{"id":3296,"date":"2020-01-04T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T23:20:49","slug":"really-why-would-arsonists-torch-the-entire-continent-of-australia-unless-they-were-paid-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Really, why would arsonists torch the entire continent of Australia unless they were PAID to do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Australian Police Say Arsonists &amp; Lightning to Blame For Bushfires, Not Climate Change<\/h1>\n<h3><!--more-->Sit down global warming alarmists.<\/h3>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3298\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/030119fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/030119fire.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/030119fire-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/030119fire-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities in Australia are working on the premise that arsonists and lightning strikes are to blame for bushfires that have devastated numerous areas of the country, not \u201cclimate change\u201d as many global warming alarmists have claimed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since November, the fires have struck various regions of the state of New South Wales, destroying thousands of buildings and killing at least 22 people.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that bushfires are not uncommon in Australia, the severity of the damage led numerous climate change alarmists to blame the disaster on man-made global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1212788981081006081\">blamed<\/a>\u00a0those who were \u201cdelaying action on climate change\u201d for \u201cthe blood-red sky and unbreathable air in Australia because of raging forest fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, according to those tasked with investigating the fires, climate change has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police are now working on the premise arson is to blame for much of the devastation caused this bushfire season. A strike force will investigate whether blazes were deliberately lit, and bring those responsible to justice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TWh1KQycs4\">https:\/\/t.co\/TWh1KQycs4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ebatten7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ebatten7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NSWFires?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NSWFires<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#7NEWS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dul8dMFrZv\">pic.twitter.com\/Dul8dMFrZv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsSydney\/status\/1213002373766901760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are now working on the premise arson is to blame for much of the devastation caused this bushfire season,\u201d reports 7 News Sydney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsSydney\/status\/1213002373766901760\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Authorities in the country have formed Strike Force Indarra, comprising of detectives from homicide and arson units in an attempt to find the culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Other causes for the fires include lightning strikes and a natural weather phenomenon called Dipole, again neither of which have anything to do with man-made climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Many bushfires are also actually caused by environmentalist \u2018green\u2019 policies which prevent land owners from clearing their own vegetation to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments appeasing the green beast have ignored numerous state and federal bushfire inquiries over the past decade, almost all of which have recommended increasing the practice of \u201cprescribed burning,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/green-ideas-must-take-blame-for-deaths-20090211-84mk.html\">writes Miranda Devine<\/a>. \u201cAlso known as \u201chazard reduction\u201d, it is a methodical regime of burning off flammable ground cover in cooler months, in a controlled fashion, so it does not fuel the inevitable summer bushfires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As ever with climate change alarmists, they don\u2019t let the facts get in the way of a good power grab.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/qpSQuc69R9c\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/01\/03\/australian-police-say-arsonists-lightning-to-blame-for-bushfires-not-climate-change\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/01\/03\/australian-police-say-arsonists-lightning-to-blame-for-bushfires-not-climate-change\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Police Say Arsonists &amp; Lightning to Blame For Bushfires, Not Climate Change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}