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~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Welcome Home, Dad! VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (July 13, 2021) Families welcome home Sailors assigned to the “Gunslingers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 105 on Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana during the squadron’s homecoming. VFA-105, part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 embarked on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), returns to NAS Oceana after a regularly scheduled deployment in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed on Wednesday that a whistleblower had provided him with emails proving the U.S. military cooperating with the Biden regime to secretly transport illegal immigrants across the country and into American cities. “This show has confirmed that the Biden administration has enlisted the U.S. military to move illegal immigrants secretly around our country,’ Carlson stated during the opening of his show on Wednesday. “That is happening at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. We know it’s happening there because a man called Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Burrows sent his subordinates an email spelling it out very...

The over/under total on the WNBA All-Star Game moved more than 50 points Wednesday, a historic line movement on a number that a Las Vegas oddsmaker calls the "worst I ever made." Las Vegas sportsbook Circa Sports, the first to hang an over/under on the total points scored in the game, opened it at 248.5. An hour before the game tipped off, the total was sitting at 195.5. The 53-point movement was the largest shift that multiple veteran bookmakers could ever recall, and it wasn't caused by any attempt at corruption or by a rush of big wagers. Instead, it...

Now Biden's door-knockers packing vaccines with them Report confirms they are providing shots on the spot Bob Unruh By Bob Unruh Published July 14, 2021 at 5:08p The newest version of Joe Biden's "Big Brother" agenda, which already features strike forces going door-to-door asking people about their COVID vaccinations, now has members of a coalition knocking on doors and giving shots on the spot. A report from PJMedia explains, "Joe Biden wasn’t kidding. When his spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the Biden administration would send people door-to-door to convince people to get the COVID shot, there was a chill sent down...

Trump Republicans protested at the Michigan Republican Party’s headquarters in Lansing, Michigan back in May. They were upset that the Executive Director of the State Party, Jason Roe, had made repeated dismissive and NeverTrump statements to GOP groups. Candidates and activists wanted to get the attention of the new Party Chairman to fire Roe. In May, Roe was at a Michigan political event where he got into arguments with several Republican activists and candidates for office about the Trump legacy and about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Roe told conservatives they were idiots for supporting Trump, idiots...

BEIJING—Chinese banks are facing the threat of rising bad loans in the future as the current economic recovery is unbalanced and lacks a solid foundation, the country’s top banking and insurance watchdog said on Wednesday. Outstanding non-performing loans in the banking sector stood at 3.5 trillion yuan ($540.79 billion) by end of June, an increase of 108.3 billion yuan ($16.7 billion) from the beginning of the year, while the bad loan ratio declined to 1.86 percent, Liu Zhongrui, an official at the statistics department of China Banking and Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), told reporters in Beijing. China has implemented monetary and...

The DC Swamp is launching an investigation into the Maricopa County, Arizona, election and ballot audit. This should not come as a surprise after several strategy sessions in DC between the White House, executive branch, congress and allied media have taken place. The issue is: “how to keep the illegitimacy of the current regime from surfacing.” [pdf of letter to Arizona auditors here] The 2020 U.S. election was filled with fraud; in order to retain that fraud extreme measures are now being taken to impede, block, halt and stop any election audit that will reveal the corrupt activity. Congress has...

A group seeking to ensure that elections are run fairly said this week that an in-depth analysis of mail-in ballot images obtained through a court order shows that the hand-count audit in Fulton County, Georgia, last year “was riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.” The analysis turned up at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots, containing 4,255 votes, that were added redundantly to the audit results, according to Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA). Nearly 3,400 were for Democrat Joe Biden. The team examining the ballots also found seven audit tally sheets (pdf) they believe were...

A former Corning Inc. scientist has been charged in connection with an alleged scheme to steal technology from a government-funded project he was working on and transfer it to China. Wang Ji, 59, was indicted late last month by a federal grand jury in Rochester, New York, on charges of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and unlawful exports. According to the recently unsealed indictment, Wang, who worked for the company from 1998 to 2019, was assigned as the lead scientist to work on a project initiated and partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA injected...

Podcasters, some of whom I respect, but others whom I find alarmists beyond their acumen about geopolitical intrigues, are more and more these days forecasting fears of attacks on America. Many of the assaults they talk about involve cyberspace invasions and the like. But increasingly, the talk is of direct military action—invasion of our nation from the north and the south. Russia, they say, will invade from the north, I suppose in concert with the cooperation of the Canadian government. China, they fear, already has troops in large numbers ready to cross the U.S. southern border. Mexico, I suppose, along...

WASHINGTON—Beijing is showing “a sign of weakness” with its escalating “war with faith,” says former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback. “It’s a sign of a regime on its last legs,” Brownback told The Epoch Times at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington on July 14. “It’s gotten harsher, not more open. It’s gotten more brutal, not more liberating. It’s taken on tactics of bullying rather than open cooperation.” By contrast, a “confident regime” openly acknowledges its flaws rather than going after its critics, Brownback said. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increased harshness and brutality, as well...

Former 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett, 39, is continuing to maintain his innocence as he faces new charges for allegedly lying to police officers about a January 2019 attack He was seen entering court in Chicago on Wednesday wearing a blue suit with a lighter blue blazer to face six counts of felony misconduct for allegedly lying to the cops about the racist and homophobic attack On his way into court, Smollett insisted he was innocent and called the proceedings a 'dog and pony show' Smollett had claimed in January 2019 that two masked men approached him as he was walking...

Researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United States has determined that the increase in the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic over the past several years is not related to global warming. They suggest instead, in their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, that it is simply reflective of natural variable weather patterns. Over the past several decades, scientists studying satellite data have found that the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean has been increasing. Many in the field have suggested that this is due to the impact of global warming. A warming ocean, they...

(h/t Cathi)ransomnote: longer video clip at link Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.From Yazid Bouziar8:28 AM · Jul 14, 2021·Twitter Web App Disclose.tv 🚨 on Twitter: "NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France. https://t.co/YrP4l0tXwy" / Twitterransomnote: Prayers up for the French protesters!

Almost 200 duplicate found when ballot images made public A duplicate write-in vote for singer Kanye West was a big clue that some absentee ballots had been counted twice in Fulton County. Digital ballot images made public under Georgia’s new voting law show nearly 200 ballots — including one for West — that election officials initially scanned two times last fall before a recount. There’s no indication any vote for president was counted more than once in official results. The discovery of identical ballots provides evidence to back up allegations of problems in the presidential election, but on a relatively...

As the global population exceeds 7.8 billion people, some French people have made the decision not to have children — a radical choice born out of a desire to help the planet and do their part to reverse global warming. “Having a child would be totally against my principles. I’ve never wanted children and am more certain of this decision the older I get,” says Manon, 26. “I don’t see why I would impose another consumer on this world. In the Western world, we consume more than the resources available,” she adds. Like Manon, more and more young adults are...

WELLFLEET--I had been trying to avoid this question for a long time. But I guess Shark Week is the perfect time to admit that you're "shark weak," so here we go. It started with this: "Are you too scared of sharks to swim in the ocean?" This cut deep. I have been wrestling with the shark thing for a few years now. For most of my Cape life, boogie boarding in Wellfleet with my family was the absolute top of Joy Mountain, and I think the happiest I have ever been was when all four of us were riding the...

Mj Rodriguez has made history.If you’re unfamiliar with the name, Mj stars in the FX television drama Pose.Here’s the trailer for Season 3 — Pose’s final installment: As described by Variety, Rodriguez is known for “her fierce and formidable portrayal of house mother and nurse Blanca Rodriguez on FX’s ballroom culture period drama…”But the actor’s soon to be renowned for something new: Mj Rodriguez is the first transgender performer to be nominated for an Emmy in a major (non-guest) capacity.The category: best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.The other contenders:Uzo Aduba, TreatmentOlivia Colman, The CrownEmma Corrin, The CrownElisabeth Moss, The...

TThe U.S. State Department has asked the United Nations for help ending “systemic racism.” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave the United Nations a “formal, standing invitation” to send human rights experts to the U.S. in order to address “systemic racism” in a press release sent out Tuesday. “It is in this context that the United States intends to issue a formal, standing invitation to all UN experts who report and advise on thematic human rights issues,” Blinken said. “As a first step, we have reached out to offer an official visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms...

Did you ever imagine there would be a leader in the White House who would refuse to condemn communism by name?At one time most of us probably thought it could never happen. Unfortunately, we seem to be there right now and that’s a chilling thought.An evil ideology that we’ve fought for decades, responsible for the deaths of millions. and the Biden team seems incapable of even calling out the “c” word.Fox’s Peter Doocy definitely put Jen Psaki on the spot big time today.As we reported earlier, Doocy asked a great question in regard to the situation with the runaway Texas...