[FoxNews] Three musicians from the iconic American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, plus three other people, were killed in a terrifying plane crash on the Louisiana-Mississippi border on this day in history, Oct. 20, 1977.
Lead singer and founder Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, were all killed on impact.
The crash of the small Convair CV-240 passenger plane also claimed the lives of assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray.
The plane ran out of fuel at about 10,000 feet and crashed violently into a wooded area.
Odom helped lead a vigil to Van Zant and the other victims last night near the town of Gillsburg, Mississippi. A memorial was erected near the site of the crash in 2019.
Odom was thrown from the plane and found by rescuers some time later under one of the wings, with terrible injuries.
He suffered a "massive hole in the head from flying through the fuselage, a broken neck, broken ribs and 45 years of pain," he said.
It was only after Odom got out of the hospital that he learned Van Zant and the others were dead.
"The only reason so many survived is that there was no fuel left on the plane. So there was no fire," said Odom.
Guitarist Gaines, he said, had just joined the band a year earlier, at the behest of his sister Cassie, the singer who was also killed in the crash.
"He was going to be a star, a rose that never got to bloom," said Odom.
Lynyrd Skynyrd remains one of the biggest acts in music history and is arguably the top American rock band of all time.
The band has toured for decades with Johnny Van Zant, the founder's younger brother, on lead vocals. They largely play songs written and first performed by Ronnie Van Zant a half-century ago — a testament to his enduring legacy in rock history.
[PJMedia] What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!
Via Washington Post: (emphasis added):
The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from X owner Elon Musk.
The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. X has hosted and helped amplify a flood of false information related to the Israel-Gaza war, some of which Musk has personally endorsed.
The badge was removed Tuesday without notice, a person familiar with the change said. The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, CNN, Bloomberg, Vox and other news organizations still had their gold badges as of Thursday afternoon. Times accounts related to coverage of world news, health and other subjects still show “verified” badges.
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The move comes amid criticism from the Newspaper of Record and other outlets leveled at Elon Musk for not censoring enough in the context of the brewing regional war in the Middle East.
“X has said it’s committed to policing its platform. Over the weekend, the company said that it was removing newly created Hamas-affiliated accounts, as well as monitoring for hateful or violent content. Still, it added that users also bore responsibility for avoiding disturbing material, including by tweaking their settings,” wrote The New York Times before threatening Twitter/X with the death penalty in Europe pursuant to the brutal new censorship regime created by the European Union.
The New York Times, along with the rest of the corporate state media, has long been among the worst purveyors of not just misinformation but also disinformation, the distinction being that the latter is intended to deceive. The outlet’s COVID-19 lies, just to name one topic, are legendary. The editors couldn’t have been more wrong if they had tried; they got it wrong on purpose in the service of the Public Health™ authorities and the pharmaceutical industry.
The same can be said of every war The Times has lied the public into and every Democrat scam it has papered over. No entity deserves to lose its Gold Badge or whatever stupid social media credential de jour more than the NYT.
Judging by Elon’s past behavior, though, The Times will unfortunately very probably have its Gold Badge back in a jiffy, following some threatening calls from various Deep State goons.
[FoxNews] Sabir Jones accused of shoving a commuter into a moving Manhattan train during her lunch break.
An "emotionally disturbed" New Jersey man with a lengthy rap sheet, including weapons offenses and throwing urine at a police officer, has been arrested in Newark after allegedly shoving a random commuter into a moving train in New York City.
Sabir Jones, 39, is accused of pushing a 30-year-old woman into the side of a departing train around noon Wednesday at the busy 53rd Street and 5th Avenue subway station, a neighborhood full of office buildings and busy storefronts, during lunch hour.
Her lunch break turned into a fight for her life, according to authorities. She suffered serious head trauma after colliding with the side of the train, according to police, then fell off the platform onto the tracks behind it. Bystanders pulled her to safety and called 911 as Jones allegedly fled on foot.
"When ambitious young people who are just trying to live their lives are subject to random attacks, we can't put up with it," Janno Lieber, the head of New York City's transportation authority, told reporters Thursday.
Moments before the shove, Jones allegedly punched another man in the face, breaking his jaw, according to the New York Times, which reportedly spoke with that victim, who asked not to be identified. A police spokesman declined to comment on that report.
The attack comes as the city is recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and a spike in violent crime – and as leaders hope commuters will return to the office, and the subway system, to bring things back to normal.
"I'm not a mental health professional, but I'm sure that the people who have to figure out how to get these people out of the public space and into treatment so that they get in better condition for themselves, and more importantly, for New Yorkers, who are just trying to live their lives," Lieber said.
Newark police arrested Jones Thursday, according to authorities there, and handed him over to the U.S. Marshals.
He had not yet been brought back to New York City as of Friday morning, police said, and timing for his return was not immediately clear. There were no updates on the condition of the victim, who was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after the incident.
Over the last two years, 37 people have been shoved onto the subway tracks, according to FOX 5 New York – including the fatal 2020 shove of 40-year-old Michelle Go at the Times Square subway station about a dozen blocks away.
The suspect in that case was later deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
Jones, the man arrested in Newark, is known to police as "emotionally disturbed" and walked out of the platform in front of a security camera that clearly recorded his face.
According to prosecutors in Essex County, New Jersey, just 15 miles from the midtown Manhattan crime scene, Jones' criminal record stretches back years – with convictions of sex crimes, drugs, weapons possession and more. He has also attacked police officers, and in one incident, threw urine at one.
Suspects with mental illness and similar backgrounds are becoming more common, according to Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who has criticized police reforms that moved the department away from the 1990s-era policy of "broken windows" policing, which aggressively targeted low-level crimes in order to keep repeat criminals off the streets and prevent major offenses.
The policy is dramatically different from progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's initial reluctance to charge low-level crimes and state bail reforms that put most misdemeanor offenses back on the streets without having to post bond.
"How many more people will have to suffer until these political ‘reformers’ change their minds? If not, vote them out en masse," Giacalone said. "Nowhere is the word reform synonymous with good."
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Urine is not throwable in most circumstances unless you are taking a urinalysis or are too busy at a worksite to use the port-a-john. Maybe he just threw a Bud Lite.
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Homeowner acting on Joe Biden's advice to fire a weapon through your own front door in such situations?
Will the ancient standards of portcullis and drawbridge be revived for protecting a person's home?
Better for all that she removed herself from the classroom so quickly.
[FoxNews] Ex-Missouri high school teacher Brianna Coppage said she's made nearly $1 million on OnlyFans A million bucks just to show your gennies? Where do I sign up?
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Coppage, who made $42,000 working as a teacher, said she used OnlyFans to make extra money that would help her pay off student loans from her advanced degrees.
#2
“A whore should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay — such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients?
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.”
― Robert Heinlein
[NYPOST] The US Army has charged defector Travis King with several offenses including desertion for sprinting into North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... in July — as well as the solicitation of child pornography and other crimes dating back to at least last year.
The wide-ranging case against King, who spent over two months in the custody of North Korean law enforcement, includes eight distinct charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to court records obtained by Rooters.
The Army claims the private had the intention of abandoning his military duties permanently when he ditched his South Korean post by running across the demilitarized border into the totalitarian country.
He "did remain so absent in desertion until on or about 27 September 2023," when the hermit kingdom released him back to the US, the court records state.
The Army’s charge sheet accuses King of broad misconduct before his defection into North Korea, including an alleged attempted escape from US military custody in October 2022.
King was also allegedly caught possessing child pornography and asked another individual over Snapchat to "knowingly and willingly produce child pornography" the same month he fled to North Korea, according to the charges.
The Wisconsin native was additionally hit with assault charges for allegedly targeting his fellow soldiers and insubordination for leaving his base after curfew and drinking alcohol in violation of Army regulations, the documents state.
The soldier’s family has stood behind King since he first bolted in July, stating he should "be afforded the presumption of innocence."
"The man I raised, the man I dropped off at boot camp, the man who spent the holidays with me before deploying did not drink," his mother, Claudine Gates, said in a statement.
"A mother knows her son, and I believe something happened to mine while he was deployed. The Army promised to investigate what happened at Camp Humphreys, and I await the results."
The family has hired a legal team to defend him that includes Franklin Rosenblatt, who served as lead military defense counsel during the court martial proceedings against Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who was held for five years by the Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... after walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
Details are still scarce about King’s treatment in North Korean custody and the soldier has not publicly explained why he fled to one of the world’s most reclusive nations.
King was supposed to be at the airport awaiting a flight to Texas before making the final trip home when he escaped.
He was facing military disciplinary charges — as well as a dishonorable discharge — back in the US after he was hit with two assault charges.
King was accused of punching a man several times in the face at a club in September 2022 and then, two weeks later, damaged the backseat of a police car in a profanity-laced tirade against Koreans after he was picked up for displaying "aggressive behavior."
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When the NKs reject you, it’s the end of the line. It is like getting waived by an arena football team. He was deemed too dysfunctional for forced labor on a starvation diet.
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He's a ped0file so probably started talking pronouns and the Norks were like, nah not even for a poke in the eye.
[FoxNews] Employees allegedly used various tactics to make it look like they were working from the US.
Thousands of information technology (IT) workers who have contracted with U.S. companies have secretly sent millions of dollars in wages to North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said.
The workers were dispatched by North Korea to work remotely for U.S. companies have been using false identities to get the job, authorities said Wednesday at a news conference in St. Louis. The money paid to them was funneled to the North Korean weapons program, authorities said.
The workers lived primarily in China and Russia and deceived businesses into hiring them as freelance remote employees, the FBI said. They found various ways to make it look like they were working in the United States, including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections, said Jay Greenberg, special agent in charge of the St. Louis FBI office.
[ZERO] The cost of an electric vehicle (EV) battery pack can vary depending on composition and chemistry.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti and Sabrina Lam use data from Benchmark Minerals Intelligence to showcase the different costs of battery cells on popular electric vehicles.
[GEO.TV] Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced her separation from her partner, television journalist Andrea Giambruno, following his recent controversial and sexist comments.
The split occurs as Meloni marks her first year in office leading a right-wing coalition government that emphasises traditional family values.
In a social media statement, Meloni confirmed the end of her nearly 10-year relationship with Giambruno, noting that their paths had diverged over time. She expressed her determination not to be distracted by difficulties in her personal life and indicated that attempts to weaken her by targeting her at home would be in vain.
The couple, who met in a TV studio in 2014, shares a seven-year-old daughter. Giambruno, aged 42, is a news program presenter for Mediaset, a media group owned by the heirs of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a political ally of Meloni.
Recently, a satirical current affairs television show on Mediaset aired off-air video clips from Giambruno's program, revealing him using explicit language, making inappropriate gestures, and appearing to make advances to a female colleague.
In a separate audio recording aired on Thursday, Giambruno discussed an affair and suggested that female colleagues could work with him if they engaged in group sexual activities.
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She's being called a backtabbing traitor after letting in thousands of illegals and acting all 'helpless'. They're saying she's an EU shill using the right wing to get elected. Who knows. With the globalists, who knows.
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We are easy marks for the globalists. We tear down someone who is 80% of what we want as a shill and the globalists put their person back in power. We do their work.
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So she's available now?
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She's being called a backtabbing traitor after letting in thousands of illegals and acting all 'helpless'. They're saying she's an EU shill using the right wing to get elected. Who knows. With the globalists, who knows.
Well, of course it would be better if she engineered Italy's exit from the EU.
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[SHTFplan] The United States’ uranium purchases from Russia have doubled since last year. The U.S. bought 416 tons of uranium from Russia in the first half of the year, more than double the amount for the same period in 2022 and the highest level since 2005.
Considering the U.S. rulers’ continual demonization of Russia, this seems strange to say the least. RIA Novosti reported on the uranium purchases Thursday, citing data from the U.S. statistical service. Russia is supplying the U.S. only with enriched uranium, a critical component for civil nuclear power generation, according to a report by RT.
RIA calculations show that Washington’s rulers paid $696.5 million for uranium deliveries from Russia, marking the highest value since 2002. Over the first half of the year, the cost of supplies increased by 2.5 times, and Russia’s share of American imports increased by 13 percentage points to 32%.
Germany and Canada were also in the top five uranium suppliers to the U.S. market, accounting for 13% and 11% of imports respectively. According to a recent New York Times report, roughly a third of enriched uranium used in the US is imported from Russia. GHS Climate, a clean-energy consulting company, states that one out of every 20 American homes and businesses was powered by Russian uranium last year.
Wiki cite: "The Uranium One controversy involves various theories promoted by conservative media, politicians, and commentators that characterized the sale of the uranium mining company Uranium One to the Russian state-owned corporation Rosatom as a $145 million bribery scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. No evidence of wrongdoing was ever found. Wikipedia"
Curiously "While uranium is used primarily for nuclear power, uranium mining had its roots in the production of radium-bearing ore from 1898 from the mining of uranium-vanadium sandstone deposits in western Colorado. The 1950s saw a boom in uranium mining in the western U.S., spurred by the fortunes made by prospectors such as Charlie Steen. The United States was the world's leading producer of uranium from 1953 until 1980. In 1980 annual U.S. production peaked at 43.7 million pounds of U3O8.[2] Until the early 1980s, there were active uranium mines in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.[4]
Price declines in the late 1970s and early 1980s forced the closure of numerous mines. Most uranium ore in the United States comes from deposits in sandstone, which tend to be of lower grade than those of Australia and Canada." "Out of 50 present and former uranium milling sites in 12 states, 24 have been abandoned and are the responsibility of the US Department of Energy.[21]"
[NewsMax] Nearly 7 in 10 U.S. service members are considered either overweight or obese, according to a recent study, which said the statistic highlights a significant challenge that could profoundly impact national security.
The American Security Project, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, assessed the body mass index of U.S. troops, reported the New York Post, and found 68% of them fall into the categories of "overweight" or "obese" under BMI criteria, reflecting a troubling trend that has taken shape over the past decade.
The study revealed that the number of troops categorized as "obese" has "more than doubled" over the past decade, surging from "10.4% in 2012" to "21.6%" in the most recent year.
The report highlights the "dire threat" the trend poses.
"To ensure the long-term strength and operability of the armed forces," the report stated, "services must decisively and cohesively address obesity within their ranks, maintain strong body composition standards, and bring health policies in line with evidence-based recommendations.
"Identifying, diagnosing, and treating obesity within soldiers at the front lines of our national defense may ultimately determine the long-term survival of the force. It may not be easy, but it is long overdue."
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I blame the improvement of MRE selection and flavor. Freeze dried corn dog was just too tasty.
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Surprise, surprise. Lower physical fitness standards so Missy can pass them and guess what. Dudes aren't training as hard as they used to in order to burn off all the calories. Besides, morning physical training isn't as important as making the DEI classes for your evaluation.
...which only looks at weight vs height. I remember Old Spook complaining that he was forever being spoken to by civilian doctors because the BMI charts don’t take into account strong bones and serious muscularity.
So quite possibly there is a real obesity crisis in our military — all those men taking estrogen will have an effect on the statistics in addition to lowered standards — but BMI is not the way to measure it in a population intended to be much more muscular that the civilian norm.
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68% of them fall into the categories of "overweight" or "obese" under BMI criteria
It is nice when you can characterize a complex system with a single number. It is even nicer when that number means something.
BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. It kinda sort works for your average person, but as others have mentioned, it tags very fit people as obese. I could believe 70% of troops are overweight, but I would want better evidence than BMI numbers.
Hey, since the real issue is fitness and not mass, why don't we use a test, like how long it takes to run a mile? Of course, that is a bit racist because it discriminates against persons who are un-possessors of legs.
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[HOT AIR] ...But the Army’s charge sheet accuses him of broad misconduct before that incident, including an attempted escape from U.S. military custody on October 2022.
...PVT Travis King was accused of soliciting a Snapchat user in July 2023 to "knowingly and willingly produce child pornography." He was also accused of possession of child pornography.
He was also charged with insubordination for leaving his base after curfew and drinking alcohol in violation of Army regulations.
...King, who joined the Army in January 2021, had faced two allegations of assault in South Korea. He pleaded guilty to assault and destroying public property for damaging a police car during a profanity-laced tirade against Koreans, according to court documents.
Instead of paying a fine, King opted for more than a month in South Korean detention.
King had already been due to face disciplinary action in the United States after his release from South Korean detention. He was on his way home when he slipped away from Seoul’s international airport and made his way to a civilian tour of the border area between North and South Korea.
Then King sprinted across the border into North Korea. He was immediately taken into North Korean custody.
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This dude was on the rails to, at a minimum a BCD, or more likely Leavenworth. Same mindset that bails out of a car in a subdivision and starts busting doors and hoping fences. Gotta get away.
You idiot they know who you are.
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Sounds like the kiddie stuff was at the beginning before he became inconvenient. He will be telling folks back home that he went Rambo and invaded NK.
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Maybe we can convince Lindsey that ultimate expression of Neo Conservatism is to sit on a nuclear device when it explodes. Tell him it’s stronger push than even Josie’s Nigerian twins can deliver.
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....Should we tell Vlad that it wasn't a nuclear test?
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[FoxNews] 
[NYPOST] The US Army has charged defector 
...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
