I started a commentary about this program on Animal Planet's Facebook page and have received over 3,500 supportive comments. This also spawned a MoveOn petition demanding the show be cancelled. I would like to reach everyone who signed that petition (over 6,000 at last check). If you could alert them to this petition, this one will receive broad support.

Like Comcast before it took over Time Warner, AT&T has the power and resources to offer new and better services to their customers without purchasing another company. The telecommunications industry needs more competition, not more mergers.

Anonymous Delaware companies have been used to facilitate drug smuggling, arms trafficking, and anonymous campaign contributions; force foreclosures on ordinary Americans; and launder the proceeds of overseas corruption. As a corporate leader, we need to ensure our state is not being used by criminals for illicit purposes. The Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Act will require states to collect beneficial ownership information from companies (the real person profiting from the company), which will allow law enforcement to track illicit funds and activities more efficiently and effectively. The bill exempts publicly listed companies and would apply to all U.S. states, so does not create any competitive disadvantages for Delaware.

The Founding Fathers encouraged thousands of newspapers to circulate by allowing them to use the US Postal Service without paying postage. Why? To encourage the innovation and creativity that comes from the open marketplace of thought. Now we have a handful of organizations controlling most global communications and producing most of our entertainment. Furthermore, tens of thousands of jobs may be at stake. Diversity of opinion is at risk. Net neutrality will be destroyed in three years. Our public square is disappearing. And finally, millions of dollars in fees will go to consultants and contractors before the public sees an ounce of benefit.

I am concerned about the future of HECO. I think the public utility is important to all of us, and they are not moving to face the future fast enough. The recent problems with the delay of rooftop solar for a lot of people I know demonstrates how badly HECO needs to modernize.

Then-executive editor Bill Keller deliberately buried an exposé a decade ago that would have exposed the warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans, only releasing a heavily redacted version when reporters threatened to publish articles independently.

This petition is about allowing us Xperia users like me to unlock our bootloaders and to install custom roms, even though it can void warranty to do such things to our phone. People like me take the risk just so our phones can have a better user experience. These are our phones we bought, and I think we should be allowed to do what we want with our phones.

$21.9 billion. That was Wells Fargo’s profit in 2013. It’s their highest earnings ever. [1] And it’s being made off the backs of foreclosure victims and underwater homeowners like me. My name is Yolanda Andrews and Wells Fargo bankers are trying to steal my home. On April 29th I went to San Antonio, Texas, armed with 6,000 signatures from Home Defenders like you to directly confront Wells CEO John Stumpf and ask him to work with me to keep me in my home. Then last week, on May 5th, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder uttered words I’ve been waiting for him to say since Wall Street bankers destroyed our economy, foreclosed on 5 million families and have kept 20% of homeowners underwater: “No bank is too big to jail.” [2] [3] Losing your home hurts the same whether you are African American, Latino, Asian or white. But Wells Fargo has been investigated and paid multi-million dollar settlements for racial discrimination in lending and how it deals with foreclosed homes. Here’s why Wells Fargo and its CEO John Stumpf should be the poster children for proving there is no such thing as “Too Big to Jail”. Just two years ago, it settled lawsuits by Memphis, TN, and Baltimore, MD for a combined total of $607 million. [4] In 2013, the New York Attorney General sued Wells Fargo systematically violating key servicing standards national $25 billion foreclosure settlement regarding loan modification practices. [5] Also in 2013, Wells Fargo settled a fair housing complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $39 million because it “maintained and marketed foreclosed properties in White areas are much better… than such properties … in African-American and Latino Neighborhoods.” [6] Two months ago, news reports show that in 2011 and 2012 Wells Fargo published an internal manual that shows how to forge proof of ownership documents in foreclosure files. [7] And just last month, a report from the University of Minnesota shows that Wells Fargo systematically denied credit and refinancing of subprime mortgages to communities of color in the Twin Cities. [8] I’ve been fighting for an affordable loan modification from Wells Fargo for 5 years now – Wells Fargo’s last offer was for a $49 reduction. I’ve been on the receiving end of every kind of abuse Wells Fargo has admitted to and pledged to stop. Stand with me and demand Eric Holder live up to his own words and start prosecuting Wells Fargo. [1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/wells-fargo-4th-quarter-profit-rose-10-slightly-ahead-of-estimates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 [2] http://diversity.berkeley.edu/underwater-america-report [3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/no-company-is-too-big-to-jail-holder-says-of-justice-dept-probes/2014/05/05/e133e49c-d45f-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html [4] http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/30/news/companies/wells-fargo-memphis/ and http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages [5] http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/NMS%20MOL.pdf [6] http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/News%20Release%20for%20NFHA%20Wells%20Fargo%20Complaint%20120410%20Pdf.pdf [7] http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/ [8] http://www.law.umn.edu/metro/index.html

$21.9 billion. That’s Wells Fargo’s profit for 2013. It’s their most ever. [1] And it’s coming off the backs of foreclosure victims and underwater homeowners like me. My name is Yolanda Andrews, and Wells Fargo bankers are trying to steal my home. That’s why I went to San Antonio, Texas on April 29th to directly confront Wells CEO John Stumpf and ask him to work with me to keep me in my home. I brought with me 6,000 signatures of people like you telling him to do the right thing. Then last week, on May 5th, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder uttered words I’ve been waiting for him to say since Wall Street bankers destroyed our economy, foreclosed on 5 million families and kept 20% of homeowners underwater: “No bank is too big to jail.” [2] [3] Losing your home hurts the same whether you are African American, Latino, Asian or white. But Wells Fargo has been investigated and paid multi-million dollar settlements for racial discrimination in lending and how it deals with foreclosed homes. Here’s why Wells Fargo and its CEO John Stumpf should be the poster children for proving there is no such thing as “Too Big to Jail”: Just two years ago it settled lawsuits by Memphis, TN and Baltimore, MD for a combined total of $607 million. [4] In 2013, the New York Attorney General sued Wells Fargo for systematically violating key servicing standards national $25 billion foreclosure settlement regarding loan modification practices. [5] Also in 2013, Wells Fargo settled a fair housing complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $39 million because it “maintained and marketed foreclosed properties in White areas are much better… than such properties … in African-American and Latino Neighborhoods.” [6] Two months ago, news reports show that in 2011 and 2012 Wells Fargo published an internal manual showing how to forge proof of ownership documents in foreclosure files. [7] And just last month, a report from the University of Minnesota shows that Wells Fargo systematically denied credit and refinancing of sub-prime mortgages to communities of color in the Twin Cities. [8] I’ve been fighting for an affordable loan modification from Wells Fargo for 5 years now – Wells Fargo’s last offer was for a $49 reduction – and it has impacted my health to the point where I can no longer get steady work. Earlier this year, they filed for foreclosure on my house. I’ve been on the receiving end of every kind of abuse Wells Fargo has admitted to and pledged to stop. We need to ensure that they live up to their word. Stand with me and demand Eric Holder live up to his own words and start prosecuting Wells Fargo. [1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/wells-fargo-4th-quarter-profit-rose-10-slightly-ahead-of-estimates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 [2] http://diversity.berkeley.edu/underwater-america-report [3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/no-company-is-too-big-to-jail-holder-says-of-justice-dept-probes/2014/05/05/e133e49c-d45f-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html [4] http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/30/news/companies/wells-fargo-memphis/ and http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-07-12/news/bs-md-ci-wells-fargo-20120712_1_mike-heid-wells-fargo-home-mortgage-subprime-mortgages [5] http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/NMS%20MOL.pdf [6] http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/News%20Release%20for%20NFHA%20Wells%20Fargo%20Complaint%20120410%20Pdf.pdf [7] http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/wells-fargo-made-up-on-demand-foreclosure-papers-plan-court-filing-charges/ [8] http://www.law.umn.edu/metro/index.html

The medical field is making and keeping the nation sick. The public needs to be informed about what's behind all this sickness.

Fat shaming is harmful and only serves to stigmatize and humiliate, yet it continues on national TV with no remorse or accountability. For over 4 years Charles Barkley on TNT's Inside the NBA attacks the women of San Antonio, simply because we let him. He tells us to turn off the show if we don't think he's funny, but we need to do more. Barkley's bashing rants should be stopped.

We are Yves Louis, Denise Vines & Cheryl Skakel, and we are all homeowners in Irvington. Because of the economic crash and the housing bubble created by Wall Street, we are fighting to save our homes from foreclosure and keep a roof over our families’ heads –but the NJ Association of Realtors is threatening to undermine our effort. In fact, the NJ Realtors Association just issued a mailer to residents of Irvington in an attempt to intimidate us with misinformation and lies about Irvington’s efforts to fight the foreclosure crisis. The truth is that Irvington’s plan will help 199 homeowners stuck with toxic mortgages that are locked in Private Label Securities (or PLS loans). With the consent of the homeowners, Irvington will condemn these 199 mortgages (not the homes), taking them from the banks by paying fair market value for them. The mortgages will then go back to the homeowner with a principal reduction and a fixed, low interest rate that will keep families in their homes. There will be no cost to already cash-strapped taxpayers. The plan will include provisions that the investors must pay fair market value for the toxic mortgages and cover all legal costs that are incurred. In their mailer to Irvington residents the NJ Association of Realtors threatened that mortgage companies – and their Wall Street backers - will not do business in Irvington if the township adopts this plan. That’s illegal! The truth is that the banks are the ones foreclosing on Irvington homeowners and devastating our communities, preventing the economic recovery we desperately need. The Mayor and Town Council want to keep families in their homes – and this program will do just that! Stopping foreclosures raises property values for all Irvington residents and will help turn the tide against the blight created by foreclosed, abandon and vacant homes. Residents of Irvington know firsthand just how badly the foreclosure crisis has hit our township. A simple walk down Ellis Avenue is all the evidence anyone needs to see what predatory and abusive lending by the banks have done to our town. Boarded up, vacant and abandon homes litter this once beautiful block. And we wish we could say Irvington is experiencing the worst of the crisis, but we haven’t. In fact, if Irvington doesn’t take action now, the blight created by foreclosures will only get worse. But the NJ Association of Realtors thinks we should sit idly by while our township continues into a downward spiral – but we believe in Irvington and we’re ready to fight! We are proud that the Mayor and Town Council in Irvington are standing up to Wall Street, the Big Banks and the NJ Association of Realtors – and we are going to stand with them in this fight! Join us! In Solidarity Yves Louis, Denise Vines & Cheryl Skakel Irvington Residents & Members of NJ Communities United