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Virginia Giuffre’s accusation of sexual abuse by the senior British royal was settled out of court in 2022

Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring and a leading advocate for victims of sexual abuse, has died by suicide at the age of 41, her family said in a statement to NBC News on Friday.

Giuffre passed away at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia, where she had lived with her husband and three children since 2019.​

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family told NBC News.

They described her as “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” adding that “the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Giuffre was instrumental in bringing global attention to Epstein’s abuse network. She provided crucial information to law enforcement that contributed to the conviction of Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

She also filed a high-profile civil lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew, alleging he sexually abused her when she was 17. The case was settled out of court in 2022, with Prince Andrew denying the allegations.

Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was officially ruled a suicide, though it has remained the subject of intense public scrutiny and widespread speculation given the high-profile figures linked to his case.

Court documents unsealed last year also revealed a possible link between Giuffre and Ruslana Korshunova, a Kazakh-Russian model who jumped to her death from her Manhattan apartment in 2008. Korshunova had reportedly flown on Epstein’s private jet to his private island, Little St. James, two years before her death. Following Korshunova’s death, Giuffre received an email from her attorney inquiring whether she knew the young model.

In March, Giuffre revealed on Instagram that she had been involved in a car accident with a school bus and was suffering from renal failure. She stated that doctors had given her “four days to live” and shared a photo of herself with visible bruises. Her family later clarified that she had been hospitalized and was receiving medical care.​

Her brother, Danny Wilson, told NBC News that she had been in “real physical pain” and “suffered from renal failure,” but that “the mental pain was worse.”

Giuffre’s attorney, Sigrid McCawley, described her as “a dear friend and an incredible champion for other victims,” while her representative, Dini von Mueffling, said, “Virginia was one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever had the honor to know.”

The Ukraine “Peace Deal”

April 25, 2025

Paul Craig Roberts

The details of the peace deal presented today by US special envoy Steve Witkoff are consistent with the report in the Financial Times discussed in my previous article and with Larry Sparano in the posted interview.  Putin will halt the Russian advance prior to driving Ukrainian soldiers out of all of the territory that has been reincorporated into Russia.  It appears to be the case that the borders between Russia and Ukraine will be the current front line, so Putin is withdrawing Russia’s claim to the Russian territories still under Ukrainian occupation.

In exchange Washington will give de jure, that is legal, by right, recognition to Crimea as a constituent part of Russia, and Washington will give de facto, that is accept the facts on the ground whether legal or not, recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Luhansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye, and Kherson as provinces of Russia according to the present boundaries in the conflict.  

By withholding de jure recognition of Russia’s battlefield gains, Ukraine can continue to claim, and demand return of, Russia’s battlefield gains. In other words, the agreement evades the central issue.

According to the agreement, Ukraine must renounce all NATO aspirations.  But Putin’s other demands, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine are apparently not included in the agreement.

Washington will lift the sanctions against Russia, and there will be US-Russia economic cooperation, which seems to mean that Russia will open aspects of its economy to foreigners for exploitation, a disastrous Russian decision.

This is what the Russian oligarchs and Atlanticist Integrationists, who have never supported the war, want.  How the Russia’s military feels about victory being shoved aside by a negotiated settlement is unknown.

But is it a settlement?  Zelensky’s latest statement at this time of writing is that he will not concede a square inch of territory to Russia.  If Zelensky has to be coerced, and as he is not legally or constitutionally the current president of Ukraine as his term of office has expired, successive Ukrainian governments can legitimately claim that the agreement is not valid.

Moreover,  Ukraine and Europe have placed themselves behind an alternative agreement.  In their proposed agreement, Ukraine will consent to begin talks with Russia, Europe, and the US about the territorial issues. Moreover, Ukraine will be granted US security guarantees similar to Article 5 in the NATO treaty.  In other words, Ukraine becomes essentially a de facto member of NATO.  Additionally, there will be no restrictions on Ukraine’s armed forces or on the operations of foreign forces on Ukrainian territory, and Russia will compensate Ukraine for war damage.

Clearly, the two proposals have nothing in common.  Unless Europe gives in to Trump, a split is implied between the US and NATO, a split that could leave the US and Russia in an alliance that excludes Europe.  I have no explanation why Europe is taking this risk.

As we can see from the facts, only two of the four parties agree to the deal. Moreover, even if there is a deal, in the absence of de jure recognition of Russia’s territorial claims, the deal amounts to little more than kicking the can down the road.

In fact, John Helmer says that the deal is just a mechanism, a cover, for moving Russia aside so that Washington can get on with its war with China. 

Here is how Helmer describes the situation:

“The politico-military strategy driving the US negotiators and prompting Trump’s tweets, is not a peace deal with Russia, nor even US withdrawal from the war in Europe. It is a strategy of sequencing one war at a time – the war in Europe to continue in the Ukraine with rearmed Germany, Poland and France in the lead, supported by Trump; and the US war against China in Asia.

“Sequencing these wars so as not to fight both enemies simultaneously – that’s the formula devised for Trump by Wess Mitchell, a former State Department appointee in the first Trump Administration,  and his business partner Elbridge Colby, now the third-ranking Pentagon official as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.   ‘The essence of diplomacy in strategy,’ Mitchell has just declaimed in Foreign Affairs, ‘is to rearrange power in space and time so that countries avoid tests of strength beyond their ability.’ . .  

“Mitchell and Colby have convinced Trump and his negotiators that Russia has been badly damaged by the Ukrainian war which the Obama and Biden Administration have fought. Russian weakness, especially the perception that President Putin is both politically vulnerable and personally susceptible to US business inducements, is Trump’s strong card, and he should play it now.”

The goal is not peace, but to make money off of two wars: Europe and Ukraine’s war with Russia, and Washington’s war with China.  And perhaps a war with Iran for Israel thrown in. 

Readers can listen to Helmer’s presentation of what he says is actually occurring in his discussion with Ray McGovern on Nima Alkhorshid’s program ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgG4ZmTZQww ), and they can read it in several of Helmer’s recent articles in Dancing with Bears ( https://johnhelmer.net/one-war-at-a-time-and-plenty-of-money-to-be-made-in-the-meantime-this-is-trumps-game-as-the-russian-and-chinese-general-staffs-understand/ ).

Helmer’s source for his explanation of what is really happening is an article in Foreign Affairs by West Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia in the first Trump term.  Mitchell is currently working with Trump’s current Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby to sequence America’s wars with Russia and China as the US lacks the power to take on both simultaneously. Mitchell’s article was published on April 22, 2025, in the May/June 2025 issue of Foreign Affairs.  

Mitchell writes that the process of sequencing the wars with Russia and China should  begin “by bringing the war in Ukraine to an end in a way that is favorable to the United States. That means that when all is said and done, Kyiv must be strong enough to impede Russia’s westward advances” [for which no evidence exists, showing Mitchell’s mind to be controlled by the false narrative]. Washington should use the Korean War formula: “prioritize an armistice and push questions about a wider settlement into a separate process that could take years to bear fruit, it it ever does.”  This, of course, is what Washington’s de facto recognition of Russia’s territorial claims ensures.

Mitchell carelessly then reveals the intended deception of Babe-in-the-Woods Putin: “The United States should pursue a defense relationship with Ukraine akin to the one it maintains with Israel: not a formal alliance, but an agreement to sell, lend, or give Kyiv what it needs to defend itself. But it should not grant Ukraine [ de jure ] NATO membership. Instead, the United States should push European states to take responsibility for Ukraine—and for the security of their continent more generally.” This strategy capitalizes “on Putin’s special relationship with the Russian oligarchs” and dupes Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s negotiator, ” into pressing the Kremlin to accept a short-term military armistice which stops well short of the demilitarization and denazification goals of the Special Military Operation.”

So, as Mitchell describes it, the “peace agreement” is a Washington deception to set up, yet again,  “Babe-in-the Woods Putin” for the eventual destruction of Russia.

Can I believe this?  Yes, I can.  Helmer has  been watching things for a long time and reporting on them.  This scenario is not a product of Helmer’s imagination.  It is spelled out in an article in Foreign Affairs, long the arbiter of American foreign policy. The author, West Mitchell, a former Trump high official, clearly holds to the neoconservative policy stated by Defense Undersecretary Paul Wolfwitz that the purpose of American foreign policy is hegemony over the world. If American hegemony requires war, war it is.

The Russians, with a large part of the mindless Russian establishment so desirous of being part of the West, have never paid any attention to the implication for Russian sovereignty of the neoconservative doctrine of US hegemony. This doctrine has not been denounced by President Trump. Consequently, Russia will be destroyed as the Russian government stupidly walks into deception after deception. Under Putin and Lavrov it will be one Minsk Agreement after another.

The question I have is:  Is Trump a part of the deception not only of Putin but also of the American people, or is this a deal he has accepted without realizing its consequences because he is desperate to end the conflict as he promised?  If Trump himself is part of the deception, then we have the explanation why the American Establishment did not prevent his reappearance in the Oval Office.

The US president has said Kiev and Moscow have agreed to “most” points of his peace proposal and are ready to “finish it off”

US President Donald Trump has claimed that “most of the major points” in an agreement to end the Ukraine conflict have been resolved, even as Vladimir Zelensky once again publicly rejected a reported key clause in the proposed US peace framework.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held lengthy talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday, described by Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov as “constructive and very useful.” Trump also expressed satisfaction with the negotiations, saying it was a “good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine.”

“They are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet, at very high levels, to ‘finish it off.’ Most of the major points are agreed to,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social late Friday, adding that “SUCCESS seems to be in the future!”

The agreement proposed by Washington reportedly includes US recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, a “freezing” of the conflict along the current front line, and acknowledgment of Moscow’s control over large parts of the four former Ukrainian regions that voted to join Russia.

“Crimea will stay with Russia” under a final settlement of the Ukraine conflict, Trump said in a recent interview with Time Magazine.

However, in direct contradiction to Trump, Zelensky reiterated on Friday that Kiev will not even discuss formally recognizing Crimea as Russian territory.

“Our position is unchanged: only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainian,” Zelensky told reporters in Kiev, arguing that “the constitution of Ukraine says that all the temporarily occupied territories... belong to Ukraine.”

Zelensky went on to claim that his “vision” of a resolution includes more “sanctions, economic and diplomatic pressure” on Moscow – even as Washington’s peace framework reportedly includes a phased removal of the sanctions.

Trump previously blamed Zelensky’s public statements for harming the negotiation process and warned that he risks losing the entire country if he continues to stall talks with Moscow.

The US-proposed deal would also reportedly prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, an ambition enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution. Kiev’s intention to join the US-led bloc likely “caused the war to start,” Trump said in his interview with Time.

The Kremlin has stated that it remains open to diplomacy and has expressed gratitude for Trump’s peace efforts. Ushakov confirmed that Friday’s talks touched on the possibility of resuming direct bilateral negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, but offered no details. No direct talks between the two sides have taken place since Ukraine pulled out of the Istanbul negotiations in 2022.

According to Putin, Zelensky – who has banned himself from engaging in talks with Moscow – is actively sabotaging any peace process, as it would require the lifting of martial law, which currently allows him to remain in power. Moscow maintains that without martial law, Zelensky would be compelled under the Ukrainian constitution to either hold elections or transfer presidential authority to the speaker of the parliament.

Mercy was a pivotal theme throughout the papacy of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff led the Catholic Church for a little more than 12 years before his passing on Easter Monday.

According to Catholic News Agency,

As we approach Divine Mercy Sunday, here are 10 quotes from Pope Francis on mercy, taken from his homilies and addresses for Divine Mercy Sunday:

You can find more on Divine Mercy here.

Pope Francis' Prayer for Mercy

You are the visible face of the invisible Father,
of the God who manifests his power
above all by forgiveness and mercy: let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified.

You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness in order that they may feel compassion
for those in ignorance and error: let everyone who approaches them feel sought after,
loved, and forgiven by God.

Send your Spirit and consecrate
everyone of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord,
And your Church, with renewed enthusiasm,
may bring good news to the poor,
proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed,
and restore sight to the blind.  

We ask this through the intercession of Mary,
Mother of Mercy, you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.

Amen.

(Excerpted from Pope Francis' Prayer for the Jubilee Year of Mercy)

Source: USCCB

This conversation took place on August 10, 2013 at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England

Ghislaine Maxwell and Carney's wife Diana were close friends.

See below- Mark Carney is a tax cheat.

by Jane Santos

(henrymakow.com)

Newly discovered photos show that Mark Carney spoke with notorious child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein's depraved and notorious network of underaged victims and extremely wealthy and powerful men. 

Their conversation took place on August 10, 2013 at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England. 

Maxwell was later arrested in 2020, convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. A set of photographs from the event was published by a British photography company at the time, and at least one of that set has been attributed to photographer Adrian Sherratt of Shutterstock, and was published by a major newspaper.

 It is likely that the same photographer shot all the photos from the set. None of the photos were created by A.I. technology, as they were all uploaded to the internet in 2013, long before such technology was invented, and none were altered. 

In a response from the Mark Carney campaign in January 2025 to photos that showed Carney with Maxwell, Carney's campaign stated that Maxwell was someone that Carney simply "bumped into" in "public settings" and that "they they are not friends." 

(Carney enjoys intimate moments with Epstein's arranger)

However, at the time, only a photo of Carney standing side-by-side with Maxwell and others was released by the mainstream media. Another newly discovered photo from the festival shows Carney laying on his hands and knees next to Maxwell, who is laying down on the grass with her back and arms on the ground in close proximity to Carney. 

The photo appeared in a 2013 article about the festival, and was taken by photographer Chris Eades of the BPPA (The British Press Photographers' Association). That is awfully close contact for someone that is simply "bumped into" in public settings. Perhaps it reflects a greater familiarity with Ghislaine Maxwell than Mark Carney wishes to admit to. 

Also of note is that Ghislaine Maxwell wore a tag that said "AAA Escort" at the festival, which according to a source familiar with such tags, allows anyone who wears one to walk anyone else into the backstage area and the green room. It's a VIP pass at the least, and at most, reflects that her role was to escort VIPs into backstage areas and anywhere else on the Festival grounds.

Several mainstream outlets, including The Daily Mail and The Standard, reported that Carney also stayed in the manor house that is located on the Wilderness Festival grounds, which is also where the owner of the festival (Lady Rotherwick) lives. Lady Rotherwick is also the sister of Mark Carney's wife. 

An article about the festival mentions only one special guest in attendance, besides the musicians and other performers, and that was Mark Carney.

A few months prior to this in November 2012, Carney had been appointed the Governor of the Bank of England, a very prestigious and powerful job. Interestingly, Lady Rotherwick said in an interview regarding the festival that "I have got hundreds of people camping on my lawn and the house will be chock-a-block." 

The British term "chock-a-block" is defined as "very full of people or things" according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Was Lady Rotherwick too busy to escort Carney to his room in her very full home?

Since Maxwell was wearing the VIP Escort badge, was she assigned by Lady Rotherwick to escort the VIP Mark Carney around the grounds, making sure he makes the appropriate stops, and bringing him to his bedroom in Lady Rotherwick's large house? 

The Carney campaign has stated that Lady Rotherwick "went to the same high school" with Ghislaine Maxwell but "are not friends," while on the hand, the British celebrity gossip publication The Tatler claims that Maxwell and Rotherwick are in fact old friends, even considering the possibility that Maxwell went into hiding at Rotherwick's home at one point. 

It would therefore only make sense that Lady Rotherwick would only trust a good friend to escort her VIP with full access to her entire grounds including her private home and to escort Mark Carney around the festival and to the house. The Tatler also claims that Jeffrey Epstein himself attended the first Wilderness Festival with Ghislaine Maxwell a couple years prior in 2011 and paid the bills. 

Did Maxwell have a room in the home as well in 2013, since the home was full of people, and did Epstein pay those bills again, and was Maxwell travelling with Carney and his wife, and did Epstein pay those bills as well?

It should be noted that Ghislaine Maxwell's modus operandi was to send underage girls to perform illicit acts for high-profile, powerful people. 

The most famous of which was Prince Andrew, the second-eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Andrew's underaged victim filed a lawsuit, which was settled in February 2022 with Prince Andrew paying an undisclosed amount to her. 

According to the underaged victim, Maxwell simply told her to "do for (Prince Andrew) what you do for Epstein" and Jeffrey Epstein paid her $15,000 to do so. Epstein refused to answer questions over whether he attempted to blackmail Prince Andrew, according to court documents. 

But Epstein was not present during the first time that Prince Andrew abused and exploited the underaged victim, according to the victim, and that abuse actually took place in England at Maxwell's home, where the infamous photo of the three was taken. That was Maxwell executing a plan from start to finish, with likely involvement from Epstein.

The pressing questions for Mark Carney therefore ought to be: 1) What did you talk about with Ghislaine Maxwell? 

2) Did she escort you anywhere, and if so, did she escort you to your bedroom?

3) Did she try to compromise you in any way, shape or form, and was she successful?

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Related- Ezra Levant - BREAKING: I followed the trail of Mark Carney's money-laundering scheme

I thought it was eye-opening to see how casually the man who was "selected" to become our prime minister, engages in unethical tax-dodging for his well-connected friends.

https://www.rebelnews.com/breaking_i_followed_the_trail_of_mark_carney_s_money_laundering_scheme

"That's why I'm here: because two and a half years ago Mark Carney set up a shell company to avoid paying taxes in Canada. The Isle of Man has very few taxes -- no capitals gains tax, no inheritance tax, no wealth tax. Income tax is just 22%. Corporate taxes are 10% or less.

But the Isle of Man does something more important: it allows oligarchs from around the world to pay taxes on their global income to the Isle of Man. So they can operate around the world, but choose to pay a fraction of their real tax obligation in the Isle of Man."

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James Corbett-- "Meet Mark Carney, Globalist Insider":

https://corbettreport.com/meet-mark-carney-globalist-insider/

Steve Witkoff’s Moscow visit seems to show that a detente the two nations is possible even if Zelensky is not part of the equation

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met again with Steve Witkoff, special envoy of US President Donald Trump. From the little the cameras showed us of the meeting it appears that the atmosphere was unusually friendly. The discussion was also long, lasting for about three hours.

Yet, at this point, we know little about its content or, more importantly, what progress has been made or not. We do know, from Russia’s Yuri Ushakov, special aide to Putin, that the meeting was, in his words, “constructive” and “useful.” In particular, it has produced closer proximity between the Russian and US positions, not only on Ukraine but also on other issues that have – mostly – not been further specified. With the important exception of the possibility of facilitating direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.

Clearly, it is too early to draw strong conclusions about the meeting and its results. One thing that seems certain is that it was not a failure. Even if Ushakov’s language was restrained, it did signal that much. Beyond that, however, we can only speculate: One thing we know from the meeting’s context is that Trump has, once again, publicly displayed great dissatisfaction and impatience with Kiev and personally with Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky. This time, using his own social media site Truth Social, Trump focused on Zelensky’s refusal to accept the loss of Crimea. More broadly, he reminded Zelensky that he has little leverage (“no cards”) and that his stalling delays ending the war.

This intervention is in line with what Trump’s critics furiously decry as a pattern of being soft on Russia and hard on Ukraine. In principle, while exaggerating a little, the critics have a point. Trump has effectively reversed the former US approach, which consisted of pampering Ukraine and always blaming Russia. But what Trump’s critics here fail to realize is that, on this issue, he is right. He cannot quite say it, but Russia is winning the war against both Ukraine and, in effect, the West. In this situation, a US president has two options: escalate further, most likely to, at least, a very large regional war in Europe and parts of Asia or finally speak to Russia in terms that Moscow can find acceptable. That is precisely what Trump has decided to do, at least for now. And anyone who wishes to avoid escalation has to agree with him, if not in detail, then fundamentally.

The latest round of talks between the Russian leadership and Witkoff confirm that Washington is staying the course outlined above. More broadly again, it also means that the US is not abandoning the style of its latest peace proposal for the Ukraine War. The latter is reported to offer a freezing of current lines on the ground, the long overdue to Ukraine’s NATO perspective (which, if it had come in late 2021 could have prevented the war’s large-scale escalation), sanctions lifting, as well as recognizing Crimea as Russian.

These terms do not, actually, coincide with all of Russia’s demands. But they try to meet Russian concerns as never before. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pointed out, Trump is unique among Western leaders in acknowledging the root causes of the war. In that sense, the US peace proposals show not only that Washington is now realistic about the situation on the ground (heavily in Russia’s favor), but also that Trump’s administration is principally ready to shape its concrete policy according to the insight referred to by Lavrov.

That leaves, as far as the Ukraine War is concerned, two key questions: Will Trump follow through by withholding further military deliveries and crucial intelligence support to Kiev, and if so, when? Second, what are the NATO-EU Europeans going to do – or not do? While they still seem to be sticking to their rhetoric of blocking a path to peace, there are also signs that their misguided and harmful (for Ukraine most of all) resolve is crumbling: Britain is preparing the ground for explicitly giving up on silly schemes of sending troops to Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda has recognized the fact that Ukraine has to make concessions to Russia, former NATO general secretary and uber-hawk Jens Stoltenberg has said the same, and current NATO figurehead Mark Rutte is demonstratively praising Trump for “breaking the deadlock.”

European hardliners are by no means ready to give up yet. Both Poland’s Radek “Thank you, USA!” Sikorski and France’s Emmanuel “I love my scent” Macron have produced hysterics of frustrated denial. Whichever way NATO-EU Europe ends up going, it is certain already that it is fracturing.

The above is the immediate backdrop of the latest meeting between Putin and Witkoff. The one thing we can take away from that meeting even now is that none of it has damaged the ongoing search for a fundamental normalization of the relationship between Moscow and Washington, which is good news for the world, whether European bellicists like it or not.

But it is more difficult not only to say anything about details, but also about one key question: Will this détente between Russia and the US proceed by including a settlement for Ukraine or will the two tracks diverge? It is possible for Washington and Moscow to keep working on normalization between them, while dropping the issue of Ukraine. That is the real meaning of Trump’s reminder to Zelensky that the US can recognize Crimea as Russian whatever Kiev chooses to do. Yet, of course, if Washington would really choose to be “done” with Ukraine, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has put it, Russia would not. Kiev should be very careful what it wishes for.

Pro-abortion extremists knew this was coming but frankly they don’t care.

A man posted on Reddit asking for advice. He and his girlfriend became pregnant. “We talked for about a week deciding whether to keep the baby or not…” The “not” didn’t mean making an adoption plan for their child.

They were in a long-distance relationship, attending separate universities. Their baby was seventeen weeks along, yet they chose the chemical abortion pill. This was an illegal abortion, far beyond the FDA guidelines.

The young man’s girlfriend had to go through the gruesome process alone. In the end they were both shocked when an actual dead baby came out of her body. He said, “I had no idea this would happen.” She was dealing with pain, bleeding and likely depression. He asked Reddit readers what more he could have done.

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My advice would’ve been to immediately get her to a pro-life pregnancy center where they can access her for possible medical intervention and address her emotional pain.

A pregnant teen went to an abortion facility but was told she was too far along to have an abortion, meaning she was likely twenty-four weeks or more. So, she and her mother bought illegal abortion pills, which was a very dangerous thing to do this far into pregnancy. The end result was a dead baby – but the girl and her mother were horrified by what they saw.

In a text to her friend the teen mother described the infant as “a full baby.” The girl’s mother also expressed shock, noting “fingernails and lips and a nose.” Perhaps their devastation and alarm were the reasons the girl kept the baby in a container under her bed for two to three weeks before burying the child in their back yard.

Authorities later retrieved the body of the baby.

I wish I could tell you these were isolated tragedies, but they’re not. Unregulated and dangerous chemical abortion pills are routinely mailed upon request, usually without medical supervision. Or sent, no questions asked, to a sexual predator covering his criminal tracks.

There is no accountability. Once the credit card clears, the abortion industry is off to its next vulnerable victim.

These deaths didn’t have to happen. And the parents didn’t have to be burdened with the tormenting memory of taking the lives of their babies and grandbaby.

States are passing legislation that in the future will equip students about the wondrous development of the unborn child. Scientifically and medically accurate information that will remind them of the humanity of their baby if faced with an unexpected pregnancy.

North Dakota, Tennessee, Idaho, Kansas and Arkansas have passed legislation that requires students be presented with accurate material or videos on fetal development as part of school curricula.

The states of West Virginia, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky are working to pass similar legislation.

A bill was passed by the Arizona legislature but vetoed by the governor.

Had these college students or the teenager and her mother accessed this information, they may have changed their minds about abortion. And dramatically altered the trajectories of their lives to include cherished family members.

LifeNews.com Note: Bradley Mattes is the President of Life Issues Institute, a national pro-life educational group. File photo.

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As Planned Parenthood faces growing scrutiny over patient safety and service quality, a surge of political advertising seeks to shield the organization while targeting pro-life lawmakers.

The ads, backed by Reproductive Rights for All (formerly NARAL), attempt to portray legislative efforts to defund abortion providers as attacks on women’s health care, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reported.

“These ads peddle false claims about defunding Big Abortion chains like Planned Parenthood,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. “They want the viewer to believe defunding abortion businesses would cut benefits to women. Nothing is further than the truth.”

Dannenfelser emphasized that ongoing pro-life efforts to shift taxpayer funding do not reduce women’s health benefits but instead aim to redirect resources away from abortion providers and toward federally qualified community health centers, which she noted “outnumber Planned Parenthood by 15 to 1.”

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The political spin comes as new revelations spotlight Planned Parenthood’s declining health care services and troubling operational practices. A recent New York Times exposé detailed unsanitary and negligent conditions, including a facility in Nebraska where a sewage leak lasted several days, making women vomit from the stench. Other documented incidents include the implantation of an IUD in a woman who was unknowingly pregnant — resulting in a stillbirth — in Nebraska and the use of moldy medical equipment in Missouri.

“But if the unsanitary conditions revealed by the New York Times aren’t enough, consider this: while Planned Parenthood’s government money has gone up, their contraceptive and cancer screening services have plummeted,” Dannenfelser added. “The services that have gone up are abortion, gender transitions and political campaigns to defeat Donald Trump and Republicans.”

Katie Glenn Danel, director of legal affairs and policy counsel at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, criticized Planned Parenthood’s current trajectory.

“Planned Parenthood is an abortion business, not a health care provider,” she said.

Danel pointed to data showing a 43% increase in taxpayer funding since 2010, while services such as cancer screenings, breast exams, and pap smears have dropped by more than 70%.

“Women deserve quality, comprehensive care,” Danel continued, later adding, “Americans will no longer subsidize the industry that endangers women, kills unborn children and spends millions to elect woke politicians.”

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G4S’s mercenaries are everywhere – from the halls of American power to the darkest corners of detention centers

The British-American private military company Group 4 Securitas (G4S) has evolved far beyond its original mission of providing security for Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Today, it resembles a quasi-state, complete with its own armed forces, prison systems, and global reach. G4S secures US embassies around the world, guards airports, government agencies, and military installations for both Washington and London, and even monitors sections of the US border.

It also manages prisons notorious for abuse, torture, and killings. British-American firms now dominate roughly 90% of the global PMC market, and experts say that outsourcing warfare to private contractors has become the preferred tool of foreign policy. It’s easier – and more politically palatable – to fight through intermediaries.

G4S earns the lion’s share of its revenue from contracts with multinational corporations and government agencies in the US and UK. Its former CEO, Ashley Martin Almanza, previously served as CFO of the British energy giant BG Group, a major supplier of liquefied natural gas to China. In 2016, BG merged with Royal Dutch Shell – another UK-based energy titan and the world’s largest oil and gas company.

Deep Roots in Global Energy and Conflict Zones

Since 2016, G4S has been protecting employees and assets of the Barash Gas Company in Iraq – a joint venture between the Iraqi government and Shell, which owns a 44% stake. This is one of the largest gas infrastructure projects in the country.

Over the past three years alone, G4S has raked in more than $100 million from contracts securing US embassies worldwide. Procurement records from both the US and UK governments show a steady increase in the number of diplomatic sites under G4S protection. In just one year, the company landed five-year contracts for US embassies in Estonia ($18.8 million), Hong Kong ($35 million), Luxembourg ($29 million), and Côte d’Ivoire ($12.6 million).

The Go-To Diplomatic Security Force

The US Bureau of Diplomatic Security counts on G4S to safeguard American facilities in South Africa through 2025. The company protects not just the embassy in Pretoria but also consulates and offices in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town. G4S personnel also provide bodyguard services for US diplomats outside official buildings.

The bodyguard contract alone is worth $9.5 million. The total value of security services in South Africa exceeds that tenfold. Notably, some contract obligations – amounting to $3 million – were paid for but never fulfilled by G4S, according to oversight reports.

G4S also protects American embassies in the UK, France, India, Madagascar, Morocco, Botswana, Denmark, and Qatar, as well as across South America, including Peru and Paraguay. The company also operates in Canada.

One of its more recent assignments involves the US Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, where G4S was hired for $8.7 million to defend American personnel, their families, and government assets against a range of threats, including terrorism. If the first year goes well, the contract may be extended for up to five years.

Ties to Intelligence and the Pentagon

Following the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Iranian investigators accused G4S of providing intel to the Pentagon regarding his location prior to the drone strike. At the time, G4S was contracted to protect Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport.

According to global arms expert Darko Todorovski, Western PMCs are deeply embedded within their countries’ military and foreign policy frameworks. These companies operate under intelligence agency oversight and are awarded government contracts via institutions like the US State Department or the UK’s Foreign Office.

Todorovski points out several advantages of relying on PMCs: they can be deployed quickly, typically boast higher professionalism than traditional forces in volatile regions, and aren’t beholden to local elites or religious factions. Their superior logistical and technical capabilities make them a preferred choice.

Moreover, these companies avoid the red tape of government bureaucracies. “Their use doesn’t stir public outrage the way regular troops do. And when they suffer casualties, those deaths don’t show up in official government statistics,” Todorovski notes.

Blurring the Line Between Private and Military

The boundary between PMCs and traditional armies has grown increasingly faint. Many G4S recruits are military veterans. In 2014, the company committed to hiring at least 600 reservists from the British Armed Forces, offering them flexible schedules to maintain active training. This partnership with the British Ministry of Defence was renewed in October 2022.

“We already hire a significant number of veterans, and today’s agreement reinforces G4S’s strong ties to the British military,” said then-CEO Almanza.

On the Frontlines with the US Military

Even the US military depends on G4S. Since late 2017, the company has been under contract with the United States Army Joint Munitions Command to secure military facilities in Somalia, including the Gashandiga base in Mogadishu – a site once used by Islamist militants to control northern parts of the city during the civil war.

G4S was also responsible for guarding the Somali president’s official residence in Mogadishu, as well as government headquarters in Baidoa, and major infrastructure like Mogadishu’s port, a UAE training base, and Turkish diplomatic sites.

Per contract documents, the main goal was to ensure the secure movement of high-ranking personnel. Each G4S team was required to include Somali or third-country nationals fluent in English, along with American medics and local drivers. Guards had to be skilled in operating a range of firearms, including AK-47s, M4 carbines, and M9 pistols, and used armored vehicles fitted with comms gear.

The pay disparity was staggering. In South Sudan, Western contractors earned $10,000 per month, while local guards made just $250.

Modern-Day Mercenaries

With roughly 800,000 employees, G4S maintains its own rapid response units – essentially private strike teams supported by in-house intelligence operations. Many Western PMCs now have access to reconnaissance aircraft, satellite data, and cutting-edge surveillance tools. “They work with corporations that provide satellite imagery, which has been used by PMCs in Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” Todorovski explains.

Alexander Artemonov, a defense analyst at the Eurasia Heritage Foundation, estimates G4S maintains a fighting force of 250,000–280,000, equal to the number of troops Russia deployed in Donbass. The rest of the workforce consists of support staff, prison guards, and logistical teams.

G4S’s arsenal includes everything from AK-47s and Glock 17s to MP5s, sniper rifles, Uzi submachine guns, and even Israeli Hermes 450 drones. Their operatives have access to anti-personnel mines, grenade launchers, and portable anti-air systems. For mobility, they rely on armored Land Cruisers, Humvees, and military-grade carriers like the Cougar and RG-33.

Privatized Prisons and Abuses

G4S has also assumed control of prison facilities traditionally run by governments. In the UK, the company managed two immigration detention centers and six prisons, including those in Oakwood and Birmingham. In 2018, the Birmingham facility was returned to government control after inspectors uncovered appalling conditions: inmates roamed freely while staff locked themselves in offices; cells were filthy, infested with rats, and reeked of bodily fluids.

Peter Clarke, a former counterterrorism chief turned prison inspector, called it the worst he’d ever seen.

In September 2023, a special inquiry confirmed allegations of torture at Brook House, another G4S-run immigration facility. The public was horrified by reports of detainees being brutalized. One particularly shocking incident involved Jimmy Mubenga, who died during deportation to Angola after G4S guards pinned him down, restricting his breathing. Witnesses say he cried out, “I can’t breathe.” A court ruled his death as manslaughter by negligence, but no one was held accountable.

Similar scandals emerged in G4S-operated prisons in South Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, 42 inmates at South Africa’s Mangaung prison alleged electric shocks, forced sedation with antipsychotics, and extended solitary confinement. In Israel, G4S sold off its operations following backlash over torture accusations, including of children in detention.

Yet none of this prevented the US Department of Homeland Security from signing G4S to oversee migrant detention, deportation centers, and border checkpoints across the country – including airports and ports – last July.

The Business of Proxy War

Todorovski argues that Britain has revived the age-old tradition of mercenary warfare. “Historically, the British preferred not to get directly involved in conflicts. They’ve always used intermediaries,” he said.

Now, the US has taken the lead. Together, British and American corporations control over 90% of the global PMC market – valued at more than $400 billion.

We recently reported on our unsettling discovery that Biden’s Army had been instructing Fort Bragg (formerly Fort Liberty under the Biden Administration) trainees that pro-life Americans were domestic terrorists as far back as 2011. We also learned that the Biden Army’s investigator had essentially covered up the shocking actions with a report containing demonstrably inaccurate claims and even contradicted itself.

As promised, we’ve just sent a letter to President Trump’s new military leadership, specifically Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, bringing our critical findings to their attention – and respectfully urging them to take action to weed out this nonsense from our military training doctrine. This is the only way to make things right for our client and all pro-life Americans.

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Last year, we sent a demand letter to Biden’s Army Secretary, and the response we received, along with what the Army’s then-leadership told Congress, would have been enough of a win – if it had been true and complete. We have now confirmed that it was not.

Our legal instincts told us to look deeper. Sure enough, the need for our letter to Secretary Hegseth became evident after we reviewed the records acquired through our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. This trove of documents clearly showed that the Biden Army’s “PR” talking point, that an unvetted PowerPoint slide slipped into the presentation, was knowingly false.

They had claimed that it was simply a matter of a wrong “title” (“Terrorist Groups”) being placed on the slide displaying the “Choose Life” license plate image and pro-life organizations’ logos, including that of our client Operation Rescue.

But now, we know that their own investigation revealed that the training, which soldiers described in sworn statements, came across like “teaching doctrine” and had targeted pro-life Americans for almost 15 years. Our client’s (Operation Rescue) logo has been included since at least 2017, and slides targeting pro-lifers generally as terrorists have been included since at least 2011. But amazingly, the investigator assessed that it was simply a “mistake.” A 15-year mistake? As we summarized:

The investigation report concluded that “Labelling the slide ‘Terrorist Groups’ was a mistake” instead of recognizing that pro-lifers should not have been included in the entire “Terrorism Awareness” presentation in the first place. This is far more egregious than simply stating that the title of one slide was a “mistake,” as the entire training was about terrorism. Further, the conclusion that the labeling of that slide was a “mistake” is unsupported by a shred of evidence in the investigation file. The attempt to brush this under the rug is glaring.

It was no mistake. True to its typical swamp-like bureaucratic form, “woke” and Leftist ideologues intentionally used Army resources and a captive audience to indoctrinate soldiers to hold the view that pro-lifers are terrorists and that millions of pro-life Americans are a threat to security. And even that “Choose Life” license plates issued by 33 states (including North Carolina, where Fort Bragg sits) are evidence of terrorist threats. Planned Parenthood must be pleased.

This insanity must end. While Biden’s Army assured everyone that the problem had been corrected, we simply don’t believe them. What we discovered through our FOIA request confirmed our suspicion. And that’s why we just wrote to Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Driscoll. They are now in a position to bring this to a resolution and make this right. We are hopeful because they’ve demonstrated the desire to free America’s fighting forces from this Leftist nonsense.

As we said in our letter, “Given your clear stand and demonstrated record of calling out and opposing all ‘woke’ Leftist/Marxist ideology and propaganda from our Nation’s great fighting forces, we are hopeful you will see this matter as worthy of your attention and action.” We specifically made these requests:

• To direct the Army to issue a meaningful direct apology to our client, Operation Rescue, and its Director, Troy Newman, for the wrongful actions committed by the Army under the prior Biden Administration.
• To make a public statement, or at least one addressed to all trainees, that the United States military considers pro-life Americans and organizations neither terrorists nor extremists, that all prior training to the contrary is false, along with a direction that any such training or propaganda be removed and reported to appropriate Army personnel.
• To direct, forthwith, the immediate production of all remaining Army records concerning this subject, including, but not limited to, the Exhibits in the investigation file we have obtained.
• To address Congress’ concerns by issuing a new statement that rectifies and replaces the prior misleading representations.

We look forward to working with our military’s new leadership, one that is reimplementing dominant warfighting as its institutional goal, not woke indoctrination and social science experiments on soldiers at the Constitution’s expense. We’ll keep you updated on our progress.

LifeNews Note: Jordan Sekulow is the Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).

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The new documentary, “Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality,” hits theaters from Apr 27, 2025, to May 1, 2025. 

This incredible documentary, produced by Castletown Media and Wahl St. Productions, in association with National Eucharistic Congress, Inc., and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, tells the compelling, mystical story of the first millennial saint - Carlo Acutis.

Written, directed, and produced by Castletown Media Founder and CEO Tim Moriarty, the film interviews multiple people connected and familiar with Carlo Acutis’ life, including his family, friends, and those who have studied his life over the years. 

The film interviews Carlo’s mother, father, cousin, and babysitter, to name a few. Each testimony provides his influence on their lives, the incredible conversions they experienced during their time spent with him, and even supernatural events they witnessed in connection with Carlo.

According to the film’s website, "'Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality' explores Carlo’s holy life and how he navigated the modern world. It also tackles urgent technology-related questions, examining how the virtual landscape threatens our fundamental understanding of what it means to be human.”

“The film also follows a group of high school students from North Dakota who embark on a two-week pilgrimage to Italy to visit Carlo’s tomb. They are required to disengage from technology and leave their phones at home. Their journey dives deep into the reality that Carlo points to: Christ in the Eucharist.”

Here’s the trailer for "Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality" below:

Click here if you cannot see the video above.

What I Thought About "Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality"

I watched this film with my children during a thunderstorm on Easter Vigil. We were actually under a tornado warning, so I brought my computer to our hallway, cuddled the boys in blankets with the cat next to us, and watched this film while we ate dinner and waited for the storm to pass.

My 10-year-old son was especially glued to the screen. He was fascinated that such a young person could exhibit such holiness so early in life. He loved the supernatural stories his mother told about her son; seeing the photos of Carlo being a normal boy enthralled him, and he couldn’t wait to see the depiction of his tomb.

After watching this documentary together, my son calls on Carlo more often when we pray at night. I can tell he finds Carlo relatable and inspiring.

I learned so much about Carlo Acutis through this film. 

I had no idea Carlo was a mystic. I did not realize how extraordinarily wise he was. I also did not know about the many conversions and supernatural encounters his family and friends experienced through him.

The story of his life and holiness is absolutely remarkable. This film depicted it in a real, relatable way. It inspired me (and my children) to learn more about him and model his holiness, his love for the Eucharist, and to turn to him in our daily devotions. 

If you want to understand Carlo Acutis more deeply, watch this film. And even if you do not know or understand the devotion behind this holy teenager, this film will surely guide you in that direction. 

Take your children to see it. You won’t regret exposing them to this millennial saint who will potentially make a whole new generation of saints.

"Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality" hits theaters April 27, 2025. Click here for tickets.

Future Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us!

“If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” Jn. 15:19

The crowds, feeling like hundreds of thousands of people, who "lined up" last night to pass by Jorge Bergoglio's open casket, were faces without tears. I checked. Was there one person in that ocean of people trying to get into Vatican City, who gave off even the slightest appearance of feeling sorrow in their hearts over the passing of the man whom the world knew as Pope Francis. Maybe mourning is something that has passed from our collective consciousness? But I don't think so. There is always tears, sometimes streams of them, when a person dies, especially when a person dies "before their time." There is also or there should be, a spirit of gravity as friends and family collectively confront the stern realities of life and death, absence and the hole that opens up in one's soul when a "presence" is suddenly lacking. What goes on in the inner recesses of men's hearts is unknown, however, there was absolutely no such manifestation of sorrow or lack or even sober dignity and reflection in the crowd that I pushed against in the universal push to present at a truly unique historical event. This was a expectant and exuberant crowd that snaked its way around the walls of St. Peter's, sent in different direction by the long lines of yellowish green jackets of the security details that now occupy the major Catholic places in Rome. We were lined up down both sides of the nave as we headed to see the man who had done more than almost any to erase all the lines distinguishing "Catholic" from "non-Catholic." Maybe this was his triumph, the man who lay so frighteningly in his coffin. You could not tell if anyone was Catholic or not. When we approached the body, the guards insisted that we must put away all cameras. This was about 20 feet from the casket. As people approached, being allowed only a few seconds to "stand in front of the body," really there was no standing at all but a moving through, no one that I saw made the sign of the cross. No one tried to stop a tear. I kept watching people and there was not one. They just passed and went through the church, just as in the way that you would pass through any of the great churches in Rome at a curious and observational state. No one was weeping or even seeming to be sad, as we went down the stairs of St. Peter's. The power of the idea of the papacy obviously drew people to some degree. Something drew all of these people. It might be the realization that a historical event was unfolding that they should be a part of. But there were no tears. 

Francis, to my surprise, looked awful. Previously I had only seen him once at a distance. As he lay there, in the simplest and most minimal of episcopal robes. he looked a ghoulish green color, to me how looked a solid lime green. His features were distorted a distended and exaggerated way. His entire look was that of a thick wax mask. His expression was like that of someone who had just been interrupted when making a mistake. But had Bergoglio succeeded really. Had he created a church without sorrow or even without the deep sobriety that used to characterize the Catholic Faith. Had these crowds finally merged into the Noosphere, become part of the mass that was no longer needs tears and black vestments. Well, if atheists go to Heaven, I suppose Jorge Maria Bergoglio is safe!