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DEVELOPING: ATF Arson Investigators Descend on Hiking Trail at The Summit of Pacific Palisades

ATF arson investigators descended along a hiking trail at The Summit of the Pacific Palisades on Monday nearly one week after the fires erupted.

“Two prongs, one team will analyze the scene, including damage & burn patterns, while another will gather surveillance video, digital evidence, etc,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said.

The Pacific Palisades fire erupted last Tuesday morning.

LAX video journalist “Airline Videos” captured the moment the Pacific Palisades fire broke out on Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday morning around 10:30, LAX airport streamer Kevin noticed a plume of smoke shortly before a United Airlines flight landed.

“Uh oh! Uh oh! Uh oh! Not something we wanna see here in Southern California. A fire has now broke out. That is looking like Encino. Uh oh. Not what we wanna see here in Southern California. A fire has now broke out there in the hills. I believe that’s looking toward possibly Bel Air, Encino,” Livestreamer Kevin said Tuesday morning.

“This was the concern for many with these high winds and as dry as they are. Weather watch in full effect,” Kevin said referring to the gusty Santa Ana winds that reached over 80 miles per hour on Tuesday.

“With these high winds that fire can spread really quickly,” Kevin said as he panned over to the plume of smoke in the distance. “There are a lot of expensive homes up there in the hills.”

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Oops: L.A. Sheriff Slips, Says ‘Depopulation Conversation Keeps Coming Up’

The sheriff of Los Angeles County turned heads with an apparent blunder over the weekend, saying that “depopulation” keeps cropping up in conversations regarding how soon displaced residents will be able to return to their most likely destroyed homes.

The eyebrow-raising remark came during a press conference over the weekend, where Sheriff Robert G. Luna was discussing how residents have continuously been asking whether they can enter the disaster zone to see what remains of their belongings.

“I know…a lot of our residents are trying to get back and they’re frustrated. I stopped by several checkpoints both in Altadena and Malibu yesterday. I personally listened to residents, ‘Please, please, let me back in.’ So I’m just going to say this. In driving around some of these areas they literally look like war zones. There are downed power poles, electric wires there are still some smoldering fires. It is not safe,” the sheriff said.

“The minute it is safe, we understand the inconvenience, and every conversation we’re having about evacuations – that depopulation conversation is continuously coming up. We do care. We want to get you back into your homes but we can’t allow that until it is safe for you to do so.”

It’s unclear what the sheriff intended to say and the department did not issue a statement clarifying the remarks; however, the comment is being highlighted online as a Freudian slip.

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California Wildfires Spark Shocking Conspiracy Claiming That Fires Were Intentionally Set to Pave the Way for AI-Controlled ‘SmartLA 2028’ Just in Time for 2028 Olympics

As devastating wildfires once again consume California’s landscapes, a growing number of skeptics are pointing to an eerie coincidence: the fires are burning in regions earmarked for major redevelopment under the controversial “SmartLA 2028” initiative.

Critics allege that these fires might not be mere acts of nature but intentional acts to fast-track a dystopian agenda where artificial intelligence governs daily life.

California is currently facing a catastrophic wildfire crisis, with Los Angeles County experiencing some of the most severe blazes in its history. The fires have consumed over 38,000 acres, destroyed thousands of structures, and resulted in at least 16 fatalities, with an additional 16 individuals reported missing.

The Palisades Fire stands as the largest, having burned 23,713 acres and over 5,000 structures, with containment efforts achieving only 11% success.

The crisis has ignited a political firestorm, with President-elect Donald Trump attributing the disaster to mismanagement by California’s leadership.

Trump criticized Governor Gavin Newsom for failures in water resource management and forest maintenance, suggesting that state regulations have exacerbated the fires.

It has also been reported that the Santa Ynez Reservoir, a critical water source in Pacific Palisades, was empty and offline when a devastating wildfire ripped through the area.

The Los Angeles Times reported that despite the reservoir’s critical role in the city’s water infrastructure, it had been offline for nearly a year.

Now, claims have surfaced on social media alleging that the devastating California wildfires were intentionally started as part of a criminal land grab scheme to construct smart cities under the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda.

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Newsom’s ‘Answer’ to Hard L.A. Fire Questions Is to Censor People Asking Them

California Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to answer the hard questions about the L.A. fires, so he wants the question askers to be censored. That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact. And you can watch him do it right here.  

That fact alone should be disqualifying for anyone in or seeking public office, as the current California governor surely hopes to in 2028 when he’ll likely run for president.

Newsom is seen on video twice complaining about how these hard questions make him look bad. The questions come from his voters, reporters, and social media.

The governor was so upset by these questions that he asked the president of the United States to censor the people asking them. 

Newsom asked Biden, who was in the Oval Office sitting behind the Resolute Desk with Jill Biden and Kamala Harris in the room, to clamp down on the hard questions.

I ask you – we’ve got to deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of mis and dis information; lies. People want to divide this country, and we’re gonna have to address that as well. 

There are several things you can divine from this conversation between these powerful Democrats. First, Newsom felt perfectly comfortable asking the president to do something about the information he doesn’t like and wants removed from the public because it is obviously detrimental to his reputation. Also, it’s de rigueur for these people to control the information flow. Third, he’s fully read-in on how “dividing this country” is a reason to invoke censorship. 

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BACKFIRE: Gavin Newsom’s Meet the Press Interview Turns into a Major Disaster – Wild Gestures, Word Salads, and More

Gavin Newsom decided to take his PR campaign to national television on Sunday, and the results were a major disaster with notable word salads, wild gestures, and more.

As The Daily Mail reported, NBC News Correspondent Jacob Soboroff traveled to Altadena, a census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley in California which has been tormented by the Eaton Fire, to meet with the disgraced governor.

Throughout the interview, The Mail noted Newsom appeared defensive as he often clapped and made several other glaring gestures that caught the attention of viewers as he attempted to spin his way out of his disastrous leadership. He looked more like an agitated Bernie Sanders than the calm, measured leader California needs.

During one sequence, he showed he had no clue why the reservoirs in the Pacific Palisades were left completely empty. One of them, The Santa Ynez Reservoir, has a capacity of 117 million gallons and could have played a critical role in stopping the fires as The Gateway Pundit reported.

“Was it pipes? Was it electricity? It was a combination of pipes, electricities, and pumps,” Newsom asked as he rocked and threw up his hands.

“Was that drawdown impossible because you lost seven-plus thousand structures right here anyway and every single structure we lost had a pipe that was leaking, and we would’ve lost that water pressure anyway?”

Seeing Newsom’s mannerisms caused many Americans to wonder what was wrong with him.

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Meet the Man Who Waited OVER SIX HOURS to Issue a Local State Of Emergency While Entire Neighborhoods Burned in the LA Wildfires – Life-Saving Federal Aid Also Denied Thanks to Him

Just when one thinks the debacle regarding California local leadership cannot possibly get worse, a new bombshell drops.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a massive 3,000-acre wildfire raged out of control and engulfed homes in Pacific Palisades, California, on Tuesday afternoon. Shocking and heartbreaking footage has emerged showing people abandoning their cars and running for their lives.

Residents have lost their homes, entire livelihoods, and even their lives over the past several days as fires have spread all across Southern California with no signs of abating. Meanwhile, firefighters are having issues with water pressure, thanks to politicians.

The fires would not have been so severe had California politicians led by Governor Gavin Newsom utilized common-sense solutions such as clearing out the dead brush in the woods and filling the state’s depleted reservoirs with water.

Now, actress Justine Bateman has shared a damning new revelation from her friend Eric Spiegelman, who served as a commissioner under former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and briefly now-Mayor Karen Bass. It turns out that while Bass was in Ghana when the wildfires fire started, LA City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson took over as acting mayor and had a golden opportunity to assert his leadership.

Because Bass was away, she could not make key decisions regarding the fires, such as issuing a state of emergency.

Harris-Dawson, though, completely blew his opportunity in the most damaging way imaginable. When the Pacific Palisades wildfire started just before noon local time, Harris-Dawson decided to instead wait six and half hours for some unknown reason.

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Gavin Newsom Gives an Appalling Answer When Asked About Public’s Anger Regarding the State Wildfires – Team Trump Delivers Explosive Reply to Newsom

California Governor Gavin Newsom has finally spoken out in-depth regarding his and other state officials’ handling of the wildfires which are destroying the southern part of the state and it should disgust everyone.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a massive 3,000-acre wildfire raged out of control and engulfed homes in Pacific Palisades, California, on Tuesday afternoon. Shocking and heartbreaking footage has emerged showing people abandoning their cars and running for their lives.

Residents have lost their homes, entire livelihoods, and even their lives over the past several days as fires have spread all across Southern California and show no signs of abating. Meanwhile, firefighters are having issues with water pressure, thanks to politicians.

The fires would not have been so severe had California politicians led by Newsom utilized common-sense solutions such as clearing out the dead brush in the woods and filling the state’s depleted reservoirs with water.

As Fox News reported, Newsom appeared on the liberal podcast “Pod Save America” yesterday to respond to the rightful criticisms regarding his and other Democrat leaders’ failed leadership.

Right off the bat, Newsom sought to make himself look like a ‘hero.’

“So, I’m the governor of California and wanna know the answer. I’ve got that question, I can’t tell you, by how many people, ‘What happened?’ – on my own team, ‘What happened?’,” Newsom claimed to “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Favreau. “I’ll be candid with you, I wasn’t getting straight answers.”

According to Fox News, Favreau surprisingly pushed back against Newsom. He revealed that a friend of his lost his home in The Palisades and suggested that Newsom was trying to pass the buck.

Undeterred, Newsom continued his narcissistic screed.

“We had my team start talking to local leaders, saying, ‘What’s going on?’” Newsom fired back. “I was getting different answers.”

“And so, for me, when you start getting different answers, then I’m not getting the actual story,” he added.

The New York Post reported that Newsom next boasted about his government’s response to the crisis. He bragged about how many helicopters, prepositioned engines, personnel, and dozers they obtained over the weekend.

Newsom then smeared Trump, who has been extremely critical of the disgraced governor’s ‘leadership’ during the crisis, by once again falsely accusing him of politicizing the tragedy and spreading ‘misinformation.’

“It’s words. It’s a salad. It’s the form and substance of fog. It’s made up,” Newsom whined. “It’s delusional and it’s a consistent mantra from Trump going back years and years and years, and it’s reinforced over and over and over within the right wing.”

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The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not Been Seen in Nearly a Decade – California Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground Over a Fish That They Can’t Even Find Anymore

The tiny Delta Smelt fish have not been seen in the wild in California in over a decade.

And yet, California Democrats flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish that they can’t even find in its natural habitat.
Now several cities are burnt to the ground.

They sacrificed entire communities for a fish that doesn’t exist.

A 2021 report by Dan Bacher in the Sacramento News revealed that there have been NO DELTA SMELT seen in the wild since 2012.
They’re extinct.

For the seventh September in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has caught zero Delta smelt during its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The last time Delta smelt – an indicator species for the broader ecological health estuary – were found in CDFW’s September survey was in 2015. Only 5 were caught by state biologists at the time.

After that, the only year that Delta smelt were caught during the entire four-month survey was in 2016, when a total of 8 smelt were reported.

The final results of Fish and Wildlife’s four-month survey of pelagic (open water) fish species, conducted from September through mid-December, won’t be available until around the start of next year. The current September 2022 data is available here on the annual state surveys webpage.

Recent research has shown that the water releases are not providing the benefits to the small fish that they originally thought. Their population numbers are nearly nonexistent in the wild.

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Maxine Waters Suggests People in California Can’t Get Services Because the Rich ‘One Percent’ Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ in Taxes

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters appeared on NewsNation this week to talk about the devastating fires in her state.

Waters, who never missed an opportunity to be politically toxic during Trump’s first term, has been conspicuously quiet since the 2024 election. During her appearance with Chris Cuomo, she claimed that she did not want to talk about Democrat vs. Republican. Cuomo correctly points out to her that politics is involved here because California’s governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass are both Democrats.

Waters then pivots to the victims of the fires and suggests that some of California’s richest people, the one percent, are not paying their ‘fair share’ in taxes. California has the highest taxes in the country.

From Breitbart News:

“The first thing we’ve got to understand is, services cost money and we should be willing to get the richest people in this country, the richest 1% that is protected, make sure they pay their fair taxes so that we can have the money to provide the services. With that money and with those resources, the people who have been selected or elected to do the job should do the job.

I don’t care who it is. It could be Democrat, it could be Republican, it could be whatever. But the fact of the matter is, we all should have heavy hearts right now, but we should have faith and we should be on point by making sure that we do everything to help the people that need us. Dammit, you can do the politics later. You can come and talk about Gavin Newsom later. You can talk about the Democrats later.”

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Stunner: Why Was Pacific Palisades Reservoir EMPTY? It Gets Worse.

An empty reservoir and dry fire hydrants are now the symbols of California and local officials’ response to the horrific Pacific Palisades wildfire—one of six Santa Ana windblown firestorms still burning in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation to demonstrate that he’s doing something, but the damage is being done right now. 

The 117 million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty and down for maintenance when the devastating fire was sparked, perhaps in the brush, between the homes and the Pacific Coast Highway. You can see a map of the area in my story Good Intentions Might Be the Cause of Devastating Palisades Fire. 

Friday, officials confirmed that the reservoir had been down for nearly a year —closing in February 2024—for maintenance to the cover of the reservoir. 

The New York Times reports that a contractor was hired in November to fix a crack in the cover. It is unclear why the reservoir had to be shut down for that extended period of time. 

The ripple effect was beyond devastating. 

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