Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here’s how we fix it.

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who’s in power. Lessig says that this fundamental breakdown of the democratic system must be fixed before we will ever be able to address major challenges like climate change, social security, and student debt. This is not the most important problem, it’s just the first problem.
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Maui County Hawaii Leads America in Regulating Corporate Power

A step closer to getting big money out of politics
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November 3, 2015
By ARIANNA FEINBERG (ariannafeinberg@gmail.com)

50005340-10542-001_VictorinoThank you, Maui County Council, under the leadership of Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Victorino, for passing Resolution 15-124 “Requesting Maui County’s Congressional Delegation to Support an Amendment to the

United States Constitution to Permit Congress and the States to Regulate the Influence of Corporate Power on the Political System.”

This resolution shows our County Council’s support of overturning the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision, which made it legal for corporations and other special interests to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, as long as they are “uncoordinated” with candidates. Continue reading

Trick or Treat – Wall Street Modification Scams

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Thank you Ellen Brown. See the latest: Killing Off Community Banks: Intended Consequence of Dodd-Frank?  https://www.laprogressive.com/killing-off-community-banks/

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The Big Short Trailer (2015) ‐ Paramount Pictures

Send the judges, state courts, appellate & Supreme Court Justices tickets to the movie!

Our first book read cover to cover and it exposes everything… not fiction! This is the real thing. If the movie is anything like the book – suggest your entire neighborhood see this flick so they’ll  begin to understand just why the economy has not recovered. Continue reading

The Revolving Door Is Spinning Out of Control. Can It Be Slowed?

The Revolving Door Is Spinning Out of Control. Can It Be Slowed?

Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin announce the introduction of the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act on July 15.

Five years to the day after the Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Act, Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland gathered for a press conference in the Capitol to announce legislation that would strengthen ethics in the executive branch and work to reduce Wall Street influence in Washington, D.C.

“We can’t afford to have a revolving door working to stack the deck in favor of Wall Street and against hard working Americans who are struggling to get ahead,” Baldwin proclaimed as she introduced the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act on July 15. “The American people deserve to have trust in the fact that government is working for them and that the system is not being rigged against them.”

Read more – http://prospect.org/article/revolving-door-spinning-out-control-can-it-be-slowed

WAKE UP WORLD: Greenspan Did it All on Purpose!!!

From: “Bix Weir” <bix@roadtoroota.com>
Date: July 24, 2015 at 6:08:29 AM HST
Subject: WAKE UP WORLD: Greenspan Did it All on Purpose!!!

I can’t believe one of the greatest secrets of all time still lies virtually unnoticed by the world…GREENSPAN DID IT ALL ON PURPOSE!!!

I have proven it in a hundred ways and yet people still don’t get it. Here’s a quick summary:

In the 1960’s Alan Greenspan along with his childhood friend John Kemeny invented the very first sharable computer programming language called BASIC. Greenspan went on to write the banking computer programs that now contain 99% of the world’s “electronic assets.” In the 1970’s Fed Chairman Arthur Burns hired Greenspan to write programs to help control the market prices of gold, silver, the US Dollar and many other important assets in order to delay a return to the Gold Standard and suck all be benefits of an unbacked system. Those computer programs run the financial world and were taken over by the Banking Cabal in the 1980’s. To gain back control of the system Greenspan fought against regulation of derivatives to give the bankers enough rope to hang themselves destroying the electronic monetary system. In the end, Greenspan’s dream of returning to a true Gold Standard will manifest after the collapse of the current system. Continue reading

At last, after nine years of the ignored MERS argument – the Dam is Crumbling!

dam crumblingFinally, the lower federal district court dam protecting MERS and securitized trusts is in the process of crumbling in the Ninth Circuit Multi-district litigation in Arizona.

See In re Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) Litigation is published on Leagle.com.  It appears the Judges in the Ninth Circuit are refusing to be taken for granted:

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Trouble in Paradise — Maui Foreclosures Allowed Without Proof of Standing or Full HRS §667-17 Compliance

A MUST WATCH VIDEO!

See: KingCast and Mortgage Movies

“Truth crushed to Earth shall rise again, the eternal years of God are hers, but Error wounded writhes in pain and dies among His worshipers.”  The Battle Field – William Cullen Bryant. 1794–1878 Continue reading