January 10, 2025 • 10 mins
Chris delves into California’s wildfire crisis, drawing parallels to the corruption and manipulation depicted in the classic film Chinatown. He explores theories of eco-terrorism, cartel involvement, and deliberate mismanagement, challenging mainstream narratives attributing fires solely to climate change. Markowski highlights California's history of wildfires dating back to the 1800s and criticizes state policies on water, energy, and fire prevention. Discover the alarming consequences of governance failures and their potential to destabilize society. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Forget It, jackets Chinatown again. One of an all time
great movie and I gotta watch it again, I really do.
The plot of Chinatown came out mid seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was all about the water wars water wars in
California and how all of the corruption between bureaucrats and
elites in California basically pouring water into the Pacific Ocean.
What they wanted to do was to create an artificial
(00:54):
drought so they could devalue land and buy it up.
That's that's That's Chinatown. And it was funny. It is
because not too long ago South Park did a takeoff
on Chinatown, which was brilliant, and they tied it into
television with the streaming wars with what it was just
(01:15):
genius stuff. I'm following some of the news out there
and then various different networks and how they're they're covering this,
and what's amazing to me is they they're not utilizing
any people on the ground, any of the local news sources,
and uh talking about what actual people are seeing on
(01:41):
the ground. You have basically armies of bad guys going
around on scooters in cars, going into neighborhoods and looting them.
These are neighborhoods that they haven't been burnt down, but
they've been ordered to evacuate. It's again, the people on
(02:06):
the ground that are actually watching it are seeing it.
It's almost they say, it's by design. That's how it looks.
Videos of people, homeless people again again, they're setting fire
to what looks like you can go find this stuff
(02:27):
out there. It's all available on x You can look
at the videos. It's almost looked that they put together
a bonfire somewhere and they ordered homeless people to go
set them on fire. When asked, what are you doing,
why are you doing this, I'm doing a good thing.
This is obviously somebody who was mentally disturbed videos of
(02:49):
people throwing gasoline cans in two fires. This is happening
all over, not really seeing much of this being reported
in the mainstream media anywhere anywhere. Before we go on,
let just want you to sit on that a little bit.
And think a little bit. Victor Davis Hanson. Victor Davis Hanson,
(03:15):
who knows a little bit about the destruction of civilization.
He is a classical historian. I'm a big fan of
his work and I highly recommended it. We cited him
here in the past. He lives in California and he
weighed in on the LA fires. It's something like a
Dei Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. The alarming symptoms of
(03:40):
society gone mad. It was a total system's collapsed from
the idea of not spending money on irrigation storage, water,
fire prevention and force management, a viable insurance industry, a
Dei hierarchy. You put it all together, and it's something
(04:00):
like a Dei Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. Gavin Newsom
was fiddling. He's almost Nero Newsom, and he has been
something that is just unimaginable. The systems breakdown and to finish,
what we're seeing in California is a state with forty
million people, and yet the people who run it feel
(04:21):
that it should return to a nineteenth centuril pastoral condition.
They are decivilizing the state and deindustrializing the state and
defarming the state. But they're not telling the forty million
people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to
the nineteenth century when you have no protection from fire,
(04:41):
you didn't have enough water in California, you didn't have
enough power, you didn't pump oil. So we are deliberately
making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop
a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not
to protect houses in property, and we're doing it in
almost a purely nihilistic fashion. And Karen should resign. She
(05:01):
came to the airport back from Africa. She had nothing
to say. She was confronted at the airport. Why were
you in Africa? Why did you cut the fire department.
They cut the fire department by eighteen mil They gave
the fire to protective equipment to Ukraine's first responders, and
she had nothing to say. She had nothing to say
because she couldn't say anything. I don't want to be
(05:24):
too pessimistic or bleak tonight, but this is one of
the most alarming symptoms of society gone mad. And if
this continues, and if this were to spread to other states,
we would become a third world country. If we're not
in parts already. Forget it Victor, it's Chinatown. Again. I
(05:47):
speaking with people that know a little bit about fires,
and to them, many of them they think it's by design.
Many of them think it's by design either eco terrorism
actually Mike Lee posted that, or cartels. It's it's as
(06:10):
if wherever these fires started, it's as if they knew
exactly the right places to start these fires based upon
the wind conditions to cause the maximum amount of damage. So,
in essence, many people believe and again, you know, don't
(06:32):
listen to the mainstream media. Don't listen to the narrative
this terrorist attack, whether it be domestic, whether it be
eco terrorism, whether it be our cartel. But again, you
turn on, turn on the news. And again I watched
that liar, climate liar, Michael Mann out there yesterday basically.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Saying, Eh, without a doubt, this is climate, that's climate change,
talking about droughts.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, the water this year is the in California. The
amount of rainfall that they've gotten is the third highest
in the past twenty years in Los Angeles. Third highest
actually was twenty years ago, two thousand and four, two
thousand and five. Last year was the second highest. This
(07:30):
year was the third highest. Have you lost your minds.
And again the setting fires on purpose, it's something I'm
familiar with. Again, I remember it taking place in Greece
for a period of time nineteen nineties into the after
(07:52):
the turn of the century. They constantly had their arguments
and their tit for tats, and they would Greek Turks
would set fire to Greek forests and certain places on purpose.
And you'd go to some of these islands and they
would have, you know, major towers and brigades looking all
day long and dry conditions like California, looking for fires
to take place. But again it's we're just speaking in
(08:16):
truths here. You're not going to get that from the medium.
We're certainly not going to get it from the leftist
media out there that is still pushing this absolute or
bullshit climate change crap, and that this again the idea
that this has never happened before, never happened before. Yeah,
the Pacific Palisades was pretty much destroyed in nineteen thirty
(08:40):
eight and nineteen sixty one. And then you go back
even further, which we did. You can go back, you
can go back to the eighteen hundreds, eighteen hundreds, and
you've got accounts of massive fires in southern California. Here's
(09:01):
an eighteen forty account the mission and town of Santa Barbara.
The hills have no large trees upon them. They have
been all burnt by a great fire which swept them
off about a dozen years ago, and they have not
grown in yet. There's a book Richard Henry Dana, two
(09:22):
years before The Mass was published in eighteen thirty six,
describes where he witnessed the effects of wildfires in Santa Barbara. Again,
the Santiago Canyon Fire eighteen eighty nine burned three hundred
thousand acres in southern California. In nineteen thirty six, fires
(09:42):
were seen as the greatest threat to California and a
credit Tony Heller for some of the work that he's done.
Data compiled by State and Forest Retartment show County visited
by flames almost yearly since Big Fire of eighteen sixty eight,
which ran over forested summits from water shed of the
Pescadero uh on through again, I go, I go on
(10:05):
and on on. This is not new, it's not different.
But then again you take a look a little digging yourself.
Look who controls water in in California. It's it's Chinatown.
(10:25):
Jack watch Dog on Wall street dot Com.
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Forget It, jackets Chinatown again. One of an all time
great movie and I gotta watch it again, I really do.
The plot of Chinatown came out mid seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was all about the water wars water wars in
California and how all of the corruption between bureaucrats and
elites in California basically pouring water into the Pacific Ocean.
What they wanted to do was to create an artificial
(00:54):
drought so they could devalue land and buy it up.
That's that's That's Chinatown. And it was funny. It is
because not too long ago South Park did a takeoff
on Chinatown, which was brilliant, and they tied it into
television with the streaming wars with what it was just
(01:15):
genius stuff. I'm following some of the news out there
and then various different networks and how they're they're covering this,
and what's amazing to me is they they're not utilizing
any people on the ground, any of the local news sources,
and uh talking about what actual people are seeing on
(01:41):
the ground. You have basically armies of bad guys going
around on scooters in cars, going into neighborhoods and looting them.
These are neighborhoods that they haven't been burnt down, but
they've been ordered to evacuate. It's again, the people on
(02:06):
the ground that are actually watching it are seeing it.
It's almost they say, it's by design. That's how it looks.
Videos of people, homeless people again again, they're setting fire
to what looks like you can go find this stuff
(02:27):
out there. It's all available on x You can look
at the videos. It's almost looked that they put together
a bonfire somewhere and they ordered homeless people to go
set them on fire. When asked, what are you doing,
why are you doing this, I'm doing a good thing.
This is obviously somebody who was mentally disturbed videos of
(02:49):
people throwing gasoline cans in two fires. This is happening
all over, not really seeing much of this being reported
in the mainstream media anywhere anywhere. Before we go on,
let just want you to sit on that a little bit.
And think a little bit. Victor Davis Hanson. Victor Davis Hanson,
(03:15):
who knows a little bit about the destruction of civilization.
He is a classical historian. I'm a big fan of
his work and I highly recommended it. We cited him
here in the past. He lives in California and he
weighed in on the LA fires. It's something like a
Dei Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. The alarming symptoms of
(03:40):
society gone mad. It was a total system's collapsed from
the idea of not spending money on irrigation storage, water,
fire prevention and force management, a viable insurance industry, a
Dei hierarchy. You put it all together, and it's something
(04:00):
like a Dei Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. Gavin Newsom
was fiddling. He's almost Nero Newsom, and he has been
something that is just unimaginable. The systems breakdown and to finish,
what we're seeing in California is a state with forty
million people, and yet the people who run it feel
(04:21):
that it should return to a nineteenth centuril pastoral condition.
They are decivilizing the state and deindustrializing the state and
defarming the state. But they're not telling the forty million
people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to
the nineteenth century when you have no protection from fire,
(04:41):
you didn't have enough water in California, you didn't have
enough power, you didn't pump oil. So we are deliberately
making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop
a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not
to protect houses in property, and we're doing it in
almost a purely nihilistic fashion. And Karen should resign. She
(05:01):
came to the airport back from Africa. She had nothing
to say. She was confronted at the airport. Why were
you in Africa? Why did you cut the fire department.
They cut the fire department by eighteen mil They gave
the fire to protective equipment to Ukraine's first responders, and
she had nothing to say. She had nothing to say
because she couldn't say anything. I don't want to be
(05:24):
too pessimistic or bleak tonight, but this is one of
the most alarming symptoms of society gone mad. And if
this continues, and if this were to spread to other states,
we would become a third world country. If we're not
in parts already. Forget it Victor, it's Chinatown. Again. I
(05:47):
speaking with people that know a little bit about fires,
and to them, many of them they think it's by design.
Many of them think it's by design either eco terrorism
actually Mike Lee posted that, or cartels. It's it's as
(06:10):
if wherever these fires started, it's as if they knew
exactly the right places to start these fires based upon
the wind conditions to cause the maximum amount of damage. So,
in essence, many people believe and again, you know, don't
(06:32):
listen to the mainstream media. Don't listen to the narrative
this terrorist attack, whether it be domestic, whether it be
eco terrorism, whether it be our cartel. But again, you
turn on, turn on the news. And again I watched
that liar, climate liar, Michael Mann out there yesterday basically.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Saying, Eh, without a doubt, this is climate, that's climate change,
talking about droughts.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, the water this year is the in California. The
amount of rainfall that they've gotten is the third highest
in the past twenty years in Los Angeles. Third highest
actually was twenty years ago, two thousand and four, two
thousand and five. Last year was the second highest. This
(07:30):
year was the third highest. Have you lost your minds.
And again the setting fires on purpose, it's something I'm
familiar with. Again, I remember it taking place in Greece
for a period of time nineteen nineties into the after
(07:52):
the turn of the century. They constantly had their arguments
and their tit for tats, and they would Greek Turks
would set fire to Greek forests and certain places on purpose.
And you'd go to some of these islands and they
would have, you know, major towers and brigades looking all
day long and dry conditions like California, looking for fires
to take place. But again it's we're just speaking in
(08:16):
truths here. You're not going to get that from the medium.
We're certainly not going to get it from the leftist
media out there that is still pushing this absolute or
bullshit climate change crap, and that this again the idea
that this has never happened before, never happened before. Yeah,
the Pacific Palisades was pretty much destroyed in nineteen thirty
(08:40):
eight and nineteen sixty one. And then you go back
even further, which we did. You can go back, you
can go back to the eighteen hundreds, eighteen hundreds, and
you've got accounts of massive fires in southern California. Here's
(09:01):
an eighteen forty account the mission and town of Santa Barbara.
The hills have no large trees upon them. They have
been all burnt by a great fire which swept them
off about a dozen years ago, and they have not
grown in yet. There's a book Richard Henry Dana, two
(09:22):
years before The Mass was published in eighteen thirty six,
describes where he witnessed the effects of wildfires in Santa Barbara. Again,
the Santiago Canyon Fire eighteen eighty nine burned three hundred
thousand acres in southern California. In nineteen thirty six, fires
(09:42):
were seen as the greatest threat to California and a
credit Tony Heller for some of the work that he's done.
Data compiled by State and Forest Retartment show County visited
by flames almost yearly since Big Fire of eighteen sixty eight,
which ran over forested summits from water shed of the
Pescadero uh on through again, I go, I go on
(10:05):
and on on. This is not new, it's not different.
But then again you take a look a little digging yourself.
Look who controls water in in California. It's it's Chinatown.
(10:25):
Jack watch Dog on Wall street dot Com.
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