Monday, January 31, 2011

Conspiracy Theory with Gov. Jesse Ventura- 911 Pentagon Attack(Full Episode 43 mins.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZ14NRbT-s

9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

http://frustratingfraud.blogspot.com/2006/11/rumsfelds-missile-admission.html
Excerpt:
“Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.” - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, October 12 2001.

That's a good clue to hit the stop button and here's why:

On October 12 2001 Rumsfeld indeed sat down in the Pentagon with interviewer Lyric Wallwork Winik of Parade magazine to go on the record for the one-month anniversary. Once printed, the interview indeed bore this "slip." To the skeptical and sloppy mind, his mention of an "American Airlines jet" AND a "missile" seems to delineate two separate objects: one presumably American 11 that hit the North Tower in Manhattan, and the other, obviously, the missile that hit the Pentagon. He was apparently a tad senile and simply let on more than he meant to. It wouldn't be the last time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZ14NRbT-s
http://www.gibsondunn.com/practices/Pages/bci.aspx
Excerpt:
PRACTICE GROUP DESCRIPTION
The White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group  successfully defends corporations, senior corporate executives, and public officials in a wide range of federal and state investigations and prosecutions, and conducts sensitive internal investigations for leading companies in almost every business sector. Composed of over 100 attorneys, we have members in every domestic office of the firm and draw on more than 75 attorneys with deep  government experience, including numerous former federal and state prosecutors and officials, many of whom served at high levels within the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other key investigative arms of the government.

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/2:2007cv08428/404051/
Excerpt:

Global Horizons, Inc. et al v. U S Department of Labor et al

Plaintiffs:Global Horizons, Inc. and Mordechai Orian
Defendants:U S Department of Labor, Elaine L Chao, Michael Chertoff, Emilio T Gonzalez and Paul Novak
 
Case Number:2:2007cv08428
Filed:December 31, 2007
 
Court:California Central District Court
Office:Western Division - Los Angeles Office
County:Los Angeles
Presiding Judge:George H. King
Referring Judge:Victor B. Kenton
 
Nature of Suit:Civil Rights - Other Civil Rights
Cause:28:1331 Fed. Question
Jurisdiction:U.S. Government Defendant
Jury Demanded By:None

http://www.gibsondunn.com/publications/Documents/Manos-RecoveryOfInterest.pdf

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-1717.ZS.html
Excerpt:
RICHLIN SECURITY SERVICE CO. v. CHERTOFF (No. 06-1717) 472 F. 3d 1370, reversed and remanded.
Syllabus Opinion
[Alito]
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NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 .
Michael Chertoff on Wikileaks video
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64890596/





Michael Chertoff

Senior Of Counsel

http://www.cov.com/mchertoff/#
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Covington & Burling LLP
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2401
Tel: 202.662.5060

http://www.cov.com/mchertoff/
Excerpt:

Michael Chertoff is senior of counsel in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.

Most recently, Mr. Chertoff served as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.  As Secretary, he led a 218,000 person department with a budget of $50 billion.  Mr. Chertoff developed and implemented border security and immigration policy; promulgated homeland security regulations; and spearheaded a national cyber security strategy.  He also served periodically on the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, and on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Prior to his appointment to the Cabinet, Mr. Chertoff served from 2003 to 2005 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Before becoming a federal judge, Mr. Chertoff was the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  In that position, he oversaw the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and formed the Enron Task Force, which produced more than 20 convictions, including those of CEOs Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay.

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=13238
Excerpt:
The Naked Body Scanners are manufactured by the Rapiscan Systems, which employs The Chertoff Group as a consultant to promote sales. If that name is familiar to you, it should be, the President and CEO of The Chertoff Group is none other than former Homeland Security Czar and Secreatry, Michael Chertoff, who first authorized these machines. Chertoff has been criticized by Flyers Rights.org for abusing his former position to promote the scanners.
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/04-10-05/discussion.cgi.66.html
Excerpt:
This report presents a study of Michael Chertoff’s role in the 1993 WTC bombing, the OKC bombing and the 9-11 terrorist attacks as well as Chertoff’s coverup of FBI and DOJ foreknowledge and provocation of these attacks. The information in the report strongly implicates Chertoff in intentionally helping create and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in order to provide a pretext for much of the controversial police state provisions in laws which Chertoff has helped write. Chertoff’s unethical and criminal roles and conduct revealed in this report raises grave concerns that Chertoff, as head of Homeland Security, would further attempt to impose a US police state and continue to use illegal, unconstitutional and immoral tactics against the America people. The recently enacted National ID card provisions to be finally determined and enforced by the Homeland Security agency under Chertoff are likely to be those of a Russian style police state as revealed in this report.

A Chicago Tribune article “Trading Privacy (Freedom) for Security” dated April 21, 1995, two days after the OKC Bombing, carried quotes by Admiral Studeman, the acting Director of CIA who had been appointed by HW Bush. Studeman stated that the OKC Bombing indicated “ the true globalization of the terrorist threat.” In other words, Studeman tried to create the public impression that the OKC bombing was the result of global terrorist efforts, not just those of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

The title of the article “Trading Privacy (Freedom) for Security” quoting Admiral Studeman belied the past and future attempts of HW Bush, GW Bush and their appointee, Michael Chertoff, to push for loss of freedoms to fight terrorism (PATRIOT Act flaws and FISA court violations by Ashcroft and Chertoff).


http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
Excerpt:
Pfizer caught editing negative information about its products on wikipedia

September 12, 2007

Covington & Burling, a Pfizer law firm, caught cleaning up its reputation on Wikipedia.

We recently wrote that several drug companies have been caught deleting important information from Wikipedia, in order to downplay the risk of their drugs.

Now the law firms working for the drug companies are getting caught doing the same thing and we got this story from the outstanding blog ClinPsych.
Covington & Burling, one of the largest white-shoe law firms in the country, representing AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Schering-Plough and Pfizer, just got caught very red handed deleting Wikipedia entries about the firm like crazy. Seems like them lawyers aren't that smart after all . . .
[Update, here is another Pfizer law firm we found doing hilarious edits: Ropes & Gray, yet another Pfizer law firm caught changing Wikipedia. Click on link to learn about their "epic parties," "phenomenal dining," "summer of ecstacy," and even "cool summer associates" like Seth Piken and his office-mate, "the jerk."]

If you want to see for yourself what the glorious lawyers at Covington & Burling have been up to, go here. If you just want the facts, keep on reading:

One entry deleted was the connection between Covington & Burling and secret societes:

There have been many connections drawn between Covington & Burling and the Skull & Bones or Illuminati. One notable connection is William P. Bundy who started out his career in 1947 working for Covington & Burling. In 1951 Bundy quit Covington & Burling to begin openly working for the CIA as an analyst, and then as assistant to the deputy director of the CIA.

Another deletion dealt with Covington & Burlings involvment with mad cows and toxic smoke:

In April 2004, the Washington DC newspaper The Hill reported: "Creekstone Farms Quality Beef, which has been battling the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get permission to test its cattle for mad cow disease, has hired Covington & Burling to help it make its case."[2]

At the time, Creekstone was one of two U.S. beef producers who were seeking to resume exports to Japan, South Korea and other countries by testing every head of cattle they processed for mad cow disease.
According to a September 2003 press release from the firm, Covington & Burling successfully argued on behalf of the Southern Peru Copper Corporation to drop a lawsuit brought against it under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) by Peruvian citizens charging the copper company with polluting communities and causing health problems. ATCA has been used to address serious human rights violations in places like Burma and East Timor. In their release, Covington & Burling decried the "aggressive, expansionist plaintiffs' litigation" under ATCA.[3]

Covington & Burling also served as corporate affairs consultants to the Philip Morris group of companies, according to a 1993 internal budget review document which indicated the firm was paid $280,000 to "serve as general counsel to the Consumer Products Company Tort Coalition, agree the legal objectives with member company litigators, draft legislation and amendments, prepare lobby papers and testimony for legislative committees and administer the coalition's budget". [4]

During the $280 billion U.S. federal lawsuit against big tobacco, Covington & Burling partner John Rupp, a former lawyer with the industry-funded Tobacco Institute, testified that "the industry sought out scientists and paid them to make an 'objective appraisal' of whether secondhand smoke was harmful to non-smokers, a move they hoped would dispel the 'extreme views' of some anti-smoking activists." He "said the scientists, who came from prestigious institutions such as Georgetown University and the University of Massachusetts, did not consider themselves to be working 'on behalf' of cigarette makers even though they were being paid by the industry." Rupp said, "We were paying them to share their views in forums where they would be usefully presented," according to Reuters. [5]

Something else the Covington people didn't like was for people to learn their association with Halliburton and the following was deleted:

In 2003 Halliburton hired the firm to lobby Washington on behalf of its KBR Government Operations division, the same division being pummeled by the media, the Pentagon and Congress for its handling of Iraq contracts. Covington & Burling was paid $520,000 to handle "inquiries concerning company's construction and service contracts in Iraq," the firm said in a filing.

According to the filing, Covington & Burling listed the following people as lobbyists for Halliburton/KBR: Roderick A. DeArment, who was chief of staff to now-retired Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS); Martin B. Gold, former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN); Stuart E. Eizenstat, U.S. ambassador to the European Union during the Clinton administration; Alan A. Pemberton, coordinator of the firm's government contracts practice; David M. Marchick, who served in various posts in the Clinton administration; Jack L. Schenendorf; Peter Flanagan; Jennifer Plitsch; Benjamin J. Razi; and Allegra Lane.

Halliburton's lobbying expenses are disclosed in documents submitted under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, which requires congressional and executive branch lobbyists to disclose their lobbying activities twice per year. Each year the information is disclosed at the Senate Office of Public Records.
In 2003 Halliburton hired the firm to lobby Washington on behalf of its KBR Government Operations division, the same division being pummeled by the media, the Pentagon and Congress for its handling of Iraq contracts. Covington & Burling was paid $520,000 to handle "inquiries concerning company's construction and service contracts in Iraq," the firm said in a filing.

And Covington didn’t like this description of the firm:

Covington & Burling is a major legal and lobbying firm focused on "industry and regulatory" and "corporate, tax and benefits" issues, and litigation.[1] They have U.S. offices in Washington DC, New York City and San Francisco, and European offices in London and Brussels.

Instead, they wrote this:

Covington & Burling LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 600 lawyers practicing in Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. Founded in 1919, the firm advises leading multinationals on many of their most significant transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters. The firm has long emphasized the strength of its Corporate and Litigation Practices derived from the firm's industry expertise acquired through its broad regulatory expertise. Representative clients include The National Football League, Microsoft, PBS, and The Washington Post. Covington's pro bono program has been recognized as preeminent in the legal community. As part of its pro bono program, the firm has rotation programs, which allow attorneys and staff to work for six months at three local legal services organizations - Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP), the Children's Law Center (CLC), or Bread for the City (BFTC).

To do your own detective work on Wikipedia use the http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/chertoff-joins-bae-defens_n_513594.html
Excerpt:
BAE Systems, the British defense giant that is the eighth-biggest contractor to the U.S. government, recently promised it wouldn't bribe people anymore.
The occasion for the promise -- along with a staggering $447 million in fines to the U.S. and U.K. governments -- was the company's guilty plea settling long-running allegations of corruption, which were first disclosed by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2003.
Among the allegations: That BAE secretly paid Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, then the ambassador to the U.S., $2 billion in connection with Britain's biggest-ever weapons contract.
So bribery: Not OK anymore. That's officially corruption.
But the revolving door? Bring it on.
The company announced today that Michael Chertoff, who served as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, is joining the company's board of directors to "provide oversight and strategic counsel, further ensuring that BAE Systems, Inc. is well positioned to meet current and future customer requirements in the defense and security markets."
Chertoff was welcomed by the board's chairman, retired four-star General Tony Zinni

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/u-s-poised-to-punish-wikileaks-as-scandal-threatens-diplomacy-1.2503118
Excerpt:
The question remained whether Americans are entitled to information about the inner workings of their government. Clinton’s reasons so far are too vague to justify quashing the documents, said Bob Steele, director of Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University.\\

http://www.drbilllong.com/SupCt/Richlin.html
Excerpt:

Richlin Sec. Service v. Chertoff

Bill Long 1/20/08
Docket No. 06-1717; Oral Arg. March 19, 2008
If Charles Dickens were alive today and desired to update Bleakhouse, he could do no better than to tell the story of this case. Indeed as the lower court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, said, "This is the fifth time this case has come before this court," Richlin Sec. Service. v. Chertoff, 472 F3d 1370, 1371 (2006). The specific issue that comes before the US Supreme Court is a highly technical one--whether the lawyer who has prevailed in an action on behalf of his/her client against the United States is entitled to reimbursement for paralegal expenses at the going market rate for paralegals or only at the cost to the attorney for the paralegal services (i.e., since the paralegals worked for the attorney, s/he paid them about $35 an hour; the "market rate" for paralegals, if hired "off the street" was about $95 an hour). We are dealing with approximately 600 hours of paralegal time in this case; thus the total amount at issue is 600 X $60 or about $36,000. Not a huge amount, but I guess the Court wanted to clear up a minor difficulty in interpreting the Equal Access to Justice Act.
I will lay out the issue from the text of the statute below, but I thought it would be especially fun to recount the history of this case, so that you can see the nuts and bolts of how a complex case works, especially when you are suing the government. When I was in private practice I was engaged in such a case, a case which lasted more than 20 years...
The Whole Richlin Case
Richlin is a security service which, under contract with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (currently the Deparment of Homeland Security), provided guard services for detainees at the Los Angeles International Airport. As a result of a mutual mistake, the contracts misclassified Richlin's employees as "Guard I" rather than "Guard II" for wage classification under the Service Contract Act, a mistake which ......................

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/january/trafficking_012811/trafficking_012811
Excerpt:
Human Traffickers Indicted
Massive Case Involves 600 Thai Victims
01/28/11

Thai migrant worker

It seemed pretty straightforward: labor recruiters in Thailand approached impoverished rural farm workers—who made around $1,000 (U.S.) annually—and offered jobs on American farms for higher pay.   
Many, hoping to provide a better life for their families, accepted the offer, which was made through an American company called Global Horizons, in the business of recruiting foreign workers to work in the U.S. agricultural industry. But once in the U.S., the Thai workers soon discovered a harsh reality: they worked for little or no pay, and they were held in place with threats and intimidation.  


Global Horizons promotion video
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Global_Horizons

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=13100787
Excerpt:

Human trafficking suspect surrenders

Posted: Sep 03, 2010 9:29 PM MST Updated: Sep 03, 2010 9:39 PM MST
Mordechai Orian Mordechai Orian
Global Horizons Global Horizons
Clare Hanusz Clare Hanusz
Tom Simon Tom Simon
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By Brooks Baehr - bio | email
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewNow)- The head of an alleged human trafficking operation surrendered to the FBI in Honolulu Friday afternoon and was being held without bail after pleading not guilty in federal court.
Mordechai Orian is accused of importing foreign workers, then mistreating them and failing to live up to promises. The FBI calls it the largest human trafficking case ever prosecuted in the United States.
Orian, a 45 year old Israeli national, is chief executive officer of Global Horizons, a company that recruits workers from impoverished countries and finds them jobs elsewhere, often in the United States.
"What for me and what for my clients was the major injustice was the fact that they were lied to as far as how long they would be guaranteed work in the United States," said Clare Hanusz.
The government credits Hanusz and fellow immigration attorney Melissa Vincenty with helping break the case. Hanusz and Vincenty met with workers from Thailand who were allegedly recruited by Global Horizons.
Some of the workers say they paid Global Horizons as much as $21,000 in return for three years employment on farms in the United States.
The laborers planned use wages from their first year paying off the money they borrowed to get the jobs. Wages from the second and third years would be profit.
"What happened was they were moved from farm to farm and often times they would work for a new farm in a new state and maybe work for a week or two and then there would be no work for weeks or months," Hanusz told Hawaii News Now.
Because they were not being paid, the workers were not able to pay their debts back home in Thailand. And according to an indictment made public Thursday the workers could not flee. Their passports had allegedly been taken away and they were allegedly held captive on the farms.
If Orian is found guilty on all current charges, he could be sentenced to as much as 70 years in prison. It is possible more charges are coming soon.
"In court today the Department of Justice prosecutor did elude to the fact that the superseding indictment might be coming down the pipeline. However, that is a decision that is made by the grand jury whether there is probable cause for a superseding indictment, so we're not going to get into that. We're going to let the evidence be presented in the grand jury room," FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said.
The government considers Orian a flight risk. He will be held without bail at the Federal Detention Center until a detention hearing Wednesday, September 8.
Five other people were indicted with Orian.
Pranee Tubchumpol, 44, surrendered to the FBI in Los Angeles Wednesday.
The FBI said Kona resident Sam Wongsesanit, 39, has agreed to surrender next week.
Shane Germann, 41, surrendered to the FBI in Fargo, North Dakota Wednesday.
The FBI believes Ratawan Chunharutai and Podjanee Sinchai are both in Thailand and are considered fugitives.
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/04-10-05/discussion.cgi.66.html

Saturday, January 29, 2011

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm
Excerpt:
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls 
Updated 5/11/2006 10:38 AM ET E-mail  
Enlarge By Roger Wollenberg, Getty Images

Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to become the director of the CIA, headed the NSA from March 1999 to April 2005. In that post, Hayden would have overseen the agency's domestic phone record collection program.

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From the White House:
The White House defended its overall eavesdropping program and said no domestic surveillance is conducted without court approval.
   ''The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks,'' said Dana Perino, the deputy White House press secretary, who added that appropriate members of Congress have been briefed on intelligence activities.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.

Michael V. Hayden Sourcewatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_V._Hayden
Excerpt:

Warrantless wiretapping

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy arose when the New York Times revealed on December 16, 2005, that the agency had been eavesdropping on U.S. citizens and other people within the U.S. without seeking warrants from a special court, as ostensibly required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.[4]
Hayden received personal criticism for his role in the controversy when he spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 2006, to defend the practice of warrantless surveillance. During the question and answer period following his speech, Hayden appeared to deny that a "probable cause" standard is contained in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution--which limits the government's ability to conduct searches and, by extension, surveillance.
Knight Ridder reporter Jonathan Landay prefaced a question by noting that "the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution specifies that you must have probable cause to be able to do a search that does not violate an American's right against unlawful searches and seizures." Hayden responded: "No, actually--the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure.... That's what it says." When Landay continued, "But does it not say probable--" Hayden said: "No. The amendment says...unreasonable search and seizure."
In fact, the amendment refers to both "unreasonable searches and seizures" and "probable cause."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

Thursday, January 27, 2011

http://www.petermooring.nl/blog/?p=47
Excerpt:

Reduced muscle & bone functioningThey beam your leg so it won’t feel good when jogging. They beam your hands/fingers to prevent you from writing, playing your musical instrument etc. One effect is you will have reduced strength in your fingers. You can feel the beam by moving your legs, hands.

In general, you have not much possibilities to protect yourself. You cannot walk around in a metal/water shield and function as a human being. Most attacks are very effective and it appears to be relatively easy to hit you anywhere anytime. There is a short term effect of pain and damage of body cells. Exposure for a long time to high intensity radiation is very dangerous for your health. Amounts add up, thus total radiation = radiation of day X1 + radiation of day X2, etc. Too much radiation destroys your DNA and gives you tumors and stimulates cancers (you can imagine the health hazard of high energy radiation compared to a mobile phone). Ultrasonic harressment will cause almost immediately tissue damage.

http://www.stopeg.com/
Excerpt:
It cannot be proven so we just do it
Not only whistleblowers or people who are government-unfriendly, but also thousands of normal innocent citizens, are being ‘finished off’ by secret services using electronic weapons and gang stalking worldwide every year. People are being driven out of their mind, driven to despair and they become suicidal, criminal or end up in a staged car crash or a psychiatric ward. The reason why is on the whole totally obscure. Stealing ideas, wanting to have a house in a strategic place, being used as human guinea pigs, being blamed for anything or personal motives, electronic weapons make it increasingly easy to kill people (physically or mentally) without leaving evidence. And in the hands of secret services these weapons are even more dangerous. These services are specialised in eliminating. Nowadays they use electronic weapons while in the past they used a knife, a bullet, poison or a car crash.

These weapons make killing someone more and more anonymous. It is not necessary to stab someone. Just to push a button in a room elsewhere is enough. The general thought is: it cannot be proven so we just do it. But it should not be like this. Torturing and killing with these weapons is horrendous and are crimes against humanity.

Military Directed Energy Weapon Technology like that used on 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kKjUPcnUw

Bancorp Momentum Visa card... scandal
http://www.usbank-5starscrewed.0catch.com/US_Bank_Sucks/US_Bank_Custox.html

California residents hit with government ban on paying by cash (watch the video please)
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/082764-2011-01-27-california-residents-hit-with-government-ban-on-paying-by-cash.htm
Excerpt:
01-27-2011  •  prisonplanet.com 

Residents of Discovery Bay, California will be the first in the country to be officially denied the right to use cash to pay for public services, in a move that echoes the Department of Homeland Security’s drive to depict those who use physical money as potential terrorists.
As reported by the Contra Costa Times recently, from May onwards, residents will no long be allowed to pay water bills or purchase park permits after the Discovery Bay Community Services District board voted to ban cash transactions for all services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Tucker_(journalist)
Excerpt:
James P. (Jim or Big Jim[1]) Tucker, Jr. is an American journalist who, since 1975, has focused on exposing the controversial Bilderberg Group. He is the author of Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary and has appeared in several films.
Tucker is recognised as a "veteran Bilderberg observer" and "the doyen of Bilderberg hunters".[2][3]

http://www.think-aboutit.com/thinker/index.php/component/content/article/233-alternative-energy/53--twelve-things-you-should-know-about-scalar-weapons-
Excerpt:
6. SCALAR BEAMS AGAINST INDIVIDUALS

To totally destroy a person's nervous system and kill them instantaneously, a scalar weapon can be set on 'high intensity pulse mode'. This will destroy every living cell, bacteria and all germs so the body falls down like a limp rag, not even decaying in even 30-45 days. There is no living aspect left to decay. Entire groups of people can be killed this way even in a 50 mile radius on peak power. Scalar beams set on a lower power can render a person unconscious to be revived at a later date for interrogation. Crossed scalar beams can cover a whole range of targets from something right through the other side of the earth, to anything under the sea or ground. Not even metal will suffice to protect, as a metal softening mode can be deployed. Scalar beams can be put into X ray mode where a screen can show what is inside something, even under the sea and earth or inside buildings. This is called a remote viewing radar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
Excerpt:

Directed-energy weapon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Directed-energy weapon
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Humvee with Active Denial System mounted
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile. It transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Intended effects may be non-lethal or lethal. Some such weapons are real, or are under active research and development.
The energy can come in various forms:
Some such weapons, perhaps most, at present only appear in science fiction, non-functional toys, film props or animation.
In science fiction, these weapons are sometimes known as death rays or rayguns and are usually portrayed as projecting energy at a person or object to kill or destroy. Many modern examples of science fiction have more specific names for directed energy weapons, due to research advances.

Star Wars in Iraq (video inside)
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message619562/pg1

http://www.ogdenmalpracticeattorney.com/videos-alex-jones-confronts-dale-littleton-batf-%5BdoFV3hGLI8w%5D.cfm
Excerpts:
Alex Jones Confronts FBI Agent Regarding Waco Massacre
Alex Jones Confronts FBI Agent Regarding Waco MassacreTalk show host and truth activist Alex Jones confronts an FBI agent at Mt. Carmel (Waco, TX) where 82 men, women, and children were slaughtered. www.libertylives.org Regardless of the opinions or perceived "extreme" views of the davidians, the focus here is the government's slaughter and coverup of their murders.
Alex Jones Confronts Janet Reno on Waco
Alex Jones Confronts Janet Reno on WacoAlex Jones confronts a shaky and scared Janet Reno with the truth. www.Infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
Alex Jones - "I Will Never Commit Suicide"
Alex Jones - !UPDATE: Dr Kelly &apos;couldn&apos;t have slit his wrist as he was too weak&apos; Miles Goslett DailyMail July 1, 2010 Dramatic new testimony has heaped pressure on ministers to reopen the investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly. A female colleague claims that the UN weapons inspector could not have committed suicide as claimed, as he was too weak to cut his own wrist. Mai Pedersen, a US Air Force officer who served with Dr Kelly&apos;s inspection team in Iraq, said a hand and arm injury meant that the 59-year-old even &apos;had difficulty cutting his own steak&apos;. 70-year gag on Kelly death evidence London Evening Standard January 24, 2010 Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported. A highly unusual ruling by Lord Hutton, who chaired the inquiry into Dr Kellys death, means medical records including the post-mortem report will remain classified until after all those with a direct interest in the case are dead, the Mail on Sunday reported. And a 30-year secrecy order has been placed on written records provided to Lord Huttons inquiry which were not produced in evidence. The Ministry of Justice said decisions on the evidence were a matter for Lord Hutton. But Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has conducted his own investigations into Dr Kellys death, described the order as astonishing. Dr Kellys body was found in woods close to his Oxfordshire home in 2003, shortly after it was revealed that he was the <b>...</b>
Alex Jones - America Wake Up or Waco 10 of 12
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Waco Slaughter Waco 1993 (caution: some disturbing images)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOAzbWtTJHg&feature=related

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140948
Excerpt:
Officials at FBI probed, rewarded
Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published 11/16/2002
Senior FBI executives received cash bonuses and promotions while under investigation for suspected misconduct during an internal bureau review of the August 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, that claimed three lives.
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General yesterday said in a report the bonuses and promotions went to former FBI Deputy Director Larry A. Potts, later demoted and suspended for improper oversight of the deadly siege; and E. Michael Kahoe, a senior FBI executive sentenced to prison for destroying a critical Ruby Ridge document.
Other cash awards and promotions, the report said, went to Danny O. Coulson, former deputy assistant director who worked for Mr. Potts; and three senior FBI executives, Charles Mathews, Robert E. Walsh and Van A. Harp, accused of not conducting proper after-the-fact investigations to determine what happened at Ruby Ridge.
"While a presumption of innocence is usually appropriate while a subject is under investigation, rewarding a subject who is later found to have committed misconduct can result in adverse consequences," the report said. "The FBI should be mindful of the message it sends to both the investigators in a particular case and the rest of the FBI when subjects of an investigation are promoted or receive bonuses or awards while under investigation.
"This is especially true where high-level officials are under investigation, because investigators may interpret the giving of an award as an indication that senior management has already judged the merits of the investigation," it said.
The inspector general's report is the result of an investigation to determine whether the FBI's system of discipline is unfair because senior bureau executives are treated more leniently than rank-and-file agents. Investigators used the Ruby Ridge incident as an example.
The report concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove a double-standard of discipline, in part, because of the low number of cases involving senior executives, but that the FBI "suffered and still suffers from a strong, and not unreasonable, perception among employees that a double standard exists."
In the Ruby Ridge case, Vicki Weaver was killed Aug. 22, 1992, by FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. He was acting on shoot-on-sight orders, although it has never been determined who authorized a change in the bureau's rules of engagement that allowed the shooting. Her son, Samuel, 14, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William F. Degan, died in a separate shootout a day earlier.
Mrs. Weaver's husband, Randy, had been sought on weapons violations. He and a family friend, Kevin Harris, also were wounded. They were charged in Mr. Degan's death, but acquitted by an Idaho jury.
Mr. Potts and Mr. Coulson, who directed the siege from Washington, denied ordering changes in the bureau's deadly-force policy. But Eugene F. Glenn, who headed the Salt Lake City office and was the on-site commander at Ruby Ridge, and Richard Rogers, head of the FBI's hostage-rescue team, have disputed the claims of Mr. Potts and Mr. Coulson.
Among the FBI executives named in the report, only Mr. Kahoe was found guilty of any wrongdoing. Several were recommended for suspension or demotion, but only letters of censure were ever issued.
The inspector general's report said Mr. Potts was named acting deputy director in 1994, prior to the completion of an internal FBI investigation into government conduct during the Ruby Ridge siege. The report said despite Mr. Potts' receipt in January 1995 of a letter of censure in the Ruby Ridge matter, he was named deputy director in May 1995.
According to the report, Mr. Coulson was promoted to agent-in-charge in Baltimore in April 1993 while still a focus of the FBI's internal Ruby Ridge investigation. It said he was given a cash award of $5,590 in November 1993, although the investigation remained active.
Mr. Coulson was named to lead the FBI's Dallas office in September 1994, the report said, before recommendations regarding discipline in Ruby Ridge had been completed. He later received a letter of censure for his role in the standoff.
Mr. Walsh received a cash award of 5 percent of his salary while under investigation by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) in the Ruby Ridge matter, the report said. It said he was named agent-in-charge of the FBI's San Francisco field office in December 1996 while he was the focus of a separate criminal probe of Ruby Ridge by U.S. Attorney Michael Stiles in Philadelphia.
According to the report, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh asked the OPR and Mr. Stiles about the promotion, and the OPR did not object, Mr. Stiles declined comment. The report said a memo to Attorney General Janet Reno requesting approval for Mr. Walsh's move to San Francisco did not mention the investigation.
Mr. Harp, now head of the Washington field office, was named agent-in-charge in Cleveland after OPR began an investigation into the inadequacy of his after-the-fact Ruby Ridge probe, the report said. It said a memo to Mr. Freeh presenting Mr. Harp's qualifications did not mention the ongoing probe, although the inspector general's report said Mr. Freeh was aware of the investigation and its scope.
In addition, the report said, Mr. Harp was given a cash bonus of $8,099 in November 1997 while under investigation in the Ruby Ridge matter and a $14,208 bonus in October 1998 while that inquiry continued and a separate probe began into his role in the receipt of travel reimbursements by FBI senior executives to attend a 1997 retirement party for Mr. Potts.
Mr. Walsh and Mr. Harp had been assigned to investigate accusations of misconduct by the government in the Ruby Ridge matter. The OPR later said they did not take sufficiently aggressive steps in the probe and avoided uncovering the full truth to protect Mr. Potts and Mr. Coulson.
The report said Mr. Mathews was promoted to the FBI's Senior Executive Service (SES) in July 1995 after the OPR had begun its investigation into accusations that a separate internal Ruby Ridge inquiry he headed was inadequate. It said Mr. Mathews, who served as a top assistant to Mr. Coulson in Portland, Ore., from 1988 to 1990, was promoted to agent-in-charge in New Orleans in June 1997 while the OPR investigation continued.
Mr. Mathews was assigned to find out what, if any, disciplinary action should be taken against FBI personnel involved in the Ruby Ridge incident. His report recommended discipline for several agents at the scene, but did not contain any recommendations for discipline for Mr. Potts or Mr. Coulson.
The inspector general's report said Mr. Kahoe got a cash award of $7,126 in November 1993 during the initial Ruby Ridge investigation and was named agent-in-charge in Jacksonville, Fla., in June 1994 while still under investigation. He pleaded guilty in October 1996 to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Mr. Kahoe destroyed a November 1992 after-action report that referred to "problems" in the FBI's conduct during the Weaver siege. The document had been sought by federal prosecutors in Idaho, but was never made available.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Games_Corporation
Excerpt:
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQSGMS) is a New York City-based company that provides gaming solutions to lottery and gaming organizations worldwide. Products include instant lottery games, lottery gaming systems, terminals and service, and internet applications.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/larry-a-potts/70472
Excerpt:
Larry A. Potts
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Security

Scientific Games Corporation

New York ,  NY

Sector: TECHNOLOGY  /  Multimedia & Graphics Software

Officer since September 2004
62 Years Old
Larry A. Potts has served as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Security since February 2006. Mr. Potts joined the Company in September 2004 as Vice President, Security and Compliance. Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer of an international consulting and investigative company in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he served as a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for over 23 years, where he served in a number of management positions, including Deputy Director.
Compensation for 2009

Salary$469,500.00
Bonus$0.00
Restricted stock awards$178,413.00
All other compensation$5,469.00
Option awards $$178,502.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation$85,000.00
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings$0.00
Total Compensation$916,884.00

Options Granted

Grant
Date
All other stock awards (# of shares of stocks or units)Number of securities underlying optionsExercise
or base
price
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02/23/2009 - - $ - 0% $178,413.00
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02/23/2009 - - $12.21 0% $178,502.00
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Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQSGMS) is a New York City-based company that provides gaming solutions to lottery and gaming organizations worldwide. Products include instant lottery games, lottery gaming systems, terminals and service, and internet applications.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/louis-j-freeh/13404
Excerpt:

Louis J. Freeh Director

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

New York ,  NY

Sector: HEALTHCARE  /  Drug Manufacturers - Major

Director ,  Wilmington Trust Corp

Wilmington ,  DE

Sector: FINANCIAL  /  Regional - Mid-Atlantic Banks

60 Years Old
Mr. Freeh, age 60, has served as Senior Managing Partner of the Freeh Group International Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm, and Managing Partner, Freeh Sullivan Sporkin, LLP, a law firm, since 2007. Mr. Freeh served as Vice Chairman, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer to MBNA Corporation, a bank holding company, from 2001 until its acquisition by Bank of America in January 2006. He served as FBI Director from 1993 to 2001 and previously as a U.S. District Judge, Assistant U.S. Attorney and FBI Special Agent. Mr. Freeh is a Director of Wilmington Trust and previously served as a Director of Fannie Mae, Viisage Technology, Inc. and L-1 Identity Solutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei
Excerpt:
During the pontificate of John Paul II, two members of Opus Dei, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne and Julián Herranz Casado, were made cardinals.[39]

http://www.fanniemae.com/governance/biographies/freeh.jhtml?p=Corporate+Governance&s=Board+of+Directors
Excerpt:

Board of Directors
Louis J. Freeh


Louis J. Freeh

Louis J. Freeh is president of Freeh Group International, LLC, a practice of former federal judges and former senior FBI leaders who provide legal, governance, investigative, litigation, and risk management services. He previously served as general counsel, corporate secretary and ethics officer at MBNA Corporation, as well as vice chairman of MBNA America Bank N.A., from 2001 to 2006. Mr. Freeh was the director of the FBI from 1993 to 2001 and served as a judge on the United States District Court, Southern District of New York from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Freeh also served as an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy U.S. attorney in New York from 1981 to 1991. From 1975 to 1981, he worked as a supervisor and special agent for the FBI in Washington, D.C., and New York.

Mr. Freeh has been a member of the board of Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2005. He also has been a member of the board of L-1 Identity Solutions since 2006.

As of March 31, 2007, Mr. Freeh was 57 years old.

Mr. Freeh has been a Fannie Mae director since May 2007.
Originally Published: June 20, 2007
http://www.niaf.org/about/board_officers.asp
Excerpt:
| Chairman, Jerry Colangelo |
| Vice Chair, Paul J. Chiapparone |
| Vice Chair, Hon. Louis J. Freeh |
| Vice Chair, Hon. Patricia de Stacy Harrison |
| Vice Chair, Vincent Viola |
| President, Joseph V. Del Raso, Esq. |
| Executive V.P., Hon. Marie L. Garibaldi |
| Executive V.P., Salvatore M. Salibello |
| Treasurer, Gabriel A. Battista |
| Secretary, John F. Calvelli |
| General Counsel, Arthur J. Furia, Esq. |


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Jerry Colangelo
(Chairman)

Jerry Colangelo
Chairman

Throughout his storied career as a sports executive, Jerry Colangelo has succeeded with a unique combination of know-how, both on the basketball court and on the business side of the operation.
Colangelo, who has been the face of the Phoenix Suns franchise since their inaugural season in 1968, sold the franchise for a record $401 million in June, 2007 and retains the title of chairman for five years. Colangelo has been among The Sporting News most powerful people in sports for over the last decade.
He became the youngest general manager in professional sports in 1968 and went on mold the Phoenix Suns into one of the most successful organizations in the NBA. In addition, he brought Major League Baseball to the Valley in 1998 and serves as Chairman of the 2001 World Champion Arizona Diamondbacks.
Colangelo is Chairman of the NBA's Board of Governors. He has served as general manager, head coach, president and now chairman and chief executive officer of the Suns. Colangelo has been named NBA Executive of the Year an unprecedented four times.
He is currently chairman of the Council of Leadership Education and Collaboration for a New Century, Southwest Leadership Foundation, National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame and Leadership Foundations of America. He is a trustee of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and a director National Italian American Foundation and Young Life International.
Colangelo grew up in Chicago Heights, where the Jerry Colangelo Gymnasium was dedicated on November 10, 1996. Colangelo and his wife, Joan, have four children and 10 grandchildren.

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Hon. Louis J. Freeh
(Vice Chair)

Hon. Louis J. Freeh
Vice Chair

Judge Freeh was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1950. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College in 1971. He received a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School in 1974 and an LL.M. degree in criminal law from New York University Law School in 1984. He served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve.
Judge Freeh served as FBI Director from 1993-2001. From 1991 to 1993 he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. In 1983, he joined the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant United States Attorney. Subsequently he held positions there as Chief of the Organized Crime Unit, Associate United States Attorney and Deputy United States Attorney. From 1975 to 1981 he was a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving in New York City and Washington, DC.
As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York, Judge Freeh was the lead prosecutor in the "Pizza Connection" case, one of the largest and most complex narcotics investigations ever undertaken by the Federal Government. The case involved an extensive drug-trafficking operation in the United States by Sicilian organized crime members who imported tons of drugs into the United States and laundered $100s of millions overseas. Following the investigation, Judge Freeh served as the Federal Government's principal courtroom attorney in the 17-month trial and won the conviction of 16 of 17 codefendants. In May 1990, he was appointed a Special Prosecutor by the Attorney General to oversee the investigation into the mail-bomb murders of Federal Judge Robert Vance of Birmingham, Alabama, and civil rights leader Robert Robinson of Savannah, Georgia. Both were killed by mail bombs. After an extensive investigation, the suspect was apprehended and convicted. Judge Freeh prosecuted the case before a jury in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Judge Freeh has been recognized on several occasions for his exemplary accomplishments, which include investigations and prosecutions relating to racketeering, drugs, organized crime, fraud, white-collar crime and terrorism. In 1987 and 1991, he received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service, the second highest annual honor given by the Department of Justice. Other commendations include the John Marshall Award for Preparation of Litigation, awarded annually by the Attorney General, and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Award.
Judge Freeh served as General Counsel at MBNA America Bank from 2001-2006. Judge Freeh is currently the Senior Managing Partner at Freeh Group International and a Director for several public companies.
Judge Freeh is Chairman of the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and sits on a number of non-profit boards, including the United States Naval Academy Foundation, the National Italian American Foundation and the International Association of Chief of Police Foundation.
Judge Freeh is also a founding partner of Freeh, Sporkin and Sullivan, a law firm comprised of former federal judges with offices in Washington and New York, which speicalizes in corporate governance, compliance, white-collar crime and securities matters.
Judge Freeh and his wife Marilyn have six sons.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/astrospies/phot-nf.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-10/world/iraq.curveball_1_germ-labs-german-intelligence-bnd?_s=PM:WORLD
Excerpt:
In the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a dramatic presentation to the U.N. Security Council. The United States had first-hand accounts, he said, detailing how Hussein was secretly creating biological agents using mobile laboratories in "road-trailer units and rail cars."
As slides depicting drawings of the supposed germ labs flashed on a big screen in the Security Council's chamber, Powell drove his point home:
"The source is an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer, who supervised one of these facilities."
Just days after Powell's presentation, U.N. weapons inspectors presented evidence they said disproved those claims. But six weeks later, on March 20, 2003, the United States launched its invasion, toppling Hussein's government in three weeks but locking itself in a war against an insurgency that has cost more than 4,000 American lives.


Code-name -Curveball - Alwan
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110113-32401.html
Excerpt:
The administration of former US President George Bush relied heavily on Alwan’s fabricated testimony that the Iraqi dictator Hussein was using mobile laboratories to manufacture biological weapons, even though the BND had expressed doubts about the claims – doubts that some CIA officials shared.

http://purpleslinky.com/trivia/five-famous-people-and-their-scandals-and-unknown-facts/

Winston Churchill

            Winston Churchill was a racist though highly regarded for his sills as a good orator and leader. During Palestine Royal Commission in 1937 Winston Churchill said that, he is not ready to admit that anything wrong has been done to Red Indians of America or black people in Australia. A strong and fit race has just taken over the weaker. Not only this but in many other speech he gave he had made his views clear about racism.
http://www.ogdenmalpracticeattorney.com/videos-alex-jones-confronts-dale-littleton-batf-%5BdoFV3hGLI8w%5D.cfm

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mers-ceo-rk-arnold-leaving-company
Excerpt:

MERS CEO R.K. Arnold Leaving Company

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Is the biggest fraud in the history of the US housing market about to come unglued? If so, take our prediction of a $100 billion total in future BofA rep and warranty reserves and triple it.
From the WSJ:
The chief executive of the privately-held Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, is planning to leave the company and an announcement could come within days, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company has been under fire by Congress and state officials for its role in the mortgage-document crisis. The firm's board of directors has met in recent days to address the fate of the company and its chief executive, R.K. Arnold, the people said.

Arnold and other MERS executives didn't respond to requests for comment. A MERS spokeswoman Friday declined comment.  Arnold, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has served as the CEO and president of Merscorp Inc., the parent company of MERS, since 1998 and has been with the company since its inception 15 years ago, according to a corporate biography.

MERS was built by Fannie Mae (FNMA), Freddie Mac (FMCC), and several large U.S. banks in 1996 as an electronic registry of land records. That created a parallel database to facilitate the packaging of loans into securities that could be sold and re-sold without being recorded in local county courthouses, reducing costs for banks. The company's name is listed as the agent for mortgage lenders on more than 65 million home loans.

But the company's practices have begun to receive heavy scrutiny from state prosecutors and federal regulators, particularly in light of foreclosure-document problems that surfaced last fall. State and federal lawmakers have begun to consider bills that would make it harder for banks to use or foreclose on properties through MERS.

MERS's legal standing also has been challenged by legal experts because it doesn't own the underlying debt. Previously, the mortgage and the promissory note weren't split between different parties.

Critics of the company have raised concerns over whether notes were properly assigned or tracked within the electronic system. Judges have also begun to question the company's practices of "deputizing" hundreds of bank executives to handle foreclosures by naming them "vice presidents" of MERS.

http://firedoglake.com/2010/11/19/banks-ask-congress-to-stomp-on-homeowners-states-counties/
Excerpt:
The MERS database “is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by the Congress and the industry to improve the mortgage finance system,” R.K. Arnold, Merscorp chief executive, told members of the Senate banking committee this week.
This is repulsive. Arnold admits his system was created to skirt centuries-old state laws. He knows that the entire system of securitized mortgages is fouled up and may cause enormous losses to investors in RMBSs, like pension plans and mutual funds and your Church and college endowments. MERS brags that its system cost states and counties at least a billion dollars in unpaid recording fees, and suits have been filed to recover those losses.
No problem. Mr. Arnold instructs a respectful panel of Congressionals: clean up after us, make us retroactively legal and stop those pesky law and order types from suing us. And by the way, privatize a perfectly functional system, and funnel that money into private hands instead of states and cities and counties.

 
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mers-ceo-rk-arnold-leaving-company
Excerpt:

MERS CEO R.K. Arnold Leaving Company

Tyler Durden's picture




Is the biggest fraud in the history of the US housing market about to come unglued? If so, take our prediction of a $100 billion total in future BofA rep and warranty reserves and triple it.
From the WSJ:
The chief executive of the privately-held Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, is planning to leave the company and an announcement could come within days, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company has been under fire by Congress and state officials for its role in the mortgage-document crisis. The firm's board of directors has met in recent days to address the fate of the company and its chief executive, R.K. Arnold, the people said.

Arnold and other MERS executives didn't respond to requests for comment. A MERS spokeswoman Friday declined comment.  Arnold, a former U.S. Army Ranger, has served as the CEO and president of Merscorp Inc., the parent company of MERS, since 1998 and has been with the company since its inception 15 years ago, according to a corporate biography.

MERS was built by Fannie Mae (FNMA), Freddie Mac (FMCC), and several large U.S. banks in 1996 as an electronic registry of land records. That created a parallel database to facilitate the packaging of loans into securities that could be sold and re-sold without being recorded in local county courthouses, reducing costs for banks. The company's name is listed as the agent for mortgage lenders on more than 65 million home loans.

But the company's practices have begun to receive heavy scrutiny from state prosecutors and federal regulators, particularly in light of foreclosure-document problems that surfaced last fall. State and federal lawmakers have begun to consider bills that would make it harder for banks to use or foreclose on properties through MERS.

MERS's legal standing also has been challenged by legal experts because it doesn't own the underlying debt. Previously, the mortgage and the promissory note weren't split between different parties.

Critics of the company have raised concerns over whether notes were properly assigned or tracked within the electronic system. Judges have also begun to question the company's practices of "deputizing" hundreds of bank executives to handle foreclosures by naming them "vice presidents" of MERS.

http://firedoglake.com/2010/11/19/banks-ask-congress-to-stomp-on-homeowners-states-counties/