Weekend Reading: The Property Illusion

How many people have to lose their savings, their equity and their pensions before there is a revolution – or is the intellectual revolution already here – “refuge to reconstruction”? That is the $54 Billion dollar question.

Posted by Larry Doyle, Sense on Cents

One man’s wealth tax becomes another man’s wealth confiscation

Property RightsI have no doubt that given the need for sources of revenue by Uncle Sam and other sovereign governments, the topic of “the protection of property rights” will be increasingly brought front and center in the public arena.

We saw this play out in Cyprus just a few weeks back, and we witness another example of this topic just the other day in a WSJ article, Now He’s After Your 401(K). Continue reading

The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness – Except in the 21st Century of the American Foreclosure Court System

upside down flagAnd unless Americans are willing to face the facts and hold people (including corporations) ethically and financially accountable, we will lose the land and freedom we have fought so hard to protect. Democracy is in distress.

The question every American is asking is “when will this depressed economy start to recover?” The typical political answer is, “there is no silver bullet.” Then why do these politicians keep using the shotgun approach against homeowners?! Continue reading

CROOKS AND LIARS – ‘Breaking The Law Should Not Be A Business Expense’

By Susie Madrak, January 18, 2013

‘Breaking The Law Should Not Be A Business Expense’

In the past, federal regulators have been known to include provisions that waived the ability of a company to write off the costs of a settlement. But since our banks are always considered Too Big To Fail, they are of course offered every consideration, and We the Continue reading

Yes, It’s Specifically Housing – Socialism for the Rich and Incompetent!

Econ4 Video on the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis

Yves Smith12-6-12NakedCapitalism’s Yves Smith is the strong voice of reality on the front lines of the foreclosure war. Posted on December 6, 2012 is a serious message that needs to circulate around the world.

The economy is on the fiscal cliff because of the failed policy decisions not to prosecute the banks in addition to how the unscrupulous securitized mortgage business has been handled.

Blaming borrowers for the frauds committed by the banks has eaten away at the core of our society. “Normally, in history,” said Yves, “when lenders were that incompetent, they went bust and that was capitalism. And now instead, we have a system where lenders who are so grossly incompetent that they should have gone bankrupt – are propped up – that’s socialism for the rich.” Continue reading

“American Banksters” Reminds Presidential Candidates the Housing Crisis Is Not Over

STOP UNNECESSARY FORECLOSURES – PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING
KEEP HOMEOWNERSHIP AVAILABLE

For too long, the rules of Wall Street have been written by the bankers themselves. The result was the financial crisis that cost Americans millions of jobs, along with billions in taxpayer-funded bailouts, and trillions of dollars in pension funds, home values, and retirement savings.

Remind Presidential Candidates the Housing Crisis Is Not Over.
You Can Take Action!

Sign the Petition: Click here Continue reading

Another Bandit Bernanke Multi-Billion $$$ Bank Bailout Blunder

The National Memo – Markets Surge As Federal Reserve Offers New Stimulus

Oh Pleeese, who does Ben Bernanke think he is kidding?!  Congress has the ability to say, “Don’t buy bad debt.”

The stock market surged today because the Federal Reserve announced it was going to take $40 Billion of our tax dollars per month “until further notice” and buy inflated, defective, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities (MBS) indefinitely from the banksters.

Does that really make any sense? Continue reading