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Raja Miah joins The Winston Marshall Show a harrowing interview exposing the full extent of political capture, community intimidation, and media complicity behind Britain's grooming gang scandal. Raja Miah unpacks how taxpayer-funded NGOs, local councillors, and powerful religious leaders colluded to silence whistleblowers and gaslight victims. He reveals how the very institutions meant to uphold justice instead protected abusers, weaponised identity politics, and created an environment where truth became taboo. From secret Labour WhatsApp groups to police complicity and vote-harvesting operations, Miah paints a damning picture of a political system that chose self-preservation over accountability. All this…community betrayal, ideological capture,...

[Catholic Caucus] MCELROY, SIPE, AND MCCARRICK’S CLONESWill McElroy dismiss these allegations like he did those from Richard Sipe?While living in Coronado, CA from 2009 to 2023, I had the pleasure of befriending and collaborating with the late psychotherapist and researcher, Richard Sipe, of nearby La Jolla. His letter of July 28, 2016, intended for Pope Francis, who alone has the authority to discipline bishops like those mentioned in his letter, was never acted upon by the Pope, the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., or then-Bishop Robert McElroy to whom the letter was legally served.Armed today with similar allegations of abuse...

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik scandal, it's time to shed light on De Donatis' roleThe former Vicar of Rome, Cardinal De Donatis, is also the Superior of the Convent of Montefiolo. The nuns are about to move out and the controversial Slovenian priest, one of the cardinal's protégés, is being welcomed. The Holy See must clarify the situation. - Rupnik occupies a convent near Rome. Card. De Donatis is directorThere has been no official judgement by the Church on the acts committed by Don Marko Ivan Rupnik and, on closer inspection, no trial has even been opened. According to what the Prefect...

Six years before packing a rental truck with firework mortars and gas cannisters before shooting himself in the head... Army Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger told an ex-girlfriend he was spiraling.... In the case of Livelsberger, the Army will soon have to decide whether his nearly two decades of service as a special forces soldier with nine overseas deployments contributed to his death. Enlisted by the Army in 2006 to train as a member of its special forces, Livelsberger became a member of the 10th Special Forces Group, which conducts counterterrorism and training missions around the world. He deployed five times...

Douglas Murray, Spectator columnist, joins Americano host and Spectator deputy editor Freddy Gray. This week, Home Office Minister Jess Phillips rejected Oldham Council’s request for a government-led inquiry into the horrific scandal of grooming gangs in dozens of UK cities. Her decision has led to real backlash – with X owner Elon Musk calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed, and for the King to dissolve parliament. Have politicians underestimated the strength of public feeling in the UK and the US? They also discuss the Southport riots, and ask why some politicians are unwilling to confront societal problems...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope faces abuse scandals, lays out template for Catholicism in a secular milieuROME – In a country still reeling from a deep clerical sexual abuse crisis, Pope Francis on Saturday bitterly acknowledged that such abuse “generates atrocious suffering and wounds,” vowing that the path of reform includes learning from survivors.The realities of abuse, the pontiff said, can even “undermine the path of faith.”“There is a need for a great deal of mercy, to keep us from hardening our hearts before the suffering of victims, so that we can help them feel our closeness and offer all the help...

In March 2016, top Planned Parenthood officials in California eagerly emailed one another about an upcoming meeting with the state’s then-attorney general, Kamala Harris. The meeting carried so much import that the Planned Parenthood officials met with Harris’ staff ahead of time “to discuss prep,” emails reviewed by The Daily Signal show. About two weeks later, on April 5, 2016, California Department of Justice authorities raided the home of a pro-life journalist in his late 20s—David Daleiden, the head of the Center for Medical Progress, who had recently published videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood officials gruesomely describing how they extract...

The scandals haunting Pope Francis - Scheming cardinals are sharpening their knivesThe cardinals are already meeting to discuss who should be the next pope. Some of the liberal ones, who feel safe because they’re in favour with the ailing Pope Francis, can be seen comparing notes in a bar near the gates of the Vatican. The conservative cardinals are more nervous: they gather at suppers in each other’s apartments or — if they can trust the fawning waiters not to betray them — in a favourite restaurant.Perhaps you can see the flash of a bishop’s ring as he taps a...

President Biden’s brother James was secretly recorded by the FBI during a bribery investigation into a Mississippi trial attorney who shelled out $100,000 to his consulting firm in the late 1990s, a report said on Sunday. Richard Scruggs, the trial attorney, hired James and Sara Biden’s DC consulting firm while seeking to gin up support for tobacco legislation being contemplated by Congress in 1998, the Washington Post reported. Neither James, 74, nor his brother President Joe Biden, 81, were implicated in any major criminal wrongdoing in the case. But the revelation comes amid an impeachment probe into alleged influence-peddling by...

Four Americans gunned down in a withering, four-hour firefight in the Sahara -- part of a 10-man Green Beret team said to have gone rogue and been ambushed by ISIS while hunting down a top terrorist to "capture or kill" -- were ill-prepared, poorly trained and "not indicative" of their high-performing peers on the continent, U.S. military officials said. And in the strangest twist of all, they had been trying to locate an American aid worker who was being held hostage by the terrorist commander they were trying to kill. That story, as presented by the Pentagon, sounded like an...

FIRST ON FOX: Records obtained by Fox News show the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) expressed opposition to the Biden administration's order to scrub once-publicly available information on weaponry and training that U.S. officials provided to Afghan security forces in the days leading to the U.S. final withdrawal out of Afghanistan on Aug. 31. Conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained 119 pages of documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showing SIGAR John Sopko's opposition to the State Department's request to remove hundreds of pages... ,,,Clay, on behalf of the State Department, also requested the...

Cdl. Mahony Sued for Sexually Assaulting Male TeenLawsuit charges LA archdiocese with cover-upLOS ANGELES (ChurchMilitant.com) (warning: some explicit content) - A new lawsuit accuses California Cdl. Roger Mahony of sexually abusing a male minor. It is the first such lawsuit ever brought against the former archbishop of Los Angeles.Former Cathedral of St. Vibiana, Los Angeles, nowprivately owned and renovated into an entertainment venueFiled April 19 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the plaintiff, under the alias John Doe, is suing "The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles," which includes Cdl. Roger Mahony and staff of the archdiocese.The lawsuit alleges Mahony "repeatedly...

SATAN IS ON THE MARCH: The Francis Court's “disturbing gallery of horrors”“Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.” ~Malachi Martin 1996Scandal weary Catholics who disregard news of ongoing clerical sex abuse do so at the peril of the Catholic Church. Despite media campaigns that promise the clergy abuse scandal is “in the past” or “the Catholic Church is the safest place for children”, the harsh reality is...

Hoeppner Case Highlights Pope’s Deeply Troubling Track Record on Clerical AbusePope Francis is perhaps most controversial for his theological positions or his populist progressive sentiments, but what is often overlooked in evaluations of this lightning rod of a papacy is his absolutely abysmal record on clerical sex abuse. He has talked tough at times about clerical abuse. He’s even published guidelines on how it should be handled. But I’ve been asking where the pope really stands on clerical sex abuse since 2015 — and with good reason.When I read the story today about the forced resignation Bishop Michael Hoeppner of...

Book detailing Pope’s mishandling of sex abuse scandals now available in EnglishNEOVATICAN GALLERY: Modernism, Unmentionable Vices and Corruption in the Time of Bergoglio' is now available in English.April 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The following text is an introduction that I wrote for a little book by Marco Tosatti, in which he details Pope Francis’s mishandling of sex abuse scandals. His book, entitled NEOVATICAN GALLERY: Modernism, Unmentionable Vices and Corruption in the Time of Bergoglio was first published in Italian but is now also available in English.Introduction to Marco Tosatti’s book, by Dr. Maike HicksonIt is with great joy that I...

Viganò: Pope Benedict ‘surrounded himself with inadequate, unreliable or even corrupt collaborators’Archbishop Viganò in a wide-ranging interview speaks of Pope Benedict's collaborators and the situation of the Church under Pope FrancisNTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ BY RADIO SPADA (Translation and Notes on square brackets by Dr. Robert Moynihan. Printed by LifeSiteNews.com with permission of Archbishop Viganò.) Radio Spada: Good morning, Your Excellency, we thank you for the dialogue we will have. Let’s begin with Galleria neovaticana [the book title may be translated as “The Neo-Vatican Gallery”], a new book by Marco Tosatti for which you wrote the Preface. Allow...

Pope Reorganizes Vatican Financial AssetsFurther cover-up?VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - In the wake of Vatican financial scandals, Pope Francis is formally stripping the Vatican Secretariat of State of its bank accounts and real estate holdings. Michael Hichborn of Lepanto Institute In a motu proprio — an edict issued and signed by the pope of his own initiative — published today, Francis formalized the transference of bank accounts, investments and real estate holdings from the Secretary of State to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APAS).The APAS will take over management and administration and will be subjected to ad...

‘I cannot sit back and do nothing’: leading parishioner supports priest exposing homosexual cover-upFr. Michael Suhy had released a testimony of an archdiocesan cover-up involving the alleged sexual harassment and grooming of a young man by a ‘prominent’ employee of the Archdiocese of Detroit.PLYMOUTH, Michigan, November 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A leading parishioner has spoken up to defend a priest who believes he was removed from the parish for objecting to an archdiocesan cover-up of homosexual grooming.Ron Thompson, a parishioner of Our Lady of Good Council and at least until recently chair of its Finance Council, has released a statement...

'What are you planning to say?' Pope quizzed whistleblower priest, book claims

Why Didn’t Kamala Harris Prosecute Abusive Priests? “Perhaps the deepest and most troubling mystery of Kamala Harris’s tenure as a prosecutor centers on the disturbing issue of sexual abuse of children by priests,” writes Peter Schweizer in Profiles in Corruption. “During her decade-and-a-half tenure as a chief prosecutor, Harris would fail to prosecute a single case of priest abuse and her office would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victim groups.” This record gives Catholics one more reason to vote for Trump. Like Biden, Harris is a scourge of good Catholics and a...