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The young woman allegedly gets her hair done and just as the appointment is about to finish, she asks the hairdresser to quickly dip out to pay her parking meter, leaving the establishments in the cape and hair clips to make it believable. Her latest scam hit Base Salon in the West Loop, which is owned by Rojas, on Friday. The young woman reportedly had a five-hour appointment to get her hair colored, tallying a bill upward of $1,200. CBS Chicago were able to track the woman down - but she said she was unable to comment on the advice...

Alex Jones shows just how pervasive the fraud was in his first Sandy Hook show trial. Segment...

Insects contain high fat, protein, vitamin, fibre, and mineral content, and can facilitate the shift towards healthy and sustainable diets. The environmental benefits of rearing insects for food are founded on: ✅ high feed conversion efficiency of insects ✅ less greenhouse gas emissions ✅ less use of water and arable lands ✅ use of insect-based bioconversion for reducing food waste It is up to you to decide whether you want to eat them or not! Let’s give it a try?

The world is shocked by a dog-like robot that armed with an RPG on its back. Actually this is nothing new, last year a robot dog that armed with a sniper rifle was unveiled.

SKELETAL REMAINS FOUND AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA BOULDER CITY, Nev. – National Park Service rangers responded to a report of the discovery of human skeletal remains in the Swim Beach area of Lake Mead National Recreation Area at approximately 8:00 p.m. PST on Monday, Aug. 15. Park rangers have set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team. The Clark County Medical Examiner has also been contacted. The investigation is ongoing. No further information will be provided at this time.

A subscriber asked me to write a post about my thoughts on Novavax because she “really trusts my judgement.” Flattered, I felt like I should share what they are. So here goes.Before any medical intervention, but especially in the case of a novel or barely tested one, a long standing practice of medical ethics is that informed consent must be obtained. The emphasis should be on the informed part and not the consent part. Note that informed consent has been one of the foundations of medical ethics, essentially an inviolable standard, or at least it used to be before this...

Argentina Street Protests Mass protests on the streets of downtown Buenos Aires today. Thousands demanding higher wages and lower prices... Former New York Mayor and lawyer for President Trump Rudy Giuliani testifying in Atlanta before a Democrat grand jury trying to criminalize Mr. Trump's efforts to uncover voter fraud in connection with the 2020 election... Wall Street going downwards today... The Reserve Bank in New Zealand hiking the prime lending rate .50 percent to 3.0 percent today... An update on the economic turmoil in the Central American nation of Panama... In Australia an increasing shortage of medicines with doctors and...

Pennsylvania Democrat senate candidate John Fetterman said he “did the right thing” pulling a gun on an innocent unarmed black jogger in 2013. On Wednesday, a video of a 2013 local report went viral on social media that featured Fetterman defending his misdeed on camera. At the time, Fetterman had been serving as mayor for the city of Braddock.

Eurowanker governments waiting around for Ukraine to die ======================================== "Translation: MOSCOW, August 16 – RIA Novosti. Western curators have practically written off the Kyiv regime and are already planning the partition of Ukraine, Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman Colonel-General Volodymyr Matveev said at the Moscow Conference on International Security. “Obviously, the West is not concerned about the fate of the Kyiv regime. As can be seen from the information received by the SVR, Western curators have almost written it off and are in full swing developing plans for the division and occupation of at least part of the Ukrainian lands,” he...

Text messages. Mailers. Cold calls. Over the past two years, homeowners have been bombarded with inquiries from investors who want to know one thing: Are they open to selling their property? Since the onset of the Pandemic Housing Boom, investors have flooded the U.S. housing market. There are small players like mom-and-pop landlords and Airbnb hosts who are adding to their property portfolios. Home flippers returned with vengeance. There’s also the Wall Street types like Blackstone and iBuyer players like Opendoor Technologies that are gobbling up homes. The combination of low mortgage rates, easy access to capital, and record home...

A California appeals court says a church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large religious services won’t have to pay about $200,000 in finesSAN J0SE, Calif. -- A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large religious services won't have to pay about $200,000 in fines, a state appeals court ruled. Calvary Chapel San Jose and its pastors were held in contempt of court and fined in 2020 and 2021 for violating state and county limits on indoor public gatherings. The rules were aimed at preventing the spread through close contract...

Former President Donald Trump injected himself into the House Democratic primary races in New York — making eyebrow-raising endorsements of his one-time impeachment tormentor Dan Goldman and Carolyn Maloney in their respective races. “Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, NY-10, and it is my great honor to Strongly Endorse him. I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the Impeachment Committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent,” Trump said in a statement released Wednesday on his Truth Social platform. “While it was my honor to beat him, and beat him...

At least 16 individuals, including some nuns of the Rural Missionaries of Philippines, have been charged with the alleged crime of financing the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been leading an insurgency against the state for decades. The court could issue an arrest warrant. Rural missionaries actually defend the environment and the rights of local indigenous people.Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The Philippine Department of Justice has charged at least 16 people, including several nuns linked to the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, with sending funds to the New People's Army, the...

An elderly Wendy's customer has died 10 days after being sucker punched in the head by an employee, who is now facing murder charges for the ordeal. Fast-food worker Antonine Kendrick, 35, confronted the 67-year-old man at the store, before punching and knocking him unconscious on July 26 at around 5pm. It's believed Kendrick launched the vicious physical attack the man when he complained about his meal order at Wendy's in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Kendrick has now been arrested and is facing second-degree murder charges after the man died in hospital, nearly two weeks after the bust up. Footage shows...

“The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility” (Proverbs 18:11).

The 2022 primary season is nearly over, but already one thing is clear: former President Donald Trump won. Candidates who support Trump’s false claim of widespread fraud in the 2020 election have won big in key swing states, and candidates he backed to challenge the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have been mostly successful. “This was a referendum on the never ending Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote in a post on his social network Tuesday after his endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman beat out Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who voted...

CNA Newsroom, Aug 16, 2022 / 09:02 am (CNA). On Monday, the Swiss Bishops’ Conference published a document for the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome reporting the Catholic Church was seen as suffering from clericalism —as well as “denying equality to women” and excluding “people with LGBTQ identity.” “Several official church positions on the role of women in church and society, on sexuality and lifestyles are perceived as pejorative and exclusionary,” the Swiss report said according to CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. “The Synodal Assembly of Switzerland, held on May 30, 2022, in Einsiedeln Abbey, finalized the report...

Contact: Interior_Press@ios.doi.govWASHINGTON — As the worsening drought crisis continues to impact communities across the West, the Department of the Interior today announced urgent action to improve and protect the long-term sustainability of the Colorado River System, including commitments for continued engagement with impacted states and Tribes. The Bureau of Reclamation also released the Colorado River Basin August 2022 24-Month Study, which sets the annual operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead in 2023 in light of critically low reservoir conditions.Prolonged drought and low runoff conditions accelerated by climate change have led to historically low water levels in Lakes Powell and...

Russian Orthodox Church opposes adoption of children from Russia by citizens of countries that support LGBT. Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, the Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, believes more work should be done on a bill banning adoptions of children from Russia by citizens of unfriendly countries. "This morning I looked through the list of friendly countries again. And if the political attitude of some of them suits us, their attitude toward marriage (which is a union of a man and a woman), their governments’ approval of gay parades and support for aggressive LGBT communities, etc., make it absolutely impossible to raise...

Residents in Portland, Oregon are resorting to selling their homes to escape the worsening homeless crisis, as more encampments pop up in residential neighborhoods. Homeless encampments have grown severely in certain neighborhoods in North Portland, particularly along the Peninsula Crossing Trail. The trail was once a popular bike route but has become home to a large population of homeless people including some who suffer from mental illness and some who use drugs. One realtor in the area said that she's seen a surge of residents moving to the suburbs over the past two years. 'Most people don’t want to have...