Devastating fires continue to burn in Los Angeles County, California, and it's looking like contributing human factors are possible arson, poor forest management and gross incompetence from state and local level political leaders. Here's what would appear to be an example of the latter:
A reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water was offline this month for previously scheduled maintenance. It was empty when the Palisades fire exploded. https://t.co/qLgNpFPwiu
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 10, 2025
Newsom orders probe into why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline during fires - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/pWglQN00ap
— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) January 11, 2025
Here's Newsom calling for an investigation into how that could have happened:
Newsom: pic.twitter.com/6kgWGCL8wa
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) January 11, 2025
Despite the obvious fact that incompetent leadership combined with insane eco regulations ironically designed to "save the environment," the predictable scapegoat has appeared.
TIME Magazine is helping the Left push another propaganda effort with this doozy:
L.A. fires show the reality of living in a world with 1.5°C of warminghttps://t.co/nj68YNmDDi
— TIME (@TIME) January 11, 2025
What a load of BS. That spin wouldn't be any different if Bernie Sanders wrote it.
That headline could have been much more honest:
L.A. fires show the reality of living in a world with wildly incompetent corrupt career politicians at the helm https://t.co/oagF8kZejt
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) January 11, 2025
But "never let a crisis go to waste" dictates that this disaster be used as an excuse to try and spend a few trillion more tax dollars. Who knew that printing and spending money could lower the global temperature!
Regime Media running cover for the gross incompetence of California’s government.
— Greg Scott (@GScottSays) January 11, 2025
This is why NO ONE trusts you. pic.twitter.com/T0QZ9rEtXu
Uh huh pic.twitter.com/S0ffgNlOC0
— Mike Breslin, Ph.D. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@mikebreslin815) January 11, 2025
When I was in elementary school the big thing was another ice age, which turned into "global warming" and then "climate change" so the term could encompass any kind of weather. Now "climate change" is just an excuse used as cover for political incompetence and to justify graft, malfeasance and wealth transfer.
This is ridiculous. Remember folks, the media gets paid to push the lies. https://t.co/8dqlp40ytw
— Lena Benson (@LenaBenson827) January 11, 2025
They literally do get cash to push the propaganda. Not long ago I wrote about the Associated Press announcing the "philanthropic grants" that allowed them to expand their climate change reporting:
The Associated Press said Tuesday that it is assigning more than two dozen journalists across the world to cover climate issues, in the news organization’s largest single expansion paid for through philanthropic grants.
The announcement illustrates how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism — at the AP and elsewhere — at a time when the industry’s financial outlook has been otherwise bleak.
The AP’s new team, with journalists based in Africa, Brazil, India and the United States, will focus on climate change’s impact on agriculture, migration, urban planning, the economy, culture and other areas. Data, text and visual journalists are included, along with the capacity to collaborate with other newsrooms, said Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor.
Those "philanthropic grants" are of course from activist groups paying the AP (and others in the media) to push eco propaganda. I'm not sure if TIME Magazine has gotten in on that paid propaganda action or if they're just providing it for free this time.
