{"id":1734,"date":"2012-12-11T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:56:25","slug":"more-signs-of-the-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/more-signs-of-the-oligarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"More signs of the oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four huge corporate power grabs possibly worse than Citizens United<br \/>\nThese court cases offer a chilling reminder how close America has come to becoming an outright plutocracy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/09\/4_huge_corporate_power_grabs_that_never_came_to_pass\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/09\/4_huge_corporate_power_grabs_that_never_came_to_pass\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This author chooses to use the term &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plutocracy\">plutocracy<\/a>&#8216; where I use &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oligarchy\">oligarchy<\/a>&#8216;, but I think the terms are largely interchangeable (basically, plutocracy is rule by wealth, oligarchy is &#8216;simply&#8217; rule by a small group of people).  However, I think it really is more honest to use the term &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kleptocracy\">kleptocracy<\/a>&#8216; because they really are stealing from the middle class by virtue of their control of the reins of government.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the article is interesting because it helps to detail how your rights are going away.  Just like our Constitution has been steadily repealed over the last couple of decades (greatly <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/06\/slip-slidin-away\/\">accelerated<\/a> over the <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/04\/how-the-police-state-works\/\">last 4 years<\/a>),  your rights as a citizen to expect law to support your actions equally with that of the biggest corporate entities has been steadily eroding.<\/p>\n<p>Just thought you would like to know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four huge corporate power grabs possibly worse than Citizens United These court cases offer a chilling reminder how close America has come to becoming an outright plutocracy http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/09\/4_huge_corporate_power_grabs_that_never_came_to_pass\/ This author chooses to use the term &#8216;plutocracy&#8216; where I use &#8216;oligarchy&#8216;, but I think the terms are largely interchangeable (basically, plutocracy is rule by wealth, oligarchy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/more-signs-of-the-oligarchy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More signs of the oligarchy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,12,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}