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Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2019 at 12:51pm
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What is the Deep State?
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by Thomas Knapp  
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dirty cop-Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed
report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie
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by Alex Pappas, Brooke Singman and Jake Gibson  
{foxnews.com} ~ Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement... disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohento lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for dirty cop-Mueller’s office, said.The statement is remarkable in that dirty cop-Mueller's team rarely issues statements in response to news stories. But BuzzFeed's story sparked immense interest from Democrats, who called for renewed investigations and even suggested the allegations could be a basis for impeachment proceedings. Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith  tweeted after the release of the statement Friday: "In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing."...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-team-disputes-buzzfeed-report-claiming-trump-told-cohen-to-lie
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Liberals’ Real Problem Is That 
Christian Schools Exist at All
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{dailysignal.com} ~ It was supposed to be a day celebrating religious freedom in America. Instead, liberals decided to show everyone just how much our First Freedom is at risk... For Christians, who have tried to warn people that these past several years were about a lot more than marriage, the attacks on second lady Karen Pence certainly seem to prove their point. Three years after Obergefell v. Hodges, all of the lies about “love” and “tolerance” have been eclipsed by the court cases, articles, and editorial demonizing people of faith. What Americans see now is the truth: The left is coming for our freedom, and they have no intention of letting up. Like former Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Karen Pence spent years in the classroom. When Vice President Mike Pence was in Congress, she taught art at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia, and no one batted an eye...  https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/18/liberals-real-problem-is-that-christian-schools-exist-at-all/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRFNFpUaG1ZV00xTmpZMSIsInQiOiJuRGNvak8wOXdXb21ubzd0YlphVndqK1JDQnhkK1BcL0NWZ0hwSXdRaFJLM1lxXC9rVzZIRk1lMzZ6NUZ1anA2K1wvTHh2bGNVVE1obVZhaDVFRFJnTVlGanorcHIybXJCZEVlNDVocFZwWU15XC9kYWdKRVYxYW9idDFlSEVveUJDYUgifQ%3D%3D  
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Congressman Introduces Bill 
to Get the U.S. Out of the UN
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ As outrage over the United Nations continues to grow,  legislation to restore American sovereignty by withdrawing from the scandal-plagued UN was introduced in the Congress this month... In addition to getting the U.S. government out of the UN and evicting the global outfit’s headquarters from U.S. soil, the bill would end American involvement in the full panoply of UN agreements and agencies. It would also prohibit putting of U.S. troops under UN command. The legislation has been introduced in Congress for decades. However, the current president’s publicly expressed hostility to globalism and his oft-stated support for U.S. sovereignty make the issue especially salient right now. In Congress and in the administration, as well as among everyday Americans, anti-UN sentiment is surging. Even some Democrats are fed up with the UN’s criticism of Israel. Advocates of the measure are urging Americans to contact their representatives, senators, and the White House in support. The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2019 (H.R. 204) was introduced by Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) right as the new Congress was getting started. “One of my first priorities in this new Congress was to make sure this bill was reintroduced,” said Rogers, who serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “The United Nations is a disaster and our country bankrolls over 20 percent of its annual budget.” As in years past, Rogers outlined a range of concerns about the international organization. “The UN continues to attack our greatest ally Israel, and they continue to attack American ideals like the Second Amendment,” he explained, echoing frequent criticisms of the international organization widely referred to as the “dictators club” by critics. “President Trump has done his part to rein in the UN’s continual attacks on American sovereignty, but it’s time we did more.”...
Second meeting between Trump 
and Kim Jong Un set for February
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be held at the end of February, the White House said Friday after a meeting with one of Kim's top advisers... “President Donald J. Trump met with Kim Yong Chol for an hour and half, to discuss denuclearization and a second summit, which will take place near the end of February,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “The President looks forward to meeting with Chairman Kim at a place to be announced at a later date.” The president held a historic summit with Kim in Singapore in June. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed plans to move word toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.Trump said recently that sanctions against Pyongyang will continue but told reporters recently that things are going “very well” with North Korea. “There’s no rockets,” he told reporters this month, referring to North Korea's recent lack of missile tests. “There’s no anything. We’re doing very well.” National security adviser John Bolton, however, said in December that North Korea was not abiding by the commitments it made during the summit in Singapore...
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Trump Admin Considering 
Dramatic Change of Cuba Policy
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{westernjournal.com} ~ The Trump administration is weighing what could become the most serious tightening of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba in more than two decades... a move that could unleash a flurry of lawsuits against foreign companies that have invested on the island. A 1996 law known as the Helms-Burton Act gives  Americans the right to sue companies profiting from properties confiscated by Cuba’s government after its 1959 socialist revolution. That potentially could allow hundreds of lawsuits against corporations around the world, from Spanish companies that run Cuban hotels to Chinese and Turkish firms renovating Cuban ports. But every U.S. president since scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton has suspended the key clause, known as Title III, because of its potential to alienate U.S. allies and complicate any future American detente with Cuba.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday appeared to open the possibility that the U.S. government might allow that clause to take effect. He said the administration was suspending Title III again, but only for a month and a half instead of the six-month suspension that has been constantly renewed since 1996. Pompeo said the administration was conducting a careful review of Title III “in light of the national interests of the United States and efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba and include factors such as the Cuban regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Both advocates of better U.S.-Cuba relations and opponents of the communist government said Thursday that they expected the Trump administration to allow at least some lawsuits against companies doing business in Cuba when the 45-day review ends. The lawsuits that follow could create a huge obstacle to foreign investment in Cuba — a major escalation of Trump’s relatively cautious approach so far to unwinding President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s historic detente with the island, which began in December 2014. In a tweet, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio described Pompeo’s statement as “is a strong indication of what comes next. If you are trafficking in stolen property in #Cuba, now would be a good time to get out.”...
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What is the Deep State?
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by Thomas Knapp

{fee.org} ~ Buzzwords come and buzzwords go. Lately, a trending buzzword – or, I guess, buzz phrase – among the politically inclined is “Deep State.” Google News returns 127,000 recent media uses of the phrase.  

Every time US president Donald Trump finds himself under attack or just stymied in one of his policy initiatives, his supporters blame the Deep State. The Deep State is behind the “Russiagate” probes. The Deep State doesn’t like his Muslim travel ban or his scumbag/liar-nObamaCare replacement bill. The Deep State keeps forcing him to break his campaign promises of a less misadventurous US foreign policy.

I’m expecting reports, any day now, that the Deep State stole his limo keys and left the toilet seats up in the residence area of the White House.

So what, precisely, is the Deep State?  There’s actually both more and less to it than you might think.

Defining the Deep State

In a recent Bloomberg column, former scumbag/liar-nObama administration regulatory czar Cass Sunstein defines the Deep State as merely “the talented professionals who serve both Democratic and Republican administrations, and who are civil servants rather than political appointees.” While not incorrect as such, that definition is superficial and not especially informative.

Others identify the Deep State as residing completely or nearly completely in the US “intelligence community” specifically and the Military-Industrial Complex in general, or in Washington’s sprawling regulatory apparatus.

It’s in the intel/military definition that the idea tends to take on a more active, sinister connotations: Spies and generals conspiring to put over a coup of some sort, if necessary maybe even giving inconvenient political figures the JFK treatment. Without discounting that possibility, let me propose that while individuals acting in knowing concert might be a minor feature of the Deep State, they aren’t its essence.

In high school civics class theory, elections are meaningful and political government is a highly developed, well-oiled, deliberative decision-making machine in which ideas matter and the best ones win out, to the benefit of all.

In fact, it is in the nature of political government to put its own needs first, and its corps of unelected workers greatly outnumbering the politicians who have to explain themselves to voters closely identify its needs with their needs and vice versa.

Resistance to Change in Motion

The aggregate actions of long-term state functionaries will always tend to maximize the state’s growth and their own discretionary power. Not because they are venal or corrupt although some certainly are, nor because they necessarily subscribe to some particular ideology although some certainly do, but because like their actions, they themselves are an aggregate whose parts will overwhelmingly respond to the same incentives in the same ways.

You’ll never walk into a hotel and see a sign in the lobby announcing “Welcome Deep State, Conference Room 3A.” The Deep State isn’t a conscious conspiracy, even if there are conscious conspirators within it. The Deep State is a large mass with no guiding intellect. Its inertia tends to hold it in one place and/or to carry most of its members in the same direction.
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