May
17

Quotes of the day

Citizenship.


Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin may not be allowed to return to the United States after he renounced his citizenship to save millions in tax… The timing of the move has raised eyebrows since Singapore does not have a capital gains tax, which could vastly reduce his bill on any [IPO] payout… Despite leaving the U.S. [...]

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May
07

Catch and release in Afghanistan?

NATO commander insists, "We're succeeding."


Yesterday, both Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) reported back from their trip to Afghanistan that the Taliban are gaining strength rather than falling into disarray.  This revelation from the Washington Post about our detention policy in the theater might explain why, at least in part: The United States has for several [...]

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May
06

UN wants the US to return Native American lands

What could possibly go wrong?


I can’t imagine how this plan could possibly produce anything but a stunning success, can you? A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination. James Anaya, the UN [...]

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May
03

Go west, young man, go west! …Unless you’re into being successful

"The ninth circle of business hell."


I seem to recall, not too long ago, California Governor Jerry Brown saying that his state’s policies were about “California leading the country,” which, in turn, could serve as a model for “America potentially leading the world.” Yet again, Gov. Brown has provided an all-too-apt example of how these United States could indeed lead the [...]

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Apr
28

Video: Ecuador blatantly trying to defraud Chevron

"Sometimes the facts you need don't exist"


We’ve had far too much in the way of fun stories this weekend, so let’s get one more item in to get your blood pressure back into the red zone. As you may recall, various agents and legal entities (most from inside the United States) have been pursuing a extremely suspect lawsuit – to put [...]

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Apr
28

Friday night news dump: Obama bypasses Congress, funds Palestinian Authority

"Important to the national security interests of the United States."


Isn’t it funny what you can find out on Friday evening about what our executive branch does?  For instance, Agence France-Presse reported last night that Barack Obama bypassed Congress to send $192 million to the Palestinian Authority, claiming that national security required the US to put money into Mahmoud Abbas’ pocket: President Barack Obama has signed [...]

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Apr
27

GDP drops to 2.2% in Q1

Trends.


The US economy slowed in the first quarter of the year, dropping from the previous quarter’s 3.0% to 2.2%, according to the latest report from the Department of Commerce: Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual [...]

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Apr
26

SCHNEIDERMAN Op-Ed | Attacking The Foreclosure Crisis

Attacking The Foreclosure Crisis Op-Ed Published in New York Daily News Daily News- Attacking the foreclosure crisis: New York‘s attorney general pushes back on recent reports BY ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN In the last decade, the United States experienced the biggest housing bubble in the history of the world. When the bubble burst, Americans lost $7 trillion … Read more Related posts:
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Apr
25

Quotes of the day

Immigration.


“The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants—more than half of whom came illegally—the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped—and may have reversed, according to a new analysis by [...]

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Apr
24

Adiós Gringos | Pew Report – For First Time Since Depression, More Mexicans Leave U.S. Than Enter

Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants—more than half of whom came illegally—the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped—and … Read more Related posts:
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Apr
07

Jesus Went to the Temple and Challenged the Banking System of His Day, Now it is Our Turn

”Isn’t it high time to admit that mortgage lending in the United States and the foreclosures that have followed are so tainted by fraud, abuse and illegality that a moratorium on all foreclosures, everywhere, is the only just response?” He described filing of falsified documents to facilitate foreclosures as ”likely the greatest fraud ever perpetrated … Read more Related posts:
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Apr
05

Report | THE BANKS ARE BACK OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT – Discrimination in the Maintenance and Marketing of REO Properties

THE BANKS ARE BACK – OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT Discrimination in the Maintenance and Marketing of REO Properties EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the foreclosure crisis continues to affect 1 in 69 households across the United States, or roughly 2.7 million families in 2011, banks are repossessing an unprecedented number of properties.1 As a result, a related … Read more Related posts:
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  2. GAO Report | VACANT PROPERTIES – Growing Number Increases Communities’ Costs and Challenges
  3. Fraudclosuregate | More Banks Walking Away from Homes, Adding to Housing Crisis
Mar
30

ARKANSAS | JOHNATHAN D DIAL ET AL V DEUTSCHE BANK NAT ET AL – Deutsche Bank Wasn’t Cleared To Foreclose, Suit Says

Deutsche Bank Wasn’t Cleared To Foreclose In Ark., Suit Says Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. was hit Thursday with a proposed class action in Arkansas seeking a declaration that the bank ... Related posts:
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Mar
20

The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law (VIDEO)

The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946. ~ 4closureFraud.org TweetRelated posts: WPTV WPB | Impact 5: The Foreclosure Battle (VIDEO) Video – Attorney Signatures – The Next Fraud Battle Ground UNITED STATES v. … Read more Related posts:
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Mar
20

The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law (VIDEO)

The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946. ~ 4closureFraud.org TweetRelated posts: Video – Attorney Signatures – The Next Fraud Battle Ground WPTV WPB | Impact 5: The Foreclosure Battle (VIDEO) Fox Business Video … Read more Related posts:
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Mar
09

Fisker: Dog bites Karma

That's one fine looking car on that flatbed.


The last time we checked in on our friends at Fisker, the news was less than sunny. The rising star in green technology, after receiving significant taxpayer funding, was laying off workers. And the vehicles they were going to build were being manufactured in Finland instead of providing jobs here in the United States. But [...]

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Mar
08

The American Dream | 35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America

35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In Americ #14 About twice as many new homes were sold in the United States in 1965 as are being sold today. #15 Home prices in the 4th quarter of 2011 were four percent lower than they were during the 4th quarter of 2010. Overall, … Read more Related posts:
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Mar
05

Quotes of the day

Ambiguity.


“In a high-stakes meeting at the White House, Obama stressed that there’s ‘still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution’ to the Iranian nuclear threat and that the United States, together with other nations, would continue to ‘tighten pressure’ on the regime through stiffer sanctions in the coming months. “Even before their two-hour meeting [...]

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Mar
05

McCain: Hey, let’s bomb Syria

What could go wrong?


After a week of Afghans rampaging over burned Korans, a series of Islamist landslides in Egypt’s elections, and now grave desecration at a war cemetery for Allied heroes in Libya, anyone else eager to risk more American lives to help? “Foreign capitals across the world are looking to the United States to lead, especially now [...]

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Mar
05

Another intellect we’ll miss: Political scientist and true scholar James Q. Wilson passes away

1931-2012.


James Q. Wilson has been called “the smartest man in the United States,” “the Sinatra of social science” and “a man as distinctive as the Q” that served as his middle initial. His death last Friday at age 80 represents the loss of a rare and brilliant illuminant for conservatives (although Wilson once wrote that [...]

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Mar
03

Poor America – P a n o r a m a [B B C] | 1.5 Million American Children Now Homeless (VIDEO)

POOR AMERICA With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, P a n o … Read more Related posts:
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Mar
01

Two more U.S. troops killed by “gunmen” in Afghanistan

"Calm."


One of the gunmen: An Afghan soldier. Of course. Like I said yesterday, O’s defense of his apology as a utilitarian device to try to save lives was good. The part about things having “calmed down”? Not so much: Another two United States soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday when an Afghan soldier in [...]

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Feb
23

Video: The Great Gibson Guitar Raid … Months later, still no charges

Overcriminalization.


Last August, the federal government raided a Gibson Guitar factory and confiscated property worth at least $500,000. What had Gibson Guitars done wrong? They had imported wood from India and failed to follow every “jot and tittle” of the regulatory law … not of the United States, but of India. Apparently, Gibson used an inappropriate [...]

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Feb
14

Video: Are you ready for Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter?

Oh, you're ready.


To cleanse the palate. Nearly a hundred years ago, Mencken began an essay on Lincoln this way: “Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; [...]

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Feb
14

Video: Are you ready for Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter?

Oh, you're ready.


To cleanse the palate. Nearly a hundred years ago, Mencken began an essay on Lincoln this way: “Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; [...]

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Feb
06

Near-majority approves of military force against Iran to stop nuclear-weapon development

Moon base flop.


How far should the US go to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon?  A new poll from The Hill shows that 49% of Americans would support military action by the US to stop Iran from developing or acquiring a nuclear weapon, with only 31% opposed: Nearly half of likely voters think the United States [...]

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Feb
04

10th Circuit Appeal | In re: MARK STANLEY MILLER “Deutsche Bank presented evidence that IndyMac had indorsed the Note in blank. Is proof of this indorsement sufficient. As we shall see, it is not”

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Jan
31

US intelligence warns Iran poised to conduct terror attacks in US

Asymmetrical.


During the debates, Rep. Ron Paul often wonders aloud why the US should fear an Iranian nuclear weapon.  I’d call this a good reason: U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said [...]

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Jan
23

UNITED STATES v. JONES | Supremes Rule Covert GPS Is a “Search”

The Market Ticker – Supremes Rule Covert GPS Is a “Search” by Karl Denninger Hoh hoh! No. 10–1259. Argued November 8, 2011—Decided January 23, 2012 The Government obtained a search warrant permitting it to install a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle registered to respondent Jones’s wife. The warrant authorized installation in the District … Read more No related posts.
Jan
20

Citizens United Anniversary | Citizens United v. FEC – What it Means for Democracy

The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v FEC allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money directly from their treasuries buying ads supporting (or attacking) candidates for office. A quick summary of what that means and what it will take to overturn that decision. ~ 4closureFraud.org Tweet Related posts: Hacker Collective Anonymous Issues … Read more Related posts:
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