NEVER AGAIN Say OWS Is Failing: AG Schneiderman Credits OWS for Renewed Pursuit of Bankers. This morning on MSNBC, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told Chris Hayes that "the people's uprising" should be credited for renewed efforts to investigate and prosecute big banks. The people's uprising, of course, is Occupy Wall Street, and the renewed efforts about which Schneiderman speaks is a "nationwide probe of wrongdoing in the mortgage-backed securities market" that he has just been named to co-lead.
Schneiderman's (nearly) direct reference to Occupy Wall Street as a motivating impetus for the national probe explicitly confirms what many have been arguing: that the nation's protest movement has shaken the halls of government at its deepest levels by transforming the national conversation. Our collective obsession, fed by the talking heads, is no longer on the deficit. Instead, a major focus is now on the connection between income inequality and financial corruption. "Banks Got Bailed Out. Joe Garofoli of the San Fransisco Chronicle wrote after the SOTU address: Want your mind BLOWN? Watch this video! Prince William is the Antichrist! When? 2015! Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. Open Assembly.
Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain. An electronic database called MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems) has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their title records are in hopeless disarray. Meanwhile, foreclosed and abandoned homes are blighting neighborhoods. Straightening out the records and restoring the homes to occupancy is clearly in the public interest, and the burden is on local government to do it. But how? New legal developments are presenting some innovative alternatives. John O'Brien is register of deeds for Southern Essex County, Massachusetts. Only 16 percent of the mortgage assignments were valid. At the root of the problem is that title has been recorded in the name of a private entity called MERS as a mere placeholder for the true owners.
What this means is that ... the institutions - including many pension funds - that purchased these mortgages don't actually own them.... WikiRebels - WikiLeaks Documentary | WATCH FULL MOVIE ONLINE - Occupy Wall Street Videos. "Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version - Openleaks.org!
Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? Tags: assange, bradley, cablegate, ccc, collateral, daniel, domscheit-berg, freedom, hacktivism, information, More…julian, lamo, manning, murder, schmitt, speech, svt, war, wikileaks ▶ Reply to This.
7 of the Nastiest Scams, Rip-Offs and Tricks From Wall Street Crooks. From AlterNet by Dave Johnson How many high-level Wall Street players have been put in jail for the crimes that led to the financial crisis? Not. Even. How many high-level Wall Street players have been put in jail for the crimes that led to the financial crisis? Last week several executives from the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,”were sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for civil fraud. These stories barely even reveal the tip of the iceberg of financial malfeasance.
Given these recent developments, the end of a bad year seems like a good time to take a look back at just a few examples of what was, and in too many cases, still is going on. They got bailed out … will We, the People continue to get sold out? 1. Banks never had the proper documentation for these loans, after handing them out to anyone with a pulse, and slicing and dicing them through securitization. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
2nd-Bill-of-Rights. The Secret of Oz (by Mr Bill Still) MLK assassinated by US government: King family civil trial 1999 decision. Why didn’t you know this? « The World Today. Occupationalist / Covering the Occupy movement as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.