This is the day Congress votes on the issue of net neutrality. Heed the call and make your voice heard.
James Pilant
Make no mistake: this will be a decisive vote. This is the only time that Congress will vote “yes or no” on Net Neutrality, so it’s crucial that they vote the right way. Help us send a clear message to Congress: a vote for the repeal act is a vote against internet users. In the coming days, we’ll be working to coordinate a national day of action on the 17th, when we’ll flood Congress with calls from Net Neutrality supporters.Here are three ways y … Read More
I’m astonished that any lawyer would have encouraged a mortgage bank into this kind of deal, but it was one of those free money things. Any bank using the MERS system paid no property transfer fees like everyone else. So, it was worth millions of dollars to use that system even though it had never been authorized by law in any state.
This is big news. If property cannot be transferred using the MERS system, hundreds of thousands of mortgage foreclosures were done outside the law and hundreds of thousands of pending foreclosures will not be possible.
(This web site, News Unrapped, is brand new and I would like my readers to take a good look at it and consider subscribing. jp)
James Pilant
BREAKING FINANCIAL NEWS >>> This is very big happenings for the entire financial system, including but not limited to banks and investment bankers , real estate owners and investors, stock owners (and all associated with that industry), as well as all of us who exist and are subject to market movement. For sure, there will be lots and lots of spin on t … Read More
This is a detailed legal analysis of the FCC order regarding net neutrality. If you have an interest in net neutrality and the legal issues surrounding the order and its aftermath, you have a very fine references source here.
James Pilant
I would like to thank Marvin for inviting me to blog here for a while as part of his merry band of cyber experts. I teach cyberlaw and other subjects at Florida International University College of Law in Miami, FL. I typically write about copyright, Internet freedom, and human rights law. Although my first post will be about net neutrality, I hope in the future to blog on my other interests, including copyright, fair use, the First Amendment, … Read More
There is a new blog up dealing with business ethics. It just premiered today. I want everyone to extend a warm welcome to the newest blogger in the field.
James Pilant
Hello all! The purpose of my blog, Business and Life, is to teach people about ethical conduct within different facets of business. Ethical business conduct is becoming tougher and tougher to enforce with the advent of new technologies within businesses. Please check back soon for more posts. … Read More
Betty Garrett, a comedic actress who was a fixture in such MGM musicals as “On The Town” and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” a regular on the television series “All in the Family” and “Laverne & Shirley” and a star on Broadway and in Los Angeles theater productions, has died. She was 91.
This is a look back at the scandal surrounding the Ford Pinto, a car with a less than stellar reputation. I’m not going into detail. I don’t want to spoil the story.
This article makes some good points and I like it. He’s dealing with one of the most morally charged stories of the twentieth century.
It’s a good story, well handled. Please read it.
James Pilant
Holy crap – two posts in two days? What’s going on? Don’t worry though, this is just as unstructured and pointless as the last. What I give you in quantity, I take back in quality. Anyway, I was in a politics the other day on the subject of Rationality. Basically, the point of the lecture was for us to realise that being ‘rational’ is something that can mean different things. One of the points made in the lecture was that of morality – specifical … Read More
I like this. Too long has the foreclosure industry lived without legal retribution for their crimes. I have argued for months that robo signing and false affidavits were contempt of court. Well, at least one judge agrees with me.
I like this site. If you have the slightest interest in the mortgage crisis, it should be on your favorites.
James PIlant
Lawyer held in contempt over ‘fraud’ in foreclosure filing By Kimberly Miller and Christine Stapleton Palm Beach Post Staff Writer A day after federal mortgage giant Fannie Mae fired the prominent law firm of Ben-Ezra & Katz, a Miami judge found the firm’s founding partner, Marc Ben-Ezra, in contempt of court for filing “sham” foreclosure documents and “wasting the court’s time.” On Thursday, Fannie Mae cited document “execution issues” as th … Read More
Take a long last look at accurate maps of the foreclosure crisis. Google says they have low usage. Maybe they just have a high level of influence suggesting a better use of their time. Well, it’s gone. Here’s one more look.
James Pilant
Searches for real estate foreclosures on Google Maps are censored no longer possible. Google has announced removal of all real estate listings from their Google Maps platform on February 10th of this year (2011). Google posted this: In part due to low usage, the proliferation of excellent property-search tools on real es … Read More
Yes. We can do what is difficult but the first step is recognizing there is a problem. I haven’t seen that from any of our leaders and it’s certainly not discussed in the media. The work ethic and hunger for learning that once existed no longer is there. We have become a soft nation; too many have had it too good for too long. It used to be young people were motivated to succeed at least in part to have it better than their parents. Since they have been given everything they need and want, what’s left? The problem is exacerbated by our instant access culture. Press a button and you have what you want. Go on the Internet and download what you need. We are not a doing society anymore. We are a let others do it for us society. It has taken its toll and those of us who are trying to educate young people are constantly frustrated by the prevailing mentality of students — tell me what I need to know to get the highest grade or best job. I don’t have any answers because I don’t think many people recognize the problem or, if they do, it’s easier to just make believe it doesn’t exist.
Good Words. I, too, see a lack of leadership on moral issues. But we really can’t have a national dialogue without enforcement of the law against the financial sector. When we read daily of the profits of investment bankers against a back drop of investigative reports showing their culpability in financial disaster, it is difficult to tell anyone that high ethical standards are important. Just the opposite. The great investment banks live for profit without any consideration of any moral or ethical principle. They are willing to participate in the destruction of democracies, economies and the, occasional, forest; if it makes money.
In the next life they will be punished. I find that cold comfort when their actions are solid evidence that an immoral corporate culture can make you rich.
These people do not deserve their money. They do not deserve the high opinion in which they are held. They do not deserve the influence they have over the lives of others.
James Pilant
They do deserve salaries in proportion to what they produce, not a comical casino profit insured from blunder by the government, but salary based on value produced. Those among them who have committed crimes, prison sentences and confinement in real prisons with real prisoners. These captains of investment deserve to be rated according the their actual accomplishments and abilities not held up as examples to steer youth into ruthless pursuit of gain.
The culture I want rewards people based on their merits and at the very least values the common brotherhood of all human kind.
Make no mistake: this will be a decisive vote. This is the only time that Congress will vote “yes or no” on Net Neutrality, so it’s crucial that they vote the right way. Help us send a clear message to Congress: a vote for the repeal act is a vote against internet users. In the coming days, we’ll be working to coordinate a national day of action on the 17th, when we’ll flood Congress with calls from Net Neutrality supporters.Here are three ways y … Read More
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