{"id":27486,"date":"2017-10-31T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27486"},"modified":"2017-10-31T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:11:16","slug":"how-the-us-aristocracy-deceive-the-us-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27486","title":{"rendered":"How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/10\/31\/or-39849.jpg\" alt=\"How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/10\/31\/how-us-aristocracy-deceive-us-public.html\">How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The progressive former Democratic US Senator Ted Kaufman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tedkaufman\/2014\/07\/22\/after-four-years-of-dodd-frank-were-still-waiting-for-wall-street-reform\/#7ecd755b3a0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tedkaufman\/2014\/07\/22\/after-four-years-of-dodd-frank-were-still-waiting-for-wall-street-reform\/#7ecd755b3a0d\">wrote at\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>, on 22 July 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Another year has passed with no one from a Wall Street bank going to jail for the criminal behavior everyone knows helped cause the financial crisis. Fines against Wall Street banks are reaching $100 billion, but all will be paid by stockholders. Bank CEOs and managers pay no fines and face no prison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There has been no reform \u2014 zilch, nada \u2014 of the credit-rating agencies. They are right back rating securities from issuers who pay them for their ratings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you still can\u2019t trust the credit-rating on a bond, and if Wall Street\u2019s bigs still stand immune from the law even after the 2008 crash they had played a huge role to cause, then in what way can the US Government itself be called a \u2018democracy\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Kaufman tries to get the American public interested in overcoming the US Government\u2019s profound top-level corruption, but few US politicians join with him on that, because only few American voters understand that a corrupt government (especially one that\u2019s corrupt at the very top) cannot even\u00a0<em>possibly<\/em>\u00a0be a democratic government.<\/p>\n<p>However, America\u2019s aristocracy are even more corrupt than Wall Street itself is, and they control Wall Street, behind the scenes. And their \u2018news\u2019media are under strict control to portray America as being still a democratic country that somehow lives up to its anti-aristocratic and anti-imperialistic Founders\u2019 intentions and Constitution. Maybe all that remains of those Founders\u2019 intentions today is that Britain\u2019s aristocracy no longer rules America \u2014 but America\u2019s aristocracy now does, instead. And, this isn\u2019t much, if any, of an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public The progressive former Democratic US Senator Ted Kaufman\u00a0wrote at\u00a0Forbes, on 22 July 2014: Another year has passed with no one from a Wall Street bank going to jail for the criminal behavior everyone knows helped cause the financial crisis. Fines against Wall Street banks are reaching $100 [&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":[4863,63,2954,204,4394,8203,16806,843,1669],"class_list":["post-27486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-aristocracy","tag-banks","tag-deception","tag-democracy","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-ted-kaufman","tag-us-government","tag-wall-street-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27486","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=27486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27486\/revisions\/27487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}