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When it opens this spring at UC Berkeley, Cafe Ohlone will be a first of its kind, museum-like restaurant honoring every facet of Ohlone culture, from foraged indigenous foods to the Chochenyo language, which will be heard in songs emanating from among native trees. Co-founders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino started the cafe in 2018 in the courtyard of University Press Books. It was the first restaurant ever to showcase the foods of a people who have lived in the Bay Area for 10,000 years. But this new, larger Cafe Ohlone will expand on that menu, introducing dishes like silky...

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Election Watchdog Finds 137,500 Ballots Unlawfully Trafficked in Wisconsin, 4.8M Nationwide At Least The TrueTheVote organization found that during the 2020 election, at least 137,500 ballots were cast through an unlawful vote trafficking process. This processing did not take place in just one city, but rather in several of the most populous areas in Wisconsin. See video at link.

This week, the Biden administration revealed that it will release as much as 180 million barrels of crude oil in a bid to calm oil prices, which have remained above $100 per barrel for an extended period of time. The International Energy Agency, meanwhile, is coordinating a smaller but international reserve release of some 60 million barrels and has called an emergency meeting to discuss how exactly to go about it. It remains unclear whether part of the 180 SPR release in the United States will be a completely separate endeavor or if some of these barrels will be part...

The Biden administration's Justice Department warned states across the country on Thursday that any legislative attempt to limit access to sex-change therapies or operations for children could violate federal law. The letter to state attorneys general from Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, states that any effort to restrict procedures available to "transgender youth" amounts to "unlawful discrimination based on their gender identity, including when seeking gender-affirming care." Governors in several states have signed laws or issued executive orders meant to protect children from sex-change operations, hormone-blockers, and other medical interventions that switch their biological sex. An...

Satellite images which show dead bodies lining the streets of Bucha weeks ago appear to have debunked Russian claims that they were placed there after their troops left the Ukrainian commuter town. Authorities in Ukraine said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in areas outside of Kyiv - specifically in the town of Bucha - after last week's withdrawal of Russian troops. Horrific images show many civilians with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture. A growing number of world leaders have voiced outrage and called for tougher sanctions against Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister...

rainian forces putting up a courageous fight against a much-stronger Russian troop is now a tale of inspiration, and Taiwan is wasting no time imbibing valuable lessons from it. The island nation is now speeding up the development of UAVs, seeing how efficient drones were against the invading forces in Ukraine. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has announced that it was "highly necessary" for the island to develop drones, regardless of whether it is for military or civilian use, reported South China Morning Post. Tsai made the statement Sunday during a visit to the southwestern city of Chiayi where the local...

Riley Gaines, the Kentucky swimmer who tied transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth in the women’s 200-meter NCAA championships last month, still does not have her trophy. Gaines appeared on Senator Marsha Blackburn’s “Unmuted” podcast last week, and recounted what happened when she tied Thomas. “I touched the wall and saw that there was a five by my name, indicating that I got fifth, but the first thing I really looked at was who won because I was so curious who would win the race,” Gaines said. “Because, the night before, Lia won the 500-meter. So, more interested than my...

Russia probably plans to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers in eastern Ukraine as it shifts its focus to the country's south and east, U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. “At this juncture we believe Russia is revising its war aims” to focus on “eastern and parts of southern Ukraine rather than target most of the territory," Sullivan told reporters at the White House. The goal was likely to "surround and overwhelm" Ukrainian forces in the region, he said. “Russia could then use any tactical success it achieves to propagate a narrative of progress...

Facebook A 26-year-old man taken into custody by Sacramento police in connection with the mass shooting on Sunday that left six dead and 12 wounded appears to have been posting on Facebook about the incident just hours after it occurred. Dandrae Martin is facing charges of assault with a firearm and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, the Sacramento PD announced in a news release. (An initial news release incorrectly spelled Martin’s name as Dandre.)

ransomnote: In my opinion, the declaration below is as long as it is richly detailed and well worth reading.DECLARATIONof Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò,Archbishop,Former Apostolic Nuncio to The United States of Americaon the Russia-Ukraine Crisis Nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost with war. Let men return to understanding. Let them resume negotiating. Negotiating with good will and with respect for each other’s rights, let them realize that an honorable success is never precluded when there are sincere and active negotiations. And they will feel great – with true greatness – if imposing silence on the voices of passion,...

The footage that was being presented in particular, in Bucha, on which I spoke does not give us any doubt that this was staged, Russia's envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said UNITED NATIONS, April 4./TASS/. Russia's envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzya on Monday said available evidence leaves no doubt the events in Bucha, as they are presented by Ukraine, were staged. "The footage that was being presented in particular, in Bucha, on which I spoke does not give us any doubt that this was staged," he said at a news conference. "We will present more evidence." Nebenzya at...

Vatican City, Apr 1, 2022 / 05:50 am Pope Francis has said that he will travel to Canada in the summer, possibly for the feast of St. Anne on July 26. He made the announcement during a meeting with Canadian Indigenous leaders at the Vatican on April 1. “You have brought the living sense of your communities here in Rome,” the pope said. “I will be happy to benefit again from meeting you by visiting your native lands, where your families live.” “I will not come to you in winter,” he said, adding “see you again in Canada, where I...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Kirtland Air Force Base, New MexicoKirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator Col. Roy C. Kirtland. The military and the international airport share the same runways, making ABQ a joint civil-military airport. Kirtland AFB is the largest installation in Air Force Global Strike Command and sixth largest in the United States Air Force. The base occupies 51,558 acres and employs over 23,000...

Peter Kilpatrick announced an LGBT ‘pride’ month at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2021 and encouraged members of the university community to participate in ‘pride’ events.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic University of America (CUA) named a new president this week who recently declared an LGBT “pride” month at an Illinois university and encouraged students to join “pride” parades. CUA announced Tuesday that Peter K. Kilpatrick, the current provost of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), has been appointed the next leader of the D.C.-based Catholic university. Kilpatrick, 65, will take office in July, succeeding John Garvey, CUA’s president of...

Burger King has been accused of deliberately using its ads to mislead customers as to the size of its burgers in a federal filing representing more than 100 patrons who say the fast-food giant's marketing practices constitute 'consumer fraud.' The class-action suit, filed Monday in US District Court in Miami, claims Burger King brass, through a rash of recent ads for some of its menu items, knowingly deceived customers with images of mammoth-sized menu items noticeably larger than their real-world counterparts. According to the 26-page filing, the fast-food firm 'overstated' several of its menu items - including the iconic Whopper...

The bias of the Western Press is just unimaginable. I reported previously that our contacts in both Serbia and Hungary were reflecting overwhelming support for Putin and Russia. The press can’t report on anything honestly and calls Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor an “authoritarian” or a “nationalist” because anyone who dares to go against their agenda is evil. The BBC reported Orbán said: “We have such a victory it can be seen from the moon, but it’s sure that it can be seen from Brussels.” It has been widely known that Serbia was very pro-Russia. I reported from our readers in...

Brussels has not yet responded to Viktor Orban's victory in the parliamentary elections yesterday, but the Hungarian prime minister himself has already addressed the European capital. In claiming the win, Orban called his 53 percent majority of the vote a clear message from the Hungarian voter. "Our victory is so great that you can see it from the moon. And especially from Brussels," he told the crowd of cheering supporters. "Hungary first. Long live Hungary, long live the Hungarians." "That Orban immediately started talking about Europe in his first speech is telling. Brussels can wet the chest," says EU correspondent...

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After weeks of pleas from the White House for Congress to approve more money toward COVID-19 programs that were at risk of being cut, senators have put forward a new bill for $10 billion. The package, which sets aside money to support the nation's testing infrastructure and the development of new, variant-specific vaccines, falls far short of the initial $22.5 billion requested by the White House.