BANNON: Bill Pulte Should Be Kept As DNI Through The Midterm Elections. What He Did At DNI Has Never Been Done Before, And He Did It In Only A Few Weeks!


Posted originally on rumble on Bannons War Room on: July 20, 2026

America’s Food Supply Has Become Too Big to Fail – Cyclospora


Posted originally on Jul 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong   

How Taylor Farms Rebuilt After Disaster | ProFood World

One of the greatest lies in politics is that anyone who opposes excessive government regulation must therefore oppose government enforcement. Those are two entirely different issues. I have always argued that government has expanded into areas where it has no constitutional business while simultaneously abandoning the few responsibilities that actually justify its existence. Protecting the integrity of the nation’s food supply is one of those responsibilities. If Washington cannot ensure that Americans can buy a head of lettuce without wondering if it will send them to the hospital, then what exactly are taxpayers funding?

CNBC reported that the FDA has now withdrawn its earlier statement claiming that Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce tested positive for Cyclospora, calling the result a false positive after additional testing. Yet the outbreak itself remains very real. Dozens of people have been hospitalized across multiple states, and the FDA still cannot identify with certainty where the contamination originated. The government now admits the laboratory result was wrong while simultaneously telling the public that the investigation continues because people unquestionably became sick.

That explanation should not reassure anyone. The only reason Americans even know there was a problem is because Taco Bell voluntarily disclosed that it had removed onions and lettuce supplied through one of its vendors after cooperating with investigators. Had the restaurant remained silent, would the public have ever known there was a nationwide outbreak? That is becoming the far more important question because the FDA still refuses to identify the supplier at the center of the investigation while insisting there is no confirmed contaminated product.

HEALTH ALERT | The CDC has issued a nationwide health advisory following a  major increase in cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the  microscopic Cyclospora parasite. Since May 1, health officials have

Immediately, the political blame game began. The usual crowd declared this was the fault of DOGE, spending cuts, or President Trump. That argument collapses the moment anyone bothers looking at history instead of cable television.

Food safety failures have become routine for decades under both political parties. In 2024, onions traced to Taylor Farms were linked to the McDonald’s E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened well over one hundred others. Years before that, Taylor Farms products were associated with another Cyclospora outbreak involving packaged salad mixes. Boar’s Head became the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak after federal inspectors documented repeated sanitation failures. None of those disasters occurred because of DOGE. None occurred because Donald Trump supposedly weakened food inspections. They happened while the federal bureaucracy was larger than ever and while agencies continued asking Congress for more money.

Washington never seems to run out of money to regulate automobiles, light bulbs, washing machines, cryptocurrency, carbon emissions, or what people say online. Yet somehow, after spending trillions of dollars across the federal government, it cannot consistently perform one of the few legitimate functions assigned to it—ensuring the nation’s food is safe.

America’s food supply has become extraordinarily concentrated. A remarkably small number of agricultural conglomerates now produce, process, package, and distribute much of the nation’s fresh produce. Taylor Farms has grown into one of the largest fresh-cut produce companies in North America, processing millions of pounds of vegetables every week for restaurant chains, schools, hospitals, supermarkets, and institutional buyers. Fresh Express, Dole, Fresh Del Monte, Church Brothers Farms, and a handful of other corporations dominate much of the remaining packaged produce market.

On the distribution side sits Sysco, the largest food-service distributor in North America, supplying hundreds of thousands of restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels, and institutional kitchens every single day. When so much of the food chain flows through so few corporate pipelines, one failure can spread contaminated products across dozens of states before anyone even realizes something has gone wrong.

That concentration has quietly created a system where a handful of corporations effectively control enormous portions of what Americans eat. We are constantly told that monopolies are dangerous when discussing technology companies, yet almost nobody in Washington wants to discuss the consolidation of agriculture and food distribution. It has reached the point where millions of people may unknowingly consume products originating from the same processors, packed in the same facilities, and distributed through the same supply networks. One mistake becomes national almost overnight.

? FOOD SAFETY ALERT ? If you're concerned about the recent reports of  Cyclospora (cyclosporiasis) illnesses, you may want to be extra cautious  with certain fresh produce while health officials continue their

This is where the corruption begins to reveal itself. Whenever one of these giants finds itself connected to another outbreak, regulators suddenly become cautious with names, cautious with announcements, and cautious with assigning responsibility. They speak in vague language about “suppliers” and “traceback investigations” while refusing to tell consumers exactly who produced the food sitting in their refrigerators. If a small family farm repeatedly poisoned customers, it would likely be shut down permanently. When multinational food conglomerates become associated with repeated investigations, everyone suddenly worries about protecting brands, protecting markets, and protecting investor confidence instead of protecting the public. That is corporate protectionism hiding behind government bureaucracy.

People often misunderstand my criticism of regulation. I do not believe Washington needs another hundred thousand pages of rules written by bureaucrats who have never planted a crop or worked inside a processing facility. The laws already exist. Sanitation standards already exist. Inspection authority already exists. The problem is that enforcement has become selective while bureaucracies increasingly serve the industries they regulate instead of the public they are supposed to protect. Government grows larger every year, but accountability somehow grows smaller.

The FDA now tells Americans that the original laboratory finding was incorrect while simultaneously admitting that the outbreak remains unresolved. Somebody knows far more than the public has been told. Yet instead of complete transparency, Americans receive carefully worded press releases. That should concern everyone regardless of political affiliation.

Washington has built an empire regulating every corner of American life while repeatedly failing at the few responsibilities that actually matter. Until regulators stop protecting politically connected corporations and start holding the largest players to exactly the same standards as everyone else, these outbreaks will continue, public confidence will continue to collapse, and Americans will continue paying the price every time they sit down for what should have been an ordinary meal.

Mamdani Claims He Will Arrest Netanyahu


Posted originally on Jul 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

⚖️ NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his office is reviewing whether Benjamin Netanyahu could be arrested if he visits for the UN General Assembly. ? https://msft.it/6184vN4sg #News #NYC #ICC

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has decided to enter the realm of international diplomacy by threatening to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he attend the United Nations General Assembly this September.

Speaking to the New York Times, Mamdani called Netanyahu “a war criminal” and declared, “Netanyahu belongs in The Hague.” He said there is an “active conversation” between his administration, the NYPD, and city lawyers over whether they could detain the Israeli leader if he comes to New York. Mamdani added, “Whatever the law allows me to do in New York, we will do.”

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu in 2024, alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict. Israel rejects those allegations, and more importantly, the United States has never accepted the jurisdiction of the ICC over American territory. Washington has consistently opposed allowing the ICC to exercise authority over U.S. citizens or close allies, and both Republican and Democratic administrations have challenged the court when it attempted to extend its reach.

Foreign policy is conducted by the federal government, not by the mayor of New York City. A mayor oversees sanitation, policing, transportation, zoning, and municipal services. He does not decide whether the United States will recognize international arrest warrants or rewrite diplomatic protocol every time a foreign leader lands at JFK Airport.

Even if someone wanted to test this theory, there are enormous legal barriers. Visiting heads of government attending the United Nations operate under federal authority, diplomatic agreements, and longstanding principles of head-of-state immunity. The United Nations Headquarters Agreement and federal control over foreign relations leave virtually no room for a municipal government to conduct its own independent foreign policy. That is precisely why U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz dismissed the proposal as “pure political theater.”

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon likewise condemned the remarks, arguing that instead of trying to conduct foreign policy through City Hall, New York’s mayor should focus on governing the city. Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed the threat aside, saying he intends to come to New York regardless and accusing Mamdani of siding with Hamas.

Sen. John Fetterman criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the  mayor said he would seek to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  arrested if he visited the city, citing the

The powers that be would absolutely never allow this to happen. Politicians increasingly campaign by promising actions they know are impossible because the promise itself becomes the campaign advertisement. Whether the promise is ever fulfilled becomes almost irrelevant because the headline has already served its purpose.

If Mamdani truly believed he possessed the authority to arrest the sitting prime minister of one of America’s closest allies while that leader was attending the United Nations, the constitutional crisis would be unprecedented. The federal government would almost certainly intervene immediately. The Secret Service, State Department, Department of Justice, and federal courts (not City Hall) would determine how such a situation would be handled. No administration in Washington, regardless of party, is likely to permit a municipal official to dictate American foreign policy through the NYPD.

Local politicians increasingly seek international relevance because it generates more attention than fixing the problems they were actually elected to solve. New York continues to struggle with violent crime, housing affordability, infrastructure failures, illegal immigration, fleeing businesses, and the cost of living crisis. Those are matters that fall squarely within a mayor’s responsibilities. Arresting foreign heads of government does not.

The public should always distinguish between political messaging and political power. They are rarely the same thing. Campaign rhetoric often gives the impression that elected officials possess unlimited authority. In reality, power is fragmented across constitutions, federal law, diplomatic agreements, courts, and institutional checks. That is exactly why so many dramatic promises never materialize after Election Day.

Putin Meets with Top North Korean Diplomat


Posted originally on Jul 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Vladimir Putin met with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui at the Kremlin after she delivered a personal message from Kim Jong Un reaffirming North Korea’s unconditional support for Russia. Moscow thanked Pyongyang for sending troops to assist Russian forces in Kursk and both governments pledged to deepen the strategic partnership signed last year.

People continue to ask why Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran appear to be drawing closer together. They answer their own question without realizing it. Every sanction, every asset seizure, every attempt to isolate one country simply encourages it to build relationships with another.

The neocons believed Russia could be economically strangled into submission. Instead, they accelerated the creation of an alternative network of military, financial, and industrial cooperation outside the Western system. They have spent years celebrating sanctions while simultaneously wondering why BRICS continues expanding and why countries are reducing their dependence on the West.

North Korea is no longer merely issuing statements of support. According to South Korean and Western intelligence estimates, Pyongyang has deployed roughly 14,000 troops to assist Russia, including an initial force of about 11,000 soldiers followed by approximately 3,000 reinforcements after suffering significant casualties. Beyond manpower, North Korea has shipped millions of artillery shells, rockets, and ballistic missiles that have become an increasingly important part of Russia’s battlefield logistics. Moscow has not simply accepted that assistance out of gratitude.

In return, Russia is believed to have provided North Korea with advanced satellite technology, missile expertise, air-defense systems, economic aid, fuel, food supplies, and diplomatic backing. What began as a transactional wartime relationship has steadily evolved into a strategic military partnership with benefits flowing in both directions.

This is also why I have repeatedly stated that the world is breaking into competing economic and military blocs. The post-Cold War era is over. Nations are no longer trying to join one global system. They are choosing sides because confidence in international institutions has collapsed. Once trust disappears, countries stop relying on treaties and begin relying on each other.

Washington still behaves as though every nation will eventually return to the negotiating table because sanctions are supposed to force compliance. The opposite has occurred: Russia has found new markets, China has found new customers, and North Korea has found a powerful patron. Every attempt to isolate one country has encouraged the formation of another alliance.

The politicians who designed the sanctions strategy assumed Russia would become weaker, isolated, and eventually negotiate from a position of desperation. Instead, Moscow found new trading partners, new financial channels, new military suppliers, and governments that now have every incentive to cooperate with one another. Once countries begin building supply chains, weapons production, intelligence sharing, and military planning together, those relationships do not disappear because diplomats issue another communiqué. Washington and Brussels keep measuring success by the number of sanctions imposed while ignoring whether those sanctions are producing the intended result. The geopolitical map is being redrawn before everyone’s eyes, and much of it has been accelerated by Western policy itself.

Musk’s Unrealistic Future View is a New World Communist Vision


Posted originally on Jul 21, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

Musk Universal Income

QUESTION: Martin,

How does the richest man in the world not understand basic economics?

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ANSWER: For the life of me, I believe this sort of thinking all stems from Karl Marx and this distorted idea that the object is to be taken care of by government and just lay around and watch TV that is intended to indoctrinate people. This sort of reasoning is against every basic foundation of civilization. AI and robots are incapable of original discovery for they cannot possess that human characteristic of curiosity.

Elon Musk’s reasoning that AI and robots will make work optional is based on a core economic absurd argument: AI and robotics will create such an abundance of goods and services that the very concepts of work and money become largely obsolete. However, this vision also faces significant challenges and raises complex questions about the human desire for purpose. I was doing research in the Firestone Library at Princeton University. I became friends with one professor who had know Einstein.

Einstein Curiosity

He asked me what I was so intensely researching. I explained that I was trying to ascertain why all governments rise and the crash and burn throughout the centuries. He then  said to me that I reminded him of Einstein. I was taken back. I said I was no Einstein.  He then explained to me to me that the subject matter did not matter. It was curiosity that was the mother of all disco0very. Without someone being curious, human society would stagnate.

Berlin Wall

During the late 1970s, I went through Check-Point-Charlie into East Germany. I wanted to see what Communism was all about and why they needed a wall to prevent people from fleeing. Those words from that professor suddenly rang true. The government feared individualism and curiosity. Because of that, the Russian economy could never compete with Capitalism because it suppressed the very essence of how human society advances. It requires that curiosity to make innovations that excpands the economy and raises the standard of living.

Musk’s argument is rooted what he sees as the logic of productivity and deflation. His reasoning can be broken down as follows.

  1. The core idea is that AI and robots will be capable of performing nearly all physical and cognitive labor at near-zero marginal cost . This would lead to a massive surge in the production of goods and services. However, it would be like Communism lacking that curiosity and this would suppress any advancement.
  2. The resulting supply would vastly outpace the available money supply, causing the prices of everything from food and housing to healthcare and education to plummet towards zero . For example, current productivity might see one worker produce 100 units per day, while one AI could produce 10,000, fundamentally breaking the link between work and survival.

In this state of “post-scarcity,” money, which Musk describes as an “information system for labor allocation,” would lose its purpose. If you can have anything you want without needing to direct someone else’s labor, he assumes that the currency system collapses  He has stated, “I think money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.”

To manage this transition, Musk proposes a “universal high income” (UHI), which goes beyond a basic safety net to ensure a comfortable life for everyone, funded by the massive surplus generated by AI and robots.

In this future, work would transition from a necessity for survival to an optional pursuit for personal satisfaction—a hobby, much like gardening for pleasure rather than out of necessity .

While Musk sees a future of shared prosperity, the classic communist goal, this vision is childish and lacks any reference historically. There is one historical precedent that needs to be addressed. There is a well-known historical paradox. Spain did import vast amounts of silver and gold from its New World colonies, but this wealth did NOT lead to broad economic expansion and instead contributed to a long-term decline.

The “Resource Curse” and Economic Distortion:
The massive influx of precious metals, especially silver, created a “resource curse” effect on the Spanish economy. The primary impact was severe inflation, which made Spanish goods expensive and uncompetitive internationally.

The “Dutch Disease” Effect:
Economists have identified this as an early case of “Dutch disease,” where a boom in one sector (in this case, raw materials from the colonies) harms other sectors like manufacturing. The inflow of silver inflated prices and led to a rise in the relative price of non-tradable goods (like services and housing) compared to tradable goods (like manufactured products).

This meant Spain’s domestic industries could NOT compete with cheaper goods from other European nations. As a result, the bullion largely “passed through” Spain to pay for imports, fueling the economies of countries like England and the Netherlands rather than fostering domestic economic expansion. A close analysis reveals that by 1750, Spain’s GDP per capita was over 40% lower than it would have been without the silver influx.

The massive mining and agricultural work in the Americas was not performed by a disgruntled Spanish populace. It was carried out through the brutal exploitation of Indigenous peoples under systems like the encomienda and later through the forced labor of enslaved Africans.

While there is evidence of French migration to parts of Spain, such as the Bishopric of Girona in the 16th and 17th centuries, this was a regional phenomenon. These French immigrants were noted to be heavily represented in the treballador (worker) category. Under Musk’s fictional economic system, migrants from poor regions will be attracted to fill jobs with actual human labor that Mush assumes can be eliminated with AI and robots.

Musk is making the same mistake as the Marxists and does not comprehend that “lack of economic expansion” in this economic utopia as we saw in Spain that was caused by the distorting effect of vast, sudden wealth on the national economy, which discouraged domestic industry. AI and Robots lack that human element of curiosity and that is the cornerstone of civilization. Those nation states that embraced capitalism and free financial markets, encouraged investment and that does not take place without the CONCENTRATION of wealth the socialists hate so much. But there is a disparity of wealth also among nations, which they seem to ignore.

IBM Watson

In January 2014, IBM committed $1 billion to create a new Watson business division. This was a significant move to commercialize Watson’s cognitive computing abilities and make them available via the cloud. This investment included a $100 million venture fund to support startups developing apps powered by Watson.

A large portion of IBM’s investment went into Watson Health, which aimed to revolutionize medical treatment. The company spent more than $4 billion to acquire health-related data and analytics companies. This endeavor, however, faced major challenges and is widely considered a failure, with IBM eventually selling off parts of Watson Health for over $1 billion in 2022. The told the world that Watson would discover the cure for cancer. That requires curiosity, which Watson lacked.

Musk’s reasoning presents a logical endpoint of technological progress—a world of immense abundance. However, the economic “math” of this future is only half the equation. The “human nature” part, how society navigates the transition and how people find meaning beyond work, remains the central, unresolved challenge of his vision. With that human trait of curiosity, the economy will stagnate and eventually collapse. Just compare the economic growth of even Germany at 0.8% compared to the United States at 2.16%. The distinguishing factor is the highly socialistic policy of Germany and the EU seeking to control every aspect of society.

Trump Administration Announces Section 338 Tariffs at Rate of 50% Across Wide Range of Canadian Goods and Imports


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.

FACT SHEET HERE – {LIST 1 – LIST 2 – LIST 3}

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.

An Uncomfortable Change in Perspective


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.

Anti-ICE Leftist Attacks Federal Immigration Court in Manhattan


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.

British “Democracy” – The Unelected Monarch Creates the Unelected U.K Prime Minister


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”…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Delivers Remarks to Press Pool Traveling to ASEAN Summit


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}.