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The Federal Bureau of Investigations has released more than 500 pages of previously classified documents about the investigation of a Horizon Airlines plane stolen from Sea-Tac Airport and crashed on Ketron Island in 2018 by a ground services worker. One new piece of information that was released surrounded what was in a spiral notebook of 29-year-old Richard “Beeboo” Russell, who stole and flew an empty Horizon Air Bombardier Q400. The FBI noted that Russell wrote about then-President Donald Trump and the effects his immigration policies were having. He wrote he had the desire to do something that would benefit all...

Why is a Senate office building named for a racist? While the secular Taliban of the Left has been busily destroying statues like they’re ISIS in Palmyra, scrubbing American history and reducing Founders, such as Declaration of Independence authors, to racist caricatures, they’ve missed one big, glaring target: the Russell Senate Office building. But there’s big reason why groups such as antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other professional protesters probably don’t want to touch the issue. The building, previously known as the Old Senate Office Building, was renamed for Georgia’s Senator Richard Russell, a Democrat, in 1972. Senator Russell, a...

A Racist's Name Is on a Senate Office Building. Here's Why BLM Won't Want to Change It Why is a Senate office building named for a racist? While the secular Taliban of the Left has been busily destroying statues like they’re ISIS in Palmyra, scrubbing American history and reducing Founders, such as Declaration of Independence authors, to racist caricatures, they’ve missed one big, glaring target: the Russell Senate Office building. But there’s big reason why groups such as antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other professional protesters probably don’t want to touch the issue. The building, previously known as the Old...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this weekend that he will introduce a resolution to rename the Senate's Russell Office Building for Sen. John McCain, who died on Saturday at his home in Arizona. McCain died 13 months after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. Schumer, D-New York, praised his colleague as an American patriot and said he would introduce the resolution “so that generations remember him." "As you go through life, you meet few truly great people," Schumer said in a statement. "John McCain was one of them. His dedication to his country and the...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., intends to introduce a resolution in the Senate to rename a Senate office building after the late Sen. John McCain, he announced Saturday. McCain, R-Ariz., died Saturday at 81 following his battle with brain cancer. His death comes after the senator’s family announced Friday he would be discontinuing medical treatment. Schumer, along with other congressional leaders, praised McCain for his service in the military and the Senate, as well as his patriotism and courage.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Saturday he will push to rename one of the Senate’s office buildings after the late Sen. John McCain. The building Mr. Schumer has in mind is the Russell Senate Office Building, named after Sen. Richard Russell Jr. Mr. Russell was a conservative Democrat from Georgia who was seen as an opponent of the civil rights movement, making his name on a Senate building controversial.

The family of a man who authorities say stole a Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed it on an island in Puget Sound on Friday night, said news of the incident was a "complete shock" to them. Statement from Russell's family: "... Beebo was a warm, compassionate man. It is impossible to encompass who he was in a press release. He was a faithful husband, a loving son, and a good friend. …This is a complete shock to us." https://t.co/vQYcZMa0Y0 — Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) August 12, 2018 Richard Russell, 29, who is presumed dead, was...

The worker, who worked for Horizontal Air at Seattle Tacoma Airport for nearly four years according to his Linkedn account operated as a ground service agent and operations agent loading bags. ...worker’s personal blog revealed Russell living in Pierce County with his wife, Hannah who he married in 2011 after meeting her in school the year before. The ground service agent, referred to as ‘Rich’ and ‘Richard’ by air traffic controllers, was born in Key West, Florida and moving to Alaska as a child. ... Russell and Hannah opened a bakery called Hannah Marie’s Bakery in North Bend, Oregon and...

Richard Russell, who dreamed of being in the military and once ran a bakery with his wife, was identified as the suicidal airport mechanic who stole an airplane from Sea-Tac International Airport and took it on a dramatic unauthorized flight, where it was chased by fighter planes as he attempted “stunts” in the air before the plane crashed. The man known as “Rich” in air traffic control audio and dubbed the “skyking” on Twitter broke hearts on social media as people followed the unauthorized flight because it came to a fatal end. The incident led to a dramatic and tragic...

RICHARD RUSSELL: I've Never Seen Anything Like This 'Post-Crash Upward Correction' Sam RoMarch 7, 2013, 10:37 AM Dow Theorist Richard Russell, a long-time bear on the markets, recognizes that a Dow Theory buy signal has appeared. But he has doubts. "History was made when the Dow rose to a new record high and finally confirmed the prior record high put in by the Transports," said Russell via KingWorldNews. "The question now becomes -- what do we have here, a weird kind of bear market or a new bull market? In a nutshell, the Dow Theory says that if Dow transportation...

Dow Theorist Richard Russell: Fiat Money Is Headed To The Graveyard, And The Gold Boom Hasn't Even Begun Joe Weisenthal Sep. 10, 2010, 7:02 AM Well, you can't be too surprised that Dow Theorist Richard Russell is gloomy. That's his thing, but you have to give him credit, he has a way with words. In his latest weekly commentary, which is excerpted at King World News, he declares the impending death of Fiat Money, and thus an ensuing boom in gold. He writes: In the big picture, I believe we're going to put fiat money to the test. Fiat money...

Dow Theorist: Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year Joe Weisenthal May. 18, 2010, 8:57 AM Image: US Army WHOA! Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today's note: Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there's a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don't need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won't recognize the country....

This Chart Is Proof That Richard Russell's Crash Prediction Will Come True Joe Weisenthal May. 18, 2010, 1:26 PM Earlier we brought you the latest alarming comments from noted Dow Theorist Richard Russell, who is advising people to sell everything they can, ahead of a radical change in America. You think that's hyperbolic and ridiculous? Well consider this, from a reader, who writes: I've been watching the charts and listening to Bob Prechter and we are in a wave C down cycle that will be very swift and steep. Now are you convinced?[snip]

Digging into City Hall's money mess LANDLORD OF OPPORTUNITY National City mayor's units have made him millions while tenants fight vermin, disrepair By Leslie Wolf Branscomb and Tanya Sierra UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS December 15, 2005 Nick Inzunza, mayor of National City and candidate for state Assembly, passionately talks about how hard he works to improve the lives of poor people by giving voice to their struggles. He has publicly taken credit for investing the millions he has made in real estate "to create affordable housing in the inner city." What Inzunza never mentions, though, is that nearly all of the...