dixiegrrrrl
dixiegrrrrl's JournalKarma train hits Bank of America.....
A lovely list of growing investigations points to BOA's many transgressions.
Let us count the ways:
1. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, based in Brooklyn, is investigating its compliance
with the Federal Housing Administration’s “direct endorsement program.”
(Has to do with getting get government-backed insurance for mortgages that didn’t deserve it).
2. facing the prospect of paying penalties and reimbursing consumers over its sale and marketing of certain credit-card debt-cancellation products.
3. government authorities in North America, Europe and Asia are examining its participation in foreign-exchange
markets.
4. the bank is being sued by Prudential Insurance Company of America related to mortgage-backed bonds that the
bank sold in the run-up to the financial crisis. ( the bonds were touted as good, but were full of bad mortgages)
5. the European Commission is laying the groundwork to fine it and other banks, accusing them of breaking European
Union competition laws by allegedly colluding to prevent exchange-trading of credit-default swaps.
Bank of America said it now estimates it could have to spend up to $6.1 billion for legal expenses over and above current reserves, up from an estimate of $3.1 billion a year ago.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-americas-legal-problems-pile-up-2014-02-25?link=MW_latest_news
Poor poor BOA...my heart bleeds for it. 
Updated list of all fracking sites. Is your state on the list?
http://www.fractracker.org/2014/03/1-million-wells/this is a good site, btw. Hats off to them for compiling the data.
2nd coldest Mardi Gras since 1874
Currently 39 degrees in New Orleans.
I'd be happy if it hit as high as 39 at my house, here in the "sunny South".
Top Ten US Aid Recipients All Practice Torture
The violators and degree of aid they are expected to receive are: 1. Israel – $3.1bn, 2. Afghanistan – $2.2bn, 3. Egypt – $1.6bn, 4. Pakistan – $1.2bn, 5. Nigeria – $693m, 6. Jordan – $671m, 7. Iraq – $573m, 8. Kenya – $564m, 9. Tanzania – $553m, 10. Uganda -$456m
Each of the listed countries are accused of torturing people in the last year, and at least half are reported to be doing so on a massive scale.
Financial support for such governments could violate existing US law mandating that little or no funding be granted to a country that “engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including torture.”
The United States remains a signatory of the United Nations Convention against Torture, ratified in 1994. That the top ten recipients of US assistance all practice torture calls into serious question the Obama administration’s overall stance on and understanding of fundamental human rights.
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-ten-us-aid-recipients-practice-torture
[font style=color:#CC0000;]Watch they DO, not what they say. Actions speak louder than words[/font]
WH 2015 budget=$26.4 billion in extra funding for Pentagon
From Breaking news headline:
White House's fiscal 2015 budget request includes separate 'opportunity, growth and security' fund that would give the Pentagon $26.4 billion in extra funding for maintenance, training and aircraft - @Reuters
remember when the Pentagon claimed it had extra money lying around its "contingency fund" that it could use to invade Syria?
Apparently it wants...MORE.
"Russia is invading another country on completely trumped up pretext"
says John Kerry, on Meet the Press.
That's how you tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys;
good guys don't invade on *trumped up pretexts*
Speaking of our crumbling infrastructure.....
Officials said there is no threat to the public from the crack in the Wanapum Dam, which is just down stream from where Interstate 90 crosses the river.
But utility managers are lowering water levels a total of 20 feet because they fear the structure otherwise could endanger inspectors trying to get a better handle on how seriously the dam is damaged.
“At this point we already know there’s a serious problem,” said Thomas Stredwick, spokesman for the Grant County Public Utility District (PUD). “We want to make sure the spillway is stable enough that inspectors are safe when inspecting it.”
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023019385_wanapumdamxml.html
I hope they are keeping an eye on the Grand Coulée Dam.
Poor Ukraine...the IMF wants to help.
From Breaking News site:
MF chief Lagarde says discussing with international partners how best to help Ukraine bilaterally, multi-laterally - @Reuters
by now a lot of us know the playbook.
I said here, last summer, that events seem to be speeding up, almost as if TPTB are under pressure, in a hurry.
Was I the only one to notice this?
edited to add:
Another headline minutes ago:
In the past 3 years, $70 billion went out of Ukraine's financial system into offshore accounts, PM-designate Arseniy Yatsenyuk says - @Reuters
Another J.P. Morgan banker death revealed
Jason Alan Salais, a 34-year old Information Technology specialist who had worked at JPMorgan Chase since May 2008,
died Dec. 15th 2013, while in a store in Pearland Texas, of a heart attack.
However, it turns out heart attacks in this age group are very very very rare
AND
he worked in the same field as did Gabriel Magee, a 39-year old JP Morgan VP who jumped from the roof of JP Morgan building in London 6 weeks later, Jan. 27th
AND
a 33 y/o JP Morgan guy, Dennis Li ( sometimes spelled Dennis Lee) jumped from the roof of another Morgan bank, in Hong Kong Feb. 18th.
AND
On Feb. 3
Ryan Henry Crane, 37,the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group was found dead in his Stamford Ct home.
It has been reported that Crane and McGee knew each other, did similar work.
which means Crane, McGee and Salais did similar work; Dennis Li's work is not known yet.
So that is FOUR JP Morgan bankers, all in their 30's, who have died since Dec. 15th.
several links are suggested, found here:
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/another-sudden-death-of-jpmorgan-worker-34-year-old-jason-alan-salais/
As a reminder, here is the banker death list so far:
Jan. 26th[/b
London police report a 58-year-old former senior executive ,last name Broeksmit,
at Deutsche Bank AG, dead in his home after an apparent suicide. Found hanged in his home.
Jan. 27
a 39-year-old JP Morgan manager, Gerald Mcgee, died after falling from the roof of the European headquarters of JP Morgan in London.
January 29
Russell Investments’ Chief Economist Mike Dueker was found dead in an apparent suicide. Police said it appears Dueker took his own life by jumping from a ramp near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, Wash., AP reported.
Feb. 3
Ryan Henry Crane, 37,the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group was found dead in his Stamford Ct home. It has been reported that Crane and McGee knew each other, did similar work.
Feb. 7th
Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead in his home.Cause of death was
8 wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
Declared a suicide.
apparently under investigation by state regulator.
First Christie, now Walker.....
Snip...Walker’s (Presidential) prospects took a blow this week with the release of more than 27,000 emails held by his one-time deputy chief of staff, Kelly Rindfleisch.
One, forwarded from Walker’s ex-chief of staff, Thomas Nardelli to Rindfleisch – his deputy – is a joke about an African American “negro” who discovers he is a minority in other ways. “I can handle being a black, disabled, one armed, drug-addicted Jewish homosexual,” the email says, “but please, oh dear God, don’t make me a Democrat”.
Another, sent to Rindfleisch from someone outside Walker’s staff, joked that welfare recipients were “mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who the r [sic] Daddys [sic] are”.
“That is hilarious,” Walker’s deputy chief of staff replied. “And so true!”
The emails, which date back to 2010 when Walker was Milwaukee county executive, were part of huge tranche collated in an investigation into campaign financing which closed last year. Walker was not charged with any wrongdoing – indeed, investigators said he was never the target – but the inquiry did lead to convictions of six former aides, including Rindfleisch.
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