US Marshals rescue 25 missing children from Ohio, many are victims of human trafficking or prostitution

In a separate undercover sting operation, 27 men were arrested after allegedly attempting to engage in sexual activity with minors.

U.S. Marshals located 25 missing and endangered children from Ohio in the past 20 days of an ongoing operation. U.S. Marshals worked with state and local agencies in Ohio to track down missing children in Operation Safety Net.

The missing children, who were between the ages of 13 and 18, were found in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Euclid, Willoughby, and as far away as Miami, Florida. U.S. Marshals noted that a quarter of the endangered children were victims of human trafficking and prostitution.

"These are kids that have been abused, neglected. Some involved in human trafficking," U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott told WOIO. "Sometimes the situations they—they go to, believe it or not, may be better than the situations they left from. We've had some cases where the mother and or father, or both, may have been prostituting their own child."

"We're trying to do our part. A number of these children have gone to the hospital after we've recovered them to get checked out, so again this is something we take very seriously," Elliott added. "I'll tell you this, it will be something we'll be doing every year. This is our first time we have done this, it's been uncharted territory for us, but we've had great success."

The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, Cleveland Division of Police, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department, the East Cleveland Police Department, and the Newburgh Heights Police Department are assisting U.S. Marshals in Operation Safety Net, according to the Mansfield News Journal.

Operation Safety Net will continue for a few more weeks, and it has a goal to find the approximately 200 missing children from Northeast Ohio.

Information about the whereabouts of missing children can be provided at the U.S. Marshals tip line at 1-866-492-6833.

Earlier this week, U.S. Marshals rescued 26 missing children and safely located 13 during "Operation Not Forgotten." The endangered children, who ranged in age from 3 to 17, were found in Georgia and Florida. Of the 39 children, 15 were victims of sex trafficking.

In a separate operation called "Operation Moving Target," 27 men were arrested in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The men reportedly engaged in sexually explicit online conversations with undercover officers while posing as children, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley.

During the four-day undercover operation that took place this week, men contacted, who they believed to be minors via social media apps. "The defendants apparently expressed an interest in engaging in sexual activity with the purported children and/or disseminated images of their genitals during these online conversations," according to WKYC.

The men, between the ages of 21 and 61, allegedly traveled to a vacant house in Cuyahoga County, according to the prosecutor's office. When the men arrived at the house, authorities were there to arrest and take them to the county jail.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/child-human-trafficking-ohio-us-marshals

Oregon program allocates millions in federal coronavirus funds exclusively to black residents

Program "will provide economic relief for [black] individuals, businesses, and nonprofits."

A relief program in the state of Oregon is directing tens of millions of dollars in federal coronavirus stimulus funds exclusively to black residents of the state in an effort to redress "demonstrated health and economic disparities experienced by the Black community" there.

The Oregon Cares Fund for Black Relief & Resiliency states that it is "a $62 million targeted cash investment from the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund" intended to "provide economic relief for the Black community, who are among Oregon's most vulnerable groups due to systemic divestment and disparities widened and exacerbated by COVID-19."

The fund "provides cash grants to Black individuals and families, Black-owned businesses, and Black-led nonprofit organizations who have experienced financial adversity due to COVID-19," the website states.

The fund's council, which is "composed of eleven Black leaders from across the state of Oregon," is currently reviewing applications for fund distributions. It expects all funds to be distributed no later than Dec. 30 of this year.

The funds were allocated to the organization in July by the Oregon state legislature. Fund disbursement is administered by two nonprofits, the Contingent and the Black United Fund of Oregon.

The project says that the Oregon state government "is not providing day-to-day oversight" of the fund, though the Contingent in the course of its administrative duties "will provide monthly reports to the state of Oregon."

It is unclear if the avowedly race-specific fund violates federal prohibitions on racial discrimination. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that "any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" is forbidden from racially discriminating against participants.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/oregon-program-allocates-millions-federal-coronavirus-funds-exclusively

Thousands protest at Balfour, call on police not to repeat ‘terror’

Protest organizers suggest to ‘Post’ that incitement from within demonstrations were inserted from outside to ignite clashes

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Jerusalem and thousands of others in locations across the country on Saturday night to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as protesting organizations called on police not to repeat the “terror” that had occurred in previous demonstrations, referring to clashes between protesters and police.

“What happened last week was extreme,” Ronit Ernfroind, one of the protest organizers, told The Jerusalem Post. “There was law breaking from law keepers. We do not intend and did not intend to be violent. We are not provocative.”

She expressed a growing concern among protest organizers that those inciting among protesters may not have come from the event’s supporters, but rather may have been inserted to incite violence.

Police announced on Saturday night that after High Court instructions to lower the volume of protests were not followed, “police were forced to enforce the High Court decision and stop the noise.”

The Israel Police claimed on Saturday afternoon that some of the protesters were planning to attack policemen deployed at the weekly protest near the Prime Minister’s Residence.

The “Black Flag” movement, one of numerous organizations participating in protests, denied the allegations.

Police simply claimed that the situation “had been handled.”

Asaf Agmon, one of three central organizers of the protests, told the Post that he, as well as the two other organizers, Amir Haskel and Ernfroind, and many others, had written letters to the acting chief of police and to the government attorney-general over “the illegal actions of the police according to the High Court.”

Police additionally created barriers along the borders of the protests, though the barriers were placed significantly farther from the center of the protests than in the previous events: a choice which organizers did not fail to recognize.

“The police widened the space we have, so in case of disaster, there is room to move,” Agmon told the Post. “I hope this prevents the possibility of disaster. Protesters came to demonstrate, not to be violent, not to attack police.”

Nevertheless, the Black Flag protesting organization claimed that police was not allowing people to enter with air horns, despite explicit instructions by the High Court of Justice to allow them in.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/514275-intelligence-chief-shifts-election-security-briefings-to-written-updates

Moscow Warns Russians Traveling Abroad of Threat of Persecution by US Deep State Agencies

Russian nationals traveling overseas may face the threat of persecution from US Deep State intelligence agencies, Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced in a statement following the arrest of a Russian citizen, Yegor Kryuchkov, in the United States.

“Following the August 22 arrest of Russian national Yegor Kryuchkov, 27, in the United States… we would like to draw the attention of our fellow citizens traveling overseas to the threat of becoming the subject of persecution from US law enforcement and intelligence agencies,” the statement read, TASS reported.

According to the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation, United States law enforcement and intelligence agencies continue to illegally arrest Russians around the world. As many as 56 such incidents have taken place in third countries since 2008, with six occurring in 2019. In this regard, the ministry pointed to the cases of Viktor Bout, Maria Butina, Roman Seleznev and Konstantin Yaroshenko.

“In order to make them [Russians] plead guilty in fabricated cases, they are putting strong psychological pressure on them and make their incarceration conditions unbearable. If our fellow citizens refuse to plead guilty, they are handed hefty prison sentences,” the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry added.

The Foreign Ministry also emphasized that Russian diplomats did everything possible to provide assistance to Russian nationals, ensure their legitimate rights and a speedy return home. The US Department of Justice said earlier that Kryuchkov had been arrested in Los Angeles and charged with an alleged conspiracy to “intentionally cause damage to a protected computer”.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/08/moscow-warns-russians-traveling-abroad-of-threat-of-persecution-by-us-deep-state-agencies/

Intelligence chief shifts election security briefings to written updates

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe notified Congress that the intelligence community will be scaling back in-person congressional briefings on election security and replacing them with written updates ahead of November.

The top intelligence official argued this process will better protect the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, a statement that appears to be a nod toward Congress leaking information.

According to letters addressed to top House and Senate lawmakers with a Friday time stamp, Ratcliffe defended the changes and emphasized that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) intends to continue supporting Congress with its oversight efforts.

"The ODNI will primarily meet its obligation to keep Congress fully and currently informed leading into the Presidential election through written finished intelligence products," the letters read, according to copies obtained by The Hill.

"I believe this approach helps ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that the information ODNI provides the Congress in support of your oversight responsibilities on elections security, foreign malign influence, and election interference is not misunderstood nor politicized. It will also better protect our sources and methods and most sensitive intelligence from additional unauthorized disclosures or misuse," the letters added.

A House Intelligence Committee official told The Hill that the panel was informed of the changes verbally. The official said they later received the letter.

Ratcliffe noted that the intelligence community's move to written products will satisfy the 17 statutory requirements laid out in the National Defense Authorization Act for this fiscal year.

Democrats, meanwhile, decried the shift.

"This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and a betrayal of the public’s right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy. This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

Pelosi and Schiff threatened that they will "consider the full range of tools available to the House to compel compliance" if the ODNI does not resume briefings, claiming it is a "shameful" attempt by the Trump administration to "withhold election-related information from Congress and the American people at the precise moment that greater transparency and accountability is required."

CNN first reported the shift from in-person briefings to written updates.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/514275-intelligence-chief-shifts-election-security-briefings-to-written-updates

SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers – Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone – Rest Had Other Other Serious Illnesses

So get this straight – based on the recommendation of doctors Fauci and Birx the US shut down the entire economy based on 9,000 American deaths to the China coronavirus.

We were first to report that the Director General of the WHO on March 3, 2020 a set off the panic with his highly flawed statement:

While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.

Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.

This statement caused a global panic. We, however, knew it was wrong and we wrote about it on March 17, 2020. Here is the video of Dr. Ghebreyesus’s remarks.

https://youtu.be/-kk-DrTCRAY

The WHO leader’s coronavirus death rate number of 3.4% was false and we proved this in our post.

The Gateway Pundit reported, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate more like a typical seasonal flu – the media was lying again.

Doctors Fauci and Birx were next to push ridiculous and highly exaggerated mortality rates related to the coronavirus:

** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.

** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic

** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March

** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model

But the Imperial College model Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed was garbage and they recommended the destruction of the US economy using this model.

Not only are the number of deaths related to the China coronavirus minuscule, the virus is naturally dying out.

The data above from Europe shows that the number of cases has little correlation to the number of deaths.

Let’s face it – at this moment in time anyone who is pushing for more lockdowns and other abuses on our personal rights are either evil or terribly misinformed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/shock-report-week-cdc-quietly-updated-covid-19-numbers-9210-americans-died-covid-19-alone-rest-serious-illnesses/