In the spring of 2017 I lived in Venice Beach, right off of Abbot Kinney Boulevard, and I really loved my neighborhood and the neighborhood of Santa Monica just to the north. Since 2020 I have gotten to be friends with many wonderful Los Angelenos who are supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense. I was deeply saddened to see the news of the fires that have destroyed the Pacific Palisades and other parts of L.A. County.
In this episode of the HOT ZONE, we discuss how—as a consequence of California’s abominable government—civilization in Los Angeles County has been skating on thin ice for some time. As Mel Gibson recently put it:
We hope the fires will awaken the people of California and Los Angeles to the necessity of firing all of the inept, irresponsible, and corrupt people who have infested their state and municipal governments for the last several years. Time for the corrupt clowns to shove off and to be replaced with reasonable and responsible leaders.
Here’s a reality check: The systemic failures aren't maintained through incompetence or force - they persist through a sophisticated psychology of collective acquiescence.
Most critics stop at blaming leadership, failing to recognize a deeper truth: the fragmented mindset permeates both those who rule and those who are ruled. The masses, no less than their leaders, have retreated into theoretical bubbles of comfort, mistaking their elaborate rationalizations for wisdom, their passive compliance for prudence.
In the bubble of curated comfort, real community problem-solving has become almost unthinkable, not because we lack resources, but because we've lost the muscle memory of communal action. We've become so adept at individual consumption that we've forgotten how to engage in communal creation and maintenance.
Communities with enough collective resources to solve real problems, such as Pacific Palisades, lost the ability to even imagine collective action. Instead of harnessing unprecedented prosperity for meaningful change, society has become consumed by the theater of affluent anxiety.
Mental energy is spent on an endless parade of privileged concerns: debating whether to install heated floors in the guest bathroom, curating what wardrobe fits for maximum social impact, agonizing over which luxury electric vehicle best signals environmental virtue, performing carefully calculated acts of inclusion for social media feeds.
These aren't just trivial concerns - they're active distractions that masquerade as meaningful engagement. We mistake aesthetic choices for ethical ones, conflate consumption with action, and transform genuine social issues into lifestyle accessories.
The most insidious aspect of modern oppression is our collective participation in it. We've developed an unconscious choreography of avoidance - each person waiting for another to take the first step, each institution deferring to another's authority, creating an infinite loop of delegated responsibility that ultimately returns to no one.
This dance of avoidance has created a peculiar form of societal paralysis: billions of people waiting for permission from a handful of bureaucrats to exercise rights that were inherently theirs to begin with.
It takes catastrophe to pierce our collective slumber. Only when flames devour neighborhoods do people finally look up from their screens and ask the obvious questions that comfort had lulled them into ignoring: Where did decades of tax dollars go? What happened to basic infrastructure maintenance? How did we become so vulnerable?
Yet instead of this simple act of verification, we compound our imprisonment by seeking solutions within the very framework that created our problems. We look for freedom through the approved channels of bondage, never questioning whether true liberation might require stepping outside these familiar but constraining patterns altogether.
The pattern becomes even more striking in our relationship with sacrifice and responsibility. While loudly praising historical sacrifices, modern citizens skillfully avoid any personal inconvenience.
We outsource responsibility while simultaneously demanding accountability from others, creating a peculiar dynamic where everyone seeks leaders to blame while refusing to lead themselves. This convenient arrangement allows for the satisfaction of righteous indignation without the burden of personal action.
This is what I call the "interior decorating" approach to revolution: suggesting ways to make the cage more comfortable rather than questioning the necessity of the cage itself.
To me being a German - it is that typical American SECRECY - at the bottom of that systemic failure.
Already BEFORE you get hired on any good job - you have to sign a "Non Disclosure Agreement" (NDA) - that kills you even before you start.
So any enterprise can engage in criminal activities without any challenge or correction from within.
As John F. Kennedy wanted to end this SECRECY as in the CIA - the CIA killed Kennedy - and kept this SECRET until today.
So America abandoned Democracy at least 62 years ago - as "WE THE PEOPLE" have been kept in the dark, and the DEEP STATE kept all that SECRET with that criminal FAKE-justification of "national security"!
I call this national stupidity.
With our German "RKI-files" (Our "Robert Koch Institute equals the "CDC" in America) out in the open - there is no doubt left - that Cov-19 / SARS-Cov-2 was a SECRET ACT OF AMERICAN BIO-TERRORISM on a global scale!
If America does not come clean under the new Trump administration - things won't get better for America or the world - but the global opposition to this sick & stumbling American empire will continue to grow bigger . . .
I'm not in disagreement that our nation has a deep state with an agenda we can't always know. However, please don't hold up Germany as bastion of openness
and honesty. I fear for the power your country has amassed. Your history has it's horrors.
I am half German and American, military brat. I was raised in Germany till I was 15 among Germans, went to the German public school till I was 14 and transitioned into a private US school before my father and family were deployed stateside. I mention this to show I am of both nations.
While I am highly critical of the U.S. deep state, it’s naïve to think it exists only in America. To criticize the U.S. without reflecting on Germany’s history—marked by the Gestapo and Stasi, which weaponized secrecy to crush dissent—is ill-advised.
Much of what U.S. intelligence agencies know about secrecy, propaganda, and surveillance was learned from former Nazis granted safe haven under Operation Paperclip. This decision, while practical for Cold War strategy, stained America’s character and was widely opposed by citizens when it came to light in 1946. Elected officials pursued it regardless.
As for COVID-19, corruption and collusion between governments and private actors was not unique to the U.S.—nearly every NATO nation’s leaders participated in censorship and authoritarian overreach under the guise of public safety. Citizens worldwide succumbed to propaganda-fueled fear, enabling abuse of power across Western civilization. Blame cannot be placed solely on the U.S.
Yes, many Americans are guilty of complacency and virtue signaling, but this malaise is shared across the West. The U.S. has been embroiled in a cultural war between pro-fascist/neo-Marxists and those upholding its founding principles since the 1990s. Trump's election was both a rejection of this ideological drift and a recognition of systemic rot. While our system remains deeply flawed, this past November deserves some credit for resisting an Orwellian slide.
That said, I don’t expect full transparency. Sacrificial lambs, like Fauci, may face scrutiny, but systemic accountability is unlikely. Fauci is a figure of national shame—our Mengele—and should be exposed, though I temper my expectations.
Germany faces its own reckoning. Policies saddling citizens with high energy costs and mass immigration, combined with the suppression of crimes linked to these policies, have driven the rise of the AfD. Your leaders lectured on Islamophobia and vaccine compliance while ignoring the impacts of their decisions. The blame, like the rot, is global. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Great comment, David Roy!!!!!
Brilliantly stated Mr Roy. I was about to post a similar comment, but your eloquence and insight already presented what I was going to say, which is its all fine and proper to haul the leadership in front of scrutiny and accountability, but so too must those who let this happen with their shallow group-think, step up and recognize they're just as much part of the problem as their rulers.
No.
Litigation, strict liability, and prosecution for civil action when the law owns all overt action.
Those are the reasons people check out of involvement and forego pressing against social defects.
When the voters take valid options and toss them in favor of the likes of Newsom, what's to do? Vote, and keep your head down.
In the event that voting has been rigged, people have no legal options. For those who credibly believe that voting has been corrupted, how can one blame them?
I share your concern, but until the election management is replaced, I don't think LA will see another conservative Republican with common sense be elected in LA county. Yes, I believe that there is enough evidence that the election machinery is in place to overcome the conservative votes in LA. So until that problem is fixed by people that can infiltrate and expose what has been done to rig the elections, the same type of foolish, arrogant, godless and controlled people will continue to hold elected office in LA.
I think the time has come and gone for California as it exists today.
ok...you don't like "California"....all those homes that were burnt up belonged to INDIVIDUALS and not "California" ....I am certain many of them belonged to older retired people who could never afford to buy a house in today's market. Maybe you are NOT old and/or disabled....maybe you never wanted to own your own home....
But this is a huge tragedy for many many people. My heart goes out to them--it is a tragic and disturbing use of Directed Energy Weapons. They are being used on helpless civilians many with nowhere to go and no one to help them.
I get what you are saying and I’m 67 and working still. We are all in some way victims of the economic policies of government. I look at the fires as a ploy to take their homes.
Exactly. They knew.
What is needed for a be best, do best, is that every single sheriff from ALL counties collectively meet. Then march on the capital of California to address the corruption in the leadership. Arrest those criminal by our US Constitution and jail them for life including any cops that don’t want to cooperate to help clean out this major criminal ring shadowing and infiltrating this country of ours for decades.
It won't matter if the entire government were replaced. The system is the problem, not the bums that sit in positions.
Has to be justice for this crime.
what about the thousands of homes washed away in NC by Helene....What about Lahaina--and that school bus full of children...not a trace to be found. What did the monsters do with them? Doesn't anyone care?
THE KIDS ARE NOT OK.
Cell "towers" plus EMF radiation
plus Lasers = weather warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHRqvtCV4fI
This is a great plan. It could be replicated all over the country. If Trump sells out to the corporations and the government bloodsuckers, and we will know this early, this should be the next step. It will important for people to be in Red areas with constitution-adhering sheriffs.
Cloud patterns directly over the LA fire zone on January 7th and 8th, the days the fires started and accelerated. Your thoughts?
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/category/engineering-wildfires/
Alarming satellite captures reveal frequency transmission impacts on aerosol cloud canopies over the LA firestorm zone. "APOCALYPSE: Fire chief warns LA wildfire is worst case scenario" (Fox News). "Weather Whiplash Fueling LA's Wildfire Could Make It Costliest in History" (Science Alert). For over a decade and a half Geoengineering Watch has warned of the coming firestorms, worse is yet to come. Climate disruption operations must be fully exposed and halted, that effort will take all of us.
Dane Wigington
GeoengineeringWatch.org
Smart cities going in all of these disaster areas you watch.
15 minute cities. Just in time for the 2028 Olympics! Great timing.
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So, just lay down and take it?
No Denise definitely not but most cant see whats happening and how to them so they dont even understand there in a war. So if they dont know there in a war how can they fight or be convinced? People think your crazy if you mention theories on how why and who. Do you agree?
I agree that was the purpose and their hopeful outcome.
I heard a woman say that her house didn't burn down and it was the only one in the neighborhood that didn't have a smart meter. Why are so many trees right next to these 2-3 story homes still there with leaves on them? The houses incinerated, not a beam left in house after house? I also saw videos of something that looked like gun fires blasting through the smoke at night. And I also saw a video of a house burning from the inside out. No other houses around it were on fire. How did the fire get inside the house?
This was NOT a natural fire....Microwave DEW weapons heat the target from the inside out...so there is the explanation for a fire inside the house.
If the people are able to fire the bureaucrats, that would be good. But the only way to solve California's problems is to annihilate all vote fraud. The punishments for committing felony vote fraud must be a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison or the corrupt Soros prosecutors will simply slap their hands. The other thing that must be done is to indict and imprison the Republican party leaders responsible for defrauding voters in the primaries, which has been allowing only RINOs to win in the primaries. This done and the voters will take out the garbage government that is perpetrating mortal war on American citizens. California, like many other states, was a red state 50 years ago. A large percentage of the people have become morally degenerate in that time period; but not enough to vote in the people who have gotten in. The only cause for the governments becoming blue is vote fraud which has become so massive that it is almost impossible for candidates who are willing to honor their oath to the Constitution to get through the primaries. It is critical that leaders of the Republican party who are committing felony vote fraud in the primaries to be removed to prison.
The local neighborhoods (precincts) have to take over (again) the voting system. Every block has to have someone involved. No more mail in ballots. Only same day voting. Hand counts only, at least 3x in 48 hours. Even if we need a national Holiday for elections. It’s such a fundamental part of our republic, yet it’s treated with such neglect. Term limits should also be required in all elected offices and appointments to bureaucratic positions: no more than four years.
Thanks to immigration and the Democrats, democracy is dead in California and will stay dead. The number of people who don't understand democracy, who don't have the same assumptions as native born Americans do, has reached critical mass.
"It is critical that leaders of the Republican party who are committing felony vote fraud in the primaries to be removed to prison."
Isn't LA democratically controlled?
I really don’t think that there will be much reclamation in the near future. There are adults in DC and that’s where Newscum was
expecting to get his windfall. There will have to be changes in the malevolent administration in California. Stupid is as stupid does. This is the most maladroit administration in the history of the USA. The Governor, Lt Governor, Mayor, etc. need to be prosecuted and removed. Remove the illegal immigrants and then move forward.
"We hope the fires will awaken the people of California and Los Angeles to the necessity of firing all of the inept, irresponsible, and corrupt people who have infested their state and municipal governments for the last several years"
This is dreaming. We live among the people we have, not the people we wish we had. Every major city in the US votes solid blue, over, and over, and over. As the cities steadily decline. There is no reason, whatsoever, to think LA and California voters will change. I just hope they stay in California and don't flip more states blue.
You believe they count the vote accurately? They genocide and rape children, but they count the vote accurately, hey? Even if they did, the problem is not addressed. The problem is the system. Representative government is just irrelevant, there is no need for it today. It will go away so long as people don't keep putting their energy into it and start putting their energy into a system that gives everyone's voice the same weight.
No, they cheat like crazy. But do you really think sane voters outnumber "progressive" drones in California? Or Chicago, Detroit, NYC, or any other US metropolis? They don't. Those places have exactly the government they deserve.
Nobody deserves government. The entire idea is puerile and infantile. Adults do not govern other adults, unless of course they are disabled. Only children need to be "governed". The concept is preposterous but that is the spell most people are in.
Dane Wigington EXPOSES Hidden Government Weather Control Projects! https://youtu.be/dgRxhhQnKVo?si=G7pHt_mQ-xzFac_-
If you thought the west coast fires can halt a prospering major city landscape,
What about those earthquake predictions?
It tears large sections of earth apart. Then starts the raging out of control fires.
Like a bull in a China shop, What it doesn't break, shake and smash, it shits on.
Tell me how you prepare for it? You cannot! How about don't build your home there?
Read or listen to: “Houses gone but trees still standing?!”, by forensic arborist Robert Brame. What you will see and hear is indescribably stunning!
Only DEW provides ample explanatory power for the mysterious evidence found in the wake of this fire and the fire in Hawaii. Is it plausible that the fine tuning of all the blamed components would yield such massive and seemingly inexplicable devastation?
DEI is a deflection and deception. Environmentalism is being use as a vehicle of communism. The ‘green class’ is stripping away private property to clear a path for smart, fifteen minute cities. The strategy began decades ago. The new administration needs to get refocused! Blaming circumstances on comparatively ‘innocent’ incompetence is itself the height of incompetence.
Terminate DEI BS. Its the first step at getting back to employed because of merit.
All comments are void of the real menace facing this city and many others under occupation. There are 17 million loyal to Mexico irredentists here in Los Angeles Mexico. Many of them are making 6 -figure salaries. It all started when former Obama Labor Secretary of Mexico, Hilda Solis became City Supervisor. National Council of La Raza Latinos have taken over the City Council, Supervisor, District Attorney, Insurance Commissioner, LAPD (74% Latino), LA Sheriff's Department (99% Latino), California Highway Patrol (98% Latino), LA Fire Department (74% Latino), LA Coroner, LA Ports Director, all Union bosses, and Labor bosses, City and County Workers, construction workers, truck drivers, delivery drivers, LA Newspaper writers and opinion, local TV news anchors and reporters, and the overwhelming majority of the 600+ car crashes each day. All Latinos. There are 34 Spanish language radio stations. Go to a Bank of America/Wells Fargo/Citi Bank, shopping, supermarkets, coffee shops, purchase a phone at a T-Mobile store, go to a restaurant, or to any fast food restaurant -- anywhere, every employee and manager are all Latino. They are passing the BAR as noncitizens; have become judges; they are the overwhelming majority of children in our schools. Special thanks to their La Raza Latino Assemblyman, Gil "One Bill" Cedillo and his AB60, which hands driver's licenses with automatic voter registration to millions upon millions of illegal aliens. They are the demographic affecting the outcomes of elections by sheer numbers (look at the Newsom recall race for verification). They have made a mockery and disgrace of our Fourteenth Amendment. It has become the means to wage demographic warfare and to give the Latino majority Demoncat Party electoral hegemony through lawlessness.
This is the largest misappropriation and infiltration in our nation's history...
"Time for the corrupt clowns to shove off and to be replaced with reasonable and responsible leaders." Calif has many fake leaders today, some are official "teachers" of "students" of the Nazi WEF cult. The "teachers" teach people to infiltrate govs the world over, and to prepare everybody for their written plan to mass-murder 7 billion of us. The fact that they have gotten this far is way beyond corruption! We need everybody still alive to work daily to remove the WEF from the face of this planet!
Thank you both for your coverage. We left California but I still miss my Golden State. Perhaps these latest fires will finally be a turning point amongst voters. In the meantime, thanks for the latest fear porn alert (Quademic, etc.). Not jabbed, not going to be, and NEVER FORGET.
“… we compound our imprisonment by seeking solutions within the very framework that created our problems.” Exactly, for decades now. My feelings are gone for those who bitch about the cage in which they have allowed themselves to exist. It’s way too late to be blaming mismanagement of resources when you’ve allowed these managers to run and ruin your life for decades. Leave or look in the mirror and rationalize the reality you’ve created. I’m all out of empathy for the blue state blues, and way out of money for a bailout for same.
So true.God please insert the good people to protect humanity in Calif
Elon Musk: Google "Polygraph test of Ella Gareeva"
If this isn’t awake up call Angelinos are in a coma. So heartbreaking to see the area I grew up in falling apart.
Reasonable and Responsible I like the sound of that and it would certainly be nice if we had such a thing in reality! Good Luck America!
Wikipedia "Farrar was educated at Churcher's College and UCL Medical School, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in immunology in 1983 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1986. Farrar completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1998 on myasthenia gravis."
The Federal government owns almost half of the land. Some of that land is mountainous and infertile, but it could be used to build cheap housing (maybe 3D printed homes) for those who can't afford the exorbitant rents and mortgages in Los Angeles.
The Democrats in California don't see it like this.
The insurance companies all knew the risk was severe. That's why they were leaving the state well before this fire started.
The insurance companies CANCELLED everyone's homeowner's policies a few months BEFORE the fires. How did they know to do this at the exact right time?
Weather conditions and government inaction and ill-preparedness. In other words: obvious.
This is a very interesting video thank you gentlemen it is happening here in Australia we sell our mineral cheap as hell and when we have to buy products back we pay ten fold and as for the fires we use to be aloud to do burn offs but because of the green idiots they have stopped it and now our fires are ten times worse
If persons have willfully caused these fires. And I mean more than random arsonists supposedly caught, then there will be justice some day. This is a great wickedness. Lives have been lost. Murder. Houses lost. Theft.
Please take notice of this - it does not matter if you replaced everyone in the legislature or congress with saints. The outcomes would turn out the same because THAT is not the problem. Everyone is seeing that as the problem but it's not. The problem is the system itself. The system of voting for people. It makes no sense at all. Just like the economy makes no sense to be based on debt, greed and blackmail. The fundamentals have to make sense. They have to be properly aligned. So hoping to change over the bums that sit in political positions is going to do zip, zero, nada.
I hear you on the corruption. If the system of voting for people is wrong, then what? A monarchy? Someone was saying that monarchy is a better system to me the other day, and mentioned the same points you make. A monarchy with a parliament, PM, etc.
lets see, no people, then adopt AI? The same AI that is proven to be often incorrect and lies regularly about the truth?
No, no, that's your assumption of what I said. This shows a common pitfall - to assume instead of ask questions. I wait for people to ask questions now because it's good therapy. But there is another way which for some reason nobody else seems to see except for myself.
So if things are so fragile in LA, why are folks willing to pay so much to live there? Residential land in LA is more expensive than just about anywhere else in the US. [source: https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/los-angeles-rebuilding-wildfires-cost/ ] (And the land will still be there after the structures have been cleared.)
I thought this was Chuck Holton’s Hot Zone that I follow on You Tube and Locals. He has a great podcast. Check him out!
STOP IT.