Bank Of America Told To Lie To Struggling Homeowners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvsSCR3ZgL8

Finally, a smoking gun and a courtroom for potential accountability. In a federal court case, Bank of America is being charged for systematically lying to struggling homeowners even as they were on the brink of foreclosure, citing unpaid trial payments (which they had, in fact, received as plaintiffs allege) and unsent documents (which the bank, again, is claimed to have already been in possession of). Yes, even–and maybe especially–as their clients were on the brink of losing their homes, Bank of America wanted to squeeze every last drop out of them as possible.

Noam Chomsky On Keeping People Passive And Obedient

Neither adjective can be applied to Chomsky, however; and the CIA knows it. Just recently, the covert agency admitted to spying on the renown thinker and keeping a file on a man who had the audacity to decry the war in Vietnam (among other things) in the 1970s.

Everything You Know About Immigration Is Wrong

The Article: Everything you know about immigration is wrong by Ezra Klein in The Washington Post.

The Text: Everything you know about immigration, particularly unauthorized immigration, is wrong.

So says Princeton University’s Doug Massey, anyway. Massey is one of the nation’s preeminent immigration scholars. And he thinks we’ve wasted a whole lot of money on immigration policy and are about to waste a whole lot more.

Massey slices the history of Mexico-to-U.S. migration in five periods. Early in the 20th century, there was the era of “the hook,” when Japan stopped sending workers to the U.S. and the mining, agriculture and railroad industries begged Mexican laborers to replace them. It’s called “the hook” because laborers were recruited with promises of high wages, signing bonuses, transportation and lodging, most of which either never materialized or were deducted from their paychecks.

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