The Bible promises beauty for ashes and that God will make all things new.

That takes on new meaning for some today.

The diversion of water.

California has been in a battle with the Democrat Party for water.

Our California growers want water.

Our farmers, our dairymen want water.

We have been absolutely, and I think, by the way, President Trump put an accurate comment out recently,

that the Democrat Party in California has starved the citizenry of the water that's provided in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Welcome to Understanding the Times Radio with Jan Markell, Radio for the

Remnant, brought to you by Olive Tree Ministries. In part one of our program, our guest host is Mark

Henry, who talks to Mondo Gonzalez. In part two, Ken Michael and Josh Schwartz talk to Seth Gruber to round out the hour.

Here is today's programming. How did this fire start? They never tell us just a few weeks ago

there was a fire nearby in Malibu. Solidata Osuah, who's on the board of Golden Together,

she's very convinced that it was a homeless encampment that started that fire.

Hundreds of fires a year started because of homeless encampments that are not cleared away by the authorities right across California.

Look at the leadership, if you can call it that, in Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass, cutting the five department's budget,

just arriving back from Africa where she was on a trip for some pointless ceremony that

she's going to the inauguration of the president of Ghana, but she's not going to the inauguration

of our president here. And she's stopped at the airport and she literally freezes in silence when a reporter

asks her for some kind of comment. I've never seen anything like it. It's a total catastrophic

failure of competent leadership here in California. Additionally, the ideology, the far left

ideology that prioritizes all this other nonsense instead of practical steps to keep us safe and make our lives better.

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