Border Patrol agent arrested in Arizona on child sex charges
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A Border Patrol agent accused of child sex abuse charges was arrested in southern Arizona Thursday.
Sierra Vista Police Department officers and Homeland Security agents arrested Dana Ray Thornhill on Thursday, April 9, on charges of sexual conduct with a minor and sexual assault.
Thornhill, 49, is being held at the Cochise County Jail without bond.
The arrest came after an investigation with Homeland Security into ongoing sex abuse of children, according to the release. Thornhill allegedly fled from Sierra Vista and took shelter in a church in Whetstone, north of Huachuca City.
Thornhill was armed at the time he fled and likely knew of the investigation, according to a news release from the SVPD.
Officers with SPVD’s tactical unit responded to the church, where Thornhill barricaded himself. Negotiators were on the scene for four hours until Thornhill finally surrendered at 8 p.m.
https://www.kold.com/2020/04/10/border-patrol-agent-arrested-arizona-child-sex-charges/
Ex-Charlotte leader arrested for threatening to blow up a South Carolina dam
Tim Newman, a former Charlotte business leader, was being held in a South Carolina jail Thursday morning on a felony charge of threatening to destroy a Berkeley County dam.
It was Newman’s third arrest in two months and at least his fifth since 2018.
Newman was charged with threatening to destroy the Pinopolis Dam, an earthen and concrete structure owned by Santee Cooper, a state-owned power and water utility, according to utility spokeswoman Molly Gore. The dam is near Lake Moultrie.
Newman is being held on $45,000 bond, a jail spokeswoman told the Observer.
Newman was chief executive of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority from 2004 to 2011. A former general manager of the Charlotte Knights, he was instrumental in pushing for NASCAR to put its Hall of Fame in Charlotte.
He was demoted in 2011 after facing mounting criticism of his management, including projections of attendance at the hall of fame. He’d also been under fire for giving an employee a controversial $100,000 bonus.
The Charlotte Ledger has reported that Newman was arrested in February and in March on charges involving probation violations and communicating threats.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article241883526.html
This date in regional history April 11, 1918: Men suspected of being German spies arrested in Augusta
APRIL 11, 1918
There was a war in Europe, but there was also danger at home.
German spies seemed to be everywhere, gathering information and disrupting the American war effort.
On this date, an ordnance employee of the federal arsenal in Augusta was taken into custody. Hallie Mills, also known as Willie Moore, faced a preliminary hearing before U.S. Commissioner C.J. Skinner Jr.
Mills/Moore had aroused suspicions, particularly after a search found him in possession of a large sum of money and a mysterious letter from a German in Atlanta.
“Several things have developed which lead officers to believe that they have nipped in the bud a German plot,” The Augusta Chronicle reported.
Or maybe not.
Moore’s hearing was delayed, and its eventual resolution went unreported.
Also unreported was the September arrest of an Augusta photographer William Lambert.
Lambert had also aroused suspicions because of his interest in photographing airplanes, as well as his collection of local maps and a wire-tapping apparatus in his residence on Eighth Street.
His case was reported in The Atlanta Constitution, but somehow missed in Augusta. However, neither man, nor either newspaper bothered to report their fates.
https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20200410/april-11-1918-men-suspected-of-being-german-spies-arrested-in-augusta
UNDERCOVER JOURNALIST SOLD AS SLAVE IN DUBAI
Sold into slavery in Dubai
Our brave reporter made the journey into the world of human trafficking and ended up spending a month in slavery. She narrates her ordeal.
I had interacted with labour exporting companies for some time and was aware of the risks Ugandans go through travelling abroad to do odd jobs. But I had never imagined the real shock that slave trade in the modern world is. The irony of it all is that girls are trafficked at their own cost.
They pay for respectable jobs and discover on arrival at their destinations that there are none. By that time, they are helpless, unable to save themselves and resort to being used as slaves or sex workers until they are able to buy themselves out or escape.
It is easy to imagine how disappointing, but not how scary it can be when you are the slave, in a home you do not know, cannot locate and unsure if you will come out alive to tell the story.
My story starts on January 7, 2020 when I stumble on a Facebook comment by a lady who goes by the identity “Monica the Proud Mukiga”.
From our protracted interactions, I get the idea that I can pretend I want to work abroad so that I get trafficked and get first-hand information for our readers.
I have no idea the extremes to which the experience will stretch my nerves and almost cost me my life.
https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1517775/undercover-journalist-sold-slave-dubai
Tech Giants Using Your Data To Gouge Consumers & Sex Cult Guru’s Attempt To Mentally Break Women
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Mike Papantonio: Tech giants are being accused of using your personal search data to increase the prices of items that you want to buy online. And unfortunately what’s happening here is this has turned into a whole new industry, an industry where the digital industry understands everything about you. How much money you make, where you live, what’s the demographic, and they use that now to price things for you. Uber got caught doing it. They had information from Uber that says, well, we’ve, we know this guy has money so we’re going to charge him more for this ride. Pick it up.
Farron Cousins: What’s happening right now is that everything is connected. If you have a cell phone, if you have a, a laptop or a computer or anything you get on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, whatever it is, Linkedin, if you’re still on that, everything is talking to each other, all of the other sites. So when you go shopping online, as most of the public does now, that organization, that company, whatever it is, their website, as soon as you log in there, they have already pulled every piece of information that is available on you. They know your race. They know your gender, they know your religion.
Mike Papantonio: Why is it important? Because when you go to buy something, they know how to price it for you. If you’re going to buy an airline ticket, how many times have you gone on check the price of an airline ticket, next thing you look at, it jumps $1,000? Airline industry got, got caught doing that. But look, I gotta tell you this Alternet article. I wish I knew who wrote this article. It’s excellent. And they talk about this concept of behavioral advertising. And in here, he’s whoever, whoever wrote this, I mean, he or she says, look, you know, I’m okay if I’m going to go buy a new bike and all of a sudden I’m inundated with different kinds of bikes.
Mike Papantonio: A self help guru, groomed women for sex, subjecting them to shame and humiliation and threatening to expose their deepest secrets if they didn’t comply with his wishes. RT correspondent, Brigida Santos, has the full story. Brigida, what a, these, it’s almost like you can’t push the limits in weird in stories anymore. What are the prosecutors alleging in this case against Keith Raniere?
Brigida Santos: The prosecutors are accusing Keith Raniere of creating an organization known as an NXIVM that was advertised as a professional self help, coaching and educational business, but actually operated more like an expensive pyramid scheme/master slave sex cult. During ongoing trial proceedings, the assistant US attorney has described the NXIVM leader as a predator who sexually exploited women often humiliating and blackmailing them with collateral which came in the form of naked photos or damaging secrets.
One of the females Raniere reportedly exploited and sexually engaged with was actually under age and last week a witness testified that Raniere also psychologically manipulated and broke his followers through near starvation diets, forced sex and isolation. Now, he reportedly labeled anyone who questioned him and his teachings, a suppressive person and encouraged his followers to distance themselves from these so called bad influences. But is this something straight out of the cults playbook.
https://trofire.com/2020/04/10/tech-giants-using-your-data-to-gouge-consumers-sex-cult-gurus-attempt-to-mentally-break-women/
1,000 Boko Haram Fighters Killed in Raid, Chad Army Reports
Chadian army officials report military forces have killed about 1,000 Boko Haram extremists in an operation on the islands of Lake Chad.
In a video statement released late Thursday, Army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermandoa said the eight-day operation cleared the extremists from the islands in a vast area between Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon.
He said 52 Chadian army soldiers also were killed and nearly 200 others wounded during the operation.
The move follows a Boko Haram attack last month on a Bohoma army base. More than 92 soldiers were killed. Army officials called it the deadliest attack ever on the nation’s forces.
Boko Haram extremists have killed tens of thousands and forced millions from their homes during their more than decade-long insurgency.
https://www.voanews.com/africa/1000-boko-haram-fighters-killed-raid-chad-army-reports
Fauci expects 'real degree of normality' by November election
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Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said he expects a “real degree of normality” by the November elections as a partisan battle breaks out over voting by mail.
“I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality. That’s my interest and my job as a public health person,” Fauci, a leading member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Friday on MSNBC.
The remarks come as Democrats and Republicans feud over the viability of expanding mail-in voting in the November election.
The GOP, led by President Trump, have claimed that mail voting is particularly susceptible to fraud and could affect the general election, though they have offered no evidence to support their claims.
“Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. “Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492316-fauci-expects-real-degree-of-normality-by-november-election
Trump threatens to withhold visas for countries that don't quickly repatriate citizens
President Trump on Friday issued a memo threatening to withhold visas for people from countries that do not quickly repatriate their citizens from the U.S. due to concerns over the coronavirus.
Trump wrote in a memo to the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that the DHS secretary will notify the secretary of State if any government denies or delays “the acceptance of aliens who are citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of that country after being asked to accept those aliens, and if such denial or delay is impeding operations of the Department of Homeland Security necessary to respond” to the pandemic.
Within seven days of proper notification, the State Department will then initiate a plan to impose visa sanctions under an executive order Trump signed in January. Those sanctions can be repealed if DHS deems the targeted country has resumed accepting people “without unreasonable delay.”
“Countries that deny or unreasonably delay the acceptance of their citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents from the United States during the ongoing pandemic … create unacceptable public health risks for Americans,” Trump wrote in the memo. “The United States must be able to effectuate the repatriation of foreign nationals who violate the laws of the United States.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492321-trump-threatens-to-withhold-visas-for-countries-that-dont-quickly
U Ready for the lockdown anon?
Boeing to restart some work on jets in Washington as early as Monday
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-to-restart-limited-local-work-on-jets-as-early-as-monday/
Matthew 18:6 King James Version
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.