This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.

The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more contested than ever, whether it’s civilian drones wandering out of the approved zone or US agencies getting their signals crossed, as happened earlier this year when New Mexico and Texas scared the public by temporarily closing their airspace. (It turned out that US Customs and Border Patrol were using anti-drone lasers in that area.) The GPS jamming exercise that led to this latest crash is not a singular event. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises. “As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone,” says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation. https://archive.ph/UboHA

Announcing another Keynote Speaker.

"...one of history’s greatest scientific revolutions was not the work of a single genius alone, but the product of a generation of determined scientists and engineers whose efforts bridged the gap between profound theory and practical technology."

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/james-rautio-to-keynote-the-heaviside

NEW - Upcoming 6G mobile communications standard will not only transmit data, but also "function like a radar." — heute

https://www.heute.at/s/6g-kann-durch-waende-sehen-und-herzschlag-messen-120229612

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Former Southern Poverty Law Center executive arrested over alleged secret payments to informants

Beirich has also been accused of cohabitating with and dating one of the informants whom she allegedly paid.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/former-splc-cfo-arrested-over-alleged-secret-payments-informants

It was tough getting high quality Mexican food in my youth. Mama Muchos' brings back fond memories. Anyone know what happened to them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEADyn-IxQs

Europe’s first total solar eclipse in decades sweeps across Iceland and Spain
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A total solar eclipse shadowed portions of Europe marking the continent’s first such celestial event in decades.