Dirty Harry Reid Said "Make My Day" - Why The Online Casinos Were Whacked

04-21-2011 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com

Anyone that knows how Washington D.C. works should have smelled a rat when online poker operations were recently busted.

BP Still Being Awarded Lucrative Government Contracts

04-20-2011 • Jason Leopold, Truthout

BP continues to receive tens of millions of dollars in government contracts, despite the fact that the British oil company is under federal criminal investigation over the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and twice violated its probation late last year

Foreclosure-Gate: Feds and States May Take 4 More Months to Complete Whitewash

04-20-2011 • Bloomberg.com

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli and six other Republican attorneys general assailed the proposal as overreaching, with four calling principal reduction a “moral hazard.”

The Fundamental Injustice That Is Poisoning the Nation

04-20-2011 • OfTwoMinds.com/blog

The Central State, designed to protect the citizenry from an oppressive monarchy or Elite, now protects this Elite from the citizenry. That is how thoroughly the injustice has been institutionalized.

Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections

04/19/2011 • godlikeproductions.com

Software programmer says US elections are rigged and that US Representatives tried to pay him to rig their election vote counts.

Truth Squad Radio: Whistleblower Sharon Kramer Exposes Government Corruption, Collusion and Fraud

04-18-2011 • Farm Wars

Special broadcast this evening: Whistleblower Sharon Noonan Kramer exposes government collusion, corruption, and fraud in the workman’s compensation industry.

Chris Hedges: Throw Out the Money Changers

04-18-2011 • TruthDig.com

They take from us our rights, our dignity and thwart our capacity for resistance. They seek to make us prisoners in our own land. They view human beings and the natural world as mere commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse.

Jim Quinn: Years Of The Modern

04-17-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

The debt, fraud and lack of financial regulation that catalyzed the near collapse of the worldwide financial system in 2008, 63 years after the end of the last Fourth Turning, have not been purged from the system.

Bill Black: Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum (Let Justice be Done, Though the Heavens Fall)

04-17-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

Nietzsche argued that the ubermensch (generally translated as “Superman”) transcended the normal rules. The elites claim impunity from normal rules on the basis of their purported superiority and because they claim that they are so important...

Foreclsoure-Gate: The Federal Reserve Broke The Law

04-17-2011 • Market-ticker.org

The appropriate legal standard cannot be "well, most of the time the people who we kick out of their houses weren't paying." It has to be in each and every case we documented that the person who we kicked out of their house wasn't paying...

Was Massive MBS Fraud Exposed as Part of Foreclosure-Gate Investigation?

04-15-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

The failure to transfer a promissory note from Countrywide Financial to the security trust in this case was not an isolated error—but a matter of policy at Countrywide Financial. If mortgage-backed securities aren't in fact "mortgage-backed,"...

Mary Tillman: No Stanley McChrystal pick

04-14-2011 • Jennifer Epstein, Politico.com

The mother of a soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan said she was “shocked” by President Barack Obama’s selection of retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal to play a role in a campaign highlighting the needs of military families. McChrystal’s

Foreclosure-Gate: Regulators Whitewash Mortgage Abuses

04-14-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

The current end run is apparently led by the Ministry of Bank Boosterism more generally known as the OCC and comes via consent decrees that were issued Wednesday...

Goldman Sachs misled clients, lawmakers on CDOs, Senate panel says

04-14-2011 • Washington Post

Goldman Sachs designed, marketed and sold collateralized debt obligations that misled investors and created conflicts of interest as the company built short positions before the U.S. housing market collapsed, a Senate panel said in its report on the

According To the story : On April 5th 2011 My husband was traveling peacefully to a ladies how to assist her with some work she had to do. He had a current active FMCSA registration number for his private auto and had a self-insurance policy with

Foreclosure-Gate: Banks To Get Away Scott-Free Again?

04-13-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

Obviously, this is a situation that has to be resolved as USSA kleptocracy can not be forced to pay for prior (and ongoing) transgressions. Which is why we were not surprised to learn that "Bank regulators plan to announce settlements...

Foreclosure-Gate and The Ministry of Truth

04-13-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

But in the never-never realm of reality denial within the Beltway, as long as you can get a PhD or better to grace the latest offering from the Ministry of Truth, it gives useful cover to Congresscritters and other message amplifiers who will spout..

U.S. Border Patrol agent in Yuma sector indicted on drug charges

04-12-2011 • Arizona Republic

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was indicted on charges of trafficking marijuana along the Mexican border after fellow Border Patrol agents found him with 44 bundles of marijuana in his vehicle in a remote area

Gangsters of NYC: Real Housewives of Wall Street and Welfare for the Richest

04-12-2011 • JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/

What is especially repugnant is the well financed campaign to go after the victims, the taxpayers and defrauded investors, and to force them to bear the brunt of the pain caused by that graft and corruption, by playing on the meanest and lowest...

Fed Gave $220 Million In Bailout Money to The Wives of 2 Morgan Stanley "Bigwigs"

04-12-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

Matt Taibbi has resurfaced with another stunner of Wall Street impropriety which will lead to merely more silence, even more unanswered questions and be quickly buried by the kleptocratic oligarchy.

In a System Based On Lies Why Would You Believe the Numbers?

04-10-2011 • ZeroHedge.com

It’s bizarre, but it reveals the real power structure in the US’s “democracy.” To anyone who focuses on the numbers, not the noise, it’s obvious that Congress is just a grand distraction from the folks who really decide things AKA the Fed/ Banks.

If Volume Is the Weapon of the Bull, Then....

04-10-2011 • OfTwoMinds.com/blog

This year's dramatic rise in stocks coincides with a collapse in volume. If volume is the weapon of the Bull, and volume is declining, then what we have here is either:

Stiglitz: Of the 1%, By the 1%, and for the 1%

04-09-2011 • JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/

Start thinking for yourself, and stop allowing crafty wordsmiths to play on your emotions, persuading you to drink their poisons with a happy smile. What they say sounds good, but their cup is full of misery for you and your children.

Foreclosure-Gate: The Feds Are Caving To Wall Street On Foreclosures

04-08-2011 • BusinessInsider.com/

The U.S. government surrendered. That’s the only conclusion to draw from reports that federal financial regulators have abandoned state legal officials negotiating a foreclosure settlement with Wall Street banks and instead struck their own deal.

Foreclosure-Gate: No More Joint Federal/State Attorney Mortgage Settlement Effort

04-08-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

We think that’s a good thing, since the state and federal law issues were so different that it made the idea of a grand global settlement seem a tad deranged...

North Carolina And Massachusetts Registrars Chainsaw MERS

04-07-2011 • Market-ticker.org

MERS has defended their practices by saying that they were helping the registries of deeds by reducing the amount of paperwork that needed to be recorded. This claim is outrageous. This is help we did not ask for, nor was it help that we needed.

Foreclosure-Gate: Banks Win Again With Weak Mortgage Settlement

04-06-2011 • NakedCapitalism.com/

Wow, the Obama administration has openly negotiated against itself on behalf of the banks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so craven heretofore.

Foreclosure-Gate: The 60 Minutes Whitewash

04-03-2011 • Ritholtz.com

But they are missing the bigger picture here: Reckless disregard for property rights and the rule of law. And exactly where are all of my Libertarian friends on this . . . ?