The deadly wildfires in Maui that erupted on August 8th have captured headlines every day, and also been the source of wild conspiracy theories that erupted and spread just as fast as the flames.
Let’s begin on Monday, August 7th with looking at this Maui wildfire tragedy. Per this NBC News report on August 15th, Timeline: How ferocious wildfires devastated Maui, hour by hour:
“9:52 a.m.: Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency (EMA) warns residents about winds whipped up by Hurricane Dora and other potentially dangerous conditions. “Red Flag Warning is in effect for leeward areas of Hawai‘i,” the agency says in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, “with low humidity, gusty winds and dry fuels creating risk of extreme fire behavior.””
I like timelines to try to help understand what happened. I’m not going to go through every detail, as information is still filtering out, but this NBC News starting point of August 7th, with winds kicking up from a hurricane, is also what I had read last week. I went back and looked at Hawaii weather reports on August 8th, when the wildfires erupted. I was curious what caused the high winds, so I checked weather reports from that day and found out about Hurricane Dora in the Pacific causing those high winds.
There’s been so much craziness flying across social media and especially the right-wing media, but there has also been a cold indifference to this disaster from the Biden White House and with President Biden responding to reporters with, “No Comment!” Former President Obama, an Hawaii native, waited almost a week to issue a statement and urge people to help the people of Maui: Obama urges people to ‘malama’ and help Maui victims.
I didn’t know what to think with so many of the conspiracy theories flying about – from alleging the government used space lasers to destroy Maui, so they can steal the land from the people and build a WEF style 15-minute city, to conspiratorial takes that Oprah was involved, so she can buy up more land on Maui, to people insisting something sinister with the Obamas’ mansion not having a single blade of grass burnt (their mansion is on the island of Oahu, not the island of Maui). This NY Post story covers a lot of the other conspiracy theories, debunking them: Maui wildfires spark conspiracy theories about space lasers, Oprah land grabs and suspicious trees.
Putting all the crazy global conspiracy takes aside, the Biden White House has been terrible at instilling public confidence and the relief effort in Hawaii appears to be insufficient and not stellar too, but even more disturbing is some information is beginning to filter out about what went wrong. Although this tragic disaster isn’t some carefully orchestrated evil globalist plot, more disturbing things appear to have gone wrong, due to gross incompetence and delays. Left-wing “environmental justice” water policy (part of the green energy policy) may also have played a role in the tragedy.
Maui’s EMA chief did not sound the alarm to warn residents of the rapidly spreading wildfires and has resigned: Maui’s EMA chief resigns, citing health reasons, a week after start of deadly wildfires. There are investigations into Hawaii Electric prioritizing renewable energy and neglecting maintaining their power lines Here’s a FOX News report: Hawaiian Electric knew of wildfire threat, but focused instead on mandated shift to renewable energy. Here are more details from this FOX report:
“Hawaiian Electric was aware of infrastructure issues that could contribute to a wildfire threat but focused on shifting the company toward renewable energy rather than fixing problems, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The utility company concluded in 2019 that it needed to invest more in preventing its power lines from emitting sparks, among other issues. Consulting California’s efforts to reduce wildfires, the company drafted a plan to install more insulated conductors, fire-retardant poles and more aggressive monitoring technology.
The company barely pursued those goals over the next two years, however, investing less than $250,000 on wildfire projects, according to the Journal. It did not request state permission to raise rates to pay for wildfire prevention until 2022.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaiian-electric-knew-wildfire-threat-focused-instead-mandated-shift-renewable-energy
It’s very easy to see this constant stream of video clips of Klaus Schwab and other WEF bigwigs spouting their alarming globalist green and DEI social justice ideas and look for some global masterminds behind every event, but the truth is their big utopian movement and ideas attract loads of truly low-talent, incompetent nitwits and activists, who keep becoming ensconced in running federal, state and even local government and agencies… especially in Democrat-run locations in America. Hawaii is a Democrat-run state.
For instance, some bureaucrat in the Consumer Protection Safety Commission, announced they were considering a ban on gas stoves early this year. Right-wing uproar ensued, then top Dems, like Senator Schumer from NY, insisted no one was trying to ban gas stoves. In May, NY became the first state to ban gas stoves.
Assuredly, how they go about enforcing this ban will be a total, convoluted mess, because the only thing Democrats are careful about is burying their radical agenda and massive government spending into legislation. Their plans almost invariably lead to chaos, confusion and become bottomless pits for more spending to fix the same problems and the additional problems resulting from their poorly thought out or totally pie-in-the sky plans…. or they leap into action to waste money on more utopian far-left causes.
There’s also reporting that a Hawaii official allegedly withheld water from firefighters:
“A Hawaii official accused of withholding water from firefighters battling Maui’s deadly wildfires said last year that the state should make access to water conditional on “conversations about equity.”FreeBeaconHistoric San Francisco Business Warns It May Be Latest To Close Shop Over Crime
M. Kaleo Manuel, who was deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, has been under scrutiny since local media reported that he delayed releasing water to firefighters who were battling last week’s wildfires, which killed at least 111 people.
The West Maui Land Company alleged in an Aug. 10 letter to Manuel that his commission declined its request to divert streams to fill reservoirs until the wildfires worsened and caused significant “devastation.” According to Honolulu Civil Beat, sources said Manuel was responsible for the delay. They said Manuel asked the company to consult with a local farmer about the impacts of diverting water before he would approve the request.
Manuel only released the water five hours after the request was made, wrote the West Maui Land Company, which operates three water providers on the island.”
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/flashback-hawaii-official-who-allegedly-withheld-water-from-firefighters-says-equity-comes-first/
Instead of people rushing into panic and hysteria about evil globalists taking over the world, Americans should be thankful they still have the power to resist, by electing competent people for positions in, especially, local and state positions, but we have federal elections too. I try not to buy into all the social media conspiracy theory hysteria and instead start calmly looking for facts and information now. I have fallen for some conspiracy theory hot takes and false reporting before. I think most people have. Jumping into panic mode constantly wastes a lot of time and energy that could go into things to better our own lives – like being better prepared, learning more skills to be self-reliant, forming communities in real life and even in the virtual world to foster constructive relationships and share ideas – not just the hyper-charged partisan drama. There is nothing wrong with just taking a “I don’t know what happened yet” attitude and wait for more information.
With all the hype about Klaus Schwab and the WEF, I think his “COVID-19: The Great Reset” plan is fundamentally flawed and that goes to what I titled this blog post – “Utopians fail at competent public administration.” We actually saw so much of this incompetence during the pandemic when the social mitigation zealots were in charge too. Dr. Fauci often would announce some new mitigation idea and when reporters asked questions about various other situations, he hadn’t even thought about any of those details. So, he was making up national guidance on the fly. There was a video of the new CDC director talking about how she made lockdown decisions during COVID, by calling her friend in another state, who was another health official, and asking her friend what she was doing in her state – there was no science involved – just on the fly decisions by incompetent nitwits:
I’ll pull up quotes from Schwab’s book and other NetZero nitwittery and put that in another blog post soon.
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