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Last weekend, police broke up a major sex-trafficking ring in Colombia, which has become a destination for tourists looking for sex with boys and girls. The police had help from an American who went undercover to rescue the children. Tim Ballard has one mission: to track down child traffickers. Four months ago Colombian authorities asked him to investigate a tip that children were being sold there as sex slaves. American Tim Ballard helped authorities in Colombia bust a major sex-trafficking ring, saving 54 children. CBS NEWS "Within a half hour this individual walks up to me asking me what I'm...

Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security who sets out to save children from sex trafficking rings. The 2023 action film has become a surprise hit at the box office after generating $14 million during its opening day on July 4, and it has continued to stand its ground against competing movies like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Insidious: The Red Door. A lot of Sound of Freedom's success relates to the fact that it claims to be based on a true story, so the elements...

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A traumatic experience at a young age ignited a mission in Tim Ballard—to protect children from the dangerous world around them. He was trained by the Department of Homeland Security and now runs Operation Underground Railroad, one of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the world. Tim combats child exploitation head-on, but as a father of nine, he encourages all parents to understand what makes a predator and how to protect their children.

John McCain with “Source D – Source E” of the Steele dossier – via Paul Sperry In January 2017 ABC News identified Sergei Millian as the key source of the Fusian GPS anti-Trump Dossier. Sergei Millian has since been identified as as the mysterious “Source D” and “Source E” in the junk Steele dossier. ABC News interviewed Millian in 2017. Sara Carter wrote more about Sergei Millian in March 2019. Millian was a source for the Steele dossier who disappeared after the election. According to former Trump policy advisor George Papadopoulos, Millian, a Belarus-born businessman, became an unwitting source of...

Meditations for each day of the novena. Day 1 (A Plea for Reparation), Day 2 (For the Conversion of Sinners), Day 3 (Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and World Peace), Day 4 (The Holy Rosary), Day 5 ( Purity and Modesty), Day 6 (Priests, Religious and Rulers), Day 7 (The Vision of Hell), Day 8 (The Errors of Russia), Day 9 (The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary)

NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO OUR LADY (Beginning September 28) May be said in public or in private.i. 300 Days, each day. ii. Plenary on the Feast or during the Octave, I, II, IV (See Instructions, p. 1., 1910 Raccolta.) 1. LITANY OF LORETO Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de cælis Deus, miserere nobis. Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, Spiritus Sancte Deus, Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis. Sancta Dei Genetrix, Mater Virgo virginum, Mater Christi, Mater Ecclesiæ, Mater Divinæ gratiæ, Mater purissima, Mater castissima, Mater inviolata,...

White Greater Double THE OFFICE OF THE TIME gives us, at the close of September, the Books of Judith and Esther. These heroic women were figures of Mary, whose birthday is the honor of this month, and who comes at once to bring assistance to the world. “Adonai, Lord God, great and admirable, who hast wrought salvation by the hand of a woman:” the Church thus introduces the history of the heroine who delivered Bethulia by the sword, whereas Mardochai’s niece rescued her people from death by her winsomeness and her intercession. The Queen of heaven, in her peerless...

White Greater Double ROME, DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY by Peter on the first of this month, offers to the world a wonderful spectacle. O Wisdom, who since the glorious Pentecost, hast spread over the whole world, where could it be more true to sing of thee that thou hast trodden the proud heights under thy victorious feet? On seven hills had pagan Rome set up her pageantry and built temples to her false gods; seven churches now appear at the summits on which purified Rome rests her now truly eternal foundations. By their very site, the basilicas of St. Peter...

White Greater Double TOWERING OVER THE WAVES on the shore of the Holy Land, Mount Carmel, together with the short range of the same name, forms a connecting link to two other chains, abounding with glorious memories, namely: the mountains of Galilee on the north, and those of Judea on the south. “In the day of my love, I brought thee out of Egypt into the land of Carmel,” said the Lord to the daughter of Sion, taking the name of Carmel to represent all the blessings of the Promised Land; and when the crimes of the chosen people...

NOVENA IN HONOR OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL(Beginning July 7) JULY 7     O BEAUTIFUL Flower of Carmel, most fruitful vine, splendor of heaven, holy and singular, who brought forth the Son of God, still ever remaining a pure virgin, assist us in our necessity! O Star of the Sea, help and protect us! Show us that you are our Mother! (Here make your intentions in silence.)     Pater, Ave, and Gloria Patri.     Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us! JULY 8     MOST HOLY Mary, Our Mother, in your great love for us you gave us the Holy Scapular...

Red Commemoration EVER SINCE OUR ENTRANCE upon the joys of the Paschal Season, scarcely a day has passed without the Calendar’s offering us some grand Mystery or Saint to honor; and all these have been radiant with the Easter sun. But of our Blessed Lady, there has not been a single Feast to gladden our hearts by telling us of some mystery or glory of this august Queen. The Feast of her Seven Dolors is sometimes kept in April—that is, when Easter Sunday falls on or after the 10th of that month; but May and June pass without any...

NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO OUR LADY (Beginning March 16)(i. 300 Days each day. ii. Plenary on the Feast or during the Octave. I, II, IV.) Veni Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Come, O Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of thy love. ℣. Emitte SPRITUM tuum, et creabuntur; ℣. Send forth Thy spirit, and they shall be created; ℟. Et removabis faciem terræ. ℟. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Oremus. Let us pray. Deus, qui corda...

This may be off topic here...please for give my newb-ness. This site has some very interesting data on where state and federal money is going. What I found very interesting is the map that shows all California state employees that make $100K plus a year.

White Greater Double “My bow shall appear in the clouds and I will remember My covenant with you.” THE LESSONS AT MATINS on February 11th, 1854 (Thursday in Sexagesima week) recalled these words, and the world soon learned that on this very day Mary had appeared, more fair than the sign of hope which typified her at the time of the deluge. Portents, the realization of which we see in these days, were being multiplied. Mankind had grown old, and seemed about to perish in a deluge more dreadful than the former one. “I am the Immaculate Conception,” said...

White Double of the First Class (Privileged Octave of the Second Order) THE FEAST of the Epiphany is the continuation of the mystery of Christmas; but it appears on the Calendar of the Church with its own special character. Its very name, which signifies Manifestation, implies that it celebrates the apparition of God to his creatures. For several centuries, the Nativity of our Lord was kept on this day; and when in the year 376 the decree of the Holy See obliged all Churches to keep the Nativity on the 25th of December, as Rome did—the Sixth of January...

This National Election was one battle that was lost by those who seek to Conserve what Good is left of America. At best, this loss will help us in the future to avoid the obvious mistakes made in the past. There will be other battles in the future, and our goal will be to win more of those battles than we tie or lose. The purpose of our future battles is to win the WAR, just as Breitbart had warned us. On the positive side we need to list what the problems are. On the negative side we need to...

IT'S TEXANS VS MEXICANS ON AN ALL-NEW "SOUTH PARK" ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL -------- All-New Season 15 Episodes Available In HD Exclusively On Xbox LIVE, iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network, Amazon Video On Demand New Episodes Also Available On SouthParkStudios.com -------- NEW YORK, October 10, 2011 Butters is filled with Mexican Pride in an all-new episode of "South Park" titled, "The Last of the Meheecans," premiering on Wednesday, October 12 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central. What begins as an innocent game between the boys turns serious when Cartman joins the U.S. Border Patrol....

That's the reaction of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council to the president's urging of budget negotiators to make the difficult choices necessary to reach a "grand bargain" to raise the nation's debt limit. "It's not going to get easier, it's going to get harder. So we might as well do it now; pull off the Band-aid, eat our peas," Obama said at a White House news conference. A spokesman for the pea council said it wasn't interpreting the remarks in a negative context. "We take President Obama's comment on the need to 'eat our peas' as a reference...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We have the unemployment news that we are now at 9.1% unemployment. We have next to no growth. We have massive unemployment. We're in the midst of a housing disaster, oppressive regulations. All of this and the regime is demanding massive tax increases. We face a threat of reduction in the nation's credit rating. We have systemic, historic deficits and still today you can read certain stories or go to certain networks and hear them talk about the recovery! There is no recovery. If this isn't a depression, then what is? And the sad thing is, what's...