Raghu G: Leverage Debt Reduction by Raghu-nomics There may be a simple solution to paying off $2 to $4 trillion of our national deficit in 4 to 6 months. No taxes raised or service cuts. It would payoff trillions more in debt and liability from banks and Wall Street while 401ks rise once again. It does not take gov’t intervention, nor bailouts, nor regulations. Actually, all it takes is you. And no, you don’t have to hate your neighbors for being Democrat or Republican. Nor must you send money and wait 6 months for the election. We can do all this today, for free, with just one simple question: Mr President, have banks and insurance companies been paying off the same real estate asset without realizing it? A double write-down by banks and insurance companies means we don’t have a real estate crisis, but just one big accounting mistake. It means this whole crisis was written-off years ago. Here’s a quick rundown on just 1 of 6 areas of double write-downs. At the height of the market boom, there were $65 trillion dollars of insurance policies called, ‘Credit Default Swaps or CDS.’ This insurance was for $12 trillion in residential real estate. This means there were 5 CDS insurance policies for every home in America. Paying off just 10% of these CDS means we just paid-off 50% of every home in the country. Raghu-nomics has discovered 5 other areas of write-downs. All combined, it appears that 50% to 100% of every home mortgage in American has already been paid off. We just don’t know it yet. Once we do, this whole crisis will clear up and markets will boom instantly. The $2 to $4 trillion in real estate securities Uncle Sam bought in the banking bailout can now be sold thereby paying off $4 trillion of our federal deficit as well. At Raghu-nomics, we call it Leverage Debt Reduction. We all heard of leverage financing or leverage buyouts. Basically, it means to use the same capital multiple times to make your investment. Leverage financing multiplies both the returns and liabilities of one’s investment. Here’s Raghu-nomics revolutionary new discovery. Leverage financing also multiplies any write-downs a company may have to take as well. It’s the inverse of leverage financing for we now have the debt reduction also multiplied by such write-downs. What’s a write-down? Well, there’s Lehman brothers that fell from $800 billion to just $20 billion in a matter of days. Banks, gov’ts, investment firms wrote down trillions more. They wrote-off these mortgage securities and in so doing, already paid off their corresponding mortgage – your mortgage just got paid off by them. We are asking President Obama to take a second look at the possibility we have a double write-down of our real estate market. Ask any other political, corporate or academic leaders to take a second look at this Double write-down by banks & insurance companies. Having 10,000 friends join us in asking this simple question maybe all it takes to break this riddle and solve this whole real estate crisis at long last. Today, we can change the world with one simple question. Mr. President, has there been a double write-down. Will you join us?

Stop XeNOphobia – Justice for the victims of xenophobia in South Africa Recently the number of violence and horrific act against immigrants in South Africa especially on immigrants from African nations has been off the chart. Witnesses and video footage on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube shows how much the level violence is escalated. The situation is becoming out of control. This act of violence is happening again and again in South Africa. In short memory on May 12, 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra (in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg) when locals attacked migrants, killing two people and injuring 40 others. In that very same year, over 22 people killed in Johannesburg alone. In late May 2009, reports emerged regarding a possible resurgence of xenophobic related activity and the organizing of attacks in the Western Cape. Reports of threats and secret meetings by local businessmen surfaced reports emerged of secret meetings by local businessmen discussing 'what to do about Somali shopkeepers'. In 2010 the press carried numerous articles claiming that there would be massive planned xenophobic violence at the end of the 2010 Football World Cup. In July 2012 there were new attacks in parts of Cape Town and in Botshabelo in the Free State. On May 30, 2013, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and shared on the Internet. In June 2013 three Somali shopkeepers had been killed. It seems like the very roll of African nations played for the freedom of South Africa only short lived and forgotten by South Africans. Fellow South Africans are brutally killing the very same people fought for their freedom from apartheid. Since the beginning of April 2015, xenophobic attacks have been witnessed many in Durban and other areas in South Africa. South Africans are looting foreigner’s properties and attacking immigrants, mainly from other African countries. As of today, at least six people have been killed in Durban alone. The video footage from this barbaric act of violence documents: 1) Immigrants burnt alive. Some of them were tied their hands around car tires and they lit to burn with car tire 2) Immigrants stoned to death by violent mobs 3) Immigrants butchered and sliced alive to death 4) Immigrants attached by knives 5) Immigrants killed by firearms 6) Immigrants critically wounded 7) Immigrants robbed their housed and their small shops 8) Immigrants displaced from their homes and gathered in churches and police stations 9) Immigrant kids scattered all over due to the mob attack separating from their parents Despite the fact that Xenophobia is the list to expect in a democratic countries South Africa, it is happening at least on a yearly bases since 1995. In this petition we urge that: 1) Immediately to stop xenophobic attack once and for all in South Africa 2) Justice to be service for the victims 3) Immediate medical attention to be provided for the injured 4) To provided proper shelter for the displaced immigrants who are sheltered in churches and police stations 5) To facilitate a third country to move the immigrants to safe destination 6) South Africa to pass a strict law to guarantee such act of violence, at any level, would not happen again We strongly urge everybody to sign this petition so that we can alert the Governments of our South Africa, the Governments of African Nations, the African Union, International Criminal court (ICC), the United Nations, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amnesty International, Human rights watch and other human right organizations. Let us stand together and voice for the voiceless.

Get rid of the one strike you're out here in Oregon. No measure 11 for non-violent offenders.

Recent talks by the Birmingham Board of Education (BOE) have included the possibility of firing Superintendent Dr. G. I oppose this action and support Dr. G.

To be delivered to Aldean Beaumont, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, Rep. John Larson (CT-1), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT-1), Sen. Christopher Murphy (CT-2) Wayzaro Walton has lived in the US since she was 3 years old. She is the proud mother of a gifted 15 year old athlete who needs her mother by her side as she finished high school and pursues college. Wayzaro has a pathway to citizenship that simply needs the time to process. ICE wants to deport her next week!

The California cheer teams would like to petition CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) to provide a yearly waiver that allows teams to compete in the Sunday Finals of the National High School Cheerleading Championships (NHSCC). Of the 51 states there are 35 states represented at the NHSCC; therefore it gives traditional competitive cheer the closest thing to a ranking system that is similar to Max Preps for other sports.

US Navy has guidelines for healthy/unhealthy mold levels. Why doesn’t the CDC or any other part of the government have published guidelines? We need them so people who have mold related illnesses can get the proper treatment, insurance companies cover medical care, homeowners insurance cover damages led to mold problems. People aren’t left literally in the cold with nothing like my family was because of storm damage, insurance neglect, and no regulations of healthy/unhealthy exposures. Need legislation that would give us the same resources as fire victims.

Mayor Endicott, it's 2018. The city of Redmond, OR is more diverse than ever, and as such, needs a Cultural Advisory & Diversity Council. We've read the City Council goals for 2017-2018; they will take this community to the top. Adding a Cultural Advisory & Diversity Council will only strengthen the vision and mission of Redmond, Oregon.

Immigrant families are not a threat to America. They should not be torn apart.

The FTC, Department of Justice and Congress should spin off Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger into competing networks, require interoperability, so we have the freedom to communicate across social networks, and impose strong privacy rules that empower and protect us and diminish the ability to profit off our personal information.