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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Regulatory capture, lobbying, Israeli control over US politics, the Rothschilds, Zionism, War Profiteering, Military-Industrial Complex, Corporate Banking, Federal Debt and Centralized Banking, Debt slavery, societal engineering, media and schooling, intelligence agencies, the 0.01%, Billionaires, authoritarian governmental systems, divide and conquer, and many other things that affect us all.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good stuff.

The legal bribery known as lobbying reminded me of a couple other little/lesser-known "privileges" of Washington...

  • Sealed secret settlements and taxpayer-funded payoffs of all (hundreds of) sexual offences by senate.

  • Legal insider trading for congress. I learned about this from The Daily Show back when.

== CONGRESS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT SETTLEMENTS (taxpayer-funded) ==

"Congress paid out $17 million in settlements. Here's why we know so little about that money." https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html

" On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases. "

" When was this money paid out? According to a report from the Office of Compliance, more than $17 million has been paid out in settlements over a period of 20 years -- 1997 to 2017. "

" How many settlements have there been? According to the OOC data released Thursday, there have been 268 settlements. On Wednesday, Rep. Jackie Speier, the California Democrat who unveiled a bill to reform the OOC, announced at a news conference Wednesday that there had been 260 settlements. The previous tally did not include settlements paid in 2015, 2016 and 2017. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Office_of_Compliance

More recently:

"Congress Passes Sexual Harassment Bill By Unanimous Consent" https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/senate-passes-sexual-harassment-bill-unanimous-consent

" The bill, which is expected on the House floor next week, overhauls the reporting and resolution process established as part of the 1995 law that governs workplace harassment and discrimination claims in Congress, dubbed the Congressional Accountability Act. “The process we have will now protect victims of harassment instead of protecting politicians,” said Klobuchar. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Accountability_Act_of_1995

== SENATE INSIDER TRADING ==

"How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law" https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law

I vividly recall the following Daily Show episode, where I learned about this, and would LOVE to find a copy of it. (I'm blocked in Canada from all ComedyCentral content. We have the Comedy Channel or something.) The dates are odd, so maybe there were 2 shows on it.

The Daily Bail "Jon Stewart Blasts Congress For Gutting STOCK Act" (2013-05-01) : http://dailybail.com/home/jon-stewart-blasts-congress-for-gutting-stock-act.html

"Jon Stewart Tears Up Congress For Quietly Scaling Back Insider Trading Law: The ‘F*cker Act’" (2013-04-23) : https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-tears-up-congress-for-quietly-scaling-back-insider-trading-law-the-fcker-act/

"Jon Stewart Takes On ‘Political Intelligence’ vs. Insider Trading In Washington (VIDEO)" (2012-02-16) : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/jon-stewart-takes-on-political-intelligence-video_n_1281655.html

"Why Is Congress Allowed Insider Trading? Stock Market Laws - House Debate (2012)" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N3HN9aZGcI

"Corruption is Legal in America" (2015-04-30) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

== More US GOVERNMENT VILLAINS (acknowledged by corporate media Wikipedia) ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_United_States_political_sexual_scandals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_state_and_local_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_expelled_or_censured

== Another Way MARKETS ARE RIGGED ==

Fed Rez, Federal Debt, Centralized Banking, etc all fictions. Debt slavery is real. I used to worry that there was going to be another crash in 2016 but didn't know how it would affect the Presidential Race, then 2017 to some degree. It seemed strange how it wasn't plummeting. And then I learned. Here's another fascinating piece of corrupt shit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Group_on_Financial_Markets

"President's secret 'Plunge Protection Team'..." https://steemit.com/markets/@sirknight/president-s-secret-plunge-protection-team

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plunge-protection-team.asp

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