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14,000 migrant encounters at the border in the last two days alone (not counting gotaways), and that is with Title 42 still in place. It is currently set to drop on December 21st, per a federal judge’s ruling, pending possible appeal.
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▫️FedEx driver arrested in kidnapping, murder of 7-year-old girl - Body of kidnapped 7 year old Athena Strand recovered
Athena was reported missing Wednesday and authorities launched a search for her across Wise County, located northwest of Fort Worth. Authorities believe the young girl was killed within an hour after her kidnapping from her family's driveway, which is about 200 yards from her home. Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, is being held in Wise County jail on capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges, according to its website. Bond was set at $1.5 million. Paradise, Texas: At a news conference held last night at about 11:00 pm EST, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin announced that the body of missing 7-year-old Athena Strand had been recovered. "It hurts our hearts to know that that child died," Akin said.
» https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/fedex-driver-is-arrested-in-the-kidnapping-and-killing-of-a-7-year-old-girl-who-went-missing-outside-her-home-this-week-police-say-1.6180040
» https://www.realdarknews.com/body-of-kidnapped-7-year-old-athena-strand-recovered/▫️ Florida preacher arrested for alleged child sex crimes in Fiji
A 42-year-old preacher from the Florida panhandle is facing federal charges after being arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations following an investigation involving child sexual abuse. Fox13 Tampa Bay reports that according to the Department of Justice, the preacher from Milton, Florida has been arrested in Santa Rosa County for illicit sexual conduct that allegedly took place from March 2013 to February 2016 in Fiji.
https://www.fijivillage.com/news/Florida-preacher-arrested-for-alleged-child-sex-crimes-in-Fiji-x8f54r/▫️14 arrested in Galveston after sting operation for solicitation of minors, prostitution
GALVESTON, Texas - Fourteen were arrested after a sting operation was conducted in Galveston. Galveston police along with Texas DPS, Galveston County Sheriff's Office, and Homeland Security made 14 arrests with 16 total charges after conducting an operation to target online solicitation of minors and solicitation of prostitution. Reports say two charges are still pending.
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/14-arrested-in-galveston-after-sting-operation-for-solicitation-of-minors-prostitution▫️Maryland pimp tattooed young woman as part of prostitution ring
A Maryland man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to trafficking and prostituting three young women. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arms — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — said Nov. 29 that Ryan Odell Oliver, 40 of Baltimore, also had his nicknames “Fame” and “Foreign” tattooed on one of the women.
https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/feds-maryland-pimp-tattooed-young-woman-as-part-of-prostitution-ring/article_a9fefaef-ead2-5819-a26a-36f3cbadce48.html▫️North Carolina pastor removed after arrest on child sex charges, officials say
DURHAM, N.C. — A Durham church pastor has been removed from his position after he was arrested on child sex charges last week, according to church officials. David Keandre Dixon, 37, was arrested by Raleigh police at his home in Raleigh on Thursday, records show. Dixon is facing charges from Durham County that include indecent liberties with a child and statutory sex offense with a child 15 or younger, according to the Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification.
» https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/durham-county-news/durham-pastor-held-on-10-million-bond-after-arrest-on-child-sex-charges-officials-say/
» https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-regional-news/north-carolina-pastor-removed-after-arrest-on-child-sex-charges-officials-say/▫️Bronx day care worker allegedly sexually abused 2 girls
Jamie Sanchez, 30, allegedly abused the girls between 2015 and 2020. At the time, he worked at My Precious Little Angels Daycare on Reverend James A. Polite Avenue.
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/bronx/bronx-day-care-worker-allegedly-sexually-abused-2-girls/▫️Oklahoma man arrested on child porn charge after attempting suicide during execution of search warrant
PAWNEE COUNTY, Okla. – On Friday, Agents from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested Travis McClain (1/31/1987). McClain was arrested after agents executed a search warrant on McClain’s residence located on E. 5280th Road in Cleveland, Oklahoma. McClain, a convicted sex offender, is facing one count of Possession of Child Pornography.
https://breaking911.com/oklahoma-man-arrested-on-child-porn-charge-after-attempting-suicide-during-execution-of-search-warrant/▫️Georgia pair charged with trafficking 16-year-old girl
ATLANTA — Attorney General Chris Carr announced that his office’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit has indicted Courdale Thayer and Jahaundria Seabron in DeKalb County. Thayer and Seabron are facing four counts of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude
» https://www.jacksonprogress-argus.com/news/georgia-pair-charged-with-trafficking-16-year-old-girl/article_564fdbf9-a344-5aa7-9cd6-e50b0ac65df5.html
» https://news.yahoo.com/pair-charged-trafficking-16-old-221600167.html▫️7 more districts express support for declaring invasion at border; now 40 total
Forty Texas counties have now declared an invasion of the southern U.S. border with Mexico or have expressed support for Texas to declare an invasion. More are on the way, according to sources who spoke to The Center Square. Among the most recent to join the invasion call are the magistrates and commissioners of Collin, Fannin, Leon, Navarro, Shackelford, Somervell and Waller counties.
https://georgialawnews.com/7-more-districts-express-support-for-declaring-invasion-at-border-now-40-total-•-the-georgia-virtue/▫️Former Cobb County Sheriff’s Deputy sentenced to prison for child pornography distribution
ATLANTA - Peter Bilardello, a former Cobb County Deputy Sheriff assigned to the agency’s Sex Offender Unit, has been sentenced to federal prison for distributing child pornography online after entering a guilty plea to the charge in August 2022
https://www.realdarknews.com/former-cobb-county-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-to-prison-for-child-pornography-distribution/▫️Former Middlesex County, NJ Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Child Pornography Offenses
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Joshua Padilla, 37, of Eatontown, New Jersey, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $15,300 in special assessments by United States District Court Judge Eduardo C. Robreno after being convicted of multiple child exploitation offenses.
https://www.realdarknews.com/former-middlesex-county-nj-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-child-pornography-offenses/______________________
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Fleetwood Mac-Christine McVie - SongBird
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Reflections on the Ice on Juniata Lake > Tom Bukousky
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Disgraced Democratic attorney Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
https://news.yahoo.com/stormy-daniels-lawyer-michael-avenatti-003900428.html?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/michael-avenatti-onetime-foe-of-trump-sentenced-to-14-years-in-fraud-case/ar-AA14WloS
It doesn't het much better than this!!! I'll never forget how much they talked him up
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A former Miami congressman, David Rivera, who once signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-miami-south-america-fugitives-a65d1625dcbbab616dcdafc5853b5909 was arrested Monday at an Atlanta airport, on an eight-count indictment alleging he was part of a conspiracy to lobby on behalf of Venezuela to improve U.S.-Venezuela relations, resolve an oil company legal dispute and end U.S. economic sanctions against the South American nation — without registering as a foreign agent.
Correspondence introduced as part of the lawsuit shows Rivera and Gorrin discussing buying “concert tickets” — a possible code word for bribes — to unnamed officials and attempting to coordinate a meeting between Venezuela’s foreign minister and executives from the U.S. oil company Exxon.
As part of that effort, they also roped in Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, whose former Dallas district was home to Exxon and who secretly traveled to Venezuela in 2018 (https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-us-news-venezuela-texas-miami-15ea6f405e859acadf969696d286b94a) to meet with Maduro.
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Kash Patel Slams Chris Wray And Bill Barr For Perpetrating Dual Justice Systems That Protect America's Elite
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Riders on the Storm - The Doors
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The day quietly slipping away. Lime Valley Road, Strasburg Pennsylvania > Mike Occhionero
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One Thing, Jesus Christ
Fr. Ben Daghir Will Post Weekly Articles HERE Every Monday!
Article 9 - December 5th, 2022 by Fr. Ben Daghir
Morgan Wallen’s song “Whiskey Glasses” was released in 2018. On YouTube the music video has over 124 million views.Wallen won three major billboard music awards in 2021: Top Country Artist, Top Country Album, and Top Country Male Artist.
The song “Whiskey Glasses” describes a story in which a guy has experienced a break-up. He tells his friends, “Pour me, pour me another drink cause I don’t wanna feel a thing. No more, hell nah. I just wanna sip til the pain wears off…cause I ain’t never hurt like this before.”
The guy then says, “I’ma need some whiskey glasses if I am gonna make it through.”
The refrain of the song then repeats, “Line 'em up, line 'em up, line 'em up, line 'em up. Knock 'em back, knock 'em back, knock 'em back, knock 'em back. Fill 'em up, fill 'em up, fill 'em up, fill 'em up.”
The guy has an empty space within his heart. He wants it filled up.
St. Augustine understood the problem of trying to quench one’s thirst and one’s hunger with things of this world. The problem is that nothing in this world can quench the thirst of the heart or satisfy the hunger of the mind.
Augustine reflected on his life journey in his autobiography The Confessions. He writes, “my heart is restless until it rests in Thee.” After a difficult struggle, Augustine realized that nothing in this world could fill him up. He came to know that only God could fill the emptiness within his mind and heart.
The guy in Morgan Wallen’s song is restless. He is agitated, frustrated, stressed, confused, filled with anxiety, and just wants to numb the pain. This is one of the lowest moments in his life. He has hit rock bottom.
The Gospel of Mark includes an interesting detail shortly before Christ is crucified. The soldiers “gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it…then they crucified him” (Mark 15: 23-24). The drink was used to dull the senses in order to numb the pain. The Romans would offer a crucified man this type of drink in order to lighten the pain…but Jesus refused.
The moment of being bruised, beaten, abandoned, scourged, whipped, tortured, mocked, ridiculed, ignored, unjustly accused, and crucified - Jesus Christ refused the concept of “whiskey glasses.” He didn’t numb the pain, but experienced all of it. He entered into the rock bottom of our brokenness with neither substances nor distractions.
This leads us to something called spiritual physics. It is a principle in the spiritual life which indicates that one is filled up precisely in the measure that one gives himself away. On the other hand, the more someone holds onto something for himself, the more the emptiness grows from within. In other words, love grows precisely in the measure that it is given away.
The guy in Morgan Wallen’s song has this mantra, “Fill 'em up, fill 'em up, fill 'em up, fill 'em up.” Of course, the emptiness in his heart will only grow and worsen because it is a substance of this world. Christ, on the other hand, pours himself out on the cross.
Christ is the fullness of humanity. Christ is full of happiness.
It would be wise for us to listen to Christ’s words, “whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). In fact, it is the blueprint for happiness.
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Fr. Ben Daghir is a priest for the Diocese of Erie. He is a graduate of Elk County Catholic High School in Saint Marys, Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, and St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland. He considers writing one of his favorite hobbies.
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The FBI warned Twitter during “weekly” meetings before the 2020 election to expect “hack-and-leak operations’’ by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden, and “likely” in October, according to a sworn declaration by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth.The warnings were so specific that Twitter immediately censored The Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020, citing its “hacked materials” policy, a move described on Saturday as “election interference” by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk.
The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how the FBI was involved in pre-bunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau’s possession for almost a year.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” said Roth in a Dec. 21, 2020 declaration to the Federal Election Commission.
“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”
Roth’s signed declaration formed part of Twitter’s defense against a complaint by the Tea Party Patriots Foundation that its censorship of The Post was an “in kind” campaign contribution to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign.
Feds’ social gatherings
The FBI also warned Facebook to be on “high alert” for a “dump” of “Russian propaganda” before the 2020 election, in terms specific enough that it “fit the pattern” of The Post’s story, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in August.Facebook also censored The Post ahead of Twitter’s throttling the story in October, pending “fact checks” that never appear to have been done.
The FBI agent who organized those weekly meetings with Big Tech was Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, whose postgraduate thesis claimed that Russia interfered with the 2016 election to help former President Donald Trump.Chan testified by Zoom Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Biden administration that he organized the meetings in San Francisco for as many as seven DC-based FBI agents in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Chan also organized weekly meetings with Facebook.
The lawsuit brought by the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, alleges that White House officials and federal agencies acted with Big Tech to censor “disfavored speakers, viewpoints and content on social-media platforms.”
Under questioning by Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer Tuesday, Chan said that the FBI warned Twitter to be on guard for a “hack and leak” operation but could not recall whether Hunter Biden was mentioned.
This is a crucial inconsistency with Roth’s sworn declaration saying the FBI specifically mentioned Hunter.
The FBI used the meetings to lobby the social media platforms to change their terms of service in order to be able to quickly take down “hacked material,” says a source with access to a transcript of Chan’s testimony.
It looks very much as if the FBI pre-bunked a story they knew was coming about Hunter Biden. But how would they know The Post was going to publish the story in October 2020?
Well, the FBI was spying on Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s online cloud, under the pretext of an investigation into alleged foreign-agent registration violations, a probe which conveniently was dropped this year.
The covert surveillance warrant on Giuliani gave the FBI access to emails in August 2020 from Delaware computer repair store owner John Paul Mac Isaac disclosing information damaging to Joe Biden from the laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his store in April 2019.
The FBI also had access to my messages with Giuliani in October discussing when The Post would publish the story.
The FBI knew that Mac Isaac was a legitimate whistleblower because he had come to them in the fall of 2019 to express national-security concerns about evidence on the laptop of payments to the Biden family from Ukraine and China. On Dec. 9, 2019, two agents arrived at his store with a subpoena and took the laptop and a hard-drive copy.
We know from FBI whistleblowers who have come forward to Republican members of Congress that rogue FBI employees within the Washington Field Office buried the laptop and other information detrimental to Joe Biden before the 2020 election.
Now, thanks to Elon Musk, we know more about Twitter’s role in this apparent interference.
During a live Q&A session on Twitter Saturday afternoon, Musk said: “If Twitter is doing one team’s bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the very definition of election interference. . . . Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee. It was absurd.”
But, despite promises to reveal all about the censorship of The Post, Musk’s Friday night dump of what he calls the “Twitter Files” left out one crucial element: the FBI.
Journalist Matt Taibbi, deputized by Musk to release the information, tweeted that “there’s no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”
This contradicts Roth’s sworn declaration that the FBI warned of a “hack and leak” operation involving Hunter Biden, as well as Twitter’s lawyers’ response to the FEC in December 2020.
Law firm Covington & Burling told the FEC that Twitter “had been warned throughout 2020 by federal law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ undertaken by malign state actors, in which those state actors might hack electronic communications of individuals associated with political campaigns and seek to disseminate the leaked materials. . . . Reports from the law enforcement agencies even suggested there were rumors that such a hack-and-leak operation would be related to Hunter Biden.”
Then there is the curious role of Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker, who is former general counsel at the FBI where he was involved in Russia-collusion plots against Trump.
According to Taibbi, Baker advised that The Post’s story should be censored because “the materials may have been hacked [and] caution is warranted. “
Before he was parachuted into Twitter, in June 2020, conveniently just five months before the election, Baker was a personal acquaintance of FBI agent Chan.Rooting for Biden
Chan testified Tuesday that he knew Baker from when they worked together in 2016 with FBI “lovebirds” agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page on an investigation of a hack on Yahoo.He said he remains in touch with Page, who, with Strzok, was forced out of the bureau after their virulently anti-Trump text messages were revealed.
Baker also is connected to some of the 51 intelligence officials who signed the Oct. 19, 2020 letter, published five days after The Post’s laptop bombshell, falsely alleging that Hunter’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Three days after the letter, candidate Biden used the letter to get off the hook in his final debate against Trump: “There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what [Trump is] accusing me of is a Russian plant . . . what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”Between leaving the FBI in 2018 and joining Twitter, Baker worked for the Brookings Institution, writing for the Lawfare Blog, which is published by David Priess, an ex-CIA agent who signed the “Dirty 51” letter and is the chief operating officer of the Lawfare Institute and publisher of the blog. Six more signatories of the letter are linked to the Lawfare Blog.
It’s a cozy network where everyone was rooting for Biden to beat Trump in 2020 — and Twitter was a useful fellow traveler.
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Pastor Bob Joyce Sermons
What Shall We Render? (Sermon 12-4-2022) -
Just another... "This CAN NOT be REAL!!"
Full Report of the “All Ages” Christmas Drag Show
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BREAKING: Email leaks reveal Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was in regular communication with Twitter telling them who to censor
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Diane L. Smith, age 70 of DuBois, PA died Friday, December 2, 2022 at her home.Born on December 31, 1951 in DuBois, PA, she was the daughter of the late Lamar and Olive (Korb) Shaffer.
On June 6, 1970, she married her husband of 52 years, James W. Smith. He survives.
Diane retired from the DuBois branch office of PNC Bank after 45 years of service.
Sha had attended Salem United Methodist church and enjoyed bingo, coloring, and cooking and baking for her family. Diane also loved to sing and was half of the well known duo, the “Singing D’s”.
Diane is survived by her son (Matthew J. Smith and his wife Nantana of DuBois, PA), a grandson (Carter Smith, and four sisters (Sharon Muth of Luthersburg, PA, Lois Bickel of Chestnut Grove, PA, Betty Shaffer of Bloomville, OH, and Connie Shaffer Farrell of DuBois, PA).
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her step mother (Helen Shaffer), and her grandchild (Shawn Dahrouge-Smith).
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Baronick Funeral Home and Crematorium, Inc.
A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 11 a.m. from the funeral home with Pastor Terry Felt officiating.
Burial will take place in Lakelawn Memorial Park
Memorial donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice
Online condolences can be sent to http://baronickfuneralhome.com/condolence
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NIGHT FEVER (German Group The Bee Gees Cover)
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Sunrise in Mercer, Pa > Aaron Sines
Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine then laundered back to Politicians (FTX)
in The True Great Awakening Blog!
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-financial-system-vulnerable-to-80-trillion-plus-problem-in-fx-market-warns-bis-11670259414