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Chris Christie can’t afford to pay public teacher pensions… but still hands education megacorp $82m in subsidies

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Chris Christie can’t afford to pay public teacher pensions… but still hands education megacorp $82m in subsidies.

It’s not because NJ “can’t afford” to pay pensions – it appears its because NJ carelessly invested in fraudulent securities without thorough due diligence like nearly every other state in America. They gambled away the retirement funds of their employees.

In the NY Times today SEC Mary Jo White announced the use of Section 20(b) of the Exchange Act – indirect culpability … It’s time to grill the finance directors on who gave the orders to buy these crappy securities because they had to know (especially after 2004) that these were questionable investments. What promises were made by the investment banks in exchange for the pension fund investments?

Welcome to Freddie and Fannie’s Mortgage Shell Game

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By Shawn Timothy Newman, J.D.
Adjunct Professor
Saint Martin’s University

Wheres-the-NoteIn common parlance, a mortgage (or Deed of Trust) includes the underlying loan (promissory note) and the security on that loan (mortgage or Deed of Trust). This ignores the fact that the note and mortgage (or DOT) are two separate contracts governed by some different laws and legal principals.

As noted in Powell on Real Property, sec. 37.27 [2] (Michael Allan Wolf ed., LexisNexis Matthew Bender 2010)  Continue reading →

Money Is Not Safe In The Big Banks

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Under the Dodd-Frank Act “losses will be assigned to shareholders and unsecured creditors. …as a depositor in a bank, under the law –
YOU ARE an unsecured creditor.”

banker_debt_web“The Leveraged Buyout of America” by , Author, Web of Debt, Public Bank Solution; President, Public Banking Institute

Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all sorts.

They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the essential lifelines of the economy. How have they pulled this off, and where have they gotten the money? Continue reading →

Grotesque Plan for Detroit: Fleece Working People to Save the Banks

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Hands-off-our-Pension-June-10Municipal workers could be robbed of pension funds to pay big banks for payments due on interest rate swaps.

The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011, which exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally. In Cyprus, the depositors were “bailed in” (stripped of a major portion of their deposits) to re-capitalize the banks. In Detroit, it is the municipal workers who are being bailed in, stripped of a major portion of their pensions to save the banks.

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Sell Now! Confessions Of An Ex-Stockbroker

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fiscalcliffroadblockIt’s pretty obvious to anyone studying securitization in foreclosure defense that the mortgage-backed securities scheme is fraught with fraud and teetering on the brink of disaster.

And when the next crisis happens it will be a non-partisan financial force majeure.

Affirmations have been coming out more recently by those fed up with the dealings of Wall Street’s greed and fear operations. This post by John Meyers in Personal Liberty  rings all too true.      Continue reading →

Obama Grinch – What the Republicans Grasp that the Democrats Ignore

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What the Republicans grasp that the Democrats ignore is that the vast majority of the 99% want the bank cartel to collapse. Albeit the average American is not prepared to endure the final financial force majeure – they just know they want an end to the corruption.

So, the Republicans, who will eat their own, high-five (with a wink) when the banks slip in the stock market and the Tea Party vows to audit the Federal Reserve (if not outright eliminate it)…which they know the majority of Americans want. All of this is transpiring as the economy rolls on to a horrific collapse while Obama surrounds himself Continue reading →