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Young girls who were in a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services-contracted shelter for domestic minor sex trafficking survivors were abused and trafficked again by staffers at that very shelter, according to a report Thursday by the Texas Tribune. The Refuge Ranch is located on a 50-acre property in Bastrop, Tex., about 30 miles east of the state’s capital city, Austin. It’s operated by a nonprofit organization called The Refuge for DMST™ (short for “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking”), and their website describes how the girls are provided with “trauma-informed, holistic care” that includes education through a University of Texas-run...

The director of Amnesty International USA on Wednesday said Israel "shouldn't exist as a Jewish state" in the wake of his organization's release of a controversial report on Israel that drew backlash from U.S. officials. American Jews want a "safe Jewish space," Executive Director Paul O'Brien said, rather than an explicitly Jewish state. O'Brien, who is not Jewish, called on the Jewish community to "collectively change the conversation" and bring about a secular state by adhering to "core Jewish values, which are to be principled and fair and just." "Amnesty takes no political views on any question, including the right...

Austin Independent School District police are on target to meet its goals to decrease student arrests and use of force, according to data released from the district. The goals were set for the district after a disparity was found in the treatment of Black and white students when it comes to use-of-force incidents. At the Thursday AISD board meeting, data showed there has been a 47% drop in total disciplinary incidents for Black students, compared to the 2018 and 2019 school years, the last non-pandemic year. Data also showed a 39% drop in total disciplinary incidents for special education students...

“I think it’s a disaster for China,” said J Capital Research’s Anne Stevenson-Yang, referring to Beijing’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Foreign policy elites have for years thought about how to break up the growing China-Russia partnership. Now, they should be cheering the tie-up and hope the two large states get even closer. Why? Russia is fast diminishing China.

Lawyers for actor Alec Baldwin filed an arbitration demand on Friday arguing that his Rust film contract protects him from financial responsibility for the shooting that led to Halyna Hutchins’ death on the New Mexico set of the film last year. The documents also make the claim that it was Hutchins herself who directed Baldwin where to aim the gun he held with which he fired the fatal shot. Laying partial blame for the shooting on Hutchins, the filing says, “She directed Baldwin to hold the gun higher, to a point where it was directed toward her. She was looking...

President Biden on Saturday directed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to provide $200 million in defense aid for Ukraine, including for military education and training. Biden directed the funding via a memorandum authorizing a drawdown. A drawdown is an order issued by the president to assist countries in an emergency without first seeking approval from a legislative authority or budgetary appropriations, according to a Department of Defense handbook. Saturday's memo notes Blinken can use the aid for military training and to provide general "assistance to Ukraine and to make the determinations required."

America’s gun debate has been frozen for decades. We keep having the same arguments with the same talking points over and over again — and Americans continue to die from gun violence at hugely disproportionate numbers relative to the rest of the world. There’s a massive cultural divide here that is very hard to reconcile. If you live in a big city or a major metropolitan area, you very likely think about guns differently than someone who grew up in a rural area. To the extent that guns are part of your world, it’s typically associated with crime and violence....

VIDEOAs you can see, even among those who continue defending Jussie Smollett NONE believe he is actually innocent EXCEPT for those whose last name is "Smollett."

Governor Jeb Bush visit with our Optima Domi Team to share a few words in the metaverse.

Empire actor Jussie Smollett says he was handed a heftier jail sentence because he is black and that he made sure to mention he is not suicidal in court in order to avoid getting 'Jeffrey Epstein'd' On Thursday Smollett - once a darling of the music and TV world for his success on the show Empire - was sentenced to 150 days in jail. The star was convicted last year of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police repeatedly when he claimed he was the victim of a race hate attack in January and February 2019. Judge...

Video: Here are some of the Wisconsin nursing home patients who “voted” in the 2020 election, even though their relatives say they were far too sick to vote or to request an absentee ballot. The “voter” turnout at these nursing homes was between 95% and 100%.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)March 12, 2022A study of Wisconsin nursing homes showed that they had voter turnout between 95% and 100% in the 2020 election. Relatives of many of these “voters” say they were far too sick to vote or to request an absentee ballot.On page 90 of the study, it...

" I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, find that specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation — in particular, efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions... ...hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat... ...Section 1. All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be...

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” economist, Harvard Professor, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that the core issue with inflation is the fact that the economy is overheated and the problem of inflation won’t be fully solved until the overheating in the economy is solved. Summers also argued that blaming corporate greed and price gouging for inflation is “likely” to make the inflation problem worse because doing so will hurt business confidence and lower the level of needed investments.

A STUDENT claims they accidentally gobbled a Cadbury's Creme Egg worth £10,000. The devastated 21-year-old said they were "at their lowest point in life" following the expensive mistake. The poster claims they scoffed a very expensive Creme Egg 2 The poster claims they scoffed a very expensive Creme Egg. In January, Cadbury's announced it had hidden 146 limited edition chocolates across the country, and shoppers could win up to £10,000 if they find one. The special egg is made of half white chocolate and half milk chocolate - and it's full of the classic sugary filling. In an anonymous Reddit...

Irakli Okruashvili, a former defense minister of Georgia, last week joined a Ukrainian foreign-fighter regiment created to face down the Russian invasion in a hurry. Three days later, he and a group of countrymen, former special-forces soldiers, made contact with Russian troops north of Kyiv. With a U.S.-supplied .50-caliber Barrett M99 single-shot anti-armor precision rifle, the Georgian unit disabled two Russian armed vehicles, Mr. Okruashvili said, before falling under a sustained reply from 152-millimeter howitzer cannons. After several hours, Ukrainian planes bombed the Russian artillery positions, silencing them.

B.C. joins the growing number of Canadian provinces that have strongly changed their tune on COVID policies since the Freedom Convoy reached Ottawa with overwhelming grass-roots support. VICTORIA, British Columbia – The province of British Columbia announced that its mask mandate is ending immediately and that vaccine passports will be gone in less than a month. The move comes despite recent statements that the Province of British Columbia would be living under draconian COVID measures until at least the summer. The immediate termination of mandatory masking was announced yesterday and pushes B.C. ahead of Ontario, which still has making in...

Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates have fallen to the lowest seasonal level since 2008, when similar shortages of these transport and industrial fuels helped to propel oil prices to a record high. Distillate fuel oil inventories in the United States are 30 million barrels (21%) below the pre-pandemic five-year seasonal average and at the lowest level since 2005, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said. Stocks in Europe are 35 million barrels (8%) below the pre-pandemic five-year average at the lowest level since 2008, Euroilstock, which compiles inventory data on behalf of the European Union, found.And middle distillate...

Conversion therapy used to be described this way: Conversion therapy is any emotional or physical therapy used to “cure” or “repair” a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression. Providers claim these therapies can make someone heterosexual or “straight.” Over time it became widely condemned. The practice, also known as reparative or sexual orientation change efforts, has been discredited by every major professional association that deals with mental health. The assumption that someone's sexual orientation or gender identity can be changed is not based on medical or scientific evidence, according to the American Medical Association....

Russia's central bank on Saturday said it has decided not to reopen stock market trading on the Moscow Exchange from March 14-18, with the exception of some non-open-market transactions and transactions using the SPFI payment system.

OLIVE tree Ministries RUMBLE VIDEO! Dear friends, this is an incredible Jan Markell RUBLE VIDEO interview! Jan Markell talks to Michele Bachmann on the New American and Western hyper authoritarian movement and on Russia attacking the Ukraine because of a Biden weak America. Is Russia gearing up to strike “the mountains of Israel” in the Gog-Magog War of Ezekiel 38-39. Such massive global instability tells us the world is longing for a leader. His title is Antichrist. MARANATHA!