Watermelons No More

Watermelons No More

Eco-socialists come out of the closet

By Mark Luedtke

Dayton’s Conspiracy Theorist

If you needed more evidence socialism is suddenly all the rage in political circles, take a look at the greens.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, disgraced socialists raced to find a hiding place. They infiltrated and took over the environmental movement, pretending they were green, not red. That’s how they got the nickname watermelons.

But you don’t have to take my word for it. In his book “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout,” Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore explains, “The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology.”

With the surge in support for socialism, these socialists no longer need to hide their true identity. They’ve rebranded their movement eco-socialism. Wikipedia informs, “Eco-socialists advocate dismantling capitalism, focusing on common ownership of the means of production by freely associated producers, and restoring the commons.”

In other words, they plan to steal our property and manage it themselves. Mass stealing is an ideology of violence, and that’s why the eco-socialist movement tends to be violent.

This information also explains why the great anthropomorphic global warming fraud never dies. If socialists can fool enough people into believing manmade CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming, they might succeed at stealing everything.

There’s only one problem: they’re not fooling many people anymore. That’s because the climate keeps contradicting them.

I get a good laugh every time it snows because some fraud once claimed global warming meant the end of snow. But the frauds have doubled down on that prediction. The Arizona Daily Sun EarthTalk column says of skiing, “Our recent modeling suggests that under a high emissions scenario, skiing could be very limited to non-existent in parts of the country by the end of this century, particularly in lower elevations — such as the northeast, Midwest and lower mountains around the West.”

At least they’ve learned to push their predictions out 80 years so we can’t laugh directly in their faces when they’re proved wrong.

A recent study debunked the misinformation regarding sea level rise. Wattsupwiththat.com reports, “Assessing data from a range of sources and previous studies, the team concluded that the movement of the earth – referred to as vertical land motion – is the dominant force behind variations in rates of sea level rise up and down the East Coast, the team reports today in the journal Nature.”

Sea level change is so slow, the land elevates and sinks faster.

To boost theft, the UN recently claimed we only have until 2030 to save the planet. Every time one of these predictions fail, they push the date out.

The costs of green, sorry, eco-socialist, policies, also play a role. The Daily Mail reports, “But using 'eco' settings on washing machines could do us more harm than good – by helping to spread diseases. The NHS [Britain’s National Health Service] recommends a 60C (140F) setting to kill bacteria when washing underwear, towels and linens. However, most machines have an energy-saving setting which operates at just 30C (86F).”

This highlights the decivilizing effect of socialism. Socialism always produces poverty and disease, but today’s hip, young socialists have no clue because they’ve been mis-educated in socialist schools.

Then there’s the problem of disposing of solar panel waste and wind turbines. And the brownouts and rolling blackouts Australians have suffered through.

Fortunately for us The Daily Caller notes, “Despite increasingly apocalyptic warnings from U.N. officials, 2018 has seen a number of high-profile defeats for policies aimed at fighting global warming. Politicians and voters pushed back at attempts to raise energy prices as part of the climate crusade.”

Resistance in Australia, France, Canada, and the US has stymied the frauds.

The yellow vest protests, which started as a revolt against a carbon tax, have spread across Europe and into Canada and Australia. Hard-working people are tired of having their money stolen by greedy socialist rulers - redundant, I know - and are pushing back. Unfortunately, things will get much worse before they get better.

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Don’t Cry for the Titans of Tech

Don’t Cry for the Titans of Tech

Poor and middle class people, not corporations, are being robbed

By Mark Luedtke

Dayton’s Conspiracy Theorist

Maybe you’ve heard the latest news about poor Apple. It’s stock crashed 10 percent Thursday, but the bigger story is what happened over the last few months. CNBC reports, “Thursday's losses push Apple's market valuation below $700 billion and behind the market cap of Alphabet to become the fourth most valuable publicly traded U.S. company — down from the top spot just two months ago. The company has lost $450 billion in market value since its peak of about $1.1 trillion last year.”

And of course the press identifies the reason in their narrative. We’re supposed to believe weaker than forecast iPhone sales in China caused the 41 percent drop in Apple’s market cap.

In a seemingly unrelated story, Bloomberg reports, “Mark Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar stock sale ground to a halt in the final months of 2018. The Facebook Inc. co-founder didn’t sell a single share in the fourth quarter, when the social media company’s stock tumbled 20 percent amid a broader market rout. It’s the first quarter in more than two years he’s refrained from doing so, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”

Of course there’s a reason for Facebook’s stock meltdown, different than Apple’s. In Facebook’s case, the narrative is privacy issues are causing the stock to collapse.

Speaking of the FAANGs - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google’s parent company Alphabet - they’ve all been dropping. Weak demand is blamed, but David Stockman, Reagan’s former budget director, issued a prescient warning a year and a half ago. “During the last 70 days, the FAANGS have gained $260 billion in value, while the other 495 companies in the S&P 500 have lost an identical amount. And on that utterly unmistakable pattern history is absolutely clear,” he wrote. “That’s a radical narrowing of the market if there ever was one. It’s also evidence that the eye of a financial hurricane now sits dead atop the canyons of Wall Street. When the market narrows to a handful of momo names, it’s all over but the shouting. Like the case of the Nifty Fifty back in the early 1970s, a crash is just around the corner.”

It’s as if the people writing these articles don’t know this same situation has occurred before many times. Maybe they never heard of the dot.com crash of 2001 or the housing crash of 2008. The common denominator in these articles is they all fail to mention tech stocks, and everything else, are in the biggest bubble in history created by the Federal Reserve, and that bubble is collapsing.

The same scenario is happening all over the world for the same reason: Central banks have been printing money in concert like never before. They’ve created a worldwide bubble, the biggest in history. The coming crash will be the biggest in history. Apple, Facebook, and all the FAANGs stocks are falling because the bubble is bursting.

But don’t cry for Cook, Zuckerberg or any of the rest of the tech titans. They’ll still have billions after the wreckage. The real victims of central bank printing are poor and middle class people.

After ten years of hearing fake news about a recovery from the last bubble-crash, CBS News recently published an honest story about the consequences. “A decade after the financial crisis, the U.S. economy seems to be firing on all cylinders, with unemployment at a 50-year low and growth hitting its stride. But a deeper look reveals a more troubling picture: Between 2012 and 2015 -- a period when the recovery seemed to be gaining speed -- nearly half of all counties nationwide saw flat or declining growth, according to new government data,” it admitted.

Except for those who never leave the big city, we’ve all seen places the supposed recovery never reached. That’s because half of the country never recovered.

In fact, the recovery for the other half is an illusion. Here’s how it works: The Federal Reserve, or any central bank in any country, prints a bunch of money and hands it out to the big banks. Not backed by anything, the money is essentially counterfeit except by law. The big banks counterfeit more money and hand it out to commercial banks. That money tends to go into the coffers of big corporations like the FAANGs first, then it trickles down to rulers and their cronies. Banks, corporations, and rulers at every level amass wealth with the counterfeit money, and they create temporary jobs that are touted as part of the economy recovery.

But people who don’t receive the counterfeit money early - most of us - become poorer. It’s the same as if you printed a bunch of perfect counterfeit money and gave it to your friends. You and your friends would amass real wealth, but everybody else would become poorer because of it. It’s invisible theft. Eventually, when you’ve stolen too much, the bubble bursts.

This is how the rich get richer while the poor get poorer and income inequality grows.

Central bank counterfeiting also sucks wealth out of the economy into wasteful projects. Soon we’ll see more empty factories, shopping centers, condos, half-developed housing developments, and other unfinished projects join the rubble we already see from previous bubble-bust cycles.

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Corruption and Cover-up

Corruption and Cover-up

Massive corruption of the Obama administration exposed

By Mark Luedtke

Dayton’s Conspiracy Theorist

After President Bush started the Iraq war, it seemed like we heard about the corruption of Vice-President Cheney, Halliburton, and no-bid contracts every day until President Obama took office. In case you don’t remember, here’s a taste from The Guardian in 2004:

“Halliburton, the oil services company formerly run by the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was yesterday embroiled in new accusations of corruption after it sacked two workers over allegations that they took kickbacks for awarding sub-contracts in Iraq. The company disclosed that investigations were going on into whether two of its staff took up to $6m (£3.3m) from a Kuwaiti-based company providing support for US troops,” it reported. “The revelation is likely to intensify the scrutiny of Halliburton, which has reaped huge contracts to rebuild Iraq and provide logistical support for the army. The total value of their contracts is more than $9bn, by far the largest sum handed out to a US firm in Iraq.”

Bush waived bidding for the contracts so Cheney’s cronies could overcharge and pocket billions, much of which undoubtedly got back to Bush and Cheney. There was nothing unusual about this. Every administration does it. It was business-as-usual for rulers. It’s the primary reason why people crave the presidency. The only thing unusual about it was how the press hammered this issue.

Then a funny thing happened when Obama took office: the press went silent on that same business-as-usual corruption. To this day Obama claims to have had a corruption-free administration. And he says it with a straight face. Still, the press fails to report on the massive corruption inside the Obama administration.

Fortunately Peter Schweizer exposes some of it in his new book, “Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends.”

Investor’s Business Daily reports on several corrupt activities in its review. In the first case, several Obama cronies formed an investment company named Vistria around the time Obama was reelected in 2012. Then, in a well-orchestrated maneuver, Obama used his bully pulpit to attack specific industries and companies, driving down their share value. Vistria then swooped in and purchased the companies for a fraction of their previous price.

For example, “In 2013, Obama blamed [private colleges] for taking advantage of students by saddling them with massive amounts of student debt, ruining their credit and making a profit on it. He ordered the Federal Trade Commission to go after them,” IBD notes. “In the case of the University of Phoenix, its parent Apollo Education Group was suspended after a Federal Trade Commission investigation in 2015. The following year, three companies, including Vistria, swooped in to buy what remained of Apollo at a price 90% below its share price before the investigation.”

Another example describes how Vice-President Biden’s son and Secretary of State Kerry’s stepson formed a company to profit from Obama’s foreign policy regarding China. “In December of 2013, for instance, Biden traveled to China for talks. He brought Hunter Biden along. While there, the senior Biden soft-pedaled China's clear aggression, and played up the bilateral trade partnership,” IBD documents. “Ten days after the trip concluded, China's central bank, the Bank of China, set up a $1 billion investment joint venture called Bohai Harvest RST. For the record, the ‘RS’ referred to Biden's son's firm, Rosemont Seneca.”

Furthermore, Chinese firms associated with the government purchased stakes in several companies owned by the two sons.

Again, there’s nothing unusual about this. This is business as usual for rulers. It’s why coercive governments exist. The only unusual aspect is how thoroughly the press covered up this massive, ubiquitous corruption.

Of course this is just one aspect of Obama’s corruption. Obama’s green energy push was another tool of corruption. In one example, after Solyndra executives donated heavily to Obama’s 2008 campaign, Obama rewarded those cronies with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. A few years later, Solyndra went bankrupt, saddling taxpayers with half a billion in debt while Obama’s cronies walked away scot-free, unlike Enron executives.

Then there was Obama’s scheme to supply guns to Mexican drug dealers and track them, called fast and furious, one of which was used to kill a US border patrol agent.

These scandals were swept under the rug by the media.

Obama’s IRS systematically targeted conservative organizations and stonewalled congressional investigators for years with no consequences.

Obama invited the massive Clinton corruption machine into his administration when he named Hillary Secretary of State. She traded favorable policy for Clinton Foundation donations. It’s well documented, but nothing has come of that.

Then Obama used the FBI to spy on and undermine Trump, and nothing has come of that either.

Corruption is the business of government.

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War, Rinse, Repeat

The war the American people never wanted but our rulers started anyway has been waged for five years now. In 2013, President Obama tried to invade Syria in response to a false flag chemical attack designed to gin up public support and provide cover for invading. But the American people said no, and President Putin of Russia saved the day by orchestrating the removal of weapons of mass destruction from Syria, saving lives, American and Syrian, in the process.

But only temporarily.

After the Russians intervened in the war at the request Syrian President Assad, US rulers invaded anyway to save the terrorists. Since that time, every time the US is tempted to withdraw, another false flag attack is staged by the terrorists or their CIA handlers, and the announced withdraw is reversed.

Here we go again.

Following the instincts that got him elected and make him the least bad president in our lifetimes, President Trump recently ordered 2,000, supposedly all, US troops out of Syria.

We’ve seen this play out before, but this time it’s different. The Wall Street Journal reports, “In an abrupt reversal, the U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from northeastern Syria, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a move that throws the American strategy in the Middle East into turmoil. U.S. officials began informing partners in northeastern Syria of their plans to begin immediately pulling American forces out of the region where they have been trying to wrap up the campaign against Islamic State, the people said.”

The key word here is abrupt. Trump blindsided his deep state adversaries with the order. I can’t help but laugh at the claim the US was planning to wrap up the campaign against ISIS as if it took five years. The reality is the Russians, Syrians, and Iranians crushed ISIS. US forces surrounded and protected their last enclave from them. US rulers don’t want them defeated. They want to use them to topple Assad as the first domino on the way to Tehran.

US deep state rulers melted down because Trump surprised them. NPR documents the extent of the meltdown. “Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has announced his resignation, reportedly in protest of President Trump's decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria,” it reported.“News of McGurk's resignation came just two days after Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced he too was leaving the Trump administration. Mattis' resignation followed the abrupt announcement by President Trump on Wednesday that he was pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.”

These resignations offer hope deep state rulers haven’t had time to set up another false flag yet. There’s no shortage of hubris among deep state rulers, so it’s possible they failed to plan for this order in advance. Speaking of hubris, the Middle East’s Al-Monitor reports, “Some current and former US officials faulted what they saw as overreach by administration Iran hawks, in particular US Syria envoy Jim Jeffrey and his lieutenant, Joel Rayburn, the deputy assistant secretary of state for the Levant, who have argued publicly that US forces would not leave Syria until all Iranian forces had left.”

The hawks including uber-hawk National Security Advisor John Bolton set conditions which could never be met and would keep US troops in Syria forever. That was their plan all along. Fortunately, Trump saw though it and outmaneuvered them.

But there’s still some skepticism. Consortium News suggests several reasons we shouldn’t trust Trump’s announcement, not least of which is this: “...the U.S. is not closing down its military presence in Syria. It is digging in for an indefinite period, making Raqqa the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad. By the official count, there are 503 U.S. troops stationed in the Islamic State’s former capital. Unofficially, according to The Washington Post and other press reports, the figure is closer to 4,000—twice the number that is supposed to represent a ‘full withdrawal’ from Syrian soil.”

Still, the resignations suggest Trump’s surprise order upended those plans. Syrians and Americans should be wary of a new false flag terrorist attack.

Syria isn’t Trump’s only victory against US empire-builders who wish to rule the world. Michael Rozeff notes, “Trump is withdrawing American forces from Syria. He is withdrawing thousands of American forces from Afghanistan too, and he is talking to the Taliban. Trump has stopped refueling Saudi airplanes against Yemen. Trump is negotiating with North Korea.”

Trump also resists starting a war with Russia in Ukraine, and he’s reevaluating the US role in supporting Saudi Arabia’s mass murder in Yemen. If he succeeds in these efforts, the US and the world will become more peaceful and safer.

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Civil War Preview

Civil War Preview

The next Civil War will be fought on several fronts

By Mark Luedtke

There’s nothing new about the riots in Paris. At least that’s what our accomplice press wants you to believe. According to The Washington Times, over 1,000 people have been arrested, including the instigator of vandalism of the Arc de Triomphe. “Heitz said that most of those in custody were men under 40 from various regions who came to Paris for the fourth Saturday of protests by a ballooning grassroots movement angry about a fuel tax hike and other issues,” the Times reported.

It’s true that riots in Paris are relatively common, but so far 1,000 people have been arrested. That’s not common. And while it’s true a fuel tax sparked these protests, the bomb was set and growing long before. Even Reuters calls these protests, which have spread to Belgium and the Netherlands, a state of insurrection.

A clearer picture of the gilets jaunes, or yellow vests, emerges from alternative news sources. Citizen blogging site QuodVerum exposes the terrible economy in France. The French economy hasn’t grown faster than 2 percent annually for over 50 years. Official unemployment is 10 percent. As in the US, real unemployment is worse. The French government employs 25 percent of workers, and 50 percent of workers earn less than $25,000 per year. Yet taxes continue to rise. That’s why millions of protestors took to the streets.

While reports emphasize the violent behavior of typical leftist protests, this is not a leftist protest at all. Yellow vests are required for everyone in every vehicle. They symbolize this is a protest by all the people regardless of political affiliation against decades of socialism. Eric Margolis explains, “As too often in France, violent vandals known as ‘the breakers,’ infiltrated the demonstrators and sought to put the most beautiful parts of Paris to the sack...

“However, the ‘yellow jackets’ should not be confused with the breakers.  What we are seeing is a justified national revolt in France against impossibly high taxes that were ignited by the unwise fuel price increases….

“The underlying problem is that France’s taxes are far too high.  France has the highest taxes in Europe, almost 50% of gross domestic product, and twice those of the United States.”

Unlike the Occupy protests in America during the last bust, the coming bust, which may have already started, will bring out protestors from all walks of life here as in France.

But the coming civil war won’t be limited to populist protests. The opening movements of the civil war in the ruling class began with the Obama administration waging war on then-candidate Trump. Obama’s team sent spies into Trump’s campaign and utilized the FISA court, the FBI, DOJ, and British intelligence agencies to take down Trump before the election.

The Daily Caller reports, “The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.”

The FBI and the Clinton campaign paid for the slanderous Steele dossier, Steele is a former member of British intelligence, then used it to obtain secret warrants against Trump’s team through the FISA court. Since its inception, the FBI has been a secret police force with a primary goal of advancing the political interests of rulers. It’s role as a federal police force is a cover for that true purpose. But the war against Trump has exposed the evil machinations of the entire government deep state apparatus.

Judicial Watch is heroically fighting to expose the gross criminality of team Obama and the deep state. It’s most recent disclosure stated, “Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).”

The classified information was disseminated just hours before Trump was inaugurated.

While special prosecutor Robert Mueller attacks Trump team members with petty charges of having imperfect memories, mountains of lies by the Obama team and his deep state allies seemingly go uninvestigated. Or maybe not. Trump-appointed prosecutor John Huber has filed an unprecedented number of sealed indictments, and many speculate this is Trump’s lawful counter against Obama, Clinton, Mueller, and their criminal deep state allies. That remains to be seen.

Don’t be surprised if violence in the streets isn’t accompanied by assassinations of rulers and deep state bureaucrats in Washington during the next bust. That’s what Civil War II will look like.

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Cannabis Cronies

Cannabis Cronies

Strike it rich in Ohio

Conspiracy Theorist

By Mark Luedtke

Publication date: 041817

People literally kill to become part of the exclusive marijuana producers’ cartel. That’s because marijuana producers rapidly become obscenely rich. Of course there’s a risk because marijuana is banned. Drug kingpins risk being murdered by competing producers. They risk being murdered by cops, and cops are often competitors. Drug kingpins also risk being thrown in jail.

Except for a few. Out of 11.6 million Ohioans, twelve cronies will win the Ohio medical marijuana lottery. Ohio rulers have created their own marijuana cartel and bestowed kingpin status on them. They bestowed minor kingpin status on twelve other smaller producers.  Marijuana Times reports, “The larger growers (Level 1) will need a total of $200,000 to get a license under the proposed rules, while the smaller growers (Level 2) will only need $20,000. Besides the money, potential licensed growers will also need to prove they have enough capital funding, quality assurance and security plans, and that they test their product through a qualified lab.”

Large growers can utilize up to 25,000 square feet, small growers only up to 3,000. Because Ohio legalized medical marijuana as long as it’s produced by these cartel members, these kingpins don’t have to worry about being murdered or arrested for producing drugs. It’s hard to imagine a sweeter deal, and all you have to do to get it is pay the right rulers enough money, legally and probably not so legally, year after year. If you’re not rich and politically connected, you need not apply.

This marijuana production is supposed to be for medicinal use, but rulers heavily restrict access to it. “The Ohio medical marijuana program itself is rather restrictive, with only 21 qualifying conditions, no legal smoking and no home growing allowed, which means only a small percentage of those who could benefit from medical cannabis will be able to get it legally when the program is finally up and running,” the Times continues.

And the rules don’t stop with growers. Columbus’s News-Herald notes, “Officials from three state offices charged with developing the program are still finalizing rules for cultivators, processors, testing labs, dispensaries, patients, caregivers and doctors.”

That’s a lot of regulations to ensure pot money ends up in rulers’ wallets.

Despite the regulations, legalizing marijuana is a baby step in the right direction, but the failure to legalize home growers and smoking is a major problem. This law can’t be confused with allowing freedom. Cincinnati.com explains, “Here's the big sticking point for many marijuana advocates: Under this law, it's still illegal to smoke marijuana – even if you buy it out of state. Vaporizers, edibles and oils are OK. It goes without saying: Recreational use of marijuana also is still illegal under this law.”

No enjoyment allowed, and every Ohioan but rulers and cronies is denied the opportunity to profit.

Government’s coercive control of the marijuana market guarantees corruption will still run rampant. The Washington Post reports the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) continues to target marijuana users. “... marijuana remains illegal for all purposes under federal law, a policy the DEA emphatically reiterated this past summer. To that end, the DEA devoted 22 pages of its Drug Threat Assessment to pot — considerably more real estate than it devoted to, say, prescription painkillers (16 pages), which kill more than 14,000 people per year.”

But the Post also reports some good news. “However, the DEA makes the interesting claim, not present in last year's Threat Assessment, that ‘media attention’ to marijuana issues is making it more difficult to enforce marijuana laws and prosecute people who violate them. The agency also appears to blame the media for spreading inaccurate information about the legality and effects of marijuana use,” the Post wrote.

Anything that makes it harder for the DEA to prey on Americans is a good thing. But regardless of the DEA’s complaints, state rulers want the new revenue stream, so partial legalization and looting will continue.

Legalized marijuana draws rich, crony investors. Cannabiz.media reports, “In Maryland, 144 companies submitted applications for 15 marijuana cultivator licenses earlier this year, and the long list of diverse investors behind those applications might surprise you. In total, more than 950 people were listed as working for or investing in the companies that applied for these licenses. The list includes business executives, politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, government leaders, law enforcement professionals, and military leaders.”

And bankers. No surprise at all.

Originally published in the Dayton City Paper.

Trump Threatens the CIA

Trump Threatens the CIA

The Deep State threatens worse

Conspiracy Theorist

By Mark Luedtke

Publication date: 013117

It’s no secret the fake news campaign against then-candidate Trump was the most outrageous in modern politics, but the lengths to which the establishment is going to discredit him after his victory are more outrageous. Rulers first deployed the fake story about Russia hacking the election. While news stories talked about supposed Russian hackers hacking the DNC - we’ve since learned an insider leaked the Podesta emails, not Russian hackers - but the headlines were designed to make many believe Russia hacked voting machines. Bloggers like Christopher Keelty keep that myth alive by bloviating “There is no evidence that Russia hacked American voting machines, but reporters and experts overstep when they claim it definitely did not happen.”

Then rulers made up the bizarre story about Trump and Russian prostitutes. They’re panicked.

These actions beg the question of why the establishment fears President Trump so much. Antiwar.com explains, “Deals on the exact nature of the changes are still being sorted out, but President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to revamp multiple US intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with a primary goal of shrinking them considerably.”

Uh-oh. The last president who threatened to clean house at the CIA was assassinated in Dallas, making it clear who really rules the US. Top bureaucrats at the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Pentagon and other agencies along with corporate contractors, bankers, CEOs make up what’s called the deep state, national security state, or shadow government. They really rule the US, not the constitutional government government schools teach us about.

The mainstream media is their propaganda tool. Since Operation Mockingbird, which officially lasted from the 1940s to the 1970s, the CIA has pulled the strings of the media in the US and other countries. It has long, strong ties with The Washington Post which have strengthened since Jeff Bezos bought the paper because he has a $600 million contract to provide cloud services to the CIA. When the media attacks Trump, especially WaPo, think CIA.

Rulers have become so brazen, CNN openly discussed assassinating Trump. Breitbart recently reported, “On the Wednesday, January 18 broadcast of CNN’s The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer aired a segment with a chyron featuring the headline ‘Developing Now.’ During that ‘developing’ segment, Blitzer and correspondent Brian Todd discussed what would happen if the unthinkable occurred on January 20. Blitzer introduced the segment, saying, ‘What if an incoming president and his immediate successors were wiped out on day one?’ and from there, CNN contributor Brian Todd took over to outline the line of succession if an attack blew up the inaugural dais, killing both Trump and Pence.”

If he had run a similar segment before President Obama was first inaugurated, it would have been bye-bye Blitzer.

Senator Chuck Schumer recently acknowledged the deep state’s intimidating rule. “'Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you,' he told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. 'So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this,'” wrote The Daily Mail. “Schumer said he didn't know what agents would or could do to Trump. 'But from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them,' he said.”

Economist William Anderson wonders if this is Schumer’s dog-whistle calling for the deep state to assassinate Trump. This isn’t as preposterous as it might sound. One of Trump’s advisors was recently poisoned with polonium.

Furthermore, the New York Post reports, “Intelligence officials told the Journal that they are ultimately disgusted with the President-elect’s social media behavior and disapproval of the CIA. ‘It’s appalling,’ one official said. ‘No president has ever taken on the CIA and come out looking good.’”

That sounds like a threat.

And since US rulers ultimately strive to rule the world, it’s no surprise foreigners participate. Justin Raimondo informs, “Oh, the irony! Amid all the accusations of foreign interference in the election, the first solid indication of it showed up with the publication of a slanderous unsourced memo written by a ‘former’ British intelligence agent accusing Donald Trump of various ‘perversions’ and claiming he’s vulnerable to blackmail by those evil Russkies.”

So far these attacks have backfired, but they were hastily arranged and amateurish. With time and resources, future attacks will improve. Trump is smart to maintain his private security, but they’ll be blamed if he gets assassinated.

Originally published in the Dayton City Paper.