Sep 22
Neil Garfield on the Kansas Supreme Court Decision that blocks many foreclosures in the state of Kansas and sets precedent for the rest of the country:
This is one state, but it is likely to serve as the basis for most appellate opinions rendered on securitized loans. The tide has turned. The moral of the story is that those encumbrances (mortgages) don’t exist in most cases, the foreclosures were all fatally flawed, the people who have been chased out of their homes, still own those homes, and the parties seeking to enforce the note can do so only as unsecured creditors and only if they prove that they lent the money that funded the loan and only if they are willing to be subject to counterclaims, cross claims, affirmative defenses and defenses of the borrower relating to predatory lending, appraisal fraud, securities fraud, rescission under all available theories of law, damages, treble damages, punitive damages, exemplary damages and consequential economic damages.Neil Garfield
Attorney and Homeowner Advocate
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Thousands of ships float off the coast of Singapore and Malaysia. Never before photographed, this armada exceeds the U.S. and British navies combined.
First we find out about the trash continent, now we have this lost armada of consumerism. What else is just languishing out in the ocean, hidden in plain sight?
Thanks, Jill!
The resources of Congress are now at your fingertips!
Wikileaks received a momentous leak last week. 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprising over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues of the day (U.S. – Israel relations, financial collapse, etc.) found their way into the public’s hands through the site.
Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, with the oldest dating to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices.
Although all CRS reports are legally in the public domain, they are quasi-secret because the CRS, as a matter of policy, makes the reports available only to members of Congress, Congressional committees and select sister agencies such as the GAO.Wikileaks
This is a huge deal. Unfortunately, the MSM hasn’t uttered a peep about it as far as I can tell. This information has been purposefully kept from public eyes for years by the likes of Ted Stevens and his ilk. This major resource now rests in the hands of the public. Let’s see what we can do with it.
A couple of my favorite reports thus far: State Unemployment Fund Data and Would a Housing Crash Cause a Recession? You can download the entire report via this torrent or you can download a 2.2 GB zip file directly from here. More download options are available here.
Take a moment to cast an eye towards what Congress actually knows. It might surprise you just how far astray they lead us.
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