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  • LIVE: Speaker Johnson, Rep. Roy Introduce Bill to Protect Americans’ Right to Vote

    05/08/2024 8:32:11 AM PDT · by bitt · 42 replies
    https://www.youtube.com ^ | 5/8/2024 | NTD
    The House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) leads a press conference at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 8 on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, legislation led by Congressman Chip Roy(R-Texas) in the House and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the Senate. It would require proof of American citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
  • Admission that Biden administration paused bomb transfers to Israel sparks outrage among Israel backers in Congress

    05/08/2024 8:25:27 AM PDT · by bitt · 17 replies
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 5/8/2024 | JAIME MCINTYRE
    THOUSANDS OF BOMBS ON HOLD: The reports first appeared over the weekend, when Axios quoted Israeli officials as saying that the United States had put on hold a shipment of ammunition to Israel. The Biden administration refused to confirm or deny the report for two days, while members of Congress grew increasingly frustrated. “You and your administration have repeatedly abandoned Israel. Should you have unilaterally decided to divert aid to our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, then you should come forward and defend this decision,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said in a letter he fired off to President...
  • ‘They did it all so easily’: Ex-hostages recount chilling details of Oct. 7, captivity

    05/08/2024 7:00:20 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 28 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 5/8/24 | Jessica Steinberg
    Hamas terrorists swarmed through Chen Goldstein-Almog’s home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, shooting and killing her husband and her 20-year-old daughter before bundling her and her three surviving children into her car and driving them into Gaza. Goldstein-Almog and two other released hostages spoke in person at a screening of testimonials prepared by the Government Press Office and screened in the GPO’s offices in Jerusalem on Monday for press and diplomats. She described seeing terrorists swarm through their house, yelling “Jews, Jews” in Arabic. Goldstein-Almog’s husband, Nadav, tried to protect the family and was quickly shot in the...
  • Data: More Than Data: More Than 200,000 People On North Carolina Voter Rolls ‘Missing’ ID Numbers

    05/07/2024 9:12:17 PM PDT · by bitt · 24 replies
    https://thefederalist.com ^ | 5/7/2024 | BRIANNA LYMAN
    N.C. voter data lists more than 224,000 records since 2004 that are ‘missing’ both an SSN and a driver’s license number. North Carolina voter data lists more than 224,000 people with registration dates after January 2004 whose records are “missing” both the last four digits of their Social Security number (SSN) and a driver’s license identification number, according to public records obtained by The Federalist. The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) required states to verify certain “information of newly registered voters for Federal elections,” according to the Social Security Administration. “Each State must establish a computerized State-wide voter registration...
  • THE FREEPER CANTEEN - The How Well Do You Know '60s Shows Quiz - Wednesday, May 8, 2024

    05/07/2024 6:00:02 PM PDT · by luvie · 90 replies
    For the best vets & troops in the world...& their families, too | luvie and the Canteen Groovsters
    ~ Freeper Canteen ~--Canteen Mission Statement--Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies' military and family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. Today We Want You To Take The.....How Well Do You Know '60s Shows Quiz Click HERE to take the quiz!Have fun!Please remember that The Canteen here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.
  • Maya Bitton, 22 & Eliran Mizrahi, 23: Had just set a wedding date

    05/07/2024 12:04:33 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 18 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 5/7/24 | TOI Staff
    Murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7 Maya Bitton, 22, and her fiance, Eliran Mizrahi, 23, from Petah Tikva, were murdered at the Supernova music festival on October 7. They told their family that morning that they were hiding from the terrorists and the gunfire in large trash receptacles at the site of the rave. The couple sent a video clip of themselves hiding in the trash bins, the last anyone saw them alive. Several days later, their bodies were recovered and identified. The engaged couple, who met in high school, were buried side by...
  • Hamas says 33 hostages to be freed in 1st phase of a deal may not all be alive

    05/07/2024 7:39:05 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 32 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 5/7/24 | TOI Staff
    Terror group said to tell mediators it doesn’t have 33 living people who meet ‘humanitarian’ criteria of initial phase — after Israel agreed to lower previous demand of 40 people Hamas has said some of the 33 hostages it would release under the first phase of a prospective hostage deal with Israel would not necessarily be alive. In an announcement detailing the clauses to which it had agreed Monday in the latest proposal for a deal, the terror group said, “During the first phase, Hamas releases 33 Israeli detainees (alive or corpses).” The New York Times reported Tuesday that the...
  • Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch

    05/07/2024 6:46:24 AM PDT · by Salman · 25 replies
    Space Daily ^ | May 7, 2024 | Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo, Issam Ahmed
    The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off just two hours before launch after a new safety issue was identified, officials said Monday, pushing back a high-stakes test mission to the International Space Station. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped into their seats preparing for liftoff when the call for a "scrub" came, because engineers noticed audible buzzing from a liquid oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket meant to propel the capsule into orbit. In a late night press conference, Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA) that built...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Camp Parks, California ~ 07 MAY 2024

    05/06/2024 6:00:00 PM PDT · by laurenmarlowe · 32 replies
    Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew
    ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, CaliforniaParks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA), commonly known as Camp Parks, is a United States Army facility located in Dublin, California that is currently an active mobilization and training center for U.S. Army Reserve personnel to be used in case of war or natural disaster.Soon after the creation of the Seabees at the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Navy built a West Coast replacement and recuperation center for Naval Construction Battalions returning from overseas. Camp Parks was established on November 26, 1942, having been named in...
  • Palestinian reports claim Israeli tanks, troops pushing into Kerem Shalom crossing

    05/06/2024 2:52:14 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 31 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 5/7/24 | (None shown)
    Palestinian news outlets say Israeli forces are pushing into the Kerem Shalom crossing, shelling the area from the air and with artillery fire. Al-Aqsa TV reports that Israeli tanks are firing at the crossing from some 200 meters (650 feet) away, destroying the terminal which has served as one of the main conduits for aid into Gaza since November. The crossing sits some 3 kilometers from the eastern edges of Rafah in the far south of Gaza. Other reports claim that ground forces are moving into the crossing area and that air strikes are hitting eastern Rafah. There is no...
  • IDF says its fighter jets have shot down a drone heading to Israel from the east

    05/05/2024 9:08:40 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 10 replies
    Times Of Israel ^ | May 6, 2024 | Emanuel Fabian
    Israeli fighter jets during the night shot down a drone that was heading toward Israel from “the eastern direction,” the military says. The IDF says the aircraft had been tracked throughout the incident, and there was no threat to civilians.
  • Armed Gazan gangs, some thought tied to Hamas, steal $70 million from Bank of Palestine

    05/05/2024 7:05:52 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 27 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | May 4, 2024 | AFP
    Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to “certain international partners” detailing the robberies. On April 16, staff discovered a hole in the ceiling of the safe deposit room at one of the bank’s Gaza branches and found that some $3 million worth of Israeli shekels destined for cash dispensers were missing, Le Monde said. The next day,...
  • Left-Wing Groups And Long-Time Activists Reportedly Trained Anti-Israel Protesters For Months

    05/04/2024 6:46:48 PM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | May 04, 2024 | Will Kessler
    Anti-Israel protesters at many of America’s universities have been consulting with and sometimes trained by left-wing groups and activists, some of which have ties to support of terrorism, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Protesters at universities across the country have consulted with groups like National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, in some cases resulting in months of training, planning and encouragement, according to the WSJ. Administrators and police have battled pro-Palestinian protesters in recent days at schools like Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles, in some cases calling in officers...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Archer T Gammon ~ 06 May 2024

    05/05/2024 5:01:29 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 35 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Archer T. Gammon Info from here. Archer T. Gammon (September 11, 1918 January 11, 1945) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II. Gammon joined the Army from Roanoke, Virginia in March 1942, and by January 11, 1945 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Company...
  • Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi reacts to Biden’s blunders and activist chaos

    05/05/2024 7:51:11 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 13 replies
    Sky News ^ | 19/4/24 | Rita Panahi
    In this extended ‘Lefties Losing It’, Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to Joe Biden’s latest blunders, pro-Palestine activists causing chaos and MSNBC’s “delusional meltdown”. Ms Panahi claimed the US President’s cognitive decline was hitting “new lows” after he appeared to confuse the Israeli city Haifa with Rafah in Gaza. He also bizarrely claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane crashed, however, Pentagon records state the aircraft plunged into the Pacific off the coast of New Guinea. In a separate video, the Sky News host reacted to travellers in the United States abandoning their cars after pro-Palestine...
  • British comedian: 'Britain is a dying society. I’ll be fine in Israel'

    05/05/2024 12:01:05 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 73 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 5/5/24
    Jewish-British writer and comedian Lee Kern, who is planning on emigrating to Israel, took to social media to express his displeasure with the direction his country has taken in light of the results of the local elections in which many left-wing and Muslim candidates saw great success. "I’m leaving Britain and moving to Israel. Even if it wasn’t for the antisemitism I’d be leaving. Britain is a dying society. I’ll be fine in Israel. It’s the most dynamic, creative, and positive place I’ve ever been - even though surrounded by Islamic fundamentalist psychopaths who daily try to destroy it," Kern...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ DON’T GIVE UP ~ 05 May 2024

    05/04/2024 5:08:18 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 68 replies
    Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    DON'T GIVE UP Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. — Galatians 6:9 KJV Do you ever feel like giving up? Perhaps you’re discouraged about your finances or you’re facing problems with your health, your marriage, or your children. Sometimes problems seem so overwhelming that the road ahead seems too steep to climb. We all go through these times. I’ve wanted to give up and quit many times through the years. But when I realized I had nothing interesting to go back to, I determined to keep...
  • Trump's sit-downs with foreign officials are 'annoying' some in Biden's camp

    05/04/2024 11:55:11 AM PDT · by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas · 66 replies
    nbc ^ | 5/1/2024 | Jonathan Allen, Carol E. Lee and Katherine Doyle
    WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for a parade of foreign dignitaries in recent weeks, some aides to President Joe Biden took notice — and umbrage — at what they saw as the former president playing pretender-in-chief. In less than two months, Trump has hosted Polish President Andrzej Duda, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and David Cameron, the former British prime minister who now serves as the U.K.’s foreign secretary. He’s also talked with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and others by phone. It’s not unusual for a party...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ It's Kentucky Derby Time! ~ 04 May 2024

    05/03/2024 6:00:14 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 137 replies
    Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    The Freeper Canteen Presents....~ It’s Kentucky Derby Time!! ~ Barbershop Quartet ~ Star Spangled BannerCall To The Post KENTUCKY DERBY TROPHY Since the 50th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1924, Churchill Downs has annually presented a gold trophy to the winning owner of the famed "Run for the Roses." History is unclear if a trophy was presented in 1875 to the winner of the first Kentucky Derby, and trophy presentations were sporadically made in following years. Finally, in 1924, legendary Churchill Downs President Matt Winn commissioned that a standard design be developed for the "Golden Anniversary" of the...
  • Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, wife indicted on charges of bribes tied to Azerbaijan

    05/03/2024 11:55:00 AM PDT · by rdl6989 · 58 replies
    ABC News ^ | May 3, 2024 | Alexander Mallin and Luke Barr
    Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy and accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities, the Justice Department announced. Prosecutors allege Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, began accepting the roughly $600,000 in bribes beginning as early as December of 2014 from an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan's government as well as a bank headquartered in Mexico City. While Cuellar's wife allegedly propped up sham front companies on the promise of providing consulting services to the two companies in order to launder the payments, she "performed little to no...