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~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Marines Save The World & Eat Food! U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Caden Lloyd, left, the food service officer for MCAS Iwakuni, and a Florida native, left, and Sgt. Maj. Jody Armentrout, right, the sergeant major of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and a Texas native, pose for a group photo during the Food Pantry cooking competition held by Matthew C. Perry High School at MCAS Iwakuni Japan, April 18, 2024.The students of M.C. Perry High School were tasked with creating unique dishes with non-perishable items such as spam,...

For the first time in 30 years, Argentina experienced a zero-percent increase in the inflation rates of food and drinks during the third week of June, President Javier Milei confirmed on Monday morning. A study published on Sunday by Econométrica, a private Argentine consulting firm, first reported the no-inflation week. In its study, Econométrica analyzed 8,000 prices in local online supermarkets and found no change when compared to the preceding week — something that has not happened in Argentina in three decades. In addition to the lack of variation in prices in one week, the study found that the prices...

It’s a little early for an October surprise… but just on time to prop Joe up in ANOTHER debate with his Republican rival. The last time around, Blinken (who was part of Joe’s campaign team) called in a favor from 51 people from the Intelligence Community to write a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell as ‘Russian disinformation’. They had no first-hand information about that laptop or its contents. The DNI director, Ratcliffe, specifically repudiated claims that it was Russian disinformation in mid-October 2020. That didn’t stop Biden from lying in the debate while social media was pressured...

The 2024 election is Donald Trump's to lose. Right now, he is running even with Joe Biden in all the national polls. He's running ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; he's running even in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; he's closing within striking distance in Minnesota and New Hampshire. The map has radically expanded for him. Meanwhile, Biden's approval ratings are stagnant: he's stuck at below 40%. Americans' view of the economy remains dim, as does their view of Biden's foreign policy. What's more, Americans' perceptions of the two candidates are unlikely to change dramatically before the election. Biden has been...

June 25, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement urging Canadians to leave Lebanon while they can: “The safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad is Canada’s top priority.” “The security situation in Lebanon is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable due to sustained and escalating violence between Hezbollah and Israel and could deteriorate further without warning. “My message to Canadians has been clear since the beginning of the crisis in the Middle East: it is not the time to travel to Lebanon. And for...

Many Seattle-area rideshare drivers plan to shut down their services Wednesday because they say safety demands aren’t being met. This comes after investigators say a driver was assaulted in a case where’s he’s been charged with kidnapping and raping a woman. The Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association is demanding a "fair and just trial." On top of shutting down operations, the drivers will protest starting at a Tukwila mosque and end at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The SRDA is a group that advocates for gig workers in the area. Thurston County investigators claim driver Ahmed Hassan Ali, 58, marked a woman’s ride...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals now stare oblivion in the face. In 1993, just-retired prime minister Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives, after winning two majorities, were reduced to only two seats in Parliament. The PCs had been competitive in every election since their creation in 1940. They traded government with the Liberals through 16 elections. They had imposed the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Voters saw it every time they bought anything. It replaced the usefully invisible Manufacturer’s Sales Tax. Today’s Liberals have their own tax disaster. The carbon levy is at least as unpopular today as the GST was in...

Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a joint letter Tuesday warning of what they see as economic risks if former President Donald Trump were to serve a second term, including reheated inflation. “While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump’s,” the economists wrote. Axios was first to report the letter. “There is rightly a worry that Donald Trump will reignite this inflation, with his fiscally irresponsible budgets,” wrote the group of politically progressive academics...

HOUSTON, Texas — Little Jocelyn Nungaray fought back against her attackers after she was lured under a Houston bridge and assaulted for two hours — leaving scratch and bite marks on one of the illegal migrants who is accused of killing her, prosecutors revealed Tuesday. Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 21, still had the marks Jocelyn left on him when he was arrested, Assistant District Attorney Megan Long said in a Harris County court. Martinez-Rangel’s alleged accomplice, Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, told cops he tried to convince Martinez-Rangel to stop but he allegedly refused and climbed on top of the girl...

Head for the (fire) exit! Westchester County Executive George Latimer sent Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) packing from Congress Tuesday night, easily winning the 16th District’s Democratic primary over the far-left “Squad” member. Latimer, 70, will be heavily favored to defeat Republican Madeline Brame in the Nov. 5 election to represent the deep-blue Bronx and Westchester constituency. Bowman’s four-year House tenure will come to an end following the most expensive congressional primary ever in terms of ad spending – a race which pitted pro-Bowman groups like Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party against an alliance of moderates turned off by...

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A judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump's gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction but keeping others connected to the case off limits at least until he's sentenced July 11. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s ruling — just days before Trump’s debate Thursday with President Joe Biden — clears the presumptive Republican nominee to again go on the attack against his former lawyer Michael Cohen, porn actor Stormy Daniels and other witnesses. Trump was convicted May 30 of falsifying records to cover up...

How many Ukrainian civilians have been killed by missiles, drones and artillery fired from the Crimean peninsula? How many of those munitions were made in Iran or North Korea? It is highly doubtful that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would use its limited ATACMS munitions to attack non-military targets — particularly as at no point during the war up to now has Ukraine intentionally targeted Russian civilians. Rather, it is more likely that the Russian beachgoers were killed not by ATACMS or other US-made weapons, but by Russian military 9M330 air defense missiles fired by Moscow’s TOR-M2 anti-aircraft platform. Early...

A video has just surfaced revealing the arrest of Joseph Iniguez, a top aide to controversial (George Soros) Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon. The incident occurred during a traffic stop in 2021 as Iniguez and his then-fiance were returning from a wedding. Iniguez, who was Gascon’s chief of staff at the time, was captured on video asserting, “You’ve pulled over the wrong person, let me tell you.” He went on to urge the officers to check his license plates, insinuating that his status as a high-ranking prosecutor should exempt him from scrutiny. The video also shows Iniguez repeatedly instructing...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Base Alameda, CaliforniaCoast Guard Base Alameda also referred to as Coast Guard Island is an artificial island in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda, California. It is home to several major United States Coast Guard commands and cutters, including the Coast Guard Pacific Area. It is one of the largest Coast Guard bases on the West Coast. From 1942 until 1982, the island was the site of the Coast Guard's recruiting training center (boot camp), enlisting and training hundreds of thousands of Coasties including many of the 214,239...

Traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is temporarily suspended late Monday morning as the Dali — a cargo ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, leading to its collapse — makes its journey to port in Norfolk, Virginia. The Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that traffic is temporarily paused on the Bay Bridge, as of 11 a.m. In an earlier statement, the Maryland Transport Authority (MDTA) said that “out of an abundance of caution,” it would be holding traffic on the Bay Bridge on Monday between 11 a.m. and noon as the marine vessel Dali passes beneath. The...

15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, killed in terrorist attack in Dagestan. Foreign Ministry: No Israelis or Jews among the victims. X link

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~Lori Piestewa Info from here. SPC Lori Ann Piestewa (December 14, 1979 March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier killed during the same Iraqi Army attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Jessica Lynch sustained injuries. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed...

Tories are a discredited disgrace, Labour is out of touch, immigration continues at levels too hard to manage, so he's come out of retirement to head a party in opposition to Labour. Also talks of Covid travesty of lockdowns, vaxes for kids, masks, beleaguered small businessmen, his days in the EU parliament, constant flotilla of illegals crossing the Channel. He was the first to call it an invasion. Entire speech is rich with substance.

A White House official who stoked controversy with social media posts attacking police, supporting the anti-Israel movement, and promoting "Russiagate," is now downplaying these posts, saying that they were written when he was younger and do not reflect his current views. Tyler Cherry was promoted last week as an associate communications director at the White House, after more than three years at the Department of Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland. The promotion brought renewed attention to some of Cherry’s past incendiary posts.