Oz Banks Shedding Loyal Staff Again - International Human Rights

Oz Banks Shedding Loyal Staff Again
by lynx Thursday, Feb 9 2012, 7:36am
international / human rights / commentary

Have you ever wondered what anonymous hackers do for a day job?

Banks and other Corporations demand unswerving LOYALTY from their staff but they fail to inform staff that the arrangement is NOT RECIPROCAL. When Banks and Corporations decide to reduce staff, for whatever reason, they heartlessly and unceremoniously dump them, usually offering unacceptable, jargonised excuses, like ‘rationalisation’ and ‘restructuring,’ two Corporate favourites!

Should we now refer to the FACT that everything Banks (and corporations) have achieved to date was/is the result of loyal staff working their butts off -- most-times for inequitable wages and poor conditions; notwithstanding upper management constantly pushing/requiring staff to meet ever increasing productivity levels!

Are we not all in awe of the gratitude displayed by these heartless, myopic, profit-only-driven, self-centred and pathologically selfish Corporations/Banks, which have achieved person status/rights in the USA – dumb fucking yanks? Monolithic Corporations/Banks are the last thing from human; however, they parasitically feed on humans until the latter’s life blood is spent and the shrivelled remains are cast out without a second thought.

As You, the reader, expendable human (fool if applicable) should now appreciate this short article could take numerous directions and develop into many different but highly educational/informative stories -- HINT to my fellow journos – but I must stick to the original plot, to which the subtitle refers; but prior to proceeding I should inform the ignorant that when Banks, Companies and mega-Corporations require specialised skills and abilities they are FORCED to seek EXTERNALLY, outside their organisations, as the highly talented and skilled usually work only on a contract basis.

I should now take the opportunity to EMPHASISE why hackers adhere to the ANONYMITY RULE. You see, hackers don’t just fall from the sky or grow on trees, they spend years honing their coding and mathematical skills – that is WHY they OWN the ‘wire’ (internet). The global, digital, NETWORK is ruled by SKILL and SPEED, not talentless morons with unlimited money and no scruples – I am of course referring to Corporate/Banking DIRECTORS that control our governments today. These greedy pigs/clowns are obliged to contract everything they need; and as the WORLD is now digitally controlled the services of the hacker elite are more in demand then ever before, by their arch-enemy the Banks and Corporations – how perfectly ironical!

Of course hackers have day jobs and ‘day’ identities, they run respectable businesses and other LEGITIMATE fronts which afford them status, respectability and independence in the business community, and Corporate world.

BUT LITTLE DO THE CORPORATES KNOW what is really ‘going down!’ Suffice to say at this stage that compiled programs contain all sorts of ‘niceties’ not readily available to the Corporate and Banker clients that use them. And they imagined they could dump members of our families and the workforce without REPERCUSSIONS, well, think again you bereft, greedy PIGS.

I probably have revealed too much already but that was planned, as is everything else we do. What profile did you imagine hackers assumed in ‘daylight?’ We also utilise our SOCIAL networking skills in many diverse and 'respectable' ways. The next person to fulfil a highly specialised contract for government and industry could be me or a member of one of the many crewz in the hacker community dedicated to your demise.

A final note to the divided slave community at large that works hard, eats shit and is then cast on the refuse heap. Elite hackers do what they do because they possess an innate sense of Justice; they rule over the Corporates because their SKILLS are ‘above all,’ look that up in German. Useless drone, worker COWARDS unable to unite and fight for their rights in the workplace are also indirectly benefited by the hacker elites, but I assure you, it is completely unintentional; we have more contempt for passive, cringing slaves than we do for no-talent, BUT supremely co-operative minority (criminal) ruling elites. Do YOU like their permanent war ideology or their new indefinite detention ‘law,’ you spineless shits?

As for the criminal elites, they are dead men falling, they just haven’t hit the ground yet – it’s over for them!

Are y-o-u now more informed about the forces bringing you DOWN, you bloodsucking parasites? Time is on OUR side and it is running out for YOU; you had better deploy your last major shock strategy, attack Iran and release that plague virus before we have you all HANGED for your crimes against humanity -- you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, perfect!

“Where is your honour?”

“In a cell
at Guantanamo Bay.”

“Where is your pride?”

“At the end of a
Police boot.”

“What of your tears?”

“Dissolved
in the sea.”

“And your heart?”

“Beneath
desert sands.”

“Your spirit, where is your spirit?”

“In the Mountains
high
above the clouds.”

Obama -- Leave no Bank Accountable! Dutiful puppet president and servant to the criminal elites, does what he's told!

Forty-nine states, every one but Oklahoma, as well as federal regulators will participate in a foreclosure fraud settlement that will release the five biggest banks (Wells Fargo, Citi, Ally/GMAC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America) and their mortgage servicing units from liability for robo-signing and other forms of service abuse, in exchange for $25 billion in funding for legal aid, refinancing, short sales, restitution for wrongful foreclosures and principal reduction for underwater borrowers. The announcement will be made on Thursday.

This settlement arises from multiple abuses found in the servicing of loans and the foreclosure process over the past several years. At the height of the housing bubble, banks sliced and diced mortgages and traded them with little regard for the rules following land recording or securitization to such a sloppy extent that they lost track of the true owner on potentially millions of homes. To cover up for this massive failure, banks and their servicing units have been found to have routinely forged, back-dated and fabricated documents at county recorder offices and state courts across the country. Furthermore, they employed “robo-signers,” who signed hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of documents and affidavits without any knowledge of the underlying mortgages. In addition, investigations uncovered massive servicing abuses, including illegal fees charged to borrowers, putting borrowers into foreclosure at the same time as they were working out loan modifications, failing to honor previous settlements where promises were made on modifications, and countless other errors that maximized servicer profits and gouged homeowners. There are also cases of wrongful foreclosures where homeowners have been turned out of their homes without just cause, and servicer-driven foreclosures, where servicers illegally added late fees and applied payments inaccurately, pushing the homeowner into foreclosure. This is but a smattering of the examples of foreclosure fraud and servicer abuse found in a series of interlocking investigations, court depositions, reviews of documents in registers of deeds offices, and homeowner testimonials.

The deal caps a 16-month process that had several fits and starts, and closed with the final holdouts, New York and California, coming to terms. The deal will release claims from state Attorneys General, but individual homeowners retain private rights of action to sue over foreclosure fraud and other abuses. As part of the settlement, states will get a fixed amount in hard dollars that would go to fund legal aid services. “This will get a lawyer for everyone facing foreclosure in the state,” said one source in an Attorney General’s office. “This will stop every wrongful foreclosure.”

Oklahoma stayed out of the deal because the state’s Attorney General, Scott Pruitt, did not believe that the banks should face any penalty.

As far as the release goes, AG offices that signed onto the lawsuit claimed it was narrowly crafted to only affected foreclosure fraud, robo-signing and servicing (which I don’t feel is all that narrow, but I’m trying to just-the-facts this -ed). The lawsuit that New York AG Eric Schneiderman filed last Friday, suing MERS and three banks for their use of MERS, was preserved fully. There was a last-minute request by the banks to dissolve that lawsuit, but it was not successful. In addition, Schneiderman reserves the right to sue other servicers for their use of MERS along the same lines as the current lawsuit.

In addition, all securitization claims, tax fraud claims, insurance fraud claims, and more will be able to be investigated and prosecuted by individual AGs and the RMBS working group, set up at the Financial Fraud Task Force, with Schneiderman as one of five co-chairs. They will be able to use all findings gathered in multiple investigations into servicing and foreclosures in their investigation. At least one of those investigations, the HUD Inspector General report, will be made public as part of the settlement. That report, according to a senior Administration official, will show a wide variety of errors among the major servicers, but the worst will show up to a 60% error rate. In one incident described in the report, an employee of one of the servicers spent two weeks experimenting with her staff to see how long it would take to process foreclosure documents correctly. They determined it would have taken at least 1-2 weeks. This employee went to their manager and reported the information. The following week, the manager told the employee they were reducing the time spent on each file from 48 to 24 hours.

This is the kind of conduct that will be released in the settlement.

Other lawsuits, like Delaware AG Beau Biden’s lawsuit against MERS, Missouri AG Chris Koster’s criminal indictments against DocX, and Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto’s suit against LPS and its employees would be able to go forward as well because the banks are not a party to them. However, it’s unclear whether any of those AGs will be able to work their way up the chain to indict bank officers for the same conduct; the likely answer, I assume, would be no. In California, Kamala Harris preserved the right for state officials and large pension funds to sue under the state’s False Claims Act over mortgage backed securities that later fell in value.

The status of Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley’s suit against five banks for foreclosure fraud is unknown. In all likelihood, the Nevada/Arizona suit against Bank of America for failing to follow their responsibilities in the Countrywide settlement will be folded into the deal.

In that settlement, BofA promised to deliver $8.5 billion in relief for Countrywide borrowers who fell victim to deceptive practices in the mortgage process. In reality, only $236 million was ever spent. Weak settlement terms allowed BofA to take credit merely for offering loan modifications to borrowers. And the Nevada suit alleged that BofA immediately started abusing borrowers who tried to get relief under the deal. But that suit is now gone.

State and federal regulators insist that they learned their lesson with that botched settlement and that this one has tight enforcement guidelines. A federal monitor, North Carolina banking commissioner Joseph Smith, will be employed, and he will have oversight responsibilities over the settlement. However, the monitoring process begins with a self-assessment from the banks through quarterly reports, which Smith and a committee can then review. This enforcement process is likely to take months to actually properly assess the settlement.

And then there’s the settlement price: $25 billion, divided up several ways. $3 billion will go toward refinancing for current borrowers who are underwater on their loans, as well as short sales. $5 billion will go as a hard cash penalty to the states, which can use them for legal aid services, foreclosure mitigation programs, and ongoing fraud investigations in other areas (one official close to the talks feared that much of that hard cash payout will go in some Republican states toward filling their budget holes). The federal government will get a cash penalty as well. Out of that $5 billion, up to 750,000 borrowers wrongfully foreclosed upon will get a $1,800-$2,000 check if they sign up for it, the equivalent of saying to them “sorry we stole your home, here’s two months rent.”

The bulk of the money, around $17 billion, will go to principal reduction credits for troubled borrowers. The banks will not get dollar-for-dollar credit for every write-down; reductions on loans bundled in private-label mortgage-backed securities, for example, will be under 50 cents on the dollar, and write-downs for second liens (mostly home equity lines of credit) will be more like 10 cents. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan believes that they will be able to get between $35-$40 billion in principal reduction in real dollars out of the settlement. Donovan became the point person on the federal level, along with DoJ, as the Administration pretty much took over the investigation and settlement process from the states, who were led by Iowa AG Tom Miller.

But even this $35-$40 billion number, which is at best a guess since the direction of the principal reduction is mostly at the discretion of the banks, pales in comparison to the negative equity in the country, which sits at $700 billion. And the banks have three years to implement the principal reductions, drawing out the loss on their books. As the New York Times reports, banks have covered reserves for all of this, and should see major boosts to their stock price as a result of the settlement.

now this is how it's done, sheeple:

gently raise the thumb of your right hand and insert it in your arse; then place the thumb of your left hand in your mouth and suck.

you useless good-for-nothings -- you deserve every horror the elites are about to inflict on you.

O shit! what'll we do now? I know, watch American idol!

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