Los Angeles Fires: Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party
January 9th, 2025If you’re not from California, it’s a simple matter to write the place off as an open air nut house and move on.
I was born in Southern California and lived there for over thirty years before leaving for good. This appeal is going out to anyone reading in Southern California who is still capable of seeing the situation for what it actually is:
Don’t wait to try to escape with everyone else. There are too many people and too few exits.
This is a point I’ve made repeatedly on Cryptogon over the decades…
Watch and learn from this very small and localized example of what I mean:
California was an irredeemable loss by the early 1990s. Southern California, in particular, combines the physical reality of being a bone dry death trap with the added threats stemming from crackpot communists and near infinite levels of incompetence and corruption.
Take your family, your belongings and your money and go. Go now.
Someone emailed and asked if this inferno is the event I warned about multiple times before the last election. You have to understand, I have no magic crystal ball. Here’s the extent of what I know:
No, the situation is not ok now.
If Donald Trump does 5% of what he has said he is going to do, it would be the largest shakeup of the U.S. Government since JFK was assassinated. The secret team that took control in the wake of the JFK assassination, which sits atop a mountain of skulls and trillions of stolen dollars, is not going to willingly change course.
I have no idea what’s going to happen, but even if everything goes smoothly with the inauguration, watch out.
And, after it’s all over, if Americans wind up with a national ID card, perhaps provided by Vance’s friend and Palantir founder and chairman, Peter Thiel, well… Mission Accomplished.
Watch out.
Via: Michael Shellenberger:
It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.
But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.
It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.
Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.
And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.
Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.
Massive Los Angeles Wildfires Still Burning Out of Control
January 9th, 2025If Southern California gets unlucky with Santa Ana winds and fires, the vast urban sprawl from the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean could easily wind up looking like World War 2 Hiroshima.
I’m actually baffled as to how it hasn’t happened already.
What you’re seeing with the current situation is nothing compared to how bad it could get.
Welcome to Southern California.
Via: Reuters:
A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning unchecked early on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefighting crews made progress overnight in controlling a smaller blaze burning in the hills overlooking Hollywood Boulevard.
The Palisades fire between Santa Monica and Malibu on the city’s western flank and the Eaton fire in the east near Pasadena are already the most destructive in Los Angeles history, burning nearly 28,000 acres – an area exceeding the size of Disney World. At least five people have been killed and thousands of structures have been incinerated.
The twin blazes – part of a pincer around the city so expansive that it was visible from space – remained entirely uncontained as of 6:30 a.m. (1430 GMT), according to Cal Fire.
Trump and Greenland: Vast Mineral Deposits, Energy Transformation, EV Revolution, Musk, Other Prominent Big Tech Figures
January 8th, 2025Via: Whitney Webb:
People should consider that arguably the main interest in Greenland (and also likely Canada as well) from the Trump camp and Musk is related to vast mineral deposits, particularly those necessary for the “energy transformation” and “EV revolution” that is directly tied to the business interests of Musk as well as other prominent Big Tech figures.
For example, aside from Musk, Jeff Bezos, who recently gave very very generously to Trump’s inauguration fund, backs a firm called KoBold Metals along with Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman (who both backed Kamala) and Marc Andressen (currently advising Trump on tech policy) that is drilling in Greenland for EV related minerals. Northern Canada also possesses significant deposits of minerals essential to EV production.
Trump Considering National Economic Emergency Declaration to Allow for New Tariff Program
January 8th, 2025Via: Reuters:
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a series of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The move will allow Trump to build a new tariff program by using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, which authorizes a president to manage imports during a national emergency, the report said.
“Unprecedented Fires” Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate
January 8th, 2025The Southern California disaster cycle is as follows:
* Years of drought and scorching temperatures.
* A bit of rain occurs and the vegetation grows like crazy.
* More years of drought and scorching temperatures, killing and drying out all that vegetation.
* Fires (current phase).
* Mudslides.
* Repeat
Wildcards: Earthquakes, riots.
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Los Angeles County Fire Department reported on X that nearly 3,000 acres—roughly 4.5 square miles—are ablaze, and the fire is 0% contained as of early Wednesday morning.
Zuckerberg Ends “Fact Checking” on Facebook
January 7th, 2025Mmm hmm.
Via: Fox:
In a new video, Meta’s CEO announced that the company would adopt X standards and restore free speech protections across Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms. Meta will also end its third-party fact-checking program, introduce a ‘community notes’ system, and focus on removing criminal and fraudulent material—the very guidelines proposed by some of us in prior years.
Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In New Jersey
January 7th, 2025Via: Daily Caller:
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.
The law, Act 1669, was passed by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June in an effort to address a shortage of teachers in the state, according to the New Jersey Monitor. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a “basic skills” test administered by the state’s Commissioner of Education.
“We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said according to the New Jersey Monitor. “This is the best way to get them.”
New Jersey is especially in need of math and science teachers, according to an annual report from the state’s education department.
Just months earlier, Murphy signed a similar bill into law that created an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement. A powerful teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, was a driving force behind the bill, calling the testing requirement “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.” Teachers in the state are paid an average of $81,102 annually, according to the National Education Association.
How To Interact With Someone Who Falls For It Again
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Canada: Trudeau Resigning as Liberal Leader
January 6th, 2025He should have to share a prison cell with Jabcinda Ardern.
Via: CBC:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he plans to step down once the Liberal Party has chosen a successor, bringing his time leading the country to a tumultuous end.
Trudeau, who became Liberal leader in 2013 and prime minister in the fall of 2015, announced his long-awaited decision outside his official residence, Rideau Cottage, on Monday morning.
Matthew Livelsberger: Las Vegas Cybertruck Blast Suspect Competed in TV Show
January 4th, 2025Via: Inside Edition:
Las Vegas Cybertruck blast suspect Matthew Livelsberger took part in a military TV reality competition on the History Channel. He was cast to appear on a show called “The Ultimate Soldier Challenge.” Livelsberger and his Green Beret partner took on two teams in a series of military challenges. He talked about his love of guns. At one point, Livelsberger had to stop production due to heat exhaustion.
