It is time for the country to begin to have the words "Climate Crisis" in their daily dialogue.

There was only one place (click here) in the state of California where a fire could be ignited with this intensity and that is exactly what occurred. Everything that could have been done was being done and everything that is being done is being done.

...Conversely, drought worsened for southern California...

...A dry start (click here) to the winter and using 90-day SPI (click here) and soil moisture, moderate drought (D1) was expanded across southern California. The NDMC short-term blend, 90-day SPI, and many 28-day average streamflows below the 10th percentile supported the addition of severe drought (D2) to portions of southern California. The Santa Ana winds during early January are likely to exacerbate the worsening drought conditions. Consistent with the NDMC short-term blend along with 30 to 120-day SPI, D2 was expanded for portions of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Based on water year to date (WYTD: October 1, 2024 to January 6, 2025) precipitation averaging above normal and snow water equivalent (SWE) above the 80th percentile, a 1-category improvement was made to southwestern Idaho, eastern to central Oregon, eastern Washington and a small part of northwestern Montana. This 1-category improvement is also supported by NDMC drought blends and SPIs at various time scales. As of January 7, SWE was above-normal (period of record: 1991-2020) across the southern Cascades along with eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho. SWE was highly variable for the Sierra Nevada Mountains and below-normal across the Four Corners Region.

California was doing all it could (click here) and farther ahead of any other state of the country with a population of nearly 39 million Americans. It is the climate and the severe drought of southern California that sparked an inferno with winds that would not relent.

Two incredible Americans

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One lost to us today leaving a vast memory of humanitarian values. The other still precious to the American values we all should embrace.

This is from the New York Times of the great humanitarian James Earl Carter, Jr.

 

The Republicans can own the tragedies across America.

These tragedies are not normal. They are extreme outcomes that have become impossible to recover from, including the massive floods in North Carolina up to and including these massive infernos in California.

There was a time in the USA when emergencies were manageable, but, Earth is showing its dominance.

For decades, if not a century government officials have been warned about fossil fuels all the way back to Henry Ford’s Model T. There was hope while Senators McCain and Clinton were working as a team to end fossil fuel use. But, the Republicans across the board since have been retreating into climate crisis denial ever since. 

The people of California knew long ago the climate was a huge issue and attempted to adjust their lives and businesses to meet the challenges. What is occurring to them now is the most grossly unfair scenarios imaginable, because, they made the sacrifices but are still unable to reap the benefits.

Below is information that simply blows the mind. These ancient structures are power lines still standing in Texas. The people in Texas are not important enough to bring their power grid out of the dark ages, even if these are not currently functioning. Now, there is moron coming into the White House that only seeks to make political dogma statements to attempt to remove Democrats and democracy from the people.

President Biden has worked miracles in the four years he has been in the Oval Office. Climate measures have moved forward and there is at least a chance we can reverse the severe and life threatening reality of the climate crisis.

The American people need to come together to end these tragedies as well as maintaining their status as a Middle Class stronghold. The Climate Crisis has to be prioritized in every household across this country. The Climate Crisis has to be a bread and butter realty if this world is to stem the danger.

These ancient structures must come down as well as the politics that keep them standing.

The leaders of the firefighters…

…need a consolidated strategy. They need a joint meeting of the authorities involved, including the Governor on Zoom. The idea of setting backfires in these winds is highly dangerous and could involve suburbs. To realize in order to contain these infernos more homes maybe sacrificed only proves how complicated this is for those trying to end this. 

The Governor may need to ask the National Guard to assist in whatever way they can, but, sheltering 10’s of thousands of people is similar to a Katrina scenario. People will have to be bussed out to safety until this is over. 

Containment is the only hope at this point. No one fighting to end this should feel anything but heroic status. This is a highly dangerous and near impossible situation. The firefighters need to be identified to their leaders and kept in a record of attendance so no one is lost. 

The country regularly comes together for severe flooding. Well. This is a flood of flames. People need shelter away from danger.

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Think outside the box, including flame suppression. It is past “normal” methodology.

Fire chiefs have to have measures that work. That means in such extreme situations the Governor may have to authorize such a use. For such emergency use, concentrate in containment of the contamination, and cleanup even if it means Brownfields or Superfund classification!

These fires are exhaustive to the firefighters. It is possible there are less and less firefighters if there is no end in sight. Firefighters are human beings with incredible capacity, but, they aren’t machines that can hold the line without fatigue.

These fires have to be contained as soon as they erupt with winds like these. THE EMBERS are carried a loft and over a wide distance quickly. 

The wind gusts are high and carrying embers.

 

No words can describe the bravery of our firefighters.

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The fire is dominated by the wind and any fire breaks that can be established if that is possible.

The art world needs to address the emergency at the museum. Smoke damage alone can be of concern. ANYONE going near a museum piece should be credentialed and checked by a secure process. Art theft is well known to these folks.

Preventing the spread should be prioritized rather than fighting the flames. Areas on fire are already lost. High density population areas need to be addressed to contain the emergency. The wind is not going to stop and that is the fuel to the inferno.

Farewell to a 100 year old humanitarian and President of the USA.

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We were lucky to have him for so long. 

Bullies

What I found interesting is the chronic bullying by Musk of Ms. Mackenzie Scott.

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The Trump plutocrats are attempting to change benevolence. Musk sees benevolence as a threat. 

Those plutocrats outside the corruption of the Trump plutocrats actually can negate the corruption through their benevolence.

Let’s say Greenland and/or Panama believe the stability of their national security is at stake because of pressures, which at this point seem to focus on economics, others can fill in the gap by prompting tourism and brining additional economic interests that buoy these countries through four years of estrangement from democracy. 

Musk’s gender harassment of Ms. Scott is a strategy to end democracy. If Musk was successful in consolidating the plutocrats outside the corruption it would help solidify the directives of idiots.

I would encourage any sovereign country that believes they are under attack through Trump corruption to apply to those outside the corruption for benevolent interest. A better economy may grow out of it.

Plutocrats

There is only one way to contextualize a plutocrat. A plutocrat is an individual, male or female, that has the potential power of a sovereign, including a threat to national defense.

It is dangerous to dismiss the potential their character, wealth, and capacity carries. That danger is not restricted to one country’s boundaries. These people carry the potential of multi-national dangers.

The errors in spelling and grammar that may appear here is due to artificial intelligence. I spend more time correcting AI mistakes than I do my own. 

There is a court in the USA that accepted the legal definition of affluenza.

I sincerely believe Trump and his associates and family exhibit many of these symptoms as if a family trait.

Life is more than money.

Denmark should sanction Donald Trump, Jr.

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There is a treaty between the USA and Denmark. Trump, Junior has no capacity to honor that treaty and is acting as a hostile agent. Denmark has the right and obligation to protect Greenland from hostile entities. Junior is a private citizen acting in a hostile manner. Denmark has a right to sanction Junior and prevent his OCCUPATION of any and all sovereign land of Greenland.

A President of the USA has no right to nullify a treaty. The current President-elect is threatening an annexation of Greenland which violates any and all intentions of defending Greenland’s sovereignty. That treaty violation is illegal within the that document as well as a hostile act against NATO.

Donald Trump, Junior can be detained upon entering Greenland and quite possibly prosecuted if proper sanctions are levied against him. He can be indefinitely fined for every second he causes innocent citizens of Greenland distress. Possibly prison for his openly stated illegal and hostile acts.

To defend an ally of decades if not a century or more is not defined by annexation. I think Greenland and Denmark can even move against Trump, Junior at the International Court at The Hague. Attempting to erase sovereign borders is a hostile act and one that can be characterized as a form of genocide. 

These Trump people are bizarre people. This in no way are actions of any normal practice of diplomacy. Trump, Junior is acting with the idea his Daddy has properly appointed him to begin an occupation of Greenland that threatens its sovereignty. He reminds me of Putin. In a recent statement by Poland it was said, “If Vladimir Putin threatens to invade a country he will due so.” When a sovereign’s authority makes statements that are hostile it is to be taken seriously. That is very correct. Trump, Junior has been openly hostile toward Greenland. I remind, the president-elect strongly favors nepotism within the official capacity of presidential appointments. This is yet another extension of Trump’s deranged thinking. He thinks he is king and he is sending Junior on princely duties. They are bizarre people. Greenland’s citizens have a right to a safe and sane reality. 

These actions of intimidation is to secure exploitive definitions of Greenland’s resources. Resources are important to the sovereign wealth of a country. Denmark has deployed additional troops to Greenland to protect it and its assets. All the elements of a national defense of Greenland are in place and need to be backed by legal sovereign authority to stop these bizarre acts. No sale of land can occur if it is intended to ultimate cause harm and change the culture and values of its citizens.

Starlink is expensive and problematic.

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It costs at least $249 for the kit and then hundreds of dollars per month. 

Clue: This is a sovereign power communication system. I doubt the FCC even has a permit on it because its primary purpose is to be an adjunct technology to Space X. I doubt this is classified and secure.

Starlinks competes with any major telecommunications business. High end customers are probably paying the price. 

In conservation work I would have considered a service like this, but, Verizon was state of the art at the time and I always had coverage no matter where I went. My peer group loved Verizon and probably is still using it.

The thing about Starlink is that it is at the whims of Musk. If a subscriber says something insulting about the service or Musk, they can have their membership revoked. So, good luck with Elon’s temper tantrums because at the point where you need communication a bear can be staring at you.

Starlinks is also known to be interfering with scientific space investigations. Tell me this is “good practice.” Musk wants to explore the cosmos but he sticks a sovereign satellite system into orbit that interferes with such scientific data. I have a difficult time reconciling that. It makes no sense. It is outside the rhelm of good practices. Yet, all Musk has to do is load another rocket and send it skyward. 

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Where is the cooperation and coordination with the scientific community? I don’t believe Musk’s stories. He is completely out of step with his peers and has his own anarchy. 

There is a loyalty problem.

Trump and Musk call this peace. It is not. It is surrender. Musk is having conversations with heads of communist countries. He is not talking about business. Pulling the plug on Taiwan is not businesses.

Taiwan had to go to the Uk to enforce its national security. This is a huge international incident because Taiwan can’t trust Musk.

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THIS IS NOT OKAY! 

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The Farm Bill is coming up this year.

Everyone who is anyone better get their ducks in a row otherwise we won’t have a productive agricultural culture. 

DOGE and Trump know nothing about feeding a nation of more than 330 million people. They know how to complain to be popular but they don’t know squat about agriculture. 

They are also climate deniers at a time when we need farmers engaged in programs that assist them in productive methodologies.

National Security Risk

At the very least, Elon Musk is a subversive. But, so is Trump but which is a threat?

Trump, right? He’s president-elect. 

Wrong. Even after Trump is inaugurated, he less of a threat than Musk.

Elon Musk can buy his own country if he wanted it. Whether he is a benevolent tyrant with the people can be measured by his handling of “X,” also known to many as Twitter. There are massive numbers of people and businesses using Twitter. How have they been treated? Musk claims total control of the website and its policies. He said that himself in live interviews.

Let’s say the Free World ostracized him, cancelled passports, and citizenship and the only place he could go was back to South Africa. How much of a threat is he now? 

Elon Musk has all the characteristics and capacity of a sovereign country. Don’t think for one minute he doesn’t know that. He not only knows that he bought a president because he can’t run on his own. That damn constitution gets in the way.

But, he is capable of spawning his own bank, his own economy, and his own national defense as well as space exploration. His rockets can be loaded with nukes or dirty bombs.

Nope, Jeff Bezos is not the same. Bezos has never attempted to undermine the greatest democracy in the world. Subversives often have that agenda. Jeff Bezos asked Captain Kirk to take a ride to promote his space tourism. It doesn’t get more American than that. Besides that Bezos is not interested in overtaking NASA’s agenda. He has his own and it is based in business practices. 

Elon would like to take over NASA and immediately engage in permanent residences in space stations. Sort of like t he enough of Battlestar Galactica. Such a venture would be a human tragedy and everyone would get sick and die. We are not remotely there yet. Trump isn’t bright enough to understand that though. He would just be seeing dollar signs.

So, is Elon Musk a financial equivalent of a terrorist? I think he is far more dangerous to the USA national security than any terrorist contemplating jihad.

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Can Elon Musk be classified as a terrorist?

He is acting just like Russia and seeking to undermine stable and sovereign governments.

He is interfering in elections no different than Russia. Same extreme right wing choices repeatedly along with Bannon. All their choices are to remove democracy and replace it with dictatorship as realized in Venezuela. 

There are definitely parallels repeatedly. Musk’s personal worth and annual income is more than many small nations. 

They are dangers to freedom and democracy no different than the communists in countries where they make their millions and billions.

These people mask their agenda because they are individuals. They are performing our enemies agenda in the open. 

The difference between truth and criminal is called subversion and extortion. What millions will Trump demand next? 

New Year’s Resolution

Never. Ever. I mean never, listen to Trump speeches. They are to exaggerate, deceive, instill fear, and demean. I want none of that mess in my life. None of it, at all, in any way, shape, or form. End of discussion.

If one pays attention to those statements it becomes obvious I am repulsed at lies and hate. The absence of such values is sincerely spiritual as defined by any mainstream religious belief. 

I refuse to have my heart and mind polluted by such evil demons. My thoughts belong to a higher authority that declines acceptance of the MAGA values.

Just to be clear jihad is anti-religion. My understanding of the Muslim faith is that those practices are ancient and used only as a form of defense. In eras gone by there was little in the way of weapons or national strategy. Jihad was prescribed as a form of defense to thwart an enemy willing to cause harm.

So, in modern day there is no legitimate use of such terrorist methods. People are primarily living within borders that are structured, and not nomadic, with representative governments. There simply is no justification for violence and/or killing within any religious standard. Those folks practicing and abiding by violent measures against others are self-righteous and criminal.

Who needs Russian gas anyway?

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Another Trump leech.

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It is all quid pro quo. With Pam Bondi as AG everything will be corrupt and green lighted. She had a lot of practice in protecting slime in Florida.