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Justin Trudeau called it a “climate emergency.” In August 2021, while asking Canadians to re-elect him, he promised: • 1,000 new firefighters • $500 million for firefighters and equipment • Teams ready for the next fire season • Canadian-built water bombers By March 2025, the original pilot had trained only 294 firefighters. The equipment fund had committed $254.3 million over five years. Canada did not establish its new national aerial firefighting capacity until 2026—and the aircraft were leased. Trudeau sold the emergency. Carney inherited the government. If the Liberals truly believed their own climate warnings, the firefighters and equipment would have arrived faster than the taxes.
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Justin Trudeau called it a “climate emergency.” In August 2021, while asking Canadians to re-elect him, he promised: • 1,000 new firefighters • $500 million for firefighters and equipment • Teams ready for the next fire season • Canadian-built water bombers By March 2025, the original pilot had trained only 294 firefighters. The equipment fund had committed $254.3 million over five years. Canada did not establish its new national aerial firefighting capacity until 2026—and the aircraft were leased. Trudeau sold the emergency. Carney inherited the government. If the Liberals truly believed their own climate warnings, the firefighters and equipment would have arrived faster than the taxes.

The Real Mr Bench

11,948 görüntüleme • 17 gün önce

🤡 Labor fiddles and Victoria burns. 🔥 🔥Rather than funding and equipping our volunteer firefighting brigades, Labor spent the last 4 Years & millions of our tax dollars to run a pointless and offensive INQUISITION with no findings. 💰And now, Labor is hitting these volunteers (who are often farmers) with a massive levy. 💰 🧑‍🚒This basically means CFA volunteers are being forced to pay out of their own pockets for upgraded fire equipment just so they don't die while saving other people- and the farms that feed us- from fires. 😡What a disgrace.
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🤡 Labor fiddles and Victoria burns. 🔥 🔥Rather than funding and equipping our volunteer firefighting brigades, Labor spent the last 4 Years & millions of our tax dollars to run a pointless and offensive INQUISITION with no findings. 💰And now, Labor is hitting these volunteers (who are often farmers) with a massive levy. 💰 🧑‍🚒This basically means CFA volunteers are being forced to pay out of their own pockets for upgraded fire equipment just so they don't die while saving other people- and the farms that feed us- from fires. 😡What a disgrace.

Moira Deeming MP

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed her $17.5 million cut to the LA Fire Department budget did not impact the department’s ability to prevent or fight fires. But the LA Fire Chief told CNN that “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact” the Department’s ability to respond to the fires. And a video released yesterday by NewsNation, which was shot by a former employee of Kamala Harris, shows that it took the LA Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades fire. “It could have been confined,” said attorney Michael Valentine. “It wouldn’t have touched any of the homes.” It is impossible to stop fires from starting in Los Angeles. The challenge is to put them out before they become catastrophic. And the video provides evidence that firefighters could have responded earlier. “ By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large,” reported Rich McHugh. “Eight minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. Still nobody fighting the fire. At 11:13 a.m., nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through at 11:23. A helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridgeline.” And now, a second firefighter has come forward to say that “There wasn’t sufficient funding for predeployment and I’m sure that played a role. The fire prevention department has taken huge cuts too and it limited their resources.” Specifically, this person said, “There were not enough mechanics, engines, or fire stations.” LA has been cutting the budget of the LA Fire Department for years, leading to rising response times.”You’re supposed to be in route in 30 seconds and there in three to five minutes, but now it’s 10 minutes and on the extreme end 30 minutes,” said the firefighter. “The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that took 30 minutes and there was a pediatric call two weeks ago and the station that was available was very far away and it took them a long time to get to the kid.” The whistleblower said staffing and equipment shortages create two tragedies. The first are unnecessary deaths and the second is the impact on the firefighters. “They just can’t make it to places fast enough and it’s a hazard to the public,” said the whistleblower. “A family member is dying and it’s 30 minutes to show up and then they’re yelling at the firefighters who are trying to do their job but there’s not enough of them. Some of that stuff really affects them.” The LA Fire Department budget is $820 million and significantly more is needed. The number of calls LA firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years while staffing has declined by one-third, according to another whistleblower. The LA Firefighters are currently owed significant backpay and have filed a lawsuit against the city. Said the whistleblower, “Nobody understands why this is going on. Why is there no money? Why can’t we pay people? We’re 80 fire stations short. Why aren’t we building them? Why aren’t we paying firefighters their contracted wages?” All of this is particularly mysterious because California is by far the richest state in the United States and has the highest taxes. The center of Big Tech, the most profitable industry in the world, and with an annual GDP of $3.8 trillion, California is the fifth-largest economy in the world. California has the highest income tax at 13.3 percent, the highest sales tax at 7.25 percent, and one of the highest corporatetaxes at 8.84%. Where is all the money going? While California’s firefighting budget rose since 2018, it was, obviously, not enough. And California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by $101 Million in the 2024 budget and cut millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and $12 million for home hardening. And the state funding that Newsom cut could have been used to harden homes to fire and reduce vegetation around homes in LA. Bass proposed cutting the Fire Department’s funding by an additional $48.8 million next year. The priorities of the leaders of California and Los Angeles over the last decade have been homelessness, climate change, and providing services to undocumented migrants, Since 2019, California has invested $27 billion in homelessness, or about 4.5 billion per year. That amount does not include spending on firefighting, police, or emergency medical services for the homeless. Nor does it include the $40 billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends over $30 billion per year to provide benefits and services to migrants who came to the US illegally, according to a recent cost analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that they contribute up to $9 billion annually in state and local taxes. And California will spend over $48 billion on climate programs over the next seven years, or about seven billion annually. As such, California spends about $41.5 billion per year on the homeless, illegal immigrants, and climate change. If just 2% of that money, or $1 billion, had been spent on LA’s Fire Department, it could have more than doubled its budget. What’s more, there is evidence that all of that spending on homelessness made the problem worse. Since 2019, homelessness increased by 40%. And the homeless cause over half of all fires in Los Angeles. The spending has distorted other priorities... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video!
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed her $17.5 million cut to the LA Fire Department budget did not impact the department’s ability to prevent or fight fires. But the LA Fire Chief told CNN that “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact” the Department’s ability to respond to the fires. And a video released yesterday by NewsNation, which was shot by a former employee of Kamala Harris, shows that it took the LA Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades fire. “It could have been confined,” said attorney Michael Valentine. “It wouldn’t have touched any of the homes.” It is impossible to stop fires from starting in Los Angeles. The challenge is to put them out before they become catastrophic. And the video provides evidence that firefighters could have responded earlier. “ By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large,” reported Rich McHugh. “Eight minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. Still nobody fighting the fire. At 11:13 a.m., nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through at 11:23. A helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridgeline.” And now, a second firefighter has come forward to say that “There wasn’t sufficient funding for predeployment and I’m sure that played a role. The fire prevention department has taken huge cuts too and it limited their resources.” Specifically, this person said, “There were not enough mechanics, engines, or fire stations.” LA has been cutting the budget of the LA Fire Department for years, leading to rising response times.”You’re supposed to be in route in 30 seconds and there in three to five minutes, but now it’s 10 minutes and on the extreme end 30 minutes,” said the firefighter. “The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that took 30 minutes and there was a pediatric call two weeks ago and the station that was available was very far away and it took them a long time to get to the kid.” The whistleblower said staffing and equipment shortages create two tragedies. The first are unnecessary deaths and the second is the impact on the firefighters. “They just can’t make it to places fast enough and it’s a hazard to the public,” said the whistleblower. “A family member is dying and it’s 30 minutes to show up and then they’re yelling at the firefighters who are trying to do their job but there’s not enough of them. Some of that stuff really affects them.” The LA Fire Department budget is $820 million and significantly more is needed. The number of calls LA firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years while staffing has declined by one-third, according to another whistleblower. The LA Firefighters are currently owed significant backpay and have filed a lawsuit against the city. Said the whistleblower, “Nobody understands why this is going on. Why is there no money? Why can’t we pay people? We’re 80 fire stations short. Why aren’t we building them? Why aren’t we paying firefighters their contracted wages?” All of this is particularly mysterious because California is by far the richest state in the United States and has the highest taxes. The center of Big Tech, the most profitable industry in the world, and with an annual GDP of $3.8 trillion, California is the fifth-largest economy in the world. California has the highest income tax at 13.3 percent, the highest sales tax at 7.25 percent, and one of the highest corporatetaxes at 8.84%. Where is all the money going? While California’s firefighting budget rose since 2018, it was, obviously, not enough. And California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by $101 Million in the 2024 budget and cut millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and $12 million for home hardening. And the state funding that Newsom cut could have been used to harden homes to fire and reduce vegetation around homes in LA. Bass proposed cutting the Fire Department’s funding by an additional $48.8 million next year. The priorities of the leaders of California and Los Angeles over the last decade have been homelessness, climate change, and providing services to undocumented migrants, Since 2019, California has invested $27 billion in homelessness, or about 4.5 billion per year. That amount does not include spending on firefighting, police, or emergency medical services for the homeless. Nor does it include the $40 billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends over $30 billion per year to provide benefits and services to migrants who came to the US illegally, according to a recent cost analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that they contribute up to $9 billion annually in state and local taxes. And California will spend over $48 billion on climate programs over the next seven years, or about seven billion annually. As such, California spends about $41.5 billion per year on the homeless, illegal immigrants, and climate change. If just 2% of that money, or $1 billion, had been spent on LA’s Fire Department, it could have more than doubled its budget. What’s more, there is evidence that all of that spending on homelessness made the problem worse. Since 2019, homelessness increased by 40%. And the homeless cause over half of all fires in Los Angeles. The spending has distorted other priorities... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video!

Michael Shellenberger

68,220 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

While my family and I were serving lunch to our local firefighters yesterday afternoon, the chaplain from the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department gave me a letter signed by every member of his volunteer fire department. On the back of the letter, John wrote a prayer for our family from Numbers 6:24-26. He had no way of knowing, but that's the same prayer Lori and I make over our children every night. That prayer is so meaningful to our family — and for John to share it with us was deeply touching. Thank you to John and every Pennsylvanian who've sent their prayers and blessings over the last few days. You have lifted us up and given us strength.
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While my family and I were serving lunch to our local firefighters yesterday afternoon, the chaplain from the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department gave me a letter signed by every member of his volunteer fire department. On the back of the letter, John wrote a prayer for our family from Numbers 6:24-26. He had no way of knowing, but that's the same prayer Lori and I make over our children every night. That prayer is so meaningful to our family — and for John to share it with us was deeply touching. Thank you to John and every Pennsylvanian who've sent their prayers and blessings over the last few days. You have lifted us up and given us strength.

Governor Josh Shapiro

344,201 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Even after what just happened with the Pacific Palisades fire, Democrats are still ignoring the Fire Department Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters say they have been ignored by mayor Karen Bass “It is 2026. We have the same amount of firefighters as we did in 1960 with the call volume 5 times greater We used to run 100,000 calls in 1960. We run over half a million calls a year now. The population has doubled between from 2 million to 4 million We cannot sustain giving the citizens what they need when they call 911 and responding in a timely manner. We should be responding within 4.5 minutes. We are almost at 8 minutes when they call 911” Think about this, Democrats just let Los Angeles burn to the ground and the STILL won’t fund the fire department appropriately I looked into this and found the Fire Department is really fighting for funding and Democrats are outright ignoring them United Firefighters of Los Angeles City have been vocal: - They delivered 200,000+ signatures for a ballot initiative to boost funding. - Firefighters have protested at Mayor Bass’s residence and City Hall, warning that the city cannot sustain current 911 response levels. They literally protesters and still all Democrats will do is launder money to homeless NGOs and inform fire fighters Democrats need to go to prison
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Even after what just happened with the Pacific Palisades fire, Democrats are still ignoring the Fire Department Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters say they have been ignored by mayor Karen Bass “It is 2026. We have the same amount of firefighters as we did in 1960 with the call volume 5 times greater We used to run 100,000 calls in 1960. We run over half a million calls a year now. The population has doubled between from 2 million to 4 million We cannot sustain giving the citizens what they need when they call 911 and responding in a timely manner. We should be responding within 4.5 minutes. We are almost at 8 minutes when they call 911” Think about this, Democrats just let Los Angeles burn to the ground and the STILL won’t fund the fire department appropriately I looked into this and found the Fire Department is really fighting for funding and Democrats are outright ignoring them United Firefighters of Los Angeles City have been vocal: - They delivered 200,000+ signatures for a ballot initiative to boost funding. - Firefighters have protested at Mayor Bass’s residence and City Hall, warning that the city cannot sustain current 911 response levels. They literally protesters and still all Democrats will do is launder money to homeless NGOs and inform fire fighters Democrats need to go to prison

Wall Street Apes

30,287 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

🇯🇵 A fire occurred at Atago Shrine, a 420 year old shrine, in the Chuo Ward of Niigata City on the night of May 5, 2026. The fire broke out around 11:30 PM and took approximately three and a half hours for firefighters to extinguish. Many Japanese netizens believe it may have been caused by a Muslim arsonist. Similar acts of terror have plagued Europe for years as Muslims have been suspected of burning down hundreds of churches throughout the continent.
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🇯🇵 A fire occurred at Atago Shrine, a 420 year old shrine, in the Chuo Ward of Niigata City on the night of May 5, 2026. The fire broke out around 11:30 PM and took approximately three and a half hours for firefighters to extinguish. Many Japanese netizens believe it may have been caused by a Muslim arsonist. Similar acts of terror have plagued Europe for years as Muslims have been suspected of burning down hundreds of churches throughout the continent.

Asian Dawn

87,689 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

The City of Bulawayo Fire and Ambulance Services Unit has started training firefighters of Rural District Councils (RDCs) in the southern parts of the country. Five RDCs (Tsholotsho, Kusile, Matobo, Insiza and Hwange) have seconded recruits for training. A total of 30 recruited firefighters commenced their training on Monday with each local authority having six members. From the 30 trainee firefighters, six of them are females. The City of Bulawayo provides technical expertise to the rural local authorities. In the past, the City of Bulawayo, had to travel more than 100KM to attend to some of the emergency services in the nearby local authorities. The equipping of the rural local authorities is expected to improve the country's disaster management with the Government of Zimbabwe also having procured fire tenders for the rural local authorities.
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The City of Bulawayo Fire and Ambulance Services Unit has started training firefighters of Rural District Councils (RDCs) in the southern parts of the country. Five RDCs (Tsholotsho, Kusile, Matobo, Insiza and Hwange) have seconded recruits for training. A total of 30 recruited firefighters commenced their training on Monday with each local authority having six members. From the 30 trainee firefighters, six of them are females. The City of Bulawayo provides technical expertise to the rural local authorities. In the past, the City of Bulawayo, had to travel more than 100KM to attend to some of the emergency services in the nearby local authorities. The equipping of the rural local authorities is expected to improve the country's disaster management with the Government of Zimbabwe also having procured fire tenders for the rural local authorities.

The City of Bulawayo

11,534 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Here are some interesting facts about the fire in Maui that should make you ask questions. The governor, emergency management admin, fire chief, lieutenant governor, and attorney general were not on the island when the fire broke out. So the 2 most critical emergency officials were AWOL. The emergency alert system also wasn't activated and there are 400 sirens all over the state. The only system they activated was the cellphone alerts, but those comms were down too for some people, with many residents reporting they had zero warnings, some reporting that officials and police told them to stay and they'd be safe just a few hours before engulfing the area. Lastly, they didn't have enough firefighters and equipment. Apparently there were only 60+ firefighters across the 3 islands, and the administrators said they didn't address the fires until they were already at the populated areas and unstoppable. The alarm bells of a conspiracy should be ringing in everyone's head right now.
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Here are some interesting facts about the fire in Maui that should make you ask questions. The governor, emergency management admin, fire chief, lieutenant governor, and attorney general were not on the island when the fire broke out. So the 2 most critical emergency officials were AWOL. The emergency alert system also wasn't activated and there are 400 sirens all over the state. The only system they activated was the cellphone alerts, but those comms were down too for some people, with many residents reporting they had zero warnings, some reporting that officials and police told them to stay and they'd be safe just a few hours before engulfing the area. Lastly, they didn't have enough firefighters and equipment. Apparently there were only 60+ firefighters across the 3 islands, and the administrators said they didn't address the fires until they were already at the populated areas and unstoppable. The alarm bells of a conspiracy should be ringing in everyone's head right now.

Inversionism

1,619,845 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce

Europe faces a double whammy of flooding and wildfires While some parts of Europe are experiencing devastating flooding, other areas are battling raging wildfires. The situation is particularly dire in the Aveiro area of Portugal, where a massive wildfire has been burning for days. The smoke from the fire is visible for hundreds of kilometers away, and over 1,000 firefighters are currently working to contain the blaze. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the area is experiencing a severe drought, which is making the fire spread quickly. Officials are urging residents to evacuate the area and are warning that the fire could pose a serious threat to life and property. might find interesting: * The fire has burned over 10,000 hectares of land. * The fire is being fought by firefighters from Portugal, Spain, and France. * The Portuguese government has declared a state of emergency in the affected area. Video via Meteo Trás os Monte.
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Europe faces a double whammy of flooding and wildfires While some parts of Europe are experiencing devastating flooding, other areas are battling raging wildfires. The situation is particularly dire in the Aveiro area of Portugal, where a massive wildfire has been burning for days. The smoke from the fire is visible for hundreds of kilometers away, and over 1,000 firefighters are currently working to contain the blaze. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the area is experiencing a severe drought, which is making the fire spread quickly. Officials are urging residents to evacuate the area and are warning that the fire could pose a serious threat to life and property. might find interesting: * The fire has burned over 10,000 hectares of land. * The fire is being fought by firefighters from Portugal, Spain, and France. * The Portuguese government has declared a state of emergency in the affected area. Video via Meteo Trás os Monte.

Kernow Weather Team

50,084 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Prof. Mthuli Ncube has expressed satisfaction with the installation of new radiotherapy machines at Parirenyatwa Hospital, funded through the sugar tax on beverages introduced in the 2024 National Budget. The levy is ring-fenced for health, with cancer treatment as the first priority, and he confirmed that installation will be complete in the next few weeks before additional machines are delivered for Parirenyatwa and Mpilo Hospitals. Continuous collections will sustain further procurement of equipment and drugs, with the aim of transforming radiotherapy services within two years, while other targeted taxes such as airtime and gambling levies are also supporting health initiatives including rehabilitation centres for drug abuse.
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Prof. Mthuli Ncube has expressed satisfaction with the installation of new radiotherapy machines at Parirenyatwa Hospital, funded through the sugar tax on beverages introduced in the 2024 National Budget. The levy is ring-fenced for health, with cancer treatment as the first priority, and he confirmed that installation will be complete in the next few weeks before additional machines are delivered for Parirenyatwa and Mpilo Hospitals. Continuous collections will sustain further procurement of equipment and drugs, with the aim of transforming radiotherapy services within two years, while other targeted taxes such as airtime and gambling levies are also supporting health initiatives including rehabilitation centres for drug abuse.

Nick Mangwana

21,693 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels. They’re all lies. The Fire Department had made DEI such a priority that the city’s Deputy Fire Chief dismissed concerns that women would not be able to carry a man out of a fire by saying, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Newsom did indeed reduce CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget by $150 million in 2020. If California had elected leaders who cared about the people and were competent, they could have prevented the catastrophic fires from destroying 14,000 homes and businesses and forcing nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. Climate change is not responsible for the disasters and there is no change in the rain pattern. As always, nuance is required. The offhand remark by the Fire Chief is not proof that DEI contributed to the inadequate response. The disaster is decades in the making. LA’s leaders have known that the city was unprepared for catastrophic wildfires since the Bel Air Fire of 1961, which occurred when Karen Bass was a child and Gavin Newsom wasn’t alive. LA’s fire budget had actually increased by about $50 million compared to the last budget, reported Politico, Time, and the LA Times. And Newsom increased the CalFire budget after 2020 and increased land treated for wildfire prevention by 90,000 acres. But these facts are either wrong, misleading, or both. The attitude toward vulnerable men expressed by the deputy Fire Chief is deeply alarming and anathema to firefighter ethics. That the disaster was decades in the making makes the inaction by California political leaders even more inexcusable. The City Council in November approved $53 million to raise salaries, but that funding is completely irrelevant to the millions Bass cut, which her fire chief last month said had “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” And while funding for wildfire prevention increased recently, it wasn’t enough, and Newsom was caught overstating how much land was treated by 690%. The amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are coming forward and speaking out publicly. The owner of the Los Angeles Times went on national television to call it “crazy that we don’t elect leaders with competence.” And LA Fire Chief Kristen Crowley went on CNN, CBS, and Fox to denounce Bass. “Let me be clear,” she said, “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact…. We do not have enough firefighters….We need 62 more fire stations. We've had a 55 percent increase in overall call volume since 2010 and we’re doing it with less firefighters.” As I reported yesterday, over half of all fires that the LA Fire Department puts out are started by the homeless, who may well have started some of the fires ravaging LA. Gavin Newsom spent $24 billion of taxpayer money to increase homelessness by 40% since he took office. Karen Bass ran on a promise to force the homeless inside into shelters but has not done so. Every hour that passes, more information emerges of the corruption, incompetence, and failure. A major reservoir in Pacific Palisades, an epicenter of the fires, was out of commission for minor repairs when disaster struck. Had it been in operation, water pressure would have lasted longer during critical hours, and many homes may have been saved. Yesterday, a leaked LA government memo revealed that Bass had intended to cut an additional $49 million, on top of the $17.5 million already cut, from the fire budget. “I was also directed to develop a plan as part of a budget reduction exercise, and that could equate to 48.8 million,” the LA Fire chief told CNN. “I rang the bell that these additional cuts could be very, very devastating for our ability to provide public safety. That would have resulted to 15 fire stations closing down and potentially the elimination of over 300 firefighters.” The date of the memo is January 6, which is four days after the National Weather Service warned of danger, two days after Bass flew to Ghana on a vanity junket, and one day before the start of the Palisades fire. And LA Fire Department insiders say the head of the city’s Department of Water and Power, who Bass hired, knowingly left fire hydrants remain broken for months, and was the person responsible for draining the emptied reservoir. The response from the news media is that critics of all of this should shut up. “We’re on fire,” editorializedthe LA Times. “Maybe this is not the time for your political hot take.” Why are the LA Times and others in the media defending Bass and Newsom? In large measure because they officially endorsed them. More than that. They actively campaign for them. The hyper-partisan turn of California media two decades ago predated the more recent hyper-partisan nature of the national media. That Democrats had total, supermajority control over the state for 20 years made California media super-authoritarian. The LA Times, in particular is a radical Left publication. It has for years adamantly opposed hospitalizing homeless mentally ill people or requiring homeless addicts to go inside. In both 2020 and in 2021, the LA Times editorial board called for defunding the police to divert funding to social services. For the LA Times, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who visited Cuba at least eight times, expressing admiration for its system of socialist dictatorship, aren’t Left-wing enough. For the media and California’s politicians, the problem is we the people. We complain too much. Our taxes aren’t high enough. We’re causing too much climate change. We get too much in the way of police and fire fighting. And most of all, we spend too much time listening to right-wing influencers who only spread misinformation. We need to sit down and shut up. Like LA’s radical Left deputy fire chief, the media and California’s politicians believe, deep down, that if the people of Los Angeles have to be rescued from fires, then that’s just proof that they got themselves in the wrong place.
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As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels. They’re all lies. The Fire Department had made DEI such a priority that the city’s Deputy Fire Chief dismissed concerns that women would not be able to carry a man out of a fire by saying, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Newsom did indeed reduce CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget by $150 million in 2020. If California had elected leaders who cared about the people and were competent, they could have prevented the catastrophic fires from destroying 14,000 homes and businesses and forcing nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. Climate change is not responsible for the disasters and there is no change in the rain pattern. As always, nuance is required. The offhand remark by the Fire Chief is not proof that DEI contributed to the inadequate response. The disaster is decades in the making. LA’s leaders have known that the city was unprepared for catastrophic wildfires since the Bel Air Fire of 1961, which occurred when Karen Bass was a child and Gavin Newsom wasn’t alive. LA’s fire budget had actually increased by about $50 million compared to the last budget, reported Politico, Time, and the LA Times. And Newsom increased the CalFire budget after 2020 and increased land treated for wildfire prevention by 90,000 acres. But these facts are either wrong, misleading, or both. The attitude toward vulnerable men expressed by the deputy Fire Chief is deeply alarming and anathema to firefighter ethics. That the disaster was decades in the making makes the inaction by California political leaders even more inexcusable. The City Council in November approved $53 million to raise salaries, but that funding is completely irrelevant to the millions Bass cut, which her fire chief last month said had “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” And while funding for wildfire prevention increased recently, it wasn’t enough, and Newsom was caught overstating how much land was treated by 690%. The amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are coming forward and speaking out publicly. The owner of the Los Angeles Times went on national television to call it “crazy that we don’t elect leaders with competence.” And LA Fire Chief Kristen Crowley went on CNN, CBS, and Fox to denounce Bass. “Let me be clear,” she said, “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact…. We do not have enough firefighters….We need 62 more fire stations. We've had a 55 percent increase in overall call volume since 2010 and we’re doing it with less firefighters.” As I reported yesterday, over half of all fires that the LA Fire Department puts out are started by the homeless, who may well have started some of the fires ravaging LA. Gavin Newsom spent $24 billion of taxpayer money to increase homelessness by 40% since he took office. Karen Bass ran on a promise to force the homeless inside into shelters but has not done so. Every hour that passes, more information emerges of the corruption, incompetence, and failure. A major reservoir in Pacific Palisades, an epicenter of the fires, was out of commission for minor repairs when disaster struck. Had it been in operation, water pressure would have lasted longer during critical hours, and many homes may have been saved. Yesterday, a leaked LA government memo revealed that Bass had intended to cut an additional $49 million, on top of the $17.5 million already cut, from the fire budget. “I was also directed to develop a plan as part of a budget reduction exercise, and that could equate to 48.8 million,” the LA Fire chief told CNN. “I rang the bell that these additional cuts could be very, very devastating for our ability to provide public safety. That would have resulted to 15 fire stations closing down and potentially the elimination of over 300 firefighters.” The date of the memo is January 6, which is four days after the National Weather Service warned of danger, two days after Bass flew to Ghana on a vanity junket, and one day before the start of the Palisades fire. And LA Fire Department insiders say the head of the city’s Department of Water and Power, who Bass hired, knowingly left fire hydrants remain broken for months, and was the person responsible for draining the emptied reservoir. The response from the news media is that critics of all of this should shut up. “We’re on fire,” editorializedthe LA Times. “Maybe this is not the time for your political hot take.” Why are the LA Times and others in the media defending Bass and Newsom? In large measure because they officially endorsed them. More than that. They actively campaign for them. The hyper-partisan turn of California media two decades ago predated the more recent hyper-partisan nature of the national media. That Democrats had total, supermajority control over the state for 20 years made California media super-authoritarian. The LA Times, in particular is a radical Left publication. It has for years adamantly opposed hospitalizing homeless mentally ill people or requiring homeless addicts to go inside. In both 2020 and in 2021, the LA Times editorial board called for defunding the police to divert funding to social services. For the LA Times, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who visited Cuba at least eight times, expressing admiration for its system of socialist dictatorship, aren’t Left-wing enough. For the media and California’s politicians, the problem is we the people. We complain too much. Our taxes aren’t high enough. We’re causing too much climate change. We get too much in the way of police and fire fighting. And most of all, we spend too much time listening to right-wing influencers who only spread misinformation. We need to sit down and shut up. Like LA’s radical Left deputy fire chief, the media and California’s politicians believe, deep down, that if the people of Los Angeles have to be rescued from fires, then that’s just proof that they got themselves in the wrong place.

Michael Shellenberger

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🚨 Israel declares a state of emergency and raises alert levels to the maximum. The army has been deployed to assist firefighting teams. Vehicles are catching fire, and new blazes have been reported in Ashkelon, Ashdod, and the Gaza envelope. Wind speeds are expected to rise dramatically in the coming hours. Israeli hospitals have recorded 12 injuries due to smoke inhalation and burns. For the first time in 77 years, Israeli local councils have canceled Independence Day celebrations, including the torch-lighting ceremony.
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🚨 Israel declares a state of emergency and raises alert levels to the maximum. The army has been deployed to assist firefighting teams. Vehicles are catching fire, and new blazes have been reported in Ashkelon, Ashdod, and the Gaza envelope. Wind speeds are expected to rise dramatically in the coming hours. Israeli hospitals have recorded 12 injuries due to smoke inhalation and burns. For the first time in 77 years, Israeli local councils have canceled Independence Day celebrations, including the torch-lighting ceremony.

SilencedSirs◼️

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UPDATE- FIRE CONTAINED Early this morning, shortly after 3:00 AM, San Francisco firefighters responded to a fire at 50 Golden Gate, a six-story multi-residential complex located in the Tenderloin District. The firefighters executed an impressive and aggressive attack on the fire, which originated on the sixth floor, successfully preventing it from spreading to the lower floors and nearby buildings. The fire quickly escalated to a three-alarm incident, affecting the sixth floor, attic, and roof of the building. During the initial response, multiple occupants were rescued, and notably, two cats were saved during the second alarm phase. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Over 100 firefighters, more than 50 fire apparatus, police officers, and additional city services responded to the scene. Firefighters faced challenges due to the building's old construction, which included multiple light wells, lath and plaster construction, and heavy fire conditions on the upper floors. This incident exemplified traditional, aggressive firefighting tactics, which ultimately contained the fire within the structure. Currently, 45 residents have been temporarily displaced and are being accommodated on-site in an SFMTA bus. This number is subject to change. The fire was contained by 5:30 AM, and the American Red Cross has been called in to assist. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and firefighters will remain on the scene for several hours to conduct overhaul operations. We ask that the public continue to avoid the area.
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UPDATE- FIRE CONTAINED Early this morning, shortly after 3:00 AM, San Francisco firefighters responded to a fire at 50 Golden Gate, a six-story multi-residential complex located in the Tenderloin District. The firefighters executed an impressive and aggressive attack on the fire, which originated on the sixth floor, successfully preventing it from spreading to the lower floors and nearby buildings. The fire quickly escalated to a three-alarm incident, affecting the sixth floor, attic, and roof of the building. During the initial response, multiple occupants were rescued, and notably, two cats were saved during the second alarm phase. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Over 100 firefighters, more than 50 fire apparatus, police officers, and additional city services responded to the scene. Firefighters faced challenges due to the building's old construction, which included multiple light wells, lath and plaster construction, and heavy fire conditions on the upper floors. This incident exemplified traditional, aggressive firefighting tactics, which ultimately contained the fire within the structure. Currently, 45 residents have been temporarily displaced and are being accommodated on-site in an SFMTA bus. This number is subject to change. The fire was contained by 5:30 AM, and the American Red Cross has been called in to assist. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and firefighters will remain on the scene for several hours to conduct overhaul operations. We ask that the public continue to avoid the area.

SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA

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The most destructive fire in LA county history is still raging, but the fire chief says she doesn’t have enough firefighters. Maybe it’s because she’s been laser-focused on DEI for the past few years. The Mayor Karen Bass has been out of the country this entire time. Just months ago, she cut funding from the fire department and before that, the department’s extra equipment was sent to Ukraine. Even worse — LA fire hydrants are dry. Los Angeles has had two years of record-rainfall, but the rain just washed right into the ocean. A decade ago, California voted to spend billions of dollars on water storage and reservoirs and today, Gavin Newsom hasn’t finished building a single one. Newsom also filed a lawsuit years ago to stop a Donald J. Trump memorandum to funnel more water from Northern California to Southern Carolina —saying it would kill the smelt. Saving the micro-fish is apparently more important than people and maybe that’s because it’s big business— if anything happens to the smelt, people lose a lot of money. And it gets worse — Newsom oversaw the largest dam removal project in U.S. history to give Native Americans some land back and for some salmon. These dams were a go-to source for firefighters to pull water from for fires. Newsom spends more money fighting homelessness than fighting fires… and both of them are out of control. The state has a drug problem, a homeless crisis, everything’s burning and there’s no water. California is run by public servants who can’t serve the public.
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The most destructive fire in LA county history is still raging, but the fire chief says she doesn’t have enough firefighters. Maybe it’s because she’s been laser-focused on DEI for the past few years. The Mayor Karen Bass has been out of the country this entire time. Just months ago, she cut funding from the fire department and before that, the department’s extra equipment was sent to Ukraine. Even worse — LA fire hydrants are dry. Los Angeles has had two years of record-rainfall, but the rain just washed right into the ocean. A decade ago, California voted to spend billions of dollars on water storage and reservoirs and today, Gavin Newsom hasn’t finished building a single one. Newsom also filed a lawsuit years ago to stop a Donald J. Trump memorandum to funnel more water from Northern California to Southern Carolina —saying it would kill the smelt. Saving the micro-fish is apparently more important than people and maybe that’s because it’s big business— if anything happens to the smelt, people lose a lot of money. And it gets worse — Newsom oversaw the largest dam removal project in U.S. history to give Native Americans some land back and for some salmon. These dams were a go-to source for firefighters to pull water from for fires. Newsom spends more money fighting homelessness than fighting fires… and both of them are out of control. The state has a drug problem, a homeless crisis, everything’s burning and there’s no water. California is run by public servants who can’t serve the public.

Jesse Watters

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🚒 🇵🇱 🇷🇺 🔥 In 2010, Poland sent a rescue mission to Russia to help extinguish catastrophic forest and peat bog fires near Moscow. This was a response to a request from the Russian side, in the face of a heat wave and fires that killed more than 50 people. About 160 Polish firefighters from the State Fire Service went to Russia. The Poles took 45 vehicles with them, including fire trucks, tankers, high-capacity pumps for water supply, as well as logistics equipment and sanitary containers. ---------- Do Russians still remember this? Don't you see what the politicians and media in Poland and Russia have led to? Who would have thought today that something like this could happen?
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🚒 🇵🇱 🇷🇺 🔥 In 2010, Poland sent a rescue mission to Russia to help extinguish catastrophic forest and peat bog fires near Moscow. This was a response to a request from the Russian side, in the face of a heat wave and fires that killed more than 50 people. About 160 Polish firefighters from the State Fire Service went to Russia. The Poles took 45 vehicles with them, including fire trucks, tankers, high-capacity pumps for water supply, as well as logistics equipment and sanitary containers. ---------- Do Russians still remember this? Don't you see what the politicians and media in Poland and Russia have led to? Who would have thought today that something like this could happen?

Based Poland 🇵🇱

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🚨 NOW — Reporter: “Will you ask Congress for tariffs now?” President Trump: “No. I don’t need to. It’s already been approved.” That wasn’t hesitation. That was confidence. Trump is making the case that Congress already delegated this authority through existing trade and emergency statutes. In his view, this isn’t about asking for new power. It’s about using the power that’s already on the books. That’s the real constitutional clash. How much tariff authority did Congress hand to the executive branch over the years? And where is the line between delegation and overreach? Trump’s position is simple. He believes the authority is already his to use.
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🚨 NOW — Reporter: “Will you ask Congress for tariffs now?” President Trump: “No. I don’t need to. It’s already been approved.” That wasn’t hesitation. That was confidence. Trump is making the case that Congress already delegated this authority through existing trade and emergency statutes. In his view, this isn’t about asking for new power. It’s about using the power that’s already on the books. That’s the real constitutional clash. How much tariff authority did Congress hand to the executive branch over the years? And where is the line between delegation and overreach? Trump’s position is simple. He believes the authority is already his to use.

ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸

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