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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Station Norfolk, VirginiaNaval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about 4 miles of waterfront space and 11 miles of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point. It is the world's largest naval station, with the largest concentration of U.S. Navy forces through 75 ships alongside 14 piers and with 134 aircraft and 11 aircraft hangars at the adjacently operated Chambers Field. Port Services controls...

The Israeli parliament parted ways with President Biden on Monday in taking its explosive vote to weaken Israel's Supreme Court, rebuffing weeks of pleas from the president not to do so without first building consensus..."It is unfortunate that the vote took place today," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in a gentle but unmistakable rebuke. "It happened with the slimmest possible majority."

Update from Ukraine | Fatstic news for Ukraine in Bakhmut area | Ruzzian South Flank Crushed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjl2CVwe4Yc The site began life as a database of Ukrainian regular and volunteer units, but over the years it has grown to cover a whole range of topics. Ukrainian Ground Forces received a well-worth additional strength in the form of a new tank brigade. Demobilized, reactivated, used as replenishment and reactivated again. That’s the story of Ukrainian 5th Tank Brigade through the last years. The unit was formed back in 2016 as a reserve tank brigade, but was subsequently demobilized and reactivated only after...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America picket lines in New York City on Monday, encouraging workers to keep fighting and taking aim at executives such as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and their “insatiable greed.” “While this is a fight against AI, more than AI, this is a fight against greed,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “How many private jets does David Zaslav need? For real. How many private jets do the CEOs need? It is insatiable. It is unacceptable. I do not know how any person can say, ‘I need another $100 million before another person...

Just bizarre! Nearly 64 years to the day (July 19, 1969) since Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy drove a car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, just off Martha’s Vineyard, another bizarre drowning has taken place connected to a high-profile Democrat. The personal chef of Barack and Michelle Obama has drowned mysteriously in a pond on the property of their $12 million Martha’s Vineyard estate. He reportedly drowned after being out on the pond in a paddle-boat with another person in a paddle boat. Details are sparse. The Obama’s issued a statement saying they are “heartbroken.” The Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard mansion...

[Catholic Caucus] What Do Our Views of Vatican II Imply About Our Views of God? “The results that have followed the Council seem cruelly opposed to the expectation of all, to begin with that of Pope John XXIII, then that of Paul VI . . . The Popes and the conciliar Fathers were expecting a new Catholic unity and, on the contrary, we have gone towards a dissension which, to take again the words of Paul VI, appears to have passed from self-criticism to self-destruction.” (Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985, quoted in Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s They Have Uncrowned Him, p. 231) As...

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s novice artwork has raked in at least $1.3 million — with buyers including a Democratic donor “friend’’ who his dad named to a prestigious commission, a report said Monday. Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a Los Angeles real-estate investor and philanthropist, bought one of Hunter’s works, according to Business Insider, which cited sales records kept by his art dealer, the Georges Bergès Gallery of Manhattan. Naftali was appointed by President Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in July 2022 — about eight months after Hunter’s first art show, which took place...

Weiss From attached PDF: “U.S. Attorney Weiss is available on September 27, September 28, October 18, and October 19.” The Department of Justice is offering U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who led the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden, for testimony before the House of Representatives after House Republicans demanded he, and more than a dozen other officials, appear for interviews. In a Monday letter obtained by Fox, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that the DOJ has accepted the offer for Weiss to testify "at a public hearing before the committee."...

This is the 1981 song “Find Another Fool” by Quarterflash. Please note the opening lyrics of:“I should have learned this lesson long ago”“That friends and lovers always come and go”That singing is 20 notes long.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0lRM7FmJgUAnd this is the 1979 song “We Live For Love” by Pat Benatar. The same 20 notes (or at least 20 very similar notes) can be heard from the guitar at the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8TCo2QW6U

The singer Tori Kelly has been rushed to the hospital after shockingly collapsing while out on the town. The 30-year-old Grammy winner was reportedly dining out with friends in Los Angeles on Sunday night when she suffered a medical emergency and lost conscious, sources told TMZ. She was quickly taken to get medical care, and doctors are reportedly treating her for multiple blood clots around vital organs, which could be extremely serious.

Judicial reform is not an attack on democracy, it's the downfall of a tyranny. The vast gap between leftist hysteria and what it’s actually fighting can be easily spotted when it omits discussing the specifics of the case. Take the leftist clamor over ‘book bans’. Then ask them specifically what books are being banned in the majority of cases and then they suddenly have to defend the graphic pornographic content in books like Gender Queer. The Israeli left, political elites and media allies have been howling that Israel’s democracy is being destroyed because of democratic judicial reforms that would stop...

On Friday, we analyzed a just-released FBI 'FD-1023' document, in which a trusted FBI informant asserted that executives from Burisma -- the Ukrainian energy company that famously employed then-Vice President Joe Biden's son, despite his dearth of relevant expertise, while the elder Biden was running point on Ukraine policy in the Obama administration -- had described a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme that enriched both of the aforementioned Bidens. The Bureau's confidential human source (CHS) told investigators that the Burisma leaders held a dim view of Hunter Biden's personal value and intellect, but kept the generous payments flowing to him because Hunter...

Ron DeSantis appointed the radically pro-lockdown, Never-Trump Democrat, Dave Kerner as Interim Executive Director of Florida’s Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in January this year, ignoring a petition by more than one thousand Floridians who opposed the appointment on the grounds that his policies contravened freedom in the sunshine state, The National Pulse can reveal.Kerner, 39, is a former Democratic Member of the Florida House of Representatives with a radical legislative record, including voting to force churches to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, voting against a bill to ban Floridian taxpayer money from funding abortions, voting against a bill to allow...

The Globe recently reported on the new BookCheck toolkit website for parents by the Capitol Resource Institute, to assist parents through the process of removing obscene, sexually graphic and pornographic materials from their public schools. That new website is now live and located at TakeBacktheClassroom.com.

Black Conservative Perspective 23.7K followers Unfollow 2 hours ago Just Stop Oil Banquet DISRUPTED By Hidden Balloon Alarms After INFILTRATION By Counter Protestors! 72 0 Embed Share 465 9 👕Merch: https://gforemanbcp.com/ 🤙🏾 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/blackconservativeperspective 👊Paypal: paypal.me/gforemanbcp 💸Cash App: $gforemanbcp 🏃‍♂️Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gforemanBCP @gforemanBCP 📷 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gforemanbcp/ ⭐ Wooden American Star: https://bridgethegapshop.com/discount/GFOREMANBCP Just Stop Oil's Banquet was derailed today by counter-protestors, who set off alarms suspended in balloons. The divisive climate activism group held an event in London to 'step back, grieve for what will die and disappear but also to celebrate what we have achieved',...

Tens of thousands of illegal aliens across Massachusetts are rushing to secure driver’s licenses after voters approved a law to extend driving privileges to those in the United States illegally. Data from the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), published by Chris Van Buskirk of the Boston Herald, shows that about 100,000 requests for appointments to get a learner’s permit have been placed since July 1, when the law took effect.

Where is the bottom for commercial real estate (CRE)? Starwood Capital Group’s Barry Sternlicht recently told Bloomberg’s David Rubenstein about the ongoing crisis in the commercial real estate sector, equating it to a severe “Category 5 hurricane“. He cautioned, “It’s sort of a blackout hovering over the entire industry until we get some relief or some understanding of what the Fed’s going to do over the longer term.” Currently, the biggest problem in the CRE space is sliding office and retail demand in downtown areas. Couple that with high-interest rates, and there’s a disaster lurking for building owners. According to...

Here's the "explanation," which is near the end of the story: When a story about a possible crime sparks national attention to the extent this one did, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The reactions are informed not only by the facts of the case, but filtered through broader contexts that exist outside the particulars of the incident. And those responses can tell us a lot about the culture in which we live. The public concern about Russell’s case was driven in part by the understanding that Black women rarely receive the same amount of attention that white women get...

KYIV, July 24 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the European Union on Monday to ensure that an "unacceptable and clearly non-European" ban on Ukrainian grain imports to five countries is lifted by a Sept. 15 deadline.The five central European countries want the EU ban extended at least until the end of the year. The ban is set to expire on Sept. 15.In his nightly video address, delivered after a meeting with government officials, Zelenskiy said there could be no question of extending the restrictions beyond the deadline."We believe that the European side will fulfill its obligations regarding this...

“We need, as a county, to rise above that. This is not a good way to lead this community, and it sets a bad example for our children and grandchildren,” Rickert said in making her case to adopt a 17-item list of suggestions to guide the behavior of elected supervisors on the county’s governing board. District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye immediately took exception to the word “democratic” included in Item 2, which reads in part, “We subscribe to the concepts of democratic, effective and efficient governance . . .” Instead, Crye suggested changing the word to “republic.”