Matt Weidner – Fighting With The American People

From the news report:

When KMBC investigated the case, a spokeswoman for JPMorgan Chase had a response.”We made a paperwork mistake when the property was sold, which resulted in our service partner changing the locks and winterizing the property to ensure its security,” the statement said.

Remember America….if the banks want to kick down your door, take your property, ignore the safety of the community and their own “service partners”, that’s OK.

They’re allowed to make “mistakes”. They’re allowed to repeatedly make “mistakes”.

And dare not you try to confront them or hold them accountable, lest you find your neck firmly under the heel of the boot.

That this happens again and again and again with no penalty is further proof that this formerly free nation has slid into dark and treacherous tyranny.

We are not safe and we cannot count on our nation’s laws, or judges or law enforcement to protect us from these violent and dangerous incursions.

This formerly free nation has devolved into a totalitarian corporate controlled police state…..forgive me if I don’t feel safer knowing that the TSA is pulling 70 year old wheelchair bound Henry Kissinger out of line for a secondary screening.

Really? The former Secretary of State to two presidents and a Nobel prize winner, sitting in a wheelchair….AND FLYING TO CANADA!  What kind of dastardly plot does the TSA think this old man bound for Canada is going to pull off?

We’ve clearly moved far beyond absurdity.

TSA KISSINGER

I just love the way the banks take hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and still feel compelled and justified about throwing our neighbors out into the street….

READ THIS POST BY MARTIN ANDELMAN

Do you sometimes feel like the deck is stacked against you?  That nothing is fair, including (especially) our laws, our court system, our entire system of government?  Do you feel like no matter what the rules or the laws say, they can just be bent, twisted or ignored by the banks whenever they care to?

Those aren’t really questions anymore, they’re bold statements of fact.

I certainly experience this every single day.  Especially when I dare to kick the lion that is our nation’s banking and financial services industry, which are synonymous with “our” government.

(It of course is their government)

But don’t just listen to me and all my rantings, have a look at this fancy report produced by OurFuture.org…..

Findings from the report:

• 243 lobbyists for six big banks and their trade associations used to work in the federal
government – 202 in Congress, the rest in the White House, Treasury, or at a relevant federal
government agency. That’s equivalent to 40 revolving-door lobbyists per bank.

• This includes 33 chiefs of staff, 54 staffers to the House Financial Services Committee
and Senate Banking Committee (or a current member of that committee) and 28 legislative
directors. Many of the revolving door lobbyists were key architects of financial deregulatory
legislation during their time as congressional staffers, including the Financial Services
Modernization (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) Act of 1999 and the Commodity Futures Modernization
Act.

• The six big banks and their trade associations have spent close to $600 million since the first
major federal bailout of Bear Stearns in March 2008 on lobbying, trade association activity
and political contributions.

• Citigroup employs 55 revolving-door lobbyists, more than any other big bank or financial
industry trade association. The federal government was until recently Citigroup’s largest
shareholder. Other banks are also employing huge lobbying armies: Goldman Sachs with 45,
JPMorgan Chase with 32, Morgan Stanley with 19, Wells Fargo with 14, and Bank of America
with 12. The top big-bank lobbies, the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association
and the American Bankers Association, have hired 84 revolving-door lobbyists.

• The top big-bank lobbying firm in Washington is Elmendorf Strategies, founded by Steve
Elmendorf, former chief of staff to Rep. Dick Gephardt. Elmendorf’s financial team includes
former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Maryland Sen. Paul Sarbanes,
and Gephardt. The firm represents the most powerful Wall Street banks and associations,
including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, the Financial Services Forum, and the Securities
Industry and Financial Markets Association. Other top lobbying firms include the Podesta
Group and Porterfield, Lowenthal, & Fettig.

• Senate Banking Committee chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT) leads all current members of
Congress, with five former staffers now working as big bank lobbyists. Banking Committee
ranking member Richard Shelby (R-AL) and members Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Tim
Johnson (D-SD) each have four.

• Big banks are hiding lobbying activities in a burgeoning shadow industry of generic
business associations, ad hoc coalitions and front companies. Government bailouts and
partial federal ownership have made it difficult for big banks to ramp up direct lobbying;
instead, they are routing their dollars through this shadow lobby.

• Sullivan & Cromwell, the firm defending Goldman Sachs in its Securities and Exchange
Commission fraud suit, secured the most lucrative big bank lobbying contract in 2009, a
$520,000 deal with Clearing House Payments Co. – a company owned by JPMorgan Chase,
Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, and several other banks. The firm also lobbied on
behalf of Goldman Sachs during the same period. In a past financial reform fight, lawyers at
Sullivan & Cromwell lobbied on behalf of Enron, and appear to have helped craft the “Enron
loophole.”

THE BANKS OWN AMERIKA

The Republican nomination process is not just plagued by fraud, lies and manipulation….the reporting of incident after incident shows that it’s nothing more than a poorly orchestrated roadside carnival…

I can’t wait to see what they’ve got in store for us when the circus rolls into Tampa in August!

There is no question, the ReTHUGliCONs are using every dirt trick in their closely held and constantly evolving book to subvert the will of vast swaths of their own party.  Bound Delegates? Unbound Delegates? Roll Call Vote? Paper Ballot? Qualified Delegate? Unqualified Delegate?

Doesn’t matter, they make it up as it goes along….and it’s creating chaos that will only continue to build until Tampa.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media coverage of the Ron Paul phenomena is entirely antagonistic and in insult to commonsense.  The mainstream media fails to address real issues, and too many Americans are still stuck like zombies hypnotized by the lies of the media….

Take a look at a brawl in Oklahoma

and

This disgusting example of Ron Paul Coverage