618]

They will enslave the public by controlling the resourses

[@pt2575]

Thank you. You just changed my shopping list.

[@Jay122789]

Same

[@Dysiode]

We really need more lists of problematic companies. I mean, I realize that most of what's in a grocery store leads somewhere shady, but it's so hard to know which brands are owned by which awful companies

[@FunFreakeyy]

If people would watch Dominion their shopping lists would be shrinking fast.

[@steviejohnson378]

Never buying Fiji water ever again

[@sleeplessinthecarolinas8118]

Yep!

[@RafBot-b4z]

❤Thank you SecondThought

[@desertfish6821]

These are the kind of people that you don't mind it when something bad happens to them. I'm hoping they go flat fricken broke someday.

[@RG-xo5id]

Loving the floods of spring 2023 after learning about the resniks & glad I was smart enough to make sure I owned the water rights on my 30 acre prop north of Cali.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@RG-xo5id noah 2.0 should happen

[@Dysiode]

We really need more lists of problematic companies. I mean, I realize that most of what's in a grocery store leads somewhere shady, but it's so hard to know which random brand is owned by which mega corporation. I wish brands had to include a byline about what parent company owned them, like "Rice-a-Roni: a Pepsi Brand"

[@lyrebirdinusa]

While you make the list, do not forget to include problematic governments who make this all possible.

[@Redactedlllllllllllll]

@@lyrebirdinusa you do realize governments are a manifestation of trade activity? These things are not really separate and if you knew anything really about humans and our history or just actual American history, you'd know that.

[@GeckoHiker]

I presume that everything sold in a grocery store is shady now. We don't have any brand names in the house and no manufactured faux-foods. Just mostly locally sourced one-ingredient foods that we turn into what we want to eat. With a garden, indoor garden, cultivated mushrooms, egg laying birds, goats, Amish neighbors, and a free-range bison ranch nearby we do not miss anything from billionaires. If I want catsup, I make it from scratch using my own canned tomato paste. If I want bread, I make it from sprouted wheatberries I bought from an Amish farmer. Black walnuts fall from the sky around here, and we collect and process them. We use them as walnut butter, walnut oil, and as walnuts. I'll buy onine and pay a premium to get domestic olive oil, maple syrup, blue maize, wild rice, molasses, oats, lentils, chickpeas, Basmati rice, and some spices. That's about it. Growing food, cooking from scratch, and buying this way saves thousands of dollars a year. I am certainly not going to pay through the nose to sabotage my ability to eat responsibly.

[@kennixox262]

Don't buy ultra processed foods as they destroy your health.

[@gildedpeahen876]

@@GeckoHiker that sounds glorious. Too bad the powers that shouldn’t be have most of the population so poor and enslaved that eating like that isnt even possible. I truly think the only way is to leave the US and go live on the beach in Indonesia or something. Eat from local farms, sleep under a palm tree. I am actively saving up to leave, and I never thought I could leave the US, as my parents made a lot of sacrifices to get me to this country. But they went home to NZ already so I think they would understand…

[@johngarrett8789]

This is absolutely horrifying it makes me angry as hell. I will never purchase another bottle of Pom or wonderful pistachios This is just a tiny step that I can take to say f*** you horrible people.

[@stevebeschakis9775]

I already boycott their pistachios. I didn't know they were Halo oranges. No more Halos for me! Thanks

[@KosherFinance]

Lol thats changes everything😂

[@toxsickdog]

I virtually QUIT buying Anything that comes from a BIG corporation. Follow the BIG money and it leads to massive Greed, Corruption, Control, Tyranny, Crime, and systemic Problems of a society.

[@SayAhh]

Adding to my boycotting list: Fiji water and Wonderful pistachios.

[@1m2rich]

I've had better Mandarin oranges.

[@powdork]

Justin Wines

[@SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

Pistachios and citrus are very water intensive crops. And growing crops of flowers is just a bad idea all around. Being a non food crop, the use of pesticides and fertilizers is much more loosely regulated. It's almost tautological that at a certain level of wealth, crisis for the broader economy, means increased wealth. The mega wealthy are essentially incentivized to create crisis. You can have too much money to appreciate what something really costs.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@Lind Morn People should be forced to only eat gruel! We need to stop climate change!

[@berrios181]

Almonds are also very thirsty crop and take up a lot of agricultural water use

[@derek20la]

What should they grow? Something like parsley? Worth mere cents? Or products worth billions that can support thousands of local jobs?

[@slayercessna9352]

Actually pistachio and citrus are drought talorent trees.

[@michaelbradbury715]

Avocados resource greedy veg .or fruit!promoted to yuppies and processed food addicts.if you don't get the influence of the gullible Muppets that buy these manufactured foods.you not playing the game !with rules that change as fashion does.what next .Devolution! Society held to ransom by fucking deviants

[@sistakia33]

This is literally the picture of greed and evil.

[@AlphaWolfun]

wonder how much our local ecosystems are being taxed for corporate profits and local sustainability...

[@kraftymum]

Thanks for the insight JT. Living in CA we know about Nestle, but this seems to be at the same level of destructiveness, if not worse.

[@tanawilliams7498]

That is Nestle US. As an actual European company they are quite responsible about what they do across Europe but when licensing with a US company in order to make their good products cheaper for Americans they have little to say about what the licensee actually does. That's why some large foreign countries don't get involved with the US because they end up giving the products a very bad reputation.

[@drezzy2392]

Jesus Christ!!! I was born and raised in Bakersfield CA (Kern County) and I was oblivious to this. I feel so educated now. Makes me really think about the wonderful company. From what I see job posting wise, I can understand the angle of them exploiting workers and no one wants to work for them. And of course the smaller towns is where they hire most of their workers (high number of immigrants). Thank you again for enlightening me. 🤔 💭

[@barbaramayer5182]

You just blasphemed the Name that is going to stop them.

[@Backinblackbunny009]

God has left us to fight our own battles, kid

[@blackkennedy3966]

Bakersfield

[@EverythingisaGodamnLie]

Bro, they are brown and talk funny but I assure you that all those dudes you see in the fields are Americans. I'm from Kern so I know this.

[@TheDieselbutterfly]

Saying what needs to be done would be hate speech,they protected themselves first by removing your RIGHT to talk about certain things

[@honeycomb416]

Thank you for sharing your valuable research keep exposing the criminal acts of these greedy unhuman thieves. This needs to stop!

[@the_travelingbreeze]

I'm so glad Second Thought is helping smaller creators :)

[@steadmanuhlich6734]

TO MORE PERFECT UNION: Subscribed because of the quality of this video. Good collaboration with Second Thought. Please continue producing content like this. Will share on social media in large groups if you do.

[@briant6669]

This is propaganda. They are telling you farmers waste the water while LA and the the bay are filled with people washing their cars. They want to drive food prices up. You are a sucker.

[@stephengolden6080]

@Karl with a K O.K., Karl with a K, just give up and allow yourself to eat the powers that be sht! Bon Appetit!

[@bjornlutjens1918]

Caltech just accepted a 750 million $ pledge from the Resnicks to do sustainability research. If you could please publish your references, I could share your video in academic circles.

[@johnbrattan9341]

This guy will never publish his references. Because he's not telling the truth.

[@anna_m59]

Lot of speculation not much based references

[@shari9721]

@@johnbrattan9341 what did he lie about or get wrong?

[@johnbrattan9341]

@@shari9721 Water usage in California.

[@shari9721]

@@johnbrattan9341 what about it, elaborate on your answer, explain how, why, what, who etc.

[@themobilemage2137]

I feel sick. Billionaires must be stopped

[@doneaton6704]

'By the People, For the People' has been trampled on and we have the highest court in the country whose majority couldn't care less.

[@trollhunter7764]

The sad thing about this whole story is all it takes is one person with the money to file a lawsuit in federal court for constitutional violations. To get our water back. Surprised no one has done it yet.

[@1m2rich]

What hasn't Biden appt. more justices to the corrupt Supreme Court? He fails to use his power.

[@wizardofraw]

That is not how our current world works, the constitution means nothing nowadays unfortunately, not sure where you have been for the past two decades.

[@Dexters.LaBOREatory]

It's time that the citizens of California go to the Attorney General and file a complaint which will lead to a class action lawsuit. Every citizen who lived in CA during this time, should be paid no less than $100,000 a piece.

[@johngarrett8789]

Absolutely

[@e5toro7008]

Good luck. The Attorney General is in their pockets too.

[@thereisnosanctuary6184]

Um no

[@richardcranium3579]

Paid 100,000 of your own money……can’t wait to see the reaction when Newscrotum raises your taxes to pay for it.

[@thomasfurlano9106]

as a truck driver for a short period of time going through northern california i would drive by and be so surprised at a farm that was dry like a reed while the one right next to it was green with water and the prejudice of california towards the other farmers that just won't agree with the policies and get dumped like the public that pay for the water in the first place.

[@MrTwenty20video]

Glad I watched this one a second time. Thank you.

[@soulshine8531]

Oh f$&@“ why does this surprise me.. no more Wonderful pistachios for me. I’ll deep check all my produce from CA. Need to grow one’s own food.. sprout.

[@soulshine8531]

I am in MX for a while and got pistachios grown here. But i wonder about water rights and issues here now. I heard -maybe- a wealthy religious family in another state growing walnuts has taken all the water from small farmers.

[@powdork]

All the main grocery chains carry is wonderful pistachios. Grocery Outlet has other choices. Score one for the Gross Out!

[@chronic8789]

I worked for this company and i caught them stealing time off our work hours

[@tannerdavis212]

“Can’t buy science.” The sugar, tobacco, glyphosate, petrochemical industries would like a word. 6:40

[@DaggetSWG]

Commenting to help with the algorithm. Great video.

[@justsomeone64]

If anyones gonna withhold water to gouge others outta money... They should go the way of Marie Antoinette Edit: To any who disagree, never let people decide if you have water to drink. They'll try and charge you for the air you breathe next.

[@1m2rich]

Marie Antoinette lived in a time of rain problems where the rye crop molded. People died. She suggested cake since that is what white flour was at the time...not real cake like today. French royals went bankrupt helping us with soldiers and funds to defeat the British. We should say thank you.

[@justsomeone64]

@@1m2rich All I said was if someones gonna gouge people out of money by witholding water, they should be hung. Literally didn't make a single dig at Marie Antoinette.

[@gsp49]

Democrats are already trying to tax the air that you breathe.

[@justsomeone64]

@@gsp49 Back that with evidence then

[@gsp49]

@@justsomeone64 you haven't heard all the hype about carbon footprints, carbon neutral this or that and fines for business that doesn't comply? Same thing. That's what all of this man made global warming nonsense is about, getting more of your money to ship to some Indonesian country that is supposed to be under water in years to come.

[@fredbrown2284]

What can be done, to make this situation right. Greed is driving these people to control, what should belong to the public

[@VodShod]

I agree, though I would say that the water should be managed by the state, even if it isn't owned, and it shouldn't be given away to billionaires due to lobbying.

[@youngsavage2937]

Amazing video, thank you for bringing awareness !

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

Good video. Not much is publicly known about the politics of water in California and the shady dealings that take place behind closed doors. The Resnicks are one example; Another is an endowment or an investment vehicle for an Ivy League school (Harvard, if I recall correctly) that has spent heavily on groundwater rights in San Luis Obispo County. Corruption and financial mismanagement are not the only impacts on California's ability to supply its water needs. We also have simply balked at building capacity for decades. One of the major watersheds is in the Modesto region, where we only have about 50% storage capacity versus the total annual rainfall. Better management by officials who are not corrupt and beholden to donors and the whims, and confidants of their political patrons is desperately needed to fix the various man-made issues pertaining to our water supply.

[@kathystoneburner4947]

Oh surprise it's always California. Nothing America about that state. My mom said years ago should be cut off at the border and shoved in the ocean. I say shove it over to Mexico so many Mexicans come there. Oh that's right that wouldn't work if American taxpayers would no longer support them. Forgot for a minute.

[@geoffreylane5606]

Chinatown.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

@@geoffreylane5606 LOL! Yeah, that covered a few parts of the story, as far as Los Angeles and Ventura Counties were concerned, anyway.

[@geoffreylane5606]

@@vincentgarzoli3197 But they were basically telling you what they had planned.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

@@geoffreylane5606 Indeed, but keep in mind that was the early part of the 20th century…California has had water wars over riparian rights since well before the Gold Rush of the 1840s, predating both statehood, and Mulholland’s taking of the water from the Eastern Sierras that sucked Owens Lake dry to build Los Angeles into a metropolis, and to his folly that created the St. Francis Dam disaster that washed out the towns of Fillmore and Santa Paula, leading to the fictional scene in the movie in which, Nicholson’s character Jake Gites gets beat up by a group of angry farmers in Ventura. I have always found it interesting that no one makes a big deal about San Francisco effectively doing the same thing with the creation of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and pipelines that took water out of the Yosemite Valley.

[@Nedflanders666]

LOVE a Second Thought Collab

[@2010jousa]

There should be the state Water Commissioner making sure that all state residents have access to pure water. The only water controlled by private companies should be water from privately owned mineral springs

[@FunFreakeyy]

I've read a book from Masanobu Fukuoka, a really important man regarding permaculture, and even decades ago he criticized how they were farming in California when he visited. Looks like it hasn't changed to the better.

[@richardcranium3579]

Farming a desert is always expensive

[@scumbagdyln]

love these collabs 💜

[@alekz112]

7:52 You can see the anger show through for a moment. Good lad.

[@crystalclearwindowcleaning3458]

This is an extremely one-sided portrayal of a large agricultural corporation in California. Agriculture does not use 80% of our surface water. A full 50% of our surface water is released to the ocean every year even when we're in a drought. And cities get another 30% of what's left. I suspect there's a lot more to this story than is presented in this severely slanted presentation.

[@johndrocky4377]

UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG 🥊🔥🥊🔥🥊

[@helen5472]

Great reporting. It is reminder there are many greedy people. I wonder what the Resnicks do for the poor. The good news is that there are more good people (than greedy people in this world) who personally and through organizations truly care for others and devote time to help those in need.

[@morecringe89]

I approve this message. CA deserves this kind of people.

[@NBGTFO]

Corruption is at the root of almost all super-rich people.

[@withamarshview1436]

Corruption is HOW they became super-rich. A businessman can become a millionaire through skill and knowledge, but to reach reach the billionaire level isn't natural. It can only be done by buying politicians and rewriting laws in your favor.

[@siriosstar4789]

Greed precedes corruption .

[@AmericanRebel97]

@@withamarshview1436 sounds like some Jews are good at. Stewart Resnick is Jew. He is known to different Jew organizations with our tax payer money. He recently donated 50 million to some university in Israel.

[@manoleyastosenix2713]

More like at the root of all people, regardless of their wealth. Let's be honest/realistic.

[@latengocomoburro]

Rich people do what the law allows them to do. It is Democrat politicians like Dianne Feinstein that allowed this to happen

[@aggedyran]

WOW. Very eye opening. Thank you for covering this.

[@Klairity]

All this water mismanagement and people are all surprised Pikachu face now we're in massive droughts.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Idiots

[@ericl2473]

How was this even allow to happen. If there was a petition or proposition, I will gladly sign it, to take our water back.

[@richardcranium3579]

@Lind Morn how? Greed. That’s all. Greed. Lots of folks fall in love with the idea of communism/socialism and the whole “free” everything idea while raging about the problems with government control (which is Exactly how this problem started)……. And they actually want to hand over more control to government through communism/socialism. Makes perfect sense. That’s sarcasm.

[@laurieVote3rdParty]

Thanks JT! You’re doing great things 👏

[@I_AM_able_319]

We need to investigate these non profits

[@d.bcooper7819]

Excellent news piece. I had no idea this was going on.

[@CJacobson]

Excellent expose'! Don't you just love philanthropy? It sounds so much less malicious than Monopoly!

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

Damn! As a californian, this sounds almost as bad as nestle! i had no idea! also though, not too surprised. nut crops are very water intensive and are all over the state. I am not against farms before people, but only if the farms are optimized for water (they aren't), renew-ability (also not), and of course actually provide real food everyone can eat (nope not in this case). Anyway i love pistachios, but rarely buy the wonderful brand because of how expensive they are. I usually get trader joe's or costco brand. though to be fair, i'm sure it all comes from the same farms. It's weird how i feel pistachios just popped up all of a sudden and everyone was eating them. I remember back in the day it was all about almonds or peanuts. now everywhere you look at the grocery store they shove pistachios in your face and almost always the wonderful brand. they're paying for that product placement and it's likely paying off for them. I also had no idea they were so successful and evil.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Well said thanks. As another California resident I echo your remarks.

[@montecristo1845]

Yes, I remember the California almond grower ads on TV, growing up in the Central Valley. “A can a week, that’s all we ask.” I was told they are pronounced “almonds” while on the tree, but when they fall off the “L” gets knocked out of them. Then the “a” is pronounced like “apple.” But you’re absolutely right. Look back on which industries were fighting for consumers with their slogans during the eighties and nineties-drink milk, it does a body good; don’t forget the cheese; eat fish twice a week; beef, it’s what’s for dinner; pork, the other white meat; not to mention eggs, chicken, and Orowheat bread.

[@gildedpeahen876]

The more I educate myself, the more I want revolution.

[@gildedpeahen876]

Let’s buy them Iranian pistachios from the middle eastern grocery stores!

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@gildedpeahen876 tell me about it.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

When they croak they lose all their riches you can't take it with you and they're big sin that they committed will be repeated on them through eternity.

[@JakubKieblesz]

5:11, "The People's Water". Spoken like a true communist. By the way, well done comrade, for spreading awareness of this issue.

[@KnowingBetter]

"You can't buy science" *Laughs in Tobacco, Sugar, and Fossil Fuel Industries*

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Oh hi KB Nice to see you around

[@brentfrank7012]

These folks purchased Justin Winery on the watershed of Lake Nacimiento. Not for the wine, for the water. Got caught right away trucking water from Justin Winery out to their farms and fined for it.

[@jameshepburn4631]

Kosher wine?

[@ironickrempt]

The book “Cadillac Desert” is a must read for anyone wondering just how bad western US water policy is/has been historically. It has not been a process of providing for the people, but one of using/profiting from ALL water at ANY cost.