Washington State Joins the Movement for Public Banking

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/washington-state-joins-movement-for-public-banking

Oh look, common sense seems to be catching on.
Here's hoping it spreads like wildfire.
It's the only sane thing left to do to save "our" collective and individual selves.
Cut out the middle man



Bills were introduced on January 18 in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving to create public banking facilities.

The bills, House Bill 1320 and Senate Bill 5238, propose creation of a Washington Investment Trust (WIT) to “promote agriculture, education, community development, economic development, housing, and industry” by using “the resources of the people of Washington State within the state.”

Currently, all the state’s funds are deposited with Bank of America. HB 1320 proposes that, in the future, “all state funds be deposited in the Washington Investment Trust and be guaranteed by the state and used to promote the common good and public benefit of all the people and their businesses within [the] state.”

The legislation is similar to that now being studied or proposed in states including Illinois, Virginia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, California and others.

First cholera case in Florida found in Naples area

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-hk-cholera-dengue-fever-update-20101117,0,7409105.story

Well you knew it had to happen. I'm surprised it took this long.


A Naples-area woman has been confirmed as the first Floridian to contract cholera after visiting Haiti, and other potential cases in other areas also are being tested, state health officials said Wednesday.

But Department of Health doctors said the woman's infection poses virtually no risk to the public in Florida because U.S. sewer and water systems eliminate the bacteria from drinking water, which is primarily how it spreads.

"We don't anticipate we will see any transmission as a result of exposure in Haiti in Florida or anywhere else in the U.S. … because our water and sanitiation system minimizes the risk," said Dr. Thomas Torok, a disease investigator with the health department.

The only real risk to Floridians would occur if they had direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person, including if the patient worked in a job with public contact, cholera experts said.

Wells Fargo to pay $24M to end mortgage probe

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wells-Fargo-to-pay-24M-to-end-apf-2094138970.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=

Another bullet shot through the heart of Justice.



Wells Fargo is paying $24 million to end an investigation by eight states probing whether lenders acquired by the company made risky mortgages to consumers without disclosing their perils.

The states said loans known as option adjustable rate loans, or "pick-a-payment" mortgages, were deceptive to borrowers. Those particularly toxic loans allowed borrowers to defer some of their interest payments and add them to the principal balance. Borrowers could make payments so low that loan debt actually increased every month.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. announced the agreement Wednesday with attorneys general in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Texas and Washington state.

The loans were made by Wachovia Corp. and a California company it acquired, World Savings Bank. Wells purchased Wachovia at the end of 2008. Wachovia had already stopped making those loans before the acquisition was complete. ye

As part of the agreement, Wells has agreed to offer loan assistance worth more than $770 million to more than 8,700 borrowers through June 2013, though that amount will depend on how the economy fares during that time. The $24 million will be used to help states reach out to customers who took out such loans.

The agreement includes no admission of wrongdoing by Wells Fargo.

Class Action vs MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, GMAC, DEUTSCHE BANK, NATIONSTAR, AURORA, BAC, CITI, US BANK, LPS, et al

http://4closurefraud.org/2010/10/03/kaboom-class-action-vs-mortgage-electronic-registration-systems-gmac-deutsche-bank-nationstar-aurora-bac-citi-us-bank-lps-et-al/


Yes, it's true
Dinner is on RICO.

Take a look at the document filed

Florida to try new method for keeping oil from shore

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/27/1703519/florida-to-try-new-methods-for.html


Have they thought about the gas and how the air curtain will affect that and what the consequences of it will actually be are

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Sunday announced two new efforts -- funded by oil giant BP -- to keep crude from the state's shores.

The first effort will begin with three barges, and could grow to as many as nine, configured in the shape of a boom to protect Destin Pass in the state's western panhandle. The barges would funnel the oil to an area where it can be skimmed, according to a press release issued by Crist's office, which did not give a date for the project to begin.

The second effort involves creating an underwater ``air curtain'' of bubbles that would push oil from the depths to the surface.


BP also is drilling two relief wells that technicians hope will pierce and cap the gushing oil well. Drilling on the wells began in May and is expected to be complete in August.

``The relief wells continue on track and are making good progress,'' David Nicholas, a BP spokesman said Sunday.

Nicholas said BP already has located the point at which the relief wells will intercept the existing well, by using sensitive electronic equipment that detects differences in the rock's electromagnetic field.

Florida braces for oil spill impact

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4090f16a5abf84c5a5adff0665cbc792.991&show_article=1

And forethought was a good thing

"This has the potential to be the largest single environmental and economic disaster in the history of Florida."

British Petroleum has pledged 25 million dollars in advance to Florida to try to step up the response to the disaster.