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Starmail - 20. Okt, 08:55

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Montag, 18. Oktober 2010

Republicans dont trust Americans

Our Future Blog
by Leo Gerard

10/15/10

Republican fund-raisers are treating Americans like little children, as if the GOP knows best and must shelter the youngsters from the truth. It?s like when a kindergartner asks his father if mommy is coming home soon, and the widower replies that she?s on a long business trip. The parent is attempting to shield the child from the cruel truth, afraid the little one can?t handle it. That?s what Republican campaign fund-raising groups are doing by concealing their donors from the public. The GOP does not trust Americans to handle the information. Republican operatives want to shield voters from knowing who is actually paying for GOP attack ads...

http://tinyurl.com/2bw5c4n

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Promises, Promises
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance210.html

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Starmail - 18. Okt, 09:09

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Sonntag, 17. Oktober 2010

Three Banks Closed on Oct. 15

These closures raise the total number of failed institutions to 149 so far in 2010.
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=3015

Wells Fargo WON'T Halt Foreclosures Despite Evidence That Servicers Didn't Read Paperwork:

Wells Fargo & Co. does not plan to halt foreclosures despite an employee's testimony that she signed up to 500 foreclosure documents daily without reading them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/wells-fargo-foreclosures-halt_n_764018.html

Regulators order closure of banks in Virginia, California

US regulators closed two banks - one in Norfolk, Virginia and the other in Nevada City, California - on Friday, bringing the total number of closures this year to 73.

http://arabnews.com/economy/article506269.ece

From Information Clearing House

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Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/18-0

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Starmail - 17. Okt, 08:00

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Freitag, 15. Oktober 2010

Why Is the White House Against Freezing Foreclosures in the Face of Rampant Fraud?

Nomi Prins, AlterNet: "At first, there was a deafening silence from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on the foreclosure front. It was as if they: 1) didn't read the news; or 2) were afraid someone would notice afresh their incompetence in dealing with the ongoing housing crisis and deteriorating economy, while convincing everyone that the bank bailouts and subsidizations were good for us."

http://www.truth-out.org/nomi-prins-why-is-white-house-against-freezing-foreclosures-face-rampant-fraud64193

How Two Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Problems to Light

Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "More than a year before lenders, law firms and document companies began owning up to widespread paperwork problems with their foreclosure filings, Lisa Epstein and Michael Redman already knew that something was wrong, very wrong."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-two-civilian-sleuths-brought-foreclosure-problems-light64207

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Bernanke Ponders The "Nuclear Option"

By Mike Whitney

Ben Bernanke's speech on Friday in Boston could turn out to be a real barnburner. In fact, there's a good chance the Fed chairman will announce changes in policy that will stun Wall Street and send tremors through Capital Hill.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26595.htm

U.S. Home Seizures Reach Record Amid Foreclosure Review

Lenders took over 102,134 properties last month, RealtyTrac Inc. said in a report today. That was the highest monthly tally since the company began tracking the data in 2005, surpassing the August record of 95,364.

http://bit.ly/9yiRIu

From Information Clearing House

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Seeking fair contracts

In These Times
by Ralph Nader

10/14/10

This time the big banks and mortgage servicing companies, with their long, one-sided fine print contracts, may have outsmarted themselves. The newspaper headlines and the network television news are blazing news of the erupting fraudulent foreclosure process. This long-overdue coverage is generating public visibility and suddenly hundreds of thousands of foreclosures may be questioned due to what one commentator delicately called ?flawed paperwork.? That is a euphemism for fraudulently executed contracts violative of state laws regarding home title changes...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6552/seeking_fair_contracts/

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geithner
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Starmail - 15. Okt, 05:09

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Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2010

Guatemalans 'Opened Door' for Terrifying U.S. Experiments

While the government of the United States was busy prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials for atrocities committed during the Second World War, the American Mengele, a Dr. John C. Cutler, was devoted to injecting soldiers, prisoners and prostitutes in Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea to investigate the effectiveness of penicillin.

http://worldmeets.us/elperiodico000005.shtml

State trooper faces charges after dashboard camera shows brutal attack on female motorist

Shocking video has emerged of a police officer slamming a handcuffed woman face first into a concrete wall, leaving her with a deep gash to her chin.

http://bit.ly/boIbdw

From Information Clearing House

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Government secrets can be pretty killer

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

10/12/10

What can you say, dear, after you say I?m sorry ? for deliberately infecting you with syphilis as part of a secret government experiment?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12461

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama's new genetics experiments with veterans raising questions

by Eugene J. Koprowski, Esq.

Dr. Josef Mengele was known as "der Weiss angel," or the white angel, at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II. His white lab coat caught the fleeting attention of dying "patients" there, as he prepared and executed his grotesque genetic experiments on them. One wonders what historians of the future will call the doctors at the Veterans Administration who are poised to perform their own genetic......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Koprowski/eugene104.htm

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Starmail - 13. Okt, 09:05

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Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2010

The Shadow Class War of 2010

E.J. Dionne, Truthout: "The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it. This is a strange development. President Obama, after all, has been working overtime to save capitalism. Wall Street is doing just fine and the rich are getting richer again. The financial reform bill passed by Congress was moderate, not radical. Nonetheless, corporations and affluent individuals are pouring tens of millions of dollars into attack ads aimed almost exclusively at Democrats. One of the biggest political players, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, accepts money from foreign sources."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-shadow-class-war-201064077

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Special Interest Groups Spend Big on Missouri Senate Race

David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "If the 2010 campaign signals that the dam on political giving has burst, Missouri is already awash in campaign cash. Special interest groups have already spent more than $6 million to affect the outcome of the Missouri Senate race, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog dog. But according to the candidates' own tracking of outside spending, it is likely even higher. On top of that, the identities of a lot of the donors are secret."

http://www.truth-out.org/special-interest-groups-spend-big-missouri-senate-race64078

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The Politics of Class in the US

By Joe Bageant

Representing the 'hillbilly' class as a minority, Bageant laments 'the piece of the rainbow pie' promised to the working class of his forefathers, which never materialized.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26680.htm

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Starmail - 12. Okt, 05:38

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Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2010

Karl Rove Group Spends Big in Election 2010, but Is It Legal?

Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor: "Karl Rove, the veteran GOP strategist who helped put George W. Bush in the White House, is looking to become a big player in Election 2010, helping to fund Republican candidates thought to have a chance of unseating Democrats. According to some, he's operating outside of the rulebook. Tuesday, two groups conceived of by Mr. Rove and Ed Gillespie, another Republican strategist and former Republican National Committee chairman, announced a huge $4.2 million ad buy in eight contested Senate races, Politico reported. To date, the two groups - American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS - have spent about $18 million on campaigns, most of it on ads."

http://www.truth-out.org/karl-rove-group-spends-big-election-2010-but-is-it-legal63938

Finance Committee Chair Demands IRS Investigate Rove's American Crossroads and Other Corporate Front Groups

Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "Concentrated corporate power is corrupting the first post-Citizens United election, but citizens are responding. Six thousand people wrote Congress as part of our American Crossroads Watch campaign, demanding an investigation of Rove's American Crossroads, which is raising tens of millions in secret corporate donations to support big business candidates.... Corporate control of elections affects every issue with which the dysfunctional government is unable to deal."

http://www.truth-out.org/irs-investigate-roves-american-crossroads-and-other-corporate-front-groups63979

Oil Speculator Bankrolls Latest Karl Rove Attack Ad

Lee Fang, Republic Report: ''The latest anti-Obama ad, which blames Obama for rising gas prices, is being financed in part by a hedge fund manager who has pumped up the price of oil through excessive speculation. Karl Rove s attack ad network just launched the first nationwide ad against Obama. The ad, called 'Too Much,' is being aired by Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit controlled by Rove that does not have to disclose a single donor.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8455-oil-speculator-bank-rolls-latest-karl-rove-attack-ad

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Starmail - 7. Okt, 08:39

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