My heart and prayers go out to the victims of the devastating wildfires in Maui that have claimed at least 96 lives so far and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in and around the historic town of Lahaina.
What kind of "wildfires" burn in a perfect circle, and JUMP OVER WATER, igniting all the boats?
Does "climate change" do that? Or is it geoengineering, meant to LOOK LIKE "climate change," and scare us into giving up our lives, to "save the planet"?
And get this- the first energy directed weapon was developed in… Maui That’s a super strange coincidence, right? Proof on their website that they are creating this weaponry
Really, are you here? The boats at the harbor are touching wooden dock, the wind was blowing down to the water and there were embers flying everywhere! Fuel from the boats made things even worse! Plenty of trees burned! And some trees that we have here are know for surviving and exploding hours to days later from the internal heat. If you actually live here you would know. Please dont fuel flames on things you dont really know about, it really does not help us here.
I believe in the above discussion with Ed Dowd, he speaks of fires on the "bypass" (unsure of exact wording) road up in the mountains, and that may have been a reason to stop people going that way. It's hard to keep order in chaos, however, it does feel very strongly that the chaos was aligned in a specific direction.
Do you live on Maui? People were rerouted because of downed live powerlines!! At on point when the fire got worse the police were throwing wood over them to let cars drive over! Have you seen front street? All it takes is one slow driver or stalled car and everyone would be stuck. If you live here it all makes sense, sadly. What you think so officials were just trying to kill people on purpose? Seriously?
I do not disagree with you at all! Yes I live here. My husband was a firefighter here ( now retired) I was answering the person that thought this was some lazer situation because of the way the fire burned
Officials in Maui are saying that most of the missing or unaccounted for persons are children. Why did the schools in Lahaina send children home to be by themselves right before the fires while parents were still at work? It's almost as if it was some child sacrifice ritual. Or, was it because if the kids aren’t alive, they can’t make a claim and fight for their parents’ stolen land when they’re old enough to do so.
History shows that insurance will deny claims if there is arson aka terrorism found. Insurance does not cover acts of terrorism unless you buy terrorism insurance. So if they go that route then ok but then it hurts the smart city plan but thats above my pay grade. I havnt seen anything about mass insurance claim declines i think it may be a little early. Can someone claim 2 days after an event like this? Maybe its wait and see what the cause is found to be?
Homeowner's insurance is not even required by law in Hawaii. However, if you have a mortgage the bank will require it. It is not insurance that stops people from affording homes here and real estate taxes are surprisingly low. It is the cost of the house! Most are over a million. Rent is totally outrageous. Electric is the most expensive in the country. Thankful for solar my bill went from 700 a month to $26! If this is 'green" I am all for it! Having underground utilities would make a HUGE difference here too.
I am not sure it was the govt that is your assumption there is no answer yet. It could very well be climate activists. It is not always the most sinister crazy governement plot against everyone that is the truth.
Ok so do you think literally there is a chance even in the slightest that you may be wrong about the cabal? I realize the WEF is rally bad news but donyou think its possible they believe what they are pushing is truly whats best for all of us? Like they are true authoritarian dictators believing there is no better way to havd the world as we need it with them in charge? Whatever your answer my point is when u make dtatements like that it does nothing for an open discussion ur just brushing the entire thing off like its crazy town jusg like they do to us in our side of the debate.
You need to do some homework. I use the word Cabal loosely. Frances Leader SS posted excellent article on Black Nobility 101. Also read or watch Dr. John Coleman then get back to me. Mike Harris @ Veterans today. You're clueless.
How does that hurt Smart City? Even if insurance just denies claims - and pays out later, say 3-5 years down the road - that location is just crying out for development, and Smart City will be very easy to install from ground up.
We need to both help Ukraine and Maui and all the other trouble areas, Ukraine is one way most of us see eye to eye. We must not allow the Russians to steam roll there way around Europe, we do not need a nuclear war.
There’s many of us who do not see eye to eye on Ukraine. I’m a US military vet, and there are plenty of us who have wised up and oppose this ‘chosen’ war. The USA had a big hand in causing the Ukraine war, w/ our CIA likely helping to put in power, Kiev forces in opposition to Russia in 2014. Why push up to Russia border like this. We didn’t like this when USSR did that w/ Cuba in early 60’s. The neocon Uniparty is driving this war for $ profits. Russia wasn’t steaming around anywhere until we ginned up an existential crisis for them
You certainly have a right to think and say what you wish. Russia is a brutal state and always has been. They have no conscience about murdering and bloodshed and they are ruled by a basically evil elite of former KGB spies, don't kid yourself. The Russians had there eyes on Ukraine since 2014 when they took Crimea from Ukraine. They need to control the Black Sea in order to ship their oil. Their education system has been in decline for over 30 years. They have made a mess of two countries that never needed to happen. They are not innocent dupes of the CIA, these guys have played games like this their whole lives.
Yes, you also have the right to your view. I and many from my generation and those before, served in part, to protect that crucial 1st Amendment right. You’re correct that Russia has been a brutal place over her history, what Stalin did to his countrymen is atrocious. Our country, the good Ol’ USA, has also done very atrocious things in our short history. Look only what we did to Native Americans. Or the # of coups across Latin America over 20th century, near genocidal acts in the Philippians following Spanish-American war. It’s all a matter of who gets to write the history, really. All that said, we the USA have no right to be perpetuating this war in Eastern Europe, on a country that borders Russia. That is playing with thermonuclear fire. Why are we doing this? How is it in USA national interest?
You are right and of course we did try kill off our Native American people and of course that is wrong. We are by and large a good country though and have our hearts in the right place. If Biden let Russia roll over and destroy Ukraine it would be just the same as when Neville Chamberlain told Hitler that as long as he stopped with the Rhineland, it was fine, of course Hitler just smiled to himself and proceeded to take over Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Norway and all he could grab and Churchill had to fight the Battle of Britain to barely save his island nation.
You are right that the winners get to write history. Napoleon said "History is a pack of lies agreed upon."
I came across many comments about the current Ukraine war, I have read and studied about it since it began. Russia wanted Ukraine for strategic reasons, they also want Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, basically they want the whole shebang from back when Gorbachev was in power.
Do we really want a stronger Soviet system? Do we want to have the Cold War all over again? The US has enough Abrams tanks to give the Ukraine that they could roll over Russia. Both sides are actually being restrained by the concern that a nuclear war could erupt. This is why Biden has not given Ukraine F-16s, F-16s come with a ground crew of Americans which would put war much more at risk. We are basically just giving Ukraine enough to keep Russia at bay. The US also does not want Prighozin to take over because he is even worse than Putin and would probably start a nuclear war so this is a tricky situation.
The whole point of USA war in Iraq was to secure access to oil. The general population was told differently. They were told it was to confiscate WMD, which was a lie. That was just 20 years ago and most recent case of our country “with its heart in the right place” enabling an offshore killing field. The thing is, is that this is now set up to be a ‘forever’ keep Russia at bay scenario. Especially now w/ Finland abandoning its 75+ year neutrality. There really isn’t much North or Atlantic about Ukraine. As for other small countries NE of Poland, can’t see need to put these tripwires behind Article 5 either. I’m no fan of Russia. I just think let her have her sphere of influence and trade with her, and keep the peace
Comparing Putin with Nazi Germany and the USSR under Stalin? "Just the same as when Neville Chamberlain told Hitler that as long as he stopped with the Rhineland, it was fine"?
INSTANT lack of credibility. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Who do you think you're kidding? Putin can barely wipe himself, barely hold onto the eastern regions, let alone invade Nato.
Do you really think anyone here is dumb enough to buy into that tired neo"con" propaganda?
Buddy you are confusing the Communist soviet Union with the democratic country of Russia. These are not and never were the same nor interchangable. You speak like Russia is the communist Soviet Union and it is not nor will it ever be again unless of course you think they will all of a sudden get super powers and take over all those old soviet nations. I can assure you they will not . Before you go on attack understand my family is from what was in soviet times called Russia but prior to that it was known as and now again known as Belarus. In order to understand how things work, I suggest you go and read about the Communist party and understand its role in China, North Korea, Cuba and so on. Russia is only one part of the communist controlled nations and it is not in charge nor the biggest player in the communist arsenal. The biggest issue we here in the west do not understand is how a large part of Ukraine is actually Russian people. It is called family cleansing or aka crime against humanity committed by the former soviet union. They rip entire blocks or families from their homes throw them on a train and send them to a country they do not know nor understand the language. Then they do the same to the country the first group is going to. Over time the nations grow to be one mixed group known as a communist state. This is why it is hard to say we are protecting Ukraine from Russians because lots or Ukrainians are Russian and Vise versa. And Polish and Romanian etc etc.
From the US power base perspective, the conflict in Ukraine has little to do with Russia and a lot to do with the $billions the military industrial complex is now making off of the ongoing arming of Ukraine by the Biden administration. You play right into the hands of that MIC power base you say we should send Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
As for how Americans feel about this issue - compare the amount of likes Matt has to what you have.
Crimea VOTED to rejoin Russia, by a huge margin. Independent polling agencies have gone into Crimea twice to ask the population if they stand by that choice. They do, unequivocally. Ukraine is the most corrupt nation on earth. The US overturned their democratically elected government in 2014 to install a less Russia-friendly regime. The US also trained and funded the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion which has spent the last nine years bombing and killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. The US encouraged Ukraine not to honor the Minsk Agreement. The US also promised Russia during the Carter administration they would not admit any more countries to NATO and that they would not surround Russia with military bases. The US has broken that promise every which way from Sunday. The ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine have been begging Putin to come to their aid since 2014. He was pretty patient, all in all. The situation is far from Russia's fault, no matter how "evil" you think they are. In this situation, the US has pretty much cornered the market on evil. Not one more penny should go to this fake Ukraine boondoggle that exists only to make money for US weapons manufacturers and Biden's friends and family.
All of that. Thanks for saving me some typing. I have typed it so many times now it gets tedious. Victoria Nuland just got a promotion in the Biden admin, sigh!
Linda, so very crucial to point this out (Crimea citizens voted in majority to join Russia). For those that discount this (because you think Russia influenced that Crimea vote in their favor), would ask you turn that mirror back on yourself in relation to USA 2020 election. Because that result was suspect to so many (Covid lock down) - that it resulted in tons of divisiveness. Division I hope RFK Jr. can help heal, if he can get the D nomination
Yes, people always say Russia fixed the Crimea vote, but that's why it's important to point out that independent pollsters have blown that claim out of the water by simply asking Crimeans if in fact they really want to be part of Russia. Seems they very much do want to be part of Russia.
Please accept my apologies if I have overstepped a bit. All of this goes way back to the Cold War. Putin and company are hardly kindly sweeties. The KGB was never known for compassion. There is much misinformation out there. Some of what you say is likely true as is much of what I am saying. Russia has the world longest borders with only 130 million people to defend them. They have also got a shortage of young people. They also did not need to use violent means to take over a much smaller popultaion (Ukraine has far less people, their army is much smaller). Why not negotiate a way around violence. Putin has now cut off all grain shipments out of Ukraine which will cause a huge famine in places such as Egypt with 110 million people to feed.
The Russian strategy has always been to retake the old Soviet USSR block including Lativa, Lithuania, the "Stans" and all the other "Soviet Socialist Republics"
This is all a chess game as the Russians have always loved to play at. If they are really so concerned with the lives of ethnic Russians, why don't they go to the bargaining table and negotiate?
Our country used to have respect for all points of view, sadly the media has declined so badly that we have come to rely on rumors and gossip more than on real research. We no longer have good journalism and no one trusts MSNBC, Fox or the rest of it.
Let us learn to observe and listen rather than name call and accuse.
You seem to think Russia has not tried to negotiate in nine years. That is false. Every time Ukraine and Russia came close to an agreement on anything, the US put a stop to it. They have negotiated SINCE they invaded too. The US put a stop to that also. You have an extremely naive and uninformed attitude toward your own country, which is dangerous. Nothing could be further from the truth than to say that the US's heart is in the right place. That has not been true since Teddy Roosevelt was young, when the US spent two years arguing about whether they were going to become a colonial power or not. Unfortunately, Roosevelt and the other people on the side of colonialism won. Mark Twain and the people against it lost. It has been all downhill from there, and has been particularly egregious since WW2. Let me ask you: Has Russia ever invaded the US? The answer is no. Has the US ever invaded Russia? The answer is yes.
Jayeson, I’ve enjoyed our exchanges today. I do share your optimism (and hope) for a better America. You strike me as a learned person and might agree then, that all major world powers have been (and are) imperial in nature. USA, China and Russia today fit this mold. Each are flexing themselves in different ways. In history prior to 20th century, England, Spanish, Dutch, etc. flexed the same. The difference now is the danger of nukes. Major powers need to be much more careful in getting into fistfights over land masses that are within each other’s perceived level of geographic influence. There are certain regions where I’d argue conflict needs to occur among major powers, if one tries to wrestle too much control. Like access to Mideast oil, Suez Canal, straights of Malacca, South China seas, and now minerals under the Arctic.
The question is does Ukraine rise to this same level of geographical importance? I say it does not. I’d further argue that the eastern part of Ukraine is Russian speaking, leans into Russia, fought tooth and nail against Nazi invaders alongside Russia (except those who help exterminate Jews) prior to Cold War, they were part of USSR during Cold War, etc. Let it be in Russia sphere. USA should stop poking the bear. It’s way outside our area of interest. Destabilizing Russia can result in unexpected outcomes.
Speak for yourself only, the U.S. government proded the bear for 10 years, and now a 180 billion dollars an amount that could have solved the homeless problem many times over has been spent on a proxy war against Russia that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
The homeless challenge isn’t going to be solved until we bring back State Mental Health hospitals. They were defunded in the 1970’s due to bad abuses. Clean that up and bring them back. There’s a portion of homeless that need this compassion. On the other side, government should create 401K accounts (fund w/ about $2K) for every newborn, regardless of race, ethnicity or social economic background. Can’t be touched until child is 18, then allow recipient to use as they see fit, including letting it sit and $ grow for that first house, new business, schooling, etc. this seed $ might also reduce abortions, for those who have heart for the unborn. Give our youth a chance, especially those without access to inter generational wealth. This takes political will to do. We currently don’t have that will in our country
Absolutely, one of my first essays I wrote here is how the right contributed to the mental illness problem by shutting the mental hospitals and the left made it even worse by normalizing mental illness as a lifestyle choice.
Yes, Reagan I believe had a big hand in the dismantling of those Mental Hospitals, cost too much $$. You are likely more educated on why they were shut down, I was young then. Now though, would it not be the Left (mostly) that would oppose bringing back these Mental Hospitals? After all, that would dry up $$ for the ‘Help’ the Homeless-industrial-complex that has sprung up. If so, nothing new under the sun, a perpetual problem that generates $$ for some party/group and not about root cause solution
Good grief… the myth continues. Regan wasn’t the one that decided to disband the mental hospitals; that was decided before him and, btw, anyway the Democrats (and Republicans) have had 40+ years to put something back or better in place. So this little blame trip is just plain lame & stupid because, for example, with Biden’s regime change,
Biden sure didn’t waste time reversing Trumps’ attempt at border security or running up trillions of debt on all sorts of pet projects. So yes, Mr nasty-vengeful and senile Biden could have fixed up that issue in a minute instead of handing out billions to not so poor Pharma (who only made $90 billion in profits in one year on covid vaccines) in addition to the unaccounted billions he dispensed to the Ukraine cabal.He’s been very busy jacking up our national debt to $31 trillion playing Santa Claus with other peoples’ money-thus seriously limiting the chance of a good economic future for most citizens.
The brutes of the KGB have never had the least regard for their own people, nor did Stalin, nor did the Tsars. The Russians have the world's longest border and have only 130 million people to try to occupy it. They have immense problems like permafrost oil fields for just one example. Their education system has failed over 30 years ago. Their birth rate is in decline and yet they are willing to lose over 250,000 of their young men to try to get more access to the Black Sea and to Ukraine' valuable grain belt.
Russian strategy for about 20 years now has been to retake all of the old USSR, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, etc. etc. and get back to their good old days. I am so surprised that some Americans think that the Russians were duped into this war.
These old Cold War spies and brutes are not fools, they play chess as much as they drink vodka. They are not easily duped and they are NOT innocent fools.
You are another person who prefers to attack like an angry dog rather than to calm down and do some reading. As a matter of fact, I do not listen to any television news programs whatsoever. Whisper from the trees makes me think you may be more sensitive than you let on. It amazes me how badly our discourse has become on the internet. I posted some facts and immediately I came under attack as if whoever is the most angry and full of vitriol somehow gets the prize, whatever the prize is.
One guy told me I would not say this if I had to go and fight, I am a veteran btw. Now you who have never met me, tell me I need a propaganda detox.
How has it come to this?
How have we lost our sense of fellow humanity so badly that we attack with the slightest provocation?
I just get REALLY SICK of how people fall for the war propaganda over and over and over again. It has cost millions of lives and has ruined our economy and has turned us into Airstrip One from 1984. ENOUGH!
Like your fact (!) that Russians play chess? OMG!😨😱 Not chess! How can we ever beat *chess players*? Why, we're DOOMED! Soon Putin will be in Poland! The Sudetenland! France! Oh noooooo!😿Be afraid! Be very afraid!
They Soviets played chess too, and still defeated themselves with communism. Now it's just a corrupt, incompetent, 2nd-world authoritarian state. It's not the 1930s Germans with huge work ethic, top notch engineers and scientists, and a goal of taking over the world and wiping out "inferior races".
So BFD. Your strawman points are just the usual ridiculous neo"con" fearmongering propaganda, trolling to catch useful idiots.
In case u havnt noticed we sre broke and the more they print the more broke we are. We need to stop helping foreign nations and concern ourselves with our homeland or we will lose everything. I doubt any nation we have given billions to will ever come to our aid when we need it.
My dear friend Mike, if you refer to the "gold standard" as a measure of broke, there is not nearly enough gold in all of the world to back up the currency of any country. Our currency is backed by the full faith and credit of the greatest nation with the greatest military power on the planet. We have the best rail system, the best river transport system, the best food growing regions, the best ports on two coasts, three if you count the Gulf coast. We should be rightly proud of our country. China and Russia are both way way worse off than almost anywhere. Don't believe for a second that the United States of America is weak. We are totally blessed by God.
This is exactly what we do NOT want. If the US were to give Ukraine all of the weapons (F-16s, Abrams tanks, Long range ballistic missiles, etc.) we would be in much more danger of nuclear war or world war. Putin has not used nukes and we have not sent F-16s, things could be WAY worse. We ought to unite as a people and to stop fighting with each other and start loving our country more.
Yeah. So let's just keep the war and the money laundering machine going long as possible, killing millions of Russians & Ukrainians, long as we keep it under the nuclear threshold, throw another $200 Billion at the MIC and let the Big Guy, Dems & Neo"cons" get their cut!
When did i mention anything about gold? We got off the gold standard when nixon was in office where have you been? We are kept afloat by oil and in particular saudi arabia in case u havnt noticed the bag of bones in the pres chair is trying to run them out of business without a care what its doing to our nation while he does it. If you were even close to correct then explain why our credit rating in this top of the planet nation was just lowered showing the world our lack of ability to pay back our debt? U live in a bubble watching too much hannity. I urge u to venture out in the real world and witness the fall of our nation as its taken down from the inside by the executive, legislative and judicial branch along with the collision of the intelligence groups and then some. This is bigger then one man can possibly handle but we need to check history and realize the romans were everything we are so unless we want to end up like them then the wheel needs to be steered and done fast with disregard to idiots and their complaints.
Mike, you do not need to attack me as a person. It doesn't make your arguments stronger. We have shale oil in case you are not aware of that. This is yet another way we are very blessed as a nation. i have never watched Hannity btw. that is another assumption. It seems you only know how to attack anyone you disagree with, why not just observe, listen and think it over? What is there to lose, your fears? It isn't about who wins the argument is it? It's really about what is true. I happen to know a lot of really good people in high levels in the US government, federal employees are humans not Orcs.
Mr. Vance, the whole reason the world is operating on fiat currencies is because there isn’t enough gold to back perpetual, YoY debt, to promise those who want a little more, with a little more. They finally got around to decoupling from gold in 1973, although FDR tried to confiscate USA gold earlier, in 1933 (Executive Order 6102) And our debt is held for the most part by China, which is a sort of insurance against war with that country (we’d lose big time if we can’t sell our ‘printed’ debt and so would they). We are presently losing this kind of debt to currency interdependence with Russia (we cut them off from bank systems) which is geopolitically dangerous. Keep an eye on the BRICS, and a gold backed currency they may roll out in your lifetime. Or better, one I’d buy in a heartbeat, is gold-backed Bitcoin. Finite digital currency rooted in gold…sign me up. Only problem is where to store the gold! USA and other Central Banks will do everything they can to prevent this ‘freedom’ from being available so the fiat currency (and control of populations) can endure
If you think anyplace is NOT operating on fiat currency, please name it. The US dollar is the world standard, even for the old Eastern Block. Sure it is all just paper but the North Koreans spent a small fortune trying to fake the US $100 bill and nearly pulled it off. Money is a funny thing, it is based upon trust. Fear is also a funny thing, it is used to try to frighten people into panic so that profiteers can benefit from that panic.
I’m not suggesting any major country is not operating on fiat currency. But what I am saying is that over forward history, strength of fiat currency can change. And if those changes occur, the economic conditions in your country can greatly suffer. Argentina, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, many more suffer under incredible Fiat currency debt burdens. Why could it not be us someday? I hear you say it’s because we carry the biggest military stick. I say to you, military of other countries could rival us in future. Then what? Have a nuclear war to settle it out? If your opponent is not ‘bought in’ to the benefits of your fiat currency, then the danger of catastrophic atom-splitting bombs become more plausible (Russia, Iran, China). Keep your friends close and enemies closer…. Unless it’s Russia
Sorry, but I don’t give two shits about Ukraine. It’s one of the most corrupt countries on the planet and the ONLY reason why Biden keeps sending them more and more of OUR tax dollars is because he has personal interests there.
Do I feel bad for the Ukrainian people? Yes. They’re caught in the middle of this mess, due to no fault of their own. But, the US can’t continue to be the world’s savior. We need to focus on our own problems. Strong, successful leaders always set an example, and that’s exactly what Putin needs to do with Ukraine and Zelensky.
$50 million total relief for Maui, about $700 per household, while the Biden crime syndicate wants another $25 BILLION for the corrupt Ukraine oligarchs and the Military Industrial Complex. And they'll likely get it. Glad we have our priorities straightened out.
Again, total BS. $700 is what was given to them by FEMA just for registering . that was cash for their immediate needs. That is just for starters, already 1000 ArBnBs available and hotel rooms as well free of charge for people. this is short term. Yes there are problems, We are all working our tails off every day to help! Are you? If not please dont make things harder.
Or sending to our inner cities to promote economic recovery there? Maui is just the current moment to compare. We know the real answer and $ for neocon wars like Ukraine prop up economic health of United States suburbia - who suck at the teet of the USA arms industrial machine
No, the arson in Hawaii does not remind us of our need to heal our environment anymore than the intentionally set fires in Canada would do so. Same in northwest Spain where we lived. This is all a hoax to fuel the fires of climate change hysteria. America has a history, especially in South America of destroying land in order to lower its market value so that billionaires and corporations can then buy it cheap. Look up the use of glyphosate in Latin America by the United States and you’ll see that it was only applied in areas that had commercial value so that American corporations could buy the land Cheap.
Interesting. I’m not yet convinced the fire was arson. But I do see how natural disasters can be ‘used’ for each groups’ cause. This fire could be simply a downed power line. That doesn’t generate a lot of clicks though 🤷♂️
One woman, a grandmother in her home reported seeing fire coming out of the ground. Boats in the harbor on the water burning, house burned to white dust a la 911 and trees still standing. Come on Matt. Please read Frances Leader's SS on the Black Nobility 101, this is a page right out of their playbook. Read or watch Dr. John Coleman.
Actually, it reminds us to immediately call out & shut down any and all Geoengineering manipulation of our precious Earth. There are way too many anomalies about this occurrence for anyone to believe it was the work of Nature. Please know the truth. https://twitter.com/Truthpole
Climate change my ass. SAI and HAARP need to be shut-the-eff-down, before we can have any discussion on climate.
Why is it not one "scientist" wants to discuss chemtrails? Because they know it will horrify people to see what government has been up to with OUR money.
Can you explain how houses are totally incinerated to ashes, cars are uniformly burned out, glass melted, tires melted, trees still standing, plastic toys and pools left intact? What temperatures are forrest fires, what temperatures does glass melt at? What Forrest fire burns trees from the inside out? Why no cell phone coverage or 911 system working? Are these really natural forest fire, plastics would melt and burn right up in a camp fire. Plastics are safe to use in microwaves though, and food is cooked from the inside out. Why doesn’t vegetation regenerate after one of these forest fires? What are some natural laws of nature especially forest fires?
Hi Anne, I’m no fire expert but I have observed, up close, regeneration of habitat after forest fires here in both Oregon & Washington State. I’ve also hiked Mt St. Helens blast site several times the past 15 years and watched that habitat slowly come back. I’m familiar with pine tree forest we have here and how fire reacts to them, then aftermath and recovery. They do recover, but it takes time. Little known fact are some pine trees actually need high heat of fire for seeds to be released from cones. Certain pines, eucalyptus or giant sequoias also require fire to clear ground so their seeds can catch sunlight and grow. Fire is necessary part of nature’s balance. We get freaked out too often, when we humans build our houses to close to this natural (fire) event.
In Maui, the forests are more tropical (ohia, koa, sandlewood, banyan) and different than the temperate forests of my region. How these tropical trees burn and recover could be different than evergreen type trees in Alaska, Canada and other northern reaches of US mainland.
We have a lot of invasive vegetation and we have fires all the time. The trees come back fast. Some type get super heated and explode sending embers really far and starting new fires. Infact, certain areas catch fire every 2 years. My husband is a retired firefighter here. Frankly we do not have enough firefighters! maybe 65 were trying to fight 3 major fires at once in 3 different areas and terrains and it was too windy to dump water with helicopters. This was bound to happen sooner or later, it was a perfect storm of issues.
"When it comes to wildfires, the conversation needs to be about changing the way we relate to the land. We need a policy of restoration and regeneration." This is exactly what I've been waiting to hear - not exclusively related to wildfires, but in relation to so many land use issues. I live in Washington state where we also deal with wildfires, which would be greatly helped by restorative and regenerative land use practices.
That's cool your co-treasurer is Ed Dowd. But these fires have zip to do with man-made climate change. If Hawaii is anything like California (eco-communist), the eco-fanatics have blocked brush management, thinning, fire breaks etc.
Moreover, the recent heat wave was caused by a *volcano* that injected a massive 13% increase in water vapor into the stratosphere. Water vapor has a *vastly* greater warming effect than carbon dioxide.
I remember Time and others who now hump the global warming religion, were *constantly* humping the new ice age hysteria.
ooops! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Despite revisionist Orwellian gaslighting by "factcheckers" like Snopes, the hysterical ice age covers are still available on the websites of Time, Newsweek, etc.
What? Am I supposed to see the whole website and the guy's self-admiring pics of himself? You don't need directed energy weapons to explain huge forest fires. They've been happening for 100s of 1000s of years. In the last 6 yrs alone. Cali's had huge, deadly fires caused by electric company negligence. Paid many $billions in restitution.
In the early 1800s, something like a 3rd of Cali forests burned in one great fire, long before "man made global warming" & directed energy weapons. As in Cali today, all you need is a very wet season that grows hell out of weeds & bushes, followed by a dry spell, followed by lightning, punks playing with matches, negligent electric cos, etc. In 1910, a huge swath of MT-ID-WA burned. Zip to do with directed energy weps.
And get this- the first energy directed weapon was developed in… Maui That’s a super strange coincidence, right? Proof on their website that they are creating this weaponry
As a former resident of the big Island and a farmer who has employed biodynamic and regenerative agriculture practices for nearly 25 years, I couldn't agree more with RFK about what needs to be done to mitigate fires like this. The legacy of the mindless big ag corporations like Dole and the Big 5 sugar families is now being played out by these fires.
The most productive and the most fire resilient agricultural systems in Hawaii are its native forests. Replant them and all will be well.
"... building firebreaks, reintroducing fire-resistant vegetation, and allowing livestock to keep grasses at a manageable level."
Thank you. This multi-faceted approach reminds me of the Missouri Dept of Conservation, established in the 1920s. Unmanaged human harvesting had decimated, or even disappeared, many native plant and animal species here. Many species have made dramatic comebacks for decades now, and they're still making new progress nearly 100 years later. Their approach considers nature lovers, hunters, landowners, and government as cooperative players with a common interest in the environment. Everyone benefits.
"Climate activists and skeptics alike can get behind restoring our forests, wetlands, rivers, and soils. That’s the kind of unity that will power an environmental renaissance."
Outstanding place to begin after generations of corp exploitation & negligence of everywhere!
It would be a Bold and risky move, now - while you're on the campaign trail - like speaking with Max Blumenthal, or endorsing a Righteous Rocker like Roger Waters... But it would be just as good, and reasonable, and sane reverent and
Right NOW - we can't prove what people are saying about these topics... But - if THE POTUS were to DECLASSIFY all related Documents - and prepare a report, on exactly how and why these things were done... Then - we could.
Recognize, will you, that people are wise to the genocidal policies because they are everywhere. Find a way to say it so you don’t come off like the squad on steroids. Tell the truth-that there is more to be learned and understood and you will find the real causes and not just the political handle that promotes your campaign.
I appreciate everyones comments on this tragic event. I just want to say I respect all of your views and I learn something from every one of you whether I agree or not I for one appreciate the opportunity to have this civil discussion and want to thank Mr Kennedy for taking the time and making the sacrifice he has to fight for us and with us in order to make our nation again appreciate each other and everyones opinion and voice. It is refreshing but somewhat tiring to have such a discussion. But I will get over it and would have it no other way. Thank you again all of you and most of all Mr Kennedy. As a registered republican but truly an independent libertarian you have my vote and my support. Thank you sir.
Please comment also that with out the vote of the People.
The Governor, a WEF/ UN puppet signed Hawaii off as the first smart State.
Those fires were not natural.
The locals did not want to sell.
The government wanted skyscrapers in Lahaina.
The government wants 15 min cities.
How many locals died in that fire.
Now insurance companies are saying, no?? To coverages!?
Locals aren’t allowed to bring food and supplies.
Only Government!
Biden is sending a pittance to Maui.
Yet Billions to Ukraine.
Anyone still voting for anyone connected to WEF/ Gates, UN is insane
What kind of "wildfires" burn in a perfect circle, and JUMP OVER WATER, igniting all the boats?
Does "climate change" do that? Or is it geoengineering, meant to LOOK LIKE "climate change," and scare us into giving up our lives, to "save the planet"?
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-wildfires-burn-in-a
That fire wasn’t typical.
what kind of fire leaves wood unburned- except around bolts… and metal?
That’s being seen in the Maui pictures too- not just the CA fires
Watch Patty Hall and Robert Brame in the below link -Same things being seen in Maui
Wood unburdened
Wood around bolts burned
All other things ‘dustified’
https://rumble.com/v2tsbfu--looking-for-clues-in-the-california-and-canadian-forest-fires-these-are-no.html
And get this- the first energy directed weapon was developed in… Maui That’s a super strange coincidence, right? Proof on their website that they are creating this weaponry
https://www.kirtland.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/825975/directed-energy-directorate-overview/
Interesting listen- https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/directed-energy-weapons-maui/
copied your comment to reply to someone else 😃
Really, are you here? The boats at the harbor are touching wooden dock, the wind was blowing down to the water and there were embers flying everywhere! Fuel from the boats made things even worse! Plenty of trees burned! And some trees that we have here are know for surviving and exploding hours to days later from the internal heat. If you actually live here you would know. Please dont fuel flames on things you dont really know about, it really does not help us here.
I believe in the above discussion with Ed Dowd, he speaks of fires on the "bypass" (unsure of exact wording) road up in the mountains, and that may have been a reason to stop people going that way. It's hard to keep order in chaos, however, it does feel very strongly that the chaos was aligned in a specific direction.
Do you live on Maui? People were rerouted because of downed live powerlines!! At on point when the fire got worse the police were throwing wood over them to let cars drive over! Have you seen front street? All it takes is one slow driver or stalled car and everyone would be stuck. If you live here it all makes sense, sadly. What you think so officials were just trying to kill people on purpose? Seriously?
I do not disagree with you at all! Yes I live here. My husband was a firefighter here ( now retired) I was answering the person that thought this was some lazer situation because of the way the fire burned
Very interesting take.
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https://divadrops.substack.com/p/maui-the-latest-in-the-line-of-fire
Officials in Maui are saying that most of the missing or unaccounted for persons are children. Why did the schools in Lahaina send children home to be by themselves right before the fires while parents were still at work? It's almost as if it was some child sacrifice ritual. Or, was it because if the kids aren’t alive, they can’t make a claim and fight for their parents’ stolen land when they’re old enough to do so.
That's a frightening thought. Children and adults. Wonder what Haleakala thinks?
History shows that insurance will deny claims if there is arson aka terrorism found. Insurance does not cover acts of terrorism unless you buy terrorism insurance. So if they go that route then ok but then it hurts the smart city plan but thats above my pay grade. I havnt seen anything about mass insurance claim declines i think it may be a little early. Can someone claim 2 days after an event like this? Maybe its wait and see what the cause is found to be?
And will Hawaii now require fire insurance like CA- making it so the working class locals can’t afford to own their own home …
Hard to not see this as Gentrification
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv7fsyggifr/
Homeowner's insurance is not even required by law in Hawaii. However, if you have a mortgage the bank will require it. It is not insurance that stops people from affording homes here and real estate taxes are surprisingly low. It is the cost of the house! Most are over a million. Rent is totally outrageous. Electric is the most expensive in the country. Thankful for solar my bill went from 700 a month to $26! If this is 'green" I am all for it! Having underground utilities would make a HUGE difference here too.
Terrorism by your own government?
Redacted had good coverage yesterday with maps of developments planned around the area. Only problem they just took out.
I am not sure it was the govt that is your assumption there is no answer yet. It could very well be climate activists. It is not always the most sinister crazy governement plot against everyone that is the truth.
Wake up. Do you think the government is going to give you a truthful answer? Watch some videos to understand the reality here:
1) https://gregreese.substack.com/p/maui-wildfires-and-the-theft-of-sacred?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mHeoaIh7cx8&feature=youtu.be
3) https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/category/engineering-wildfires/
The Govt is part of the WEF CABAL. They control EVERYTHING.
Ok so do you think literally there is a chance even in the slightest that you may be wrong about the cabal? I realize the WEF is rally bad news but donyou think its possible they believe what they are pushing is truly whats best for all of us? Like they are true authoritarian dictators believing there is no better way to havd the world as we need it with them in charge? Whatever your answer my point is when u make dtatements like that it does nothing for an open discussion ur just brushing the entire thing off like its crazy town jusg like they do to us in our side of the debate.
You need to do some homework. I use the word Cabal loosely. Frances Leader SS posted excellent article on Black Nobility 101. Also read or watch Dr. John Coleman then get back to me. Mike Harris @ Veterans today. You're clueless.
How does that hurt Smart City? Even if insurance just denies claims - and pays out later, say 3-5 years down the road - that location is just crying out for development, and Smart City will be very easy to install from ground up.
We need to both help Ukraine and Maui and all the other trouble areas, Ukraine is one way most of us see eye to eye. We must not allow the Russians to steam roll there way around Europe, we do not need a nuclear war.
There’s many of us who do not see eye to eye on Ukraine. I’m a US military vet, and there are plenty of us who have wised up and oppose this ‘chosen’ war. The USA had a big hand in causing the Ukraine war, w/ our CIA likely helping to put in power, Kiev forces in opposition to Russia in 2014. Why push up to Russia border like this. We didn’t like this when USSR did that w/ Cuba in early 60’s. The neocon Uniparty is driving this war for $ profits. Russia wasn’t steaming around anywhere until we ginned up an existential crisis for them
You certainly have a right to think and say what you wish. Russia is a brutal state and always has been. They have no conscience about murdering and bloodshed and they are ruled by a basically evil elite of former KGB spies, don't kid yourself. The Russians had there eyes on Ukraine since 2014 when they took Crimea from Ukraine. They need to control the Black Sea in order to ship their oil. Their education system has been in decline for over 30 years. They have made a mess of two countries that never needed to happen. They are not innocent dupes of the CIA, these guys have played games like this their whole lives.
Yes, you also have the right to your view. I and many from my generation and those before, served in part, to protect that crucial 1st Amendment right. You’re correct that Russia has been a brutal place over her history, what Stalin did to his countrymen is atrocious. Our country, the good Ol’ USA, has also done very atrocious things in our short history. Look only what we did to Native Americans. Or the # of coups across Latin America over 20th century, near genocidal acts in the Philippians following Spanish-American war. It’s all a matter of who gets to write the history, really. All that said, we the USA have no right to be perpetuating this war in Eastern Europe, on a country that borders Russia. That is playing with thermonuclear fire. Why are we doing this? How is it in USA national interest?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv7fsyggifr/
And now corporations are trying to move the last Hawaiian people on Maui… after this catastrophic fire
This is shameful. And predatory. The dead have not even been located yet.
You are right and of course we did try kill off our Native American people and of course that is wrong. We are by and large a good country though and have our hearts in the right place. If Biden let Russia roll over and destroy Ukraine it would be just the same as when Neville Chamberlain told Hitler that as long as he stopped with the Rhineland, it was fine, of course Hitler just smiled to himself and proceeded to take over Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Norway and all he could grab and Churchill had to fight the Battle of Britain to barely save his island nation.
You are right that the winners get to write history. Napoleon said "History is a pack of lies agreed upon."
I came across many comments about the current Ukraine war, I have read and studied about it since it began. Russia wanted Ukraine for strategic reasons, they also want Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, basically they want the whole shebang from back when Gorbachev was in power.
Do we really want a stronger Soviet system? Do we want to have the Cold War all over again? The US has enough Abrams tanks to give the Ukraine that they could roll over Russia. Both sides are actually being restrained by the concern that a nuclear war could erupt. This is why Biden has not given Ukraine F-16s, F-16s come with a ground crew of Americans which would put war much more at risk. We are basically just giving Ukraine enough to keep Russia at bay. The US also does not want Prighozin to take over because he is even worse than Putin and would probably start a nuclear war so this is a tricky situation.
The whole point of USA war in Iraq was to secure access to oil. The general population was told differently. They were told it was to confiscate WMD, which was a lie. That was just 20 years ago and most recent case of our country “with its heart in the right place” enabling an offshore killing field. The thing is, is that this is now set up to be a ‘forever’ keep Russia at bay scenario. Especially now w/ Finland abandoning its 75+ year neutrality. There really isn’t much North or Atlantic about Ukraine. As for other small countries NE of Poland, can’t see need to put these tripwires behind Article 5 either. I’m no fan of Russia. I just think let her have her sphere of influence and trade with her, and keep the peace
Comparing Putin with Nazi Germany and the USSR under Stalin? "Just the same as when Neville Chamberlain told Hitler that as long as he stopped with the Rhineland, it was fine"?
INSTANT lack of credibility. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Who do you think you're kidding? Putin can barely wipe himself, barely hold onto the eastern regions, let alone invade Nato.
Do you really think anyone here is dumb enough to buy into that tired neo"con" propaganda?
Buddy you are confusing the Communist soviet Union with the democratic country of Russia. These are not and never were the same nor interchangable. You speak like Russia is the communist Soviet Union and it is not nor will it ever be again unless of course you think they will all of a sudden get super powers and take over all those old soviet nations. I can assure you they will not . Before you go on attack understand my family is from what was in soviet times called Russia but prior to that it was known as and now again known as Belarus. In order to understand how things work, I suggest you go and read about the Communist party and understand its role in China, North Korea, Cuba and so on. Russia is only one part of the communist controlled nations and it is not in charge nor the biggest player in the communist arsenal. The biggest issue we here in the west do not understand is how a large part of Ukraine is actually Russian people. It is called family cleansing or aka crime against humanity committed by the former soviet union. They rip entire blocks or families from their homes throw them on a train and send them to a country they do not know nor understand the language. Then they do the same to the country the first group is going to. Over time the nations grow to be one mixed group known as a communist state. This is why it is hard to say we are protecting Ukraine from Russians because lots or Ukrainians are Russian and Vise versa. And Polish and Romanian etc etc.
From the US power base perspective, the conflict in Ukraine has little to do with Russia and a lot to do with the $billions the military industrial complex is now making off of the ongoing arming of Ukraine by the Biden administration. You play right into the hands of that MIC power base you say we should send Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
As for how Americans feel about this issue - compare the amount of likes Matt has to what you have.
Crimea VOTED to rejoin Russia, by a huge margin. Independent polling agencies have gone into Crimea twice to ask the population if they stand by that choice. They do, unequivocally. Ukraine is the most corrupt nation on earth. The US overturned their democratically elected government in 2014 to install a less Russia-friendly regime. The US also trained and funded the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion which has spent the last nine years bombing and killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. The US encouraged Ukraine not to honor the Minsk Agreement. The US also promised Russia during the Carter administration they would not admit any more countries to NATO and that they would not surround Russia with military bases. The US has broken that promise every which way from Sunday. The ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine have been begging Putin to come to their aid since 2014. He was pretty patient, all in all. The situation is far from Russia's fault, no matter how "evil" you think they are. In this situation, the US has pretty much cornered the market on evil. Not one more penny should go to this fake Ukraine boondoggle that exists only to make money for US weapons manufacturers and Biden's friends and family.
All of that. Thanks for saving me some typing. I have typed it so many times now it gets tedious. Victoria Nuland just got a promotion in the Biden admin, sigh!
As well as hilarious insults from Niger. LOL.
Sad
Linda, so very crucial to point this out (Crimea citizens voted in majority to join Russia). For those that discount this (because you think Russia influenced that Crimea vote in their favor), would ask you turn that mirror back on yourself in relation to USA 2020 election. Because that result was suspect to so many (Covid lock down) - that it resulted in tons of divisiveness. Division I hope RFK Jr. can help heal, if he can get the D nomination
Yes, people always say Russia fixed the Crimea vote, but that's why it's important to point out that independent pollsters have blown that claim out of the water by simply asking Crimeans if in fact they really want to be part of Russia. Seems they very much do want to be part of Russia.
Please accept my apologies if I have overstepped a bit. All of this goes way back to the Cold War. Putin and company are hardly kindly sweeties. The KGB was never known for compassion. There is much misinformation out there. Some of what you say is likely true as is much of what I am saying. Russia has the world longest borders with only 130 million people to defend them. They have also got a shortage of young people. They also did not need to use violent means to take over a much smaller popultaion (Ukraine has far less people, their army is much smaller). Why not negotiate a way around violence. Putin has now cut off all grain shipments out of Ukraine which will cause a huge famine in places such as Egypt with 110 million people to feed.
The Russian strategy has always been to retake the old Soviet USSR block including Lativa, Lithuania, the "Stans" and all the other "Soviet Socialist Republics"
This is all a chess game as the Russians have always loved to play at. If they are really so concerned with the lives of ethnic Russians, why don't they go to the bargaining table and negotiate?
Our country used to have respect for all points of view, sadly the media has declined so badly that we have come to rely on rumors and gossip more than on real research. We no longer have good journalism and no one trusts MSNBC, Fox or the rest of it.
Let us learn to observe and listen rather than name call and accuse.
You seem to think Russia has not tried to negotiate in nine years. That is false. Every time Ukraine and Russia came close to an agreement on anything, the US put a stop to it. They have negotiated SINCE they invaded too. The US put a stop to that also. You have an extremely naive and uninformed attitude toward your own country, which is dangerous. Nothing could be further from the truth than to say that the US's heart is in the right place. That has not been true since Teddy Roosevelt was young, when the US spent two years arguing about whether they were going to become a colonial power or not. Unfortunately, Roosevelt and the other people on the side of colonialism won. Mark Twain and the people against it lost. It has been all downhill from there, and has been particularly egregious since WW2. Let me ask you: Has Russia ever invaded the US? The answer is no. Has the US ever invaded Russia? The answer is yes.
Jayeson, I’ve enjoyed our exchanges today. I do share your optimism (and hope) for a better America. You strike me as a learned person and might agree then, that all major world powers have been (and are) imperial in nature. USA, China and Russia today fit this mold. Each are flexing themselves in different ways. In history prior to 20th century, England, Spanish, Dutch, etc. flexed the same. The difference now is the danger of nukes. Major powers need to be much more careful in getting into fistfights over land masses that are within each other’s perceived level of geographic influence. There are certain regions where I’d argue conflict needs to occur among major powers, if one tries to wrestle too much control. Like access to Mideast oil, Suez Canal, straights of Malacca, South China seas, and now minerals under the Arctic.
The question is does Ukraine rise to this same level of geographical importance? I say it does not. I’d further argue that the eastern part of Ukraine is Russian speaking, leans into Russia, fought tooth and nail against Nazi invaders alongside Russia (except those who help exterminate Jews) prior to Cold War, they were part of USSR during Cold War, etc. Let it be in Russia sphere. USA should stop poking the bear. It’s way outside our area of interest. Destabilizing Russia can result in unexpected outcomes.
You do realize Russia saved the USA in 3 wars.
Our military complex/ CIA/ Globalist want control of Russia.
That’s the fight.
HAVE YOU LOOKED AT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM LATELY??? YOU'RE CLUELESS.
👍👍👍 RIGHT ON!
Speak for yourself only, the U.S. government proded the bear for 10 years, and now a 180 billion dollars an amount that could have solved the homeless problem many times over has been spent on a proxy war against Russia that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
The homeless challenge isn’t going to be solved until we bring back State Mental Health hospitals. They were defunded in the 1970’s due to bad abuses. Clean that up and bring them back. There’s a portion of homeless that need this compassion. On the other side, government should create 401K accounts (fund w/ about $2K) for every newborn, regardless of race, ethnicity or social economic background. Can’t be touched until child is 18, then allow recipient to use as they see fit, including letting it sit and $ grow for that first house, new business, schooling, etc. this seed $ might also reduce abortions, for those who have heart for the unborn. Give our youth a chance, especially those without access to inter generational wealth. This takes political will to do. We currently don’t have that will in our country
Absolutely, one of my first essays I wrote here is how the right contributed to the mental illness problem by shutting the mental hospitals and the left made it even worse by normalizing mental illness as a lifestyle choice.
Yes, Reagan I believe had a big hand in the dismantling of those Mental Hospitals, cost too much $$. You are likely more educated on why they were shut down, I was young then. Now though, would it not be the Left (mostly) that would oppose bringing back these Mental Hospitals? After all, that would dry up $$ for the ‘Help’ the Homeless-industrial-complex that has sprung up. If so, nothing new under the sun, a perpetual problem that generates $$ for some party/group and not about root cause solution
The left will be happy to bring back "mental hospitals" -- in the form of "reeducation camps" for conservatives.
Good grief… the myth continues. Regan wasn’t the one that decided to disband the mental hospitals; that was decided before him and, btw, anyway the Democrats (and Republicans) have had 40+ years to put something back or better in place. So this little blame trip is just plain lame & stupid because, for example, with Biden’s regime change,
Biden sure didn’t waste time reversing Trumps’ attempt at border security or running up trillions of debt on all sorts of pet projects. So yes, Mr nasty-vengeful and senile Biden could have fixed up that issue in a minute instead of handing out billions to not so poor Pharma (who only made $90 billion in profits in one year on covid vaccines) in addition to the unaccounted billions he dispensed to the Ukraine cabal.He’s been very busy jacking up our national debt to $31 trillion playing Santa Claus with other peoples’ money-thus seriously limiting the chance of a good economic future for most citizens.
The brutes of the KGB have never had the least regard for their own people, nor did Stalin, nor did the Tsars. The Russians have the world's longest border and have only 130 million people to try to occupy it. They have immense problems like permafrost oil fields for just one example. Their education system has failed over 30 years ago. Their birth rate is in decline and yet they are willing to lose over 250,000 of their young men to try to get more access to the Black Sea and to Ukraine' valuable grain belt.
Russian strategy for about 20 years now has been to retake all of the old USSR, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, etc. etc. and get back to their good old days. I am so surprised that some Americans think that the Russians were duped into this war.
These old Cold War spies and brutes are not fools, they play chess as much as they drink vodka. They are not easily duped and they are NOT innocent fools.
Yes and the Germans of WWI were Hun savages who bayoneted babies, right? You need a tv propaganda detox.
You are another person who prefers to attack like an angry dog rather than to calm down and do some reading. As a matter of fact, I do not listen to any television news programs whatsoever. Whisper from the trees makes me think you may be more sensitive than you let on. It amazes me how badly our discourse has become on the internet. I posted some facts and immediately I came under attack as if whoever is the most angry and full of vitriol somehow gets the prize, whatever the prize is.
One guy told me I would not say this if I had to go and fight, I am a veteran btw. Now you who have never met me, tell me I need a propaganda detox.
How has it come to this?
How have we lost our sense of fellow humanity so badly that we attack with the slightest provocation?
I just get REALLY SICK of how people fall for the war propaganda over and over and over again. It has cost millions of lives and has ruined our economy and has turned us into Airstrip One from 1984. ENOUGH!
Jayeson, strongly recommend you watch Tucker Carlson's interview with RFK Jr. on Ukraine. It is up now.
Like your fact (!) that Russians play chess? OMG!😨😱 Not chess! How can we ever beat *chess players*? Why, we're DOOMED! Soon Putin will be in Poland! The Sudetenland! France! Oh noooooo!😿Be afraid! Be very afraid!
They Soviets played chess too, and still defeated themselves with communism. Now it's just a corrupt, incompetent, 2nd-world authoritarian state. It's not the 1930s Germans with huge work ethic, top notch engineers and scientists, and a goal of taking over the world and wiping out "inferior races".
So BFD. Your strawman points are just the usual ridiculous neo"con" fearmongering propaganda, trolling to catch useful idiots.
In case u havnt noticed we sre broke and the more they print the more broke we are. We need to stop helping foreign nations and concern ourselves with our homeland or we will lose everything. I doubt any nation we have given billions to will ever come to our aid when we need it.
My dear friend Mike, if you refer to the "gold standard" as a measure of broke, there is not nearly enough gold in all of the world to back up the currency of any country. Our currency is backed by the full faith and credit of the greatest nation with the greatest military power on the planet. We have the best rail system, the best river transport system, the best food growing regions, the best ports on two coasts, three if you count the Gulf coast. We should be rightly proud of our country. China and Russia are both way way worse off than almost anywhere. Don't believe for a second that the United States of America is weak. We are totally blessed by God.
When will your loved ones be going to fight in Ukraine or even better, you ?
This is exactly what we do NOT want. If the US were to give Ukraine all of the weapons (F-16s, Abrams tanks, Long range ballistic missiles, etc.) we would be in much more danger of nuclear war or world war. Putin has not used nukes and we have not sent F-16s, things could be WAY worse. We ought to unite as a people and to stop fighting with each other and start loving our country more.
If these warmongers you included had to go fight you would shut the hell up
Yeah. So let's just keep the war and the money laundering machine going long as possible, killing millions of Russians & Ukrainians, long as we keep it under the nuclear threshold, throw another $200 Billion at the MIC and let the Big Guy, Dems & Neo"cons" get their cut!
When did i mention anything about gold? We got off the gold standard when nixon was in office where have you been? We are kept afloat by oil and in particular saudi arabia in case u havnt noticed the bag of bones in the pres chair is trying to run them out of business without a care what its doing to our nation while he does it. If you were even close to correct then explain why our credit rating in this top of the planet nation was just lowered showing the world our lack of ability to pay back our debt? U live in a bubble watching too much hannity. I urge u to venture out in the real world and witness the fall of our nation as its taken down from the inside by the executive, legislative and judicial branch along with the collision of the intelligence groups and then some. This is bigger then one man can possibly handle but we need to check history and realize the romans were everything we are so unless we want to end up like them then the wheel needs to be steered and done fast with disregard to idiots and their complaints.
Mike, you do not need to attack me as a person. It doesn't make your arguments stronger. We have shale oil in case you are not aware of that. This is yet another way we are very blessed as a nation. i have never watched Hannity btw. that is another assumption. It seems you only know how to attack anyone you disagree with, why not just observe, listen and think it over? What is there to lose, your fears? It isn't about who wins the argument is it? It's really about what is true. I happen to know a lot of really good people in high levels in the US government, federal employees are humans not Orcs.
Mr. Vance, the whole reason the world is operating on fiat currencies is because there isn’t enough gold to back perpetual, YoY debt, to promise those who want a little more, with a little more. They finally got around to decoupling from gold in 1973, although FDR tried to confiscate USA gold earlier, in 1933 (Executive Order 6102) And our debt is held for the most part by China, which is a sort of insurance against war with that country (we’d lose big time if we can’t sell our ‘printed’ debt and so would they). We are presently losing this kind of debt to currency interdependence with Russia (we cut them off from bank systems) which is geopolitically dangerous. Keep an eye on the BRICS, and a gold backed currency they may roll out in your lifetime. Or better, one I’d buy in a heartbeat, is gold-backed Bitcoin. Finite digital currency rooted in gold…sign me up. Only problem is where to store the gold! USA and other Central Banks will do everything they can to prevent this ‘freedom’ from being available so the fiat currency (and control of populations) can endure
If you think anyplace is NOT operating on fiat currency, please name it. The US dollar is the world standard, even for the old Eastern Block. Sure it is all just paper but the North Koreans spent a small fortune trying to fake the US $100 bill and nearly pulled it off. Money is a funny thing, it is based upon trust. Fear is also a funny thing, it is used to try to frighten people into panic so that profiteers can benefit from that panic.
I’m not suggesting any major country is not operating on fiat currency. But what I am saying is that over forward history, strength of fiat currency can change. And if those changes occur, the economic conditions in your country can greatly suffer. Argentina, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, many more suffer under incredible Fiat currency debt burdens. Why could it not be us someday? I hear you say it’s because we carry the biggest military stick. I say to you, military of other countries could rival us in future. Then what? Have a nuclear war to settle it out? If your opponent is not ‘bought in’ to the benefits of your fiat currency, then the danger of catastrophic atom-splitting bombs become more plausible (Russia, Iran, China). Keep your friends close and enemies closer…. Unless it’s Russia
Sorry, but I don’t give two shits about Ukraine. It’s one of the most corrupt countries on the planet and the ONLY reason why Biden keeps sending them more and more of OUR tax dollars is because he has personal interests there.
Do I feel bad for the Ukrainian people? Yes. They’re caught in the middle of this mess, due to no fault of their own. But, the US can’t continue to be the world’s savior. We need to focus on our own problems. Strong, successful leaders always set an example, and that’s exactly what Putin needs to do with Ukraine and Zelensky.
No. I do not support a proxy money laundering war in Ukraine.
Obama w Biden, Soros, staged a coup in Ukraine in 2014.
Russia has a right to sovereignty, yet NATO and US/UK keep pushing.
8 years of Bio Labs, Russians in Ukraine being murdered, our politicians doing nefarious deeds.
Putin self control is stunning.
Besides, Maui paid taxes, they deserve help.
I have zero for Ukraine. Not our fight
WE'VE GIVEN WAY TOO MUCH ALREADY TO THE CESSPIT IN UKRAINE. RUSSIA IS NOT THE BAD GUY HERE. DO SOME HOMEWORK.
WE NEED TO HELP OUR HOMELESS HERE. NOT ONE OFFICIAL IE. PRESIDENT HAS GONE TO MAUI OR E. PALESTINE FOR THAT MATTER.
Why are we sending billions to Ukraine instead of to Maui?
$50 million total relief for Maui, about $700 per household, while the Biden crime syndicate wants another $25 BILLION for the corrupt Ukraine oligarchs and the Military Industrial Complex. And they'll likely get it. Glad we have our priorities straightened out.
They make it so obvious they don’t give a $#!+ 😒
Again, total BS. $700 is what was given to them by FEMA just for registering . that was cash for their immediate needs. That is just for starters, already 1000 ArBnBs available and hotel rooms as well free of charge for people. this is short term. Yes there are problems, We are all working our tails off every day to help! Are you? If not please dont make things harder.
Or sending to our inner cities to promote economic recovery there? Maui is just the current moment to compare. We know the real answer and $ for neocon wars like Ukraine prop up economic health of United States suburbia - who suck at the teet of the USA arms industrial machine
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https://divadrops.substack.com/p/maui-the-latest-in-the-line-of-fire
Thanks, will go read. This is a good summary of highly suspicious events: https://open.substack.com/pub/gregreese/p/maui-wildfires-and-the-theft-of-sacred
yeah! Thank *you, this looks good.
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No, the arson in Hawaii does not remind us of our need to heal our environment anymore than the intentionally set fires in Canada would do so. Same in northwest Spain where we lived. This is all a hoax to fuel the fires of climate change hysteria. America has a history, especially in South America of destroying land in order to lower its market value so that billionaires and corporations can then buy it cheap. Look up the use of glyphosate in Latin America by the United States and you’ll see that it was only applied in areas that had commercial value so that American corporations could buy the land Cheap.
Right on the money!
Dr. Vasquez, do you have proof of arson in Maui? I’ve not seen that. Share a source please.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-wildfires-burn-in-a
Interesting. I’m not yet convinced the fire was arson. But I do see how natural disasters can be ‘used’ for each groups’ cause. This fire could be simply a downed power line. That doesn’t generate a lot of clicks though 🤷♂️
One woman, a grandmother in her home reported seeing fire coming out of the ground. Boats in the harbor on the water burning, house burned to white dust a la 911 and trees still standing. Come on Matt. Please read Frances Leader's SS on the Black Nobility 101, this is a page right out of their playbook. Read or watch Dr. John Coleman.
FREE DOWNLOAD of some of Dr Coleman's books ' a former high level agent in UK & USA.
He's awesome!
Actually, it reminds us to immediately call out & shut down any and all Geoengineering manipulation of our precious Earth. There are way too many anomalies about this occurrence for anyone to believe it was the work of Nature. Please know the truth. https://twitter.com/Truthpole
Concur.
Thank you!!! 👍 And Amen.
Climate change my ass. SAI and HAARP need to be shut-the-eff-down, before we can have any discussion on climate.
Why is it not one "scientist" wants to discuss chemtrails? Because they know it will horrify people to see what government has been up to with OUR money.
So right. Reinette Senum on SS has filed a lawsuit against the perpetrators of the chemtrails. 👍
Can you explain how houses are totally incinerated to ashes, cars are uniformly burned out, glass melted, tires melted, trees still standing, plastic toys and pools left intact? What temperatures are forrest fires, what temperatures does glass melt at? What Forrest fire burns trees from the inside out? Why no cell phone coverage or 911 system working? Are these really natural forest fire, plastics would melt and burn right up in a camp fire. Plastics are safe to use in microwaves though, and food is cooked from the inside out. Why doesn’t vegetation regenerate after one of these forest fires? What are some natural laws of nature especially forest fires?
Hi Anne, I’m no fire expert but I have observed, up close, regeneration of habitat after forest fires here in both Oregon & Washington State. I’ve also hiked Mt St. Helens blast site several times the past 15 years and watched that habitat slowly come back. I’m familiar with pine tree forest we have here and how fire reacts to them, then aftermath and recovery. They do recover, but it takes time. Little known fact are some pine trees actually need high heat of fire for seeds to be released from cones. Certain pines, eucalyptus or giant sequoias also require fire to clear ground so their seeds can catch sunlight and grow. Fire is necessary part of nature’s balance. We get freaked out too often, when we humans build our houses to close to this natural (fire) event.
In Maui, the forests are more tropical (ohia, koa, sandlewood, banyan) and different than the temperate forests of my region. How these tropical trees burn and recover could be different than evergreen type trees in Alaska, Canada and other northern reaches of US mainland.
We have a lot of invasive vegetation and we have fires all the time. The trees come back fast. Some type get super heated and explode sending embers really far and starting new fires. Infact, certain areas catch fire every 2 years. My husband is a retired firefighter here. Frankly we do not have enough firefighters! maybe 65 were trying to fight 3 major fires at once in 3 different areas and terrains and it was too windy to dump water with helicopters. This was bound to happen sooner or later, it was a perfect storm of issues.
https://divadrops.substack.com/p/maui-the-latest-in-the-line-of-fire
Thanks for sending the link. No words
thanks for looking! yeah sometimes it's hard to look.
"When it comes to wildfires, the conversation needs to be about changing the way we relate to the land. We need a policy of restoration and regeneration." This is exactly what I've been waiting to hear - not exclusively related to wildfires, but in relation to so many land use issues. I live in Washington state where we also deal with wildfires, which would be greatly helped by restorative and regenerative land use practices.
Yes! This! Huge part of what happened on Maui.
You must first take on regulatory capture.
Yes, the Swamp can cause fires.
That's cool your co-treasurer is Ed Dowd. But these fires have zip to do with man-made climate change. If Hawaii is anything like California (eco-communist), the eco-fanatics have blocked brush management, thinning, fire breaks etc.
Moreover, the recent heat wave was caused by a *volcano* that injected a massive 13% increase in water vapor into the stratosphere. Water vapor has a *vastly* greater warming effect than carbon dioxide.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/what_nasa_and_the_european_space_agency_are_admitting_but_the_media_are_failing_to_report_about_our_current_heat_wave.html
Nasa satellites covered the eruption. See the time lapse.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere
In the 1970s, the so-called climate experts were predicting an imminent ice age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSBn50o_8M
oops! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I remember Time and others who now hump the global warming religion, were *constantly* humping the new ice age hysteria.
ooops! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Despite revisionist Orwellian gaslighting by "factcheckers" like Snopes, the hysterical ice age covers are still available on the websites of Time, Newsweek, etc.
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19710222,00.html
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731203,00.html
ooops! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And there WAS a "scientific consensus" back then too.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/19/the-1970s-global-cooling-consensus-was-not-a-myth/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/05/the-1970s-global-cooling-scare-and-how-the-warming-scare-could-not-have-happened-without-it/
ooops! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
directed energy weapons
climateviewer.com
What? Am I supposed to see the whole website and the guy's self-admiring pics of himself? You don't need directed energy weapons to explain huge forest fires. They've been happening for 100s of 1000s of years. In the last 6 yrs alone. Cali's had huge, deadly fires caused by electric company negligence. Paid many $billions in restitution.
In the early 1800s, something like a 3rd of Cali forests burned in one great fire, long before "man made global warming" & directed energy weapons. As in Cali today, all you need is a very wet season that grows hell out of weeds & bushes, followed by a dry spell, followed by lightning, punks playing with matches, negligent electric cos, etc. In 1910, a huge swath of MT-ID-WA burned. Zip to do with directed energy weps.
https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/famous-fires/the-1910-fires/
Why immediately jump on the most outlandish theories?
Truthseeker
3 hrs ago
That fire wasn’t typical.
what kind of fire leaves wood unburned- except around bolts… and metal?
That’s being seen in the Maui pictures too- not just the CA fires
Watch Patty Hall and Robert Brame in the below link -Same things being seen in Maui
Wood unburdened
Wood around bolts burned
All other things ‘dustified’
https://rumble.com/v2tsbfu--looking-for-clues-in-the-california-and-canadian-forest-fires-these-are-no.html
And get this- the first energy directed weapon was developed in… Maui That’s a super strange coincidence, right? Proof on their website that they are creating this weaponry
https://www.kirtland.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/825975/directed-energy-directorate-overview/
Interesting listen- https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/directed-energy-weapons-maui/
Wood unburned??? Obviously you do not live here.
As a former resident of the big Island and a farmer who has employed biodynamic and regenerative agriculture practices for nearly 25 years, I couldn't agree more with RFK about what needs to be done to mitigate fires like this. The legacy of the mindless big ag corporations like Dole and the Big 5 sugar families is now being played out by these fires.
The most productive and the most fire resilient agricultural systems in Hawaii are its native forests. Replant them and all will be well.
Yes!!!! I am on Maui, could not agree more.
Directed energy weapons? How do boats in the water burn?
Ol’ Deborah Butler was out there with mirrors, of course
"... building firebreaks, reintroducing fire-resistant vegetation, and allowing livestock to keep grasses at a manageable level."
Thank you. This multi-faceted approach reminds me of the Missouri Dept of Conservation, established in the 1920s. Unmanaged human harvesting had decimated, or even disappeared, many native plant and animal species here. Many species have made dramatic comebacks for decades now, and they're still making new progress nearly 100 years later. Their approach considers nature lovers, hunters, landowners, and government as cooperative players with a common interest in the environment. Everyone benefits.
"Climate activists and skeptics alike can get behind restoring our forests, wetlands, rivers, and soils. That’s the kind of unity that will power an environmental renaissance."
Outstanding place to begin after generations of corp exploitation & negligence of everywhere!
That's why the EPA was created.
So what went wrong ?
Regulatory capture.
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It would be a Bold and risky move, now - while you're on the campaign trail - like speaking with Max Blumenthal, or endorsing a Righteous Rocker like Roger Waters... But it would be just as good, and reasonable, and sane reverent and
rational - to address the potential that this and the Paradise Fire were examples of attacks by Directed Energy Weapons - "DEWs"... Also ENMOD/Weather Manipulation would be an important topic to broach... https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-maui-directed-energy-weapon-assault/5828764
Right NOW - we can't prove what people are saying about these topics... But - if THE POTUS were to DECLASSIFY all related Documents - and prepare a report, on exactly how and why these things were done... Then - we could.
Recognize, will you, that people are wise to the genocidal policies because they are everywhere. Find a way to say it so you don’t come off like the squad on steroids. Tell the truth-that there is more to be learned and understood and you will find the real causes and not just the political handle that promotes your campaign.
I appreciate everyones comments on this tragic event. I just want to say I respect all of your views and I learn something from every one of you whether I agree or not I for one appreciate the opportunity to have this civil discussion and want to thank Mr Kennedy for taking the time and making the sacrifice he has to fight for us and with us in order to make our nation again appreciate each other and everyones opinion and voice. It is refreshing but somewhat tiring to have such a discussion. But I will get over it and would have it no other way. Thank you again all of you and most of all Mr Kennedy. As a registered republican but truly an independent libertarian you have my vote and my support. Thank you sir.