• To the Super Delegates - Please Vote for Senator Sanders and help save Democracy, USA and Mother ...
    Dear Friends We are at a cross roads. Majority of the US are suffering. We need to change our public policies in a hurry if we are to save the USA and save Mother Earth. Senator Sanders's vision and policies will achieve these. Now "WE THE PEOPLE" have to work hard to educate one another and also PLEAD with the super delegates to help us Please sign and share Thank you very much Iresha Goonesinghe MD FACP FACC
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  • Accused Child Molesters and Accused Child Rapists be GPS Tracked during Investigations!
    I personally have been going through hell while trying to keep my seven year old safe after she was sexually assaulted by a stranger/neighbor on an outside balcony of our apartment complex. The accused man seems to have more rights then my child does. I believe all accused should be placed on an ankle monitor during an investigation, not only for their safety, but for the child's safety. This is beyond disgusting, and buying a gun shouldn't be a parent's only option to feel safe.
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  • Reply to Email from Dem. Candidates
    We miss the democracy in our wannabe "democratic" party. Arizona's just the tip of the iceberg.
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    Created by Alex Schwartz
  • Professional Guardianship Fraud
    I know firsthand that forced guardianship happens to approximately five million seniors a year, whose wealth disappears into the hands of a few professional guardians, attorneys, and court personnel acting in conspiracy to obtain the victim's wealth with little public knowledge. Ostensibly created to prevent financial abuse by caregivers and family members, professional guardianship instead gives the legal system "carte blanche" to destroy lives, as I discovered when my family tried to help a friend suffering under a corrupt guardianship firm. Deemed incapacitated by the courts, elderly citizens are robbed of their decision-making rights and assigned professional guardians whose only interest lies in profiting from their estates. As guardianship firms take everything they can, state attorneys turn a blind eye. The very attorneys hired to help back away out of fear of losing their licenses. After witnessing the grief and rage of family members at the forced isolation and chemical restraints of their loved one, I realized that tens of thousands of other families were experiencing this same heartache worldwide. My hope is that this book will increase public outrage against this common, court-condoned crime. Please sign the petition to tell Amazon to put the book back on - it was taken off by a family law professor who profits from this crime.
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  • Supernoobs: Bring Back Chest Shops Plugin
    This month, we updated to 1.9 with a nice, new world with new features such as elytras, the mending and frost walker enchantments, and a new combat system, among others. While some server aspects are still the same as in 1.8, a few things have changed: most notably the town upkeep prices and the shop plugin. We ask colorfulchew to bring back the chest shop plugin for these reasons: The existing spawn shops monopolize the economy and do not promote any competition whatsoever, the chest shops would promote competition, encourage economic growth, and encourage people, rich and poor, to spend money on buying things from people they trust, and that more than 90% of other towny servers have the chest shop plugin or similar. The first reason why the chest shop plugin exists is that the shops at spawn monopolize the economy, which inhibits competition from occurring and prevents competition from occurring, which is essential for a healthy economy. Back in the 1.8 server, there were chest shops in most major towns, and these shops always had plenty of things in stock and never had any issues of money shortages due to people selling things to them. With this new spawn shops, money's always running out in those shops because people are selling too much stuff to them, which prevents others from stocking the shop with materials people need, unlike chest shops, where the owner of the shop can just stock the shop by filling up the chest and are able to have greater control on how much people can sell to them (i.e. diamonds by filling 26 of the 27 chest slots with dirt so they can only sell up to 64 diamonds, therefore preventing bankruptcy from occurring). Competition between the various town/nation shops ensured that the shops stayed on top of things and kept prices steady. The second reason why chest shops should be brought back is that they encourage economic growth, competition, and encourage people of all kinds to spend their money in shops that they trust, which the spawn shops do not provide. Back in 1.8, towns with chest shops were prosperous and many people visit these towns every day. These towns had beautiful spawns and a few towns even had malls where players would be able to rent a shop space to open up their chest shop, which in turns generates more extra revenue for the town (which would also help with paying the town's upkeep, which is 10 times more than in the previous map). Towns were constantly competing against each other for having the best shop on the server, which kept prices steady and people flocking into towns to spend their money. Finally, people went to shops that were owned by people that they trust, something that wouldn't occur in an economy with just one single store at spawn. The third and final reason why chest shops would return is that many other towny servers, small and large, have the chest shop plugins or similar plugins. These servers have bustling market economies, where prices are set freely by supply and demand with little government intervention. Like the 1.8 Scarlet, towns were bustling with activity, people coming and going to spend their money at the town shops and in some cases deciding to join that particular town where all of their favorite shops are located. A few of these servers can have more than 100 players online in peak hours, which shows all the activity encouraged by those server's chest shop-filled free market economies. In conclusion, in order to provide a better economy and promote competition, economic growth (especially in towns), and fix the problem of not being able to sell things to shops due to lack of money in the shop's bank, we ask that the Chest Shop plugin (which has been updated to 1.9 by the way) to be brought back to the server. Towns would be more prosperous and active, which in turn would keep more people on the server longer and boost player counts as well as vote counts. The owners of the chest shops would be able to set prices at levels where supply and demand would be at equilibrium and solve the shop stocking issue, both of which the current spawn shops would not be able to do flawlessly. We want to be able to sell things without having to deal with the shops running out of money, and we want to be able to buy things from actual shops in towns/nations run by actual people, and not by some random NPC's siting behind a counter like it was back in 1.8. Please bring the chest shops plugin back.
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  • Democratic primary debate in New York, NY
    Bernie Sanders has expressed his desire to debate Hillary Clinton in the state of New York. Both campaigns have agreed to two more debates. New York is the next delegate-rich state in the Northeast to vote.
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  • Tell Marc Pocan and Tammy Baldwin to #feelthebern
    Bernie needs delegates and needs our help
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  • Balancing of Landlord and Tenant Rights
    Tenants are having outrageous increases in rent or being evicted. Support rent control in Washington State.
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  • No More "Tobacco Science" Health Testimony for MA DPU
    Massachusetts residents report harm due to the installation of utility infrastructure, including wireless utility meters and wind turbines. Tobacco scientist Peter Valberg of the product defense firm Gradient has provided compromised safety testimony to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and other regulatory boards for many major projects, including: - transmission lines, substations, and transportation corridors - deployment of wireless utility meters - wind turbines Peter Valberg is a mercenary scientist. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/18/19307/brokers-junk-science; http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals; http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/10/19265/making-cancer-cluster-disappear As an example of his influence, in 2014, the MA DPU published a flawed and inaccurate smart meter order on the basis of Valberg testimony that has the potential to deleteriously impact every home and business. In light of threats to the survival of residents in their own homes, the need for an immediate, independent, transparent, public investigation of possible collusion between the MA DPU, the industry it is supposed to regulate, and product defense that skews the safety science while endangering health is warranted prior to proceeding with MA DPU projects for which Gradient has provided expert testimony, or where health complaints have emerged due to telecommunications and utility installations that are inadequately regulated for the protection of citizens and the environment.
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  • #AdiosHelen: Restore Democracy in Arizona
    This election, Helen Purcell shut down polling places all over Maricopa County, many in predominantly Latino neighborhoods, as a part of a so-called “cost saving” plan. The result? People all over Maricopa County had to wait hours to vote or were told their vote would not count; and many more were discouraged from ever voting. Aracely Calderon, a recently naturalized immigrant from Guatemala reported waiting over five hours to vote. She arrived at one of the few polling places that was kept open until 7 p.m. and wasn’t able to cast her vote until after midnight! With more than 30% of Maricopa County identifying as Latino it’s hard not to see Helen Purcell’s strategy as a plan to prevent Latinos, people of color, young people, and other first time voters from participating in our nation’s democracy. Even if Purcell tells herself and others that this wasn’t her intent, it was clearly the effect of her plan. This isn’t the first election Helen Purcell has been responsible for that has been a disaster. In 2012, Presente members forced Helen Purcell to count hundreds of thousands of votes that could have swung the election against the racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It took weeks to count those votes and they could have swung the election against Sheriff Arpaio. This after Purcell sent out the wrong date for that election as a “reminder” to Spanish speaking voters. Just one of these disasters should have been enough for Helen Purcell to lose her job. Now, there should be no question that for the good of the country, and for integrity of our democracy, Helen Purcell should resign immediately. She needs to make way for a Maricopa County Recorder that’s more concerned with making sure every eligible person votes, and that all their votes count, than she is with “cost saving” plans that prevent Latinos from voting.
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  • END DEATH PENALTY IN OHIO
    The Death Penalty is evil, inflicting its torture on the loved ones of the condemned; innocents, who face the unknown, year after year, along with the condemned person, who may well be innocent and/or undeserving of state sanctioned murder! End the torture. Abolish the Death Penalty NOW!
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  • Congress: Stop Dunkin Donuts from STEALING from employees
    I work at Dunkin Donuts – and our bosses steal from us. Not at gunpoint. They skip overtime payments – or simply erase hours from our checks. If I took $20 from the till, they'd fire me – or even call the police. When they take it straight off of our paychecks? Nothing. It's illegal, but it happens every day to thousands of workers across the country. Right now, we have a huge opportunity to end these illegal pay practices. Congress JUST introduced a bill cracking down on employers that steal from workers like me, and they need to hear from us that this is an urgent problem.
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    Created by Barbara Fisher, Fight for $15