Friday, December 3, 2010

News stories for Thursday, December 2, 2010 Part 3

Bloomberg: BofA Mortgage Morass Deepens on Promissory Notes Issues

“If the notes weren’t properly transferred to the trusts, then investors have the mother of all put-back claims,” Adam J. Levitin, an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, wrote on a blog four days after citing the Wizmur ruling during a hearing by a House Financial Services subcommittee.

Webmaster's Commentary:

It is ALL 'putbacks.' The banks in Europe (and now Australia) realized the mortgage-backed securities they purchased from Wall Street are fraudulent and demanded refunds, plus the credit default swaps. THAT is what the Federal Reserve spent trillions of tax dollars on while refusing to say where the money went, all the while knowing that since repurchased fraudulent securities can never earn a profit, that the American people would ultimately be forced to make good on the loans.

So much cash flowed out from Wall Street to cover the bad paper that the major banks and investment houses would be insolvent unless other assets were found to put on the balance sheets, and those assets were the homes of the American people.

But the government could not simply confiscate the houses the way Roosevelt had confiscated the gold in 1933, so the government changed the tax policy to send high paying American jobs offshore, making it impossible for millions of suddenly jobless Americans to pay their mortgages, which made it easy for the banks to grab the properties, all the while making it look like it was the homeowners' own fault they lost their home!


Federal Reserve Bank (a private bank) Doled Out 9 Trillion in Buyouts (not Bailouts)


Under orders from Congress, the Federal Reserve finally had to tell Americans, that they gave a whopping nine trillion dollars in short term loans to eighteen different financial institutions during the peak of the financial crisis. AlterNet's Zach Carter breaks down these new findings.


WikiLeaks - North Korea has nuclear faciolity on ATLANTIS! (Really!)

China obtained information in 2008 that North Korea has a secret underwater nuclear facility in its coastal waters, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show.

According to a Sept. 26, 2008 cable from the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai disclosed by WikiLeaks, a North Korea expert in Shanghai announced this in a meeting about the six-party nuclear talks with Christopher Beede, the political and economic chief at the consulate.

Webmaster's Commentary: WikiLeaks just jumped the shark.

Camden City Council Pushes Ahead With Massive Police And Fire Layoffs

Camden City Council, as expected, voted Thursday to lay off almost 400 workers, half of them police officers and firefighters, to bridge a $26.5 million deficit. That’s about a quarter of the city’s entire work force. Five members of City Council voted unanimously to approve the layoff plan — two other members were absent. The cuts take effect in mid-January. walco Camden City Council Approves Massive Police And Fire LayoffsExactly how many city workers will be affected is still an open question, although nearly half the city’s police and a third of the firefighters are slated to go...


Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe

In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.

The previous month, a Spanish human rights group called the Association for the Dignity of Spanish Prisoners had requested that Spain's National Court indict six former Bush officials for, as the cable describes it, "creating a legal framework that allegedly permitted torture." The six were former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; David Addington, former chief of staff and legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney; William Haynes, the Pentagon's former general counsel; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy; Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and John Yoo, a former official in the Office of Legal Counsel. The human rights group contended that Spain had a duty to open an investigation under the nation's "universal jurisdiction" law, which permits its legal system to prosecute overseas human rights crimes involving Spanish citizens and residents. Five Guantanamo detainees, the group maintained, fit that criteria.

Back when it seemed that this case could become a major international issue, during an April 14, 2009, White House briefing, I asked press secretary Robert Gibbs if the Obama administration would cooperate with any request from the Spaniards for information and documents related to the Bush Six. He said, "I don't want to get involved in hypotheticals." What he didn't disclose was that the Obama administration, working with Republicans, was actively pressuring the Spaniards to drop the investigation. Those efforts apparently paid off, and, as this WikiLeaks-released cable shows, Gonzales, Haynes, Feith, Bybee, Addington, and Yoo owed Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thank-you notes.

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui abducted, tortured and sentenced to 86 years in prison

The failed attempt of American war-planners to create a female AlQaeda “mastermind” for the “War on Terrorism” -
without being indicted for terrorist activities Siddiqui would still be convicted of those charges. And those false allegations against her could still be used as a propaganda tool for the “War on Terror“, which in reality is a war on Islamic countries as part of a geo-strategic game.


Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant

The energy services company Dick Cheney ran prior to becoming Vice President of the United States was atop the tongue of liberals each time it was awarded a contract in Iraq. Now the company's name, Halliburton, is being spoken somewhere else: Nigeria. According to a story filed late Wednesday, Cheney will be indicted in a Nigerian bribery case as part of an investigation into an alleged $180 million bribery scandal.

UK Covered in snow, for the second winter

The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK. The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow.

Sheila Bair: DEBT PARTY USA

This one sorta speaks for itself.


Grayson - Has Anyone Seen Our $1,000,000,000,000?

You probably shouldn't skip this story. VIDEO - Alan Grayson DESTROYS Federal Reserve Vice-Chair Donald Kohn "Where is the $1 Trillion, Mr. Kohn?"


Madison County Man Being Evicted Off His Own Land for Living Too Simply (VIDEO)

Madison County officials are forcing a man out of his home — a recreational trailer — because they say he's breaking several ordinances.

CHART OF THE DAY: Global Food Prices About To Break An All Time High

Inflation in emerging markets is hitting food prices hard, and now we have raw data from the UN to confirm. The latest report from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization shows prices are back at 2008 levels, and have increased for five months in a row.


Canada - What Really Happened Wiki

Webmaster's Commentary: Wow!

MUST SEE - Chris Whalen With Dylan Ratigan: "The Fed Let The Real Economy Go To Hell"

STOP...WATCH THIS ONE

For those who don't know, Chris Whalen is the best, most honest, most intelligent banking analyst in the U.S. He used to work for Treasury and he absolutely HATES Tim Geithner (more on that story another time). From yesterday's show.

WHALEN IS BRUTALLY HONEST ABOUT BERNANKE'S FAILURES BRILLIANT CLIP


Buffalo, New York Gets 2 Feet of Snow

Hundreds of motorists stranded.


It Was a Big Dump by the Fed, But Are They Still Constipated?

What's the Fed hiding? Why no purchase and sales numbers for the Maiden Lane transactions? Why no Maiden Lane data at all for the period June 2007 to September 30, 2008?

All news and commentary from Mike Rivero's, whatreallyhappened.com.

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