THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Friday, November 16, 2018
63 DEAD IN FIRES CAUSED BY SENATOR FEINSTEIN AND HER CRONIES AT PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC
WHY DID THE FIRST LADY OF CORRUPTION and AMERICA’S GREATEST WAR PROFITEER SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN and her cronies
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC BURN DOWN MEXIFORNIA?
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fact, the destruction has again exposed the criminal indifference and
negligence of the ruling class and both its political parties, Democrat and
Republican. Social infrastructure, including fire departments, have been
starved of funds for decades as trillions of dollars have been funneled into
the bank accounts of the rich."
Northern California Wildfire: 63 Dead; Number of Missing People Hits 631
(AP) — Authorities have reported seven more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total number of fatalities so far to 63, while the number of missing people jumped to 631.
The announcement came Thursday as authorities continued to search the devastated town of Paradise for human remains.
More than 5,000 fire personnel were battling the blaze that started a week ago and has displaced 52,000 people.
Authorities also raised the number of homes destroyed by the wildfire to 9,700.
An informal camp for wildfire refugees in a Walmart parking lot in Northern California is going to be closing.
Volunteers who helped bring in free food and clothing said Thursday they are phasing out amenities.
More than 75 tents have popped up at the Chico store to house people evacuated from the fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and surrounding area.
Volunteers say they want people to go to shelters, so clothing, food and toilets will be removed by Sunday.
Betsy Totten, a Chico city spokeswoman, said it’s unclear what will be done if people don’t leave, but officials don’t plan to kick them out.
The site has been popular with evacuees who can’t find a hotel and can’t stay at shelters because they have pets.
President Donald Trump will travel to California on Saturday to meet with victims of the deadly wildfires that have scorched the state.
The White House announced Thursday that it is still arranging details of his trip to California, but that visit people who have been impacted by the fires.
California wildfire evacuees speak
By our reporters 16 November 2018
After burning for more than one week, the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles has destroyed over 98,300 acres, approximately equal in size to the city of Denver, Colorado. The fire prompted the evacuation of more than 295,000 people and is responsible for three deaths thus far. An estimated 504 structures have been destroyed and an entire section of the Pacific Coast Highway remains closed.
As new details emerge of the Woolsey Fire’s devastation, the death toll in Northern California’s Camp Fire jumped to 63 on Thursday with the number of missing increasing to 631. The Camp Fire is now the deadliest wildfire in California history. More than 11,862 structures have been destroyed as of this writing. The Camp Fire completely destroyed the town of Paradise in the Sierra Nevada mountain foothills leaving more than 26,000 residents with no homes to return to.
The Woolsey Fire has affected the cities of Malibu, Bell Canyon, Oak Park, West Hills, Calabasas, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks—all west of downtown Los Angeles. When the fire started last Thursday night, strong winds blew hot embers across entire sections of freeway and delayed the use of aerial fire suppression for three days.
Only one day before the fire started, the Thousand Oaks community was devastated by a mass shooting of mainly college students at the Borderline Bar and Grill, ending with the deaths of 13 people. This was one of the 20 most deadly mass shootings in US history and the second deadliest in the state of California.
Although still severely traumatized by the shooting, survivors were forced to flee the oncoming flames only one day later.
The weakening of the Santa Ana winds over the past two days has reduced the intensity of the Woolsey Fire, which is now at 57 percent containment.
Evacuation orders have been lifted for many of the affected areas although some of the most heavily affected, including the upscale seaside community of Malibu, are still closed. The fire still threatens approximately 57,000 structures and full containment is not expected until November 18. More than 3,200 firefighters had been mobilized to fight the fire as of November 10.
Aside from the immediate impact of the fires, there will likely be long term health consequences for the affected residents.
It is believed that the Woolsey Fire originated at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley, California. In operation between the late 1940s and early 2000s, the site performed numerous large-scale experiments in rocket propulsion as well as nuclear energy research.
Many of these experiments pre-dated current regulations governing nuclear and toxic waste disposal, and the site became the first commercial nuclear power plant to experience a core meltdown in 1959. That incident was covered up by the US Department of Energy for more than 10 years.
Initial ground readings at the site indicated no elevated levels of radiation as a result of the fires, although further tests are still needed.
Many area residents believe the site already posed an unacceptable health hazard to the community. An accelerated public campaign to clean up the site was begun after higher than average rates of leukemia, brain cancers and neuroblastoma were found among children in the surrounding area.
Public anger is also growing against the Southern California Edison Company, which provides electrical service to the region. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently reported that SoCal Edison experienced a transmission line failure near the Susana Field Laboratory which may have started the fire. At the time, SoCal Edison released an automatic alert to the CPUC indicating that a circuit breaker tripped, likely due to transmission overload.
Although it has yet to be determined if such an event caused the fire, prevailing environmental conditions, including high winds, extremely low humidity and an abundance of dry and dying chaparral, provided a seemingly limitless supply of fuel in the mountainous terrain.
Reporters found that firefighters may have also had insufficient water and water pressure to fight the fires. At the evacuation center at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California, reporters spoke with residents angry that water hydrants malfunctioned in their neighborhood of Corral Canyon in Malibu.
Marcela Laurenze and Emely Taylor
Marcela Laurenze said: “Because this water hydrant failed, the neighbors couldn’t get the water to save the houses. We are all furious. My neighbor Paul Morra basically created his own fire station in the canyon. This is negligence by the water department.”
Paul Morra wrote on his Facebook page: “We had no water for the fire front or for the hot spots that followed many days later. Neighbors were forced to tackle fires with just shovels and dirt.
“With 18 homes lost in Corral Canyon alone and with residents still under a mandatory evacuation, Las Virgenes Water District has no problem sending their crews out to read meters for billing purposes.
“This is an outrage, and our community is going to hold them accountable. This is beyond shameful and completely insensitive.”
Marcela and her family have been staying at the Red Cross evacuation center for three days. She had successfully built up a small business designing jewelry. She told the WSWS: “My whole house is gone. I haven’t seen it because they won’t let us back in yet. I’ve lived there since 2002. It was the only home I ever had that I paid for myself.
“Last month I moved my whole family down from Oregon to live with me because they were homeless. My mother Shari is 71, and she’s sick. And I have my brother, his two adult children, two grandkids, and two dogs.
“I had a three-bedroom home. One person slept in the garage, three girls slept in the loft, others on the main floor and downstairs.
“I survived the 2005 fire. Then I ran up and down the street yelling to my neighbors to get out. This time somebody called me. I just cared about getting the kids out. We got the whole family out; no clothes, no nothing. And now we’re all homeless.”
Emely Taylor is Marcela’s neighbor. She said: “I just found out that everything to do with my business is destroyed. I created my own consulting firm in the entertainment industry, doing makeup and wardrobe. My entire computer system, software, hardware, laptops, my suits, thousands of dollars of makeup and clothing. I’m never going to get that back. Now it’s all gone.
“Not only that, I had many family antiques from the Middle East and Israel. Things that were passed down in my family.”
She blamed the utility companies for the immense damage caused by the fire: “This is negligence on the part of these utility companies and the government. This fire has destabilized all these people’s lives. Marcela’s mom is a 71-year-old grandmother who is really sick. She can’t walk, and there’s no proper bed for her here. Everybody is stressed out. Everybody here is homeless.
“Their negligence has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, affecting so many people’s lives and livelihoods.
“Most of the people helping here at the Red Cross have been really nice to us. But now that most people have left, a few of them are making us feel that we’re not welcome here. They’re supposed to help us get back on our feet. People are already stressed out, some suicidal because they’ve lost everything. I told them if they’re not nice to us, I will hold them responsible if someone hurts themselves.”
A Red Cross shelter at Pierce College
also spoke with Ellis Levinson, the media liaison for the Red Cross. He showed us the room where people sleep. “As long as people need shelter, we will be here. We provide three meals a day, showers, and a place to sleep,” he said.
“At the height of the fires starting last week, we had 700 people here. We’re using three gyms here at Pierce College. We have a lot of people volunteering to help from the outside, 45 came in this morning.
“I was at the Napa Valley fire in 2017, and I was helping in San Antonio during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That was the most immense thing. We were in a stadium that was seven acres.”
California: Ferocious Fires Spark Health Concerns as Death Toll Hits 59
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(AP) — Cool weather helped fire crews gain ground Thursday against the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, as the search went on for more bodies. At least 59 people were killed and 300 were unaccounted for a week after the flames swept through.
Smoke masks. Eye drops. No outdoor exercise. This is how Californians are trying to cope with wildfires choking the state, but experts say an increase in serious health problems may be almost inevitable for vulnerable residents as the disasters become more commonplace.
Research suggests children, the elderly and those with existing health problems are most at risk.
Short-term exposure to wildfire smoke can worsen existing asthma and lung disease, leading to emergency room treatment or hospitalization, studies have shown.
Increases in doctor visits or hospital treatment for respiratory infections, bronchitis and pneumonia in otherwise healthy people also have been found during and after wildfires.
In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018. – The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on November 14, 2018, as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)
In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018. – The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on November 14, 2018, as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)
In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018. – The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on November 14, 2018, as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)
In this aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018. – The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on November 14, 2018, as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 15: An aerial view of a shopping center destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise charring over 140,000 acres, killing at least 56 people and destroying over 8,500 homes and businesses. The fire is currently at 40 percent containment. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 15: An aerial view of a shopping center destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise charring over 140,000 acres, killing at least 56 people and destroying over 8,500 homes and businesses. The fire is currently at 40 percent containment. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
PARADISE, CA – NOVEMBER 15: An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise charring over 140,000 acres, killing at least 56 people and destroying over 8,500 homes and businesses. The fire is currently at 40 percent containment. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A pebble is seen at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California, on November 14, 2018. – Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. At least 51 deaths have been reported so far from the deadliest wildfires in California’s recent history and body recovery teams were going house-to-house with cadaver dogs in Paradise. (Photo by Javier TOVAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAVIER TOVAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Volunteers cook at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California, on November 14, 2018. – Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. At least 51 deaths have been reported so far from the deadliest wildfires in California’s recent history and body recovery teams were going house-to-house with cadaver dogs in Paradise. (Photo by Javier TOVAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAVIER TOVAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Volunteer Cathryn Flores classifies clothes at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California, on November 14, 2018. – Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. At least 51 deaths have been reported so far from the deadliest wildfires in California’s recent history and body recovery teams were going house-to-house with cadaver dogs in Paradise. (Photo by Javier TOVAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAVIER TOVAR/AFP/Getty Images)
People are seen at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California, on November 14, 2018. – Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. At least 51 deaths have been reported so far from the deadliest wildfires in California’s recent history and body recovery teams were going house-to-house with cadaver dogs in Paradise. (Photo by Javier TOVAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAVIER TOVAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Some studies also have found increases in ER visits for heart attacks and strokes in people with existing heart disease on heavy smoke days during previous California wildfires, echoing research on potential risks from urban air pollution.
For most healthy people, exposure to wildfire smoke is just an annoyance, causing burning eyes, scratchy throats or chest discomfort that all disappear when the smoke clears.
But doctors, scientists and public health officials are concerned that the changing face of wildfires will pose a much broader health hazard,
“Wildfire season used to be June to late September. Now it seems to be happening all year round. We need to be adapting to that,” Dr. Wayne Cascio, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cardiologist, said this week.
In an overview published earlier this year, Cascio wrote that the increasing frequency of large wildland fires, urban expansion into wooded areas and an aging population are all increasing the number of people at risk for health problems from fires.
Wood smoke contains some of the same toxic chemicals as urban air pollution, along with tiny particles of vapor and soot 30 times thinner than a human hair. These can infiltrate the bloodstream, potentially causing inflammation and blood vessel damage even in healthy people, research on urban air pollution has shown. Studies have linked heart attacks and cancer with long-term exposure to air pollution.
Whether exposure to wildfire smoke carries the same risks is uncertain, and determining harm from smog versus wildfire smoke can be tricky, especially with wind-swept California wildfires spreading thick smoke hundreds of miles away into smoggy big cities.
“That is the big question,” said Dr. John Balmes, a University of California, San Francisco, professor of medicine who studies air pollution.
“Very little is known about the long-term effects of wildfire smoke because it’s hard to study populations years after a wildfire,” Balmes said.
Decreased lung function has been found in healthy firefighters during fire season. They tend to recover but federal legislation signed this year will establish a U.S. registry tracking firefighters and potential risks for various cancers, including lung cancer. Some previous studies suggested a risk.
Balmes noted that increased lung cancer rates have been found in women in developing countries who spend every day cooking over wood fires.
That kind of extreme exposure doesn’t typically happen with wildfires, but experts worry about the kinds of health damage that may emerge for firefighters and residents with these blazes occurring so often.
Whether that includes more cancer is unknown. “We’re concerned about that,” Balmes said.
Regular folks breathing in all that smoke worry about the risks too.
Smoke from the fire that decimated the Northern California city of Paradise darkened skies this week in San Francisco, nearly 200 miles southwest, and the air smelled “like you were camping,” said Michael Northover, a contractor.
He and his 14-year-old son have first-time sinus infections that Northover blames on the smoke.
“We’re all kind of feeling it,” Northover said.
Classes were canceled Thursday in at least six universities in Northern California as smoke from the fire continued to blanket all nine counties of the Bay Area. Some were closing all buildings but others, including Cal State East Bay said libraries, health centers and dining halls would stay open.
At Chico State University, 11 miles from Paradise, ash was falling this week and classes were canceled until after Thanksgiving.
“It’s kind of freaky to see your whole town wearing air masks and trying to get out of smoke,” said freshman Mason West, 18. “You can see the particles. Obviously it’s probably not good to be breathing that stuff in.”
West returned home this week to Santa Rosa, hard hit by last year’s wine country fire, only to find it shrouded in smoke from the Paradise fire 100 miles away. West’s family had to evacuate last year for a week but their home was spared.
“It’s as bad here as it was in Chico,” West said. “It almost feels like you just can’t get away from it.”
Smoke has been so thick in Santa Rosa that researchers postponed a door-to-door survey there for a study of health effects of last year’s fire.
“We didn’t feel we could justify our volunteer interns going knocking on doors when all the air quality alerts were saying stay indoors,” said Irva Hertz-Picciotto, a public health researcher at the University of California, Davis. The study includes an online survey of households affected by last year’s fire, with responses from about 6,000 people so far.
Preliminary data show widespread respiratory problems, eye irritations, anxiety, depression and sleep problems around the time of the fire and months later.
“Conventional thinking is that these effects related to fires are transient. It’s not entirely clear that’s the case,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
Researchers also will be analyzing cord blood and placentas collected from a few dozen women who were pregnant during the fire, seeking evidence of stress markers or exposure to smoke chemicals.
They hope to continue the study for years, seeking evidence of long-term physical and emotional harms to fire evacuees and their children.
Other studies have linked emotional stress in pregnant women to developmental problems in their children and “this was quite a stress,” Hertz-Picciotto said.
It’s a kind of stress that many people need to prepare for as the climate warms and wildfires proliferate, she said.
“Any of us could wake up tomorrow and lose everything we own,” she said. “It’s pretty scary.”
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Marcela Laurenze and Emely Taylor
A Red Cross shelter at Pierce College
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