The critics asserted that Mr Farage had torpedoed his own party to achieve nothing — and expressed fears up until the very last day of campaigning that the decision to stand candidates in 276 seats around the country would split the pro-Brexit vote, depriving the Tories of a majority and handing the keys of No. 10 to Jeremy Corbyn.

Yet Jeremy Corbyn’s increasingly hard-left Labour party suffered a historic defeat Thursday, with results running in over the early hours of Friday morning confirming the party experienced its worst electoral performance since 1935.

In part, this was down to Farage’s gamble on not standing against the Conservatives. This is the first election in a decade where the Conservatives have been able to stand in held seats without being opposed by either UKIP or the Brexit Party — freeing up activists to campaign elsewhere.

Also apparent was the impact of the Brexit Party not on the Conservative vote in marginal seats, but on Labour instead. Top Corbynite John McDonnell noted the trend as the results came in overnight.

“We wish we could have paid all lunch debt in Stafford, but we found out that would be about $40,000. We plan on chipping away at that,” he noted.

In Spotsylvania County, the church paid off about $6,518.22 of the district’s negative balance, according to district spokeswoman René Daniels.

“We are very appreciative of our community partners,” she stated.

The church also prepares backpacks full of school supplies for children and volunteers with several local ministries.

On December 2, Williams posted a video of himself to Facebook just before he presented the check to Stafford County.

“We did not do this for recognition, but to let others know of this need and encourage others to bloom where they are planted,” he said.

The church’s Facebook page stated that its mission is to make a difference in the world, adding that it is “willing to take risks to invite, gather, give and volunteer to reach One More person.”

“The Mount exists to Reach One more For Christ. We are For One More!” the page concluded.

Humberto Calderón Berti, a former ambassador now leading the charges against Guaidó, claimed that the head of Guaidó socialist Popular Will party, the former longtime political prisoner Leopoldo López, was the head of “this criminal mafia” allegedly splitting Citgo profits “like it was their personal loot.”

Juan Guaidó became the president of Venezuela legally in January, following the “inauguration” of Maduro that month. Maduro claims legitimacy through winning the May 2018 presidential election – an election in which he banned non-approved leftist candidates and engaged in widespread fraud to silence the opposition. At the time, opposition leaders also urged supporters not to vote in the election to take away any claims to legitimacy, resulting in the lowest turnout for a presidential election in history.

In the event of a “rupture in the democratic order,” in which a sitting president refuses to vacate the office, the Venezuelan constitution allows the legislature, the National Assembly, to appoint an interim president tasked with organizing elections as soon as possible. The National Assembly gave that honor to Guaidó, accepted by most of Latin America and the free world as the legitimate head of the state of Venezuela.

Maduro has refused to yield power to Guaidó and maintains control over the nation’s armed forces, making it impossible for Guaidó to exercise any of his constitutional powers. Many in the upper ranks of the military are tied to Maduro through participation in the Cartel de los Soles, a multicontinental drug trafficking syndicate run by Venezuelan soldiers. Extensive evidence also ties Maduro to profits from ties to the Iranian-Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah through his former vice president, Tareck El Aissami. El Aissami is currently the Minister of Industries for Maduro, meaning he controls the nation’s oil and gold supplies.

Despite Maduro’s supporters accusing Guaidó of stealing oil profits, years of evidence – some revealed by former chavista socialists – suggests that Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has long made PDVSA money disappear through graft. As early as 2016, members of the National Assembly found evidence of $11 billion missing from PDVSA coffers unaccounted for.

Guaidó has not personally faced any accusations of corruption, though he himself revealed evidence of some of his deputies stealing funds meant to help starving Venezuelans. In June, Guaidó identified staffers Kevin Rojas and Roxana Barrera as having stolen at least $90,000 dollars from funds meant to help Venezuelans soldiers defecting from the Maduro loyalist armed forces in Colombia. Tarek William Saab, the attorney general, claimed that the missing money was public Venezuela funding and that Guaidó had stolen it; Guaidó clarified that it was private charity funding, he had nothing to do with it, and he would see to prosecuting those implicated.

In early December, Guaidó announced that he would open yet another investigation into reports that some in his administration had ties to businessman Alex Saab, a Maduro ally, and that they had lobbied in his favor.

“We have ratified the measures to fight corruption and we are going to investigate any activity that has threatened the sacred interests of Venezuelans,” Guaidó announced on Twitter. “We have risen immediately, as a sign that we do not tolerate any act of this nature.”

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The Salvation Army has been in operation since its establishment in 1865 and assists nearly 23 million Americans annually with finding jobs, caring for the elderly, serving veterans, and overcoming poverty, according to its website.

The site continued:

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Hyde said although 2019 has been a tough year for the organization, the generous gift has brought “a huge jolt to our fundraising efforts.”

Thanksgiving weekend, another mysterious donor dropped a gold South African Krugerrand coin worth $1,200 into a red kettle in Springfield, Ohio.

Ryan Ray, development director of the Springfield Salvation Army, said the individual has done the same thing for the past five years.

“To the gold coin bandit, I just want to say thank you on the behalf of the Salvation Army and on the behalf of the community for doing something so amazingly unique and compassionate,” he concluded.