Summary

IRGC To Trump: Strike Iran's Infrastructure, We'll Shut Off The Gulf's Power

More Tanker Attacks: Iran-backed Houthi militants said they targeted two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea

Trump ultimatum: Trump vowed the US will strike an Iranian bridge or power plant after every Iranian attack on shipping.

Iran responds: The IRGC threatened to hit Gulf energy infrastructure if Iranian infrastructure is attacked, saying it will cut off electricity among US allies.

Latest Gulf missile attacks: Iran claimed attacks on US-linked targets in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.

Nuclear tensions: Iran denied nuclear activity at Pickaxe Mountain, calling US claims a 'fabricated pretext' for attack.

Oil climbs: Renewed Gulf attacks and shipping threats continued to lift oil prices.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao

Department of War 🇺🇸

@SECNAV

The Department of the Navy takes the conduct shown in this video extremely seriously. Such statements and apparent intent to leverage a position to undermine the policies and direction set by our elected leaders are inappropriate and incompatible with the standards expected of Department personnel.

Effective immediately, this individual has been placed on administrative leave while we determine next steps to ensure accountability and protect the integrity of our mission.

James O'Keefe

@JamesOKeefeIII

O’KEEFE UNDERCOVER: Senior Pentagon Director Caught On Hidden Camera: Spills On A “Gay” Date With O’Keefe That He WILL "Undo Whatever's Been Done [at the Pentagon]" After Trump Leaves Office To Reverse His Agenda…

“I've seen some things. In true D.C. nature, you don't always reveal everything in D.C.”

“I have the influence…., I can undo whatever's been done.”

“I think Trump is a narcissist.”

“Yeah. I think it's [War in Iran] completely stupid, but it's driven on one man’s [President Trump] ego to me, in my own personal opinion.”

“I mean, you [O’Keefe] could be a news reporter.”

@DeptofWar @SecWar @PeteHegseth @DepNavy @SECNAV @USNavy @DOWResponse

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2080012196784808193

DARPA's 'ECHO' Project: A Computer System That Declares You A Bio Threat - With No Physical Evidence

Raising questions about how such determinations could be independently verified or challenged.

In 2018, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) proposed building a portable computer system allegedly capable of determining whether a person had been exposed to biological or chemical threats—including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their precursors.

Even with no physical evidence.

DARPA outlined the proposal in Broad Agency Announcement HR001118S0023 for a program known as ECHO (Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation).

DARPA proposed accomplishing this by comparing purported changes inside the person’s own biology against a government-built reference library and algorithmically identifying both the alleged threat and when the exposure supposedly occurred.

Viewed alongside DARPA’s broader pandemic-era research portfolio, the proposal also raises a larger question explored by this publication’s In Silico Theory: as governments increasingly replace direct observation with computational models, reference libraries, and algorithmic determinations, where does objective evidence end and computer-generated conclusions begin?

It also raises an immediate practical question.

If an algorithm operating on a government-controlled reference library determines that someone was exposed to a dangerous biological or chemical threat without physical evidence, what meaningful mechanism exists for independently verifying—or successfully challenging—that determination?

SAM.gov search results associated with DARPA solicitation HR001118S0023 identify at least $53.8 million in awards, including a $49.2 million contract awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a $4.5 million contract awarded to Arizona State University.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/darpas-echo-project-a-computer-system

TREASON

House Narrowly Passes $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill That Integrates US Military Tech & Supply Chains With Israel

The House passed the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday by a 216-212 vote, sending the $1.15 trillion measure to the Senate after one of the most partisan House votes in the must-pass bill's recent history. Only six Democrats supported it, while seven Republicans voted no.

Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers praised a topline that he said finally "accounts for the true cost of American deterrence." The authorization is a centerpiece of President Trump's push to raise total defense spending to $1.5 trillion in fiscal 2027. Democrats opposed the measure over the unauthorized war with Iran - which has flared again since the collapse of a memorandum of understanding intended to open peace talks - as well as the attachment of the SAVE America Act's mail-voting restrictions and voter-ID requirements. They also objected to a price tag they argue would be financed through cuts to domestic programs.

The amendment votes exposed the chamber's other fault lines. Rep. Eli Crane's proposal to halt nearly all military aid to Ukraine was defeated 76-350, while Rep. Lauren Boebert's attempt to codify the ban on transgender military service failed 212-217. The House nevertheless adopted two amendments from Rep. Nancy Mace restricting gender-related care through the military's TRICARE health system and barring transgender athletes from girls' sports at Defense Department-run schools.

Opposition also came from lawmakers objecting to the bill's US-Israel defense-industrial integration provisions. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the Democrats who cited Section 219, while Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna had announced that they would oppose final passage on the same grounds. The provision remained intact after the Rules Committee declined to permit a floor vote on their amendment to remove it.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where the companion measure, S. 4784, is already stalled. On July 14, the Senate rejected cloture on the motion to proceed, 50-46, after Democrats opposed advancing the bill in protest of the Iran war. With the House scheduled to leave Friday for a recess lasting through the end of August, any eventual conference negotiations are likely to be pushed into the fall.

A separate party-line effort to authorize $60 billion in new war-related spending also remains far short of the $350 billion the Pentagon originally sought.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/today-congress-votes-integrate-us-military-tech-supply-chains-israel

New Jersey Joined ERIC System that DOES NOT Report If Person Is a Non-Citizen – Then Illegals Started Voting – 24 States Are NOT Using SAVE System To Verify Illegal Alien Voters!

New Jersey joined the non-profit ERIC in August of 2022 to help clean their voter rolls. Secretary of State Tahesha Way said, “ERIC is a powerful step to strengthen New Jersey’s elections by increasing our ability to support eligible voters while also improving the accuracy of our voting rolls.”

Obviously, this isn’t working.

Their agreement (Section B, pg. 17) with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) does not allow NJ, or any other members of ERIC, to communicate or notate to ERIC that a person is a non-citizen.

This supposed sophisticated voter cleaning operation has in its by-laws that they do not want information that a person is a non-citizen. What’s even more bizarre, ERIC doesn’t use the SAVE system.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/nj-joined-eric-system-that-does-not-report/

US lost sovereignty to Israel long ago – Tucker Carlson

The journalist argued that West Jerusalem has manipulated Washington into launching several wars in the Middle East

The US president “did precisely what he said he would never do, and he did it at the behest of Israel,” Carlson argued.

“Trump got into this war because he was pushed by Israel. I saw that happen. I’m not guessing. That’s not anti-Semitism. That’s a fact. I was disgusted by it, as I think most Americans were,” he said, adding that dissident Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, had been “driven out” of the party.

Carlson, once a close friend of Trump, said he had warned the president that Israel was exploiting the US to achieve “regional hegemony.” The ongoing war is “terrible for the United States and bad for the world,” he said.

“I think America lost its sovereignty many years ago. The CIA and Mossad have worked together – in some cases, really as one – for over 60 years,” Carlson said.

“There is a long track record of the United States and its 350 million people being misused by Israeli intelligence,” he argued.

Carlson claimed that Israel fed the US false intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He argued that Israel similarly sold Trump “the lie” that killing Iran’s longtime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei could trigger the collapse of the Iranian government.

Although Trump has denied that he entered the war with Iran solely because of Israel, he said in a recent interview, “Israel would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not got involved.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVx8r7WOxMg