{"id":3935,"date":"2010-05-08T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2010-05-08T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:36:52","slug":"plunder-the-crime-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/05\/08\/plunder-the-crime-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qDnoxBT675U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qDnoxBT675U&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\u00a0\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Interview of Danny Schecter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/podcast\/audio\/the_crime_of_our_time_20100505\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to hear James Harris interview  Danny Schechter.<\/p>\n<p>Some phrases I jotted down from the interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jailout not just a bailout<\/p>\n<p>MEGO &#8211; My eyes glaze over (does this pertain to Steve&#8217;s Politics Blog?)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Web site for the movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.PlunderTheCrimeOfOurTime.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PlunderTheCrimeOfOurTime.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts sued Goldman Sachs for intentionally designing mortgages to fail. Goldman Sachs settled.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t the only ones doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Needs pressure from the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You have to <a title=\"Reviews of Plunder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plunderthecrimeofourtime.com\/reviews.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the reviews<\/strong><\/a> of <em>Plunder: Crime Of Our Time<\/em> posted on its web site.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about this quote from the web site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;When  plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>\u2013 Political economist Frederic  Bastiat,                  The Law [1850]<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps this is the reason our good jobs are being outsourced.  The business of America has become financial crime.  We can&#8217;t be wasting our time on doing productive stuff.  It just doesn&#8217;t pay as well.  Who said crime doesn&#8217;t pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Follow this link to hear James Harris interview Danny Schechter. Some phrases I jotted down from the interview: Jailout not just a bailout MEGO &#8211; My eyes glaze over (does this pertain to Steve&#8217;s Politics Blog?) PlunderTheCrimeOfOurTime.com Massachusetts sued Goldman Sachs for intentionally designing mortgages to fail. Goldman Sachs settled.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}