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80% of Citi Mortgages Defective

 

Bloomberg notes: Richard M. Bowen, former chief underwriter for Citigroup’s consumer-lending group, said he warned his superiors of concerns that some types of loans in securities didn’t conform with representations and warranties in 2006 ...

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The Mortgage Mod/Foreclosure Scam

 

Southern California foreclosure attorney Jeff Barnes tells me:Borrowers are being lured into loan mod scams where they are told that they have to be 2-3 months behind in payments before a loan mod will be considered, then when they make application, th...

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BP Claims Process Moves Forward, But Not Without Grumbling

 

BP Claims Process Moves Forward, But Not Without Grumbling By Dionne Searcey WSJ Original Article Making the Gulf whole again after a massive oil spill isn’t an easy task on any ...

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The harmful effects of the BP oil well blowout on endangered and threatened wildlife will continue for many years.

 

The harmful effects of the BP oil well blowout on endangered and threatened wildlife will continue for many years. Gregory Buppert, attorney for Defenders of Wildlife

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Groups Sue BP for Harm to Endangered Gulf Wildlife

 

Groups Sue BP for Harm to Endangered Gulf Wildlife Reuters Original Article The suit is one of thousands of damages cases to stem from the spill from BP’s blown-out undersea Mac...

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OUTRAGE: Transocean to Dramatically Cut Pay of Injured Rig Workers

 

OUTRAGE: Transocean to Dramatically Cut Pay of Injured Rig Workers Every now and then, it’s good to be reminded just what we’re dealing with in the wake of the BP oil spill. Here’s an example: Transocean p...

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Transocean Is Cutting Injured Oil Rig Workers’ Pay

 

Transocean Is Cutting Injured Oil Rig Workers’ Pay By Laura Parker AOL News Original Article Transocean Ltd. plans to discontinue paying full salary and benefits by Dec. 15 t...

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Transocean Is Cutting Injured Oil Rig Workers’ Pay

 

Transocean Is Cutting Injured Oil Rig Workers’ Pay By Laura Parker AOL News Original Article Transocean Ltd. plans to discontinue paying full salary and benefits by Dec. 15 t...

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Plaquemines Parish continues mopping up from BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

 

Plaquemines Parish continues mopping up from BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico Times-Picayune Original Article Oil hasn’t flowed from BP’s Macondo well in more than three mon...

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Sadly, Seafood Safety Is Much More Than an Image Problem

 

Sadly, Seafood Safety Is Much More Than an Image Problem What happens when the government loses virtually all credibility? Well, for one thing, some people are having trouble believing the official “all’s well&#...

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Charity groups say oil spill victims still need food assistance, other help

 

Charity groups say oil spill victims still need food assistance, other help By Mark Waller Times-Picayune Original Article Even with the deep sea oil hemorrhage halted and much of ...

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Developments in the Mortgage, Mortgage Backed Securities and Foreclosure Crises

 

Here's a round up of breaking stories today:The federal regulator overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hired a law firm specializing in litigation as the agency considers how to move forward with efforts to recoup billions of dollars on soured mort...

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Big Berkey gravity-fed water filters are a top pick for clean water and long-term preparedness

(NaturalNews) The water filtration market is saturated with products that claim to provide clean drinking water. While all of them work to one degree or another, some can be complicated to install and maintain. And some are downright expensive on a per-gallon basis, too. The more popular faucet filters, for example, only filter a hundred [...]

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1 of the 2 Administrative Judges at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Vowed NEVER to Let a Complainant Win. He’s Kept His Promise for 20 Years

 

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an important agency. It is largely responsible for regulating derivatives and other important instruments.It is supposed to prevent and prosecute fraud.So it is stunning that one of the two administra...

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Foreclosure Expert Confirms Mortgages Pledged Multiple Times, Not Actually Securitized, Document Problem Is Really a System of "Push-Button Fraud"

 

Yesterday, I showed that mortgages were fraudulently pledged to multiple buyers at the same time.Today, foreclosure expert Neil Garfield (former investment banker, trial lawyer and board member of several financial institutions) confirms this, explains...

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Closing Statements & Medical Malpractice

IMVA Dr. Mark Sircus This concluding chapter for the second edition of my Transdermal Magnesium Therapy book provides a glaring example of magnesium ignorance and the price people pay for this ignorance. Four years ago when I published the first edition of this book I was told by an FDA whistleblower that a copy of [...]

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Nurse Exposes Toxic Flu Vaccine, Manufacturer Did NOT Research Side Effects

The Intel Hub Last year thousands of people stood up against Big Pharma and refused to get the toxic swine flu vaccine. Activists around the world stood up in mass to expose this open eugenics operation. Since then multiple nations, in one way or another, have declared the swine flu vaccine toxic. In August, a [...]

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Six months after the spill, BP’s money is changing the gulf as much as its oil

 

Six months after the spill, BP’s money is changing the gulf as much as its oil By David A. Fahrenthold & Kimberly Kindy Washington Post Original Article IN VENICE, LA. – Th...

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Officials gather in Tampa, talk about lessons learned from gulf oil spill

 

Officials gather in Tampa, talk about lessons learned from gulf oil spill By Craig Pittman St. Petersburg Times Original Article TAMPA — The man from BP stood at the lectern Tues...

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6 months after Gulf oil spill, much remains unknown

 

6 months after Gulf oil spill, much remains unknown By Brian Skoloff & Harry R. Weber Associated Press Original Article NEW ORLEANS — The crude has stopped gushing and coastlines...

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[The spill] is like a concussion. We got hit hard and we certainly are seeing some symptoms of it.

 

[The spill] is like a concussion. We got hit hard and we certainly are seeing some symptoms of it. Larry McKinney, head of the Gulf of Mexico research center, Texas A&M University

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Shrimp is back, but prices are low after spill (VIDEO)

 

Shrimp is back, but prices are low after spill (VIDEO) By Maya Rodriguez/Eyewitness News WWL-TV Original Article YSCLOSKEY, La. – For some shrimpers in St. Bernard Parish, it is ...

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BP Gas Station Owners Defecting (VIDEO)

 

BP Gas Station Owners Defecting (VIDEO) By Pat Peterson WKRG Original Article At least four BP gas stations have switched fuel distributors and changed names this summer…and ...

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Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials

by Charles Ornstein , Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen ProPublica The Ohio medical board concluded [1] that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve tissue. Yet the finding, posted on the board’s [...]

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Was Abacus the Business Model for the Entire Mortgage Industry?

 

As I've repeatedly pointed out, the big banks intentionally signed up as many borrowers as possible, even if there was no way they could repay their loans.For example, I recently wrote:[Professor William] Black explained that fraud by a financial compa...

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How To Opt Out Of The TSA’s Naked Body Scanners At The Airport

Natural News By Mike Adams I encountered my first airport naked body scanner while flying out of California today, and of course I decided to “opt out” of the scan. You do this by telling the blue-shirted TSA agents that you simply wish to opt out of the body scanner. Here’s what happened after that: [...]

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“Operation Deep Clean” Underway on AL Beaches (VIDEO)

 

“Operation Deep Clean” Underway on AL Beaches (VIDEO) By Debbie Williams WKRG Original Article “This is the start of what we’ve all talked about for a coupl...

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Obama Administration Clings to “Mission Accomplished” Claim with Release of New Report

 

Obama Administration Clings to “Mission Accomplished” Claim with Release of New Report Tell the truth: Did you think the Obama Administration learned its lesson from the “Mission Accomplished” moment...

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UN Tricks and Treaties

MorphCity By Cassandra Anderson The United Nations has ensnared the world in voluntary treaties intended to become mandatory later, tricking politicians and the public.  The treaties may be vague and open to interpretation over time, using a tactic known as ‘incrementalism’.  These treaties affect many branches of government.  The treaties are designed to deindustrialize and [...]

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Gulf Truth on The Intel Hub: Rainwater Test Results Show Increase in Toxins AFTER Well Capped

The Intel Hub BP has continued to spray toxic dispersant months after they claim that the well was capped. Gulf residents have been sickened by Corexit yet we are told by the corporate news that everything is completely fine. Interview with Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana and Project Gulf Impact, Intel Hub Radio, October 16, [...]

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Federal leaders of Gulf of Mexico oil spill response report only a few lingering trouble spots

 

Federal leaders of Gulf of Mexico oil spill response report only a few lingering trouble spots By Chris Kirkham Times-Picayune Original Article Nearing the six-month mark after the...

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The Biggest Bank Robbery In History?

The Economic Collapse Blog The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term “bailout” and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it.  You see, one lesson that was learned [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: BP Formally Waives $75 Million Liability Cap and Positions Itself for Legal Battle

 

BREAKING NEWS: BP Formally Waives $75 Million Liability Cap and Positions Itself for Legal Battle Going beyond a mere formal milestone, BP has formally “chosen to waive” the legal limit on its liability under th...

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BP Waives $75M Cap For Some Oil Spill Claims

 

BP Waives $75M Cap For Some Oil Spill Claims Associated Press Original Article A court filing Monday by BP lawyers says the company is waiving the statutory limitation on liability un...

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BREAKING NEWS: Fresh Oil Dead Fish Cover Grand Isle As Crews Bury Fish On Public Beach

 

BREAKING NEWS: Fresh Oil Dead Fish Cover Grand Isle As Crews Bury Fish On Public Beach You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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State hotline set up to help with Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims

 

State hotline set up to help with Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims By David Hammer Times-Picayune Original Article Disturbed that nearly half of all Louisiana applications to BP&#82...

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Why Is Crucial Oil Spill Data Sitting In a Lab in Poland?

 

Why Is Crucial Oil Spill Data Sitting In a Lab in Poland? Can somebody explain why a Polish lab is the facility testing Gulf waters for the United States government? The BP spill has created its share of “what the hel...

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Peregrine falcons checked for Gulf oil taint

 

Peregrine falcons checked for Gulf oil taint By Brian Skoloff Associated Press Original Article SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Once nearly wiped from the wild in North America by wi...

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BP to link bonuses to safety performance

 

BP to link bonuses to safety performance Associated Press Original Article LONDON — BP employees’ performance on safety issues will be the only measure for awarding fourth-qua...

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The New Tax Man: Big Banks and Hedge Funds

By Fred Schulte and Ben Protess Huffington Post Investigative Fund Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge funds, anticipating quick profits from homeowners who fall behind on property taxes, are quietly plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses that collect the debts, tack on escalating fees and threaten to foreclose on the homes of [...]

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The New Tax Man: Big Banks and Hedge Funds

By Fred Schulte and Ben Protess Huffington Post Investigative Fund Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge funds, anticipating quick profits from homeowners who fall behind on property taxes, are quietly plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses that collect the debts, tack on escalating fees and threaten to foreclose on the homes of [...]

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Mortgages – Which Can Legally Only Be Sold Once – Were Sold Again and Again

 

April Charney - a consumer lawyer with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid - and CNBC's Dennis Kneale noted in February 2009 that courts have found that some mortgages have been sold again and again to different trusts, when they should have only been sold ...

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Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’

Editors Note: The Department of Homeland Security has given TSA goons the legal authority to disregard the Constitution. This man is a certified pilot who had gone through the same airport security for the last five years. He was treated like a terrorist even though he was clearly in his pilots uniform. Notice how the [...]

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Bombshell: Industry Price Guide for Fabricated Foreclosure Documents

The Daily Bail A foreclosure lawyer sent sent this little beauty by email last night.  I had no idea the market was so robust for missing mortgage documents.  And apparently there is inflation within the foreclosure fabrication circles.  Prices to replace missing documents keep going up…;-) Lender Processing Services’ DOCX Document Fabrication Price Sheet Intel [...]

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Putting Innovative Approaches Like “Oyster Farming” Into Action On a Large Scale

 

Putting Innovative Approaches Like “Oyster Farming” Into Action On a Large Scale It’s going to be a long hard road to recovery for our seafood industry. Damage from the BP oil spill has created, and will c...

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6 months after oil spill, scientists say Gulf is sick but not dying

 

6 months after oil spill, scientists say Gulf is sick but not dying Associated Press Original Article Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in ...

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Bayou La Batre barber sees oil spill’s toll from shop (VIDEO)

 

Bayou La Batre barber sees oil spill’s toll from shop (VIDEO) By Roy Hoffman Press-Register Original Article BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – In a cinder block building on Bayou La B...

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People shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that the danger to birds and the environment is over just because the oil stopped flowing.

 

People shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that the danger to birds and the environment is over just because the oil stopped flowing. David Yarnold, Audubon president and CEO

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U.S. Debt Woes Expose Hidden Austerity and Looting of Public Assets

Eric Blair Activist Post The austerity sharks are circling their wounded prey.  The U.S. economy continues to collapse amid dwindling stimulus funds, while states are barely able to keep their heads above water.  In addition to cutting vital services to taxpayers, and seeking tax increases, some states are also selling off public assets in the [...]

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Hunger & Starvation to Visit Humanity

IMVA Dr Mark Sircus Do you believe that you will always be able to buy inexpensive food at the supermarket? If so, you might want to think again. During 2010, agricultural commodity prices have exploded. Nearly every single important agricultural commodity is experiencing double-digit percentage price increases. The S&P GSCI Agriculture Index recently surged to [...]

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