Florida seems to be losing something that it believed had made it special. Fresh local oranges, a simple pleasure that defined the state, tell the story.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA ERS) recently recounted how natural disasters and diseases have reduced Florida’s orange production by 92% since the 2003–04 season.
Roadside stands and backyard trees once offered fruit that put big box store oranges to shame. Today they are essentially gone without any evidence of attempts to preserve them. This collapse isn’t just about agriculture, because it’s about a state trading its soul for generic tasteless development ruining quality of life. The forces killing orange groves — anti-science politics, climate change, unchecked growth, and quick profits — are erasing Florida’s actual distinctive character, replacing it with tepid chain stores in strip malls and cookie-cutter suburbs that could be anywhere… importing California oranges.
Russian air defences mistook the Embraer for a Ukrainian drone, and engaged it with unidentified systems. Surviving passengers said that on the third attempt to land in Grozny, there were some explosions outside the aircraft and that the flight was then diverted across the Caspian to Aktau in Kazakhstan. Passenger video from inside the aircraft showed signs of shrapnel damage, and a woman passenger suffered a leg wound. As the aircraft crossed the Caspian, the crew began to encounter control problems – which may have been the result of hydraulic failure.
Videos of flight J2-8243 show a struggle to maintain altitude and trim, after making it all the way across the sea, as pilots lost control in a circling pattern just a mile or so short of the Aktau runway.
After violently crashing, up-close videos show obvious anti-aircraft-looking shrapnel damage to the wings and fuselage.
All passengers likely would have survived if the jet had been immediately cleared to land in Grozny, instead of tragically diverted so far away across the sea.
In related news, North Korean soldiers enlisted to fight for Russia have been shooting in the wrong direction and killing Russians.
While engaged in combat in Kursk Oblast, a group of North Korean soldiers opened fire on members of the Chechen Akhmat unit fighting for Russia, HUR reported via its official Telegram channel. The attack allegedly killed eight Russian soldiers.
An update from the Azerbaijani president President Ilham Aliyev very diplomatically suggests a criminal investigation of the plane crash have started:
According to the information provided to me, the AZAL airline plane, flying on the Baku-Grozny route, changed its course due to worsening weather conditions and began heading toward Aktau airport, where the crash occurred during landing. There are videos of the plane crash available in the media and on social networks, and everyone can watch them. However, the reasons for the crash are not yet known to us. There are various theories, but I believe it is premature to discuss them. The matter must be thoroughly investigated. A criminal case has been launched by the Prosecutor General’s Office…
Investigators debate whether shrapnel-looking damage was from explosions after hitting the ground, or cause of the crash. The Embraer 190 wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines rests near Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. Source: AP/The Administration of Mangystau Region
This is an example of ongoing failure in the crash “avoidance” technology promoted since 2016 by the Tesla CEO.
The incident, which happened at 7:58 p.m., occurred at 532 U.S 65 and resulted in the death of Michael A. Dickey, 51, of Greenbrier.
According to the report, two cars — including Dickey in a 2023 Ford — were travelling north on U.S. 65. Dickey was driving in the No. 1 traffic lane, and a 2023 Tesla was in the No. 2 traffic lane, Arkansas State Police said. Dickey’s Ford entered the No. 2 lane and struck the right side of the Tesla, the report stated.
Following the collision, the Ford rotated counterclockwise and crossed over the center turn lane into the southbound lanes, according to the report.
Dickey was killed because of the Tesla crash, which begs the obvious question why it wasn’t avoided as marketed.
This tweet was fraudulent and dangerous. The owner died two weeks later in a May 2016 crash from believing the CEO — that his car had collision avoidance that it did NOT have.Even though Autopilot had no evidence of improving safety, let alone reducing deaths, the CEO fraudulently claimed he would magically end ALL fatalities (even non-occupant) by using unproven software on low-quality hardware. In fact, since 2016 deaths from Tesla have rapidly increased.
A Boston police cruiser and a Tesla crashed Monday night, causing long delays on the Green Line’s B Branch because of a wrecked SUV on the train tracks.
Police have not yet explained whether the crash was a targeted attack. Another MA police officer recently was killed as other officers observed a Tesla driving the wrong way and didn’t immediately prevent it from crashing straight into him.
The CEO of Tesla, an infamous anti-government political extremist stoking fears of war, hasn’t yet claimed responsibility for his crashes in context of claims of building millions of centrally planned and controlled road robots that never miss their targets.
