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The 'Deep State' has one simple rule - "do it my way... or else!"

Source: Ben Garrison

And on the heels of Dennis Kucinich's warnings, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, who opposes Trump for a variety of reasons, warns that siding with the evidently powerful Deep State in the hopes of undermining Trump is dangerous. As TheAntiMedia's Carey Wedler notes, Greenwald asserted in an interview with Democracy Now, published on Thursday, that this boils down to a fight between the Deep State and the Trump administration.

Two weeks ago, Goldman analysts were stunned when they noted that in recent weeks gasoline demand in the US has collapsed to levels that suggest not all is well with the economy. In fact, as the bank's oil expert Damien Courvalin said "to achieve the 5.9% decline suggested by the weekly data, our model requires PCE to contract 6%, in other words, a recession."

Submitted by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute,

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

After escalating the 'war on fake news' overnight (and having The New York Times fight back) and facing more neocon revolution from John McCain, we can only wonder at what President Trump has in store for the thousands expected to attend a rally in Melbourne, Florida this afternoon...

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