The LA fires pave the way for SmartLA 2028 and the 2028 LA Olympics
As the “coincidences” continue to pile up, many are convinced that the massive neglect, mistakes and omissions that led to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles were more than a natural disaster.
The Los Angeles fires are unprecedented in the number and size of fires that have broken out in and around the U.S. nation’s second-largest city. Over 1,000 buildings and 45 square miles have been destroyed. More than 380,000 people have been evacuated or ordered to leave their homes. Over 450,000 people were without power. More than 24 school districts were partially or fully closed. Fire hydrants are empty. Arsonists in Santa Monica were caught on video setting fires. The Los Angeles County Sheriff says some areas look like a bomb hit. President Biden weighed in on the fires while in LA, allocating relief funds, announcing that he is a great-grandfather for the first time and that his son Hunter’s LA home is intact.
The 15-Minute City Maps for Los Angeles
Los Angeles is one of dozens of cities whose “mayors and the cities they lead” are members of the international C40 Cities Initiative, a movement that pursues the United Nations and globalist goals of restructuring cities to address the manufactured “climate change” crisis. Cities from around the world are participating in this movement.
Funding comes from many progressive and globalist sources, including the Open Society Foundations run by George Soros and his son, as well as other supporters. Soros is notorious for fomenting and funding insurrections in America and taking many other actions to ruin the economies of sovereign nations, earning him the title of “world’s worst billionaire” among others. Other funders include Uber, FedEx, Google, Wellcome, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the British government, the European Union, and many others. The World Bank, one of the most predatory globalist institutions closely linked to the United Nations, is a designated partner.
Los Angeles is fully committed to their 15-minute city plan, which they have called the Livable Communities Initiative (LCI): “A plan to address LA’s housing, transportation, and climate crises by building 3- to 5-story, gentle-density buildings above small retail along carefully selected commercial streets that will be redesigned for walking, biking, and living.” That sounds like the perfect plan for the now-devastated community of Pacific Palisades, part of the greater Los Angeles area. The Pacific Palisades neighborhood was an older community with many quirky and quaint, but dated, features. A profile of the neighborhood offers more details about the community that existed before the fire’s destruction. Now that the area has been so badly devastated, it needs to be rebuilt.
Whether it’s a bizarre coincidence or the result of terribly bad policy, this kind of disaster is exactly what progressives and globalists like to exploit, and we can expect glowing reports about LA’s impending construction as a shining example for the Olympics and future cities of the world. The only question is, will they make it in time? We assume all the regulations and red tape that usually greet them will “magically” disappear.
We are fortunate that a large portion of the city of Los Angeles was cleared just in time to be shovel-ready for a newer, better, futuristic version of neighborhoods to be built as showpieces for the 2028 Olympics. All sentimentality and cultural and historical objections to modernization, not to mention owners who may not want to sell or give up their home or commercial building, were swept aside in a scorched earth action within 48 hours.
Let the construction work begin.
Governor Gavin Newsom announces a sweeping plan to rebuild Los Angeles, dubbing it “L.A. 2.0” under a Marshall Plan-inspired initiative that signals major changes for the city.
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“A crisis should never go to waste”
The “coincidences” continue to pile up, leading many to declare that the massive neglect, mistakes and failures that led to the devastating LA wildfires were more than a natural disaster. There is no evidence of this yet. But Los Angeles is prepared. They already have all the plans in place to build back better. As Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, likes to say, “You should never let a major crisis go to waste. And by that I mean the opportunity to do what you thought you couldn’t do before.”
With the LA fires over in 2025, the landscape is now primed for the construction of SmartLA 2028, just in time for the Olympics.
SmartLA 2028 – the plan is already in place
The City of Los Angeles laid out the plan to implement its 15-Minute City Plan back in 2020. This will make LA a “highly digital and connected city” by 2028. SmartLA 2028: Technology for a Better Los Angeles explains:
“Los Angeles residents will experience an improved quality of life by leveraging technology to address urban challenges. No longer the ‘car capital of the world,’ residents will be able to choose how they get around LA through a single digital payment platform with options like renovated subway and bus systems or micro-transit options like on-demand LANow shuttles or dockless bikes. Residential neighborhoods will once again welcome pedestrians and provide easy access to green spaces.”
The introduction to the draft includes a statement by Mayor Eric Garcetti from his State of the City address on April 19, 2020:
“The soul of our recovery will shape the contours of our city’s future for decades to come. We have a plan for the city of the future.”
The SmartLA 2028 draft includes a map of the Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica and Hollywood regions, all of which have been severely affected by fires, and highlights their particular importance for the city’s upcoming change.
Just in time for the Olympic Games
Coincidentally, the 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles! The Olympics have become a global spectacle, and cities are making great efforts to do their best in hosting the event. China, for example, relocated over 1.5 million residents from Beijing during preparations for the 2008 Olympics. Many of the confirmed Olympic venues are located in the neighborhoods affected by the fires.
The SmartLA 2028 plans have developed and perfected the vision of a new and improved region of the city that will be a showcase of modernity and global citizenship when it hosts the upcoming Olympic Games. As with the many plans and simulations that preceded the 2020 covid pandemic, which we now know served to introduce totalitarian measures into the lives of free citizens, the 15-minute plans for the damaged regions of Los Angeles were already drafted and ready for implementation when disaster struck.
Failing Infrastructure and Maintenance in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing heavy criticism for cutting the Fire Department’s budget by $17 million in 2024, hurting the department’s ability to contain the fires. FEMA has said it will pay for more firefighters and has promised to reimburse the state for up to 75% of the costs incurred. The Los Angeles Fire Chief has been warning for weeks that the fire department will not be able to respond to “major disaster events” due to the budget cuts. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the LA County Fire Department and surrounding fire departments donated “surplus” equipment to Ukraine in 2022. The equipment included firetrucks, ambulances, hoses, nozzles, aerial ladders, helmets, body armor, and other personal protective equipment. We are also reminded that many of LA’s experienced firefighters have been laid off and threatened with firing for refusing to receive the covid “vaccine.” How many gave up and went elsewhere to work?
Helicopters and special aircraft were unable to fully assist in fighting the fires as Santa Ana winds gusted at up to 100 mph; most flights were grounded. Within 24 hours of the outbreak, the U.S. Navy was ordered by President Biden to assist Los Angeles and made 10 Navy military helicopters available for water drops. The winds were so fierce that several semi-trucks have overturned on the highways. A further complication arose when airspace over the fires was temporarily restricted during President Biden’s visit.
Now it’s becoming clear why various upgrades and preventative maintenance have been ignored by the city. For example, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the largest sheriff’s department in the nation – operates with an “outdated” computer dispatch system that failed on New Year’s Eve and was out of service for several days. Officers were forced to use their radios, pens, notepads and phones when the 38-year-old system failed. Since taking office in 2022, Sheriff Robert Luna has been working to bring the computer system up to date. Now it’s starting to become clear that the city’s plans to restructure and “renovate” have encouraged neglect of aging infrastructure, of which the city’s antiquated computer dispatch system is one example. There’s no need to fix or rebuild something twice.
Similarly, forest fire management has been neglected at all levels of administration, resulting in a matchbox situation with dry, uncleared scrub in forests and on slopes.
Planned obsolescence?
The images and reports from the five fires in Los Angeles are painfully similar to the images and stories from the fire in Lahaina on Maui. Incompetence in management, dry fire hydrants, residents fleeing on foot toward the coast to save their lives from the traffic jams threatened by the spreading flames. As John Leake just noted, “Like Lahaina [in 2023], LA was warned in 2018”:
“Like Lahaina [Maui, in 2023], Los Angeles was warned in 2018 by the Woolsey Fire – which broke out on November 8, 2018, burned 96,949 acres of land and destroyed 1,643 structures – of the type of disaster likely to occur in dry and windy conditions. As in Lahaina, it appears that Los Angeles leadership has invested little to nothing in preventing the disaster.”
It’s as if we’re being put to the test. Did we as a country “tolerate” what we witnessed in Maui? Did we “tolerate” the disaster of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which swept through the southern Appalachians and destroyed infrastructure in a quarter of western North Carolina and the mountainous region of eastern Tennessee (in addition to lesser damage in Virginia, Georgia and Florida)? Did we ignore the government’s lack of response to the catastrophic damage?
This latest disaster, unabated and zero percent contained 48 hours after the fires began, caused astronomical amounts of damage and countless casualties among residents, pets, livestock, historic structures, nature and the economy. The mounting disasters are a testament to the destruction of civilization, culture and history in one region after another in the Americas. What’s next?
As with the disaster caused by Hurricane Helene, which devastated so much of the southeastern Appalachians, insurance also plays a role. Homeowners in Los Angeles who lost their homes report that their insurance was canceled four months ago because California state regulations were so strict that insurance companies withdrew from offering insurance in the state.
Similar to the Maui fire, fire hydrants had no water to fight the fires. Fire hydrants in Los Angeles were dry, despite state residents approving billions of dollars for new water storage facilities over a decade ago. One proposition is a $7.5 billion water bond “designed to provide significant investment in the state’s drought-stricken water systems.” Despite the funds being available, not a single water storage project has been completed. The state government has allowed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to prevent the completion of water projects by suing on behalf of an allegedly endangered species – a type of 3-inch squid.
Water is liquid gold for Southern California, made famous by the film Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The documentary River’s End: California’s Latest Water War (2021) examines the parties involved and the potential for a crisis due to freshwater supply uncertainty. Meanwhile, uncaptured meltwater and runoff from precious winter rains are captured in canals that flow into the ocean – a devastating waste of this scarce resource.
Fires spread throughout the city
The Palisades Fire was raging in the Pacific Palisades region of LA, the westernmost and closest to the coast. It was spreading to the adjacent coastal communities of Malibu and Santa Monica, as well as the inland community of Brentwood, and is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history. The iconic multi-million dollar homes built along the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades region over the Pacific Ocean have burned “to the sand,” according to homeowners interviewed.
“The West Hollywood Strip, known for its nightlife and restaurant scene, was paralyzed by Los Angeles residents fleeing the Palisades area. Officials urged people on Sunset Boulevard to abandon their cars and walk to safety. The Los Angeles Fire Department later cleared the abandoned vehicles to make room for firefighters.”
Amazing video was captured of desperate evacuees at a standstill and firefighters using bulldozers to clear cars from the road after the occupants were ordered by police to abandon their vehicles and run for their lives.
Another wildfire broke out in the Hollywood Hills and has been dubbed the Sunset Fire. Before it could be fully contained the next day, flames raced toward Hollywood Boulevard, threatening the iconic Hollywood sign. A fire broke out in Studio City on the night of Jan. 8. Firefighters managed to contain the blaze, which consumed several homes, but was unable to spread into the hills above Ventura Boulevard and the San Fernando Valley community. Readers looking to orient themselves further can find an interactive map of the region here. The Griffith Observatory and Planetarium, located at the top of the Hollywood Hills, were closed and shrouded in smoke, but were not affected by the fire.
The Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, has claimed several lives. The fire has burned over 10,600 acres (4,300 square kilometers) in one day. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is in the Eaton Fire evacuation zone.
Thousands of horses have been rushed to evacuation zones. Some horses had to be released into burning neighborhoods because their owners were unable to evacuate them in time. Dramatic nighttime video of the rescue and evacuation of nervous horses in the Eaton Fire, as the sky glowed orange, emergency vehicles’ turning signals flash, and plumes of smoke and embers filled the air, illustrating the fear and danger. The Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena was used as a major animal evacuation center, according to the LA Sheriff’s Department. Footage has been posted on virtual communication networks of horses being led on foot by exhausted owners and trainers through smoke- and ember-filled streets to be rescued.
The Hurst fire broke out in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. According to the California Highway Patrol, the entire mountainside burned.
The Woodley fire burned more than 30 acres in the western San Fernando Valley. The Acton fire north of Los Angeles, now called the Lidia fire, has burned up hundreds of acres.
Because rare minerals played such a large role in the Southern Appalachian disaster, a search turned up a single mineral, salammoniac, used as a smelling salt in pharmacy. The mineral has been documented in Bernheimer Gardens, Burning Mountain, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California. However, there is no evidence of mining being or planned in the area. The fires exposed something more valuable: miles of prime ocean-view real estate with direct access to the ocean, ready for development in one of the world’s most important and densely populated cities.
Author: Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin
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January 24, 2025