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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Camp Mabry, TexasCamp Mabry is a military installation in Austin, Texas, housing the headquarters of the Texas Military Department, Texas Military Forces, and Texas Military Forces Museum. Established in 1892, Camp Mabry is the third-oldest active military installation in Texas, behind Fort Sam Houston and Fort Bliss. It was named for Brigadier General Woodford H. Mabry, the Adjutant General of Texas when the camp was founded. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.The mission of the Texas Military Department (TMD) is to provide the Governor and the...

In a press release issued on Feb. 16, the Department of Defense announced that it has issued policy memoranda (full texts 1, 2, 3) that assure access to reproductive health care for service members. Among other things, the policies will now allow service members to receive travel and transportation allowances if abortion or assisted reproduction services are not available in the local area. The health care services however are at the service member's own expense. Different policies apply to covered abortions, those where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or the...

Update from Ukraine | Biden in Kyiv Big surprise for Putler | Ruzzia will lose the war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLXs1kAjXbM Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: NEW- https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-362-summary/

Florida Sen. Lauren Book (D-Broward) filed a new bill intended to protect animals by making it illegal to let a dog be in a driver’s lap or stick their head out of a window in the car while driving. Additionally, Senate Bill 932 includes provisions to make it illegal to have a dog transported “on the running board, fender, hood, or roof of a motor vehicle,” as well as in a trunk, or enclosed cargo space. Dogs may also not be transported in a car that is being towed. On top of those restrictions, the bill would require dogs be...

Should we poke the bear or poke the tiger? Why not both? On the same day that Joe Biden went to Ukraine, a congressional delegation was touching down in Taiwan to visit with governmental and industry leaders. Now both Moscow and Beijing have something new to complain about.The bipartisan delegation to Taiwan was a small one and did not include the new Speaker of the House. Democrats Ro Khanna, Jake Auchincloss, and Jonathan Jackson were joined by Texas Republican Tony Gonzales. Khanna and Auchincloss are both members of the new House select committee studying economic competition with China and all...

The hospitals aren't talking, so I will. I just talked to a funeral home used by UCSF. The funeral home's rates of perinatal deaths were up over 20X above normal in H2 2022.Steve Kirsch 6 hr agoExecutive summaryPerinatal deaths are defined as fetal deaths (deaths after 20 weeks) and infant deaths (deaths after giving birth). These deaths are typically sent to a funeral home.I talked with one of the funeral homes used by UCSF. In the last 6 months of 2022, they saw the rates of perinatal death cases jump by a factor of over 20X above normal.I asked Dr....

As RedState reported earlier, James O’Keefe has departed from Project Veritas after what he said is a vote among the board to oust him as CEO. (READ: James O’Keefe Resigns From Project Veritas in Stunning Move)It was clear that this separation wasn’t amicable, and by the video posted of him reading his resignation letter, O’Keefe isn’t done, he’s just done doing it under the Project Veritas banner.BREAKING VIDEO: James O'Keefe addresses Project Veritas staff as he exits from the organization he founded following a high-profile board dispute. "Our mission continues on. I'm not done. The mission will perhaps take on...

Let’s be brutally honest, shall we? And I mean to cast no aspersions on Walmart, but when even Walmart finally packs up and skedaddles out of your city, it’s a strong indication that your city is in pretty bad shape. And when Lori Lightfoot is your mayor, you live in Chicago, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.Closing stores isn’t rare for Walmart, particularly given its more than 5,000 stores nationwide. As ABC affiliate WLS-TV in Chicago reported the giant retailer closed 160 stores over the past couple of years, but with 5,000 stores the company has to be...

Michael Weiss and Holger Roonemaa Mon, February 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM CST A leaked internal strategy document from Vladimir Putin’s executive office and obtained by Yahoo News lays out a detailed plan on how Russia plans to take full control over neighboring Belarus in the next decade under the pretext of a merger between the two countries. The document outlines in granular detail a creeping annexation by political, economic and military means of an independent but illiberal European nation by Russia, which is an active state of war in its bid to conquer Ukraine through overwhelming force. “Russia’s goals...

The U.S. dollar enjoys the world reserve currency status due to numerous factors.Legal and investor security, an open and transparent market, as well as independent institutions with checks and balances that limit political power and strengthen the country’s currency in relative terms. No, a country does not have a world reserve currency due to military power. No one accepted the kopek when the Soviet Union ruled half the world.For a fiat currency to be a world reserve it needs to be widely accepted as unit of measure, method of payment and reserve of value.The problem is that all the above...

An 18 inch pipe bomb was discovered behind a church in the Holmesburg section of northeast Philadelphia.The bomb was found on Sunday afternoon behind St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, on the 8500 block of Frankford Avenue, according to reports by Fox 29. One Twitter account of the location of the bomb pinned it to train tracks behind the church. The bomb was "near [the] Conrail railroad tracks in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg section".🚨#BREAKING: Police have discovered a 18-inch pipe bomb on Train Tracks🚨#UPDATE: this is on Frankford Ave near Conrail railroad tracks in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg section for those who are wondering — R...

mRNA vaccine maker Moderna has backpedaled on a January plan to charge $110 to $130 per dose of Covid-19 vaccine (up from $26 per dose for booster shots), and is now promising that people won't have to pay for the jab once the US Government stops buying shots."Moderna remains committed to ensuring that people in the United States will have access to our COVID-19 vaccines regardless of ability to pay," the company said in a statement, adding that the vaccine "will continue to be available at no cost for insured people whether they receive them at their doctors’ offices or...

WATCH: Trump makes fun of crowd size at DeSantis' law enforcement speeches"Ron DeSanctimonious had a crowd in Staten Island today - 139 people in Staten Island [...] We got a lot of people here [...] I always say, hit your enemy a little bit early." pic.twitter.com/MUPrXEPNAI— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) February 21, 2023

Judy Monro-Leighton, one of three women who accused now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, was found to have lied during a congressional investigation and is now being charged with making materially false statements and obstruction.Brett Kavanaugh/IMAGE: C-SPAN via YouTubeAccording to The Beltway Report, a letter written by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made a criminal referral against Monro-Leighton, who admitted that she “just wanted to get attention.”She also admitted that an anonymous letter she sent to then-Sen. Kamala Harris describing a graphic sexual assault by Kavanaugh and a friend was not written by her, despite her original claim...

Sources say the suspect told investigators he melted the gun he used in the killing of Officer Christopher Fitzgerald. PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It only took 12 hours for police to arrest the suspect accused of killing Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald on Saturday night. Miles Pfeffer, 18, was taken into custody Sunday morning at his home on Quarry Road in Buckingham Township, Bucks County. On Monday morning, Temple police transported Pfeffer to Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. He has now been arraigned, and formally charged with murder and murder of a police officer. It wasn't hard for police to track Pfeffer's...

Over the past 18 months, skeptics of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines and those pointing out high rates of adverse reactions have been subject to ostracism, deplatforming, and flawed 'fact checks' to shut down opinions and analysis which conflicted with official narratives.Now, the data has begun to speak for itself, thanks to people like former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd, who has devoted the last several years to deep-dive research and analysis of pandemic-related data (in fact, he's written an excellent book on the topic). Dowd, along with partners Carlos Alegria and Yuri Nunes, launched Phinance Technologies - where, aside from traditional...

[Catholic Caucus] The Leadership of Pope FrancisWe are now in the tenth year of this Pontificate, and much has been written about Pope Francis and the way in which his Petrine Ministry is charting a course for the Church in the present age. His words and actions have been considered through the lenses of various ideological mindsets, resulting at times in contrasting understandings. There is no doubt that most people consider him a reformer, a Pope that wants to bring the Church into conversation with the challenges of the times. For some of them, such a trajectory has no solution...

Senator Bernie Sanders, the "independent" from Vermont who's made a name for himself as an outspoken and hypocritical opponent of capitalism, is once again hitting the road to hawk his latest book — which is not free — at a series of in-person events — which are also not free. That is, Bernie Sanders is again relying on the systems he claims to oppose as he pushes his views. Perhaps he's looking to get some capital to buy another vacation home because his existing private properties aren't cutting it anymore? Sanders was pressed on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday about...

The White House's John Kirby — who seems to work as a pinch hitter on tough briefing days for Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as much as he does his day job as the National Security Council's Coordinator for Strategic Communications — hit the airwaves on Sunday and renewed strong denials of any U.S. involvement in the sabotage of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Kirby was asked by host Shannon Bream about a report by award-winning journalist Seymour Hersch that Townhall covered in early February. As Leah reported when the story first ran: A bombshell report by...

The removal of the firearm enhancement on the second charge removes the possibility of a five-year prison sentence. It has been revealed that the charges against Alec Baldwin and Rust set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for the fatal shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins were downgraded, dropping the potential five-year prison sentence for the pair. The Santa Fe District Attorney’s Office formally downgraded the second of the two charges, which included a firearm enhancement, issued to Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed on Friday, according to the Hollywood Reporter.