[FOX] A pilot flying a small plane over Tupelo, Mississippi has threatened to crash into a Walmart, authorities warned Saturday.
The Tupelo Police Department said it was notified around 5 am this morning that a pilot flying what a "King Air type" airplane was considering the crash landing into a Walmart located on West Main street.
Authorities have confirmed the plane, which is believed to have been stolen, is a fixed wing multi-engine 1987 Beech C90A model.
Authorities said they have evacuated the Walmart and a Dodges eatery and gas station located near the shopping center to disperse people "as much as practical."
Roads in west Tupelo and near the airport have been reopened and the pilot was last reported to be flying near a rural area in Hickory Flat, an area northeast of Tupelo, according to local coverage of the flight path.
Authorities have reportedly convened in the area.
Update at 8:35 p.m. ET:
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the plane, flown by a man later identified as Cory Patterson, had landed in a field in Ashland, roughly 60 miles northeast of Tupelo.
Patterson is reportedly believed to be an employee of the Tupelo Airport.
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Walmart parking lot cleared, local law enforcement conducting 'Foreign Objects and Debris (FOD) checks in prep for landing. Pilot said to be 'BINGO' for fuel within the hour.
I am told this has the potential of not ending well.
[Western Journal] Steve Bannon says a fake call sent armed police to his home on Thursday night.
The practice of calling officers to a home under false pretenses has become known as "swatting." Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was a recent victim, with police sent to her home to deal with a reported shooting that never took place.
Police were summoned to Bannon’s Washington, D.C., home at 7:17 p.m., according to the Daily Mail. President Joe Biden delivered an address to the nation at 8 p.m. ET, labeling former President Donald Trump and his supporters as extremists who "[threaten] the very foundations of our republic."
Bannon said the Biden administration is culpable for the fake call targeting his home.
"This is 100 percent triggered by the White House," he told the Mail.
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I think we literally dodged a bullet. Can you imagine if word came out during or after Biden's speech that DC police had shot Bannon? I don't care what you think of the man, but that would have sounded like a starters pistol to me.
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[Washington Examiner] The leader of the national Black Lives Matter group has been accused of stealing more than $10 million from the charity’s donors.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit group that represents local BLM chapters across the country, accused the BLM Global Network Foundation and its board secretary, Shalomyah Bowers, in a lawsuit Thursday of fraudulently siphoning over $10 million in "fees" to Bowers’s consulting firm. The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, says Bowers treated the BLM Global Network Foundation as his "personal piggy bank" and has acted as a "rogue administrator" and "middle man turned usurper."
The BLM Global Network Foundation represents the national BLM movement and was the entity that received over $90 million in the wake of George Floyd’s police killing in the summer of 2020. Bowers is a close associate of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who resigned from the BLM Global Network Foundation in May 2021 amid scrutiny of her personal real estate purchases.
The lawsuit was announced Thursday at a press conference hosted by BLM-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who accused Bowers of shutting her and other leaders out of social media accounts in March.
[JustTheNews] Segregation. Their nefarious plot is to get person of colour to take out bigger mortgages than they can afford so that they lose not only the house, but also their savings, incidentally ruining their credit ratings so that they will have to pay more for credit in the future.
Not their intention? But that will be the effect nonetheless.
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Gonna repeat the 2008 mortgage meltdown all over again by loaning to people who don't normally qualify for their mortgages and don't have to the cushion to make payments when conditions go south.
I see a great untapped mortgage market in 5 million newly arrived illegal aliens. No income or ID required.
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The blue as well as comments 1 thru 4, all very insightful.
Some fellow homeowners and I are pleading with a local mayor and city council to not embrace a "low income" housing partnership with HUD, a planning company and developer. The body language and attitude displayed by the council at the recent city council meeting mirror that seen by school board meetings caught on national television. To say the council was openly dismissive of it's residents comments and concerns might be accurate. The attitude of "it's a done deal" shut up and eat your oatmeal, was palpable.
Regretfully, it would appear this prosperous, rapidly growing North-Georgia (read that 'escape Atlanta') bedroom community is going to have low-income housing despite citizen concerns and protests.
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Yeah those developments go south after opening pretty quickly, B. When the 'tenants' have no vested interest in keeping their properties in a reasonable condition, and the landlords not having any recourse as HUD will intervene to protect their 'clients', the whole area changes from what you remember.
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/\/\/\ When concerned citizens must register to speak in advance, are only provided 1.5 minutes to speak, when he or she is not responded to from the council or thanked and asked to leave written copies of their concerns for future action, when the 'old business' segment contains no mention of previous meeting citizen concerns, you sort of know what's up.
One older lady gave an impassioned plea regarding the plight of local deer and wildlife. The city council had to visibly restrain their smirks with iphones, mints, and doodling. Body language, it's so revealing.
I believe it's called....going through the motions.
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Unfortunately, BoA is pretty much everything you want a bank to be if you are a typical checking account customer. I go where? Wells Fargo? Pulleeze. PNC. No way.
As it is, credit card skimmers have me using cash to buy gas and small purchases at mom n pops. As long as they service my account reliably, I don't see moving to make a protest that will not even register.
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Love the band. Love the album.
Besoeker said "going through the motions..."
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Forgetting the housing bubble and bad paper mortgage crash of 2008.
However, I can count on all those involved today have paper credentials hanging on their office walls.
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Federal regulators for years have ‘encouraged’ regulated banks to make loans that a normal for profit lending institution would never make. They are usually not made based on race but based on areas with little to no economic activity (which often looks like race based to the casual observer). The fact they are announcing this is just a recognition of the game being played for years. Note that the regulated banks get generous tax breaks and ‘nice’ cooperation from regulators.
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How about this for anyone other than a White Man:
Enroll in College.
Get your $10k student loan.
Use that money to get a campus dorm, cafeteria program.
Go to first few classes to establish your enrollment.
Do some hustles to use loan money, like to buy books for others, then sell them to said person for 75% but straight cash.
Whatever expenses which can be, are paid with the student loan money up to but not over the $10k. Live a little with the football season pass or whatever collegeball thing you like. If not, sell tickets.
Work. Work a couple jobs. With rent and utilities and food paid for, gonna make good money.
Buy the hipster mafia with pizza and long tales of woe about not making the grade in class because the system and working two jobs to make the bills is institutionalism or such junk.
Anyone says poo, scream oppression and turn the hipsters loose.
White dude "tranny" could probably get away with it too. Bonus points for getting a team scholarship.
At worse, get a year's worth of income in 4 months. Maybe get a scholarship for dunking on Susie, or even a job in a HR department since you 'attended college' and have a work history.
[Conservative Daily News] Pension officials in New York City and California have petitioned Visa, Mastercard and American Express to use their technology to track gun purchases, letters obtained by Reuters revealed.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander petitioned Mastercard and American Express to add a "merchant category code," a four-digit code attached to transactions that identifies what sort of transaction they are, specifically for gun purchases, Reuters reported. Lander was joined by a California State Teachers’ Retirement System portfolio manager in making a similar request to Visa, according to Reuters.
The letters, sent Aug. 29, noted that specialized businesses like bowling alleys had a unique merchant category code but that "banks and payment networks cannot readily identify sales made by standalone gun and ammunition retailers," Reuters reported. A Mastercard representative told Reuters that the company supports "all legal purchases while protecting the privacy and decisions of individual cardholders."
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Pensions are depositors, not lenders. They have no liability in how those deposits are used. This is pure gibberish to create an anti-2A intimidation and intelligence system for a STASI government.
[PJ] Reports are coming out of China that indicate it may be on the brink of becoming more unstable. This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Country Garden, one of China’s largest real-estate developers, saw a 96% decline in profit for the first half of the year. The property market in the Communist country has entered a severe depression, as other real estate firms also meltdown in real-time.
Protests have started over frozen bank accounts and mortgage payments for unfinished homes. In China, people get a loan and begin paying the mortgage before their home is built. Sometimes construction can take years. China is also facing a once-in-a-century drought that shut down manufacturing in the Sichuan province, which is home to over 110,000 manufacturing plants.
As the economy stalls and dissatisfaction rises, the nation is heading into its twice-a-decade leadership congress in October. After lifting the rules on presidential term limits, China watchers anticipate President Xi Jinping intends to take an unprecedented third term. To accomplish this, the CCP must quell unrest. Some observers believe repeated COVID-19 lockdowns had more to do with suppressing communication and dissent ahead of the election than the virus.
Many China watchers believe Xi will become more unpredictable as he tries to unite his country behind him ahead of the election. The saber-rattling around Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit is just one example. The CCP is also significantly more clear-eyed about how it views the United States. With China’s increasing ties to Russia, attendance at the Taliban’s one-year anniversary celebration of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, and active plans to challenge the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, it is clear we are no longer even frenemies.
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I think they mean... arming the Solomon's or Venezuela! A direct support with arms for Russia against Ukraine would be the stupidest move they could make, triggering a total West boycott of China by NATO.
So Pelosi goes over there, plays amazing wonder woman championing US-Taiwan alliance, to... field for this $ billon deal for the MIC? Have I got that right?
I don't know, this statement is what made me think.
State Department says that the deal is 'essential for Taiwan's security
Because I don't think the State Department cares jack shit about anyone's security.
[NYT] When Steve Edwards Jr. bought a new Peloton bike in 2020, his life looked pretty different. He had just received a stimulus check from the federal government and was spending most of his time at home. But lately, busy with an infant son and an in-person job at his family’s grocery chain in Little Rock, Ark., he and his wife barely use the bike.
"We used it a ton during Covid," Mr. Edwards, 27, said. Now, though, "we use our free time to do things other than working out." After tucking the bike in a corner of the living room, he moved it upstairs to a spare bedroom. "We have not utilized it enough to warrant the space it takes up," he said.
Mr. Edwards posted his Peloton for sale on Facebook last week, offering the bike, along with weights, two sets of shoes and a mat from Peloton, as well a sheet of plywood he bought to stabilize the bike on a carpet, for $1,300. (Mr. Edwards said he had spent more than $2,000 for the entire package from Peloton, including delivery.) He has not gotten any interest from potential buyers so far.
Peloton has offered a cautionary tale about quickly changing consumer habits. At the height of the pandemic, its business soared as gyms shuttered and Covid restrictions kept people at home. But many who bought Peloton bikes at their peak popularity are now returning to gyms and busy schedules, and some are regretting what might be their most expensive pandemic-era purchase. Sites like Facebook, Craigslist and eBay are flooded with posts offering used Peloton bikes, shoes and weights.
At the same time that many consumers are trying to sell used equipment, Peloton is looking to sell used inventory as well. In August, Peloton ran a 10-day test of its certified pre-owned bike program, which allowed consumers to buy secondhand bikes through the company. On a call with analysts last week, Barry McCarthy, Peloton’s chief executive, said the program was a top priority for the business.
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Sorry to hear that Deacon. Been there, done that. Takes the 'feel good meter' a while before it finally leaves the peg. Nothing you have done. Nothing you could have done. It's not personal, it's just foking binnes in the current environment.
Difficult not to blame one's self, even subconsciously. Don't do it !
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#3 Deacon Blues, excellent advice from #4 Besoeker. I got laid off several times while working. But the Lord always provided me with a better job next time--and in fact, the layoffs sometimes protected me from a disaster that was about to happen at the old company.
Also: The first time it happened, the company provided outplacement services. And the resident psychologist told me that he switched his practice from family psychology to unemployment because "with unemployment there is always a happy ending." And it's true. He also told me that there are ten people out there dying to hire me (you); they just don't know you exist. Your job is to make them know you exist so that they can hire you. And that is also true. So keep your head up and go find the next, better job!
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Had to take a really crappy job after my layoff. Low pay and the boss was a dishonest creep. Had to work there for a whole year before finding a decent job. That was tough. Hope you can do better. But I finally made it to retirement and it's much better now. Hang in there, Deacon.
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Besoeker As soon as I could after the notice I started looking on job sites. I found one for 3 jobs doing what I was doing at the company I worked for. Pay was substantially lower than what I was making. I wasn't the only one, either.
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Landed on your feet. I figured you would. Congrats sojur.
India's top court granted bail Friday to a rights activist arrested after her attempt to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared complicit in deadly sectarian riots 20 years ago.
One of India's worst outbreaks of religious violence saw at least 1,000 people —mostly Moslems — hacked, shot and burned to death in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... when Modi was premier of the western state in 2002.
Teesta Setalvad was detained in June after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit she had backed to challenge a ruling that cleared the leader over the bloodshed.
Critics say Modi's government has sought to pressure activists and rights groups by heavily scrutinising their finances and launching legal action against dissident voices.
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Setalvad had remained in jug for long enough to be questioned over the charges against her.
"In our view, the appellant is entitled to the release on interim bail," a three-judge bench said.
Setalvad, 60, had sought the court's intervention after a Gujarat court deferred its own bail hearing for seven weeks.
Government counsel accused her of forgery and submitting false evidence as part of their claim of a larger conspiracy to destabilise Modi's government.
Two former coppers have been arrested as part of the same case.
Setalvad had filed several lawsuits that accused Modi's administration of failing to stop the violence during the Gujarat riots.
She had supported an appeal filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of a former politician killed by a Hindu mob during the unrest.
She was arrested by anti-terror police in Gujarat a day after the Supreme Court rejected the appeal, drawing concern from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Human Rights Council and sparking protests in several Indian cities.
The 2002 unrest began after 59 Hindus died in a fire that broke out on a train returning from one of Hinduism's most sacred sites.
Thirty-one Moslems were convicted of criminal conspiracy and murder over the incident.
Modi, who ran Gujarat from 2001 until his election as prime minister in 2014, was briefly subject to a travel ban by the United States over the violence.
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Heh. Rioting was an on and off thing in Gujarat since the 40s. Until the last statewide massacre of moslems by Hindus in 2002. The dirty moslems had burnt alive some monks. And that was it. Hindus went on a purge like you wouldn't believe.
Modi was the state chief minister then. He expressly told the police to let the civs sort it out themselves. And they did. The Hindus stood down only after the message was delivered to some measure of sufficiency. The moslems have lived in mortal terror of Hindu overreaction to their sasquatchery since 2002.
This islamophile Marxist bitch was one of the whiners for the 'poor moslems raped and killed and oh mutilated'. She peddled her 'Modi is Hitler reborn!' nonsense from NY to Londonabad, made a career out of it.
The Commander of US Central Command General Michael Erik Kurilla expressed grief over the catastrophic floods that killed over 1,186 lives and submerged a third of the country.
General Michael talked to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa via telephone and offered condolences over the loss of lives in historic flash floods in the country.
CENTCOM is sending an assessment team to Islamabad to determine what potential support the Department of Defence (DoD) can provide to USAID as part of the United States' assistance to the flooding crisis in Pakistain, according to a blurb issued by Centcom on September 2.
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Yes! That's for killing the poor Christian children.
Moslem spawn pick fights with scared little Christian kids, beat them to death, rape little girls and people leave their bodies lying around in streets. There's no 'tranche' or UN inspections for this, no mention even for the FATF's grey, light grey, medium grey, shitty brown classifications.
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Chinooks are supposed to leak. They have a waterfall hydraulic system. If a shithook isn't leaking, don't get on it. It will have a hydraulic failure.
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The Twenty-First Friggen Century and our National Aeronautics and Space Administration can't get a rocket off the ground. Man, the future ain't what it used to be.
A court in Myanmar has placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... a former British ambassador and her spouse for one year for violating immigration laws, sources and media said on Friday, prompting concern from rights activists at secretive trials under military rule.
Vicky Bowman, who runs a group promoting ethical business practices in Myanmar, and her Burmese husband Htein Lin, an artist and former political prisoner, were arrested on August 24 for staying at an address different to the one she had registered under.
Various foreigners, including US, British, Japanese and Australian citizens, have been held since the military seized power last year, arrests that human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups say are designed to discourage dissent and create a climate of fear.
The Myanmar Now news site reported the verdict by a closed-doors court inside Insein prison on the outskirts of Yangon, the commercial capital.
The sentences were confirmed to Rooters by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group and a source with knowledge of the ruling, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to media.
A spokesperson for Britannia’s foreign office said: "We will continue to support Ms Bowman and her family until their case is resolved."
Myanmar’s military government did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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I think this is why the Yurps invented fifteen-iich guns to go on battleships.
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Hey -- is this Assistance Association for Political Prisoners looking for some people to help? There are some in DC being held for "approaching" and "parading".
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The world can live, thrive & survive without a country named Myanmar... It is time to concern ourselves with legality, yes, but not at the cost of obvious bias against political or social descent... May the international organizations for human & civil rights prevail in their defense of these two people... otherwise make an example of a military junta dictating ... bear arms and use them... against the junta... they have been in dictatorial power too long. Myanmar should be made an example for "not this type of government" Ever
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Good luck with your efforts Bowman supporters.
"You Would Need An 'F-15' Not A 'Gun' To Fight Government."
~ Brandon
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The Myanmar junta is currently the only thing suppressing the Rohingya degeneracy from going rampant in the region. It is supported by both India and China. Because it's the lesser evil. The global Left seeks to regime change it back into some limpdick liberal hands. There are entrenched agents of dissent and 'activists' in the liberal elite. Actors, writers, academics and artists whose hearts bleed for the Rohingya and they dream of a 'democracy' that is easy on the moslem. Bowman's husband is a prominent artist.
I'm not saying it's right. I'll say we don't know the whole story here.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Conservative Daily News] Pension officials in New York City and California have petitioned Visa, Mastercard and American Express to use their technology to track gun purchases, letters obtained by Reuters revealed.
