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Spain Approves Extradition of Former UN Official Vitaly Vanshelboim to the United States, Accused of Embezzling Over $60 Million in Humanitarian Funds and Operating a Bribery Network

The National Court has approved the extradition to the United States of Vitaly Vanshelboim, a former high-ranking official of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), accused of embezzling approximately $60 million intended for humanitarian projects and receiving bribes and laundering money within the United Nations structure.

This decision, made after several months of judicial review, allows Vanshelboim to be tried in the United States for charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering in a case that shakes the ethical foundations of the UN and reignites debate over the lack of oversight in major international institutions.

A Ukrainian national, Vanshelboim served for years as Deputy Executive Director of UNOPS, a key UN agency responsible for managing infrastructure, procurement, and technical service projects in humanitarian contexts.

According to the formal indictment filed by U.S. authorities, the former official manipulated contracts to benefit companies linked to a single British businessman, thereby diverting public funds and violating the organization’s transparency standards.

Court documents indicate transfers of approximately $60 million in grants and unguaranteed loans, tied to programs for sustainable housing, renewable energy, and community development that never materialized.

The investigation claims Vanshelboim received direct bribes of at least $2 to $3 million in cash, along with interest-free loans, luxury vehicles, and personal benefits for family members.

UN authorities confirmed that his actions were decisive in the reputational collapse of the “S3i – Sustainable Investments in Infrastructure and Innovation” initiative, designed to attract private investment for sustainable projects but which ended up as a network of personal favors and fund misappropriation.

A UN internal tribunal had already ordered Vanshelboim in 2023 to repay $58.8 million, a figure reflecting the scale of the economic damage and the lack of controls within the agency. However, the criminal proceedings gained momentum when U.S. authorities issued an international arrest warrant.

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Prince Andrew ‘is offered Arabian palace getaway’ amid mounting pressure to quit his 30-bed Royal Lodge mansion

Abu Dhabi’s royal family have generously offered Prince Andrew an Arabian palace bolthole amid mounting pressure on him to leave his Royal Lodge mansion, it has been claimed.

The disgraced royal, 65, is in negotiations with King Charles, 76, to vacate the luxury 30-bed property, it was claimed today after days of public outcry over his rent-free lease agreement and increasingly evidenced links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew and his ex wife Sarah Ferguson are said to have a grand mansion available on demand in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

It was a gift to them from the UAE’s ruling royal family – the house of Nahyan, according to esteemed biographer and historian Andrew Lownie and other sources.

Further supporting claims of ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s lavish offer have now been made by sources to The Sun who said it is a gesture of gratitude for Andrew’s ‘kindness’ to them when he was the UK’s international business envoy.

The UAE’s royal family have apparently ‘made it clear’ to him that the palace is ‘his if he wants it’, giving him a getaway option ‘should his position in the UK become untenable’, the source said.

They added that Andrew and his equally problematic ex wife, who also lives in Royal Lodge, would be ‘afforded every luxury’ if they decide to accept the offer.

Escalating scandals and scrutiny from MPs and the public have seen the pariah Prince become somewhat of a hermit at Royal Lodge, only occasionally surfacing from the mansion to ride a horse around its grounds.

Freedom to live openly in the UAE may be tempting for the recluse royal with the deluxe features of the Arabian palace only making the offer all the more alluring.

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Minnesota Corruption Runs Rampant

It would be easy for me to attribute my growing cynicism to my growing older. 

After all, most people tend to get nostalgic for the “better times” of yesteryear. I was born in the mid-60s, and by the mid-1970s, it was the 50s that were being fondly remembered in shows like “Happy Days.”

Upon reflection, though, my cynicism doesn’t stem from nostalgia. Having grown up in the 1970s, I tend to think of my teen years are full of suckage. 

No, my growing cynicism has been fully earned by the institutions I no longer trust. 

By now, you may have read about the massive corruption in Minnesota’s state government, which is no doubt duplicated throughout the country in Deep Blue states. It is much worse than it was when I first noticed that the non-profit industrial complex was a total scam, as every urban planning and rail project turns out to be. 

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The Dark Side of Modern Medicine

A Century of Missteps, Manipulations, and Misdeeds. Medicine must be reclaimed as a public good, not a marketplace of manipulation.

The past century has seen astonishing medical advances, from antibiotics to organ transplants and precision diagnostics. Yet behind the celebrated breakthroughs lies a shadowed record of harm, deceit, and systemic failure.

The history of modern medicine is not only a story of progress but also one of unethical experimentation, corporate manipulation, regulatory capture, and public betrayal. I have witnessed this firsthand in my own career: when I proposed nutritional medicine approaches to prevention and early treatment, I was attacked by medical boards, chastised by medical colleges and silenced by bureaucracies beholden to pharmaceutical interests.

My work on vitamin C, cancer, and AIDS brought harassment from authorities, culminating in legal battles I was forced to fight—and win in the Supreme Court —at great personal cost. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my pleas to government leaders to adopt simple, life-saving measures like vitamin D, C and zinc were ignored, while experimental genetic injections were pushed on the public without transparency or informed consent.

Over decades I have seen colleagues censured, evidence suppressed, and patients left to suffer—all because profit and political control took precedence over genuine health and healing. Its still happening and patients are dying unnecessarily from the turbo cancers caused by the mRNA vaccines.

The pattern begins with unethical human experimentation and consent failures. In certain landmark cases over the past decades we find medical science mis-stepping into exploitation — from the decades-long denial of treatment in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, to more recent oversight-failures in clinical trials in low-income countries when pharmaceutical firms prioritised expedience over ethics.

I have observed similar dynamics in my own work: when simple nutritional protocols were sidelined, when investigative treatment options were blocked on the grounds of “non-standard care”, even though patient welfare was at stake, and when regulatory and board actions were taken not for patient safety but to suppress dissenting therapeutic voices.

Next comes the distortion of data, selective reporting and publication bias. The re-analysis of Study 329 revealed that the antidepressant paroxetine was neither safe nor effective in adolescents, despite original favourable publications.

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Former Biden Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre ‘Did Not Have Any Concerns’ About His Mental Decline — Insists He Was in Total Command

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is insisting that she never had any concerns about his mental decline.

In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Friday to promote her new book, Jean-Pierre was asked about the cover-up that took place.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

BRIANNA KEILAR: According to my colleague Jake Tapper, who wrote a book with Alex Thompson, looking back on that, cabinet secretaries were telling them that Biden wasn’t up to the task of the proverbial 2 a.m. phone call.

George Clooney said Biden didn’t even recognize him at the fundraiser that he was hosting. I mean, we’re talking 2023, 2024, why didn’t you see — why didn’t you have concerns? Why didn’t you raise them?

JEAN-PIERRE: So I did not have any concerns. I saw him on a daily basis, Brianna. You know that. I saw him every day. I engaged with him every day.

Now, did he show age? No one is denying that. Yes, he showed age. This is a president that was sharp. This is a president that pushed his staff. This is a president that was on top of what the policies that he cared about that were important to the American people.

And let’s not forget, he also was leading a coalition, a international coalition when it came to something that we hadn’t seen in decades when it come to the war in Ukraine. There was a lot going on. You just said it in asking me one of the questions. I

It was an unprecedented time. Objectively, Brianna, we had some successes, some historic successes in the beginning of, in the first couple of years of his first term, in his presidency, and so those are the things I’m talking my personal, from my personal standpoint, what I saw.

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Ohio judge could face further consequences over Charlie Kirk comments

Judge Ted Berry, a municipal judge for Hamilton County, is closer to being removed from the bench for social media posts celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, thanks to a resolution filed by state representatives.

Among his other comments, Berry declared, with a clown emoji, “Rest in Hatred & Division!” He also claimed that Kirk “spewed hate & division.” Another post asked, “How’s he feel about gun violence and gun control in Hell, now?”

State Rep. Adam Mathews, one of the Republicans who introduced the resolution to remove Berry, has shared screenshots of the judge’s remarks from his own Facebook page.

Mathews spoke with The Daily Signal about his resolution, which he initiated with state Rep. D.J. Swearingen, a fellow Republican. “We have given the judge more than a month,” Mathews reminded, having called for Berry to resign Sept. 12. “And now to defend the courts and the trust that the people must have in them with an unbiased judiciary, we are moving forward with the process to remove the judge as outlined by the Ohio constitution.”

The removal process is laid out in Article IV, Section 17 of the state constitution. “Judges may be removed from office, by concurrent resolution of both houses of the general assembly, if two-thirds of the members, elected to each house, concur therein; but, no such removal shall be made, except upon complaint, the substance of which shall be entered on the journal, nor, until the party charged shall have had notice thereof, and an opportunity to be heard,” the section reads.

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Tim Walz Donor and Former Minneapolis Chamber CEO INDICTED on Five Counts of Bank and Wire Fraud — Accused of Embezzling $200K and Stealing $30K Reward Money for Unsolved Child Murder Cases

Former Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jonathan Weinhagen, a frequent donor to Democrat Governor Tim Walz, has been indicted on five federal counts of bank and wire fraud for allegedly embezzling more than $200,000 from the chamber and stealing $30,000 meant to help solve child murder cases.

According to federal prosecutors, Weinhagen carried out a six-year scheme between December 2019 and June 2024, using fake companies, fraudulent contracts, and even a phony obituary to cover his tracks.

According to FOX 9, Weinhagen ran an elaborate fraud operation from December 2019 through June 2024, when he abruptly left his position at the Chamber. Prosecutors allege that Weinhagen created a fake consulting company called Synergy Partners and used an alias, James Sullivan, to funnel money to himself.

He also allegedly:

  • Opened a $125,000 line of credit in the chamber’s name and funneled the money into his fake company.
  • Faked the death of his alias, publishing an obituary for “James Sullivan” when the chamber began asking questions.
  • Diverted $30,000 in reward money that had been donated to Crime Stoppers of Minnesota to help solve the shooting deaths of three children in 2021 — crimes that remain unsolved.
  • Tried to fraudulently obtain a $54,661 loan from SoFi Bank by claiming he worked for a restaurant group and earned $425,000 annually — both lies.

Federal prosecutors say the total embezzled amount exceeds $200,000.

Weinhagen also stole a total of $30,000 in reward money that had been earmarked to help find suspects.

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“We’re Living Through A Coordinated Sabotage Of Truth-Seeking Institutions”

“A civilization is defined by its ability to discern truth from falsehood,” writes ‘Camus’ (@newstart_2024) in a post on X.

So, what happens when every apparatus built for that purpose is systematically dismantled?

Bret Weinstein issues a stark warning: we are living through a coordinated sabotage of our truth-seeking institutions.

This is not a minor critique; it is a fundamental attack on the very mechanisms of a functional society.

He argues that the assault is comprehensive:

  • The University System: Once a beacon of knowledge, now a source of unreliable research and curricula that teach verifiably false concepts as truth. The cornerstone of academic rigor has been cracked.
  • Regulatory Agencies: These bodies have been inverted. Their purpose is no longer to protect citizens from harm, but to protect the regulators and the system from the citizens they are meant to serve.
  • Scientific Integrity: We are left grappling in the dark on critical issues. Determining something as scientifically straightforward as the potential link between mRNA vaccines and turbo cancers should be a matter of transparent data. Instead, we are forced to rely on buried anecdotes and studies designed to fail.

This is the realization of René Descartes’ deepest fear – that the very foundations of what we believe to be factual cannot be trusted.

We have been severed from the tools of the Enlightenment, left in a precarious state where anecdote replaces evidence and ideology replaces inquiry.

We are now navigating a world without a compass.

The predicament is not just dangerous; it is existential.

The question is no longer just “what is true?” but “how do we find out, when the paths to truth have been deliberately destroyed?”

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Jay Jones’ ‘Community Service’ Scandal Is Worse Than You Think

Democrat Jay Jones has found himself in hot water during the final weeks of his campaign to become Virginia’s top law enforcement officer. The closer to Election Day it gets, the scandals seem to keep piling up.

At around the same time he was fantasizing about assassinating Virginia’s former Republican House speaker and wishing death upon his children in 2022, Jones had a truly remarkable run-in with the state’s criminal-justice system. According to recent reports, the Democrat AG candidate is now under investigation for a 2022 reckless driving incident.

By way of background, Jones was clocked going 116 mph in a 70 mph stretch of highway and charged with reckless driving. While other defendants facing the same charge as he faced — with the “same initial hearing date as Jones” — reportedly got jail sentences, Jones got away with a fine and 1,000 hours of community service. (These defendants were even caught driving more slowly than Jones was, according to Cardinal News.)

Supposedly, Jones did that community service in 2023 — 500 hours at “Meet Our Moment” and 500 hours at the Virginia chapter of the NAACP. The first tranche of hours has caused considerable controversy and may be at the heart of the aforementioned criminal investigation.

Meet Our Moment is Jones’ own political action committee, founded to train Democrats to run for office. His hours were certified by an adviser of his, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. As noted by National Review, social media posts revealed Jones crisscrossed Virginia campaigning for Democrats in 2023, raising questions about whether such activities were counted as part of the 500 hours of “community service” he purportedly conducted with the group.

Perhaps equally interesting, however, is Jones’ “community service” time with the Virginia wing of the NAACP.

In 2023, Jones was a senior associate at the massive law firm known as Hogan Lovells. While there, he was involved in a high-profile lawsuit against the Youngkin administration regarding a dispute over public records pertaining to voting restoration practices for previously convicted felons.

The client Jones and Hogan represented in that case? None other than the Virginia NAACP. (Jones apparently ended work on the case when he started campaigning for state attorney general.)

Much like with Meet Our Moment, it’s unclear how Jones spent his 500 hours with the Virginia NAACP, once again raising questions about whether any of his legal services for the group in its lawsuit against Gov. Glenn Youngkin were counted as “community service.”

These services would seemingly have been provided by Hogan “pro bono,” or for free. But they’re provided for free by the firm’s partnership.

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Illegal Alien POLICE OFFICER Cost Illinois Taxpayers More Than $205,000

In Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois, taxpayers are funding one of the most shocking sanctuary state scandals to date: an illegal alien working as a sworn police officer. 

His salary, benefits, and pension package together cost the public more than $205,000 this year alone.

Radule Bojovic, an illegal alien from Montenegro, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Operation Midway Blitz on October 15. 

ICE officials confirmed Bojovic had been unlawfully living in the United States for over a decade after overstaying his B-2 visitor visa, which expired on March 31, 2015. 

Despite his unlawful presence and felony ineligibility to possess a firearm, Bojovic was sworn in as an officer with the Hanover Park Police Department, a suburb of Chicago.

According to police department and pension board records, Bojovic was granted a starting salary of $78,955.70 and was approved by the Hanover Park Pension Fund Board of Trustees in January 2025. 

But his overall taxpayer burden reached far higher.

In 2025 alone, Bojovic’s employment cost Illinois residents $205,707, including salary, benefits, and $9,276 in FICA and Medicare taxes.

The revelation that an illegal alien was given a badge, gun, and pension eligibility has sparked outrage across Illinois and beyond. 

Federal law is explicit: illegal aliens are prohibited from owning or possessing firearms under any circumstance. 

Yet under sanctuary policies supported by Pritzker, Bojovic not only carried a firearm but enforced laws while in violation of them.

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