Update 1/14/25
All these things are linked. These times are difficult. But we can handle it.”
In 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed “climate change” for wildfires.
“I literally have no patience for climate change deniers,” he remarked.
Newsom again blames “climate change” for the Los Angeles fires four years later.
Be patient. Why was California so horribly unprepared if climate change is to blame?
Newsom should be asked why the state didn’t aggressively clear underbrush for four years to prevent a catastrophic catastrophe. Why didn’t it create huge, effective buffer zones to prevent fires from reaching people? Why was there no Marshall Plan-scale reservoir project to supply firefighters with hydrant water?
The state had enough warning. Environmentalists have warned for decades that “climate change” will increase wildfire frequency, intensity, and mortality.
Yet in the state where environmentalists wield all the power, they dallied and delayed, let bureaucratic red tape and environmental groups stall preparations for the worst, and prioritized ridiculous and massively expensive projects like the “bullet” train.
California wasted huge amounts of money.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $1 billion law to “prevent catastrophic wildfires and protect Californians” in 2018. That money went where?
Newsom’s wildfire “strike force” said in 2019 that “Over the next five years, the state will commit over $1 billion for critical fuel reduction projects, to support prescribed fire crews, forest thinning, and other forest health projects.”
Newsom proclaimed the California Vegetation Treatment Program to speed up environmental reviews for forest management projects early in his presidency.
But the Washington Examiner’s terrible waste and mismanagement account shows:
Climate groups that fight those initiatives in court have also hampered efforts like cutting thick tree clusters and planned burns to prevent fires from spreading quickly.
The program’s latest data showed that just 231 of 525 approved projects spanning 666,450 acres have been completed, spanning 6,000 acres. A Los Angeles County Fire Department fuel reduction project and a charity watershed project are the only 130-acre initiatives in the Los Angeles metro region. Both are incomplete.
Newsom isn’t blameless. He lied about wildfire prevention three years ago, according to a report.
CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom revealed the governor exaggerated his successes and cut wildfire prevention. The research discovered Newsom exaggerated the amount of acres treated with fuel breaks and controlled burns in forestry projects he said should prioritize to safeguard the state’s most vulnerable neighborhoods by 690%. Newsom claims his executive order prompted 35 ‘priority projects’ that prevented fires on 90,000 acres. Official state data show 11,399.
In his June budget, he decreased wildfire and forest resilience funding by $101 million and millions from other fire mitigation programs. Was Newsom’s 2019 statement that he’d “made wildfire prevention and mitigation a top priority since taking office” accurate?
Newsom’s indifference to building new water reservoirs is surprising in a state concerned that “climate change” will bring more droughts and wildfires.
Californians decisively supported a $7.5 billion water bond package in 2014, with approximately $3 billion for reservoirs. No new reservoirs have been created in almost a decade. Where did the money go?
We don’t believe the climate-change-is-to-blame crap.
Though allegations to the contrary persist, wildfires have not become more common or fatal, as we highlighted last week. (“Fire, Snow And A Storm Of Climate Nonsense.”)
Newsom and other communist Democrats that rule the state do. They practice religion.
They blame fossil fuels for every state disaster. They repeatedly call for immediate action.
However, they have done nothing to safeguard inhabitants from what they call an existential catastrophe.
Their own words condemn them of criminal carelessness.
Know both your physical and spiritual enemies. Know their motivations, their intentions and plans, their histories, their capabilities, their weaknesses, their strengths, their technologies, and their resolve. Then you will know what they have planned for you.
California senators rejected a bill on March 15 that would have eliminated Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency powers, which he has been using for almost two years.
The motion, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, was defeated by eight members of the California Senate Committee on Governmental Organization. There were four members that voted in favor.
If passed, the bill would remove the state of emergency declared by Newsom, a Democrat, on March 4, 2020. As a result, the powers granted by the proclamation would be revoked.
“An open-ended state of emergency with unrestricted powers vested in a chief executive is incompatible with democratic democracy,” the resolution says, adding that “a healthy balance between the legislative and executive branches must be restored.”
Before the vote, state Sen. Melissa Melendez, a Republican who introduced the bill, told colleagues, “It’s time for the state to allow local governments to take the lead and address emergencies locally without the shotgun approach of a statewide emergency,” citing the sharp drop in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Melendez and three other Republican senators voted in favor of the resolution; the eight Democrats who voted against it were all Democrats.
State Senator Benjamin Allen, a Democrat who ended up voting no, said there was “so much that’s compelling about this bill,” but that declaring the emergency over would “hinder our capacity to accomplish a lot that involves battling this pandemic.”
State Senator Bill Dodd, a Democrat who voted against the bill, said that while the drop in COVID-19 metrics was encouraging, “the existing state of emergency declared by the governor is absolutely critical to ensure that the state can quickly and efficiently continue to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic and be prepared for possible future variants and surges.”
Newsom has scheduled 18 of the 63 measures connected to the state of emergency to expire at the end of March and another 15 at the end of June, according to Dodd.
He stated that the other measures are “critical for maintaining government flexibility.”
Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment after he survived a recall effort in 2021.
After the vote, Melendez wrote on Twitter that the state legislature’s Democrats are “content to abdicate their responsibilities to the governor.”
“The state of emergency will remain in effect, as will the governor’s authority to close schools and businesses,” she stated.
This is what it looks like in the belly of the beast (LA), we have to assume that thousands of Americans with the correct political preferences are stuck in this hell hole taking care of loved ones, or are too poverty stricken to make their way out of this place. The decision for Los Angeles Unified School District to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations is a political power play by these tyrants. Because these children and their parents aren’t protected by religious exemption.
The left seeks to dismantle the closely held beliefs of true freedom loving Americans. 1 Peter 4:12-14 says: “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.” Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.
