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Trump proclaims US strikes on Iran are succeeding and will continue.
US adds sanctions, Bessent says Tehran can't pay troops, as Iran faces growing pressure.
Most Americans say the Iran war isn't worth fighting: AP poll.
Iran claims drone strike on US base in Kuwait - after no new US strikes overnight.
Oil rises as fears of wider conflict grow and lack of talks.
Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion
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Italy Suspends Schengen Agreement With Spain Over Ceuta Invasion
Europe's Right-Wing Blasts Spanish Socialists For Border Failure
Riots erupted in Ceuta as Illegals Clashed with Security Forces
Mass Migration Invasion Of Military-Aged Males From Morocco Invades Spanish Enclave
"Looks Like World War Z!": Spain's Ceuta Invaded By Thousands Of Military-Aged Male Illegals
Italy Suspends Schengen Agreement With Spain Over Ceuta Invasion
After Italy's government and top French conservative politicians demanded the suspension of Schengen arrangements with Spain following the invasion of 50,000 military-aged illegal aliens in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Euronews reporter Gabriele Barbati reported that Italy's Interior Ministry had suspended Schengen free-movement rules with Spain and ordered the closure of air and maritime borders between the two countries, citing national security concerns.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2083229209288196386
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/spains-ceuta-invaded-thousands-illegals-and-military-aged-men-storm-border-morocco
REPORT TO CONGRESS: GANGSTALKING Who watches the watchers?
SURVEILLANCE RISKS, ABUSE POTENTIAL, AND ORGANIZED EXPLOITATION IN PRIVATELY-OWNED TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A small but legally significant segment of the American telecommunications market consists of privately owned carriers that operate and maintain their own physical infrastructure — including switching equipment, fiber runs, tower assets, and routing hardware. While these providers collectively represent a minority share of total subscribers, their independent control over physical network infrastructure creates structural conditions that, absent adequate federal oversight, enable systematic and illegal surveillance of private citizens without judicial authorization, law enforcement nexus, or public accountability.
This report has been expanded beyond its original scope to address a phenomenon that intersects telecommunications abuse with organized criminal exploitation of individuals: the practice commonly referred to as “gangstalking,” its documented connections to corrupt law enforcement networks, and the use of illegally obtained surveillance data to facilitate human trafficking, coerced criminality, blackmail, and the systematic destruction of targeted individuals’ lives. This report is written in part for the benefit of members, staff, and constituents who may not be familiar with these practices and who may be skeptical of their existence. The evidence base for each section is grounded in documented federal cases, congressional testimony, and peer-reviewed research.
I. BACKGROUND: THE STRUCTURE OF INDEPENDENT TELECOM PROVIDERS
The American telecommunications landscape is dominated by large carriers — AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile — subject to extensive regulatory oversight, FCC compliance requirements, CALEA mandates, and robust internal legal departments. However, the Communications Act and subsequent legislation created space for smaller competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), rural telephone cooperatives, municipal broadband operators, and a category of fully independent private carriers that own their switching infrastructure end-to-end.
These independent operators number in the hundreds nationwide. They serve rural communities, industrial campuses, multi-tenant commercial buildings, private developments, and in some cases residential neighborhoods through legacy agreements. Their subscribers may number in the thousands rather than millions, but the intimacy of that relationship — combined with full physical control over the network — creates asymmetric surveillance power that large carriers, paradoxically, do not possess to the same degree.
Unlike large carriers where surveillance requires coordination across siloed departments, legal review, and documented chain-of-custody procedures, an independent provider’s principal may have unilateral access to packet-level data, call detail records, location pings, SMS metadata, and browsing history with no technical, legal, or organizational barrier between that individual and the information.
II. TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES THAT ENABLE ABUSE
Independent providers who own their switching and routing infrastructure have access to surveillance capabilities that, when deployed without legal authority, constitute serious federal crimes. These include:
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Equipment deployed at the routing layer can inspect the full content of unencrypted communications — including voice calls, email, web traffic, and application data — in real time. CALEA requires that carriers build in lawful intercept capability; that same capability, unmonitored, enables unlawful intercept.
Call Detail Records and Metadata Aggregation. Even without content inspection, metadata — who called whom, when, for how long, from what location — is extraordinarily revealing. The Supreme Court’s Carpenter v. United States (2018) recognized that systematic location data aggregation constitutes a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant. Independent providers can generate this data internally, without a third-party subpoena trigger, and retain it indefinitely without oversight.
https://defenseforum.substack.com/p/report-to-congress-gangstalking-who
Zionists celebrate Spanish migrant invasion
The Israeli right views the storming of Ceuta as divine punishment for Spain
As nearly 50,000 North African migrants surged into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta overnight, one group responded with mockery and glee: Israeli politicians and their Zionist supporters, who celebrated the slap in Spanish President Pedro Sanchez’ face.
An estimated 49,000 migrants, predominantly young Moroccan men, stormed across Morocco’s border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta between Thursday and Friday, after guards on the Moroccan side seemingly decided to open the barbed wire gates built to prevent such a surge.
As videos of the migrants marauding through Ceuta spread on social media, local authorities in the city begged for military intervention from Madrid. Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez refused to declare a national emergency, but sent a token force of 60 troops to the exclave.
Right-wing politicians across Europe condemned Sanchez’ half-hearted response, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantanen, and Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker all calling for Spain’s exclusion from the EU’s Schengen borderless travel zone.
In certain Israeli circles, however, the reaction was one of jubilation. Although Israeli politicians and influencers have spent decades lamenting the supposed “Islamization” of Europe, they celebrated on Friday as tens of thousands of Muslims poured into EU territory. After Sanchez labeled Israel’s war on Gaza a “genocide,” banned the transit of military goods to Israeli via its territory, and denied the US use of its military bases to strike Iran, Zionist commentators viewed the invasion of Ceuta as just punishment for Spain.
Israel’s UN ambassador embraces decolonization
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, used the crisis to call on Spain to surrender its two north African exclaves: Ceuta and Melilla.
“Spain, which never misses an opportunity to lecture Israel, has declared a state of emergency in Ceuta following the crisis over its immigration policy,” he wrote on X, referring to the local emergency declaration in Ceuta. “Maybe before it continues lecturing us, it’s time it explained to the world why it still maintains colonial enclaves in Africa.”
https://www.rt.com/news/643726-israel-zionists-celebrate-migrants-ceuta/
Israel strikes Gaza hours after Trump announces Hamas disarmament plan
The US-led Board of Peace’s roadmap envisages the IDF’s withdrawal from the enclave
At least one Palestinian was killed and several others were wounded in the attacks on Friday, according to Palestinian health officials cited by media reports.
The agreement was reached late on Thursday following talks mediated by Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the US under the Washington-led Board of Peace. Trump hailed it as a “monumental step toward lasting peace and security” and a major milestone in his 20-point plan for the enclave. However, both Hamas and Israeli officials have since questioned key provisions of the deal.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir described the draft agreement as “unacceptable to Israel.” Writing on Telegram, he said that the “targeted killings” of “Hamas terrorists” in Gaza must continue, along with the “encouragement” of Palestinian “emigration” from the enclave.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained that Israeli forces will “remain in the security zones as long as necessary.”
https://www.rt.com/news/643725-israel-strikes-gaza-trump/
CIA Assessment Details Israel's Race to Make the U.S.-Israel Alliance Irreversible
The intelligence assessment says Israeli officials are pursuing a long-term strategy to make the alliance harder for future administrations to scale back.
Israeli officials know they’re losing the American public. Panicked that America’s political consensus on Israel is collapsing, they’re pursuing a long-term strategy to permanently enmesh Israel within America’s military, intelligence, and defense establishment – in ways future administrations would struggle to unwind – according to a new confidential U.S. intelligence assessment.
Israeli officials believe the political fight over Israel in the United States is becoming harder to win, and that the era of indefinitely securing billions of dollars in annual military aid is coming to an end, according to the assessment, which was described to Capital & Empire by several U.S. officials. Instead of relying on direct U.S. military aid – an increasingly visible and politically contentious form of support – Israel is racing to embed itself more deeply in America's military, intelligence, and national security apparatus in ways designed to outlast future administrations.
The assessment, written primarily by the CIA and circulated this week, describes discussions about expanding intelligence cooperation and the possibility of hosting a permanent U.S. military base on Israeli territory. It also says Israeli officials have been cultivating prominent figures in the American technology sector to build long-term political and financial support for the strategy. The assessment does not identify those individuals by name.
Congress has already begun advancing elements of Israel’s strategy. Last week, the House quietly approved Section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act, establishing a permanent U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative within the Pentagon. The House version establishes a Pentagon executive agent charged with coordinating bilateral defense research, development, industrial cooperation, and technology integration.
Six Democrats – Reps. Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, Jared Golden, Vicente Gonzalez, Adam Gray, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez – joined Republicans in voting to pass the defense authorization bill. The measure now heads to the Senate, which is expected to consider its own version of the NDAA before lawmakers from both chambers negotiate a final compromise bill for President Donald Trump’s signature.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who led an effort to strip Section 219 from the $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget, called the provision “a betrayal of our sovereignty.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., similarly described the proposal as “an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.”
Earlier this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu floated phasing out direct U.S. military aid altogether. Most mainstream news coverage framed the proposed shift as a reflection of Israel’s growing economic and military strength, or self-sufficiency. But according to the assessment, the CIA views the strategy differently. The spy agency believes that Israel is seeking to insulate the U.S.-Israel alliance from America’s changing political landscape by replacing highly visible foreign aid with deeper, longer-lasting forms of military and industrial integration.
From Israel’s perspective, embedding the alliance more deeply within the U.S. national security apparatus would make it far more difficult for future administrations to pressure Israel by slowing or withholding arms transfers.
https://capitalandempire.com/p/exclusive-cia-assessment-israel-us-support
AIPAC-funded Sen. Tom Cotton is getting on the "affordability" bandwagon by pitching an endless war with Iran as a way to battle inflation.
https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2082990230101967109
IDF Closes Probe Into Brutal 2023 Abuse Case of West Bank Palestinians
The probe was launched after Haaretz published testimonies alleging sexual assault, severe violence and looting against a group of left-wing activists and Palestinians. The case was closed after the army determined that the evidence was insufficient to indict specific soldiers, despite the IDF dismissing a unit commander and several troops
The Military Advocate General's Office last week closed its investigation into a 2023 assault on Palestinians and Israeli left-wing activists that included an attempted sexual assault, severe violence, looting and the dissemination of photographs showing bound Palestinians stripped to their underwear.
https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-07-31/ty-article/.premium/idf-closes-probe-into-brutal-2023-abuse-case-of-west-bank-palestinians/0000019f-b729-dfac-a5df-bff97af10000
Broward Teacher Charged with Exploiting Children as Young as Five
MIAMI – A Broward teacher has been arraigned and ordered detained pending trial on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children as young as five years old.
According to court records, Evan Michael Sands, 26, of Tamarac, used online communications to engage in conversations with minors to solicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in exchange for in-game currency associated with a popular children’s video game. Sands also allegedly produced and transmitted videos of himself engaging in sexually explicit conduct. A search warrant revealed that Sands distributed CSAM to others using an online communication platform.
Sands is charged with enticement of a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity, as well as possession and distribution of child pornography. If convicted, Sands faces a maximum penalty of life in prison for enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and 20 years for possession and distribution of child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Special Agent in Charge Jose R. Figueroa of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Miami, and Sheriff Dr. Gregory Tony of the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) made the announcement.
HSI Fort Lauderdale and BSO are investigating the case.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/broward-teacher-charged-exploiting-children-young-five
Howard Lutnick gets worse the more you learn about him:
– He was neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein
– He missed work at the Twin Towers on 9/11
– He lied about his relationship with Epstein
– He is pictured on Epstein island with Epstein
– His sons’ company bet against the tarrifs
– He threw a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in 2016
– He is on video laughing when 9/11 or Epstein is mentioned
– He has deep business ties to Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin
– He paid Obama $400,000 through his company to give a speech at their health conference
– His company developed and ran a weather betting platform
– He got married in Israel
– He has close associations with Chabad-Lubavitch
– He posted with Nick Shirley saying “it’s time to stop rampant fraud once and for all”
– He became Secretary of Commerce under Trump
I’m sure all of these countless occurrences are all just a bunch of wacky coincidences!