WHERE THERE IS A LAWYER, THERE IS A BLOOD SUCKING PARASITE!
Sarah Chayes uses her considerable analytical skills to tell the story of corruption in America and the scale of our current corrupt systems, exemplified by the network of Corporations, politicians, enabling lawyers and other agencies who have effectively corroded in the furtherance of their profit, all that was good and just and egalitarian in US society. Please read, please vow to support the changes she calls for. Our morality, our souls are at stake.
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
Kamala Harris Failed to Investigate Client of Husband’s Law Firm
as California Attorney General
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-bribes-suckers-senator-dianne.html
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
failed as California’s attorney general declined to investigate faulty
advertising claims against one of the nation’s leading nutritional supplement
companies, which also happened to be a client of her husband’s law firm.
As California’s chief law enforcement officer between 2011 and
2017, Harris racked up a record as a tough on crime prosecutor. From cracking down on school truancy to opposing marijuana legalization—with more than 1900 people
being prosecuted for possession of the drug under her tenure—Harris was
California’s self-acknowledged “top cop.”
That record, however, did not extend to clients of Venable LLP,
the law firm where Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, was a high-profile
partner. Harris, in particular, failed on numerous
occasions to investigate the nutritional supplement giant Herbalife. At
the time, Herbalife was a high-profile client of Venable, paying the firm
hundreds of thousands of dollars for its legal services every year.
GET THIS BOOK ON AMERICA’S RULING CLASS KLEPTOCRACY
On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake BY SARAH
CHAYES
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Hardcover : 432 pages
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ISBN-10 : 0525654852
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ISBN-13 : 978-0525654858
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Sarah Chayes uses her considerable analytical skills to tell the story of corruption in America and the scale of our current corrupt systems, exemplified by the network of Corporations, politicians, enabling lawyers and other agencies who have effectively corroded in the furtherance of their profit, all that was good and just and egalitarian in US society. Please read, please vow to support the changes she calls for. Our morality, our souls are at stake.
On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake
From
the prizewinning journalist, internationally recognized expert on corruption in
government networks throughout the world, author of Thieves of State:
Why Corruption Threatens Global Security ("I can't imagine a more
important book for our time,"--Sebastian Junger; "Required reading,"--Tom
Friedman; "compelling, fascinating . . . a call to action,"--The
Huffington Post), a major, unflinching book that looks homeward to America,
exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present,
and precarious future.
Now, bringing to bear all of her knowledge, grasp, sense of
history and observation, Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some
of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, as Chayes sees it, is
an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials,
key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main
objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members.
From the titans of America's Gilded Age (Carnegie,
Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929,
the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking,
bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth, as well as the
Kennedy presidency, to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution, undermining
the middle class and the unions; from the Clinton policies of political favors
and personal enrichment to Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption,
systematically undoing the Constitution and our laws, Chayes shows how corrupt
systems are organized, how they enforce the rules so their crimes are covered
legally, how they are overlooked and downplayed--shrugged off with a roll of
the eyes--by the richer and better educated, how they become an overt principle
determining the shape of our government, affecting all levels of society.
Top reviews from the United
States
The 21st
century successor to Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair
Reviewed
in the United States on August 14, 2020
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Reading Sarah Chayes's descriptions of Gilded
Age and modern kleptocracy from Reagan to Trump, I couldn't help remembering
Upton Sinclairs' observation that he had aimed for the nation's heart with his
novel _The Jungle_ but hit its stomach. Chayes's history of the Gilded Age, in
my opinion, is at least as good if not better than Howard Zinn's and Thomas
Frank's, and some of her detailed descriptions of American corruption from 1873
to present often made me feel physically ill.
Not a few money-obsessed Democrats come in for scathing criticism alongside the
expected bevy of Republicans (including the heirs to the Dixiecrats). It is not
a matter of party or class per se: Chayes argues, correctly I think, that the
Great Depression and World War II not only enabled the fulfillment of many of
the goals of the strikers and protestors of the six decades from 1873 to 1933
but also taught most Americans a kind of social empathy that has been systematically
and deliberately attacked by networks of moneyed interests from 1980 to the
present day.
Some readers may be a bit put off by Chayes's reliance on Greek and Christian
allegories for thematic continuity, but I appreciated them. In any case, she
more than redeems herself by drawing from her personal experiences in
"third world" nations to expose, again and again, the hubris of
Americans like Trump, whose infamous comment about "shithole" African
countries reveals so much of the kleptocratic mindset and his personal
psychopathy.
Chayes offers many specific ideas for digging ourselves out of the quagmire of
kleptocracy and corruption, but no simple solutions. Given climate change and
the COVID-19 pandemic, will we survive long enough to pursue them, let alone
turn the tide?
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