{"id":2441642,"date":"2019-03-12T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/climate-change-racketeering\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T02:32:00","slug":"climate-change-racketeering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/climate-change-racketeering\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Racketeering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One of the favorite models of accomplishing organized crime payoffs is the ancient racketeering model. Racketeering steps are always the same:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">1. Create a problem \u2014 real or illusioned \u2014 that is where propaganda comes in<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">2. Say you will solve the problem \u2014 in exchange for money and control<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">3. If that is not enough bribe, coerce<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">4. Cycle through steps 1 through 3 over and over and over<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If you think this sounds like the climate change \u201csettled science\u201d scam, you are correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mark Kwiecienski<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/climate-change-racketeering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the favorite models of accomplishing organized crime payoffs is the ancient racketeering model. Racketeering steps are always the same: 1. Create a problem \u2014 real or illusioned \u2014 that is where propaganda comes in 2. Say you will solve the problem \u2014 in exchange for money and control 3. If that is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 06:28:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}