Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
January 15th, 2025Via: CBS:
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage release agreement to halt more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip, U.S. officials told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on Thursday. The deal comes after a week of intense negotiations mediated by Qatar, the U.S. and Egypt.
A draft of the deal had been agreed to in principle earlier in the week, Arab, U.S. and Israeli officials told CBS News.
A Retro Blue VW Bus Miraculously Survives Deadly Los Angeles Wildfires
January 14th, 2025AP: A retro blue VW bus miraculously survives deadly Los Angeles wildfires pic.twitter.com/JYtaoxrADB
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 15, 2025
Via: AP/ABC7:
Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen bus he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he parked it in a Malibu neighborhood just before the Palisades fire ripped through, reducing homes and cars to rubble and charred metal.
So the surfboard maker was stunned to find that the vehicle survived. Not only that, a photo of the vibrant bus taken by an Associated Press photographer was circulating widely on television and online, giving viewers a measure of joy.
“There is magic in that van,” Martin, 24, said Tuesday in an interview with AP. “It makes no sense why this happened. It should have been toasted, but here we are.”
Green Beret Randy Anderson Claims He Was Shown Alien Technology in Underground Facility at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
January 14th, 2025One more time with the, “Whistleblowers.”
Randy Anderson is still a U.S. Government contractor at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex (Area 51 is part of this massive facility). He cannot and will not say anything that he is not authorized to say.
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the weeks and months ahead with the limited hangout UFO disclosure (that started in 2017), but it is clearly ramping up.
Oh yeah, I couldn’t resist. X tattoos on the arms of both Anderson and Herrera. Probably nothing. *snort*:
X marks the spot. pic.twitter.com/IEMw3NQM7r
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 14, 2025
Dark Journalist, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.
Via: Jesse Michels:
Tucker Carlson and Michael Shellenberger Break Down the California Fires
January 14th, 2025If you happen to be trying to wake someone up in Los Angeles, the fires might represent a teachable moment. Shellenberger comes from the left, so that might make the medicine more palatable, in general, to people in that area.
On a much different topic, if you stick with this to the end, it appears as though some sort of UFO media push is coming in with the next Trump administration.
Via: Tucker Carlson:
U.S. Corporate Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since 2008 Financial Crisis
January 13th, 2025Via: DailyMail:
US corporate bankruptcies hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis – as Americans tighten their belts.
Companies have also incresingly been grappling with high rising debts – driven by high interest rates that caused borrowing costs to spike.
Bungling Fraudster Gavin Newsom Begs Joe Biden to Censor “Misinformation” About Los Angeles Fires
January 11th, 2025“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation. There were hurricane force winds of mis and disinformation, lies. People want to divide this country.”
Mmm hmm.
In other news, Gavin Newsom Cut Fire Budget by $100m Last Year While Giving More Water to Tiny Tribal Fish:
Gavin Newsom is coming under fire for slashing California’s funding for wildfire and forest resilience by $101 million less than a year before devastating fires tore through Los Angeles.
The Democrat California Governor signed the budget cuts into law in June 2024, severing funding from seven programs focused on preventing and battling potential wildfires in the state, reports Newsweek.
Cuts included a $5 million decrease to the CAL FIRE fuel reduction teams, which included funding to pay for vegetation management work by the California National Guard, an analysis by the outlet found.
The total for the program was stripped to $129 million, amid claims that the state failed to clear brush and forestry that may have accelerated the flames.
Newsom’s budget cuts also slashed $4 million from a forest legacy program intended to promote management practices for landowners, and $28 million from funding for state conservancies aimed at increasing wildfire resistance.
A further $8 million was cut from monitoring and research programs that reportedly largely went to CAL FIRE, and $3 million from an interagency forest data hub.
A pilot program intended to make homes more resilient to wildfires through a hardening scheme also had its funding cut by $12 million.
And…
Newsom Hires $200k/Year Celebrity Photographer For Glamor Shots
Via: Fox:
Zuckerberg Tells Rogan Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ and ‘Curse’, Demanding Vaccine Information Censorship
January 10th, 2025And he did it, like a good Kapo:
A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
How many are dead because of this censorship?
Never forget Zuckerberg’s participation in Covid atrocities.
Via: Fox:
Meta CEO founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that members of President Biden’s administration yelled at his employees, demanding they take down content on their behalf.
Meta announced Tuesday that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have “gone too far.” Zuckerberg spoke about the platform’s struggles to maintain freedom of expression while fending off pressure from the Biden administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program,” the social media CEO said, “while they were trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true. They basically pushed us and said, you know, that ‘anything saying that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.’ And I was just like ‘We’re not going to do that, we’re clearly not going to do that, I mean that is kind of inarguably true.”
Tethered Russian Attack Drone Can Unwind Six Miles of Fiber Optic Cable, Not Susceptible to Electronic Warfare Jamming
January 10th, 2025Via: Telegraph:
Justin Crump, the chief executive of the strategic intelligence company Sibylline, said: “Fibre optic drones were developed by Russia to counter the problems of effective EW.
“People think of a drone at the end of a tether pulling off a big spool of wire, but the cable is so lightweight that the drone carries it and lays it behind it, meaning it doesn’t get snagged or caught or provide resistance to travel.”
The presence of a physical cable between the drone and its pilot means that the EW jammers are unable to scramble the usual radio frequencies used to guide it.
Ihor Yu, a Ukrainian drone pilot, said: “Although the technology is not new, it is highly effective in modern warfare, particularly against active enemy electronic countermeasures.
“Despite some operational challenges, these drones are essential for accomplishing specialised tasks successfully.”
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While the cable unspools as the drone moves to avoid tension, the fibre optic wires can easily break if they are tangled around obstacles in between the pilot and his final target.
Mr Crump said: “This control system has been comparatively rare globally due to the inherent drawbacks, but will likely receive increased attention in terms of both exploitation and how to counter the enduring threat posed.”
Ukrainian soldiers defending against these fibre optic drones have said they are susceptible to small arms fire because they are not as manoeuvrable as wireless UAVs.
Los Angeles Fires: Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party
January 9th, 2025If you’re not from California, it’s a simple matter to write the place off as an open air nut house and move on.
I was born in Southern California and lived there for over thirty years before leaving for good. This appeal is going out to anyone reading in Southern California who is still capable of seeing the situation for what it actually is:
Don’t wait to try to escape with everyone else. There are too many people and too few exits.
This is a point I’ve made repeatedly on Cryptogon over the decades…
Watch and learn from this very small and localized example of what I mean:
California was an irredeemable loss by the early 1990s. Southern California, in particular, combines the physical reality of being a bone dry death trap with the added threats stemming from crackpot communists and near infinite levels of incompetence and corruption.
Take your family, your belongings and your money and go. Go now.
Someone emailed and asked if this inferno is the event I warned about multiple times before the last election. You have to understand, I have no magic crystal ball. Here’s the extent of what I know:
No, the situation is not ok now.
If Donald Trump does 5% of what he has said he is going to do, it would be the largest shakeup of the U.S. Government since JFK was assassinated. The secret team that took control in the wake of the JFK assassination, which sits atop a mountain of skulls and trillions of stolen dollars, is not going to willingly change course.
I have no idea what’s going to happen, but even if everything goes smoothly with the inauguration, watch out.
And, after it’s all over, if Americans wind up with a national ID card, perhaps provided by Vance’s friend and Palantir founder and chairman, Peter Thiel, well… Mission Accomplished.
Watch out.
Via: Michael Shellenberger:
It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.
But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.
It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.
Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.
And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.
Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.
Massive Los Angeles Wildfires Still Burning Out of Control
January 9th, 2025If Southern California gets unlucky with Santa Ana winds and fires, the vast urban sprawl from the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean could easily wind up looking like World War 2 Hiroshima.
I’m actually baffled as to how it hasn’t happened already.
What you’re seeing with the current situation is nothing compared to how bad it could get.
Welcome to Southern California.
Via: Reuters:
A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning unchecked early on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefighting crews made progress overnight in controlling a smaller blaze burning in the hills overlooking Hollywood Boulevard.
The Palisades fire between Santa Monica and Malibu on the city’s western flank and the Eaton fire in the east near Pasadena are already the most destructive in Los Angeles history, burning nearly 28,000 acres – an area exceeding the size of Disney World. At least five people have been killed and thousands of structures have been incinerated.
The twin blazes – part of a pincer around the city so expansive that it was visible from space – remained entirely uncontained as of 6:30 a.m. (1430 GMT), according to Cal Fire.
