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December 15, 1944: Legendary swing band leader US Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller mysteriously disappeared in a single-engine UC-64A Norseman plane over the English Channel, bound for Paris. No trace of him or the plane was ever found. It either suffered engine failure or was shot down by friendly fire or "weather" or abducted by aliens.

His civilian band, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big band era.

A document concerning the military career and disappearance of Miller appeared during 2017 in the book Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg, director of the Glenn Miller Archives. On behalf of the Glenn Miller Estate and with the full cooperation of American and British authorities, all relevant and many new documents concerning the circumstances of the accident were discovered and published, including the inquiry findings of January 20, 1945. According to the book, Miller had no other duties than as a musical and broadcasting officer, and his high profile and schedule ruled out any clandestine role as later speculated by sensationalists. The book concludes that he was not the victim of foul play or friendly fire.
Investigation into disappearance

One of Glenn Miller's trombones is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH, along with other Miller memorabilia. According to the display notes, the Miller estate allowed James Stewart to "play" this trombone in this film. Another trombone and additional memorabilia are displayed at the Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum in Clarinda, Iowa.

Glenn Miller's name is inscribed on a stone wall at the American War Cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge, UK; it appears as Alton G. Miller.

An article from July 7, 2014 in the Chicago Tribune offered some light on the mystery of Glenn Miller's disappearance: despite many theories, Miller's plane most likely crashed in foggy and cold weather because it had a faulty carburetor (and not, as has been previously reported, due to friendly aircraft fire). The plane had a type of defective carburetor that had a history of causing crashes in other aircraft because it easily iced up in cold weather. However, the wreckage has still not been found.

Major Glenn Miller

The Final - His Last Recordings (Youtube playlist)

Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo - Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aj0zhXlLA


Dec 15, 1960: Richard Paul Pavlick, 73, a retired postal worker from New Hampshire is arrested for plotting to assassinate President-Elect John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida with a suicide vest dynamite bomb. He believed JFK stole the election from Nixon. He delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife Jacqueline and their two young children. He was arrested before he was able to stage another attempt. Ruled mentally ill, released in December 1966; died Nov 11, 1975 in a VA hospital in New Hampshire at age 88.




Dec 15, 1973: The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, in the Seventh printing of the DSM-II Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diagnosis was replaced with the category of "sexual orientation disturbance".




COMFORT AND JOY (1984) a Christmas movie.


There was a real "Ice Cream War" in Glasgow in 1984, and it led to murders within the city. It was really a drug-land turf war by gangs who used ice cream vans as a front. Writers Douglas Skelton and Lisa Brownlie cover the story in their 1992 book "Frightener". The deaths of van-driver Andrew Boyle (who had resisted being involved in drug dealing) and his family happened in April 1984, four months before "Comfort and Joy" was released, and, as star Bill Paterson acknowledges, this had an impact on the film's reception: "It wasn't a great time to launch a light-hearted look at the ice-cream business in Glasgow."

The photo on Hillary's (Rikki Fulton) desk of a young man in naval uniform actually is the young Fulton, who served in the Royal Navy 1941-45.

Music cues from two tracks from the 1982 album "Love Over Gold" by Dire Straits are used in the film - the tracks are "Telegraph Road" and "Private Investigations". In an interview published at the time of the film's release in 1984, director Bill Forsyth wanted to mirror the tone of the album, that of an individual trying to solve a mystery that may be of his own creation.

One of the ice-cream companies operates under the name of McCool. Finn McCool is a legendary figure in Scottish myth.



UK #1 on this day in 1984: Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
It remained #1 for 5 weeks. At the time, it was the biggest selling UK single of all time, only later surpassed in 1997 by Elton John’s revised Candle in the Wind.




Special TIME Edition - Heaven & The Afterlife – December 15, 2023 by The Editors of TIME.


TIME Heaven and The Afterlife 2023

This question is more than a mind-bender. For thousands of years, certain people have claimed to have actually visited the place that, Saint Paul promised, “no eye has seen … and no human mind has conceived,” and their stories very often follow the same narrative arc.

A skeptic, a rogue or an innocent suffers hardship or injury: he is hit on the head, he suffers a stroke, he sustains damage in a car crash or on the operating table. A feeling of disconnection comes over him, a sense of being “outside” himself. Perhaps he encounters an opening: a gate, a door, a tunnel. And then, all at once, he is being guided through other worlds that look and feel to him more “real” than the world in which he once existed. These realms are both familiar and strange, containing music that doesn’t sound like music and light brighter than any light, and creatures that may or may not be angels, and the familiar faces of loved ones lost as well as figures from history and sometimes—depending on the narrator—even Jesus himself. The tourist is agape. Words fail. He leaves reluctantly to reoccupy his body and this earth. But the experience changes him forever. Convinced as he is of a wholly different reality, he is calmer, more self-assured, determined to persuade the world of heaven’s truth. He tells his story to the masses. “Heaven is real!” he proclaims.

Full article: Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife (TIME, 2014) or Archived copy.


"Poppy has been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop, boding ill for the economy."

It's mind-blowing to see the principles of American narco-capitalism stated so plainly: "Wheat, a low-value crop" - to hell with food, grow drugs, get rich or die trying.


Understanding the Implications of the Taliban’s Opium Ban in Afghanistan


Back to work tomorrow chasin drones & crash recoveries. It's been a busy season.



Antarctic Reich flexing in US airspace with impunity.







Kids these days...LOL:


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When he was in high school in 2020 he exposed a major flaw in Twitter’s system at the time for verifying the details of political candidates.
A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it

He was also behind this:

“Mehran’s Steak House was just a name, created as an in-joke. But when its waiting list drew hundreds, the pranksters decided to stage dinner — for one night only.”

New York’s Hottest Steakhouse Was a Fake, Until Saturday Night

His website: Riley Walz