Direct TV and Dish network customers have to sign a two year contract prior to receiving and viewing what they think they bought. Early cancellation penalties can range from $17 to $20 per month and up to $480 for a full two year early cancellation.

Congress should focus on one issue per bill and all "riders" should be cogent to that bill. For instance, there should be no "riders" concerning medicare in a defense spending bill.

By signing my petition, please help me to get attention from our high-end government agencies to hear me that my two children, my 85 year old mother and I would not end up in the street! Please, it is urgent and very crucial because there is a time limit. Thank you. DS Hi, I am petitioning for Debt Relief That's why I created a petition to The California State House, The California State Senate, Governor Jerry Brown, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says: "I am petitioning for debt relief. I have been victim of unfair lending practices. I want your support in proposing legislator which will help homeowners like me renegotiate a predatory mortgage and save my home." Will you sign this petition? Click here: http://signon.org/sign/diana-saed-vs-wells-fargo?source=c.em.mt&r_by=5252539 Thanks P.S Please sign and pass it to your friends and family and your network. Thank you. DS

If you don't personally own stock in a publicly-traded corporation, then your pension fund probably does. When corporate directors approve obscene salaries and bonuses for their higher echelons, they are therefore robbing the rest of us. If you own your own company outright, then okay, pay yourself any amount you please. But if your company is publicly traded, there should be a legal limit to your compensation.

Amendment to the constitution specifying that freedom of speech is, and should be recognized as being a factor of our ability to have our voice heard. Therefore, wealthy individuals or corporations are infringing upon our freedom of speech by overwhelming it. The amendment would limit individuals total contributions to $100. It would limit the length of campaigns to 6 weeks. It would stipulate specific number of signatures to get on ballot. And, most importantly, it would stipulate that all news media provide specific amount of free campaign coverage.

Help for home owners living in homes that are currently worth less than what they paid for it.

A fox has been caught in the henhouse. The fox's name is James E. Rogers, yes the president of Duke Energy. He has been caught trying to sway the administration in Washington from putting any further carbon restrictions in place. See the article in the New York times of Aug. 15th.

As a Realtor, I have four (4) clients in the unfortunate position of chosing to short-sale their homes after attempts at modification failed. BOA offers this option to their clients but, makes the process so daunting with delay after delay and requesting the same information over & over & over again that the properties end-up in foreclosure anyway. After several months of the madness, one client lost the fight even though we had an offer to purchase about 3-weeks before the scheduled foreclosure. And now, after EIGHT (8) months it seems another client is about to be pushed to the same end; this time, we have FOUR offers to purchase. At this rate, there's almost no hope for the other clients. Help me to help others across America who find themselves facing the same run around!

The lies Republicans candidates utter regarding the energy policy President Obama put in place. Wallstreet journal, Citibank nd many more investment analyst are showing data how many wells were drilled during Obama's presidency, and yes already producing. The cautiosu President Obama knows how the "rich energy companies" have contracted the Chinese to produce to pipelines, the Indians to procude the ceramic covers for te pipes, ofcourse cheaper but untested or regulated. Great fr the republicans to keep the job market LOW and expose the general public to the dangers of explosions. So outsourcing and financing those Billionaires is more important than job and safety.

There is a movement in the United States, to allow corporations the same rights as the citizens, without any of the responsibilities, and as such, any law, whether it be by our elected representatives, local, state or federal, or any judicial decision by an elected magistrate or one appointed by any of our elected representatives. This must stop and be reversed, as corporations are only allowed to exist by the grace of WE THE PEOPLE. This is a declaration stating that the people do not recognize any law or judicial decision favoring corporations over the people and demanding that any law or judicial decisions to that effect are considered null and void and that we demand of our governing bodies and elected officials to repeal and strike down any such laws and judicial decisions immediately.

Unlawful foreclosure practices continue by Bank of America. Here is my personal experience. 11/2008 I contacted BofA and asked to modify my mortgage as my home was extremely underwater being in one of the hardest hit areas of the country in terms of housing values. BofA said that they would but could not until I stopped making three consecutive payments as my loan was current. I complied. 02/2009 BofA modifies my mortgage. Constant and continual communication, numerous exchange of paperwork, subsequent approval and notarized signing of final documents including payment schedule to be recorded. 03/2009 BofA contacts me and informs me that they have received the final docs and the loan is being recorded. Diligently they explain to me that although the loan is a “done deal,” (their quote) it can take up to six months before I receive my first updated statement and that it is imperative that I begin making my payments as instructed regardless. I complied. 06/2009 BofA contacts me and asks me if I would be willing to apply for a modification on my mortgage since it is six months past due. I inform them that I just modified it and have been making payments as instructed even though I had not received my first statement to date. They informed me they do not see a modification nor any payments and asked how I paid. I informed them that I paid my payments online through BofA bill pay. I said that I would check to see if BofA had cashed the payments and would get back to them as they stated they did not have the ability to check themselves as it was another department. I confirmed that BofA did receive and cash payments and subsequently informed them of such. Again they informed me that they could not find any modification nor payments but that they would get back to me. They instructed me not to make any more payments until they could locate where the payments where as the address they were going to was correct but they could not find the modification nor payments. 06/2009-04/2010 No one from BofA ever contacts me regarding the status of my payments nor modification. I “do” however continue to receive numerous harassing phone calls regarding the status of my supposed delinquent mortgage from representatives who know nothing of the current situation. 04/11/2010 By this time never receiving an updated loan statement nor any correspondence as promised regarding current modification and payments I contacted an attorney. Per his advice I sent BofA a letter demanding that they refund my payments in order to get some sort of attention and response on the matter. 05/26/2010 After no correspondence to my letter for almost two months I finally received a phone call from Reshonda who introduced herself as a BofA supervisor, employee id 2467. I took copious notes during the conversation. Reshonda stated that they had found my modification and found my payments. She stated that, “BofA did not request from me updated income information at closing as the investor requested so the modification was cancelled and the opportunity to participate in that modification program has expired.” She profusely stated that it was BofA’s fault and apologized. She further went on to explain to me that BofA could of remedied the situation by pooling the loan in another modification program called the, “Affordable Home Loan Program,” had they of found the modification earlier. She then stated that unfortunately I had been told previously by a BofA representative to ignore the calls to apply for this program since I had already completed a modification and therefore lost the opportunity. Further, she stated that my payments on my new modification had been mistakenly applied to my previous mortgage and therefore she was unable to refund them. I informed her that it was my legal understanding that upon signing final loan documents for the modification I was released from any financial obligations of my previous mortgage. She stated that was true and asked me if I would be willing to apply for another modification. I told her I did not think I would be approved due to a change in circumstances and shared some of those with her to which she replied, “No, you would not get approved.” I told her that I appreciated her candor and acknowledgement that this was BofA’s fault but that I am concerned that I am not hearing any type of resolution and would contact an atty for advice which I did. My attorney advised me that the ball is in BofA’s court and that I should give them time to get back to me with some sort of resolution to the matter but should I receive notice of foreclosure we would take the matter to court. 07/2012 I received several advertisements in the mail from businesses that wanted to help me try to avoid foreclosure since my home was scheduled to be auctioned. After researching and verifying the auction date I contacted my attorney. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of California that I “never” received the legal notice required by California law that my home was scheduled to be auctioned off. In addition to my efforts in court I have contacted the California state attorney generals office and am keeping them up to date on this matter. They informed me that Recon Trust, the company foreclosing on my property, is a wholly owned subsidiary of BofA and constantly violating numerous requirements of the California legal foreclosure process. They also advised me to seek out numerous media outlets that would be interested in reporting on this matter which I am currently in the process of doing.

Facebook now shows everyone in a group who has seen each post in the group. This means that if you are in a group, someone in the same group (whether it's your ex, a romantic interest, or a creepy stranger) can track your online activity simply by checking which posts you read and at what times. What's even scarier, when asked by TechCrunch if they would ever apply this feature to the news feed, Facebook responded saying that they were "not going to discuss what we might (or might not) do in the future." Read more here: http://digitaljournal.com/article/328789 We ask that Facebook either deactivate this feature, or give users a way to turn it off either entirely or for particular groups or individuals, and that they never apply it to news feed posts. This serious violation of privacy has the potential not only to ruin friendships, but could also prove dangerous in certain cases of domestic abuse, and must be stopped.