Posted originally on CTH on July 20, 2026 | Sundance
It is very obvious from the construct and details of this announcement that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has completed a comprehensive review of the retaliatory action by Canada that followed the U.S. Section 232 tariffs on Steel and Aluminum. {FACT SHEET HERE}
Last year two countries retaliated against the U.S. for the 232 (steel and aluminum) tariffs, China and Canada. The USTR office has now quantified the tariff and non-tariff barriers triggered by Canada in 2025 and provided President Trump with a financial quantification of the trade impact.
The three Canadian retaliatory sectors highlighted include: (1) Alcoholic Beverages, (2) Motor Vehicles, (3) Dairy Products. These are the three segments quantified by USTR Greer that form the baseline for the U.S. to retaliate with countervailing duties.
Effective 30 days from now, August 16, 2026, President Trump has established a 50% tariff rate against a wide variety of Canadian imports. Essentially three major Annexes: {LIST 1 – LIST 2 – LIST 3} under the authority of Section 338.
♦ Section 338 authorizes the President, if he determines it will serve the public interest, to offset any burden or disadvantage placed on the commerce of the United States by an unequal imposition or discrimination by a foreign country by specifying and declaring additional duties not to exceed 50 percent ad valorem (or its equivalent) and not to take effect earlier than 30 days after the President’s proclamation finding that a foreign country imposes an unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation that is not equally enforced on the like articles of every foreign country, or discriminates in fact against U.S. commerce in a way that places the commerce of the United States at a disadvantage compared to the commerce of any foreign country.
Section 338 also authorizes the President to suspend, revoke, supplement, or amend any proclamation under section 338 whenever the President deems that the public interests require such action. Further, section 338 authorizes the President to exclude products of the foreign country if the foreign country maintains or increases the discrimination against the commerce of the United States and the President deems the exclusion to be consistent with the public interests and the interests of the United States. (more)
The 50% tariffs apply to food, alcohol, beer, clothing, chemicals, electronics, flowers, fragrance oils, chemical raw materials and importantly wood products.
The wood products are a big hit to the Canadian export sector. This includes paper goods, cardboard, plywood and fabricated pulp wood derivatives like particle board (MDF). This is a huge export sector for Canada that will now trigger a 50% tariff rate.
Essentially, the list is very long and includes almost every assembled component part created by Canadian manufacturing.
We can surmise the baseline is part of the non-negotiable trade calculation done by President Trump and USTR Greer, that will carry forward into any further trade agreement inside or outside the USMCA construct.
Meaning if the trilateral agreement holds (USMCA), these valuation targets will be part of the expectation from the USA side of the discussion toward Canada. However, in the more likely scenario a bilateral trade agreement is preferred, this now quantifies the tariff reciprocity anticipated by the USA, in addition to the elimination of non-tariff barriers.
Posted originally on CTH on July 20, 2026 | Sundance
I would strongly suggest interested readers or researchers to go back and look carefully at the very public comments from Senate Intelligence Community Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, as they relate to the seizure of Fulton County, GA, election records. What you might notice forms the background of an uncomfortable change in perspective.
In nearly all of Warner’s remarks, his main argument centered on opposing DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s presence at the Fulton County election records warehouse. He wasn’t worried about the FBI seizing the records; rather, he was deeply concerned about Gabbard observing the seizure.
Here’s part of the bigger problem.
When wrongdoing, fraud, corruption, or criminal activity occurs within a federal agency, including the Intelligence Community, the FBI is the institution tasked with investigating it.
That’s the problem.
People ask repeatedly, why has there been no accountability for the obvious corruption?
Perhaps we really don’t want to accept the obvious answer.
The FBI is doing corrupt, criminal and fraudulent stuff because the institution of the FBI is comprehensively corrupt. As a consequence, they are allied -directly or through willful blindness- with operatives in other agencies doing criminal, corrupt and fraudulent stuff.
Think about “security clearances.” Which agency or institution determines the outcomes of Security Clearance reviews or investigations? Who is responsible for approving or denying security clearances? The same FBI.
The same FBI agency who took possession of Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner’s laptop and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The same FBI agency who took custody of Jeffrey Epstein’s safe contents. The same FBI agency who raided James O’Keefe to retrieve the Ashley Biden diary. That’s the same FBI agency now with custody of the Fulton County election evidence.
The same agency who investigated the J6 pipe bombing, the Las Vegas mass shooting, the various Trump assassination attempts and even the TWA-800 explosion. That’s the same agency that seemingly cannot stop Antifa terrorist attacks yet can pour over 1,500 agents into a J6 investigation.
The FBI now has the physical ballots and machines from the Fulton County election offices.
Do we think the FBI wants honest elections?… that could result in larger ranks of honest, elected officials?… that could then hold oversight over the FBI?
Do we really think valid and secure elections are in the interests of a corrupt FBI organization?
While leading the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and overseeing the revocation of security clearances from dozens of career intelligence operatives, Tulsi Gabbard was in a unique position to uncover the motives and intentions of the FBI as a governmental institution.
FBI agents and analysts were assigned to desks inside the ODNI.
Do you remember the leaks against Tulsi Gabbard?
Perhaps now we can contextualize why Tulsi Gabbard was in Fulton County, GA. And, more importantly, why the SSCI was going bananas when they found out she was there.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chairman Mark Warner was not apoplectic the FBI was in Fulton County, Georgia, taking control of election machines and ballots. Warner likely already knew what the FBI was doing there. The same motive and intent behind all the mysteriously missing laptops (Clinton, Abedin, Weiner, Awan, Biden) of evidence that seemingly vaporized from the public psyche.
No, Senator Mark Warner was apoplectic because Tulsi Gabbard followed the FBI to Fulton County, to watch them take custody of evidence with the motive to watch their intent.
The FBI was forced into action because Garland Favorito was annoyingly and methodically winning the painstakingly slow legal arguments, and there was a full summer of concern before the next election was scheduled. Someone was going to be looking at those raw election ballots, those physical receipts, records and factual tabulation outcomes. The FBI took over.
Do you remember when Fulton County commission chair, Robb Pitts, said at a press conference he received a phone call –two days before the FBI served a criminal warrant to seize 2020 election documents– to warn that he, Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, former Raffensperger deputy Gabriel Sterling and others in the state were at risk of imminent arrest by federal agents. {SOURCE} Robb Pitts was tipped off by someone in DC.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard said she went to Fulton County, to watch events as approved by the White House. There is every reason to believe her statement. Recently, there was a reported considerable disparity between what Acting DNI Pulte wanted President Trump to outline in his speech on election manipulation, and what the White House insiders were comfortable with {SOURCE}. The final outcome within the Trump speech was ‘smoothed’ by the Intelligence Community.
If we modify our perspective to consider the DNI was not a participant to law enforcement activity, but rather the DNI was bearing witness to a crime taking place; then suddenly, Senator Mark Warner’s apoplexy makes a lot more sense.
Posted originally on CTH on July 20, 2026 | Sundance
An anti-ICE violent leftist attacked 26 Federal Plaza earlier this morning, where an immigration court takes place. The attacker carried explosives and was captured on video pouring a flammable liquid in front of the building before setting it ablaze. The suspect was intercepted during the attack and has been detained by police.
The New York City Fire Department reported to WABC that three civilians sustained minor injuries, with two declining medical treatment. The third individual was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. FBI Director Kash Patel released a statement on X confirming details about the incident.
“This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody and two minor injuries reported thus far. FBI JTTF is investigating the incident,”Patel wrote on X.
The suspect is a known anti-ICE activist who used a cart to wheel in fireworks, an accelerant in buckets, and what looked like rifles to attack the federal building. Some alarming video below.
A video shows the moment a suspect started a fire outside of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where a federal immigration court is located. More: https://t.co/Qgi8dXyKUqpic.twitter.com/ZOlAGTtsRP
This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody and two minor injuries reported thus far. FBI JTTF is investigating the incident. @NewYorkFBI
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) July 20, 2026
Slow motion video of the suspect bring taken away in handcuffs after the explosion at a federal building in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/y8OEID7Y3l
Posted originally on CTH on July 20, 2026 | Sundance
There is absolutely nothing democratic within the political schemes of the communists, leftists and Nazis’. Just as Ukraine is led by an unelected authoritarian under the guise of the ‘new democratic norms’; just as Kamala Harris was installed as a presidential nominee under those same anti-democracy norms; so too is U.K Prime Minister Andy Burnham now installed without any election by the British citizens.
The unelected monarch, King Charles, appoints the unelected Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and the first pledge of the unelected leader is a promise to make life better for the people who are denied a voice in his agenda.
THE BACKGROUND – Former communist Prime Minister Kier Starmer was facing a massive amount of opposition, his policies and party platform had collapsed, and the people of Britain were revolting against him.
Starmer’s Labour party lost more than 1,400 seats in the country’s local elections, and the non-communist, nationalistic Reform Party was winning. Something urgent was needed.
Polls showed communist Mayor Andy Burnham was popular as his mask still had still not fully dropped, and the illegal immigrants on the streets of Manchester were only raping a few girls each month which was still easy to hide. However, the problem was that Burnham could not replace Starmer unless he was a Member of Parliament (MP).
With urgent payments for future indulgencies quickly afforded, the communist MP for Makerfield, a district within Greater Manchester, resigned from his job so that communist Andy Burnham could run for his MP position. A few days later, exactly at the moment communist Burnham was being sworn in to the MP job, communist Starmer announced his exit.
The plan had worked seamlessly.
The Communist Labour Party of the U.K then coalesced quickly to replace Starmer with Burnham, and today Communist King Charles appointed Communist Andy Burnham to lead the country. No election needed; i.e. ‘The New Democratic Norm’ again fulfilled. Great Britain’s Bernie Sanders is now in charge of things.
…”I have just come from Buckingham Palace where I have accepted his Majesty the King’s invitation to form a government”…
Posted originally on CTH on July 20, 2026 | Sundance
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters ahead of his trip to Manila, Philippines. Secretary Rubio is departing from Joint Base Andrews to attend the 59th Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting set to take place this week.
Secretary Rubio spoke about a number of topics and was questioned about the ongoing Iran conflict in the Middle East. This comes as the United States continues to launch attacks on Iran through the weekend. WATCH:
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Within the interview there was a question about the FIFA World Cup attendance by President Trump, Prime Minister Carney and President Sheinbaum; essentially about relations. Secretary Rubio interestingly notes that Sheinbaum attended despite having significant challenges in Mexico right now. The tone and intonation of the remark imply something much more significant happening in the background than is currently visible to the general public. Worth watching.
Something serious is happening within Mexico that is straining/complicating our broader geopolitical support for the Sheinbaum administration. Recent events have not made headlines, but what Rubio notes is likely related to a significant shift in cartel activity. {SEE HERE} and {SEE HERE} and {SEE HERE}.
Posted originally on CTH on July 19, 2026 | Sundance
The worst thing to ever happen to the reputation of black culture in America was the introduction of police body cameras to highlight the behavior of African Americans to the world. Frequent travelers will note that foreign discussions no longer include curious questions about racism in America. With black Americans putting themselves on full cultural display, the world now understands the connection between black culture and antisocial behavior.
The same concept applies to ICE officers wearing body cameras. As each incident unfolds, people can see the severity of the antagonism faced by the law enforcement officers doing what the overwhelming majority want to see done. Deport all illegal aliens, cancel all H1Bs and put Americans first! WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: And we’re back with President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan. Welcome back to Face the Nation.
TOM HOMAN: Thanks for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Homan, we saw that two immigrants were shot in the span of a week. There was that one in Maine that was fatal just days after another one in Houston. We also saw that man fleeing agents in Florida who then was struck and killed by a tractor trailer. I know you’ve been trying to keep the department out of the headlines ever since that streak in Minnesota that was deadly. How do you respond to those who say what’s happening now looks like very little has changed?
TOM HOMAN: Well, you know, first of all, we’ll wait and see what the investigations- how they play out, right? Because, you know, I don’t want to get ahead of investigations on who’s at fault, what exactly happened. Because we all know when the investigations happen, there’s going to be cell phone video, there may be city cameras, and of course, then you got witness statements and affidavits from the officer, and- and witnesses. So, we got to let the investigations play out. So, I don’t want to really comment on investigation themselves, but you know, I think, you know, Markwayne Mullin, you know, took some action, and in concern of the safety of the agents and- and how we do operations, and- and that’s why he did that, you know, that- that- that pause on- on enforcement on vehicle stops. But you know, I- my concern is I’ve never- I’ve done this since 1984. My concern is I think a lot of the rhetoric that you see every day, especially in sanctuary cities, and at these protests that- resist, members of Congress saying ICE isn’t a real law enforcement agency. I think that- I actually think that emboldens some people to say, “I’m not going to comply with ICE.” And I think no matter what people think of ICE, no matter what you think of immigration law, you should always comply with law enforcement.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes. Yes, but in the shootings in both Houston and Maine, the people who were killed were not the intended targets. Have you caught the people you’re actually looking for?
TOM HOMAN: One of them, I believe, we did, but you know that happens in law enforcement all the time. I mean, we’re working, you know, we get leads on individuals, and you say, okay, well, this subject lives at this house, he drives this car, and when that subject leaves that house, you know, 6:00 in the morning, and someone gets in that car from that house, you know, they assume, ‘okay this is our guy, and they’ll do a vehicle stop. And depending on when they make that stop and and that person complies, either they’re going to be arrested or released. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. So you know, law enforcement deals with misidentity every day across the country, not just ICE, every law enforcement agency. I was a cop, I know- I know that happens.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah, but these were fatal shootings, of course, in Houston and in Maine. And in Houston, it was an unmarked car. So, when you’re saying, “don’t resist,” these individuals who were chasing the man who died, they didn’t have markings on that vehicle that would allow for him to know that they were ICE. It just looked like a car coming after them in the videos.
TOM HOMAN: Well, I got to disagree with that. No, they have emergency lights. Officers have insignia, so when they get out of that car and approach the car, you can clearly see the law enforcement officers. Again this is, these people–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, in the video that has been public, the- it’s not a marked car.
TOM HOMAN: –these- these people. I’m not saying it’s a marked car, but they have emergency lights and sirens. So when they pull someone over, they want to activate the emergency lights. A lot of- lot of police departments- I’m in New York City right now, a lot of NYPD officers are driving unmarked vehicles, and- and that helps them find people that don’t want to be found. Right, so you know, but bottom line is, we’ll see when the investigation plays out, but they would be alive today if they simply complied with- with a vehicle stop by federal law enforcement. Just comply. You can- if you don’t think you’ve been treated right and and they had no reason to stop you, then there’s there’s avenues to take them to court to sue–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the- the family of the man–
[CROSSTALK]
TOM HOMAN:–and- and argue in court.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –in Houston said that he thought he was being robbed because it was an unmarked vehicle. Not that it was law enforcement at all.
TOM HOMAN: They- they had emergency lights. They activate emergency lights, blue and light- you know- you know- in- in my vehicle, I drive where I’m with my security detail–
[CROSSTALK]
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve seen that on video? Because we haven’t.
TOM HOMAN: Seen what on video, ma’am?
MARGARET BRENNAN: That there were lights. Because in the videos that we’ve seen there aren’t, and because there weren’t body cameras, it is hard to substantiate some of what–
TOM HOMAN: Okay–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –you are saying.
TOM HOMAN: Okay, well, I have not seen the videos, but I’m saying–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
TOM HOMAN: –our vehicles are equipped with emergency lights. Now, if they didn’t activate the lights, again, I haven’t seen that video. If they didn’t activate the lights, then it- then there’s an issue there, right?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
TOM HOMAN: But I’m saying they- they are equipped with lights- lights, so let me just caveat that. They should have been equipped with lights and sirens, but I do not know specifically if they activated those lights.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
TOM HOMAN: As far as the cameras, Margaret, you know everybody in ICE would have a camera now if- if the government wasn’t shut down by Democratic members of Congress. There was money in that bill that they held up.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
TOM HOMAN: I think it was $120 million to equip all ICE officers with cameras, but because the government shut down, we’re behind on that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But they got 20 million in April.
[CROSSTALK]
TOM HOMAN: But the cameras have been purchased. That wasn’t enough, $20 million may have bought some cameras, but it doesn’t buy the- the storage. It doesn’t buy the- the resources we need for the thousands of FOIA requests we’re going to get there. There has to be storage capability to hold these videos for a long time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
TOM HOMAN: So it didn’t fund everything, but now we have the funding after reconciliation. The cameras have been purchased right now. They’re training the trainer in deploying the cameras nationwide.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you think it was a mistake for the Trump administration to have proposed the bodycam expansion at the beginning of the term? Because I know you have advocated for body cameras, and now you’re playing catch up, right?
TOM HOMAN: I think body- yeah, I think body cameras are the way to go. I think body cameras let the American people know what that officer sees when he takes that action–
MARGARET BRENNAN: When will everyone get one?
TOM HOMAN: You know, you can have a cell phone camera from a witness on the side. You can have, you know, city cameras or whatever, but I want the American people to see what that officer sees when he makes- when he- when he takes- when he makes the decision and takes the action.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
TOM HOMAN: I think the American people need to see what that officer sees and hears. I think it’s important–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
TOM HOMAN: –and if you look at the data, body cameras actually exonerate agents more than they, you know, provide evidence of wrongdoing.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, yeah, and it would certainly help with reporting and public knowledge. Let me ask you about something else. The DHS secretary has said they went through public records and identified 250,000 non-citizens in four states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada. I know those states don’t share their voter rolls, so it looks like they’re just pulling this from public information. For those states, are you planning operations before November? And you do acknowledge that it would be illegal to have federal agents at- at election locations.
TOM HOMAN: You know that’s a question of DHS. I’m not in the loop on that. I’m not familiar with the- the information that DHS just released.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
TOM HOMAN: I’m not in the loop on that. I’m at the White House border czar, so that’d be a question for Markwayne Mullin. I’m not in the loop on that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. All right, Mr. Homan. Thank you for your time this morning. We’ll leave it there.
Posted originally on CTH on July 19, 2026 | Sundance
This is a very alarming conversation to be taking place in modern America. Alas, all things political have devolved into this current stage where Communism is represented by young voters as the preferred manner of government.
Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo, having previously outlined that attachment to the Democrat party is only purposeful as a vehicle to gain political power, discusses the end game of DSA for installing communism within the United States.
The DSA platform is disturbing, but generally in alignment with the Bernie Sanders and AOC model.
(1) Eliminate the United States Senate as a legislative body. (2) The House of Representatives then selects the President and Supreme Court justices. (3) All illegal aliens are given citizenship and amnesty. (4) All border enforcement is halted; there are no more USA boundaries. (5) The Dept of War (Defense) is dissolved completely. (6) The government, now controlled by the House of Representatives, determines who can have wealth – and how much. (7) Climate Change is the legislative priority – no more fossil fuel use.
Gustavo Gordillo’s family fled Peru due to a communist revolution. In the video below Martha MacCallum challenges DSA Chair Gordillo to explain how the DSA platform is expected to work.
Gordillo explains the immediate DSA demand to control housing (govt), control food distribution (grocery stores), give free daycare for children, and create affordability for lower income citizens/aliens by taking the wealth from the high-income earners and giving the wealth to the lower income group. WATCH Below
Posted originally on CTH on July 18, 2026 | Sundance
Judicial Watch presents an investigative review of TWA flight 800 thirty years later. Many of us likely remember the horrific news of the 747 explosion, crash and subsequent investigation that never made sense.
Within the new documentary, Judicial Watch emphasizes the focus of the ¹FBI in taking control of the investigation which never made sense. Friend of the Treehouse Jack Cashill is one of the experts who gives testimony within the documentary. The 45-minute video is very well worth watching.
¹Knowing what we know now about the activity of the FBI, the investigation and cover-up look even worse.
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