This is the first rational take I've seen about why cryptocurrency can't or shouldn't be treated that way. And it's getting put on blast by a self proclaimed cryptocurrency guru.
I think you said the quiet part out loud and he did not like that.
Scraping by on donations sounds like a horrible way to live, and that's if this isn't just snake oil.
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Burglary suspects dressed as firefighters arrested in LA fire zone, officials say

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Santa Monica police release mugshots of suspects accused of trying to loot during California wildfires

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DEI, DEI, DEI !
Newsom Slashed $100M in Fire Prevention Funds Ahead of Deadly Wildfires
Superman Predicts Wildfire Mismanagement Could Be Dems' Kryptonite In California
apokálypsis of the ancient regime’s secrets
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
The United States is Idiocracy
We do this all the time, just with fighter aircraft alone.
The Swedish ship Vasa.
The Vasa was built in the 1620s to take advantage of the very newest in warship technology, a second row of guns. It was to be a symbol of Sweden's might, and thus was decorated with beautiful statues and carvings. This ship took three years to build and cost roughly 5% of Sweden's GDP.
Unfortunately, the effect of a second row of cannons on seaworthiness was poorly understood. With great fanfare, the ship set off, experienced its first breeze, and still within full view of the city of Stockholm, capsized and sank.
Obi Wan Nairobi Meets President Trump "All Hell Broke Loose"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qVWsXgiTHQ
Intel Update - Jan 11 - Battle Tracking Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrLiQULByrE
Alert Emergency Update: Major Attack On US Cities Imminent! 2025
“Anchor babies” are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens, Part 2
So called 'anchor babies' has been a tool of illegal alien females for decades to get their child U.S. citizenship when in fact, a child born of someone who smuggles themselves into OUR country, someone who was not invited into OUR country, has no right to U.S. citizenship.
By Devvy Kidd
https://newswithviews.com/anchor-babies-are-not-automatically-u-s-citizens-part-2/

D.E.I, Woke, Green New Deal: Like A Social Hydrogen Bomb Dropped on America
In a recent podcast, a man I highly respect, Victor Davis Hanson, said, “D.E.I., Woke, and the Green New Deal are like a social hydrogen bomb hitting America. These new terms being practiced are de-civilizing California into a third world country. If other states follow California, they will end up in the same boat.”
By Frosty Wooldridge
https://newswithviews.com/d-e-i-woke-green-new-deal-like-a-social-hydrogen-bomb-dropped-on-america/

Wanna bet side deal with insurance co?
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has tragically lost 2 of her 3 Los Angeles mansions bought with BLM donations in the current wildfires.
https://x.com/syncronus/status/1878576224378966078
This is why we have to ban NGO's and non profits.
Patient care declines after private equity buys hospitals, study finds
Transgender--a film
https://x.com/JohnStrandUSA/status/1858995539544871415
Unfortunate, and pitiful, but still funny?
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1876362530303680560
Guatemala, Biden and the pedo coverup
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1876468259613999572
2 min climate hoax explained
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1876568328719753293
J6 stuff
https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/1876267981078233193
Joe Biden's pardons? Why?
https://x.com/Fedsurrection20/status/1876686656830603345
Jeffrey Sachs Reports Obama malfeasance
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1876747093202608327
Harvard Med School: ‘Don’t Buy Into Brain Supplements’
Stunner: Why Was Pacific Palisades Reservoir EMPTY? It Gets Worse.
Fed Scientist Rejects ‘Climate Change’ as Fueling L.A. Fires, as Arson Reports Surface
FEMA Chief Criswell: Climate Change to Blame For California Wildfires
https://www.infowars.com/posts/fema-chief-criswell-climate-change-to-blame-for-california-wildfires
Dem polotika slush fund
It Looks Like Democrats and Left-Wing Groups Are Profiting From Wildfire Donations via ActBlue
The Insane Story of Luigi Mangione's Alleged Gun, 3D Printer Files, and the Lawsuit Entangling Them
Illegal Alien volunteer fire brigade rushes in to save homes of strangers.
These people deserve green cards more than H1Bs.
Looters/thieves detained at Kamala’s house in Brentwood at 5 AM this morning.
The EU’s Coup Against Democracy: Thierry Breton Threatens to Invalidate German Elections (Video)
David vs Goliath: Amish Farmer Prevails Over Feds in Court
Did Black Ops Military Team Capture Crashed UFO?
TRUMP AND OBAMA AT JIMMY CARTER’S FUNERAL: The Ultra-Secret Back Story
I wondered why a secret service agent missed the perp 6 times at only 5 feet ( a blind man spraying rounds would have hit at least once) ..... was it message #2 ?
President Trump reposted it
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1878460601090875798
White South African Dude Knows How To Protect Himself
Elon Musk: Slavery is still practiced in some parts of the world
Unbelievable scenes in Romania right now as over 100,000 angry Romanians take to the streets after the EU cancel democratic result of ultra-nationalist Călin Georgescu
Ex-UK Defense Minister Arrested in Pedophile Sting
https://www.infowars.com/posts/ex-uk-defense-minister-arrested-in-pedophile-sting
Pacific Coast Highway aftermath looks like war zone.
Kohl's to close 27 stores by April as struggling department stores works to improve sales
Ok let's send this guy against a battalion of BLM
This is why we have to ban NGO's and non profits.
Black Lives Matter co-founder loses 2 of 3 mansions in wildfire
https://x.com/syncronus/status/1878576224378966078
Russia Forms Emergency Task Force as Kerch Strait Oil Spill Spreads
Rotherham Grooming Gang Victim Joins Farage to Demand Public Inquiry
Firefighter Blasts Lack of Resources:
'We Could Have Saved Buildings Like Caruso Did'
Greg Gutfeld Slams Media and Comedians for Covering for Biden: 'They Can't Make Us Forget How Many Times They Lied' (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/greg-gutfeld-slams-media-comedians-covering-biden-they/
Trump Influence Hits State Agenda Even Before Inauguration
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/trump-influence-hits-state-agenda-even-before-inauguration/
President Trump Delivers a Savage Response to Jack Smith's Resignation from the Department of Justice
12,000 Masked and Armed "Anti" Fascists Attack AfD Convention in Germany, Assault Candidate Alice Weidel's Limousine As She Rode to Convention Days After Elon Musk Interview
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/12-000-masked-armed-anti-fascists-attack-afd/
Joe Rogan Demolishes Mark Zuckerberg When the Facebook CEO Makes an Outrageous COVID-19 Censorship Claim and Shows His Democrat Colors
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/tomorrow-watch-joe-rogan-demolishes-mark-zuckerberg-when/
Democrats Including Elizabeth Warren Allegedly Caught Raising Money to Boost Scandal-Plagued Dem Fundraising Platform Under Guise of Helping California Fire Victims
29 looters arrested, including firefighter impersonator.
Wealthy residents hire $2,000/hour private firemen.
I am sure it was a snipe ?
The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not Been Seen in Nearly a Decade - California Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground Over a Fish That They Can't Even Find Anymore
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/infamous-delta-smelt-has-not-been-seen-nearly/
Prepping | How To Start Prepping for Beginners Checklist - Valley Food Storage
https://valleyfoodstorage.com/blogs/inside-vfs/prepping-for-beginners-how-to-start-prepping?_kx=-2xFO9IHF9pMPZy5cNz0usuAmsc_pAW6y1HaJrJppD8.QaHb8U <https://valleyfoodstorage.com/blogs/inside-vfs/prepping-for-beginners-how-to-start-prepping?_kx=-2xFO9IHF9pMPZy5cNz0usuAmsc_pAW6y1HaJrJppD8.QaHb8U>
Elephant goes on rampage during Muslim festival (video).
A student bet a guy that bears would eat dog shit, he put fresh pooch poop on a stump, poured maple flavored syrup all over it and aimed a game camera at it. A bear came and slurped it all up, cleaning the stump.
No I am not interested in eating any bear be it Panda, Polar, or any, nope. ( well in a survival situation maybe )
Would you eat medium-rare Grizzly steak.
Testing all 4 covid vaccines, then looking at blood under microscope.
Genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Australia.
Scott Adams brings up 6 great points.
A super majority democratic control means 100% of the blame falls of them in Cali
FEMA extends housing aid for Helene survivors after backlash

Socialist Ideology Of Current UK leadership Destroying Free Speech
Gunther Eagleman: A former Labour Minister did this interview last week slamming Elon for mean posts. He was just arrested after trying to meet up a 15 year old. You can’t make this up
Havana Syndrome bombshell as US intelligence report hints at culprit after ‘intercepted communications’
Revolutionary new drug could extend human life span by 30%
Community: Lesbian and Horse Sex
The CDC Made Plans to Put Americans in ‘Quarantine’ Camps During COVID Pandemic
“8 billion people are being controlled by 100 families”
Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass's Admin Scrubbed the Memo

Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass's administration pulled Crowley's memo from its website.

Trans-Identified Male Convicted of Killing Two Men, Feeding Bodies to Pigs, Files Complaint Seeking Retrial
How did 750,000 so-called “Palestinian” refugees in 1949 balloon into 6 million today?
Sudden Concern About Overregulation

Shock Video: Newsom's 'Answer' to Hard L.A. Fire Questions Is to Censor People Asking Them
Coast Guard Opens Fire After ‘Migrant’ Smugglers Ram Vessel in California Waters
Displays a defective thought-process
LAFD Deputy Chief Slammed After Blaming Fire Victims for Being in ‘Wrong Place’

Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Deputy Chief Kristine Larson was criticized over remarks made in a video, blaming victims for being in the “wrong place” during a fire.
Trump did it, Trump did it....its Trumps fault.......not mine, no way.....
Newsom: Trump’s Politicizing Wildfires ‘Incomprehensible,’ ‘Threatening Our First Responders’

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President-elect Donald Trump was politicizing wildfires in Southern California.
Everytown Still Counting Non-School Shootings as School Shootings

In a column focused on school shootings, the Hill pointed out that Everytown for Gun Safety counts any shooting on school grounds, even a bullet hitting a building on school grounds, as a school shooting.
New American mother just got her NICU hospital bill for her daughter “$738,360 freaking dollars. Almost a million dollars”

An Affirmation to bear arms.pdf
US Lawmakers Call For Curbs On Clinical Trial Collaborations Linked To Chinese Military
Supreme Court Rules 200 Patent Judges' Appointment Unconstitutional
Suspect in ex-lawmaker's assassination says he acted out of 'gratitude'

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Weasel begs
Michael Cohen pleas for pardon from Biden

'I'm somebody's son also'
Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty

Inside the changeover process
Newscum lies
Gov. Gavin Newsom slams Trump's disinformation about California wildfires

Trump comments are 'inaccurate'
Gavin Newsom cries about disinformation on Meet the Press.
Prepare to fight, or prepare to eat rice....forever
China: War in Two Years or Less
Pelosi's nephew will rule sayeth the left
L.A. Fires Be Damned — Gavin Newsom Will Still Be the Dems' Frontrunner in 2028
Accused Subway Stabber Claims That Satan Told Him to Kill an Innocent Teen
Looters will be shot on sight, live updates.
collapse begins?
Bond market selloff is scaring financial markets.
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow?
What caused the Palisades wildfire to ignite — Investigators find the answer.
Embers from 6 day old fire, caused by NYE fireworks.
Chuck Todd is quitting nbc news.
JD Vance — ‘There’s a deal to be made. We need to own Greenland.’
Will the Japanese Tsunami put out L.A. fires?
6.9 MAG earthquake shakes Japan, tsunami warning.
Map shows every home destroyed by fire.
Did Socal Edison electrical equipment ignite the Hurst fire.
Zuckerberg knifed in back by Facebook chairman.
Map of U.S. Gun Ownership Rates. (This map is courtesy of Visual Capitalist.)
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The New SurvivalBlog 2005-2024 Archive USB Sticks

I have some great news: The new batch of 32-gigabyte waterproof SurvivalBlog archive USB sticks is now available for pre-sale.
I’ve had some folks write to ask about what is included in the new 2005-2024 SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick. There certainly is a lot!
These sticks of course have everything that has ever been posted in SurvivalBlog, dating back to its launch in August, 2005, and up to December 31, 2024. In my humble opinion, these feature articles, product reviews, columns, and quotations just by themselves are worth the price of the archive stick.
But then there is also a veritable mountain of carefully curated bonus material from the public domain. Many of these are rare pre-1929 books from my personal library that I had professionally scanned, at considerable expense. Most of those books are not available online. Here is a partial list of what is included:
The pre-1929 bonus books that were recently scanned to include with the new 2005-2024 edition sticks are:
Fishing For Salmon, by Cyril Darby Marson
Fix It Yourself, Edited by Arthur Wakeling
Good Manners, Reliable Advice on Etiquette
Orchard and Small Fruit Culture, by E.C. Auchter and H.B. Knapp
Practical Local Anesthesia and its Surgical Technic by Robert Emmett Farr, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Principles and Practice of Minor Surgery, by Edward Milton Foote, A.M., M.D.
Raiders of the Deep, by Lowell Thomas
Sporting Firearms, by Horace Kephart
Tamerlane The Earth Shaker, by Harold Lamb
The Glorious Adventure, by Richard Halliburton
Trader Horm, by Alfred Aloysius Horn
Also included are all of the great bonus content from the previous years’ editions, including:
King James Bible
English World Messianic Bible
Food Books, including:
Good HouseKeeping’s Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries
Preserving Game Meats
Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Vegetables
Food Storage: Use It or Lose It
Canning Principles
Culinary Herbs – Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses
The New Butterick Cook Book
Uncooked Foods and How to Use Them, by Eugene Christian
Anyone Can Bake, published by The Royal Baking Powder Company
Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer
Milk and Its Place in Good Cookery by Mildred Maddock Bentley
Nine Hundred Successful Recipes, by Lulu Thompson Silvernail
Information on Homesteading, including:
Dr. David Roberts’ Practical Home Veterinarian
Backyard Composting
Basic Knots
Concrete and Masonry
Carpentry
The Practical Poultry Keeper
Farm Knowledge – Volume 1 (Farm Animals)
Farm Knowledge – Volume 2 (Soils)
Farm Knowledge – Volume 3 (Implements)
Nut Growing, by Robert T Morris
Pioneering Knots & Lashings
How to Feed the Dairy Cow
Orcharding, by Victor Ray Gardner
Practical Plant Propagation, by Alfred Hottes
How to Make Baskets, by Mary White
Practical Muskrat Raising, by E.J. Dailey
Construction and Repair Work for the Farm, by F. Theodore Struck
The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Volume 1
Several Medical and First Aid books and military manuals.
A wide range of U.S. and Allied military manuals, including:
Basic Visual Tracking Australian Air Training Corps
Incendiaries FM31-201-1-20
Infantry Patrolling (Canadian Army)
Map Reading & Land Navigation FM21-26
OSS Simple Sabotage Manual
USMC Martial Arts
USMC Winter Survival MWTC
Survivability FM 5-103
Combatives FM 3-25.150
FM 3-22.68 Machine Guns
Grenades and Pyrotechnic Signals (2009 edition) FM 3-23.30
Navy SEAL Sniper Training
Nuclear War Survival Skills 1987
Ranger Unit Operations FM 7-85
Telephone Set TM 11-5805-243-13 (TA-1).pdf
US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
USMC Survival FNM21-76_MCRP 3-02F
Camouflage FM 5-20
Camouflage of Vehicles FM 5-20B
Explosives and Demolitions FM 5-250
Field Hygiene and Sanitation FM 21-10
Fire-Fighting Operations FM 5-415
First Aid FM 21-11
Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs TM 31-210
Infantry Rifle Platoon-Squad FM 7-8
NBC Decon FM 3-5
NBC Protection FM 3-4
Ranger Handbook SH 21-76
Special Forces Unconventional Warfare TC 18-01
U.S. Marines Close-Quarters Combat Manual
Soldier’s Handbook for Individual Operations and Survival in Cold-Weather Areas (1986)
Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) Operations
Military Mountaineering
Arctic And Sub-arctic Operations
Arctic Tent, 10-Man Manual TM 10-8340-222-10
Physical Security FM 3-19.30
Basic Communications Rules
Canadian Military Fieldcraft B-GL-392-009/FP-100
Civil Disturbance Operations FM 3-19.15
First Aid FM 4-25.11
Mufti-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Kill Box Employment
Visual Aircraft Recognition FM 44-80
Special Forces Use of Pack Animals FM 31-27
Scouting, Patrolling, and Sniping FM 21-75
NBC Protection FM 11-9
Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare FMFRP 12-18
Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters
Internment and Resettlement Operations FM 3-39.40
Special Forces Communications STP 31-18E34-SM-TG
Special Forces Tracking TC 31-34-4
Engineer Field Manual FM 5-34
Mountain Operations FM 3-97.6
Engineer Field Manual FM 5-34
Mountain Operations FM 3-97.6
Various Firearms Books and Manuals, including:
Amateur Gunsmithing, by Townsend Whelen
M16 and M4 Marksmanship
AK-47
FN-FAL 7.62mm
Mossberg 500
M24SWS (M700 Remington)
Beretta 92FS
Glock Pistols
Remington 870
M1/M2 Carbine
Colt 1911 Series 90
HK 91
Ruger 10/22
M1 Garand
Colt AR-15
M1A
Ruger Mark II
Anti-Intrusion Devices (Multiple manuals)
Meteorological Equipment (Multiple manuals)
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (Multiple manuals)
Radio and Communications (Multiple manuals)
And a panoply of other useful books and manuals, including:
Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)
Winter Survival Course Handbook
Wilderness Survival Guide – Military. Abridged EditionTerrain Analysis
Soldier’s Handbook for Individual Operations and Survival in Cold-Weather Areas (1986)
The Lincoln Library of Essential Information — Parts 1 & 2 (a compact encyclopedia: 2,174 pages!)
John Brown’s Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet
Stories of Classical Fables — A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Junior Game Book, by T.S. Denison & Company Publishers
The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman
With Lawrence in Arabia, by Lowell Thomas
The Individual’s Guide for Understanding and Surviving Terrorism
How to Start and Train a Militia Unit
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (1957)
Sun Tzu on The Art of War
CIA Lock Picking Field Manual
Basement Fallout Shelter
The Nameless Island – A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Western Europe in the Eighth Century and Onward
History of the Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1
History of the Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2
Forensic Spoorology
Counter Insurgency Lessons
Civilization During the Middle Ages, by George Burton Adams
Games, Contests, and Relays, by Seward Charle Staley
Sports and Pastimes, Young and Old, by Mrs. Grace Townsend
The Guardians of the Columbia, by John H. Williams
The Science of Everyday Life, by Edgar F Van Buskirk
Hoyle’s Games
The Book of the Sailboat – How to Rig Sail and Handle Small Boats
18,000 words often mispronounced; William Henry Pinkney Phyfe
Famous paintings of the American Revolution
Beyond Khyber Pass, by Lowell Thomas
Great Poems of the English Language (1,502 pages!)
The Practical Book of American Antiques
The Royal Road to Romance, by Richard Halliburton
And even more books that are not listed individually, here, for the sake of brevity…
USB STICK SPECIFICATIONS

The 2005-2024 sticks are now available for pre-ordering. It is loaded on a 32 GB stick, which also allows some extra room for you to load scans of all of your important documents, and your treasured photos on this waterproof, vibration/shock-resistant, and highly EMP-resistant stick. Just as with previous editions, it is mounted in a threaded alloy case with an o-ring seal. So it is great for your bugout bag, or for caching at a secure site. We recommend passing along your older-edition sticks to family members. This new edition is engraved “SurvivalBlog.com 2005-2024.”
Note: We again opted for more expensive USB 3.0 sticks so they will be faster to load, if your laptop, desktop, or smartphone is USB 3.0-compatible. But these sticks are of course also backward-compatible with USB 2.0. Note that with some operating systems, it may take up to one minute for the stick to initially load.
THEY WILL SELL OUT QUICKLY!

Many readers order 2, 3, or 4 sticks, so I expect them to sell out rapidly. Last year’s edition of the archive stick sold out within five weeks, so be sure to order yours, soon!
USB stick mailings should begin by around February 5th, but with the expected rush of orders, please allow up to four weeks for delivery.
As usual, all U.S. orders are shipped in the sequence of their order numbers. So the sooner that you order, the sooner that yours will arrive. This is truly a “First come, first served” situation.
To order, see the 2005-2024 SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick ordering page.
Again: This year the stick capacity is 32 gigabytes and it uses the faster USB 3.0. We had to raise the price from $30.95 to 32.95 due to increased product and postage costs. The postage fee is flat rate, so you’ll pay just $7 postage for your order whether you buy 1 stick or a dozen of them. Deliveries should begin in the first week of February.
Note: Orders must be made through our automated ordering system.
Stick mailings to customers should begin on or before February 5th. Allow up to four weeks for delivery. Thanks for your patience.
These sticks sell out quickly each year, so order your sticks soon! – JWR
“…what I can say is that there is an alignment with all those who are willing to fight against socialism at the international level.
All those who want to fight against socialism at the international level are my allies. Because the enemy is socialism, the enemy is statism, the enemy is collectivism. And all those who are willing to fight that fight, we are all together.
Later we will discuss the emerging order, whether it will be more or less liberal, whether it will resemble classical liberalism or minarchism or anarcho-capitalism, but that is a second order discussion.” – Javier Milei


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Monday, January 13

When the Great Chicago Fire burned some 2,100 acres in 1871, residents famously pointed the finger at Mrs. O'Leary's cow for kicking over a lantern. The L.A. wildfires are unlikely to produce a four-legged culprit, writes the Hoover Institution's Bill Whalen. But there's plenty of blame to go around, and Whalen, a Golden State resident and former speechwriter for California governor Pete Wilson, has a breakdown:
The Golden State itself: California is home to 38 million people. It's also prone to fires, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and infestation, and no part is safe.
Mayor Karen Bass: L.A.'s modernistic metropolis boasts an outdated water system and an underfunded fire department, and Bass, whether she's in Ghana or SoCal, can't explain why.
Gov. Gavin Newsom: His administration failed to remove the brush and deadwood that's literally fuel to the fire. He spent his first term promising to "fundamentally" change fire prevention in the Golden State.
Californians: They declined to recall Newsom, then put him back in office, then elected Bass over developer Rick Caruso (whose Palisades Village mall is still standing).
Newsom has already called for an independent investigation into why fire hydrants ran dry. Whalen says not to expect much in terms of results. "In Gavin Newsom's California, process typically supplants progress," he writes.
Tasked with figuring a way to rejuvenate California’s COVID-stricken economy, Newsom didn’t strong-arm his way to a legislative stimulus package. Instead, he created a 98-member Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery that was long on recognizable California names but short on innovation—so underwhelming of an endeavor that Newsom eventually euthanized it, but only after Disney CEO Bob Iger resigned in disgust over the state’s draconian COVID policies that had kept California theme parks closed.
Sadly, that’s not an isolated case of Newsom-style paralysis by analysis. For years, Californians have waited breathlessly for the end product of the governor’s task force on oxygen, part of a statewide "Oxygen Strategy" to address the shortage of the gas amidst the pandemic.
An investigation tasked with getting to the root causes of a disaster shouldn’t be confused with an actual action plan for how to make the Golden State more fire-resistant. As such, whatever form the "independent" examination takes shape, prepare to be underwhelmed.
Read the full piece here.
Down the totem pole from Bass is Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley. In the months before the blazes broke out, she warned Bass and the city council that the department needed more firefighters and civilian operators, writing in a Nov. 18 memo that Los Angeles employed roughly half as many firefighters as the National Fire Protection Association recommends and was experiencing slow response times as a result.
Two months later, as historic wildfires erupted, Bass's administration pulled that memo from its website, the Free Beacon's Susannah Luthi reports.
"The New York Times referenced the memo in a Thursday piece, and it was available online at this link as recently as Friday," writes Luthi. "By Saturday night, however, the memo was replaced with a message stating, '404! We are sorry, but the page you requested was not found.'"
"The newfound error message comes as Bass faces criticism for her fire department budget and her decision to travel to Ghana after meteorologists warned of 'critical' fire conditions in the days leading up to the blazes. Still, other memos Crowley wrote criticizing the city remain available online, including a Dec. 4 missive in which Crowley says her department 'is facing unprecedented operational challenges due to the elimination of critical civilian positions and a $7 million reduction in Overtime Variable Staffing House (V-Hours).' That memo went viral as the fires broke out; Crowley's Nov. 18 memo did not."
We asked Bass's office about the disappearing memo. Instead of addressing it, a representative referred us to a Los Angeles Times article that defends Bass's fire department budget.
Back in the Beltway, the lame duck Biden administration is spending its final days in office shoring up its DEI spending—including abroad. That's according to non-public funding documents reviewed by our Adam Kredo, which show that Biden's State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development "quietly pushed out $1 million in taxpayer funding late last year for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs" in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya.
In Indonesia, the money will help "underrepresented" students "gain access to higher education opportunities in the United States." In Guatemala, the United States will support an "Indigenous language technology program" meant to "ensure services are provided using local Indigenous language" (nearly 95 percent of Guatemalans speak Spanish). And in Kenya, our fearless leaders are spending to "build a collaborative bridge between U.S. higher education institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities; select Kenyan universities; and the private sector." Have you heard that L.A. is burning?
"The funding initiatives reflect a broader effort from outgoing secretary of state Antony Blinken to embed a host of DEI initiatives at home and abroad ahead of Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration," writes Kredo.
"Just before the State Department finalized the $1 million funding package, for example, Blinken issued an internal diplomatic cable touting sweeping DEI initiatives across the agency, including dedicated 'reflection rooms' and 'all-gender restrooms' at American embassies abroad, the Free Beacon reported in December. The incoming GOP administration has already pledged to eradicate DEI programming across the federal government."
Away from the Beacon:
Before becoming mayor of L.A., Karen Bass said she was hesitant to ditch the international travel that comes with being a member of Congress but ultimately pledged not to "travel internationally—the only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York, in relation to L.A." We know what happened next.
Jake Sullivan stared into a camera and said, with a straight face, that the "American people are safer and the country is better off than we were four years ago."
Students for Justice in Palestine has a way to fix the "manufactured catastrophe" that is the L.A. wildfires: "LAND BACK. REPARATIONS. DEATH TO IMPERIALISM." That’ll do it!
Our full Monday lineup is below.


Newsom, Bass, and Sacramento: How the LA Fires Became a Conflagration

[Newsom, Bass, and Sacramento: How the LA Fires Became a Conflagration]

by Bill Whalen

When tragedy strikes, human nature demands both answers and scapegoats—not that Los Angeles’s devastating wildfires are likely to produce a four-legged culprit à la Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. So, where to point the finger now that some of the wealthier pockets of California lie in ...

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Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass's Admin Scrubbed the Memo

by Susannah Luthi

Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass's administration pulled Crowley's memo from its website.

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Lame Duck Biden Admin Spends $1 Mil in Taxpayer Funds on Foreign DEI Programs

by Adam Kredo

The Biden-Harris administration quietly pushed out $1 million in taxpayer funding late last year for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs abroad, marking a last-ditch effort to cement its left-wing agenda before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, non-public funding ...

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CNN Editor Blames Jake Tapper For Network's $1 Billion Defamation Suit

by Jessica Costescu

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—A senior CNN journalist blamed Jake Tapper for accusing a Navy veteran of operating in an illegal "black market"—phrasing that led to the $1 billion defamation suit the left-wing network now faces. The veteran, Zachary Young, is suing CNN, alleging that a ...

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Biden Admin ‘Recklessly’ Sanctioned American Jews in Campaign Against Israelis, Lawsuit Reveals

by Andrew Tobin

JERUSALEM—The Biden administration sanctioned two Israeli-Americans as part of a regime targeting settlers in the West Bank, a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday revealed. The Americans, who are also Israeli citizens, sued the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court ...

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Bureaucracy, Red Tape, and a Failed Gavin Newsom Project: Why California Moved Slowly in Wildfire Prevention

by Thomas Catenacci

The devastating wildfires in California followed decades of slow-moving fire prevention efforts delayed by bureaucracy and red tape. Those delays were magnified by a fire prevention initiative from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) that went years without completing a single project. The ...

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‘Disgraceful’: House Ed Chair Slams Biden’s Lame Duck Anti-Semitism Settlements With Rutgers, California, Hopkins

by Lexi Boccuzzi

The Biden administration is under fire for reaching last-minute anti-Semitism settlements with the University of California, Rutgers University, and Johns Hopkins University, with Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) saying the "toothless" agreements "shield schools from real ...

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Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns

by Thomas Catenacci

Hawaii Democrats have for years been at the forefront of the climate change movement, pushing policies designed to slash carbon emissions and stave off cataclysmic global warming. Those same officials, however, are protecting a giant oil and gas company that is likely responsible ...

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There's some good comics out there featuring shortstacks, including especially Alfie. If you already knew about Alfie, based.
Nostr would probably be adopted more if it wasn't full of people obsessed with cryptocurrency and using the cancerous lingo crypto bros love
I signed up for #Nostr using #Snort and told it to block crypto bros by default. I followed every default account. It's all crypto bros still. I've been systematically purging the trash from my follows ever since then.
This place feels like a toxic wasteland
Fight the Republicans censoring social media regardless. Trump is your enemy. Project 2025 is your enemy.
#Project2025 #Trump #MAGA
Fight the Republicans censoring social media regardless. Trump is your enemy. Project 2025 is your enemy.
Elon Musk is already Prince of the Air, don't you want to accept his brain implants?
Cryptocurrency mining is a cancer on the planet
When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin
But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now. https://video.nostr.build/c1ff161c3ec87d783c26539a2b07f023b97b514dde1eb13c0e635da6ee9060b0.mp4
Cryptocurrency is a scam
Project 2025 is the conservative reality of censorship in America.
2024 was a real breakthrough of Nostr Wallet Connect ecosystem—new wallets, apps, websites, dev tools embraced interoperability & programmability that #NWC brings to Bitcoin. 2025 is going to be even more exciting. Let's celebrate that with fresh updates to NWC ecosystem map 🧵👇
There's another NWC wallet in the block? Created by nostr:nprofile1qqsyvxan6zmxgf3efhqjgrztpczn94uhegu95vht6ec3ytdhexd0zxgmtmknf , Rizful is a service providing instant, disposable lightning nodes, optimized for education. Easily spin up a node with NWC functionalities for testing.
nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qydhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytf39ehxymewv9hxwctwdyhxxmcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszynhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4esz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsqgzx2l0739jmazvq4yc8908mtev6v5fygpkmp7qey90w0zay0y6t8ccesg0j Hub is getting easier to deploy on more and more platforms and operating systems. Already in 2025, both RaspiBlitz and Unraid let you install Alby Hub from their app stores.
Olas - new, Instagram-like Nostr client created by nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7e3h0ghxjme0qyd8wumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqzp75cf0tahv5z7plpdeaws7ex52nmnwgtwfr2g3m37r844evqrr6jh8rnkd that gains lots of traction now, allows you to zap photos of your friends with sats
https://github.com/pablof7z/olas
We now have two NWC Telegram bots: ZapGram allows you to tip users on Telegram directly from your wallet.
nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzxmhwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwdjk66tndakzuer9wcq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj94ex2mrp0yh8wmrkwvh8xurpvdjsz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kqz9nhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehkuumpw3ejummjvuq35amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2aspramhxue69uhkummnw3ezuampd3kx2ar0veekzar0wd5xjtnrdakszxthwden5te0dehhxarj9eax2cn9v3jk2tnrd3hh2eqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e5kuen0qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgunrdpjkx6ewd4jj7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqqyqf5ws723tgzqwek2lpq56rfue83vr8y3tnr3rwp7h9x0u6xqx0wwevxxst — a comprehensive Nostr account management service & private relay integrated Nostr Wallet Connect as well.
nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgerztnrdakszythwden5te0dehhxarjw4jjucm0d5q3yamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vgq32amnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wfjkccte9e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3jhvueww3hk7mrnqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqqyrenez5kzl93tac9l3cv63sul4h27gheufxr8646mxqkfrj7cmm5zkqhf0m , bitcoin developer education community, awhile ago integrated NWC bot on their Discord. Now you can also connect your wallet to their website to pay for content, 1:1 sessions, plebdevs.com lightning address & NIP-05
Pull That Up Jamie! is a private AI web search that integrated Bitcoin Connect for NWC payments per prompt.
We added experimental NWC integration with nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqzpjdak6fvau05qvekhelq570cgdhxl0pjtgxjap6xcjmngg35ufaynl4wv2 API created by nostr:nprofile1qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qzxthwden5te0wfjkcctev4ezuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9uk2u3wve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5qzp047qm839zlfkgr74eyfxjrfxa6jn8zsxtamzl839ka0lzx9r8yz8q2n0z
https://github.com/SamSamskies/strike-nwc-service
Polish bitcoiners community nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7cm0w4h8gunfv4ejuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvajhjum9wghxvatwvsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdsqzpsrkcrqqkydl2zdt26rtft2vu3c7xgc4lp3lzpjvp256nmdc9674u2kwrr started using NWC bot ThunderTip on its Telegram.
Last but not least — small little fun app Bullish Bulletin is a web cork notice board. You pay with sats per each note you want to share
I blocked the word Bitcoin to avoid spam like this. Why am I getting it anyway
I can't believe I told Nostr to block cryptocurrency but all the people it suggested me are obsessed with it, WTF
