{"id":989,"date":"2012-05-10T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=989"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:12:55","slug":"blood-boiling-litany-of-how-the-oligarchy-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/10\/blood-boiling-litany-of-how-the-oligarchy-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood boiling litany of how the oligarchy works&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it &#8211; with a big assist Congress and the White House.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes it is a long article, but if you give a damn about your country you need to read it so at least you know in your bones that the apocalypse (for the 99%, anyway) is right around the corner.  As I have said earlier in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/why-the-rich-dont-care-about-a-robust-economy\/\">Why the rich don\u2019t care about a robust economy<\/a>&#8220;, the 99% is on the fast slide to abject poverty.  It is only if you somehow manage to leap up and claw your way into the upper echelons of the 1% that you will have any chance at economic survival.  <\/p>\n<p>It is quite likely that the oligarchy will continue our farcical &#8216;democracy&#8217; for a while (as it is doing so now by allowing our current silly-assed Presidential election where the daylight between the two is essentially nonexistent), it gives the sheeple a target for their angst.  Sort of like the cape of the matador gives the bull a target for its wrath.<\/p>\n<p>Man I wish I could retreat to ignorant bliss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform It&#8217;s bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it &#8211; with a big assist Congress and the White House. http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510 Yes it is a long article, but if you give a damn about your country you need to read it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/10\/blood-boiling-litany-of-how-the-oligarchy-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood boiling litany of how the oligarchy works&#8230;&#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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}