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I work with a rescue called, "The Underdog Railway", and we are in desperate need of foster homes. We have a number of different dogs of varying breeds, and nowhere to put new dogs which we learn of, resulting in us not being able to take them. Underdog Railway provides food, toys, beds, and pays for veterinary care. There are two dogs in particular I've been trying to find a place for, even with other rescues. Unfortunately, literally every rescue in Illinois is full. I know how a lot of Freepers feel about bully breeds, so if you're not willing...

These people are not oligarchs per se, but they're people who sit in positions that have some kind of authority over important cash flows - particularly in the oil and gas business,' such as firms Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek or Gazprombank. 'The sanctions have been devastating for Russia... as a result the pie has been seriously diminished, and a lot of people want to keep their own personal cash flow at the level they had before the war started. 'And so everyone is looking around to redistribute pieces of the pie. Bill Browder, who once ran Russia's largest foreign investment fund,...

Annis and the other two members of the crew, Billy Cairns and Chad Garrett, were sent to the mobile launch platform at the base of SLS to tighten down "packing nuts," hardware that helps form a tight seal on the replenishment valves through which liquid hydrogen was pumped into the Artemis 1 moon rocket's core stage after the main tanking procedure. Because hydrogen is such a small molecule, it manages to find its way out of even the tightest seals, meaning NASA has to keep replenishing the hydrogen fuel tanks throughout the launch countdown even after main fueling procedures have...

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Counterterrorism Director Christine Abizaid testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on national security and threats to the country.

Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets, including Fox News, have ramped up attacks on Donald Trump after the former president declared his run to reclaim the nation's top office. Even before Trump made his announcement Tuesday night, The New York Post ran an opinion column headlined, "Bore! Donald Trump has gone and lost his swing." "It's very hard to see how Trump could ever win the White House again, so the result is foretold: A Trump nomination would make him a two-time loser and mean four more years of a Democrat in the Oval Office," the Post's Michael Goodwin wrote at the...

Our smash and grab elections With this headline the gaslighting should die down pretty soon. Christy Smith concedes to Mike Garcia in CA27, Giving Republicans control of the House with 218 seats N.B. The gaslighting has been fast and furious. Today WE are finally seeing what has been the case for at least 72 hours as a dead-solid fact and at least 5 days as an all but waiting for the Democrat/communists to get off the floor, stop crying, and go home because you lost FACT: Patriotism won and greed and stupidity lost. WE have won the House but were...

BEAST week has been a major part of basic military training since 2006, and offered airmen the chance to go on a mock-deployment where trainees sleep in cots, go on ruck marches, work on security protocol and weapons training, and fight simulated threats. But Pixley, who assumed command of Basic Military Training in 2021, decided that BEAST week was outdated for some of the modern Air Force's needs. As the Department of the Air Force pushes its new philosophy of establishing "multi-capable airmen" -- meaning it wants to have troops able to take on more responsibilities so they can carry...

Newly released data on the global insect protein market by FMI Estimated that the insect protein market enjoyed year-on-year (YoY) growth of 8.2% in 2022 and is accounted for USD 349.2 Mn and is expected to witness a prominent CAGR of 9.2% to reach the value of USD 838.5 Mn in 2032. Revenue for the insect-based pet food segment grew by 18% during the period 2017-2021 while the Demand for beetle protein increased by 11% between 2020 and 2021. The global insect protein market is expected to grow at a stunning 9.2% CAGR from 2022 to 2032. This growth can...

How low will the US Treasury 10y-2y yield curve go? As of today, the US Treasury 10yr-2yr yield curve is the most inverted since 1981 at -70 basis points. I am disappointed that The New York Times cancelled their $2,400 event to listen to Sam The Sham Bankman-Fried, Vlad “Show my your money!” Zelensky, Larry “The Big Fink” Fink and Janet “We never saw it coming” Yellen. I would have loved to do the New York Times job for them and ask hard questions to Sam The Sham and Zelensky about money laundering.

Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96. Clary died during the night Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, niece Brenda Hancock said Thursday. “He never let those horrors defeat him," Hancock said of Clary's wartime experiences as a youth. “He never let them take the joy out of his life. He tried to spread that joy to others through his singing and his dancing and his painting.” When he recounted his...

"If you’ve been a guest at one or a few weddings this year, you know it can cost a pretty penny to celebrate the happy couple. It’s no secret that hosting your own wedding requires its own financial planning, but just attending a nuptial ceremony — not to mention pre-ceremony festivities — is cutting into personal budgets." In fact, 46% of millennials and 48% of Gen Z say spending on friends’ and family members’ weddings, baby showers or other celebrations is getting in the way of their personal goals, according to a recent survey from Prudential." The kicker: "Millennials lose...

Unacceptable Fringe satirical writer Derek Smith joins Mad Dug and Anthony on Woke Up! to discuss his latest Top 10 selling book, One Face, Two Face, Black Face, Blue Face. Listen in as they discuss everything from his first hit book, How The Prime Minister Stole Freedom to Back to the Future and Justin Trudeau’s Cuban father, Fidel Castro (in case you didn’t know). It’s a page turning classic as Elon Musk’s favourite DJs deconstruct the narrative with Preston Manning’s favourite writer. Plus: DJ Johnny Jock counts down the most talked about stories on Get Woke Up! The hits include:...

After Dec 7 1941, the Roberts Commissions were appointed to find out how military brass could allow Pearl to be attacked without preparedness and defense. In the end Admiral Husband E Kimmel was singled out as negligent and demoted - whether fairly or not, historians still argue. The same kind of inquiry has to happen with FBI leadership regarding the assault on the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. Was it negligence or incompetence on their part, that this riot/attack/insurrection took place - without FBI warning Congress and the White House of the danger and alerting them that there was need...

The much-heralded FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s South Florida compound three months ago was a literal bust — for the feds. As federal law enforcement officials tell it, Trump’s stash of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago was nothing more than souvenirs.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday cleared meat grown in a laboratory for human consumption, marking the first time the agency has done so. The decision means that Berkeley, California-headquartered UPSIDE Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, will be able to bring its “cultivated chicken” products to the market once it has been inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to its website, UPSIDE Foods is a food technology company founded in 2015 that aims to grow “sustainable cultured meat.” It cites investors including Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson. The company grows meat, poultry, and...

PHOENIX (AP) — Refusing to concede, Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, said Thursday she is assembling lawyers and collecting evidence of voters having trouble casting ballots on Election Day as she considers her next move. Lake, in a 2 1/2-minute video, made no mention of giving up in her most extensive public comments since losing the election. Before the election, she had refused to say that she would concede if she lost the race to Democrat Katie Hobbs. “Rest assured I have assembled the best and brightest legal team, and we are exploring every avenue to...

The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board’s former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.” VIDEO AT LINK................. On Tuesday evening, the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina swore in the board members who were elected last week, six of whom were endorsed by the conservative activist group Moms for Liberty. Within two hours, the school board had voted to fire the district’s first Black superintendent, terminate the district’s lawyer, ban critical race theory and set up a committee to decide whether certain books and...

EXCLUSIVE — At least five people were involved in a maritime shooting between U.S. border agents and drug smugglers that took place off the coast of Puerto Rico early Thursday morning, the Washington Examiner was first to report Thursday. The shootout happened 14 miles off the coast of northwestern Puerto Rico. Three federal agents were shot, according to a federal officer and a statement from Customs and Border Protection. The agents were from the Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations arm. AMO agents work the air and sea to patrol for human and drug smugglers. The incident took...

Newly appointed FTX CEO John Ray III...wrote that part of his remit would be to implement controls and basic corporate standards such as "accounting, audit, cash management, cybersecurity, human resources, risk management, data protection and other systems that did not exist, or did not exist to an appropriate degree, prior to my appointment."

DRIVERLESS taxi service Cruise has expanded its San Francisco operational times to daytime hours. This 24-hour availability will be offered to the organization’s employees before expanding to the public. Public San Francisco Cruise customers can currently order Cruise’s transport service from 10:00pm to 5:00am. There are now around 70 active Cruise vehicles in San Francisco, TechCrunch reports. Cruise San Francisco fares require a $5 base fee and $0.90 per mile, plus $0.40 per minute rates. Cruise began charging its passengers fares in June and expanded into most of the San Francisco are