9/28/2012

Urgent Update from the International Common Law Court of Justice

Urgent Update from the International Common Law Court of Justice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CRIMINAL/CIVIL CHARGES AGAINST THE WASHINGTON STATE CORPORATE GOVERNMENT/MEDIA FOR ONGOING SYSTEMIC FINANCIAL/CONSTITUTIONAL FRAUD AND TREASON

Posted by nowisthetimeus on September 19, 2012

Seattle, Washington State, America
September 20, 2012

Criminal/civil charges have been filed with referenced evidentiary weblinks against officials of the Washington State corporate government, as well as media corporations operating in Washington State, for perpetrating/enabling systemic financial/constititutional fraud and treason.

The allegations in these legal actions specifically expose what has been called the CAFR scam, with its implications of fraudulent unnecessary budget cuts to government services at all levels of government all across America as a result of theft by the private Federal Reserve System. These are accompanied by related allegations that the Washington State Constitution of 1889, as well as the present US corporate government, are fraudulent, and that failure to disclose this constitutes treason on the part of state corporate government/media officials.

These criminal/civil charges have been filed with the Federal Grand Jury of the Ninth District Court, the FBI, the Offices of the King County Sheriff, and that of the Seattle Chief of Police and Seattle City Prosecutor here in Seattle . They have also been filed in the state capital of Olympia/Thurston County with the Offices of the Thurston County Sherriff, the Thurston County Prosecutor, the Olympia Chief of Police and the Olympia City Prosecutor.

Copies of these charges’ Proofs of Filing can be seen below. All civil/criminal charges filed at the local level were hand-delivered, with receipts signed at the front desk for documentation of filing. Those filed at the federal level even if local, as well as those filed at a distance in the Washington State capital of Olympia were filed via certified mail.

Those charges filed with the Federal Grand Jury were filed without return receipt to better ensure that they would reach the Foreperson without the interposition of possibly compromised court clerks or US attorneys; accordingly, a copy of the screen shot from the delivery tracking portion of the US Postal Service website has been scanned to show such proper filing, with delivery on September 10, 2012.

It should be mentioned that two attempts to file these charges with the King County Prosecutor’s Office were unsuccessful. In both instances, clerks connected with this office rejected the packet of charges. They stated that sovereign citizens did not have the right to file criminal charges, and that all civil charges against the state need to be filed as a civil lawsuit at the sovereign citizen’s expense — now $400 — with the district court to be decided by state corporate government-appointed judges. This clearly no-win proposition for the plaintiff was immediately rejected by this plaintiff.

All of the filings of these charges been done in such a way to ensure as well as is possible that appropriate action might be taken on the part of law enforcement/judicial agencies located in Washington State, and that if it is not, that such derogation of duty will become immediately and publicly apparent, as seen in the paragraph above concerning Proof of Public Disservice by the King County Prosecutor’s Office.

Since the term “United States of America” is now often considered to denote the bank cartel-controlled federal government corporation, many geopolitically savvy sovereign citizens prefer being called “Americans” and their country “America”, even though we share the North American continent with other nations. This dichotomy illustrates the gravity of the issues being discovered in this document, and is the reason that the terms ” America ” and “Americans” are herein being used instead of ” USA ” and ” US citizens” to denote our nation and its legitimate inhabitants.

Media corporations operating in Washington State are, possibly for the first time in recorded history, included in such a legal action. It finally needs to be publicly acknowledged and acted upon that corporate media distortions and omissions in reporting the news as agreed upon in their corporate charters have long enabled such ongoing criminal activity on the part of corrupt corporate government officials in this state and in others throughout the world. This was also done to remind both media corporations and the public that, besides prosecution of their executives, corporate charters can be legally rescinded as a form of capital punishment for capitalist corporate entities whenever their corporate charters are repeatedly and reprehensibly violated, as many have been in recent memory.

It is hoped that these public legal actions will help create a template by which empowered sovereign citizens everywhere can draft their own like public legal actions based on their own situations, research and laws, and they, like sovereign citizens in Washington State, can themselves publicly file these charges with their own law enforcement agencies to help expose and systemically extirpate this ancient ongoing theft of planetary resources.

Other sovereign citizens of Washington State are cordially invited to print out these charges and file them with their own local law enforcement officials, as well as forward them to their elected representatives, to Washington State media and to their fellow citizens, so that general knowledge of such systemic evil and what can successfully eliminate it can rapidly be increased.

For it is only by such peaceful but effective means that the satanic international bank-based corporate crime syndicate that presently controls most of the governments of this planet will ultimately and forever be defeated.

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WCSS 9-5-12.doc

CRIMINAL/CIVIL CHARGES AGAINST WASHINGTON STATE CORPORATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS/MEDIA CORPORATIONS OPERATING IN WASHINGTON STATE FOR SYSTEMIC FINANCIAL/CONSTITUTIONAL FRAUD AND TREASON

Against the following Washington State corporate government officials:

Governor Christine Gregoire, Treasurer James McIntire, Attorney General Robert McKenna, Washington State Investment Board Legislature Liaison Rep. Sharon Tomiko-Santos, Budget Director Martin Brown, President of the Senate Lisa Brown, Co-Chairmen of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Senators Edward Murray and Joseph Zarelli, Speaker of the House Frank Chopp and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Ross Hunter, as well as top management of mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State, the following criminal/civil charges are alleged:

1. Systemic Ongoing Financial Fraud Against the People of Washington State

1.01 That the abovementioned Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office, as well as mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State have knowingly and repeatedly concealed the existence of approximately two-thirds of state monies shown in the Washington State Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, (CAFR) while misrepresenting the remaining one-third of these monies as the entire “state budget” since at least the mid-1940s;

Websites/links on CAFRs/CAFR Scam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_annual_financial_report

www.cafrman.com www.cafr1.com

www.webofdebt.com/articles/mysterious_cafrs.php

http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/carl-herman

www.comprehensiveannualfinancialreport.com

1.02 That Washington State corporate government officials have invested the two-thirds of state monies concealed in the CAFR in institutional corporate Wall Street investments, rather than in investments that would directly benefit the people of Washington State, such as investments in small businesses with the much greater amount of employment, personal prosperity and government tax revenues they would provide, in infrastructure maintenance that would provide widespread employment as well as for the general welfare, or in a public state bank, which, as in the State of North Dakota since 1919, would eliminate state economic downturns altogether;

Websites on Pubic Banking

www.wapublicbankproject.org www.publicbanking.org www.webofdebt.com

1.03. That, next to institutional investments in the US government corporation’s increasingly devalued financial instruments — the collateral damage from the recently revealed LIBOR scandal (LIBOR=London Interbank Offered Rate or “LIBER” (Latin for “Unregulated”) —

http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-the-libor-scandal-explained-2012-7

the state corporate government’s largest investments are in the corrupt international banking cartel directly responsible for the global depression of 2008, in which the global economy, as well as that of Washington State presently remain;

1.04 That at least eighty-five percent of the state’s investments are in foreign governmental or quasi-governmental entities and transnational corporations; few of them are in any entity located within Washington State , or in any headquartered in America ;

1.05 That of these transnational corporate Wall Street investments, a disproportionate number are in predatory transnational corporations other than the predatory transnational banks, in which the majority of the people of Washington State, if sufficiently informed, would not want their money invested as a matter of ethical and/or environmental principles; this includes institutional investments in BP, Shell, Keystone XL, Dow Chemical, Massey Energy, Cargill and Monsanto;

1.06 That the Washington State government has a grave conflict of interest by aggressively promoting by both executive order and legislation the products of industries in which they have large investments, such as the pharmaceutical cartel and its bioweaponized vaccines, in which it has institutional investments of over one-half billion dollars;

Why the Washington State Government Is a Ruthless Vaccine Pusher

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8367537-why-the-washington-state-go...

1.07 That the Washington State government has a grave conflict of interest by failing to proportionately tax those Washington State-located transnational corporations in which it is heavily invested and/or whose favor they wish to obtain;

1.08 That the Washington State government has a grave conflict of interest by investing in foreign manufacturing competitors while failing to invest in those which would provide manufacturing employment and infrastructure for the people of Washington State;

1.09 That the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) — the financial arm of the Washington State Legislature headed by the state treasurer — employs financial advisors of questionable competence and integrity, including accused war criminal former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright and the infamously corrupt investment firm of Goldman Sachs — never consulting with those who offer any alternative economic perspectives and solutions, including those employed within the Washington State government itself;

1.10 That the WSIB plotted in the spring of 2006 to alter the Washington State Constitution so that the fulsome Washington State Education Fund — derived from regular fees paid by the state’s resource extraction industries of mining, fishing and lumbering — could be used in the future for institutional corporate Wall Street investments, rather than as before being kept safely in trust;

1.11 That to achieve this diversion of state funds in trust, the WSIB quietly placed on the state ballot Issue 4215, which proposed an amendment to the Washington State Constitution allowing the state higher education funds to be used in corporate Wall Street investments;

1.12 That the majority of voters in Washington State, deliberately kept ill-informed by state corporate government officials and mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State, passed this stealth measure by a large margin in November 2006, to be ratified as a constitutional amendment by the state legislature in January 2007;

2006 Washington State Voters Guide Writeup on State Issue 4215

http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/Measure2007.aspx?a=4215&;c=7

1.13 That, since early 2004, the WSIB has deliberately invested a large portion of its institutional investment portfolio in derivatives and credit default options (CDOs), the most opaque, unstable investment instruments imaginable;

1.14 That, due to the corporate bailouts and banking cartel-engineered depression of 2008, as well as the WSIB’s prodigal, imprudent corporate Wall Street investments, the Washington State Education Fund now has been depleted by half, due to the resulting devaluation of institutionally invested stocks and bonds;

1.15 This has served to radically increase tuition and student loan indebtedness while radically decreasing the availability and quality of higher education to the people of Washington State ;

1.16 That all of this occurred less than two years after Issue 4215 was stealthily and deceptively introduced by the WSIB, passed by the majority of voters, and its related constitutional amendment approved by their state legislators;

1.17 That the amount of the people’s money deliberately being squandered in volatile institutional corporate Wall Street investments is at least eighty times the amount of the alleged state budget deficit of approximately $1 billion, which this invested money could have easily eliminated if used responsibly;

1.18 That the abovecited Washington State officials continually demand increasingly exorbitant taxation and licensing fees from the already deliberately financially stressed people of this state;

1.19 That they do this is while being entrusted with massive amounts of the people’s money, yet knowingly and willfully withholding and purloining it for the benefit of the private international banking cartel and those who secretly control it;

1.20 That the immediate motive for this treasonous fraud perpetrated by the abovecited Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office and mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State against the people of this state has been their greed for both wealth and power, accepting lucrative bribes, kickbacks, campaign contributions, loans and lucrative advertising contracts, as well as enhanced monies from personal investments from the corrupt international banking cartel and other corrupt transnational corporations;

1.21 That the actual underlying motive of these corporate state government officials’/media corporations’ corporate contributors has been, besides huge profits, the financial destruction and enslavement of the people of this state;

1.22 That therefore the Washington State corporate government budget and its budget deficit are now, and have been since at least the mid-1940s, fraudulent;

1.23 And therefore all budget cuts made on the pretext of this fraudulent state budget deficit that now threaten the general welfare — including the health and wellbeing of the disabled and disenfranchised, the cutting of public library, public transportation and public education services and those budget cuts which threaten to privatize all of the Washington state park system — are therefore criminal.

Websites/links Providing Evidence of the CAFR Scam in the Washington State Corporate Government, Including the Washington State Investment Board’s CAFR With Analysis, and Similar Recent Budgetary Fraud Exposed in the California State Parks System

http://nowisthetime.us www.sib.wa.gov

The Spokane Spokesman/Seattle Times Columnist: Washington State Parks Now on Their Own

http://spokesman.com/stories/2012/aug/04/state-parks-on-their-own

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2018850731_danny05.html

CAFR Scam Exposed: California State Parks Department Had $54 million While Asking for Park Volunteers and Cutting Park Services

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-parks-20120721,0,2383546,full.s...

2. Deliberate Denial of Remedy, Indicating Complicity in Criminal Conspiracy

2.01 That the above-cited Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office, as well as mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State, have failed repeatedly to disclose publicly that the figures contained in the Washington State Annual Comprehensive Financial Report — not those in what they claim as the annual budgetary document — are the most accurate declaration of actual state corporate government funds;

2.02 That the abovecited Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office have failed to provide to the public clear comprehensive summaries of the fraudulent, unnecessary budget cuts made to each and every state cabinet department and its programs to obfuscate their negative impact on the general welfare of this state; and the abovecited mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State have failed to demand and report on such essential information;

2.03 That the WSIB has deliberately invested the people’s money in volatile corporate Wall Street investments knowing that it would never be returned to them, not only because their inherent risk, but because of ongoing fraudulent and insidious federal corporate confiscation of these funds, upon which the mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in this state, as well as state corporate government officials, have continually refused to report to duly inform the public;

2.04 That all individual and institutional investments, after being registered by a stock broker with the Depository Transaction Clearing Center (DTCC) — an obscure subsidiary of the privately owned Federal Reserve System doing business as (dba) the sardonically named Cede Inc. — become the tacitly ceded property of Cede Inc., with the people thereby rendered mere “beneficiaries” rather than owners, of their own investments;

2.05 That thereafter the people can be denied access to the dividends of these institutional investments at any time by the Federal Reserve corporation and those who secretly control this privately owned alien entity;

Who Really Owns Your Money: The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation

www.dtcc.com

http://yourmortgageoryourlife.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/who-really-owns-your-m...

Here Is Where Some of the Washington State Corporate Government’s Institutional Investments of the People’s Money Actually Went After It Was Stolen by the Federal Reserve Through the DTCC:

Final Federal Reserve Audit Results Posted on September 4, 2012:

$16 Trillion Stolen from the American People to Enrich the International Banking Cartel

ittp://www.pakalertpress.com/first-audit-results-in-the-federal-reserves-nealy-100-year-history-were-posted-today-they-are-startaling

Exhaustive Study Finds Globalists Hiding $32 Trillion in Secret Off-Shore Bank Accounts

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/31/exhaustive_study_finds_global_elite_hiding

2.06 That the above-cited Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office, as well as the mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in this state have repeatedly failed to enact/accurately report historically proven remedies to the state budget deficit — such as proportionate corporate taxation, state investment in small business, physical/technical infrastructure and a public state bank, while utilizing prudent trusts and investment instruments — although being fully and repeatedly informed of the benefits of these remedies;

2.07 That all of the above constitutes deliberate denial of remedy and complicity in criminal conspiracy.

3. Ongoing Systemic Constitutional Fraud Against the People of Washington State Tantamount to Treason

3.01 That the abovecited Washington State corporate government officials and their predecessors in office, as well as the mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State have failed both to reveal and remediate the fact that the present Washington State Constitution of 1889 — latest amended by state investments-related Issue 4215 in 2006 — is fraudulent, automatically rendering invalid all legislation and executive orders enacted by officers of the current spurious state government corporation, specifically those dealing with its governmental financial system;

3.02 That the original state constitution enacted via due process by the people of Washington State in 1878 is indeed the actual Washington State Constitution, but was treasonously confiscated and held hostage by the banking cartel-controlled United States Corporation of the District of Columbia (DC) through the calculated failure of the US Congress to act upon it for eleven years until it was quietly replaced by the one of 1889 that had been drafted and enacted by spurious means;

3.03 That this banking cartel-controlled federal corporation had quietly been put in place during the upheaval of the cartel-engineered American Civil War/Reconstruction Period, during which the common-law US Constitution and Bill of Rights was stealthily replaced by unconstitutional statutory/commercial law and executive orders under the rubric of President Abraham Lincoln’s declaration of martial law at the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861 that has continued unrescinded to this day;

3.04 That the Washington DC-based United States Corporation then proceeded by various methods to subvert sovereign US states into becoming corporate subsidiaries of the federal US corporation;

3.05 That one of the methods used was for the de facto board of directors of the federal United States Corporation, the US Congress, to refuse to ratify any lawfully enacted state constitution under the ruse of political partisanship unless that new state constitution incorporated the treasonous agenda of the federal government corporation;

3.06 That such an example is the fraudulent Washington State Constitution of 1889, which diverged from the original of 1878, insofar as it omitted any acknowledgement of sovereign state citizenship and of alloidial personal property rights that the banking cartel-controlled US Corporation ultimately intends to eliminate in America and throughout the world;

3.07 That this has resulted in American government at all levels — including that of Washington State — being since the Civil War the public enabler/enforcer of the subversive, sinister agenda of the international banking cartel and those who secretly control it, to the extreme detriment of the people of this state and of this nation;

3.08 That concerning all of the abovecited treason and its potential remedies, the abovecited Washington State corporate government officials and the mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State have failed in their duty to even minimally inform the public.

The Fraudulent Washington State Constitution and Its Relationship to the International Banking Cartel’s Clandestine Control of the US Government Since At Least 1861

Articles on the History of the Fraudulent Washington State Constitution

http://proliberty.com/observer/20001102.html

http://freedomrequireswork.org/public_access/washington/wash_const.html

The International Banking Cartel’s Takeover of the US Government Using the Civil War

www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Freedom/…/Sins_022810.pdf

http://newtomorrow.us

Historic Quotations Concerning US/Global Corporate Government

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/quotes/index.htm

Wherefore:

The abovecited Washington State corporate government officials and their surviving predecessors in office, as well as the top management of mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State need to be summarily investigated, and then potentially arrested and prosecuted for criminal financial/constitutional fraud and treason against the people of this state;

And the people of Washington State need publicly to acknowledge and examine their own complicity in the criminal and treasonous actions/inaction of their abovecited state corporate government officials and their predecessors in office, as well as of the mainstream/alleged alternative media corporations operating in Washington State, through their own self-absorbed denial of, and disinterest in, the long-corrupted governmental and public information systems of this state and of this nation.

I hereby declare that all of the above statements are, to the best of my knowledge, true and accurate.

____________________________________ ___________________________

Rebecca Em Campbell-Plaintiff Date

Seattle, Washington State America

rebeccaphb@yahoo.com

Proofs of Filing.pdf

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MERS Is Dead: Can Be Sued For Fraud: WA Supreme Court Countdown to banks forcing Congress to protect MERS in 3,2,1... --- State Court Ruling Deals Body Blow to MERS Reprinted with permission. (Reuters) - The highest court in the state of Washingto

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MERS Is Dead: Can Be Sued For Fraud: WA Supreme Court

Countdown to banks forcing Congress to protect MERS in 3,2,1...

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State Court Ruling Deals Body Blow to MERS

Reprinted with permission.

(Reuters) - The highest court in the state of Washington recently ruled that a company that has foreclosed on millions of mortgages nationwide can be sued for fraud, a decision that could cause a new round of trouble for the nation's banks.

The ruling is one of the first to allow consumers to seek damages from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a company set up by the nation's major banks, if they can prove they were harmed.

Legal experts said last month's decision from the Washington Supreme Court could become a precedent for courts in other states. The case also endorsed the view of other state courts that MERS does not have the legal authority to foreclose on a home.

"This is a body blow," said consumer law attorney Ira Rheingold. "Ultimately the MERS business model cannot work and should not work and needs to be changed."

Banks set up MERS in the 1990s to help speed the process of packaging loans into mortgage-backed bonds by easing the process of transferring mortgages from one party to another. But ever since the housing crash, MERS has been besieged by litigation from state attorneys general, local government officials and homeowners who have challenged the company's authority to pursue foreclosure actions.

A spokeswoman for MERS said the company is confident its role in the financial system will withstand legal challenges.

The Washington Supreme Court held that MERS' business practices had the "capacity to deceive" a substantial portion of the public because MERS claimed it was the beneficiary of the mortgage when it was not.

This finding means that in actions where a bank used MERS to foreclose, the consumer can sue it for fraud. If the foreclosure can be challenged, MERS' involvement would make repossession more complicated.

On top of that, virtually any foreclosed homeowner in the state in the past 15 years who feels they have been harmed in some way could file a consumer fraud suit.

"This may be the beginning of a trend," says Elizabeth Renuart, a professor at Albany Law School focusing on consumer credit law.

The company's history dates back to the 1990s, when banks began aggressively bundling home loans into mortgage-backed securities. The banks formed MERS to speed up the handling of all the paperwork associated with recording the filing of a deed and the subsequent inclusion of a mortgage in an entity that issues a mortgage-backed security.

MERS allowed the banks to save time and money because it permitted lenders to bypass the process of filing paperwork with the local recorder of deeds every time a mortgage was sold.

Instead, banks put MERS' name on the deed. And when they bought and sold mortgages, they just recorded the transfer of ownership of the note in the MERS system.

The MERS' database was supposed to keep track of where those loans went. The company's motto: "Process loans, not paperwork."

But the foreclosure crisis revealed major flaws with the MERS database.

The plaintiffs in the Washington case, homeowners Kristin Bain and Kevin Selkowitz, argued that the problems with the MERS database made it difficult, if not impossible, to determine who really owned their loan. It's an argument that has been raised in numerous other lawsuits challenging the ability of MERS to foreclose on a home.

"It's going to be very easy for consumers to say they were harmed because it's inherently misleading," says Geoff Walsh, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center. If consumers can't identify who owns their loan, then they don't know whom to negotiate with, and can't even be certain of the legitimacy of the foreclosure.

In a statement, MERS spokeswoman Janis Smith noted that banks stopped using MERS' name to foreclose last year. She added that the opinion will "create confusion" for homeowners in the state of Washington while the trial courts consider its effect on pending cases.

Meanwhile, MERS is attempting to remake itself. The company has a new chief executive and a new branding campaign. In Washington D.C. federal lawmakers have recognized the need to create a national mortgage-recording database that would track all U.S. mortgages. MERS is lobbying to build it.

The case is Bain (Kristin), et al. v. Mortg. Elec. Registration Sys., et al., Washington Supreme Court, No. 86206-1.

 

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Reader Comments (6)

It is time for Jamie Dimon - and by implication - Hank Paulson and other JPM, WF, BOA & Morgan Stanley C-level executive to be prosecuted, indited and jailed for a spectrum of FELONIES including Fraud, RICO & SEC regulations, Conspiracy and complicity in Forgery (MERS). let the games begin...A 'thumbs DOWN' throughout the Coliseum!
Sep 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM |

JosephConrad

Chunga

Has there been any analysis on this ruling that you can point me to?

Sep 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM |

DailyBail

here is a thought - maybe I am just a simpleton when it comes to money but how about the bank keeping and maintaining the loan that originally did the closing.

this whole mortgage selling business never made any sense to me and seems like it is just trying to make money out of nothing.

but I guess that is the norm these days just print money make money for doing no work.

Sep 26, 2012 at 10:04 PM |

suezz

Where do we sign up for this class action lawsuit. Countrywide in AZ refused to work with us on remediation becaused we were not behind "enough" on our mortgage; then when we were Countrywide told us they could not help us; and they would not help us with a short sale. We were robbed by Countrywide. We now believe that Countrywide didn't even own the note that was wrapped up in a bundle of MERS securities and were sold as toxic debt by Wash Mutual back to Countrywide. Now we are in an apartment after lsoing all the sweat equity from our home of 15 years. We were robbed by Wasington Mutual and Countrywide!
Sep 27, 2012 at 1:00 AM |

Strayhorse

This will not confuse people at all. When someone says "Oh this will confuse" they mean we don't want you to know what they are up to. MERS is a scam operating under a greed filled idea of bank/corporations to steal from us.

We are intelligent people that can read the fine print. Boycott banks and move your money to a credit union.

Sep 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM |

Jane Dodd

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City's ban on Occupy Austin ruled unconstitutional

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the City of Austin violated the First Amendment of the US Constitution when it banned Occupy protesters from attending demonstrations in a public park last year.

Federal District Judge Lee Yeakel issued a decision on Thursday condemning the city’s handling of the Occupy Austin protests that began last autumn (.pdf). Bulletins the city circulated among protesters last year that ordered them to vacate or face criminal charges were unconstitutional, Judge Yeakel wrote, arguing that the public plaza that was occupied during the demonstrations has always been intended to host open discussion and debate, and the city’s attempts to remove protesters by issuing warnings violated their First Amendment freedoms.

Shortly after the Occupy Wall Street movement became underway in New York City last fall, an offshoot chapter took hold of a public plaza outside Austin’s City Hall starting on October 6. On October 28, the City issued a notice of cleanup that called for all protesters to immediately stop serving food in the park after dark, and at least two protesters — Rodolfo Sanchez and Kristopher Sleeman — were arrested and charged with criminal trespass when police officers attempted to enforce the ban. Both protesters were freed shortly thereafter, but told by police patrolling the plaza that they had been banned from City Hall property pending the eventual removal of an exclusion cause that barred them from the park until further notice.

“Plaintiffs allege that the bans imposed through their criminal-trespass notices fail First Amendment scrutiny and that the City’s policy on issuing criminal-trespass notices is facially unconstitutional due to its lack of objective standards, vagueness and overbreadth,” Judge Yeakel wrote this week.

Elsewhere in the ruling, Judge Yeakel acknowledges, “the protection of speech and assembly under the First Amendment is not absolute,” and that local governments “need not permit all forms of speech on property that it owns and controls.” In response, however, courts are required to follow a “three-step process” to decide on what locally-imposed restrictions are valid under the Constitution.

“First, the court determines whether the First Amendment protects the speech at issue; second, the court identifies the nature of the forum; and third, the court assesses whether the government’s justifications for restricting speech satisfy the requisite standard,” the judge writes.

“The City concedes that much of the conduct by Occupy Austin and its participants falls within the protection of the First Amendment and the City does not dispute that Plaintiffs’ participation in the ‘occupation’ of the Plaza (even on the October 30, 2011, the day of their arrest) is a matter of public concern and is within the protection of the First Amendment,” Judge Yeakel continues. “Therefore, the court finds that the First Amendment protects Plaintiffs’ protest speech with Occupy Austin at the Plaza.”

The justice later writes that the City “has always held out the Plaza to the public for speech and has always kept it open for use for speech,” thereby making it a court-recognized traditional public forum, which “immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public, and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens and discussing public questions.” Should the government want to enforce a content-based exclusion then, the judge writes, “it must show that its regulation is necessary to serve a compelling state interest and that it is narrowly drawn to achieve that end.”

A government may impose reasonable time, place, and manner constraints in traditional public forums, Judge Yeakel continues, “so long as it does not ban a speaker entirely from engaging in First Amendment-protected speech in those forums without satisfying the strictest of scrutiny.”

“Plaintiffs contend that the ability to be physically present in public forums is necessary to engaging in free speech in those forums,” the judge adds. “Plaintiffs assert that the City’s policy does not merely regulate nonexpressive conduct; rather, it regulates physical presence in public forum, which is intimately related and essential to a broad variety of protected speech conduct.”

“Having determined that the actions of the Occupy Austin protesters, including Plaintiffs in this case, are protected by the First Amendment; that the City’s policy regarding the issuing of criminal-trespass notices does not serve as a valid time, place and manner restriction and is not narrowly tailored to achieve a significant public interest; and that no suitable alternative channels for protected expression exist,” the court concludes that the City’s policy of excluding protesters from the public plaza, “does not survive strict scrutiny” required to issue the bulletins.

“It is therefore ordered and declared,” Yeakel writes, that the “Criminal Trespass Notices on City Property” bulletin that Occupiers were subjected to was not legally sound under the US Constitution.

Jim Harrington, executive director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, tells the Austin Chronicle that that to consider his response "pleased" by the ruling "would be an understatement."

via rt.com

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Army general charged with sex crimes

A Brigadier general in the US Army has been charged with forcible sodomy and a slew of other sex crimes.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, an active member of the Army with nearly three decades’ worth of experience, “has been charged with multiple violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice," Col. Kevin V. Arata, a public affairs officer for the 18th Airborne Corps, confirmed to the press on Wednesday.

Sinclair had been serving in Afghanistan earlier this year until allegations were brought forth and he was reassigned to domestic duties back in May. Now after months of investigation, the general has been formally charged and could face courts martial over the charges, which include forced sex, wrongful sexual conduct, violating an order, possessing pornography and alcohol while deployed and misusing a government travel charge card and filing fraudulent claims.

Speaking to the Associated Press, two US defense officials say on condition of anonymity that Brig. Sinclair is being charged with having inappropriate relationship with several female subordinates as well.

Sinclair was made aware of his charges on Monday and the news was relayed to the press two days later. Next, Sinclair will be the subject of an Article 32 investigation, which will determine what route to take next. The result of that hearing, which has not been assigned a date yet, will determine how seriously the military will pursue the case. During Wednesday’s press conference at Fort Bragg, Col. Arata declined to answer any questions on the case.

Since being sent back from Afghanistan, Sinclair has served as a special assistant to the commanding general of 18th Airborne Corps, the Associated Press reports. Sinclair has previously served in the first Gulf war and was deployed twice to Iraq during his military career, which has so far stretched the span of 27 years. A biography published by a Fort Bragg reporter at Patch.com adds that Sinclair has received a political science degree from West Virginia University, a master’s degree from Central Michigan University, and a master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.

Earlier this year, Army Brig. Gen. Roger Duff pleaded guilty to charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and other crimes. He was fined $10,000 and forced to retire.

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Mass arrests in Chile after police teargas student protest (PHOTOS)

At least 20 people have been arrested as thousands of students clashed with riot police in Santiago, Chile after a rally in support of education reform turned violent.

­Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hooded youths that started throwing objects filled with paint at police and turned over demarcation barricades.

Earlier, thousands of high school and university students had come together to march in support of educational reform, asking Chile's President Sebastian Pinera to consider their demands ahead of 2013's national budget consolidation.

On Wednesday, Pinera's government introduced a law that cut the interest rate of student loans from six per cent to two per cent, but activists said it was not enough.

One of the main demands of the crowd is for the government to stop funding private education, arguing that the country’s educational system fails families whose children attend poor quality public schools.

The government is expected to raise $1 billion in taxes for education, which students and their advocates say is still not enough.

Students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)
Students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)

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Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)
Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)

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Students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)
Students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)

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Riot police and students demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve public education quality clash in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)
Riot police and students demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve public education quality clash in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Martin Bernetti)

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Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)
Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)

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A Chilean student is arrested by riot policemen during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)
A Chilean student is arrested by riot policemen during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)

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Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera′s government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)
Chilean students clash with riot police during a protest demanding to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve the public education quality in Santiago.(AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)
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Q – The Guru Of You – Interviews Laura M. Eisenhower – 2 Part Video – 27 September 2012

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OpEdNews – Gerry Bello And Bob Fitrakis – Vote Counting Company Tied To Mitt Romney – 28 September 2012

 

Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the the infamous former CEO of Diebold Wally O’Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election. 

In all 234 counties of Texas, the entire states of Hawaii and Oklahoma, half of Washington and Colorado, and certain counties in swing state Ohio, votes will be cast on eSlate and ePollbook machines made by Hart Intercivic. Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existant votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc, Douglas Berman, are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.

Additionally, four of these men were formerly employed at Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen, now owned by the Bush family friendly Carlyle group, also made voting machines for the United States military. Booz Allen was also the key subcontractor for the controversial PioneerGroundbreaker program, an NSA data mining operation that gathered information on American citizens until it was shut down and replaced with even more invasive successor programs like MATRIX and Total Information Awareness.

H.I.G. Capital employees have given $338,000 to Mitt Romney’s campaign. That amounts to over $1500 per employee. Bain Capital, Mitt’s former company, by comparison, only gave him $268,000. H.I.G. is the 11th largest donor to the Romney Campaign. Clearly they are working really hard for their man. It appears that they will work even harder on election night. Although not boisterously promising to deliver states where their machines are to Romney as Wally O’Dell of Diebold did for Bush in 2004, they can launder hundreds of thousands of votes and swing the vote in the crucial swing state Ohio.

Will Mitt’s cronies steal our democracy the way they stole our jobs? Time will tell, but they have certainly positioned themselves to do so if they choose.

In our first investigative article  Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is .

the Free Press revealed that Scytl, a Spanish-based company now contracted to count 25% of the U.S. presidential vote, has ties to Booz Allen. Scytl’s start up funding comes from three European Venture Capital Firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR. The director of Nauta’s American operations is Dominic Endicott, who went from Cluster Consulting to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he oversaw wireless practice. He then rejoined his former colleagues from Cluster Consulting at Nauta. In his capacity as a Nauta partner Endicott also sits on the board of CarrierIQ.

Scytl has emerged as the most mysterious election counting company in this presidential election. Scytl claims to have a Scytl USA division located in Glen Allen, Virginia. The following is a photo of the Scytl USA national corporate offices at 6012 Glen Allen Drive. The land deed records show that the ownership of the property at that address is Hugh Gallagher, now listed as the managing director of Scytl USA. The deed, which was prepared in Ohio by a relocation firm in 2002, pre-dates the creation of Scytl USA. A Scytl USA sales office is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and appears to be a Rent-an-Office, often referred to as a “virtual” office with a shared secretary that serves as a mail drop.

The ties of Hart Intercivic to Romney fund-raisers and Bain alumni should cause concern in the Obama re-election campaign. So, should the mysterious Spanish owned company, Scytl, with a U.S operation that seems to be an illusion.

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Germany, Finland, Netherlands Begin To Unravel EU Banking Union Plans – 27 September 2012

Germany, the Netherlands and Finland have issued a joint declaration that appears to unravel much of what was agreed at the last European summit in June, when EU leaders paved the way for the direct recapitalisation of troubled banks.

In a statement issued on Tuesday (25 September) after a meeting of their finance ministers in Helsinki, the three AAA-rated countries set out the terms under which they would be willing to allow the euro zone’s permanent rescue fund, the ESM, to recapitalise at-risk banks.

But the statement made a sharp distinction between future banking problems and “legacy” difficulties – essentially saying that highly indebted banks in Spain, Ireland and Greece will remain the responsibility of those countries’ governments.

That is likely to frustrate Spain and Ireland in particular, as both had interpreted the June summit as implying that a way would be found to break the debilitating link between their indebted banks and the debts of the government.

“The ESM can take direct responsibility of problems that occur under the new supervision, but legacy assets should be under the responsibility of national authorities,” read the statement by the Dutch, Finns and Germans, the three countries that have taken the hardest line during the debt crisis.

Asked for clarification, representatives of the three governments were not prepared to elaborate on the record.

But one senior eurozone official familiar with the discussions that took part in Helsinki said: “All I can say is that the statement means that ESM direct recapitalisation should not be used to take care of old problems.”

Uncertainty

If it stands – and that depends on discussions that will take place between heads of state in the coming days and weeks – the position adopted by the Dutch, Finns and Germans is likely to cause deep consternation in financial markets.

In Spain, the latest epicentre of the eurozone debt crisis, this would put immediate pressure on the state’s finances as the €100 billion European credit line for Spanish lenders would count as public debt, something Madrid had hoped to avoid.

The country is expected to tap between €40 billion and €60 billion of this money, equivalent to around 4-6% of gross domestic product.

“For Spain, direct bank recapitalisation is not a priority. If the debt was to go up by 4%, that would be perfectly manageable as it would remain below European Union average,” said a spokesman for the Economy Ministry.

For Ireland, the situation is also unclear.

“Depending on how it is interpreted, it may or may not allow the Irish government to sell its interests in the surviving Irish banks to the ESM,” said John Fitzgerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute, a Dublin-based think tank.

A spokesman for Ireland’s Department of Finance said: “We welcome their ideas on how to give effect to the decision of eurozone leaders that the ESM should have the capacity to recapitalise banks directly.”

“In respect of Ireland, technical discussions remain on-going on how we can improve the sustainability of Irish financial system, in line with the June summit mandate.”

Backtracking on June EU summit commitments

The June summit agreement created the impression in markets that the ESM, which should come into force on 9 October, would be able to take direct stakes in Ireland’s and Spain’s troubled banks in the coming months, taking the burden off the state.

Instead it now appears likely that Spain and Ireland could remain saddled with vast amounts of bank debt that will make it all the harder for their governments to resolve these banking problems and get their own finances on track at the same time.

Spanish officials were not immediately reachable for comment. But an official in Brussels interpreted the statement as rowing back almost completely on the June deal, a move that will undermine efforts to resolve a debt crisis that has rumbled on for 2-1/2 years and destabilised global markets.

“There are a couple of countries that are trying to backtrack but I don’t think they will be able to muster the force to succeed,” the official said, referring to Finland and the Netherlands.

“Legacy’ problems is a newcomer to the debate. It is one more case of this habit of walking away from decisions taken.”

A representative from one of the three finance ministries that issued the statement sought to play down its importance, saying it merely clarified what was agreed in June.

The official said that once the ESM is able to directly recapitalise banks – which will only happen once a new supervisory authority under the ECB is established next year – the aim was to establish which banks in the eurozone were “viable” and which were “unviable”.

Only the viable banks would then qualify for recapitalisation from the ESM. The rest would either have to find a way to be recapitalised via the private sector or be wound up by the national government.

The official said the issue was now “up for discussion”, indicating that the statement was designed to reopen the debate, an invitation Ireland and Spain will no doubt take up quickly.

Next steps:
  • 13-14 Dec .: EU leaders could adopt the plan for banking union at the formal December summit meeting.
  • Jan. 2013 : If the rules are adopted, the European banking supervisor could start operation.
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Israeli Rabbis Greet Iran’s President Ahmadinejahd In NYC On Yom Kippur – 28 September 2012

“This video is banned for broadcast on News Networks in USA, Israel and Europe. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel and US does not want you to see. Jewish leaders and prominent businessmen Greet Ahmadinejad with Inshallah and Bless him for long life. Jews have lived in Iran for thousands of years. Over 50,000 Jews live in Teheran. Israeli Jews Love Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”

In a video you won’t see on CNN or ABC, Israeli Sephardic Rabbis Greeted Ahmadinejahd in New York City on Yom Kippur.

Iran’s President was visibly moved by the emotional prayers for peace and friendship spoken by the Israeli Rabbis.  The Sephardic Rabbis praised Iran’s leaders for 1,000 years of peaceful relations with 50,000 Jewish families in Tehran.

This extraordinary event might account for Ahmedinejahd’s  subdued criticism of Israel in his speech on the floor of the United Nations later that day. Major media have observed that Iran’s President only briefly mentioned Israel once.  Nobody asked why he might have softened his tone.

Let’s make this video go viral, people! There’s great hope for peace, if we can follow these Rabbis’ superb example and treat each other with respect.

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For all the evangelical fanatics out there, who think the conflict in the middle east is a holy war against Islam, consider the fact that for thousands of years, Iran has had a flourishing Jewish community.  This community is protected by law under the Iranian Constitutiion.   Iran currently has the largest Jewish population in the middle east outside of the state of Israel.

Note that the Rabbis in this film clip are Orthodox Jews and are probably of Sephardic extraction.  Listen carefully.  The spokesman constantly refers to “True Torah” Jews.  Thus he distinguishes himself, AND THUS DISTANCES HIMSELF,  from the Zionist/Ashkenazi/ Khazar “Talmudic Jews” that currently control Israel.Until one understands the differences between these “two tribes” (real jews as opposed to the imposters who came from central Asia) you will never understand what is driving the State of Israel and the criminal organization that controls it.

The comments below are from a friend in Europe.  Sadly, the Europeans understand very well these distinctions.  Americans, on the other hand, are too preoccupied with the latest NFL game or other such  nonsense on the stuporvision.

“For truth and Justice.”    Please circulate.

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John Ward -EuroBlown: German President Signs Of Destruction Of Euro – 28 September 2012

Gauck has, against his will, given the ESM powers that Adolf Hitler would’ve craved

Today (Thursday) President Joachim Gauck of Germany signed the instrument of ratification for the European Stability Mechanism. The ESM will thus come into force on 8th October 2012.

In doing so – and in private, be assured, this is much against his will – Gauck has authorised the rule of an ESM Gauleiter  with nothing short of dictatorial powers. As The Slog demonstrated over a fortnight ago, the ESM Council is uncontrollable, and effectively beyond the reach of any established Law on the planet.

But the Karlsruhe Court ruling of 12th September this year prohibits any ESM governor from increasing Germany’s contribution to the financing of the ESM Council above €190bn without the consent of the Bundestag.

So what we are looking at here is a German Constitutional Court telling an EU mechanism above any law that, unless it obeys German law, the Bundestag will give it a jolly good spanking. I think Karlsruhe woud have a better chance of lassoing ether. And given the Bundestag’s spineless track record to date, I think we can safely assume Germany’s fate is sealed.

As I posted earlier, the truth is being kept from the German mass electorate. Not just by censorship, but also by distortion and deception. With a stroke of his pen, the Bundespräsident has conferred legitimacy upon a body that is supreme but not sovereign.

In other words, it has 100% power, and 0% accountability. Hitler himself could not have asked for more. What a bitter-sweet frustration this must be for the control freak Angela Merkel.

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TheIntelHub – J.C. Vibes – Police Provocateurs Exposed At Spanish Protests – 28 September 2012

Police Agent Provocateurs were caught on video inciting violence by media cameras at the September 25th bailout and financial crisis protests in Madrid Spain.

There were also several videos uploaded to youtube and liveleak showing similar events.

As expected it is looking like there is a widespread coordinated effort on the part of the police to create violence, which they could then use to justify controlling the situation with violence.

A description of the video below was found through Spanish media organization “HispanTV”, according to their website:

“Our cameras collect when a plainclothes policeman is arrested and blindfolded by their peers in a burden UIP. The secret police is identified as a partner. It is proof that police had infiltrated the concentration of 25-S”

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Agent Provocateurs are people that work for the police but pretend to be a part of an anti establishment mob.

While under cover these agents commit acts of violence and vandalism to give the police a pretense to use force against the demonstrators.

Once the agent smashes one window or throws one rock on behalf of the group they have infiltrated, the police are able to respond with whichever force they deem to be necessary and turn the demonstration into a war zone.

More information to come on this developing story as details become available.

J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.

He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com

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Guinea to See $2.1 Billion of Its Debt Cancelled 2012 SEPTEMBER 27

More than $2.1 billion of Guinea’s foreign debt is being cancelled in a major boost for the deeply impoverished West African nation whose mineral riches were looted over decades of corrupt dictatorship, officials said Wednesday.

Two-thirds of Guinea’s total foreign debt is being eliminated because it has qualified for the IMF and World Bank program for heavily indebted poor countries, according to a government statement.

The decision to support $2.1 billion in debt relief for Guinea was later announced by the IMF and the World Bank following a meeting of their administrative council Wednesday.

“This will allow Guinea to free up substantial resources,” said Ansoumane Camara, an economist and consultant in Conakry who said the money could be redirected toward improving health and educational programs.

Guinea’s finances were left in ruins after nearly a quarter-century of rule by Lansana Conte, who pillaged state coffers to make his family fabulously wealthy before his death in 2008, according to economists.

In 2010, the country held its first democratic election but the political reforms have not translated into immediate improvements for the lives of most Guineans, who remain deeply impoverished. About 75 percent of the country’s 10 million people live below the poverty line, according to the United Nations.

Fatou Bonte Bangoura, who sells smoked fish at a port in Guinea’s capital, said Wednesday’s announcement would mean little for Guineans who are struggling to support their families.

“Our children need to eat, they need to be taken care of, they need to go to school,” she lamented. Guinea’s debt elimination won’t result in individual families receiving money. “It doesn’t feed me,” she says.

President Alpha Conde called Wednesday’s announcement “the first step on the path to economic recovery.”

“It gives us the opportunity to make a historic new start,” he said while visiting a women’s business cooperative. “We will now redouble our efforts, and no one will be left by the wayside.”

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