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Less than a week after Canadian tourists were allegedly overcharged nearly $600 by Greece’s notorious DK Oyster, the restaurant is going viral for yet another incident of alleged epicurean extortion. This time, the Mykonos-based eatery allegedly charged a US couple a wallet-sapping $510 for a dozen oysters and four drinks. “My husband was like, ‘There’s got to be a mistake,'” New Jersey lawyer Theodora McCormick, 50, told the Sun of the alleged “weird experience,” which occurred last month while she and her husband were vacationing on the Mediterranean island. Unfortunately, their idyllic seaside getaway went south after they stopped by...

The U.S. Defense Department believes that as many as 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine less than six months ago, a top Pentagon official told reporters today... The United States has now provided nearly $10 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, nearly twice Kyiv’s military budget in 2021... The Pentagon initially estimated that Russia deployed about 120 battalion tactical groups, the Kremlin’s go-to combined arms unit, for the war—numbering around 100,000 troops. Experts said the new casualty estimate is likely to include Russian paramilitary and volunteer forces,...

@ColumbiaBugle Bannon To Trump: Announce Tomorrow

The ongoing pause on most federal student loan payments is set to end in on August 31. And President Biden has also indicated that he will make a final decision about enacting broad student loan forgiveness by that date, as well. With only weeks to go before this key deadline, millions of student loan borrowers are dealing with unprecedented uncertainty as they await a formal announcement. (1) the Education Department has put procedures in place to implement a wide-scale student loan forgiveness program. Biden simply has to give the word... (2) Biden administration officials have said throughout the year that...

The FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s home was reportedly focused on documents Trump may have taken with him from the White House to Mar-A-Lago after leaving office. Trump announced his Florida home was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents” in a statement on Monday.

Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 8, 2022

@RepGosar The FBI raid on Trump's home tells us one thing. Failure is not an option. We must destroy the FBI. We must save America. I stand with Donald J. Trump.

News of the FBI raiding former President Donald Trump’s private home of Mar-a-Lago ignited a firestorm of reactions from Republican politicians and conservative activists on Twitter, all of whom denounced the move as a blatant power grab by the Democrats to silence and intimidate a potential 2024 nominee. Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sounded off on Twitter, calling the raid on the former president’s home a “weaponization of the Justice Department.”

Nicaragua, Taiwan and the Vatican silencesNicaragua's tyrannical regime lashes out at Catholics and even holds a cardinal captive, and Taiwan's ambassador to the Holy See warns of China's preparations to invade the island. The response in the Vatican, so prodigal in defending dead Canadian Indians and obscure tribes of Southeast Asia, is silence.

Since the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China in Jan 2020, the origin of the virus has been a topic of intensive scientific debate and public speculation. The two main hypotheses are that the virus from human to an infected animal ("zoonosis" or a research-related-accident.) The investigation into the origin of the virus has been made difficult by the lack of key evidence from the earliest days of the outbreak. There is no doubt that a greater transparency would be enormously helpful. Nevertheless, we argue here that there is much important information that can be gleaned from US-based research...

Indiana became the first state since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade to pass a near-total ban on abortion. Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed Senate Enrolled Act 1 within the hour after both Republican controlled-state chambers passed the bill during a special session on Friday. The bill passed in the House, 62-38, in the afternoon and later in the Senate, 28-19. No Democrats voted in favor of the legislation, with some Republicans joining them. Some exceptions are included in the abortion ban, such as rape or incest ten weeks after fertilization, endangerment of the mother’s life, and if the...

Jack Posobiec 🍊 @JackPosobiec Has every GOP elected leader denounced the raid on Mar-a-Lago yet? We are watching And keeping receipts 7:16 PM · Aug 8, 2022

After five years of litigation and a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Christian flag finally flew on the Boston City Hall Plaza public forum flagpole yesterday as an enthusiastic crowd cheered to celebrate the first day free of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. In Shurtleff v. City of Boston, Liberty Counsel represents Boston resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution. Shurtleff and Camp Constitution first asked the city in 2017 for a permit to raise the Christian flag on the “public forum” Boston City Hall flagpole to commemorate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (September 17) and the civic...

Denver Newsroom, Aug 2, 2022 / 17:00 pm A Michigan Supreme Court decision that state civil rights law bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation may conflict with religious liberty, the Catholic Church in the state has said. The decision would “usurp the legislature’s role in the democratic process, present constitutional problems for people of faith, and place in jeopardy religious persons and entities who wish to serve others in the public square,” the Michigan Catholic Conference said July 29. The Catholic conference warned that the decision “expressly does not address” whether enforcing the redefined Michigan civil rights law...

In a departure from traditional Jesuit missions to convert pagans to Christ, Canadian Jesuits now seek to incorporate superstitious religious ceremonies in an effort to ‘decolonize’ Christianity.(LifeSiteNews) – In a marked difference from the Jesuit missionaries famously known as the North American Martyrs, today’s Jesuits have redefined their mission to the Indigenous tribes of Canada as one aimed at assimilating the natives’ non-Christian spirituality into the new “ecological spirituality” being pushed within the Church. In an interview with Vatican News, Father Gilles Mongeau S.J., Vicar Provincial of the Jesuits of Canada, gave some details as to the modern approach the...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Fort Sill, OklahomaFort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 mile southwest of Oklahoma City. It covers almost 94,000 acres. The fort was first built during the Indian Wars. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark, and serves as home of the United States Army Field Artillery School as well as the Marine Corps' site for Field Artillery MOS school, United States Army Air Defense Artillery School, the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and the 75th Field Artillery Brigade. Fort Sill is also one of the...

Fast-food company McDonald’s has decided following a trial run that it will pull the McPlant from the menu of some of its U.S. eateries for the time being, Fox 9 reported on August 1. The McPlant is a plant-based burger co-developed with the company Beyond Meat, according to the McDonald’s website. “It’s sizzled on a flat iron grill, then topped with slivered onions, tangy pickles, crisp shredded lettuce, Roma tomato slices, ketchup, mustard, mayo and a slice of melty American cheese on a toasted sesame seed bun. There are 510 calories in the McPlant,” the site read. CNBC reported on...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — The latest tally in the race for the second and final spot in the Washington 3rd Congressional District race shows GOP challenger Joe Kent taking the lead from incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler. Whoever ekes out a primary victory will face Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who took the most votes and the top spot in the primary last Tuesday. County election officials released the latest vote tally around 5 p.m. Kent, who trailed by 257 votes, now has an 813 vote lead over Herrera Beutler...

Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantisFL The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic. 8:43 PM · Aug 8, 2022

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has fallen to third place behind Donald Trump-endorsed challenger Joe Kent, leaving the six-term incumbent on the edge of defeat. With new votes tallied in Clark and Cowlitz counties Monday, Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, was trailing Kent by 813 votes. She had been ahead by 257 votes as of Friday. Facing backlash over her vote to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, Herrera Beutler had been in second place since election night in the 3rd District race in Southwest Washington. But her support eroded in later ballot counts, which favored Kent. That trend...