Corruption consumes Kiev: Energy extortion scandal fallout Live Updates

Vladimir Zelensky’s closest circle is the target of anger and questioning over a $100 million racket allegedly run by his former business partner, who is said to have fled to Israel

The $100 million energy sector extortion racket reportedly run by Vladimir Zelensky’s former business partner is taking down key figures in his government and exposing his closest inner circle to extreme public anger.

The graft scandal kicked off last week, after the Western-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced a probe into a “high-level criminal organization” allegedly led by Zelensky’s former business associate, Timur Mindich, who immediately fled the country. The affair has hit the country’s energy sector, prompting Justice Minister German Galushchenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk to resign.

Other high-profile individuals implicated in the scandal include Zelensky’s chief-of-staff Andrey Yermak, former defense minister and current head of the National Security Council, Rustem Umerov, as well as former Deputy PM Aleksey Chernyshov.

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Ukraine is bound to end up with an “interim government” that will strike a peace deal with Russia to end the hostilities, Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod has said, speaking to a Ukrainian YouTube channel. Demands that Zelensky’s top aide Yermak be fired are about the survival and “self-preservation” of the Ukrainian leader, she suggested.

“We’ll have an interim government, “anti-crisis,” “anti-corruption,” call it whatever you like, a government for several months that will ready the country for elections, conclude negotiations, and sign a peace agreement,” Skorokhod has stated.

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Ukraine’s cabinet has tapped Lyudmila Slugak as interim Justice Minister to replace departed German Galushchenko, having previously served as his deputy with responsibility for “issues of Eurointegration.”

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Ukrainian officials embezzled at least $4.7 million in goods and services related to Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), which is now controlled by Russia, Kiev lawmaker Vladimir Ariev has claimed. Moscow overtook the running of the plant, Europe’s largest, in March 2022, but that did not stop procurements for the facility through Ukraine’s Energoatom, the state-owned company at the epicenter of the ongoing graft scandal.

Purchases listed as being for the plant continued until late August 2022.

The MP had previously suggested that even larger figures were involved, claiming Energoatom raked in some $9.5 million in procurements for ZNPP.

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Faction leader of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, has downplayed an open letter being circulated by a fellow party member, dismissing it as a private opinion. The letter, backed by an unspecified number of the ruling party’s lawmakers, declared support for the opposition and demanded the dismissal of the government and all officials implicated in the corruption scandal.

“This is a statement by individual members of parliament, and they have the right to do so. However, I would like to point out that it should not be taken as the position of the entire faction. Since neither the faction nor the party has ever made such statements,” Arakhamia stated.

https://www.rt.com/russia/627996-ukraine-corruption-zelensky-fallout/

Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI Board; Harvard Launches Investigation After Epstein Revelations

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI following the release of messages in which Summers was asking Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice to try and bed a female mentee whose father was a former CCP official.

On Monday Summers announced that he would be stepping back from all public commitments - and while he said he would continue to teach at Harvard, his office appeared to be gone Monday evening.

"In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI," Summers told Axios. "I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company and look forward to following their progress."

Over 20,000 documents were released last week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from Epstein's estate.

Summers, a known longtime associate of Epstein, joined the board of OpenAI in 2023 during a brief period in which CEO Sam Altman was ousted from the company - only to return days later. Summers was appointed alongside Bret Taylor, former Salesforce CEO, and Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo - the only member of OpenAI's initial board who still had a seat.

In a statement, OpenAI said "Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board of Directors, and we respect his decision. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board."

Meanwhile, the Economic Club of New York postponed a discussion with Summers this week, hours after the Crimson published its article - telling FT that it was "postponed due to an unavoidable change in schedule.

Harvard Investigates

According to the Harvard Crimson, the University will launch a new investigation into its ties to Epstein following the Summers scandal. The university had already conducted an investigation in 2020, in which they found that Epstein donated $9,179,000 across 22 'gifts', including a $736,000 donation after his 2006 arrest but before his 2008 conviction for sex trafficking a minor.

Epstein was also a Visiting Fellow in the Psychology Department in the 2005-2006 academic year despite lacking academic qualifications typically possessed by Visiting Fellows.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/larry-summers-resigns-openai-board-harvard-launches-investigation-after-epstein

NATO Scrambles Jets Amid One Of Deadliest Russian Attacks On Western Ukraine

Russia overnight carried out its typical aerial and drone strikes on Ukraine, but this time escalated attacks in Ukraine's West, which apparently were close enough to the border to cause alarm in nearby Poland and Romania.

The two NATO member countries scrambled jet fighters in response amid the massive Russian and drone and missile strikes which killed at least 25 people, some of which were reported as children.

Romania's defense ministry said that during the attacks on Ukraine a Russian drone entered its sovereign airspace. Its military then scrambled two Eurofighters which are part of NATO's fleet. An additional pair of Romanian F-16s were also sent.

Simultaneously, Polish jets were launched to protect Polish airspace on Wednesday morning. "In connection with the attack by the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on facilities located on the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation is operating in our airspace," Poland's military announced. All of this caused some regional commercial airport closures:

Poland temporarily shut down two airports in its southeast, Rzeszow and Lublin, the Polish Civil Aviation Authority said.

The air hubs were closed to provide freedom for warplanes, the regulator explained.

Russian strikes also focused on Kharkiv, resulting in dozens injured, in the overnight hours. These eastern strikes have become frequent, but large-scale attacks on Western Ukraine are much more rare.

Major direct hit on a residential area captured on video from the early morning hours…

https://twitter.com/i/status/1991135091515367611

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'Russia Feels It's Being Heard': Trump Advancing Secret 28-Point Plan To End Ukraine War

Here we go again: the Trump administration is desperately seeking to revive the peace effort in Ukraine, this time coming up with a 28-point plan which is modeled off the so far successful Gaza ceasefire.

The US is said to have been quietly working with Moscow on a new initiative to end the war in Ukraine. It's being called a 'secret' plan and effort, according to Axios. It has led to a series of behind-the-scenes meetings and draft plans as Washington explores what conditions might allow for a political settlement.

The 28-point framework is organized around four major themes: securing peace in Ukraine, establishing security guarantees, addressing broader European security concerns, and defining the future of US relations with both Russia and Ukraine. An important highlight is that the talks are taking place without Ukraine or Europe at the table.

A senior Kremlin official cited in Axios said he was "optimistic" about the plan’s prospects, arguing that it aligns more closely with Moscow's views than previous diplomatic efforts.

But is control of land or territorial concessions to be resolved? It's unclear whether the secret plan tackles this head on, but if Russian officials are warming to the 28-point plan, then it likely touches on this.

Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, has been overseeing the drafting process and has held extensive discussions with Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and and top Putin representative in talks.

Dmitriev revealed to Axios he spent Oct. 24–26 in Miami in intensive talks with Witkoff and Trump advisers. Crucially he said that for the first time "we feel the Russian position is really being heard."

Zelensky’s national security adviser, Rustem Umerov, has also been quoted as saying "We know the Americans are working on something." This remark came as a planned meeting in Istanbul involving Witkoff, President Zelensky, and hosted by Erdogan on Wednesday has been altered. US Army representatives will reportedly be involved, and will meet with Zelensky, likely to pitch the new 28-point plan and brief him on progress.

Further interesting is that White House official told Axios Trump believes the war could "if flexibility is shown," adding: "The president has been clear that it is time to stop the killing and reach a deal to end the war."

Ukraine supporters are already vehemently complaining the talks are taking place secretly and without Kiev's direct involvement or input…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-feels-its-being-heard-trump-advancing-secret-28-point-plan-end-ukraine-war

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The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills to house ethics for investigation. The swamp protects itself.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1990972986523070932

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) referred Thomas Windom, former Senior Assistant Special Counsel to Jack Smith, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution after Windom declined to answer nearly every single one of the Committee’s questions in a deposition, citing various and shifting justifications.

As a senior assistant to Special Counsel Jack Smith, Windom possesses unique, firsthand information about the work of that Office. Yet, despite being given express authorization by DOJ on two separate occasions, Windom declined to answer questions during his deposition about topics necessary and relevant to the Committee’s inquiry.

These topics include:

Knowledge of a February 2021 proposal that J.P. Cooney brought to the FBI to investigate President Trump and the individuals within his orbit;

Interactions with and materials obtained from the January 6th Select Committee;

Information related to the surveillance of Representative Scott Perry and the seizure of his cell phone;

Information related to how many other Members of Congress were investigated as part of the Arctic Frost investigation and the Jack Smith investigation; and

Communications with FBI officials related to potential evidence in the possession of the Willard Hotel.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-19-jdj-to-doj-re-windom-referral.pdf

Numerous Members of Bill Clinton’s Administration Were Visitors at Epstein’s Island

Al Gore

We also learned in 2019 after a release of files from the first Epstein case that one woman claimed Al Gore was at Epstein’s Island.

A woman who claims she was a sex slave for billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein says she met former vice president Al Gore, according to documents unsealed on Friday.

The documents were made public Friday after a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to make public more than 2,000 pages of court filings in a since-settled 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts against Epstein confidant and aide Ghislaine Maxwell.

Larry Summers

We uncovered in 2019 that Larry Summers, the creepy former President of Harvard and President Clinton’s Secretary of Treasury, flew numerous times on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet and even flew to Epstein’s so called ‘Orgy Island’.

Flight logs from the previous Epstein trial show that Larry Summers flew a couple times on the ‘Epstein Express’ to Epstein’s now infamous ‘Orgy Island’! According to flight records released from the Epstein case, Summers took four trips on Epstein’s Jet. On one trip he took his newlywed second wife, Elisa New, to Epstein’s Island for their Honeymoon in 2005.

(Note that Summers was Senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton’s administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001) and former Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former President of Harvard University (2001–2006)…}

Ten days after Larry and Elisa Summers were Married, on December 21, 2005, Larry and Lisa Summers flew from Bedford, MA to Epstein’s Island. They were accompanied on this flight by ‘GM’ – Epstein’s close confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

The flight logs show from BED (Laurence G Hanscom Fld – Bedford, MA) to TIST (Cyril E King Airport, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands).

Sandy Berger

Flight logs from the previous Epstein trial show that Larry Summers flew a couple times on the ‘Epstein Express’ to Epstein’s now infamous ‘Orgy Island’! According to flight records released from the Epstein case, Summers took four trips on Epstein’s Jet. On one trip he took his newlywed second wife, Elisa New, to Epstein’s Island for their Honeymoon in 2005.

…the same flight records show that President Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, flew on Epstein’s jet from his ‘Orgy Island’ as well.

Berger was also famous for being charged with stealing documents from the National Archives but stuffing them in his clothes to protect President Clinton and himself from actions related to Osama Bin Ladin. US News reported about Berger –

It’s been almost eight years since Clinton-era national security adviser Sandy Berger smuggled classified documents out of the National Archives that detailed his boss’s efforts to thwart terrorist threats to the millennium celebrations. The crime cost Berger $50,000, 100 hours of community service, his security clearance, and his law license. But the agents who went after him haven’t forgotten. “It weighs on you,” says Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfeld.

And now they’ve made Berger the poster boy for a new anti-theft initiative. The outreach to archivists includes a slide show that pictures Berger and three other smugglers under the headline: “To Catch a Thief.” What’s more, Brachfeld now has an archival recovery team assigned to work theft cases. “Those acts I don’t think can be re-created today,” he tells our Caitlin Huey-Burns.

…On September 24, 2005, Berger flew from TIST (Cyril E King Airport, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands) to TEB (Teterboro Airport, Bergen, NJ).

https://joehoft.com/shocker-numerous-members-of-bill-clintons-administration-were-visitors-at-epsteins-island/

https://www.antiwar.com/

IDF presence in Syria of ‘immense importance,’ Netanyahu tells troops during visit

Syria condemns ‘illegal’ visit ‘in the strongest terms’, as senior Israeli official says that security deal with Damascus is ‘not close yet’

Israel’s ongoing presence inside Syria is of “immense importance,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told troops during a Wednesday visit to an outpost in the IDF-held buffer zone there.

The visit, which included several top security and diplomatic officials, came as talks between Jerusalem and Damascus over a security agreement for southern Syria have stalled, with a senior Israeli official telling The Times of Israel on Wednesday that such a deal is “not in the cards right now.”

Israel is reportedly insisting on remaining deployed to the nine posts it seized after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, unless the new ruling government agrees to a full peace deal and normalization.

“We attach immense importance to our capability here, both defensive and offensive,” Netanyahu told the troops during his visit, adding that the purpose includes “safeguarding our Druze allies, and especially safeguarding the State of Israel and its northern border opposite the Golan Heights.”

“This is a mission that can develop at any moment, but we are counting on you,” he said.

Reacting to the visit, Syria said it “condemns [it] in the strongest terms,” calling it “illegal,” and saying it considers the IDF deployment in the south of the country “a serious violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-presence-in-syria-of-immense-importance-netanyahu-tells-troops-during-visit/

Comer subpoenas J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, for Epstein's financial records

Comer is also requesting U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea provide documents related to Epstein or Maxwell, including all documents referring to any federal or local criminal investigation or potential criminal investigation of either person.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Tuesday issued subpoenas to J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank for the financial records of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of an investigation into the government's probe of Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee is currently investigating whether the federal government botched its probe into Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking and other charges related to the late-financier, who died in prison in 2019.

Comer is also requesting U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea provide documents to further the investigation, including all documents referring to any federal or local criminal investigation or potential criminal investigation of Epstein or Maxwell.

"It is imperative that Congress conduct oversight of the federal government’s enforcement of sex trafficking laws generally and, specifically, its handling of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell," Comer wrote in a letter to Rhea. "The Committee may use the results of this investigation to inform legislative solutions to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking and reform the use of non-prosecution agreements and/or plea agreements in sex-crime investigations.

"Additionally, the Committee is assessing possible legislation aimed at bolstering or otherwise amending laws aimed at ethics disclosures for elected officials," he added.

Comer requested Rhea provide all documents to the committee by Dec. 2.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/comer-subpoenas-jp-morgan-deutsche-bank-epsteins-financial-records

This is Bill Gates new $645 million megayacht.

The same guy who constantly lectures you about reducing your carbon footprint by eating lab grown meat and bugs.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1991104365336342964

Israeli press trying to throw shade on execution and torture of prisoners

Why did almost 100 Palestinian detainees reportedly die in Israeli custody?

The Israeli government doesn't dispute the number of prison deaths but disputes the claim that detainees were dying due to illegal beatings and other actions by Israeli prison guards.

On Monday, the nonprofit organization, Physicians for Human Rights in Israel (PHRI), published a report that said that around 98 Palestinian detainees had died in Israeli custody.

Israel does not dispute these numbers, but it does dispute the PHRI’s characterization of the detainees dying due to illegal beatings and other alleged actions by Israeli prison guards.

NGO Monitor depicts Physicians for Human Rights–Israel as a heavily foreign-funded, politicized NGO that, under a medical-rights guise, advances anti-Israel lawfare and apartheid narratives while issuing what critics call biased and methodologically flawed reports.

The Jerusalem Post has been able to verify multiple elements of these details independently.

Over 50 of the Palestinian detainees died in IDF custody, while over 40 of them died in Israel Prison Service custody.

Around 60 people died in the first six or so months between October 2023 and April-May 2024. Then, in Spring 2024, the Military Advocate General’s Corps and the Supreme Court became more involved in the issue. After their involvement, around 30 people died over the next 15 plus months, a significant drop in deaths, though far from an end to the problem.

While close to 70 of the detainees were Gazans, over 25 were West Bank Palestinians, not explicitly linked to the war with Hamas; the PHRI estimates only one-third of the total were connected to the terrorist organization.

However, the IDF would note that many Gazans who were not affiliated with Hamas fought the IDF regardless.

If it wants to rebut the PHRI’s and others’ allegations of widespread prisoner abuse, part of addressing this issue of cause-of-death requires more of the IDF’s side of the story.

IDF has indicted one soldier in February for repeatedly beating Palestinians

To date, the military’s legal establishment has indicted and convicted one soldier in February for repeatedly beating Palestinians in a “small Sde Teiman" case, but not for any killings. It also indicted five other soldiers in the more well-known “large Sde Teiman case” for both allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a detainee, though that detainee survived.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that at least one other case was thoroughly investigated and closed rather than resulting in an indictment. However, no details regarding that case have been made public.

Why hasn’t the IDF published its findings regarding the other detainees?

The Post can now reveal that in July 2024, top IDF legal officials informed it that there was an extreme delay in being able to decide on the Sde Teiman and other Palestinian detainee death probes because the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir was overwhelmed with work related to October 7. It was preoccupied with cases related to the victims of the massacre, post-October deaths related to IDF soldiers, and Palestinians from the battlefield.

Further, those same officials told the Post at the time that most of the Palestinian detainees who died were either fatally wounded on the battlefield and brought back to military installations partially to see if they could be saved, or had preexisting medical conditions that Israeli doctors were unaware of, leading to unintentional deaths.

Those officials said back then that they hoped they could progress faster in cases of detainees who came to Sde Teiman fully healthy, and only later were wounded or died.

However, even with these cases, the IDF’s legal division said it was facing a massive delay in receiving professional medical opinions regarding injuries or the cause of death.For example, was death caused by strangulation, a series of blows to the body, or a heart attack?

The state medical forensics institute has been overwhelmed in trying to address all of these questions since October 7, and the depressing, unprecedented volume of work has decimated staff just as the Military Advocate General’s Corps was growing to try to keep up with the war.

As an example of delay, regarding one soldier who committed suicide, it took around seven to eight months to get a medical opinion.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-874501

Mossad propaganda for expanded war

Mossad unveils network of Hamas terror infrastructure across Europe

According to the Mossad, coordinated raids in Austria and Germany resulted in arrests and the seizure of weapons and explosives intended for use “on command.”

The Mossad on Wednesday exposed a network of Hamas terror infrastructure in multiple European countries and revealed a prolonged investigation it had conducted with European intelligence and law enforcement to thwart planned attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets.

Although the announcement was made on Wednesday, the Mossad said that it helped European authorities identify Mahmoud Naim, the son of a top Hamas official and senior adviser to Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya, Bassem Naim, as managing the plot in September.

A message from the Mossad said that Mahmoud had met with his father in Qatar to facilitate the plot and that this showed that Hamas was sponsoring the terror plots at its highest levels. Hamas officials in Turkey have also been involved.

Mossad disrupted 'dozens' of Hamas terror ops.

Since October 7, the terror organization has accelerated efforts to build cells and logistics in Europe, mirroring the activity of Iran and its proxies. The Mossad said it continues to disrupt “dozens” of various plots worldwide as part of Israel’s overseas counterterrorism mandate.

It credited “close, persistent cooperation” with European services for recent breakthroughs and said efforts are ongoing.

“The Mossad, together with its partners in Israel and worldwide, is working relentlessly to thwart attacks against Israeli, Jewish, and other innocent civilians across the globe,” the statement said.

Recent arrests of Hamas members across Europe

Austrian state security (DSN) in Vienna uncovered and confiscated a weapons stash in September that included handguns and explosive materials, leading to the detention and questioning of suspects tied to a Hamas cell. Local reporting later detailed the discovery of a Hamas-linked cache in the city and a related arrest in London.

European partners have expanded cooperation with Israel’s services while also tightening legal measures against Hamas-linked incitement and financing networks, the Mossad stated. In Germany, recent prosecutions and raids have targeted alleged Hamas operatives and supporters, reflecting a broader shift to curtail extremist infrastructure across the continent.

Meanwhile, German authorities, in separate operations, arrested multiple suspects this fall on suspicion of acting for the terror organization and supplying weapons, with police reporting finds that included assault rifles, pistols, and ammunition. Additional arrests followed this month, as investigators said a Hamas-linked operative helped procure arms for planned attacks in Europe.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-874507

Israel rape crisis centers report 51,000 cases as ministries withhold key data

Before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25, the ARCCI noted that several state organizations withheld key information.

The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) received over 51,000 queries in 2024, according to its annual report released Wednesday, yet, it was unable to provide a full accounting of how the state handles sexual offense cases due to several government ministries’ refusal to share data they are legally obligated to provide, a situation that directly impacts the public and the fight against sexual violence.

The date of this report’s publication is significant, as it precedes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. This global observance, established by the United Nations in 1999, is a crucial moment for governments and civil society groups to release data, run campaigns, and push for legislative reforms in the fight against gender-based violence.

The ARCCI serves as the national umbrella organization for rape crisis centers across Israel and compiles an extensive annual dataset that typically draws on information from law enforcement agencies, courts, ministries, and the IDF.

This year, however, the Israel Police, the State Attorney’s Office, the Israel Prison Service, the Education Ministry, the Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry, and the IDF all withheld key information, the report noted.

The organization said the decision violates statutory obligations and breaks sharply with previous years, when these bodies consistently provided detailed figures on investigations, indictments, sentencing, and institutional responses.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-874395

The sickest society

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f2gNbxvO1Uo

Zionists Pine for Censorship at World Jewish Congress, Jewish Leadership Conference and More

The theme throughout the World Jewish Congress, Jewish Leadership Conference and the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly over the past few days was a pining for censorship to suppress Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes on the right and anti-Zionist backers of Zohran Mamdani on the left.

Tikvah's Jewish Leadership Conference brought together over a thousand "American" Zionists on Sunday to fight "Mamdani-style anti-Zionism" being "normalized on the left" and "the Tucker–Fuentes cancer spreading on the right," according to Tikvah's Avi Garson.

They gave the Herzl Prize to Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss and Dan Senor for using their positions to promote "Jewish flourishing and Israeli sovereignty."

"Ben Shapiro devoted an entire show to explaining why—in video clip after video clip—Tucker Carlson is, in Ben's words … the most virulent super-spreader of vile ideas in America," Jonathan Silver, Tikvah's chief programming officer, told the conference to roaring applause.

The "common theme" throughout the talks was "the importance of repudiating Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens … especially by those in the conservative movement," attendee Tali Goldsheft said on X.

"Bari made a point of stating that JD Vance has yet to distance himself from Tucker Carlson, which remains quite disconcerting, to say the least," she added.

Elise Stefanik also spoke about "combating anti-Semitism" at the event and attacked Gov. Hochul as well as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The event was titled, "Can the Jews Save the West?"

Palantir's Joe Lonsdale and his wife were also given awards.

Israel First GOP megadonor Paul Singer is listed as a top donor.

Other speakers listed for the event include Elliott Abrams, Ruth Wisse and Trump's US Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz.

The Trump admin in Sept rewarded Tikvah with the largest grant in NEH history—$10.4 million—to counter "the pathology of anti-Semitism" and teach the Talmud.

Remarkably, the videos of the Jewish Leadership Conference have still not been released to the American public.

Nonetheless, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency shared some of what took place inside.

Of note, JTA reported that Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss and Dan Senor discussed the "threat" of "figures like Nick Fuentes."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65071

Ben Shapiro Plays DUMB On Epstein, Israelis

Ben Shapiro claimed it is antisemitic to link Jeffrey Epstein to the government of Israel.

https://youtu.be/ugydixGRs1s

Nick Fuentes - Americans are fed up with ZOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLqK4pyjoc

Ex-Pfizer executive Dr. Mike Yeadon: There was no pandemic

Dr. Mike Yeadon's expert analysis of Costa Rica's testimony reveals how governments worldwide used contradictory legal frameworks to deploy military countermeasures while claiming they were approved

https://www.brighteon.com/8344c951-89b7-4800-937f-b801dd38d745

https://interestofjustice.substack.com/p/dr-michael-yeadon-former-pfizer-vp

The Cult of Medicine | CULTWORLD Documentary | Part Six

https://www.brighteon.com/51be392e-ee2e-496b-837e-804de10431f2

Jared Kushner's company invited Jeffrey Epstein to star-studded NYC party with Trump and Harvey Weinstein

Jared Kushner's company invited convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to a party in 2013 that included a guest list of his father-in-law Donald Trump and producer Harvey Weinstein, who was not a convicted rapist at the time.

A trove of documents released by the House Oversight Committee last week includes a screenshot of an email invite to Epstein, who had already served a 13-month prison sentence for child sex crimes at the time of the event.

The revelation comes as journalists review the thousands of pages of documents and as Congress prepares to vote on releasing all Epstein files, with the unlikely backing of President Trump.

A person close with Kushner tells the Daily Mail that the president's son-in-law has never met Epstein and that he did not attend the party.

Trump, who was once friends with Epstein, maintains he was banned from Mar-a-Lago in October 2007 because he was 'creepy.' And on Friday he told press on board Air Force One that 'Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years.'

Kushner was owner of the New York Observer when Epstein received an email invite to the newspaper's 25th anniversary celebration on March 14, 2013.

'Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be by his side to toast you all,' read the email forwarded to Epstein by who appears to be his assistant Lesley Groff in the form of a press release signed by 'Peggy.'

His wife Ivanka and her father Donald Trump were included on the guest list, as were then-Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who was running for U.S. Senate at the time; actresses Blake Lively and Katie Holmes; fashion designer Carolina Herrera; and Weinstein's then-fashion designer wife Georgina Chapman.

Epstein was convicted in 2008 in Florida on state charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution, serving 13 months in a work-release program as part of a controversial plea deal.

Kushner's invite list included multiple already and soon-to-be convicted sex offenders.

Rape allegations against Weinstein would emerge in 2017 and he is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for rape.

News personality Matt Lauer fell to the #MeToo movement the same year when NBC News terminated his contract due to multiple claims of sexual misconduct and harassment by former and current colleagues.

And former New York Observer editor-in-chief Ken Kurson was on the guest list. In 2021 he was pardoned by Trump after being charged with cyberstalking.

The March 2013 email said the party would honor New York City's 'best' and 'brightest.'

'The Observer is honoring those who have defined and shaped New York since 1987,' the email reads, adding: 'They are celebrating the cities (sic) best, brightest and most influential in culture, media and finance.'

'The celebration is going to be one of those quintessential New York nights. We are looking forward to seeing you.'

Kushner as publisher and Joseph Meyer as CEO were the hosts of the Observer's party.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15302119/Jared-Kushner-Jeffrey-Epstein-party-Trump-Harvey-Weinstein.html

Could This Russian Oligarch Be Linked to Both Iran's Nuclear Project and Israel's Most pro-Netanyahu TV Channel?

In a court filing, an Israeli advertising executive claims that a company controlled by Mikhael Mirilashvili serviced a Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company operating in Iran. He also asserts that Mirilashvili – not his son Yitzchak – is the real owner of the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14. Mirilashvili: 'The allegations are entirely baseless'

In August, when businessman Mikhael Mirilashvili filed a defamation suit against anti-government protest leaders, he hoped to dispel the image of himself as an oligarch wreaking chaos in Israel on behalf of Moscow. The response filed with a court last week for one of the defendants, advertising executive Ilan Shiloah, shows that the claims haven't been silenced – maybe the opposite.

In his court filing, Shiloah claims that a logistics company that Mirilashvili allegedly controls provided services to Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company, which has taken part in projects in Iran since the '90s.

The defense appended documents to help prove its point, but Mirilashvili – the father of Yitzchak Mirilashvili, who holds a controlling stake in the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 – said he has no ties with the Russian company.

One affair ended with the kidnapping, murder and dismemberment of two members of a gang that had kidnapped Mirilashvili's father for ransom and later released him. The defendants claimed that Mirilashvili was convicted of murder, while actually he was only convicted of plotting the kidnapping.

President, oligarch and commander

Shiloah is one of six defendants who have made claims about Mirilashvili in what the 600,000-shekel ($186,000) lawsuit describes as an "orchestrated campaign" to tarnish him as part of a fight against Channel 14, whose editorial line is largely faithful to the messaging of the Netanyahu government.

Parts of the lawsuit against other defendants look like an easy win for Mirilashvili; for example, a mistake about a conviction in the early 2000s that got Mirilashvili eight years in a Russian prison.

The affair ended with the kidnapping, murder and dismemberment of two members of a gang that had kidnapped Mirilashvili's father for ransom and later released him. The defendants claimed that Mirilashvili was convicted of murder, while actually he was only convicted of plotting the kidnapping.

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Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire

Epstein to Ehud Barak: “[Ariane de Rothschild] said to me, if Ehud wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me. take time so that we can truly understand one another.”

With an avalanche of new documents released by the House Oversight Committee, and looming legislation mandating further disclosures, the press has renewed its relentless coverage of the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet, with some notable exceptions, a major part of his life’s work has remained outside the media’s gaze, his relationship with the state of Israel and his prominent role in helping advance the Israeli cyberweapons industry. And so our series continues.

On July 31, 2019, just eleven days before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell, his connection to the Rothschild banking dynasty became the subject of major public controversy.

Anonymous sources informed Bloomberg of a 2015 visit to Epstein’s New York mansion by baroness Ariane de Rothschild, the CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group, a storied private bank and one of the largest Swiss financial institutions by assets under management. The bank’s spokesperson denied any relationship to the notorious American sex trafficker. Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019.

Four years later, after Epstein’s meeting calendars were leaked to the Wall Street Journal, the bank finally admitted that de Rothschild had met with Epstein as part of her “normal duties at the bank between 2013 and 2019.” Epstein provided introductions to U.S. finance leaders and law firms and provided tax and risk consulting, the bank disclosed, while also helping de Rothschild personally on “a couple of occasions” with advice on estate management.

The bank remained vague about the actual nature of its relationship with the convicted sex trafficker. Newly released documents reveal that Epstein and de Rothschild’s personal relationship was much closer than the bank previously acknowledged. According to emails released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee on November 12, Epstein planned to see a Broadway play with de Rothschild in January 2014, and scheduled a private trip with her to Montreal that September.

A second set of documents—the leaked inbox of former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, hacked by Handala and uploaded by non-profit whistleblower Distributed Denial of Secrets—sheds light on Epstein’s efforts to leverage his personal friendship with de Rothschild to raise funds for the development of Israeli cyberweapons. After Barak’s retirement from government in 2013, he recruited Pavel Gurvich, a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ secretive Unit 81 technology unit, to source cyberweapons startups from the Israeli intelligence community. Gurvich did not respond to a request for comment.

Private communications between Barak and Gurvich show discussions about a wide range of cyberweapons concepts drawn from Israeli military research, inspired in part by the astonishing scope of U.S. global surveillance apparatus revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. Epstein pushed forward a plan to finance Israeli “offensive cyber” startups with the hope of winning de Rothschild’s support.

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