BBC LISTS FIVE CAUSES OF THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES. #1 is “Rapid Fuel Growth.” They don’t get to “climate change” until #5, and even then they say “t is too early to establish whether or how much climate change contributed to these fires.”

WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT IMMIGRATION:

One unique point I do think I made in my 1992 National Review cover story: there is no economic justification for these modern massive immigrant inflows. It may increase gross domestic product, but virtually all of that is captured by the immigrants themselves. American workers don’t benefit—in fact, they are disadvantaged, because immigrant wage competition shifts income within the native-born community from labor to capital. I discussed this in Chronicles’ June 2009 issue, in an article titled “The Economic Impact of Immigration.”

There are more than 30 years of economic studies to back my point up. But I have to say that despite all the evidence of immigration’s harmful effect on the economy, I have made absolutely no impression. Both Canada’s Liberals and Britain’s Conservatives, as well as both Democrats and Republicans in America, have rationalized allowing their recent immigration surges on the grounds that it would stimulate economic growth.

Of course, these surges were not really motivated by economics. All these governments simply hate their underlying nations.

The Biden administration, needless to say, has not even bothered to offer any economic rationale at all for its enabling an unprecedented immigration surge.

True, but it’s there around the periphery: “The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly.”

—Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, January 2nd, 2025.

But it wasn’t a “moment” — it was a series of crises by design:

● Jared Bernstein, member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”

● Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller in February of 2021: Biden’s Immigration Plan Would “Erase America’s Nationhood.”

“Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ‘truly multicultural’ country, a former Government adviser has revealed.”

Tom Cotton’s Response to Kamala Harris’ Border Failures Should Be the Default for All Republicans: “‘You know, Laura, Kamala Harris didn’t have to go all the way to Guatemala and Mexico to find the root causes of this border crisis because they’re not there,’ Cotton told Fox News host Laura Ingraham [in June of 2021]. ‘The root causes are in the White House.’ He further explained that it ‘happened on January 20th when Joe Biden took office, and he essentially opened our borders, reversing very effective policies that had our borders under control.’”

And:

 

Is MSNBC getting into Bulwark territory with their sudden interest in illegal immigration?

OUT ON A LIMB: Adolf Hitler, Communist.

Of course, AfD is invariably described as “far right,” which is Eurospeak for opposed to mass third-world immigration. Beyond that, the other German parties denounce AfD as “neo-Nazi,” notwithstanding the fact that its platform is the polar opposite of Hitler’s national socialist ideology. This is the portion of today’s interview that I want to focus on:

Adolf Hitler was a communist and the “greatest success” of the postwar years was to rebrand him as far-right, a leading figure in the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has said.
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Asked by Musk about the frequent claims in Germany that the AfD is “Nazi-lite”, Weidel responded: “The National Socialists were socialists … Adolf Hitler was a communist. He considered himself a socialist … The biggest success after that terrible era in our history was to label Hitler as [far] right and conservative.”

She added that the AfD was the “opposite” of the Nazis in its attitude towards the size and power of government: “We would like to free the people from the state.”

That is correct. Hitler always described himself as a man of the Left. He and his cohorts took over the German Workers’ Party, which was uniformly and correctly regarded as left-wing. They renamed it the National Socialist Party. Still left-wing, even more so. The Nazi regime vastly expanded the power of government–to put it mildly–raised taxes, essentially took over private industry from the top down, and, throughout World War II, assured Germans that they would have “real socialism” once the war was over.

Of course the Nazis battled the Communists in the streets in the 1930s; that was like the Crips and the Bloods fighting over turf. Bitter enemies who are in all respects relevant to outsiders, the same. And they soon became allies.

The great public relations coup of the Western Left was its success in branding both the Nazis and Italy’s Fascists as “right-wing.” In fact, they were big government–make that huge government–socialists: the opposite of Western conservatism. Hitler would have been astonished by the claim that he was somehow a free-market, limited government conservative. By any sane definition–including his own–he was a left-winger.

Well, they were socialists who were both nationalistic, and had some very international expansionist plans.

Related: Former European Commissioner and Wannabe Tyrant Thierry Breton Says EU May Cancel German Elections if Right-Wing AfD Wins.

Hey, you know who else tried to form a union of European nations after first cancelling German elections…?

WILDFIRES AND THE HOARY HOAX OF A BURNING PLANET:

As it happens, the same story is true with respect to wildfires like the current LA inferno. This has been the third category of natural disaster that the Climate Howlers have glommed onto. But in this case it’s the aforementioned bad forestry management, not man-made global warming, which has turned much of California into a dry wood fuel dump.

And don’t take our word for it. This quotation below comes from the George Soros-funded Pro Publica, which is not exactly a right-wing tin foil hat outfit. It points out that environmentalists have so shackled Federal and state forest management agencies that today’s tiny “controlled burns” are but an infinitesimal fraction of what Mother Nature herself accomplished before the helping hand of today’s purportedly enlightened political authorities arrived on the scene:

Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California. Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres. The state passed a few new laws in 2018 designed to facilitate more intentional burning. But few are optimistic this, alone, will lead to significant change. 

We live with a deathly backlog. In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire.

In short, if you don’t clear and burn out the deadwood, you build up nature-defying tinderboxes that then require only a lightning strike, a spark from an unrepaired power line, or human carelessness to ignite into a raging inferno. As one 40-year conservationist and expert summarized,

 …There’s only one solution, the one we know yet still avoid. “We need to get good fire on the ground and whittle down some of that fuel load.”

The failure to do just such controlled burns is exactly what is behind the LA wildfire today. That is, a dramatically larger human footprint in the fire-prone shrublands and chaparral (dwarf trees) areas along the coasts has increased the risk residents will start fires, accidentally or otherwise. California’s population doubled from 1970 to 2020, from about 20 million people to nearly 40 million people, and nearly all of the gain was in the coastal areas.

Under those conditions, California’s strong, naturally-occurring winds, which crest periodically, as is occurring at the moment, are the main culprit which fuels and spreads the human-set blazes in the shrublands. The Diablo winds in the north of the state and the Santa Ana winds in the south can actually reach hurricane force, as has also been the case this week. As the winds move West over California mountains and down toward the coast, they compress, warm, and intensify.

These winds, in turn, blow flames and carry embers, spreading the fires quickly before they can be contained. And on top of that, the Santa Ana winds also function as Mother Nature’s blow dryer. As they come down the mountains toward the sea, the hot winds dry the surface vegetation and deadwood rapidly and powerfully, paving the way for the blowing embers to fuel the spread of wildfires down the slopes.

Among other proofs that industrialization and fossil fuels aren’t the culprit is the fact that researchers have shown that when California was occupied by indigenous communities, wildfires would burn up some 4.5 million acres a year. That’s nearly 6X the level experienced during the 2010-2019 period, when wildfires burned an average of just 775,000 acres annually in California.

Beyond the untoward clash of all of these natural forces of climate and ecology with misguided government forest and shrubland husbandry policies, there is actually an even more dispositive smoking gun, as it were.

To wit, the Climate Howlers have at least not yet embraced the patent absurdity that the planet’s purportedly rising temperatures have targeted the Blue State of California for special punishment. Yet when we look at the data for forest fires we find, alas, that unlike California and Oregon, the US as a whole experienced the weakest fire years in 2020 since 2010.

That’s right. As of August 24 each year, the 10-year average burn had been 5.114 million acres across the US, but in 2020 it was 28% lower at 3.714 million acres.

Related: Adam Carolla: California’s Government Started These Fires, and Has an Evil Surprise Coming for Those Who Lost Their Homes: They Won’t Let You Rebuild the Homes They Burned Down, Either.

Trainer/host of The Biggest Loser Gillian Michaels confirmed that, saying that when her home was burned down by another regularly-scheduled disastrous wildfire years ago, it took her a full year just to get the permit to…

Bulldoze the wreckage of her destroyed home.

Not to rebuild the home. That would take another gauntlet of permit approvals.

But just to secure the right to bulldoze away the ruins of her home, she had to wait a year for the blessing of California’s oppressive government.

You think they’re going to just let people rebuild their homes or — the horrors! — even rebuild their homes with a somewhat different blueprint this time?

Oh no. Oh dear no.

Never let a crisis go to waste, to coin a phrase.

MATT MARGOLIS: As Wildfires Rage, Chaos Erupts in Los Angeles Leadership.

A source initially told DailyMail.com on Friday afternoon that the fire chief was fired, but the Mayor’s office told ABC7 Crowley still had her job. The office’s official statement to the outlet said the pair ‘met’, without any reference to whether Crowley remained in her position.

‘The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos,’ the statement said.

But ABC7 reporter Josh Haskell added on social media site X that the Mayor’s office had officially denied the claims that Crowley had been fired.

When Crowley returned from the meeting, she told her office staff that she was ‘not fired yet’, the source said on Friday evening.

‘She was going into the meeting, telling everybody goodbye, because she was told the whole purpose of the meeting was to fire her,’ a source close to Crowley’s office said.

‘When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her.

‘Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed.

“Either Bass realized it would be suicide to fire her, and came to her senses, or Crowley talked her out of it,” the source told the Daily Mail. “She came back in the office briefly, told her staff, ‘I’m not fired yet’ and went into a meeting with all her chiefs.”

Related: Great moments in California water management:

In 1974, a fictionalized version of William Mulholland bringing water to Los Angeles was the baddy in Robert Towne and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. 50 years later, as VDH notes, “what we’re seeing in California is a state with 40 million people. And yet the people who run it feel that it should return to a 19th-century pastoral condition. They are decivilizing the state, and deindustrializing the state, and defarming the state, but they’re not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century when you had no protection from fire, you didn’t have enough water in California, you didn’t have enough power, you didn’t pump oil.”

But hey, look on the upside!

 

GREAT MOMENTS IN DEI: “Residents of Richmond, Virginia have been left without water for days while DEI advocate April Bingham sits at the helm of the utilities department.”

Flashback: “Richmond Police Chief William Smith, center, takes a knee with protesters as he attempts to address a crowd in front of city hall Tuesday.”

“Richmond mayor joins protesters, apologizes after city police gassed a peaceful demonstration,” the Washington Post, June 2nd, 2020.

BIDEN: ‘I Would Have Beaten Trump,’ ‘Kamala Would Have Beaten Trump.’

Biden made the remarks during an evening press conference at the White House, one of the rare moments that he has answered questions from reporters.

“Do you regret your decision to run for re-election?” a reporter asked Biden. “Do you think that that made it easier for your predecessor to now become your successor?”

Biden responded: “I don’t think so. I think I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump, and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump.”

Video of Biden’s latest attack of Trunalimunumaprzure here:

UPDATE: Three Big Ways Biden Is Harming Democrats on His Way Out.

BRITAIN IS DUE FOR A REVOLUTION, OR MAYBE IT’S A COUNTERREVOLUTION, ON THE PART OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE: