By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--January 12, 2025
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If folks are looking for a credible answer to be provided by government mouthpieces about the utter failure of assigning resources to fight the infernos that are still sweeping through Los Angeles and surroundings… don’t hold your breath.
Elected and appointed officials are true experts at one thing, and that is devising fairytales upon which to direct blame, and sidestep responsibility. There are none better at fingering others, and they’ve had decades, and when speaking historically, centuries of practice.
Every chronicle of the past is packed with characters that display no character. The aftermath of the California conflagrations (whether referencing the Paradise, Wine Country, etc. or current Pacific Palisades/Eaton+ blazes) attest to officials’ inartful dance performances.
There is one formula for protecting one’s backside that officials like Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass are adept – professing innocence in the face of a larger entity they say shoulders the burden of guilt. The trouble is that the party to which they point to take the blame is, frankly, a ghost. The villain is nebulous and impossible to pin down with certainty because there is no evidence that it exists other than in the imaginations of mendacious politicians, scientists, and lobbyists.
Blaming the catch-all “Climate Change” for the origin and spread of devastating fires is the same as telling children that the tooth fairy left money under their pillow. In effect, denying personal culpability by naming someone or something else as the culprit.
Arson, water and electrical shutdown, infrastructure collapse, and looting are all results of acts of men, not some ephemeral power called Climate Change. Having said as much when the situation sprouted and became uncontrollable, this is offered:
And, where have we heard this before? Outgoing President Biden, under whose tutelage all these catastrophes have occurred, said the “utilities” shut off electricity to avoid further fire outbreaks, hampering LAFD efforts to fight blazes that kept popping up. Does anyone remember Maui’s devastation and total mismanagement of the (un)natural disaster? Much the same was professed then.
Climate Change is a convenient scapegoat for incompetent and criminal actions performed (or not, depending on one’s perspective) by flesh and blood individuals determined to avoid responsibility for the consequences their constituents are doomed to suffer.
Why is there an increasing number of wildfires over the last years, especially in areas that back up to recently designated “public” parks and national monuments? When I was growing up in Southern California, there was no such thing as Topanga Park that the Pacific Palisades community now abuts. We used to drive through Topanga Canyon to the beach, enjoying the view of ranches and homes scattered among the hills. Where are those long-established residences today?
The facts are that as these wildfires crop up in and around older communities across California (and other states), wiping the landscape clean of manmade structures, more land is being usurped under the guise of saving the environment from some Climate Change cataclysm.
The purpose is not hidden but publicly proclaimed by the Biden administration to fulfill the 30 x 30 government land acquisition agenda. Since the executive order to “protect” 30% of America’s land by 2030 was signed by Biden on Day One of his taking office, the White House is claiming 674 million acres have been removed from citizens’ hands for “conservation.”
Joe Biden was to come to California to announce the creation of two more national monuments equalling 850,000 acres just as these latest blazes were simultaneously sparked. Coincidental? That’s debatable.
Perhaps it could be considered suspicious how the Palisades, Eaton and other fires bordering national forest and monument land (like the San Gabriel Mountain monument that was expanded under Biden along with the Berryessa Monument) broke out soon after a state law went into effect restricting insurers from charging market rates for homeowner policies. As has been suggested by others, there will now be the daunting hurdle of obtaining permits to rebuild in tightly restricted zones – which was excessively difficult across much of Los Angeles County when I still lived there.
As much as USA Today fact-checked that no firefighting flights were impeded while Biden arrived in Santa Monica to announce the birth of his first great-grandchild, protocol for presidential visits precludes air traffic in the vicinity of Air Force One’s inbound travel and departure. LAX is only a few miles from Santa Monica and the fireline in the Palisades, so Biden’s delayed departure on January 8, 2025 probably would have affected vector air traffic to some degree.
The disturbing nature of these (un)natural conflagrations is how completely they have been burning through districts, leaving virtually nothing standing. Having witnessed numerous wildfires over the decades I lived in Southern California, it was uncommon to see such thorough destruction. Wildfires as fast moving as these have been would sweep across a landscape or community leaving half-burnt structures and hit or miss pockets of buildings and greenery partially touched by flame. What’s left by these fires, as well as what occurred in Maui and numerous recent Northern California blazes, are acres of charcoal and ashes.
But none of it is due to some enigmatic apparition government officials conveniently blame to circumvent responsibility for their life-threatening policies. The only element not manmade, causing the violent devastation of lives and homes, is the incorrectly accused – “Climate Change.”
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
ChangingWind (changingwind.org) is a solutions-centered Christian ministry.