DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street top shareholders of company being sued for possible cause of Texas wildfire

I must talk about the Texas wildfires this week.

A fire currently still raging in the Texas Panhandle. The Smokehouse Creek Fire has now exceeded over one million acres. It is being called the “largest and most destructive” fire in the history of the state of Texas. 

And it is the second largest wildfire in United States history, according to the West Odessa Volunteer Fire Department.

As of last week, the fire had merged with another wildfire and as of this writing according to the Texas A&M Forest Service it is only 15% contained. Homes devastated, wildlife and cattle lost, crops lost and reportedly, power line posts split in half.

Let’s talk about those power line posts, because ultimately that is where this story is leading.

It turns out there have already been lawsuits filed in the case of this devastating fire. And these lawsuits take us back to the power lines.

By the way, this is the fourth devastating fire as of late for those who are counting; Canada, Maui, Chile and now Texas. 

Maui and Chile had a wealth of lithium by all reports.

WHAT DOES TEXAS HAVE?

In the case of the Texas Panhandle fire, well there is a nuclear power plant – Pantex – that had to temporarily be shut down, a plethora of livestock (remember the globalists want to get to get rid of livestock so we can all eat bugs) and crops (wasn’t it Bill Gates who has been buying up the farmland to the tune of 248,000 acres according to the Land Report in March 2023).

Regarding the livestock damage, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture over 85% of the state’s cattle population was located on ranches in the Texas Panhandle. 

Livestock is a state product adding billions of dollars to the state’s economy. 

While numbers are still being “mathed” as to how many cattle were lost in the fires, experts say ranchers will most certainly face significant economic pressure from the damage, and The Texas Tribune (www.texastribune.org/2024/03/04/texas-panhandle-wildfires-updates-damage-recovery/#00e0e0d3-a7dc-40e8-b50f-51281481b9f0) reported the fire killed thousands of livestock while destroying crops and burning down homes.

Where is PETA with all these animals being burned alive?

And I do not want to forget to mention two people died in the Smokehouse Creek fire. One was an 83-year-old woman and another a female driver who got out of her truck suffering burns and discovered by a passing motorist.

So how much Kool-Aid does a person have to drink to believe in coincidences continuing day after day after day ad nauseum such as this latest fire event. 

Overall disaster declarations have been declared for 60 counties in Texas. 

And, I could not help but notice while reading the mainstream media reporting, the reporter kept throwing in the climate change narrative instead sticking to the facts – lives, livelihoods and futures were burned to the ground.

In this case, keep your climate change band wagon in your own lane because unless you are still drinking the dangerous drug of mainstream media you have hopefully taken off at least one side of the blinders and see the truth. 

I just keep thinking of those climate control junkies flying around on the big jets to lectures where they talk to the lowly humans about climate perils. 

Eat bugs, live in your 15-minute city and like it.

As officials investigating the fires are just now diving into the intricacy of what they might find, lawyers representing landowners are already filing lawsuits. 

The main lawsuit seems to be falling on the desk of someone at the offices of Xcel Energy regarding its power lines. 

Last week a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission resulted in the Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy revealing it had been asked by attorneys to preserve a fallen utility pole near where the Smokehouse Creek Fire is said to possibly have started.

Reuters reported a homeowner, Melanie McQuiddy, has filed a lawsuit in Hemphill County against Xcel Energy. In that lawsuit, it claims the company had splintered power poles that ignited the fire when it fell.

The Texas Tribune reported multimillionaire trader Salem Abraham told them he intends to file a lawsuit against Xcel Energy and Osmose Utility Services regarding the Xcel Energy power pole too. Abraham is said to have lost about 95% of the fences and pastures on his land along with wildlife and countless trees. 

In fact, this will be the fifth lawsuit related to wildfire damages he has filed over the years, and The Texas Tribune reported it is the third lawsuit involving electrical lines. 

Back in 1996, Abraham also sued Xcel after a wildfire destroyed his land.

So now, this is where the coincidences just cannot keep adding up to nothing.

Guess who are the top shareholders of Xcel Energy?

Trigger warning, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, as well as JP Morgan, a name that keeps coming up too.

Xcel Energy, I decided to look it up and find out who are the top shareholders there. 

My heart sank, but I knew the answer before I even looked.

Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street!

Most of us who are paying attention would have known that before even reading this column though: finance.yahoo.com/quote/XEL/holders.

It seems the Vanguard Group has 71,989,831 shares in Xcel Energy, followed by Blackrock Inc., State Street Corporation and JP Morgan Chase & Company. We know these first three companies are basically the same because the Vanguard Group holds the most Blackrock shares at about 12,868,201 as of January 2024. And, State Street is owned by Blackrock. 

And, BlackRock is either the largest or one of largest shareholders in the behemoths of American banking with the first name on the list JP Morgan Chase and Co.

As my being a mere historian for the 21st century there is a lot of history going on these days. 

In the world of cop and robbers, when a cop finds one- or two-people’s names keep popping up every time there is a crime, then these people at the very least become suspects.

Gee, I wonder why Joe Joe and the merry band of globalist (sounds like the name of a band) would be mad at Texas?

I will give you one big fat guess.

I could be wrong, I have been before, but if I were the leader of any state who might have the nerve to defy the people playing GOD – I would pay attention to this narrative just in case it becomes a pattern.

Let me quote Ian Fleming in “Goldfinger”: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

A US Congressional candidate for Texas District 19 named Ryan Zink from Lubbock (yes, he was one found guilty after a jury trial in U.S. District Court regarding Jan. 6), is putting together supplies such as hay, feed and items for the people in the panhandle who have been affected by the fire. 

For anyone wanting to help you can contact him at RyanZinkForCongress@proton.me. I also intend to be in touch with people in the Dallas and Ellis County area to help get supplies together, so stay tuned for more details.

In times like these we find out who the heroes are, and it is usually those people who never thought they would be stepping up to the call – but if we are divided, we will be conquered. 

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.