The Inquisition was originally intended primarily to identify heretics among those who converted from Judaism and Islam to Catholicism. The regulation of the faith of newly converted Catholics was intensified following royal decrees issued in 1492 and 1502 ordering Jews and Muslims to convert to Catholicism or leave Castile.
>Do you really think that criminals are going to hear this message and not carry a gun on the streets of Albuquerque for 30 days?
>Get ready for something comical or tragic.
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More than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Lampedusa over the past three days.
>More than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Lampedusa over the past three days.
Location: Mediterranean Sea
Archipelago: Pelagie Islands
Population: 6,556
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50375869
There may be not enough Ukrainian athletes for the next Olympic Games due to mobilization.
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46% of US auto production is set to go offline as a result of the UAW strike.
A US intervention against the Mexican Cartels would be taking on organized forces that have been under arms longer than the Taliban, are better funded than Ukraine, Have a population and territory bigger than Saddam had in Iraq, and some of whom, as in the case of the Los Zetas Cartel, are themselves former Special Forces trained by American Green Berets.
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Her paternal grandfather was Emilio Q. Daddario, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Connecticut from 1959 to 1971.
Emilio Quincy Daddario was credited with capturing Benito Mussolini's chief of staff, Rodolfo Graziani, at the Hotel Milan in April 1945.
son, Richard, the New York Police Department's incoming deputy commissioner for counter-terrorism
Daddario got her start with commercials when her Merrill Lynch-lawyer mother and her father, a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, encouraged her to do something more creative than they had.
>The Government does not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions count
>well versed in deception
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https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/09/15/rare-public-rebuke-lds-church/
In rare public rebuke, LDS Church condemns Tim Ballard’s ‘morally unacceptable’ behavior
Utah-based faith says the anti-human trafficking activist, who may seek Mitt Romney’s Senate seat, “betrayed” his friendship with a senior apostle.
Tim Ballard, the former head of the anti-human trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad, has been condemned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for “morally unacceptable” behavior by saying M. Russell Ballard, the acting president of the faith’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was a central figure in support of OUR and Tim’s private business efforts.
The strongly worded public rebuke, rare for the church, came as Tim Ballard is said to be prepping a run for Utah’s soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat next year.
VICE first reported Tim Ballard, who is not related to the 94-year-old church leader, said the two were close associates and even partners in for-profit business ventures that would help him monetize the celebrity status he had gained through his exploits rescuing human trafficking victims.
Critics say his rescue missions are often highly fictionalized or exaggerated.
Those details come from hundreds of documents about a now-closed criminal investigation into OUR conducted by the Davis County attorney’s office and the FBI. County Attorney Troy Rawlings did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
A statement from the Utah-based faith, which The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed, said the senior church apostle and Tim Ballard, who is a Latter-day Saint, became friends several years ago but have not been in contact for several months.
“Once it became clear Tim Ballard had betrayed their friendship, through the unauthorized use of President Ballard’s name for Tim Ballard’s personal advantage and activity regarded as morally unacceptable, President Ballard withdrew his association,” according to the statement. “President Ballard never authorized his name, or the name of the church, to be used for Tim’s personal or financial interests.”
According to the VICE article, Tim Ballard allegedly told associates that M. Russell Ballard personally urged him to quit his job at Homeland Security to found OUR, and the two maintained close contact during an overseas operation the group launched based on information obtained by a psychic.
Tim Ballard is reportedly preparing to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Mitt Romney. The senator announced earlier this week he would not seek a second term in 2024.
Tim Ballard’s prominence increased after the success of “Sound of Freedom,” the fictionalized movie biography that became a box-office hit over the summer.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, once considered a contender to replace Romney, said on social media he would not campaign for the U.S. Senate and instead would endorse “a dear friend” in the race. Reyes and Tim Ballard have a close relationship. Reyes is listed as an associate producer for “Sound of Freedom.”
The controversy with the church is just the latest involving Tim Ballard and his anti-trafficking efforts. Earlier this summer, he quietly stepped down as head of OUR after multiple employees reportedly filed complaints against him. He also resigned as the CEO of the Glenn Beck-backed Nazarene Fund organization in July.
>VICE first reported
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjypz/mormon-church-denounces-tim-ballards-morally-unacceptable-activities
Mormon Church Denounces Tim Ballard’s “Morally Unacceptable” Activities
A church spokesperson tells VICE News that Ballard “betrayed his friendship” with a powerful leader, who “never authorized his name, or the name of the Church, to be used for Tim’s personal or financial interests.”
Documents obtained by VICE News show anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard claimed that a revered and powerful figure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints played a secret, central role in Operation Underground Railroad, or OUR, the organization Ballard founded. Insiders who spoke to federal and local investigators as part of a since-closed criminal inquiry described Ballard claiming that OUR and his personal business ventures were backed by the senior member of the church’s second-highest leadership body, and part of a larger mission to use the anti-trafficking cause to bring Americans to the Mormon faith—or, in his words, “lead them to the covenant.”
“Tim is fully convinced that he is supposed to be the 'Mormon Messiah and lead people back to the church,’” read notes from an interview between criminal investigators and a former OUR higher-up.
But now a spokesperson for the church tells VICE News that while the apostle in question, President M. Russell Ballard, was once close to Tim Ballard—to whom he is not related, despite their sharing a last name—the OUR founder “betrayed their friendship, through the unauthorized use of President Ballard’s name for Tim Ballard’s personal advantage and activity regarded as morally unacceptable.”
Elder Ballard’s relationship with Tim Ballard is, the church spokesperson told VICE News, “in the past.” They did not specify what activity was regarded as morally unacceptable. Tim Ballard did not respond to a detailed request for comment; OUR provided a statement which is reproduced in full below.
The unusually public denunciation of Tim Ballard is particularly newsworthy at this moment. He left OUR earlier this year following an internal investigation into employee complaints about his conduct at virtually the same moment that Sound of Freedom, a fictionalized version of his purported child-rescuing exploits, became a surprise box office hit. He has since begun promoting a new anti-trafficking organization, the SPEAR Fund.
But he is also said by many Utah insiders to be weighing a run for Senate—speculation that was given more weight by a recent statement from Sean Reyes, the Utah attorney general, who’s also a longtime friend and supporter. (Reyes wrote that he would not be running for Senate, allowing “an opportunity for a dear friend of mine who is a great conservative, patriot, and warrior to run and serve as the next Senator from Utah.” Reyes said that person would announce their run in the coming days.)
The documents, obtained by VICE News through a public-records request, are from a now-closed criminal investigation into OUR conducted jointly by a Utah county attorney and the FBI. Several people, according to the documents, described exceptionally close ties between the two Ballards. Elder Ballard, who is in his 90s, is the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, an extremely senior position within the church, and is viewed by faithful Mormons as a profound spiritual and moral authority. People familiar with OUR’s operations have previously told VICE News that Tim Ballard has sometimes claimed that Elder Ballard personally urged him to quit his previous job at Homeland Security Investigations to found OUR.
The ties between Tim Ballard and Elder Ballard described in the documents are numerous and occasionally bizarre, involving claimed business arrangements, blessings, and even a psychic who claimed to be able to communicate with the prophet Nephi, who according to the Book of Mormon has been dead for thousands of years. Allegations from a former OUR higher-up as well as text messages contained in the documents obtained by VICE News suggest that Tim Ballard and an associate represented Elder Ballard as a partner in a for-profit business called Slave Stealers, which was pitched as a way to control OUR and other non-profits. It was apparently viewed as part of a scheme that would allow Tim Ballard to monetize the notoriety he gained through his often exaggerated exploits.