I’m watching the news on the LA fire. The wind over night made everything worse. The fire is spreading and the firemen are having very little control over the situation, regardless of the fact that they brought in all kinds of ground and air assets. Simply put, they allowed the thing to grow too big and now it’s beyond control. They can try and clear the fuel from the fire path, but it’s questionable at this point. The aerial assets are the only ones doing anything, but it’s too little and too late. So, it’s time to consider the consequences.
The economy is going to react to this, but it’s unclear how, because the stock market in America is deeply into the red zone of complete insanity. The first-order analysis would be that the impacted businesses from the area will suffer, the real estate prices will drop like a rock since this will be the final incentive for the rich people to leave, since there’s nothing binding them to the place anymore. Sure, they saw it all go to hell for years but it’s a big thing to sell your house and leave everything you worked most of your life for and rebuild everything in Texas. Also, if your job is there you may not be able to leave at all. But still, one would expect most to leave, and few to rebuild. One would expect the shares of the construction companies to go up, and the insurance companies to go down, but since this is America, it might actually be the other way around. Normally, I would expect gold to go up, since rich people everywhere will understand the need for highly mobile capital; however, since gold is hard to get across the border, crypto assets might be preferred, at least until people realise those are worthless in a real disaster.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is currently in the fire zone. It’s evacuated, but it is still unclear how affected it will be by the fires. This is a major strategic asset that controls all kinds of automated probes across the Solar System. All of this will be affected and control might be relocated to the Space Command bunker in the Cheyenne mountains or something.
All kinds of woke bullshit will be downgraded after this, and this will ripple out throughout both culture, politics and the economy.
However, this is all assuming that the fire is contained where it is now, and this is unlikely. Most likely, it will spread throughout the more populated LA areas, and the amount of chaos that would produce is hard to imagine – it would be almost on par with a nuclear strike. Around 18M people live in the wider area, and most of them are nowhere near as rich as those impacted so far. If they all have to relocate, and they will if the complex structures are disrupted enough, this will be a zombie apocalypse across America. I’m continuing to watch this closely, but I’m also being careful not to remove my eyes from other points of interest, because this fire increasingly looks like a man-made thing, and it might all be a distraction from something else. Possibly, a way to remove important assets from the X in time, in a more-less controlled manner. You see, I’ve been reading the cold war texts about the plans for the evacuation of the LA metropolitan area, and I know they decided it’s impossible and nothing there can be saved. Maybe someone decided to be proactive. So, the second-order analysis is that this might be a way to evacuate the most important people and assets from the area that is expected to be hit by nuclear weapons and impossible to evacuate at that point.
On the other hand, I always think "they can't be this stupid and incompetent, there must be something else going on", but in case of America and the West in general, this might be unwarranted. 🙂
From occasional Buddhist reflections on Samsara as a phenomenon that leaves behind entire mountains of bones for every individual being unable to resolve the problem of forgetfulness and endless cycles of death and rebirth, one can conclude that the world is not a harmless playground. Beings evidently get entangled in various worlds, and since they do not represent an aesthetically pleasing occurrence in certain dead ends, it seems they must change their world and memory.
The fact is that it is unpleasant to live in the environment of today's world.
Here are two interesting videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vq5zJhcMvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3b_6X-g_jU
Interestingly, the most recent footage I've seen is from deep dark of the night when a location 150m due north from Hollywood blvd was on fire, and Hollywood blvd itself was full of fire trucks. It's as if someone pulled the plug on live info, and I don't think because the news is good, but because they want to control the panic.
Has it ever been officialy revealead the sequence of Soviet’s, and after SSSR fell apart, Russia’s nuclear strikes against US i.e. first comes the wave of nuclear warhead’s against military and nuclear assets possesed by America and only after that launch everything left on American major cities if any of America’s nukes hit some civilian populated areas in Russia?
Were there cold war plans to evacuate other major American cities as it is hard to believe that only LA greater metropolitan areas would be striked?
And where to evacuate all that people? In FEMA camps?
I don't think they intend to evacuate the greater LA metropolitan area. At least not safely and in an orderly manner, like they are presently evacuating the rich. Most likely, the poor would be left to fend for themselves, = die.
My line of thinking was "it is very peculiar that the area that burned down was the one with the richest people, that the firemen basically let it burn down and only started controlling the fire as it approached the wider area, the fire seems to have been caused by arson, the arsonists were caught and released, which means someone is covering it up. Since the rich and powerful are usually the ones covering things up, someone is probably doing it for their benefit, but what could be beneficial in burning one's house down? Well, only if it's already certain to be destroyed and you're saving them from something worse, which would narrow things down incredibly."
There's the thing: on the East Coast, there are all kinds of underground facilities where you can protect the command structure and the important people, and all kinds of ways you can evacuate. However, the LA metropolitan area is a traditional cold war problem, because it's a prime target and it's impossible to evacuate. They ran all kinds of scenarios and always had 100% losses; basically, people panic, congest the highways, nothing moves anywhere and then the nukes strike while everybody is out in the open, 100% loss. So, what do you do? You have a non-nuclear emergency, that selectively strikes the valuable assets, and you evacuate them first. After they are out, you more-less stop caring, but let's say they feel particularly altruistic and let the rest of the LA burn so that the general population can trickle out as well. Also, since they now have the fire, they can evacuate absolutely everything of importance from the area and nobody is going to notice.
As I said, in the East they have a much more controlled situation, but all the projections for California always counted it as a total loss, until now.
The general LA area contains multiple high-priority military targets: the Vandenberg base, Edwards base, and the JPL. That's only what I can count from the top of my head. Then there's the obvious thing for any enemy to level the core of American propaganda industry. I don't think they count as civilians.