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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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UN experts say US strikes against Venezuela in international waters amount to ‘extrajudicial executions’

U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters are a dangerous escalation and amount to “extrajudicial executions,” a group of independent United Nations experts said on Tuesday.

In recent months, U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered strikes on at least six suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean, killing at least 27 people. 

The strikes are part of Trump’s ongoing campaign against what he says is a “narcoterrorist” threat emanating from Venezuela and linked to its president, Nicolas Maduro.

The U.N. experts acknowledged Trump’s justification for the military action, but said: “Even if such allegations were substantiated, the use of lethal force in international waters without proper legal basis violates the international law of the sea and amounts to extrajudicial executions.”

The independent experts, who are appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, said the strikes violate the South American country’s sovereignty and the United States’ “fundamental international obligations” not to intervene in domestic affairs or threaten to use armed force against another country.

“These moves are an extremely dangerous escalation with grave implications for peace and security in the Caribbean region,” they said in a statement.

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UN, Gates Foundation push for digital ID across 50 nations by 2028

The 50-in-5 campaign to accelerate digital ID, fast payment systems, and data exchanges in 50 countries by 2028 reaches a 30 country milestone.

Launched in November 2023, the 50-in-5 campaign is a joint effort of the United Nations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and their partners to rollout out at least one component of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in 50 nations within five years.

DPI is a civic technology stack consisting of three major components: digital ID, fast payment systems, and massive data sharing between public and private entities.

50-in-5 started with 11 first-mover countries, and with the count now at 30 the participating countries include:

Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, South Sudan, Somalia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Zambia.

The 50-in-5 campaign celebrated its 30-country milestone during a sideline event at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on September 22.

There, government officials, like Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, praised the work of 50-in-5 while the ministers of digital economy from Nigeria and Togo called for an interoperable digital identity system for the entire African continent.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy Bosun Tijani said that each country could build their own digital identity scheme, but that they should all be interoperable with one another – demonstrating both the digital ID and data sharing as good potential use cases for DPI.

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Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show

Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human Rights Council accused it of targeting civilians in Gaza.

The leaked emails also reveal that Israel furnished Power with a dodgy dossier on Syrian chemical weapons as she pushed regime change in Damascus.

Former US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power secretly coordinated with a top Israeli diplomat to secure Israel’s access to multiple prestigious UN committees, leaked files show.

Several unsolicited emails sent by Power to the then ambassador of Israel to the UN, Ron Prosor, show the diplomat celebrating her role in polishing Israel’s image on the global stage.

The emails between the two diplomats reveal how the US-Israeli special relationship operates at a granular level, and help map out the personal interactions which ensure Israel enjoys constant diplomatic cover at an international level. They are among the latest batch of hacked files belonging to Israeli government officials which were leaked by the Handala hacking collective.

A November 2013 email exchange between Power and Prosor reveals how the US ambassador helped secure Israel entry to the UN’s Western European and Others Group (WEOG). Three days before the vote succeeded, Prosor predicted “a Hanukkah miracle,” telling Power, “I know what [a] crucial role you played in making this happen. This success will last way beyond our time and will always carry your figure [sic] print on it.”

Power replied by thanking him for sending “such a nice note,” and agreed that Israel’s ascension to WEOG was “so overdue and so ridiculous that it has taken this long.”

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Global Power Grab: 80 Years of Infamy

Eighty years have passed since the United Nations’ founding meeting in San Francisco. It’s time for an assessment. Is the UN’s rosy self-description quoted above accurate? Is the United Nations saving us from the scourge of war, maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, etc., etc?

Granted, UN agencies do deliver some humanitarian aid to the world’s needy. Likewise, Al Capone funded soup kitchens; and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the murderous Sinaloa drug lord, built schools and hospitals in Mexico. 

Like Capone and Guzman, the UN practices “philanthropy” with other people’s money, extracted by force, threats, and intimidation — and it does so to cover up a multitude of crimes. Capone, Guzman, and others of their criminal ilk have had their media admen who portray them as noble Robin Hoods. However, none of them could hold a candle to the UN in terms of having a pack of media sycophants who perennially hide their heinous crimes and bathe them in the warm glow of sanctity. For decades, UN “peacekeepers” have gotten away with murder, rape, torture, sex trafficking, and other crimes — with no consequences. The UN regularly denounces “impunity” while practicing it with immunity. The rise in impunity worldwide is “politically indefensible and morally intolerable,” declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on September 24, 2024. “We see this age of impunity everywhere — in the Middle East, in the heart of Europe, in the Horn of Africa,” the Hypocrite-in-Chief of the global dictators club proclaimed, while pointing his finger everywhere except at himself and the blue-helmeted criminals he has been protecting. 

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UN Targets Homeschooling

The United Nations just put a giant target on the backs of homeschoolers worldwide.

Under the guise of “human rights,” the U.N.’s controversial “education” bureaucracy is officially demanding that all governments regulate and control home education—if they allow it at all.

The U.N.’s demands include “education standards” for homeschooling, as well as “accountability” to government.

The outfit is also demanding mandatory registration, forced “evaluations” of homeschoolers by authorities, compulsory “home visits,” and much more.

In fact, the agency is even calling for U.N.-approved values and attitudes to be imposed on children across a wide array of issues, with U.N. control of “education content.”

The new U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on home education, titled “Homeschooling through a human rights lens,” lays out the most draconian global assault on home education in history.

The powerful global agency, long dominated by card-carrying communists, claims governments must bring homeschooling under their thumb—for the benefit of the children, of course.

Unsurprisingly, the top U.N. official involved in the push comes from the “Democratic People’s Republic” of Korea (DPRK), better known as North Korea.

According to the report’s acknowledgements, it was prepared under the “supervision” of Gwang-Chol Chang, chief of the UNESCO Section of Education Policy.

Before joining the U.N. to help transform education globally, Chang worked for the mass-murdering North Korean Communist regime’s “Education Ministry.” The agency operates among the most comprehensive communist brainwashing systems in human history.

And yet, with no sense of the irony, the government controls being demanded by Chang and his minions are said to be necessary to uphold what the global body describes as “international human rights.” Yes, seriously.

If the U.N. agenda is not stopped, parents and even private schools that refuse to comply with the U.N.’s outrageous demands will be accused of violating the “human rights” of children.

The calls for total control are clear—and portrayed as mandatory. “Governments must implement oversight mechanisms such as registration and evaluations,” the report declares (emphasis added), demanding more “regulatory capacity.”

“As homeschooling continues to evolve, adopting a rights-based approach becomes crucial,” the report continues, touting the “need for quality education” as defined by the U.N. through “established minimum education standards and accountability.”

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Tokenization: United Nations Publishes New Framework For Digital IDs While The World Moves In Lockstep As A Means To Enforce Social Credit Scores

The global control grid is rapidly being built, and it appears the globalist institutions are moving things into high-gear.

In the last report I wrote for Revive The Table,1 we discussed how the Trump administration and the United States is moving quickly towards implementing a digital ID system, one that would consolidate all of your legal, biometric, and historical data into one. Such a system would then tie into the new global financial system via a process called tokenization; which refers to digitally representing assets via distributed ledger technology (DLT) on blockchain oracles.

As a refresher – a “token,” as defined2 by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – nicknamed the “central bank of central banks” – “are entries in a database that are recorded digitally and that can contain information and functionality within the token themselves. Digital tokens can represent financial or real assets.” These assets can be virtually anything: stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities such as food or oil, things priced/measured in carbon, precious metals, “money” (so-called); and even the individual themselves becomes a token via digital ID. A token collects information3 about that underlying digital currency or asset: ownership, dates of purchase/sale, transaction dates, permissions and rights, and so forth. And, as we examined in our last report, citing an official White House document4 published in July about the future financial system, it’s not just the Trump administration building this, but the whole world is racing towards it in accordance with these globalist playbooks.

Like clockwork, roughly a week after the last edition of Revive The Table was sent out, the United Nations held its 80th General Assembly meeting; and one of the big talking points was a further expansion of digital ID. Digital ID is something the UN and other groups such as the World Economic Forum, for example, have been very adamant about implementing for years.

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is absolutely emphatic about digital ID, so much so that he and his institution call it the “great enabler.”5

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Secret Service agent fell asleep on the job at U.N. General Assembly, left his rifle unattended

A Secret Service Agent fell asleep on the job at the United Nations General Assembly last week. The unidentified agent also left his semi-automatic rifle unattended while taking a bathroom break.

The agent was relieved of his duties.

Per RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree:

A SecretService Uniformed Division officer allegedly fell asleep on the job — in full public view — while providing security at the United Nations General Assembly last Thursday, multiple law enforcement sources told RCPolitics.

The same officer, an overweight African American man, also has been accused of leaving his semi-automatic rifle (what appears to be a SR16) unattended while taking a bathroom break from his security duties, according to these sources.

New York Police Department officers witnessed and took photos of what they considered the officer’s unprofessional behavior — what they described as sleeping on the job and leaving the rifle unattended — and reported it to their superiors at the multi-agency command center, which included representatives from the Secret Service, the NYPD, and other law enforcement agencies.

A Secret Service spokesperson told RCPolitics that the USSS Uniformed Division officer was relieved of his operational duties “immediately after leadership was notified” of the alleged unprofessional behavior, and the officer returned to Washington, D.C.

The Secret Service released a statement to RealClearPolitics:

“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a Sept. 25 incident where a Uniformed Division officer working security near the United Nations General Assembly in New York City reportedly engaged in unprofessional behavior, including leaving a firearm unattended for a brief time in a secure zone before returning to the weapon. The officer was relieved of their operational duties immediately after leadership was notified that afternoon, returned to Washington, D.C. and subsequently placed on administrative leave pending a disciplinary review. The Secret Service has strict professional standards that all employees are expected to meet, and individuals who are found to have violated these standards will face disciplinary action.”

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From Hunted as One of the Bloodiest Jihadists to UN Delegate: The Transformation of Muhammad Al-Jawlani and the Moral Decline of the International Organization

Muhammad Al-Jawlani, also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, who in 2017 was designated by the United States as one of the most dangerous jihadists with a reward of up to $10 million for his capture, recently appeared seated at the United Nations General Assembly. This image has sparked outrage and debate.

The photograph, shared on social media, shows Al-Jawlani smiling and conversing with other delegates—a chilling contrast to his past as the leader of the Al-Nusrah Front, a Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda.

Al-Jawlani’s story begins in the shadows of the Syrian conflict. In 2013, the UN Security Council designated him a global terrorist for his role in financing, planning, and executing attacks alongside Al-Qaeda.

According to the U.S. State Department, under his leadership, Al-Nusrah carried out multiple suicide bombings in Damascus and other regions of Syria, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians.

His name was linked to sectarian violence that contradicted the aspirations for a democratic Syria, as noted in an official 2013 report.

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UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel 

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory published a report on September 16 that charged Israeli authorities and security forces with having committed, and continuing to commit, acts of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The 72-page report, replete with 495 footnotes, was compiled by senior independent rights investigators appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. Specifically, the report concludes that Israel is responsible for committing four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely:

  • (i) killing members of the group;
  • (ii) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  • (iii) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and
  • (iv) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

This report brings the UN into line with leading human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Oxfam, all of whom have explicitly labeled Israel’s crimes in Gaza genocidal. The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) also recently passed a resolution stating that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.

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