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Summary
Trump has announced the "shooting will stop" in Lebanon, after phone calls with both sides.
Iran announces halt to all exchanges with US, citing Israeli aggression in Lebanon. Trump says 'haven't heard' this from Tehran, vows to keep US naval blockade in place.
Iran overnight initiated fresh attacks on neighboring Kuwait and even released video showing footage of a ballistic missile launch.
The US bombed radar & drone sites in Iran in response to the Iranians having shot down a US drone over the weekend. Reports of foreign jets over Iranian airspace.
Iran negotiator Ghalibaf charges US with breaking the ceasefire: "the naval blockade and escalation of war crimes in Lebanon" were "clear evidence of US noncompliance with the ceasefire."
Trump Truth Social: "Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - it always does!"
Foreign Cargo Ship Struck By 'Massive Projectile' Just Off Iraq
Initially Iraqi media reported the blast was due to "mechanical failure" - but soon after other regional media said it was the result of being hit by a "massive projectile".
"A cargo ship was hit by a massive projectile explosion off the coast of Umm Qasr in Iraq, according to Al Hadath, a Saudi-owned channel.
According to another maritime industry source:
Most of the attacks on commercial shipping in the Gulf region since the war in Iran started have been in and around the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, extending as far west as Bahrain and Qatar.
Only one other attack reported off Iraq was on the Greek-owned chemical/product tanker Zefyros and the US-owned Safesea Vishnu on 12 March which left one seafarer dead.
There have also been incidents off Kuwait with Suezmax tanker Sonangol Namibe anchored 30nm southeast of Mubarak Al Kabeer was hit with a large explosion on 5 March. Kuwait’s Shuwaikh and Mubarak Al Kabeer Port were struck by drones and missiles on 27 March.
Unverified video is already circulating of what's said to be a Panama-flagged container ship:
https://twitter.com/i/status/2061449261305172311
NDAA Section 224 Aims To Fuse US & Israeli Military Industry
A provision buried within the National Defense Authorization Act would inextricably intertwine US and Israeli military assets.
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the US to the Israeli military more than ever before.
Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the US military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the US since its founding in 1948.
Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of US-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The US and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the US military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.
If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the US has with any other country in the world. To be sure, the US has worked closely with its NATO partners on co-production and shared supply chains, most notably via the Defence Production Action Plan. And, as the No. 1 arms dealer in the world, the US provides weapons to militaries across the globe. But that is mostly a one-way street, with the US providing weapons to foreign buyers who only occasionally make parts for those weapons themselves, as in the case of the F-35’s global supply chain.
Section 224 would be a different beast entirely. It would fuse the US and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas vital to the battlefields of the future, like autonomous systems and cyber. It would also bring extraordinary Israeli influence to the US beyond what it already has through the Israel lobby and its robust network of social media influencers. It would give the Israeli government the opportunity to greatly expand one of the most powerful levers of influence in US politics: jobs in the US. By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on US soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie.
The result could well be a US political system even more susceptible to the whims of an Israeli government that seemingly has no qualms about drawing the US into military conflicts in the Middle East.
This unprecedented level of US-Israeli military integration stands in stark contrast to the traditional aid model of defense cooperation, in which Israel already stood out as the top recipient of US military assistance. As laid out in a recent Quincy Institute brief, authored by Steven Simon, this shift from an aid model to a military integration model has troubling implications, namely:
The shift will strip away the political and diplomatic oversight mechanisms that make the relationship publicly accountable, moving it from a visible annual aid vote into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal. The result would be a defense relationship that is simultaneously deeper and less transparent.
This all comes at a time when the Israeli military has repeatedly used US weapons in strikes that have violated international humanitarian laws in Gaza, and as Israel has repeatedly violated ceasefires (as has the US itself) in the Trump administration’s unnecessary war with Iran.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-industrial-complex/ndaa-section-224-aims-to-fuse-us-israeli-military-industry
https://www.antiwar.com/
Land, energy, water for data centers are ‘non-negotiable prerequisites’ for global AI infrastructure, digital embassies: WEF
The infrastructure for the global digital control grid that was slowly being constructed over the past five years is now in the acceleration and implementation phase: perspective
There can be no globally shared AI infrastructure or digital embassies without giving data centers all the land, energy, and water they need, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The plan is to build data centers in host countries that have all the money and resources to do so, and then allow other countries to access the AI infrastructure through what they call “digital embassies,” which grant them “AI sovereignty.”
And when it comes to building AI infrastructure, there are two categories of prerequisites that are “non-negotiable” — technical and institutional, according to the WEF and Bain and Company report, “AI Infrastructure in the Age of Sovereignty: Requirements, Strategies and a Trusted Framework for Digital Embassies.”
On the institutional side, it’s about policy, talent, and financing.
For the technical side, it’s all about feeding data centers with enormous amounts of energy, water, and land — enough to sustain the needs of entire cities — while access to this AI infrastructure will move beyond borders.
“To develop these building blocks at scale, economies rely on a set of non-negotiable technical (energy, water, land, hardware, cybersecurity) and institutional (policy, talent, capital/financing) prerequisites”WEF, AI Infrastructure in the Age of Sovereignty, May 2026
Once the AI infrastructure is built in the host countries, access is then given to other countries through what they call AI sovereignty.
According to the report, “AI sovereignty refers to the ability of economies to shape, deploy and govern AI ecosystems in accordance with their own values, while ensuring strategic and operational control, flexibility and, ultimately, resilience through a combination of localized investment and trusted international collaboration.”
But in order to facilitate access to the AI infrastructure via their AI sovereignty, digital embassies are required.
Speaking at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos in January, 2026, managing director Cathy Li made it quite clear that some countries should build and host the AI infrastructure while other countries should have sovereign access to it.
“As countries race to secure access to data, compute, and cloud infrastructure, it is becoming increasingly clear that not all the nations can or should build the AI infrastructure within their own borders […] Digital embassies enable countries to extend critical digital infrastructure beyond their borders while retaining control over data, compute, and governance”Cathy Li, WEF Annual Meeting, January 2026
https://www.activistpost.com/land-energy-water-for-data-centers-are-non-negotiable-prerequisites-for-global-ai-infrastructure-digital-embassies-wef/
Israeli authorities refuse to return massive trove of Oct 7 video. What are they hiding?
Israeli citizens wonder why the state won’t return October 7 footage it confiscated from them. The mother of an Israeli victim says authorities deleted video of her son’s death. Others complain “someone is hiding” the videos.
The Israeli government is still holding a massive trove of video documentation of the Oct. 7 attack captured by individuals and communities caught up in the fighting. One bereaved parent even accuses Israeli authorities of deleting a video of her son’s last moments before returning his phone to her.
According to Israel’s Channel 13, “all the cameras, memory cards and films that documented the atrocities were collected, but two and a half years later, these materials have not been returned to the communities and bereaved families who are desperate for information, and even feel that someone is hiding it from them.”
Soon after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, special units from the IDF, the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet and Israel’s investigation unit Lahav 433 collected photo and video documentation of the violence, confiscating cell phones, individual cameras, kibbutz security cameras and more.
“They disconnected what was needed, took it and moved on – that was the last time we saw the materials,” said an Israeli army reservist who participated in the collection mission.
According to the head of the Kfar Aza kibbutz – the site of a number of a series of atrocity hoaxes spun out in the early days after the attack – community members cooperated with investigators at the time. Now, years after the events, these families are wondering why documentation of their loved ones’ fates has yet to be returned to them.
Even Sabine Taasa, who was made an emblem of Israeli victimhood after her husband and one of her sons were killed on Oct. 7, is now clashing with Israeli authorities over footage of that day.
Taasa’s 17-year-old son, Or, was killed on Zikim beach. According to Channel 13, Taasa says she saw a video her son filmed in the moments leading up to his death, but when authorities returned his phone to her, no such video remained. The outlet says this is not an isolated incident.
An IDF probe found that soldiers abandoned civilians hiding in a bathroom there and then left their bodies for a week.
Channel 13 reports that Israeli police claimed Lahav 433 is still investigating the events in kibbutz Kfar Aza and no indictments have yet been filed, so returning evidence at this stage could jeopardize their criminal case. Meanwhile, the IDF rejected all accusations that it is withholding documentation and says it is in the final stages of adopting policies for how this type of evidence will be returned to communities and families.
On October 7, the Israeli government issued video Hannibal Directive orders which led Apache helicopter pilots and tank gunners to take aim at Israel’s own citizens in the Gaza envelope, supposedly to prevent them from being taken hostage. Israeli Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram personally ordered a tank crew to shell a home in Kibbutz Be’eri, knowing it was filled with Israeli citizens who had been taken captive by Hamas fighters seeking to negotiate a way out of the standoff. A dozen Israelis were killed in the strike, leaving behind “a house full of corpses,” according to the lone Israeli survivor. One Israeli tank gunner from an all-female unit similarly revealed that she was ordered to shell Israeli homes without knowing who was inside. An Israeli police investigation subsequently revealed that Israeli helicopters shelled the Nova Electronic Music festival on October 7.
Given Israel’s track record of targeting its own citizens on October 7 and misleading the public about it, the Israeli state might be holding on to as much video as possible to ensure no further evidence of the Israeli army massacring its own citizens is made public.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/05/31/israeli-trove-oct-7-video-kibbutz/
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Settlement Causes Review and Removal of 800,000 Ineligible Voters from Oregon Voter Rolls
Judicial Watch announced a settlement in its federal lawsuit against Oregon election officials, which confirms 800,000 ineligible voter names are slated for review and removal from voter registration lists. The settlement requires state officials to produce detailed data and enforce federal voter roll clean-up procedures under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in October 2024, alleging Oregon failed to remove ineligible voters and seeking to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA after identifying widespread voter roll maintenance failures across dozens of counties (Judicial Watch, et al. v. The State of Oregon et al. (No. 6:24-cv-01783)).
In its complaint, Judicial Watch argued that Oregon’s voter rolls contain large numbers of old, inactive registrations; and that 29 of Oregon’s 36 counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal election law. Judicial Watch asserted that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon had the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation. In combination, all of these facts showed that Oregon was failing to remove inactive registrations as required by federal law.
In August 2025, a federal court in Oregon denied a motion to dismiss by Oregon and ruled the lawsuit could proceed.
In response to the lawsuit, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced earlier this year that Oregon has about 800,000 inactive registrations, which are kept separately from the active voter rolls and do not receive ballots. Of those, roughly 160,000 already meet federal and state criteria for removal—having received confirmation notices, failed to respond, and not voted in two federal elections—and are slated for cancellation. The remaining approximately 640,000 inactive records do not yet qualify for removal and will be processed through future list maintenance efforts.
In its press release, Oregon acknowledged that routine removal of outdated records effectively stalled in 2017, leaving a large pool of long-dormant registrations on the rolls without being fully processed for removal. The scale of the backlog underscores a gap in routine list maintenance that is only now being addressed. “These directives are about cleaning up old data that’s no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up to date,” said Read.
“This is another historic election integrity success. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit caused Oregon to finally cleanup 800,000 outdated voter names, adding to the more than six million ineligible voters removed by Judicial Watch lawsuits and legal action nationwide,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “Dirty voter rolls can mean dirty elections. Oregon’s Secretary of State, Tobias Read, is to be commended for responding to our lawsuit with a massive voter roll clean-up and commitment to continued voter list maintenance, which will only increase voter confidence.”
Judicial Watch’s lawsuits and legal actions have caused the removal of six million ineligible names from voter lists nationwide.
Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), states must take reasonable steps to remove ineligible voters—such as those who have died, moved, or become otherwise inactive.
The settlement with Oregon remains in effect for more than five years, with a federal court retaining jurisdiction to enforce its terms. While the settlement resolves the litigation, it explicitly allows future legal action if Oregon fails to comply with voter list clean-up requirements going forward.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/oregon-voter-rolls/
Ben Gvir blocks state inspectors from entering Israel’s notorious torture centers: Report
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir – who runs Israel’s Prison Service – is refusing to allow state inspectors from entering jails and detention facilities, according to a 27 May report by Haaretz newspaper.
“Ben Gvir has been preventing state inspectors from entering Israeli prisons by delaying approval of their official authorization for more than six months,” the Hebrew outlet reported.
A list of inspectors appointed by the Israeli Justice Ministry and Public Defender’s Office to inspect jails was handed over to the national security minister in December last year.
According to the report, Ben Gvir has not approved the list and is actively disregarding inquiries on the issue.
“Ben Gvir has also refused to approve the entry of Israel Bar Association representatives, whose names are on a separate list, for the past three years,” the report added.
Israeli Prison Service laws require Ben Gvir to approve the appointment of inspectors who would be tasked with examining the conditions of prisoners and how the facilities are run.
“Ben Gvir is using his authority to exert pressure on the identity of people who will be allowed to visit detention facilities,” a police source told Haaretz.
Torture, medical neglect, starvation, and sexual assault against Palestinian prisoners have existed in Israeli jails for decades.
Since Benjamin Netanyahu’s government came to power and Ben Gvir assumed control of the prison system, these conditions have worsened significantly.
Ben Gvir is “very proud of what is happening in prisons,” the minister’s office said in a statement to Haaretz.
Over 23,000 Palestinians are being held across Israeli prisons.
Palestinian prisoners are subject to torture, rape, humiliation, beatings, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, and many other forms of mistreatment.
Israeli authorities have recently approved a law to execute Palestinians detained for resisting occupation.
Ben Gvir himself regularly visits the prisons and taunts Palestinian detainees personally. Among the most notorious of these facilities is Sde Teiman.
In 2024, a Palestinian detainee was brutally raped by five soldiers at the facility. The soldiers were only briefly arrested and had the charges against them dropped earlier this year.
Back in January, Israeli rights group B’Tselem released a report titled Living Hell, documenting the systemic torture across Israeli prison facilities holding Palestinian detainees.
Based on testimony from released prisoners, the report detailed widespread abuse carried out by prison guards, soldiers, and Shin Bet personnel, including rape, forced anal penetration with objects, beatings to the genitals, starvation, electric shocks, and denial of medical care.
After international activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla were detained by Israel for attempting to break the siege of Gaza, Ben Gvir organized a “welcome party” during which the activists were abused, held in a stress position for hours, and forced to listen to Israel’s national anthem.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=327535
Bayer Executive
Just Admitted it ON STAGE! 🚨
"We would have had a 95% REFUSAL rate if we told people it was GENE THERAPY… so we called them "vaccines" instead."
mRNA shots = cell & gene therapy
rebranded to trick the public.
This isn't a conspiracy.
This is a Pharma exec at the World Health Summit spilling the truth while laughing about how they manipulated acceptance.
Bayer… the same company with the dark history…
playing God with your DNA and celebrating it.
If they had to lie about the name to get it into arms… what ELSE did they lie about?
How many "coincidences"
until you call it a crime against humanity?
Do you know anybody that was injured
by the vaccine bio-weapons?
WATCH THE FULL CLIP
BEFORE BIG TECH SCRUBS IT
Let me know what you think,
and SHARE THIS so that others may too!
and if you're not already following
@TrueOnX
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What the heck are you doing?!
https://x.com/i/status/2059566095321977200
🚨 THE MOST IMPORTANT POST
YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR 🚨
The mRNA “Chemical Lobotomy” Crisis Doctors on the front lines are sounding the alarm:
Right after the COVID mRNA rollout, entire practices saw explosive psychiatric collapse in patients who were previously stable.
Peer-reviewed VAERS analysis (Thorp, Hulscher et al.) compared mRNA shots to flu shots and all other vaccines combined.
CDC/FDA safety signals (PRR ≥ 2)
were obliterated:
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Psychosis: 440× higher
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Depression: 530× higher
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Schizophrenia: 315× higher
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Homicidal ideation: 25× higher
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Cognitive impairment (47 signals): 118× higher
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Brain clots & prion-like disease: up to 3,000×
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Dementia, suicidal thoughts, delusions, encephalitis, myelitis… 146+ breached neurological/psychiatric signals total.
This is not coincidence.
It’s mechanism.
Watch this medical animation,
It shows exactly how lipid nanoparticles + synthetic spike protein breach the blood-brain barrier, inflame neurons, form clots, trigger prion-like misfolding, and destroy brain tissue.
The Science in Plain English: mRNA LNPs are designed for systemic distribution… they cross the Blood Brain Barrier.
Spike protein persists in brain arteries,
skull-meninges-brain axis, and CSF for months to years.
It causes endothelial damage, neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction, microglial activation, and amyloid-like aggregation.
Result: personality changes, rage, detachment, cognitive fog, psychosis, and rising “sudden” mental health crises.
Millions report the same: spouses, children, parents “not the same person” after the shots.
How many people in your life had a dramatic personality shift, sudden depression, unprovoked rage, or detachment after 2021?
Why were these catastrophic safety signals ignored while billions were still pushed?
If this is happening to adults, what are we doing to the developing brains of children and unborn?
When does the global moratorium begin?
Are we watching the largest iatrogenic neurological experiment in human history?
The silence is OVER.
Share this thread with every parent, every doctor, every politician you know.
Tag as many people as possible.
SHARE THIS WITH ALL OF YOUR GROUP CHATS!
This is the red pill the world needs in 2026.
Let me know what you think,
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@TrueOnX
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What the heck are you doing!?
https://x.com/i/status/2061363355986923535
On average, Israel is killing or injuring 11 children every 24 hours in Lebanon: UNICEF
An average of 11 children have been killed or injured every 24 hours in Lebanon in the last week, as Israel expanded strikes across the country despite an alleged ceasefire being in place since 16 April.
A total of 77 children have been killed or injured in the last seven days, UNICEF said. Since the ceasefire began in April, 55 children have been killed, and 212 injured, according to the agency.
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires described the toll as "staggering".
Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 3,200 people since 2 March.
Heavy Israeli strikes hit towns and villages in southern Lebanon overnight on Wednesday and well into Thursday, after Israel declared a new swathe of the area "a combat zone" and forcibly expelled the residents. On Thursday, an Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
On the ground, Israel appears to be pushing deeper into southern Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes in Gaza, said the Israeli army was "operating with large forces on the ground and seizing dominant terrain."
At the same time, reports suggest Israeli troops have advanced beyond the "Yellow Line" established under the 16 April ceasefire, and are being met with stiff resistance by Hezbollah.
This dual air and ground expanded violence by the Israeli military comes before Israeli and Lebanese military delegations are due to meet at the Pentagon for US-mediated security talks today, Friday, ahead of a renewed political negotiation process next week.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-killing-or-injuring-11-children-every-day-lebanon
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.
Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
https://x.com/BamaSaltyMarine/status/2061151754100556199
Joe Kent: I Watched the Israelis Dictate Terms to the Trump Administration
https://rumble.com/embed/v78fd3u/?pub=4
Now we know why Netanyahu and Loomer were saying they didn’t want aid. After analyzing NDAA Section 234, it would be hard to convince me that this isn’t Israel’s attempt to finish their infiltration of America. “Merging militaries” looks a lot like treason when you peel back the layers. Did a full breakdown analysis (yesterday on X and on Substack) but some people prefer videos, so here’s the breakdown you have requested.
https://x.com/i/status/2061090072372339093
The Mossad should be sicced on Israel's enemies in the PR war, World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder tells the Jerusalem Post conference in New York City.
This sounds completely illegal.
https://x.com/i/status/2061508075459170811
U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Results of Three-Month Multi-Jurisdictional Enforcement Surge: 56 Defendants Charged, 254+ Kilograms of Drugs Seized, 110 Illegal Firearms Recovered, and 157 Fugitives Apprehended
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson announced today the results of Operation Spring Cleaning, a coordinated three-month multi-jurisdictional enforcement surge that resulted in 56 defendants charged federally, over 254 kilograms of drugs seized including more than 22 kilograms of fentanyl, 110 illegal firearms recovered, and 157 fugitives apprehended on state and federal charges throughout the region.
The operation targeted violent offenders, drug traffickers, armed felons, and fugitives responsible for spreading deadly drugs, driving gun violence, and increasing crime across district and state lines.
“We usually see increased violent crime and drug crimes during the summer – this operation was meant to get ahead of that and get the worst offenders off the streets before they can recruit others to their life of street crime this summer,” said U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson. “We all know criminals don’t respect district or state lines, and that is why this coordinated effort involved multiple agencies in North and South Carolina. We wanted to make clear you cannot commit a crime in North Carolina and escape across the state line to avoid getting caught.”
Federal agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the FBI, and the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force (USMS CRFTF) worked in coordination with state and local law enforcement in North Carolina and South Carolina to identify, investigate, and apprehend individuals trafficking fentanyl and other dangerous drugs, illegally possessing firearms, and committing violent crimes impacting communities throughout the region. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also coordinated closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina, which participated in the surge and brought additional federal cases in South Carolina.
“Partnerships are force multipliers,” said Jae W. Chung, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division which overseas North and South Carolina. “Results from these investigations underscore the importance of intelligence sharing and coordinated enforcement efforts in combating violent crime and drug trafficking. Today’s outcome is a testament to what can be achieved when agencies unite toward a common goal. Together, we removed dangerous narcotics and illegal firearms from the streets while bringing wanted fugitives into custody.”
“It takes a multi-faceted, multi-agency approach to successfully fight violent crime,” said Alicia Jones, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF in North and South Carolina. “Through resource and intelligence sharing, investigative capabilities, and an unwavering commitment to uphold the law, ATF and our law enforcement partners are identifying dangerous offenders, disrupting criminal organizations, and making our communities safer.”
“People willing to commit violent crimes don’t care about city and county lines. These partnerships allow us to extend our reach, share intelligence in real time, and target threats at every level. There is no revolving door or parole in the federal justice system, instead there are real consequences for violent repeat offenders. The FBI will do everything we can to support our federal, state, and local partners to hold violent criminals accountable,” said Reid Davis, the FBI Charlotte Special Agent in Charge.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/us-attorneys-office-announces-results-three-month-multi-jurisdictional-enforcement
Trump pal funneled millions of Israeli gov’t cash into US media
A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several Republican digital strategy firms and allies, according to a previously unreported document filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Parscale was hired in part to influence major right-wing Christian media company Salem Media Group, where he is also an executive. His firm spent hundreds of thousands on ads with a Salem subsidiary. As part of the contract, Parscale’s firm also sent millions to other firms run by some of his closest political allies.
The new filing sheds light on a more detailed web of interconnected companies and political operatives capitalizing on Parscale’s contract with the Israeli government. Many of the companies getting work as part of Parscale’s Israel contract are being reported here for the first time.
Among those that received millions of dollars’ worth of payments related to the contract are ventures like SparkFire, an AI chatbot company leading a mass texting campaign, and a shadowy firm run by longtime mainstream Republican strategist Mike Shields. (None of the figures or firms in this story responded to requests for comment.)
Israel initially directly hired Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, last September with a contract worth $6 million. The new filing reveals that his firm has received over $15 million through an intermediary, Havas Media Network, an international media company working on behalf of the Israeli state.
The document shows that Parscale directed over $500,000 for ads to Salem Media Representatives, a subsidiary of Salem Media. Although Parscale was hired to integrate pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media shows — which feature conservative commentators such as Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder, and Scott Jennings — these payments to the conservative media conglomerate on behalf of Israel were not previously known.
Parscale, who is the chief strategy officer for Salem Media, is not the only registered representative of Israel working for the media company.
One of Parscale’s team members working on the Israel contract, Ashley Evdokimo, is Salem’s vice president for communications. According to her LinkedIn profile, Evdokimo, who works with Parscale at his digital strategy company Campaign Nucleus, took a position at Salem Media in September 2025, the same month that Parscale was hired to work for the Israeli government. A month later, Evdokimo registered as a foreign agent for Israel.
A Parscale partnership
One of the largest recipients of the Israeli funds coming in through Parscale’s contract is a firm called Portman Road Strategies, which is run by longtime GOP strategist Mike Shields, according to Virginia state records. Shields’ firm received just under $5 million from Parscale as part of the contract in exchange for media placement, consulting, polling, and advertising work.
Shields, a longtime Parscale ally, is also largely responsible for staffing the contract with the Israeli government. Of Parscale’s 18 team members at Clock Tower X, 14 are staffers at Convergence Media, a “campaign strategy, digital, public affairs & media firm” led by Shields.
During the first Trump administration, Shields and Parscale operated as a package deal, consistently recommending each other’s services as both became power brokers in Trump world. Parscale frequently convinced GOP campaigns — including that of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — to hire Shields’ Convergence Media. The duo are now applying their digital influence campaign playbook to Israel. According to his bio, Shields was also a CNN commentator, a former chief of staff for the Republican National Committee, and a strategist for former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Parscale directed another $6 million of the Israeli funds to SparkFire Technologies, an AI chatbot company. SparkFire’s role was previously unknown, but it was related to a campaign of text messages that was first reported by Responsible Statecraft. Under the contract, Parscale’s firm reaches out to Americans under the auspices of supposed “peace” organizations.
https://vtforeignpolicy.com/2026/06/trump-pal-funneled-millions-of-israeli-govt-cash-into-us-media/