Feb
09
Fraudclosure Deal – You Have Been Sold Out
The Market Ticker – Fraudclosure — You Have Been Sold Out And people wonder why there are more and more folks who are saying (or should say) “**** it”, throw their hands in the air, make no investment in capital formation and just walk off? A multistate settlement with five large U.S. banks over foreclosure … Read more
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Feb
09
The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement
The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement As readers may know by now, 49 of 50 states have agreed to join the so-called mortgage settlement, with Oklahoma the lone refusenik. Although the fine points are still being hammered out, various news outlets (New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal) have … Read more
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Feb
07
Daniel Fisher, Forbes Staff | The Primary Cause of The Financial Crisis “Borrowers not paying their mortgages”
Mortgage Settlement Talks Look Like Tobacco II First he starts out with… Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Politically ambitious state attorneys general target an unpopular industry with lawsuits based on creative legal theories that would stand a tough time in court. Their sheer legal might brings the other side to the negotiating … Read more
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Feb
07
Daniel Fisher, Forbes Staff | The Primary Cause of The Financial Crisis “Borrowers not paying their mortgages”
Mortgage Settlement Talks Look Like Tobacco II First he starts out with… Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Politically ambitious state attorneys general target an unpopular industry with lawsuits based on creative legal theories that would stand a tough time in court. Their sheer legal might brings the other side to the negotiating … Read more
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Feb
06
Sharpton: Obama needs to dictate to the Catholic Church to maintain separation of church and state, or something
"If you are offended by the theology of the Catholic church, then do not work for Catholic institutions."
Someone has a very confused idea about the separation of church and state, and surprisingly, it’s the Reverend in this Morning Joe panel today. Working off of Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column from Saturday, Al Sharpton argues that Barack Obama had to dictate to the Catholic Church to violate its religious tenets in order [...]
Feb
06
In South Florida, Occupy Movement Targets Housing Crisis
In South Florida, Occupy movement targets housing crisis After months of noisy protests and public-space encampments, South Florida’s Occupy movement has quietly shifted its focus to “occupying” houses to support homeowners caught in the foreclosure crisis. The initiative represents a new tactic for Occupy groups in Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County and Miami that in … Read more
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Feb
04
Charles Ferguson Director of the Wall Street Documentary ‘Inside Job’ – Let Them Eat Task Forces
“Criminal prosecutions of banks? Zero. Criminal prosecutions of senior financial executives related to the bubble? Zero. RICO cases, such as were used against Michael Milken and are routinely used against drug dealers and other organized criminals to seize their assets and forfeit their ill-gotten gains? Zero. Sarbanes-Oxley prosecutions, based on CEOs’ certification of obviously fraudulent … Read more
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Feb
04
NY Times | S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks WASHINGTON — Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street in the last decade, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments specifically meant to apply to fraud cases. By granting exemptions to laws and regulations that … Read more
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Feb
03
Obama loses Wall Street?
He'll always have Corzine.
No surprise to you and me, but apparently this comes as quite a shock to the Huffington Post. Paul Blumenthal reports that Democrats sputter that Wall Street never had it so good, but perhaps the investors in the world of finance might know a bad stock when they see it. Obama has been outraised in [...]
Jan
31
WSJ: Say, Jindal’s education reform works pretty well, huh?
Hint. Hint. Hint.
What a great time for the Wall Street Journal to bring up this topic. After all, the Republican candidates in the nomination battle have focused their arguments on actual competition-based reform and results, right? Oh, wait … we’ve been too busy discussing 1997, 2003, and the finer points of class-warfare attacks on private enterprise and [...]
Jan
30
MF Global money “vaporized”?
What's $1.2 billion between friends?
It sounds as if investigators looking for over a billion dollars in customer money in the wake of the collapse of MF Global have begun to despair of finding any. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the probe thus far strongly suggests that the money got “vaporized” in a labyrinth of shady trading and [...]
Jan
27
Occupy Palm Beach Foreclosure Fraud Teach-In Sunday Jan 29 1-3pm
Sunday, Jan. 29, 1-3 p.m. Teach-In on Foreclosure Fraud Thousands of homeowners throughout Palm Beach County, and many more throughout the country, are being foreclosed on, even evicted, often through the greed and fraud of the big banks, law firms and mortgage companies that crashed our nation’s economy in 2008. But the 99% are fighting … Read more
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Jan
27
CREDO | Update on our campaign to send Wall Street bankers to jail
Update on our campaign to send Wall Street bankers to jail. After months of activism from people like you, President Obama announced in his State of the Union speech the creation of a new task force to investigate and hold banks accountable for causing the foreclosure crisis and financial meltdown. The task force will have … Read more
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Jan
26
Ellen Brown | WHY ALL THE ROBO-SIGNING? SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM
WHY ALL THE ROBO-SIGNING? SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the “robo-signing” scandal. The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, … Read more
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- Ellen Brown | Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain
Jan
25
GAO Report | HOMELESS WOMEN VETERANS Doubles from 2006 – Actions Needed to Ensure Safe and Appropriate Housing
HOMELESS WOMEN VETERANS Actions Needed to Ensure Safe and Appropriate Housing The number of homeless female military veterans more than doubled from 2006 to 2010, according to new government estimates. Acknowledging “limited VA data,” homeless female vets numbered 3,328 in 2010, according to a report by the General Accounting Office published on Monday, up from … Read more
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Jan
25
Mic Check! Occupy Wall Street Offers a Rebuttal to State of the Union #OWS
Mic check! Occupy Wall Street offers a rebuttal to State of the Union Everybody’s got a response to the State of the Union these days — including Occupy Wall Street. Or at least a branch of Occupiers in D.C. do. They were supposed to deliver it live post-State of the Union in McPherson Square … Read more
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Jan
25
CNN: Law Enforcement Is Intimidated By Anonymous (VIDEO)
~ 4closureFraud.org Tweet Related posts: Message From Anonymous | You And I Have Not (VIDEO) September 17th 2011 | Hello Wall Street – We Are Anonymous (Video) Anonymous | Occupy The Planet #OCCUPYWALLSTREET (Spread This Video Like the Plague)
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Jan
24
Action Alert | Call the FL House Civil Justice Committee to Oppose the Florida (un)Fair Foreclosure Act Now HB213!
General Bill by Passidomo (CO-SPONSORS) Moraitis Judicial Proceedings: Designates act “Florida Fair Foreclosure Act”; revises requirements for acknowledgement of satisfaction of mortgage, lien, or judgment; provides requirements for mortgage foreclosure complaints; requires party foreclosing on specified owner-occupied dwellings to provide specified notice; provides for finality of foreclosure; requires certain actions to set aside foreclosure to … Read more
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Jan
23
Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk suffers stroke
Our best wishes for a full recovery.
The Republican senator elected in 2010 to fill the seat once occupied by Barack Obama suffered a stroke Saturday and underwent surgery today to repair related damage, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Mr. [Mark] Kirk, 51 years old and a freshman Republican, checked himself into Lake Forest Hospital on Saturday, and doctors found [...]
Jan
23
Action Alert | Call the White House right now and tell them to launch a full investigation into Wall Street
BREAKING NEWS: It’s the eleventh hour and the White House is about to strike a deal with big banks. President Obama wants to be able to point to a big bank foreclosure settlement in Tuesday’s State of the Union as a measure of progress towards more Wall Street accountability. But the deal on the table … Read more
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Jan
23
Lee Camp | Occupy Congress – Live Performance In The Belly Of The Beast
Explicit Language So Viewer Discretion Advised Lee Camp performed live in our nation’s capital just last week, on the four-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Immediately following this performance the thousands who were there stormed the steps of the Supreme Court and the White House. ~ 4closureFraud.org Tweet Related posts: Lee Camp | The Numbers … Read more
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Jan
22
Newt Gingrich, outsider?
About as much as Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
This morning, in his appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Newt Gingrich continued to develop a theme he hinted at last night: That he represents neither Washington nor Wall Street, but the American people. Toward the end of his appearance, Gingrich positioned himself as an outsider candidate, willing to cut spending and take on [...]
Jan
19
Ohio | Sen Brown to Feds: Don’t Let Wall Street Banks Use the Assets of Middle Class Ohioans to Pay the Penalty for Breaking the Law
Brown to Feds: Don’t Let Wall Street Banks Use the Assets of Middle Class Ohioans to Pay the Penalty for Breaking the Law As Big Banks Prepare to Settle Case on Mortgage and Foreclosure Fraud, Brown Urges Involved Parties to Reject Wall Street Plan to Allow Banks to Use the Assets of Hardworking Americans to … Read more
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Jan
18
Abigail Field | Our Morally Bankrupt Government, Justice Part II: Defending the Rule of Law
Our Morally Bankrupt Government, Justice Part II: Defending the Rule of Law My last post detailed how the Justice Department abandoned the principle of equality before the law in its Financial Meltdown enforcement efforts. This post focuses on Justice’s efforts–and lack thereof–to defend our legal system and the rule of law it relies on. The … Read more
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