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Led Zeppelin was not a band that recorded a great deal of material that they left unreleased. There are multiple reasons for this. First and foremost was the simple fact that they did not have a long recording career due to the tragic passing of John Bonham in 1980. Led Zeppelin released their first studio album in 1969 entitled Led Zeppelin and their last in 1979 entitled In Through The Out Door. Over a ten year period, the band released ten albums. Ten freaking magical albums that defined the career of the greatest rock band of all time. One of The post Best Led Zeppelin Outtakes appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Good ideas and inventions are what help us to progress as a society because, without them, we could still be living in caves. However, some inventions are less useful than others, so take a look at these bizarre concepts from the past! When the innovative Roomba hit the market, people were enamored with the concept of a small robotic vacuum. Yet, as it turns out, the concept is pretty old news. Source

Four years ago, President-to-be Joe Biden narrowly won the swing states of Arizona and Georgia by about 11,000 votes each. This time around, Heritage Action for America was determined to ensure residents of both states were registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election.  This year, the conservative grassroots organization kicked its voter registration efforts into high gear.  As a result of Heritage Action’s nonstop effort to boost voter turnout on Nov. 5, the registration rolls in Arizona and Georgia alone saw an increase of more than 80,000 voters this cycle.   Former President Donald Trump won Georgia on Tuesday, and while The Associated Press still has not called Arizona for him, as of midafternoon Friday, he holds a 52.6% to 46.5% lead over Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2020, it was a different story. After years of Republican victories, Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes and he took Arizona by 10,457 votes. Biden’s winning margin was 20,682 in another swing state, Wisconsin.  “Nationwide, Biden’s Electoral College victory was secured by only 44,000 votes in three states, underscoring the potential outcome-changing power of Heritage Action’s targeted voter registration and turnout effort in those states,” said a press release from Heritage Action, an independent partner of The Heritage Foundation.  Heritage Action announced in early July that it would continue in its “strategic effort to register enough voters in key swing states to give conservative candidates the electoral edge ahead of the election in November.”  Heritage Action hired 14 people to do full-time door-knocking in the state of Arizona and 36 people in Georgia. They door-knocked on 250,000 homes, sent 5.2 million text messages to those people, and conducted 90,000 live calls back to those homes. As a result, Heritage Action registered 81,000 people across those two states.  “We were having conversations, listening, importantly, to the people and the concerns that they had,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker told The Daily Signal.   One of the key issues that affected the suburban women’s vote was energy-efficiency requirements for home appliances, according to Walker. Most people don’t know that the federal government sets energy-efficiency standards for those appliances.  “This is a really important point, because Trump ended up winning suburban women 51% to 47%, and so we were able to connect the dots between [what] … certainly was put on steroids under the Biden-Harris regime to effectively do away with the efficiency of your home appliances,” Walker said.  Heritage Action has equipped more than 2 million activists positioned nationwide to fight for key conservative policy issues. The organization’s Sentinels program trains more than 20,000 everyday citizens to go out into the political battlefields of their communities, local institutions, and state governments to uphold right-leaning principles.  This election cycle alone, six Heritage Action “Sentinels” won races across their states. Here is a list of them:  In Georgia, Noelle Kahaian won a state House race for District 81.  In Missouri, Cathy Jo Loy won a state House for District 163.  In Oklahoma, Mark Chapman won a state House for District 12.   In Texas, Hillary Hickland won a state House race for District 55.   In Utah, Lisa Shepherd won a state House race for District 61.  Randy Hough won reelection to his Board of Education seat in the Fayette County Public Schools to represent District 1 in Georgia.   “Our work has only just begun,” Walker said in a statement. “Over the next four years, we will continue the fight to reverse the Left’s disastrous immigration policies and secure the border, cut taxes for hardworking Americans, and reduce the skyrocketing inflation that has crippled the economy.   . “Over the next four years, we will continue the fight to reverse the Left’s disastrous immigration policies and secure the border, cut taxes for hardworking Americans, and reduce the skyrocketing inflation that has crippled the economy.    Heritage Action was proud to be part of “one of the best ground games that the conservative movement has ever put together,” Walker said.  “I think that we’re in the golden era of conservative politics and Republican control of all aspects of government,” he said. “And for that, I think that we should be really excited.”  The post How a Conservative Group’s Door-to-Door Push Added 80,000+ Voters in Key Swing States  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

'People's March on Washington' Planned for Weekend Before Trump's Inauguration

On Thursday, scenes of Europe’s ugly past seemed to have returned with a full-scale pogrom by pro-Palestinian thugs chasing and beating fans of an Israeli soccer team through the streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, ABC’s Good Morning America saw no reason to cover these horrifying acts of violence that resulted in rescue planes being dispatched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rescue them. The Israelis were in the Dutch capital to support Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., a team in the Israeli Premier League facing off against AFC Ajax Amsterdam in UEFA Europa League competition. NBC’s Today had a different idea by leading each of their two hours with this. Co-host Savannah Guthrie didn’t mince words in the first tease, calling it “a shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe” and “ambush” of “Israeli soccer fans,” who were “attacked and beaten in a disturbing night of anti-Semitic violence.” NBC's 'Today' led both hours with full reports on the anti-Semitic violence against Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Amsterdam last night. A pogrom in modern-day Europe. ABC's 'Good Morning America'? Silent. pic.twitter.com/OgVbJwYKuZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 8, 2024 Guthrie later set-up the report from Tel Aviv by foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez: But let’s start with breaking news overseas. Israel now sending at least two rescue planes to Amsterdam to evacuate its citizens after several were injured in violent, anti-Semitic attacks, happened after a soccer match. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators defying a ban on protests near the stadium and clashing with supporters of an Israeli team. Sanchez painted a dire picture: “Several evacuation aircrafts took off from here in Tel Aviv earlier to bring stranded Israelis home after what the government is calling a widespread, anti-Semitic attack in a major European capital.” Unfortunately, he seemed to make an attempt at false equivalency by citing the “tension on the streets around the time that the violence erupted,” saying “[s]ome of those Israeli soccer fans chanting ‘death to Arabs.’”  Sanchez went onto denounce the “anti-Semitic violence” with videos and a soundbite from one eyewitness (click “expand”): SANCHEZ: This morning, Israel says it’s responding to widespread anti-Semitic violence on the streets of Amsterdam. Fans of a Tel Aviv soccer club chased through the canals and alleys of the Dutch capitol by a pro-Palestinian crowd, according to the government. The Israeli embassy in Washington posting this footage, not verified by NBC News. The man surrounded. ARAB THUG: This is for the children — for the children, mother-[expletive]. ISRAELI: I’ll give you my money. Leave me. Please go. IDDO GOLD: They started to stab, attack, go into the rivers, throw on us flash bombs. [SCREEN WIPE] We are frightened to go on the streets. We were frightened. You know, it’s pure anti-Semitism. Sanchez again tried to bothsides this, playing clips of “[s]ome Israeli fans chanting racist, anti-Arab slurs” and said “[o]thers seen ripping down a Palestinian flag.” Sanchez dropped the act, sharing statements from Israeli officials, the fact that this came so close to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, and apologies from the Dutch king (click “expand”): But later, Amsterdam police saying attackers actively sought out Israeli supporters and insulted them. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying he “views the horrifying incident with the utmost gravity and demands the Dutch government and security forces take vigorous and swift action against the rioters.” Israeli sending several aircraft to evacuate the wounded and dispatching its new foreign minister to Amsterdam. President Biden’s Special Envoy on Anti-Semitism tweeting: “Horrified by the attacks tonight in Amsterdam, which are terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom,” and noting that this weekend is the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the 1938 attack that marked a turning point in the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. A dark chapter some fear has not been confined to history. Now, this is being taken extremely seriously by the Dutch government. The king of the Netherlands spoke to the President Israel this morning and told him, “we failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II and last night, we failed again.” Guthrie and Sanchez reracked things for the second hour. Guthrie framed it in the tease as a “rescue mission” by the Israeli government o save their own citizens and later tossed to Sanchez by reiterating what happened was “a shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks[.]” Sanchez hit all of his main points from the first hour, including his attempt at equivalency by implying Jews started it with the “death to Arabs” chant. Meanwhile, it was somewhat surprising to see CBS Mornings be allowed to cover this given their groveling defenses of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Co-host Gayle King began: Some alarming scenes unfolding in the Netherlands overnight as Israeli soccer fans were attacked at multiple locations in Amsterdam. At least 62 people have been arrested, and five people hospitalized. As Ramy Inocencio reports, this comes amid anger over the war in Gaza. We have to warn you here, a heads-up, this report contains some pretty graphic images. Foreign correspondent Remy Inocencio first showed videos from the Amsterdam streets before explaining it was a “night of violence marked by multiple attacks, groups of men beating other men after a football game between a visiting Israeli team and a local club. Called anti-Semitic by Dutch leaders and Israeli officials. Police told fans to hide.” He too played both sides by citing the “death to Arabs” chant and lamented “[a]nger rose as Israeli supporters in yellow disrespected a moment of silence.” “[S]ince October 7 of last year and the tens of thousands killed, anti-Semitism has reportedly surged across the continent. This has the added layers of historic hate across religions, cultures, and a war still raging in the Middle East,” he later concluded. ABC did acknowledge it with a 29-second brief on Good Morning America First Look (formerly known as America This Morning) by co-host Andrew Dymburt, but that overnight show is the proverbial tree falling in a woods with no one around to hear it. Good Morning America had time for plenty of fluff, including segments on bra fittings and last-minute travel deals for Thanksgiving. To see the relevant transcripts from November 8, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC).

Defeated and dejected Democrats continue to seek answers in the wake of their electoral implosion, and some even believe they need a feminist version of Joe Rogan.'When a man is just lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don't have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.' Writer Anand Giridharadas made the case while a guest on MSNBC Friday, when he criticized the right-wing "media ecosystem" that had radicalized "lonely" males. "It's not a good one. It's a negative one. It's a — it's a radicalization funnel," he explained. "But what they have done in their online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, literally the way militant groups do around the world, that takes people from relatively low-level annoyances with the world: 'Why are eggs so expensive? Why is my kid learning this new thing in American history in school that I didn't learn?' And then moves them through YouTube videos, through podcasts, moves them from that annoyance all the way, slowly, slowly, slowly, to a full-blown fascist politics," said Giridharadas. "It's an elaborate, multibillion-dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side," he continued. "When a man is just lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don't have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction."Video of the bizarre suggestion was widely circulated on social media. President-elect Donald Trump went through a three-hour interview on the incredibly popular "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast just ahead of Election Day. Rogan said that he extended the same invitation to appear on the podcast to Vice President Kamala Harris, but the issue became contentious after the Harris campaign said it was unwilling to fly her to Rogan's studio. Rogan said the campaign told him she wanted a shorter time period and wanted him to come to her, which he refused to do. Harris defenders were furious at Rogan for what they saw as a disrespectful attitude against the candidate. Trump went on to soundly defeat Harris, and Democrats are furiously seeking answers. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Pat Stedman was released from federal prison on October 27, 2024, after serving a year behind bars for his presence in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Stedman was in Washington, D.C., that day to protest 2020 election fraud and to petition Congress to vote against certifying the election prematurely in order to give the various swing states the opportunity to investigate voting irregularities, as was requested by numerous members of their legislatures. While Stedman followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted along with them, he did not engage in any violence. Nonetheless, he was sentenced to 48 months for a felony offense, obstruction of an official proceeding — an Enron-era financial crimes law that theJustice Department weaponized against January 6 protesters. Stedman was released early following the Supreme Court's ruling that prosecutors had applied the obstruction law — originally meant to target the destruction of evidence — too broadly. *********** Just under two weeks ago I was released from federal prison, one year to the day that I came in. Here are 10 things I learned in this crucible.1. Your opinion doesn’t matter In the civilian world, everyone feels entitled to say what they want, and most people take offense when others don’t agree with them. We live in an outrage culture that thrives on people spouting off on each other. This is basically X. In prison, this kind of behavior isn’t wise. Unless asked, you keep quiet about your opinions and learn to tolerate others. You don’t provoke them. Arguments turn violent frequently. If you want to be right, prepare to fight. And don’t get me started on the knives people make. The human mind placed under pressure is capable of incredible ingenuity. 2. Respect is paramount Prison was one of the most respectful environments I’ve been in. More respectful than a country club. Everyone says “excuse me” or “my bad” when passing by someone or interrupting a conversation. You hold doors for others. Entitled behavior is punished. The higher security the prison, the more dangerous it gets. Even moving someone’s chair without asking can lead to violence. But it's easy to avoid conflict. If you stay out of ego and treat people with respect, you will have few problems. 3. Necessity is truly the mother of invention No lighter and want to smoke a cigarette? Two batteries and a wire will do the trick. Want to cook but no stove or microwave? You can boil water in a bucket with two cables wrapped around a metal slab plugged into an outlet. I’ve even seen a convection oven built out of soda cans and loose wires. And don’t get me started on the knives people make. The human mind placed under pressure is capable of incredible ingenuity.4. Prisons are mental institutions After long stretches in prison, even strong men start to lose it. In some cases it’s obvious — people talking to themselves. But in most cases it’s more subtle. Looping conversations. Pacing the room back and forth constantly. Hoarding junk. Easily stressed by inconveniences. Paranoid. Long lockdowns, boring routines, and constant assaults on humanity by guards can bring you down to an animal-like level. Some people come in like this. But most are made this way by the conditions. There's a term for it: "institutionalized." 5. Paperwork matters The two classes of offenders at the bottom of the totem pole in prison are chomos (“child molesters,” used as a catch-all term for all sex offenders) and rats. It is very important that you have your prisoner "paperwork" to prove that you're not one of them. Fort Dix is a dumping ground for these types of prisoners, so they are allowed on the yard, unlike in higher-security prisons. But they are still the bottom of the totem pole and are disproportionately targeted for extortion and robbery. Rats in particular are despised, which is understandable considering that most inmates are in prison because of them. Have your paperwork ready, or keep a low profile and stick to where you're allowed. 6. Race is real and relevant Prison is a tribal environment. You are categorized immediately based on your ethnicity and filtered accordingly into “cars.” White guys have their table. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, etc. each have their own as well. Black guys organize based on geography, i.e. New York, Pennsylvania, Carolina. You can join their car even if you aren’t black, but it only happens rarely, usually if the guy in question also came from “the hood.” The separation creates stability; the differences are apparent and universally recognized. But respect is color-blind. There are dirtbags in every race as well as honorable men. The good men are friendly with each other regardless of background. Conflict between cars is uncommon and avoided at all costs. It's called "crashing out," and gets ugly. To avoid this, troublemakers are policed by their own. 7. Everything is relative Fort Dix was real prison to me. But to guys who came from the higher-security institutions, it wasn’t. You could go outside regularly. There weren’t bars on your cell doors. Even during lockdowns, you could still move around the building, use phones and computers, sometimes even watch TV. I came to appreciate little things a lot. Being able to go to the gym, a little extra food at the chow hall, getting your comissary early, an unlocked door so you could move around easier — these all felt like “freedom.” The abundance we have on the outside is amazing. After this year, something as simple as bread with butter and jam tasted like heaven to me. 8. Our information overload is extreme After two days back in the “real world,” I was absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of information we receive. In prison, I had no access to the internet and limited communication with the outside world. I didn’t scroll through feeds or messages. I talked to people or read. I was focused and present, had real conversations, actually learned some things. I can already feel the siren song of distraction calling me since I’ve been back. Honestly, I prefer the clarity I had in there to the deluge of nonsense out here. There is something wrong with the way we are living. It's not healthy or natural, and that explains so much of our growing social dysfunction. 9. You really notice women Being around high-testosterone men 24/7, you become very attuned to even the slightest amount of feminine energy in the environment. Everyone notices female guards, even if they don’t gawk at them. Little flourishes of femininity go a long way. You can almost smell it before you see it. I remember staring at my wife during visits, intoxicated by her presence. This was about more than just sex. The way her hair fell on her shoulder, the way she moved. Everything about her was refreshing — I just wanted to take it all in. 10. You can adjust to anything My first few weeks in prison were tough. There were a lot of rules I didn’t understand that I had to learn. And to put it lightly, it was a very different environment to get used to, with very different types of people. But then all of a sudden, all this newness became normal. I was living in a ghetto behind barbed-wire fences, and there wasn’t anything weird about it. I’d fist-bump gangsters and sneak apples out of the chow hall in my socks, as if this was just a part of life. It’s still surreal for me to look back on it. I just left this world. And it already feels like a dream.