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FAA lifts hours-long ground stop that stemmed from communications problems
www.scrippsnews.com

... U.S. cabinet officials said Friday the incident was a communications problem, not an indicator of an attack or emergency.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday night lifted a ground stop on U.S. air traffic, ending a multi-hour incident that halted flights after an air traffic communications issue. ...


@#6 ... Portions of national radar are also off-line now. Rogue AI agents? ...

What national radar?

Here's what I found ...

National Weather Service Radar Outage Rumors Debunked by Officials
theuschronicle.com

... The National Weather Service debunks viral rumors of a nationwide radar outage, confirming that all NWS radar systems are fully operational. ...

Yer up ...


Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town 2009

I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced
I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down
I'm so tired of America

I'm gonna make it up for all of The Sunday Times
I'm gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes
They never really seem to want to tell the truth
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead

Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved?
Tell me, enough of thinking everything that you've done is good
I really need to know, after soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood
I'm so tired of America

I really need to know
I may just never see you again, or might as well
You took advantage of a world that loved you well
I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead
I got a soul to feed
I got a dream to heed
And that's all I need

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I'm going to a town
That has already been burnt down

Cowgirl in the Sand 1969 (2009 Remaster)
neilyoungchannel
840K subscribers
7.9 million views

www.youtube.com

one of the many seminal songs of my youth... cowgirls are the best girls. Ask them!

@#1 ... His involvement in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young made him a foundational figure in the Los Angeles folk rock scene of the 1960s and '70s. ...

imo, Buffalo Springfield was one of the original "supergroups."

Buffalo Springfield
en.wikipedia.org

... Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1966 by Canadians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin and Americans Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. The group, widely known for the song "For What It's Worth",[1] released three albums and several singles from 1966 to 1968.

Their music combined elements of folk music and country music with influences from the British Invasion and psychedelic rock. Like the contemporary band the Byrds, they were key to the early development of folk rock.

The band took their name from a steamroller parked outside their house. ...


... and ...

Bruce Palmer
en.wikipedia.org

... Bruce Palmer (September 9, 1946 " October 1, 2004) was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.[1]
Early years

Palmer was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, later moving with his family to Toronto, Ontario,[2] where in the early 1960s he began pursuing a musical career. He started out playing with Robbie Lane and the Disciples, then graduated to a local, otherwise all-black group fronted by Billy Clarkson.

Next came British invasion-inspired Jack London & The Sparrows (which, after Palmer left, evolved into Steppenwolf).

In early 1965, he left to join The Mynah Birds where he first met Neil Young who was playing lead guitar in the band.

The Mynah Birds, fronted by future funk legend Rick James, had a bright future and were signed to the prestigious Motown Records to do some demo recordings before it was discovered that James was actually in Toronto to avoid serving in Vietnam with the United States Navy, from which he had gone AWOL.

A planned single, "It's My Time" b/w "Go On and Cry", was withdrawn just prior to its scheduled release by Motown. Both sides of this single were included in the 2006 box set The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966, released in a limited edition of 6000 by Universal label Hip-O-Select, marking the first time any of the 1966 Motown recordings by the Mynah Birds had seen the light of day.

The group was forced to disband, and Young and Palmer drove Young's hearse to Los Angeles in the hope of meeting Stephen Stills, a journeyman folk musician with whom Young had played briefly in Canada two years earlier.

Within two days of arriving in Los Angeles, Young and Palmer were driving on Sunset Boulevard and Stills was coming in the opposite direction.

When Stills saw the Ontario licence plates, he turned around and pursued the hearse, pulled up beside them and realized who they were.

Shortly after, the whole crew pulled into a carpark and introduced themselves.

Thus they became the band Buffalo Springfield.[3] ...




Mullin doesn't rule out cyberattack in unprecedented nationwide passenger plane grounding
www.politico.com

... The Homeland Security secretary also said the administration was looking into a new AI air traffic control system, which was rolled out at airports this week.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that he had "no reason to believe" that an unprecedented nationwide grounding of the nation's air traffic was due to a threat, but he did not rule out a cyberattack.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration issued the nationwide ground stop, its second such order in recent years, citing communication issues.

Mullin, in an interview with reporters outside the White House, said, "There is no indication, and we have no reason to believe as of right now that this was a threat to the United States." However, when later asked if the disruption could have been a cyberattack or an AI intrusion, he said, "That's not known." ...

It's unclear how long the grounding will last. Mullin said, "It's going to take some time, and so this isn't going to just be be resolved and and turned around within the hour. This is this is going to take take some time." He added, "There should be no fear to the public at all."

Mullin was also asked about the FAA's new AI-driven air traffic tool, known as SMART, which was rolled out nationwide this week. He responded: "We're looking at that."

Plague of equipment problems

In a post on X, however, the developers of the AI system, Boston-based Air Space Intelligence, said: "The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA" and air traffic control. ...



#2

That's a great jam... it's a long way from when he was kid on Sugar Mountain.

www.youtube.com

"Neil Young performs "Sugar Mountain" with Willie Nelson and Mickey Raphael at the Farm Aid concert in Louisville, Kentucky on October 1st, 1995.

Farm Aid was started by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp in 1985 to keep family farmers on the land... more)

Trump Ignores National Polls, Claims His Approval Rating Among Republicans is 99% (October 29, 2026)
www.mediaite.com

... President Donald Trump completely ignored the national polls when claiming on Truth Social Thursday that his approval rating among the GOP is at 99%.

"We are drawing the BIGGEST CROWDS at Trump Rallies in the history of Midterm Elections, by a factor of five times. There has never been anything like it!" Trump wrote.

"My Approval Rating in the Republican Party is now at 99%. Thank you, such an honor!!! Big Rally in South Carolina for the wonderful Darline Graham, today. She is fantastic. Lindsey [Graham] is watching, and very proud of her!!! President DJT"

Trump repeated the 99% figure during a gaggle on his way to South Carolina to campaign for Darline Graham (R-SC), who took her brother's Senate seat after his shocking death in July.

Trump may have been citing CNN statistics guru Harry Enten, who reported that 99% of MAGA Republicans voted for him in 2024.

"To support his claim that he remains popular, Trump pointed to an analysis by CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten showing the president's support among MAGA Republicans remains near 100 percent," The Independent reported. "Enten reported that Trump received 99 percent of the MAGA Republican vote in the 2024 election and had a 98 percent approval rating among MAGA Republicans in September."

The percentage of Republicans who identify as MAGA has been slipping in some surveys. A UMass poll found it fell from 77% to 68% in August. ...


Trump's Approval Rating Keeps Falling After Midterm Losses
www.newsweek.com

... President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low in The Economist/YouGov polling following Republican midterm losses, confirming a broader downward slide across major surveys.

The drop highlights deepening public frustration over inflation and the conflict with Iran as voters digest the November election results.

Trump faces weakened political capital heading into the final two years of his term against an incoming Democratic-controlled Congress. ...


@#8

Maybe because of ...

Global oil market to return to surplus in Q4 2026, larger supply build expected in 2027: IEA
economictimes.indiatimes.com

... The global oil market is expected to return to a surplus in the fourth quarter of 2026, with a larger surplus anticipated in 2027 as production recovers faster than demand, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) November Oil Market Report.

The report highlighted that global oil supplies have surpassed demand for the first time since the outbreak of the war in Iran, signalling a gradual rebalancing of international oil markets.

"Our November supply and demand balances suggest that the global oil market will return to a surplus in 4Q26, with a more substantial build in 2027," the IEA stated.

According to the report, global oil demand is projected to decline by 2.7 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2026 to 102.3 mb/d before rebounding by 2 mb/d in 2027. ...



An update ...

Live updates: FAA grounds all departing flights due to air traffic control communications outage
www.reuters.com

...
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all departing flights on Friday, citing 'extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety.

- - - Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said all flights were accounted for and there was no reason for the public to be afraid

- - - Mullin added there was no indication the disruption was a deliberate attack, describing it as a telecommunications outage

- - - Flights already in the air may land, but aircraft on the ground cannot take off and international flights will be handled on a case-by-case basis

- - - The order followed an earlier halt to traffic in Chicago because of communications problems

- - - Friday's action marked the second nationwide ground stop of all departures since the September 11, 2001, attacks

...

Aviation analytics firm Cirium said that after 4 p.m. ET, about 11,000 flights carrying more than 1.5 million passengers were still scheduled to depart from US airports on Friday.

As of 5:50 p.m. ET, the firm reported:

- - - 600 flights had been diverted on Friday

- - - 496 of the 600 flights (82.7%) returned to their origin airport, while the remaining 104 diverted to a different airport

- - - The airports that received the most diverted flights overall were Chicago O'Hare (ORD), with 28; Denver (DEN), with 26; Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), with 19; and Washington National (DCA), Charlotte (CLT) and Los Angeles (LAX), with 16 each

- - - Among flights that diverted to an airport other than their origin, Cincinnati (CVG) received the most, with six, followed by San Jose (SJC), with five

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