by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
The “deep state” are “the unsung heroes making our country great,” according to the New York Times.
In a video essay by Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse shared Tuesday titled, “It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome,” the Times put forward that the deep state that former President Donald Trump rails against is not career bureaucrats at the FBI and other intelligence agencies who worked to undermine his presidency but instead a collection of random employees at the EPA, the Department of Labor and the Marshall Space Flight Center.
No, the Trump–Putin summit at a joint-forces military base in Anchorage last Friday did not produce an agreement on a ceasefire in Ukraine. President Trump made no reference to “severe consequences” if Vladimir Putin did not consent to such an accord. Nothing was said about new sanctions against Russia and nothing about sanctions against nations that trade with Russia. Trump appears not to have mentioned those nuclear-armed submarines he ordered to “appropriate regions” a couple of weeks ago, and Putin seems not to have asked about them.
Iowa legislators are considering a bill that would require medical examiners to document recent immunizations on the death certificates of children who died from unknown causes. The bill is one of several similar pieces of legislation being weighed in states across the country.