Meredith~ This is substantial because of many reasons aside from the obvious which actually turns out to be he lesser of many! The fact here merely verifies what many of us have been asserting for many years. It may appear to be a worthy tail on that random flying old kite but it is actually a new fuse on an old time bomb! As has been frequently known to note, the so-called "courts" of the day are naught but reflections on ancient plans of desires to hold the populace in a vice grip wherever those tribunals may have been found, that is to say aside from America. The only wannabe “law” they u[hold is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The greatest difference of our times has been the great and widening gap between the rich and the poor! That is most important here for the latest court make in Oklahoma actually represents how this delineation has become cut to the quick! The apparent usurpations – even to the “drug of pretense” addicted American general Public – has herein obviously become just that; obvious to even the multitude of blivots surrounding those few sensible! BUT THERE IS MORE THAN JUST “ANOTHER SHOE” TO DROP! The BNWODOR is, as I have pointed out over the past few years, experiencing a plethora of unprovided for negative aspects which turn out to arise over those things they thought to have already been paved over by their steamroller of the greedy and lackadaisical people – especially those of America! Whereas it is true the people seemed adequately mesmerized by their great enshrouding with pretense from the cradle to the grave the worst happenstance to the contrary has arisen spontaneously BEGINNING IN EUROPE, the last place they suspected! America seemed not to have noticed that, as was the steady effort to thwart such notice by the government controlled media! Have some of us been at all successful in sounding the alarm? As much as that is my great wish in effort, I don’t really think so. I feel greater impacts! NOW watch for the BNWODOR’s reaction as they wrestle with which direction to take regarding the Oklahoma Supremes! Look around as well for peripheral reactions from OTHER government agencies, and the people (Who are getting smashed in the face by this monstrous revelation of CONSPIRACY!). WATCH THE “ALTERNATE” MEDIA. Watch the other courts as faced with the same or near same decisions! Watch to see how many now are willing to turn less than a deaf ear to the likes of myself (Won’t drag others into the federal limelight here) who have been trumpeting the crookedness of the ENTIRE Federal Reserve System (TO INCLUDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK!) for all these years! In short, watch the peripheral ramifications rather than the obvious attempts to apply the revelation. THIS IS REALLY A LOT BIGGER THAN IT APPEARS! ~Hal~
--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Meredith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Meredith <[email protected]> Subject: [jophome] Fw: [MYRLANDsMETHODs] MERS foreclosures To: "Jophome" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:56 PM --- On Tue, 9/22/09, petes farms <petesfa...@yahoo. com> wrote: From: petes farms <petesfa...@yahoo. com> Subject: [MYRLANDsMETHODs] MERS foreclosures To: truthf...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:24 AM LANDMARK DECISION PROMISES MASSIVE RELIEF FOR HOMEOWNERS AND TROUBLE FOR BANKS 98489 -- Landmark Nat'l Bank v. Kesler - - Rosen -- Kansas Supreme Court Foreclosure Combatant Ellen Brown, September 19th, 2009 http://www.webofdeb t.com/articles/ mers.php A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no right or standing to bring an action for foreclosure. MERS is an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a private company that registers mortgages electronically and tracks changes in ownership. The significance of the holding is that if MERS has no standing to foreclose, then nobody has standing to foreclose on 60 million mortgages. That is the number of American mortgages currently reported to be held by MERS. Over half of all new U.S. residential mortgage loans are registered with MERS and recorded in its name. Holdings of the Kansas Supreme Court are not binding on the rest of the country, but they are dicta of which other courts take note; and the reasoning behind the decision is sound. Eliminating the "Straw Man" Shielding Lenders and Investors from Liability The development of "electronic" mortgages managed by MERS went hand in hand with the "securitization" of mortgage loans chopping them into pieces and selling them off to investors. In the heyday of mortgage securitizations, before investors got wise to their risks, lenders would slice up loans, bundle them into "financial products" called "collateralized debt obligations" (CDOs), ostensibly insure them against default by wrapping them in derivatives called "credit default swaps," and sell them to pension funds, municipal funds, foreign investment funds, and so forth. There were many secured parties, and the pieces kept changing hands; but MERS supposedly kept track of all these changes electronically. MERS would register and record mortgage loans in its name, and it would bring foreclosure actions in its name. MERS not only facilitated the rapid turnover of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities, but it has served as a sort of "corporate shield" that protects investors from claims by borrowers concerning predatory lending practices. California attorney Timothy McCandless describes the problem like this: "[MERS] has reduced transparency in the mortgage market in two ways. First, consumers and their counsel can no longer turn to the public recording systems to learn the identity of the holder of their note. Today, county recording systems are increasingly full of one meaningless name, MERS, repeated over and over again. But more importantly, all across the country, MERS now brings foreclosure proceedings in its own name even though it is not the financial party in interest. This is problematic because MERS is not prepared for or equipped to provide responses to consumers' discovery requests with respect to predatory lending claims and defenses. In effect, the securitization conduit attempts to use a faceless and seemingly innocent proxy with no knowledge of predatory origination or servicing behavior to do the dirty work of seizing the consumer's home. . . . So imposing is this opaque corporate wall, that in a "vast" number of foreclosures, MERS actually succeeds in foreclosing without producing the original note the legal sine qua non of foreclosure much less documentation that could support predatory lending defenses." The real parties in interest concealed behind MERS have been made so faceless, however, that there is now no party with standing to foreclose. The Kansas Supreme Court stated that MERS' relationship "is more akin to that of a straw man than to a party possessing all the rights given a buyer." The court opined: "By statute, assignment of the mortgage carries with it the assignment of the debt. . . . Indeed, in the event that a mortgage loan somehow separates interests of the note and the deed of trust, with the deed of trust lying with some independent entity, the mortgage may become unenforceable. The practical effect of splitting the deed of trust from the promissory note is to make it impossible for the holder of the note to foreclose, unless the holder of the deed of trust is the agent of the holder of the note. Without the agency relationship, the person holding only the note lacks the power to foreclose in the event of default. The person holding only the deed of trust will never experience default because only the holder of the note is entitled to payment of the underlying obligation. The mortgage loan becomes ineffectual when the note holder did not also hold the deed of trust." [Citations omitted; emphasis added.] MERS as straw man lacks standing to foreclose, but so does original lender, although it was a signatory to the deal. The lender lacks standing because title had to pass to the secured parties for the arrangement to legally qualify as a "security." The lender has been paid in full and has no further legal interest in the claim. Only the securities holders have skin in the game; but they have no standing to foreclose, because they were not signatories to the original agreement. They cannot satisfy the basic requirement of contract law that a plaintiff suing on a written contract must produce a signed contract proving he is entitled to relief. The Potential Impact of 60 Million Fatally Flawed Mortgages The banks arranging these mortgage-backed securities have typically served as trustees for the investors. When the trustees could not present timely written proof of ownership entitling them to foreclose, they would in the past file "lost-note affidavits" with the court; and judges usually let these foreclosures proceed without objection. But in October 2007, an intrepid federal judge in Cleveland put a halt to the practice. U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Boyko ruled that Deutsche Bank had not filed the proper paperwork to establish its right to foreclose on fourteen homes it was suing to repossess as trustee. Judges in many other states then came out with similar rulings. Following the Boyko decision, in December 2007 attorney Sean Olender suggested in an article in The San Francisco Chronicle that the real reason for the bailout schemes being proposed by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was not to keep strapped borrowers in their homes so much as to stave off a spate of lawsuits against the banks. Olender wrote: "The sole goal of the [bailout schemes] is to prevent owners of mortgage-backed securities, many of them foreigners, from suing U.S. banks and forcing them to buy back worthless mortgage securities at face value right now almost 10 times their market worth. The ticking time bomb in the U.S. banking system is not resetting subprime mortgage rates. The real problem is the contractual ability of investors in mortgage bonds to require banks to buy back the loans at face value if there was fraud in the origination process. ". . . The catastrophic consequences of bond investors forcing originators to buy back loans at face value are beyond the current media discussion. The loans at issue dwarf the capital available at the largest U.S. banks combined, and investor lawsuits would raise stunning liability sufficient to cause even the largest U.S. banks to fail, resulting in massive taxpayer-funded bailouts of Fannie and Freddie, and even FDIC . . . . "What would be prudent and logical is for the banks that sold this toxic waste to buy it back and for a lot of people to go to prison. If they knew about the fraud, they should have to buy the bonds back." Needless to say, however, the banks did not buy back their toxic waste, and no bank officials went to jail. As Olender predicted, in the fall of 2008, massive taxpayer-funded bailouts of Fannie and Freddie were pushed through by Henry Paulson, whose former firm Goldman Sachs was an active player in creating CDOs when he was at its helm as CEO. Paulson also hastily engineered the $85 billion bailout of insurer American International Group (AIG), a major counterparty to Goldmans' massive holdings of CDOs. The insolvency of AIG was a huge crisis for Goldman, a principal beneficiary of the AIG bailout. In a December 2007 New York Times article titled "The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs," Ben Stein wrote: "For decades now, . . . I have been receiving letters [warning] me about the dangers of a secret government running the world . . . . [T]he closest I have recently seen to such a world-running body would have to be a certain large investment bank, whose alums are routinely Treasury secretaries, high advisers to presidents, and occasionally a governor or United States senator." The pirates seem to have captured the ship, and until now there has been no one to stop them. But 60 million mortgages with fatal defects in title could give aggrieved homeowners and securities holders the crowbar they need to exert some serious leverage on Congress serious enough perhaps even to pry the legislature loose from the powerful banking lobbies that now hold it in thrall. I learned a lot a little too late,Donut learn as I did. Take care & beware,FTG The sun shineth upon the dunghill & isnt corrupted. We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. 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