{"id":9767,"date":"2012-01-21T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:41:33","slug":"banksters-and-gangsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/01\/21\/banksters-and-gangsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksters and Gangsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the link to this video in <em>The Real News<\/em> article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/component\/hwdvideoshare\/?task=viewvideo&#038;video_id=72810\" title=\"The Real News story\" target=\"_blank\">Banksters and Gangsters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRRYgZ6XqBA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nDylan Ratigan talks to Eliot Spitzer, former NY Attorney General, on what&#8217;s wrong with Wall Street, and what needs changing in the $700 Trillion-plus global swaps market, which our tax dollars subsidize. Part of it should be deemed &#8220;online gaming&#8221; they say.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To clarify, they are doing &#8220;online gaming&#8221; with your pension fund unbeknownst to you.<\/p>\n<p>I know that Eliot Spitzer speaks very rapidly, but I hope you can get an understanding of what he is describing in amongst the jargon and the rapid fire delivery.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet another explanation as to the way in which some of the ultra-rich get that way by gambling and scamming rather than working hard at useful pursuits.  They get rich by ripping you off, not by selling a product or service that helps you in any way.<\/p>\n<p>With enough repetition of the many ways this ripoff is legalized, I am hoping that enough people will hear about this so as to get a clue at what is being done to them in the name of not being socialist or European.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the link to this video in The Real News article Banksters and Gangsters. Dylan Ratigan talks to Eliot Spitzer, former NY Attorney General, on what&#8217;s wrong with Wall Street, and what needs changing in the $700 Trillion-plus global swaps market, which our tax dollars subsidize. Part of it should be deemed &#8220;online gaming&#8221; [&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-9767","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\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}