💥 LA Mayor & Fire Chief Clash

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Citizen Frank
January 11, 2025

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Soon after Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley publicly blamed city officials for the disastrous response to historic wildfires in California, embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reportedly summoned Crowley to her office.

Reports swirled Friday night that Crowley was going to be axed from her position by Bass. The Daily Mail, relying on a source, even reported that Crowley had been fired. However, the mayor’s office has since claimed that Crowley remains in place as fire chief.

“The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos,” the office said in a statement.

Residents of Western North Carolina are confused about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s role in helping locals with disaster recovery after Hurricane Helene.

Locals are especially confused as FEMA plans to end temporary housing assistance for about 2,000 North Carolina residents on Saturday — during a snowstorm, when temperatures across the Appalachian Mountain region are expected to be below 20 degrees.

The housing program was initially supposed to end on Friday, but FEMA pushed the deadline back to Saturday.

James Woods’ has experienced a miracle.

The 77-year-old actor revealed his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles has survived the devastating wildfire that continues to ravage the upscale neighborhood.

Woods was evacuated earlier this week when the deadly Palisades Fire broke out on Tuesday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday has been sworn in for a third six-year term following an election that saw his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez as well as Washington claim voter fraud.

Gonzalez, meanwhile, has been recognized by the US as ‘president-elect’ instead of Maduro. On the same day Maduro was sworn in, the US unveiled a $25 million reward for information leading to his arrest. This represents a significant increase from a prior similar reward of $15 million for narco-trafficking related charges.

Additionally a fresh reward of up to $15 million been offered for the arrest of Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino.

Mel Gibson was the latest guest on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast and during the lengthy interview, the veteran actor said he hopes to begin production on a Passion Of The Christ sequel next year.

“I’m hoping next year sometime. There’s a lot required because it’s an acid trip. I’ve never read anything like it,” Gibson said of the film’s script, which he later added was penned by himself alongside his brother and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) over a seven-year period. Gibson said the film will be titled The Resurrection Of The Christ.

“My brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this. So there’s some good heads put together, but there’s some crazy stuff,” Gibson added.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his Meta company, which operates Facebook and Instagram, had abandoned its DEI practices. As part of that move, the company told facilities managers to remove the tampons from the men’s bathrooms.

“That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley,” The New York Times reported, “Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.”

Some people could hardly beleive that this had been the state of things at the social media giant.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager overseeing approximately $11.5 trillion in assets, has decided to withdraw from a climate pact backed by the United Nations (UN) that advocates for aggressive de-carbonizing of the economy.

A BlackRock spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times that the company has decided to withdraw from the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), a coalition comprised of over 325 signatories managing more than $57.5 trillion, all committed to the goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by aligning investment strategies with this objective.

Membership in the climate pact did not affect the way BlackRock managed client portfolios, according to the spokesperson, but it did lead to confusion about the company’s practices and subjected it to legal inquiries from public officials. Despite the NZAM exit, BlackRock remains committed to sustainable investing.

Amazon is scaling back on some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, becoming the latest major corporation to make cuts to such initiatives that critics have deemed “woke.”

In a message to employees last month, Amazon human resources executive Candi Castleberry announced updates to the company’s representation and inclusion efforts, and said the e-commerce giant would be making some changes after spending the past few years “evaluat[ing] their effectiveness.”

“We worked to unify employee groups together under one umbrella, and build programs that are open to all,” the memo, obtained by FOX Business reads.

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