{"id":10218,"date":"2015-07-20T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2015-07-20T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T11:29:39","slug":"concentrated-wealth-widespread-stupidity-end-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10218","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-07-19\/concentrated-wealth-widespread-stupidity-end-democracy\" target=\"_blank\">Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s America is\u00a0not\u00a0a democracy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/09\/dark-money-networks_n_4234206.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDark Money Groups Are Funded By Dark Money Groups That Fund Dark Money\u00a0Groups That Fund\u2026&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That terrific investigative news report by Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post, on 9 November 2013,<strong>penetrated beyond what the U.S. oligarchy \u2014 or more traditionally called aristocracy \u2014 requires its dark-money groups to disclose to the Federal Election Commission; and so Blumenthal researched also into what dark-money groups are required to report to the IRS (America\u2019s tax-authorities).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This way, Blumenthal was able to discover, for example, that a &#8220;dark-money shell game allowed the Wisconsin Club for Growth to influence\u00a0the elections with both its own ads and those of seemingly unrelated\u00a0conservative groups with different public agendas. \u2026 The trail of cash moving from dark money nonprofit to dark money nonprofit\u00a0can be traced, in part, through public records of the groups contributing it,\u201d but\u00a0only\u00a0by accessing both FEC and IRS public records. And, even then, the picture was incomplete, because the 5-Republican bare majority, on<strong>\u00a0the infamous pro-aristocracy 2010 U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0Citizens United\u00a0decision, by five traitors to the U.S. Constitution (which all judges are sworn to protect), prohibits public access to a complete picture of how (like in that Wisconsin election) a few psychopathic billionaires, plus millions of faith-driven fools they sucker with myth-affirming lies, can destroy government of the people, by the people, for the people, and turn it instead into government of the people, by the aristocracy, for the aristocracy.\u00a0<\/strong>Blumenthal also showed the same billionaires+suckers system replacing democracy in other states. (<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/agency-to-enslave-greeks-is-established\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today\u2019s Greece is a more extreme case of the same thing.<\/a>\u00a0Perhaps what\u2019s today in Greece will betomorrow\u00a0in America.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy Today\u2019s America is\u00a0not\u00a0a democracy: \u201cDark Money Groups Are Funded By Dark Money Groups That Fund Dark Money\u00a0Groups That Fund\u2026&#8221; That terrific investigative news report by Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post, on 9 November 2013,penetrated beyond what the U.S. oligarchy \u2014 or more traditionally called aristocracy \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[204,4394,1167,443,1092,7405,834,838,5264,868],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-greece","tag-irs","tag-oligarchy","tag-paul-blumenthal","tag-us","tag-us-constitution","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10219,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions\/10219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}