Chase Bank Admits to Stealing From US Military Families Chase Bank Sucks
You read that right. I wish the headline was an exaggeration. Unfortunately, the reality is far worse than what can be conveyed in one simply headline.
Chase Bank had been systematically overcharging US Military families on their mortgage payments for quite some time. As if stealing from the men and women that put their lives on the line every day for every one of us isn’t bad enough, they took it one step further. They illegally foreclosed on the homes of military personnel – kicking them out of their homes. Let that sink in for a minute. They had to be sued by members of our US Military before Chase Bank agreed to give back some of what they stole. In total, Chase agreed to pay a little over $60 million dollars to settle the lawsuit.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
The BRAD BLOG : Occupying the Rose Parade's TV Audience With Anything but Occupy Wall Street Marchers
The BRAD BLOG : Occupying the Rose Parade's TV Audience With Anything but Occupy Wall Street Marchers
The parade would be covered on not one, but two local TV stations. NBC 4 would carry the live network feed hosted by Al Roker and Shaun Robinson, while the local KTLA 5 station (owned by the rightwing Tribune Media) would feature Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards in their 30th year of parade coverage.
Today's parade was "crafted to help you dream about things you can imagine," Eubanks helpfully opened with to his TV audience. The parade's theme float, "'Just Imagine' sponsored by Wells Fargo" kicked things off, followed by a flyover of a U.S. Air Force B2 Stealth Bomber and then the U.S. Marine Corp color guard on horses followed by their marching band and a jaunty rendition of the Marines' Hymn.
The corporate banks and military industrial complex received premiere TV coverage right off the bat, prominently featured at the top of both corporate network and local television broadcasts.
...As they'd been granted a permit to march in the parade, after the last "official" float, of course, "after the real event was over", as the Tribune-owned Los Angeles Times sniffed in their coverage today, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators had worked for days on their signs and their Occupy Octopus float, described by LA Weekly on Friday as "70 Feet of Awesome", and a huge float made to look like the preamble of U.S. Constitution float with the words "We the People" on it. Another 250-foot mock-up of the same preamble led with "We the Corporation".
Nobody watching the corporate television coverage in Los Angeles or across the nation would be allowed to see the mock-ups of the U.S. Constitution, or decide for themselves how "awesome" the Occupy Octopus was.
The corporate media apparently owns the parades too. We're lucky they let us live here.
The parade would be covered on not one, but two local TV stations. NBC 4 would carry the live network feed hosted by Al Roker and Shaun Robinson, while the local KTLA 5 station (owned by the rightwing Tribune Media) would feature Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards in their 30th year of parade coverage.
Today's parade was "crafted to help you dream about things you can imagine," Eubanks helpfully opened with to his TV audience. The parade's theme float, "'Just Imagine' sponsored by Wells Fargo" kicked things off, followed by a flyover of a U.S. Air Force B2 Stealth Bomber and then the U.S. Marine Corp color guard on horses followed by their marching band and a jaunty rendition of the Marines' Hymn.
The corporate banks and military industrial complex received premiere TV coverage right off the bat, prominently featured at the top of both corporate network and local television broadcasts.
...As they'd been granted a permit to march in the parade, after the last "official" float, of course, "after the real event was over", as the Tribune-owned Los Angeles Times sniffed in their coverage today, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators had worked for days on their signs and their Occupy Octopus float, described by LA Weekly on Friday as "70 Feet of Awesome", and a huge float made to look like the preamble of U.S. Constitution float with the words "We the People" on it. Another 250-foot mock-up of the same preamble led with "We the Corporation".
Nobody watching the corporate television coverage in Los Angeles or across the nation would be allowed to see the mock-ups of the U.S. Constitution, or decide for themselves how "awesome" the Occupy Octopus was.
The corporate media apparently owns the parades too. We're lucky they let us live here.
#JAN1: Occupy Wall Street finds no right to generally assemble
More of Bloomberg's lapdogs harrassing citizens of this country. 3rd World America.
Protesters Occupy The Rose Parade (PHOTOS)
Protesters Occupy The Rose Parade (PHOTOS)
Perhaps the most anticipated float of the 2012 Rose Parade is an unofficial entrant: a giant "Occupy Octopus" made out of plastic bags. Occupy The Rose Parade protesters plan to march the 70-by-40-feet "float," along with a giant blown-up version of the United State Constitution, at the end of the Rose Parade.
Occupy's "People's Parade" will be marching against corporate personhood and the foreclosure crisis, according to the organizers' site, as well as protesting the influence of corporate money in politics.
Perhaps the most anticipated float of the 2012 Rose Parade is an unofficial entrant: a giant "Occupy Octopus" made out of plastic bags. Occupy The Rose Parade protesters plan to march the 70-by-40-feet "float," along with a giant blown-up version of the United State Constitution, at the end of the Rose Parade.
Occupy's "People's Parade" will be marching against corporate personhood and the foreclosure crisis, according to the organizers' site, as well as protesting the influence of corporate money in politics.
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