[WSB-TV2] SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia man is heading back to federal prison after 14 years of robbing banks caught up to him.
David Wayne Stanley, 59, pleaded guilty to robbing a Savannah bank in October 2023. After his guilty plea, he was sentenced to 13 years and four months in federal prison and to pay $6,677 in restitution. After that, he’ll also have to serve another year in prison for committing the robbery while he was on supervised release for another bank robbery.
Prosecutors say that Stanley walked into a Wells Fargo bank and told two tellers that he had a gun and demanded the cash from their drawers. Investigators were able to identify the getaway car as Stanley’s and arrested at his home.
It’s not the first time he’s been convicted of robbing a bank.
He previously served a state sentence in Texas for robbing seven banks in 2009. In 2016, he was sentenced to federal prison for another Savannah bank robbery, which he was on supervised release for at the time of the 2023 robbery.
Stanley also faced multiple charges in Texas for more robberies in the days leading up to the 2023 robbery, but has not been convicted of those.
"Stanley’s prior prison time was apparently not enough of a teaching moment for him because he returned to his bank robbing ways while he was still on parole for the last bank robbery he committed," said Will Clarke, Senior Supervisory Special Agent of FBI Atlanta’s Savannah office.
[NYP] Amigrant accused of shooting two NYPD officers claimed a vicious Venezuelan gang is smuggling guns into shelters by stuffing them in food delivery bags, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, will be placed in protective custody after his explosive accusations against the notorious Tren de Aragua gang during a Queens criminal court hearing.
Castro Mata told cops in hospital-bed confessions that he’s a member of the gang and was directed to commit robberies, according to audio recordings read by prosecutors.
[PJ] A 37-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador was arrested after shooting and killing two employees at a Chick-fil-A in Irving, Texas, on Wednesday, say local authorities.
The Irving Police Department identified the shooter as Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta. He opened fire on workers at the establishment at around 3:40 PM local time on June 26.
The illegal alien from El Salvador has been charged with multiple counts of capital homicide for the incident at the Chick-fil-A, according to police.
Federal immigration authorities confirmed that Mendoza Argueta was in the United States illegally.
Officers responding to the scene found two critically injured victims inside the Chick-fil-A building, but both were shortly pronounced dead at the scene by EMTs who arrived immediately after the shootings.
[BLAZE] Employees at Retreat Behavioral Health have been left without answers after a number of facilities closed down after the sudden suicide of two top executives, according to the Daily Mail.
The rehabilitation company has locations in Connecticut, Florida, and Philadelphia, but they suddenly closed down their facility in Palm Beach, Florida, last week. Employees were reportedly told that about 100 mental health and substance use patients were told to pack up and leave the facility. Thirty of the 100 patients were said to have nowhere to go.
The Connecticut and Pennsylvania locations were also abruptly shut down after the deaths of CEO Peter Schorr and CAO Scott Korogodsky, according to the report. Korogodsky took the helm as the leader of the company after Schorr committed suicide inside his home in Delray Beach, according to a second report.
[HILL] The 1956 movie "The Conqueror" is infamous among cinephiles, both for its casting of John Wayne as the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan and for a suspicious number of deaths that followed its filming downwind of a nuclear test site. Nearly 70 years later, the makers of the documentary "The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout" hope to tell the story of the affected "downwinder" community in St. George, Utah, near where the film shot as their federal compensation for radiation exposure is on the line.
At the time "The Conqueror" filmed in the Utah desert just outside the town, St. George was 137 miles downwind from the Nevada Test Site, where the federal government conducted more than 900 nuclear tests.
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for years insisted to locals there was no danger, and when ranchers’ sheep began mysteriously dying, the federal government blamed it on the ranchers’ negligence.
But after the movie was shot, observers noted the high rate of cancer among people involved with the filming: 91 of 220 crew members developed the illness, and 46 died. Director Dick Powell and stars Wayne, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead all eventually died of cancer as well, while Pedro Armendáriz Sr., an accomplished Mexican actor and the only nonwhite member of the film’s main cast, died by suicide when his cancer became terminal.
Local Paiute Native Americans were used as extras for crowd and battle scenes, but no records were kept of cancer rates among them.
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....This has been known - or at least suspected - for decades. And of course, the Duke's multi-pack a day cigarette habit couldn't have had anything to do with it.
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Check out "Cold War Warriors" and the Savannah River Plant (Aiken SC.) or the Hartford (Site W) plant in remote Washington State. The Cancer / Death rates at these, were Mega x's higher than the UTAH incident.
At the Savannah River plant alone, there were 30++ very serious incidents and highly elevated levels of cancer among workers and area residents. I personally have seen many a SRP worker (my Uncle included) in a Paper Suits. He died of Leukemia in the early 70's, and his wife of the same a few years later.
Note: Parts of nearby Ga experienced its share of related events also.
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St. George sits at the top of the Virgin River canyon on the Colorado Plateau which rises approx 2000 ft from the Nevada desert.
The river channel serves as a chimney for the hot desert air which rises to the high desert plateau passing thru Hurricane UT, gateway to Zion and the Great Basin national parks.
"In the early 1950s, St. George received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing at the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through the St. George and southern Utah area."
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Oh, it's a beautiful spot if you're a desert rat.
@45 min drive from Las Vegas. I lived north of there a number of years in Cedar City UT, making oxidizer for the Space Shuttle.
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[Regnum] Rebels from the M23 movement have taken control of the city of Kirumba in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the France Presse (AFP) agency reported.
“The large object has been in the hands of M23 since yesterday evening,” the agency quoted an administration official as saying.
According to the publication, the rebels continued to move north from Kirumba.
Earlier, on June 29, local media reported that the rebels had captured the strategically important town of Kanyabayonga in the same province. They entered the town on June 28. It was noted that government troops and fighters from the irregular forces of Wazelendo had been resisting for a month.
As Regnum reported, on May 19, the official representative of the country's Armed Forces, Brigadier General Sylvain Ekenge, announced the prevention of a coup attempt in Kinshasa. He added that the military had arrested all participants in the conspiracy, including the leaders. Ekenge did not disclose their names.
It was later reported that the leader of the rebels who had attempted the coup had been eliminated. According to the Actu30 portal, the man was shot by the military. The rest of the rebel group were immediately arrested. Their uniforms were emblazoned with the flag of Zaire (the country's former name), the men spoke English, French and Lingala, and claimed to be "representatives of the diaspora."
On May 20, Ekenge officially announced that the rebel group included not only Congolese, but also foreigners, including those from the United States and Great Britain. According to him, law enforcement officers eliminated four putschists, including the rebel leader, "naturalized American of Congolese origin" Christian Mahlangu. In total, about 40 attackers were detained, of whom, as the general stated, one was a "naturalized Briton."
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[Regnum] The British Navy's 2024 Trident II nuclear missile tests ended in failure, indicating serious risks to the country's security, The New Yorker reported on June 30.
The publication cites the opinion of former First Sea Lord Admiral Alan West, who commented on the situation.
“Let's not pretend. It's a shame, " he said.
Journalists note that what happened was expected, since the kingdom's nuclear infrastructure and weapons are becoming outdated and require repair or replacement. The authors of the article cited the example of the submarine HMS Vanguard, which was used for testing. The submarine has been in service with the British Navy for 30 years instead of the 25 years required by regulations.
West also told the magazine that Britain's nuclear deterrent was currently in a very vulnerable position, adding that this was a matter of grave concern.
As Regnum reported, in February information appeared that Britain had unsuccessfully launched a Trident II intercontinental ballistic missile. The shell misfired abruptly and fell into the ocean a few meters from HMS Vanguard, from which it was launched.
The tests were carried out at the end of January as part of exercises off the coast of Florida. British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard at the time of launch. The Trident II launch failure was the second such incident after a misfire in 2016.
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[REGNUM] As part of the Valiant Shield exercises, military maneuvers conducted by the United States in the Pacific Ocean, the Americans tested the latest high-precision ballistic missiles for combating ships. Two PrSM missiles were launched from a launcher located on the territory of the Palau International Airport in the island state of the same name. The June 16 firing marked the first time the missiles have been used outside of U.S. test ranges or inside the United States. The PrSM rounds, which are replacing the ATACMS, were fired from a prototype AML unmanned rocket launcher based on the U.S. HIMARS, although the latter is also compatible with the new missiles. In short, this tandem of innovation, with PrSM and AML participating in joint live-fire exercises, preceded the culmination of military sinking exercises (SINKEX), which involves the destruction of decommissioned ships while testing weapons.
As if you needed yet another reason NOT to fly commercial.
[View From The Wing] The Philadelphia airport made a decision this year to allow concessions operators to charge passengers more than their posted prices. They’re now allowed to add a 3% surcharge onto whatever you buy.
This is "to offset the employee wages and benefits" that must be paid to airport workers
But this is not money that goes to employees.
You might ask, why allow vendors to charge people more than the marked prices, instead of just raising prices?
The airport doesn’t allow them to raise prices, because they have price caps ("Operators are only permitted to charge up to 15% more than a comparable street-side unit")
Vendors who already charge more than comparable stores off-airport aren’t allowed to raise prices
So they pretend that a surcharge isn’t a price increase
Of course, stores off-airport have been raising prices as the country generally has experienced about 20% inflation over the past four years. Airport vendors have raised prices, too. And since the price cap is based on a percentage over ‘street pricing’ the dollar amount of the gap between outside prices and airport prices has grown, too.
The airport wants to allow prices to rise, but chooses not to allow the percentage gap to grow. They’d rather hide the growth in an opaque ‘surcharge’.
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"Now, each vendor is required to inform customers of the surcharge… but it doesn’t have to be on hanging menu boards for instance, instead just at “point-of-sale register counter cards” and “on all printed receipts” (so you’re told about the surcharge after you’ve already been charged)."
In Germany that would definitely be illegal.
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if this works, the Democrats will want to take this strategy nationally
raising prices without inflation
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Wally World shelf shown price vs. checkout price has been a frequent issue lately. That's why we have been taking price pictures of what we put in the cart. It has already saved us more than a just a few $$. Or we have the cashier delete the item from the sell.
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[Regnum] Ten battalion groups of the North Atlantic Alliance with a total strength of about 20 thousand people are located near the border of Belarus with the countries of the European Union.The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic, Pavel Muraveiko, announced this on June 30 on the ONT TV channel.
"Today, there are ten NATO battalion tactical groups with a total of over 20,000 people located near our borders. Of these, six are American," Muraveiko said.
According to him, the location of the North Atlantic Alliance contingent near the borders of Belarus is an irritant for the Belarusian military.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus also emphasized that the Belarusian side is doing everything possible to prevent an escalation of tensions, despite provocations from NATO.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Pavel Muraveiko previously reported that a difficult situation had developed on the border between Belarus and Ukraine. In particular, he pointed to the increased activity of Ukrainian unmanned aircraft, mining and the build-up of engineering barriers along the state border from the Ukrainian side, and the deployment of a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel on the border with Belarus. Thus, the Ukrainian command pulled special forces units of the 1st presidential brigade into Ovruch in the Zhytomyr region.
On June 30, the head of the anti-aircraft missile forces department of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Andrei Severinchik, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had concentrated units with long-range unmanned aerial vehicles on the border with Belarus, including drones capable of striking deep into the republic. He emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrating air defense forces near the border, despite the lack of air defense systems in other directions.
The United States of America has placed several of its military bases in Europe on high alert due to fears that a terrorist attack will be carried out on the American military, CNN reported on June 30, citing information from two American officials.
The interlocutors told journalists that such measures were taken, among others, at the US Army garrison in Stuttgart, Germany. The headquarters of the US European Command is located there. The security level was raised to the second highest level.
One official at the base in Europe told the TV channel that such a high level of readiness had not been seen there in the last ten years. This means that information about the threat was received from reliable sources, he emphasized.
Journalists turned to European Command spokesman Dan Day for comment. He declined to provide specific details, noting that the US military constantly evaluates many factors that affect the security of overseas bases.
The TV channel also pointed out that European authorities had previously announced a potential terrorist threat in connection with the European Football Championship, which is taking place in Germany, and the Olympic Games, which are to be held in Paris.
As Regnum reported, on June 5, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced the risk of a major coordinated terrorist attack in the United States. According to him, there are groups that are inspired by attacks on American bases in the Middle East.
Since the beginning of the year, a number of US bases located in the Middle East have come under attack. In particular, in April, a missile attack on a base in Syria was carried out by Shiite armed groups belonging to the Islamic Resistance of Iraq. The shelling was carried out from Iranian territory.
[France24] Police in three countries searched the offices of French defence company Thales this week over suspected corruption involving arms sales abroad, notably to Brazil, a judicial source said Saturday.
Officers in La Belle France, the Netherlands and Spain carried out the searches between Wednesday and Friday, the source told AFP, confirming a report from French broadcaster BFMTV.
The police searches were triggered by two separate investigations, said the source.
The first, opened at the end of 2016, into suspected corruption of a foreign official, criminal association and money laundering involved the sale of submarines and the construction of naval base in Brazil.
The second, opened in June 2023, concerned similar offences linked to the sale of military and civilian equipment abroad, the source added.
Thales and its lawyer, contacted for comment, have so far not responded.
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[Regnum] The dry cargo ship Lady Ayana, which was sailing from Russia under the flag of Barbados, has been trying to be refloated off the coast of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara for the third day.
According to RIA Novosti, as of 15:00 Moscow time, the dry cargo ship continues to remain aground off the coast of Istanbul, from where at least two tugboats are trying to remove it. There are strong waves at sea. Sometimes the snark writes itself.
Earlier, the Turkish Ministry of Transport sent a tugboat and a boat to the ship to evacuate the crew.
As Regnum reported, on June 28, the cargo ship carrying wheat Lady Ayana ran aground off the coast of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara. The KEGM-3 high-speed rescue boat and the Rescue-10 tugboat were sent to the scene of the incident to evacuate the crew.
In late January, the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Peria blocked traffic in the Bosphorus. The ship's anchor broke due to bad weather. Several hours later, traffic was restored and the tanker was towed to a berth in Istanbul.
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[Federalist] Justice Amy Coney Barrett painted Big Tech’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop stories four years ago as a safeguard against foreign interference in an official Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.
In what could have been a landmark censorship case, Barrett, who wrote the majority opinion in Murthy v. Missouri, characterized tech giants’ reactionary censorship of the laptop story as a good-faith effort to minimize Russian meddling in the 2020 election.
After summarizing social media companies’ content moderation programs throughout the coronavirus epidemic, Barrett wrote "platforms also applied their misinformation policies during the 2020 Presidential election season."
[NPR June 2023] In 2021, a Chinese company bought land near an Air Force base in Grand Forks, N.D., sending lawmakers into a frenzy.
Lawmakers feared that China, which many policymakers view as a strategic adversary even though it's the country's top trading partner outside North America, could gain control over the U.S. food and energy supply, as well as a hold on markets and critical infrastructure.
Although Chinese-owned land is a tiny fraction of all foreign-owned land in the U.S., its purchases have raised fears that the Chinese government could have control, through the Chinese corporations, over U.S. assets or gain access to U.S.-based information. Indeed, during the past four decades, Chinese companies and investors have bought up land in the U.S. as well as purchased major food companies like Smithfield Foods, the United States' largest pork processor. Corporations own the majority of that land. Now legislation in Congress would restrict Chinese ownership of U.S. land.
"I don't know that we know for sure all the foreign land that potentially is owned by Chinese individuals or folks controlled by the Chinese government," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who is skeptical of Chinese land ownership in the U.S., told NPR.
Those fears come amid broader tensions between the two countries on issues as varied as Taiwan, trade and Chinese intelligence gathering. Chinese acquisitions in the U.S., no matter how benign or how minor, are being viewed through that same lens.
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[Regnum] US NATO allies fear that the Democratic Party's decision to replace US President Joe Biden with another candidate in the upcoming elections could strengthen the position of Russia and China, CNN said on June 30, interviewing a number of diplomats from the alliance countries.
"Diplomats fear that removing a candidate so late in the election cycle could undermine stability, allowing China and Russia to criticize the U.S. democratic system," the reporters said.
It is noted that there is no concern about Biden's ability to make decisions, as they are confident in his entourage.
According to the channel, Biden's removal from the elections will confirm his incompetence, and this will undermine stability in the West, and European countries want stability most of all.
As Regnum reported, a poll published on June 30 showed that 72% of American voters would like another candidate to be nominated instead of Biden in the presidential election. They doubt his mental abilities. 49% of respondents were against Trump's participation in the election.
Biden and Trump held their first election debate on the night of June 28, Moscow time. ABC reported that after this, Democratic Party supporters became concerned about how poorly the incumbent president had performed and began en masse to demand that he be replaced by another candidate. They demanded that a younger and more competent candidate be nominated in the elections.
War is good because it reduces the population and as we all know, Overpopulation is the #1 problem our planet faces.
On the other hand, war throws up a lot of dust and smoke which is bad because Pollution is the other #1 problem our planet faces.
However, smoke and dust reflect sunlight which helps cool the planet and reduces Global Warming which is also the #1 problem our planet faces, so that is good.
I'm so confused.
As for the Chinese, they have a lot of experience managing what might be called client relations. We're not the first big-nosed barbarians they have run into.
[Breitbart] A rocket belonging to a Chinese civilian aerospace manufacturer crashed into a mountain after accidentally launching Sunday, the company announced.
Space Pioneer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology, was attempting a ground test with their Tianlong-3 rocket when a “structural failure” caused it to separate from the launch pad, a statement obtained by CNN said.
“Due to the structural failure of the connection between the rocket body and the test platform, the first-stage rocket was separated from the launch pad,” the company stated.
“After liftoff, the onboard computer was automatically shut down, and the rocket fell into the deep mountains 1.5 kilometers [0.9 miles] southwest of the test platform. The rocket body fell into the mountain and disintegrated.”
Videos shared on social media by onlookers shows the moment the rocket was launched before falling and causing a fiery explosion:
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Noted the interesting chosen launch area itself.
Compare that to most US ICBM sites in the wide open fields. It was surrounded by mountains and hills. Thus making it a difficult target to take out in a Preemptive or EMP situation.
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[Regnum] The orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted by 1.36 kilometers in preparation for the autumn crew changeover. Roscosmos reported this on Sunday, June 30.
“Today, the ISS orbit was adjusted to ensure the launch of the manned Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-25, planned for September 2024,” says a message published on the official website of the Russian state corporation.
It is noted that the engines of the Progress MS-25 cargo ship started at 01:39 Moscow time and worked for 536 seconds, producing an impulse of 0.78 m/s. Thus, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 1.36 kilometers.
Roscosmos recalled that the launch of the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, according to the plan, will take place on September 11. The main crew of the expedition to the ISS includes Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it was previously reported that the Progress MS-29 cargo ship, delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome on June 17, will depart for the International Space Station in the fall of 2024. The cargo ship was installed in the work area for the acceptance procedure and subsequent conservation, specialists checked the operation of the mechanisms for deploying solar panels.
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[Regnum] The potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 MK missed the Earth at a distance of about 300,000 km. This was reported on June 30 by the press service of the Institute of Applied Mathematics named after. Keldysh Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Last night, the network’s telescopes monitored the flight of the potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 MK, which missed the Earth by about 300,000 km,” the report says.
The institute clarified that this asteroid is a relatively large celestial rock of the Apollo group.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 27, the asteroid 2011 UL21 approached the Earth at a distance of approximately 6.4 million km, which was the smallest value for this celestial body in more than 100 years. The asteroid was called the "planet killer" for its ability to cause large-scale damage and throw a significant amount of "garbage" into the atmosphere upon impact, which could provoke global climate change. The size of the celestial body is larger than the dimensions of 99% of objects that pass close to the Earth.
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.
[Federalist] Justice Amy Coney Barrett painted Big Tech’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop stories four years ago as a safeguard against foreign interference in an official Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.
