Senators Caught in Mortgage Fallout

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:21:09 -0400

When Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota wanted a mortgage for his beach house, he turned to a Washington insider, James A. Johnson, former head of Fannie Mae, the government mortgage giant, who then put the senator in touch with

Foreclosure Filings Jump, and Fall Is Forecast as Peak

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:19:54 -0400

WASHINGTON — The number of homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose last month, with foreclosure filings up nearly 50 percent compared with a year earlier, a foreclosure listing company said Friday.

Nationwide, 261,255 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in May, up 48 percent, from 176,137, in the same month a year ago and up 7 percent from April, the listing company, RealtyTrac, said.

One in every 483 households received a foreclosure filing in May, the highest number since RealtyTrac started the report in 2005 and the second-consec...

McCain has lots on credit cards

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:18:21 -0400

WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife, Cindy, have something in common with ordinary Americans -- a lot of credit card debt.

In his latest financial disclosure report, McCain said that he and his wife owe between $10,000 and $15,000 on one card, while Cindy McCain owes between $100,000 and $250,000 to American Express, The Hill, a Washington newspaper, reported. The McCains have another Amex card, listed as being used by a dependent child, that is carrying a balance of $10,000 to $15,000.

Sen. Barack ...

PERU 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:30:33 -0400

Join us in PERU ! Aug 9-22, 2008. www.trek4good.org

Your trip fee will help support The Mountain Fund and it's programs in Peru.

The mission of The Mountain Fund is to organize grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations from a diversity of disciplines, and to support and coordinate these organizations' efforts to eliminate poverty, its causes and symptoms, in developing mountain communiti...

Obama has round-table talk on South Side

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:12:18 -0400

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama held a round-table talk today on the South Side with three consumers gouged by credit card companies.

“For too long, credit card companies have been using unfair and deceptive practices to trick Americans into signing agreements they can’t afford,” Obama said

The credit card companies start with teaser rates of four percent, then jack them up to 30 percent, lower customers’ credit limits so they can then charge interest, late fees and over-the-limit fees on them, said Obama and Elizabeth Warren, a ...

Blog Round Up

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:19:35 -0400

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The Onion Riffs on WoW

WoW is popular fodder for satirists these days. This time, it's The Onion with World of World of Warcraft...

Help End Unfair and Abusive Credit Card Tricks and Traps!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:05:21 -0400

Have you received your credit card bill, only to realize that that it was due so soon that you have to pay it right away?

Do you think it’s unfair when your credit card company suddenly decides to apply a new, higher interest rate to an old balance?

Has your credit card company raised the rate on money you've already borrowed for no reason or for a flimsy reason?

Here's your chance to end those sneaky tricks and traps that allow credit card companies to unfairly profit off you - send a comment to the Federal Reserve Board asking them to end cre...

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:10:27 -0400

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Video Game Voters Network Claims 150,000 Members

The Entertainment Software Association, the trade group which represents the interests of US video game publishers, issued a press release today claiming that enrollment in its

Home by home, crisis engulfs nation

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:20:40 -0400

Who's to blame? Everyone, say the experts, from homeowners to regulators.

DAYTON — When the bank foreclosed on A.D. and Naomi Thomas in 2005, signs of the nation's home mortgage meltdown were growing blips on the nation's radar, noticeable mostly in places like Montgomery County, where trouble came early and hard.

But by the time the bank finally took the Thomases' Trotwood home two years later, the economic explosion brought by the foreclosure crisis couldn't be missed.

And suddenly, what had been a problem mostly in eco...

About 1 in 11 Mortgageholders Face Loan Problems

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:20:47 -0400

About 1 in 11 American mortgages were past due or in foreclosure at the end of March, according to a report released on Thursday, a figure that is rising fast as home prices fall and the job market weakens.

The first three months of 2008 marked the worst quarter for American homeowners in nearly three decades, according to the report, issued by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The rate of new foreclosures and past-due payments surged to their highest level since 1979, when the group first started collecting the data.

All told, about 8.8 percent of home loans were ...

Treehuggers to descend on Montreal

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:43:44 -0400

More than 165 exhibitors and 35,000 visitors are expected to descend on Montreal's Old Port for three days beginning June 13th, to share ideas about living more sustainably.

The "Salon national de l'environnement" (SNE) was developed out of a citizens’ initiative in 2006. The event looks at the current challenges to the environment and offers visitors concrete solutions. The event describes as its objective "to make visitors aware of today’s environmental challenges, while proposing solutions and tools for people to have a better understanding and to encourage beha...

U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures at Record

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:49:49 -0400

June 5 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure rose to the highest in at least three decades during the first quarter as borrowers who fell behind on payments were unable to sell their homes.

New foreclosures rose to a seasonally adjusted 0.99 percent of all U.S. home loans, up from 0.83 percent in the fourth quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a report today. The total

Coakley sues subprime lender Option One for racial discrimination

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:48:32 -0400

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (right) filed a lawsuit today against Option One Mortgage Corp., charging that the subprime lender discriminated against blacks and Latinos by targeting them for the high-risk mortgages and by charging them higher application fees than it charged white customers.

The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, also claimed that Option One engaged in unfair and deceptive lending practices when selling ...

The Other Subprime Loans: The Same Team That Cooked Up Subprime Mortgages Also Thought of Auto Loans

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:46:27 -0400

Wall Street has suffered two sharp downturns in the first two trading days of June. It's a disappointment after all the cheering for the market’s positive performance in May.

Monday’s worries were mostly about the financials, especially the struggles at Lehman Bros. and Wachovia. The shocker on Tuesday was General Motors' announcement that double-digit declines in the SUV/light truck categories would lead to big production...

Color of money: Lenders more likely to give minorities costly loans

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:44:54 -0400

At each bus stop, Rodney Young's riders receive a friendly nod, even 10 hours into a shift that began at 4 a.m.

His grin fades to a grimace as he turns the COTA bus into a Near East Side neighborhood peppered with for-sale signs and brightly colored foreclosure tags stuck to modest homes.

It's a reminder that he, too, faces a financial death sentence for his home.

"I see this every day all over the city, but it's worse in neighborhoods where people of my color live," says Young, who is black. "Those bad loans have got a lot of us in trouble."

The mortga...

Quebec and Ontario showing leadership with cap-and-trade program

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:47:50 -0400

The provinces of Quebec and Ontario have shown great leadership by working together to institute a bilateral "cap-and-trade" system in an attempt to curb green house gas emissions. When the Canadian federal government is dragging its heels on what most consider the most important issue curretnly facing humanity, bilateral initiatives between provinces or municipalities makes a good deal of sense.

This kind of autonomy and leadership at the provincial level is refreshing. A similar dynamic has existed for many years in the U.S., where despite an administration nearl...

Insider Car Report

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:36:11 -0400

Learn how to sharpen your game when car buying so yo can get the best deal without becoming a victim of fraud. Produced by Consumers for Auto Reliabiity adn Conscious Youth Media Crew.

Trap is sprung in the Buckeye State!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:35:08 -0400

Families save billions as Ohio joins 14 states and DC in rejecting predatory payday lending

One third of the nation's population will soon be free of a practice that has stripped billions per year from the paychecks of low-wealth Americans over the past two decades, as Governor Ted Strickland signs a law today capping interest rates at 28 percent in Ohio. Enforcement of a two-digit rate will save citizens $1.74 billion per year in fifteen states plus the District of Columbia, where 33 percen...

Choosing Bankruptcy to Stay Afloat

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:12:49 -0400

By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 28, 2008; Page A01

Danielle Lancaster makes $28,000 a year as a bank employee in Richmond. She owes almost twice that on her credit cards, student and car loans.

Add to that day-care expenses for her 2-year-old daughter, rent and utilities, and she uses up every cent she brings in. She has cut costs any way she ca...

Why Do Card Companies Almost Always Win?

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:10:25 -0400

Anastasiya Komorova, a recent Russian immigrant, had no idea what was going on when bill collectors started calling her about the $11,000 in credit card debt she owed.

"One time one of them called me an idiot," Komorova's husband Nima Nayebi said.

The problem was that Komorova, who lives in San Francisco, had no idea what the collectors were talking about.

"I have never had a credit card with that company. In fact, when that credit card was issued, I hadn't had any credit cards," she said.

It turned out the credit card company...

Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:04:58 -0400

Can you imagine losing your home over a $68 dental bill? That's what happened to one Utah woman.

Sonya Capri Ramos says her Salt Lake City home was sold out from under her in 1996 to pay a collections agency seeking payment for dental work performed on one of Ramos's daughters. And despite the fact that she had made three years of payments on a $51,000 mortgage, the title changed hands for just $1,550 at a sheriff's auction.

But the story doesn't end there: Ramos, 41, said she didn't find out that her home no longer belonged to her until two years after the sale. To...

Audio Slideshow: Subprime loans

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:59:10 -0400

While earning $9.25 an hour, Pedro Medellin struggles to pay a $103,500 high-interest loan for an often-vandalized house on Milwaukee's north side. The city assessed the property at a little more than half that amount.

Listen to Medellin talk about the day he showed his boss all of his paperwork and found out that he owned a home with a mortgage. Medellin also discusses what he said to real estate investor Randez Long - the man who got him into the deal - as well as why Medellin doesn't let the house go into foreclosure and where he would like to own a house someday. |

What Gets Seventh Generationâ€™s â€œDirector of Corporate Consciousnessâ€ Out of Bed in the Morning?

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:41:01 -0400

What Gets Seventh Generation’s “Director of Corporate Consciousness” Out of Bed in the Morning?

An exclusive interview with Gregor Barnum, senior executive of Vermont-based Seventh Generation, one of the sustainability movement’s most innovative companies.

By Alex Salzman
May 19, 2008

Don’t let the altruistic job title fool you – Gregor Barnum and his cohorts at Seventh Generation are relentlessly pragmatic about building a sustainable company. I recently caught up with Barnum, who is part ethics s...

Tell the Federal Reserve Board to end credit card tricks and traps

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:49:01 -0400

The Federal Reserve Board and two other federal banking agencies have released a proposed rule that aims to reform some of the most unfair credit card tricks. But this important new rule of fair play is just a proposal. The banks are fighting hard to weaken the rule before it becomes final. Don't let the banks win! Read more about the proposal and tell the Federal Reserve Board your opinion or a horror story about your credit card company’s practices!

Student loan â€œcrisisâ€ just an invention?

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:22:44 -0400

From Caveat Emptor, May 14
By AFFIL Campaign Manager, Sarah Byrnes

"If you were paying attention, you would probably think that students are facing difficulty getting loans these days. (You might also be concerned about the soaring cost of college, but that’s another can of worms.

But despite all the recent fuss, Loonin is clear in her post on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog that “...

Countrywide adds insult to injury

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:20:38 -0400

Countrywide e-mail snafu angers borrowers

Mortgage lender chairman Angelo Mozilo accidentally replies to floundering customer with disparaging e-mail.

CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) -- The chairman of beleaguered Countrywide Financial Corp. raised eyebrows and tempers with his snippy reply to an e-mail plea from a man who said he was in danger of losing his home.

"Disgusting," Angelo Mozilo wrote in his inadvertent reply to an e-mail from Daniel Bailey Jr. who had asked the company to modify terms of his adjustable-rate ...

Blog Round Up

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:33:17 -0400

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Sweeps Month: Boston TV News Stings Game Retailers

Boston's WHDH-7 has a report on a retail sting in which local video game shops fare...

Blog Round Up

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:26:40 -0400

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Exclusive GP Interview: Congressman Talks Video Game Ratings, Video Game Rape, The Daily Show

An exclusiv...

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Mon, 05 May 2008 20:48:26 -0400

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Tivo Alert: Grand Theft Childhood Authors on Glenn Beck Tonight

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Variety Game Writer Troubled by "Exclusive" Reviews (including GTA IV's)

Ben Fritz, who writes By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: April 20, 2008

SLOWLY but surely, a handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are drawing back the curtain on the mortgage servicing business, exposing, among other questionable practices, the sundry and onerous fees that big banks and financial companies levy on troubled borrowers.

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New Book Offers Glimpse of Nepalese Porters Lifestyles

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:17:51 -0400

Vineland, NJ, April 18, 2008 - Yileen Press of New Jersey has completed publication of their newest book, “On a Donkey’s Back”. This book gives voice to the voiceless by capturing the daily lives of Nepal’s mountain porters through their own poetry and artwork. With more than fifty poems and various pieces of scanned artwork, the reader receives a glimpse into ...

Bancruptcy up 38% and climbing

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:12:52 -0400

Lack of regulation of manipulative lenders has led to an explosion of foreclosures across the country, but it seems mortgages aren't the only loans spiraling out of control. Bankruptcy filings rose 38% in 2007.

Borrowers are loosing their footing as lenders create new tricks to max customers out.

Lawmakers claim that bankruptcy allows sneaky borrowers to wiggle out of debt, but even after restricting struggling ...

Fear of Regulating

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:53:50 -0400

NEW YORK TIMES

April 3, 2008
EDITORIAL

Fear of Regulating

To understand the White House’s blueprint for regulating the financial markets, start with what the Bush administration did not do. It did not offer America a plan to respond to the ongoing credit crisis or to the Federal Reserve’s dramatic intervention to prevent the collapse of Bear Stearns. It certainly did not provide a roadmap for avoiding this sort of meltdown in the future.

The Fed’s role in the Bear debacle has put taxpayers at risk of having to s...

Gamers for Net Neutrality Launches

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:56:23 -0400

Net Neutrality.With this important issue in mind, the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) has, this morning, launched a new web-based initiative in beta.

Gamers for Net Neutrality is a joint undertaking of the ECA, SavetheInternet.com and Games for Change. An ECA press release reports that th...

Plastic Card Tricks

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:52:56 -0400

Editorial

Plastic Card Tricks

Published: March 29, 2008

Americans are struggling with a very rocky economy while they are also holding almost $1 trillion in credit card debt. In most cases, those cards provide a little flexibility with the monthly bills. But an increasing number of people are defaulting because of the “tricks and traps” — s...

Chase mortgage memo pushes 'Cheats & Tricks'

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:12:48 -0400

The bank says it never backed the strategies, which detail how to get an iffy loan approved

Thursday, March 27, 2008
JEFF MANNING

The Oregonian Staff

A newly surfaced memo from banking giant JPMorgan Chase provides a rare glimpse into the mentality that fueled the mortgage crisis.

The memo's title says it all: "Zippy Cheats & Tricks."

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:51:37 -0500

Internship Opportunity—Tour Liaison
Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours
www.otesha.ca

The Otesha Project is seeking 14 dedicated, organized, fun-loving individuals, aged 18 to 30, to serve as Tour Liaisons for its 2008 cycling and performing tours. As part of a team of 15 to 20 performers, you will take care of all administrative and on-the-road logistics for the tour. Successful candidates will support team members as individuals, foster a positive team environment, support teams in achieving tour object...

Correction of the web address! - Philip McMaster

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:21:47 -0500
Sorry, CORRECTION... the web address is: http://www.sustainabilitysymbol.COM hope to see you online February 1st --- Don't forget to invite 3 people to share a 3 finger Photo!

You're invited to Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" - Philip McMaster

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:40:17 -0500
Hello Sustainability Symbol Friends around the WORLD (Especially in Beijing) - IT'S A PARTY / CELEBRATION of the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... and we're having a WEB-CAM World Party connecting YOUR town with Beijing China, site of the 2008 Olympics. You are most welcome to attend our party celebration for the One Year Anniversary of the 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol on February 1st at 7pm - 9pm Friday, Feb 1st The Bookworm Building 4, Nan sanlitun Road Chao Yang District, Beijing Tel: 65869507 www.chinabookworm.com Plea...

Develop a Mashup - Water the World

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:51:09 -0500

We’re looking to build a volunteer software development team with experience in:

OpenSocial APIs, Ning, and any SMS messaging services/APIs

And...

Twitter API, FaceBook API, PHP/ASP/.NET (or other), WordPress and Google Maps API

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Think Democracy's Sexy? Volunteer with AisB!

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:02:17 -0500

As always, if you’re interested in volunteering, get in touch. We need people who can:
- graphic design - research, blog, and write - web design - do some mindless data entry (if you’re in the mood for some tedium, but we try to keep it to a minimum!) - develop website content - translate (English – French) - help out at events (hand out surveys, talk up Apathy, take pictures, sell gear) and a plethora of other things.

Halliburton Victim Twice Over - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:50:23 -0500
Check out this important message from our Partner, Public Citizen: http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22031 â€œNo one â€“ especially a victim of a heinous, violent crime â€“ should be denied access to a judge and jury because of a binding mandatory arbitration clause in an employment contract. â€œUnfortunately, this is what is happening to Jamie Leigh Jones, who recently told ABCâ€™s 20/20 that she was gang raped while working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq. Now, she is being victimized twice over. Halliburton is denying her constitutional right to tak...

Story of Stuff - Alec Henderson

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:34:52 -0500
Greetings to all! Happy holidays! Merry Festivas (for the rest of us)! Please check out the video that Rebecca has posted here at Rethos. It is amazing! I never knew that for each garbage can of junk I throw out it needs thirty garbage cans of junk to be thrown out just to make it! So every time you haul a trash can out to the curb imagine that you are really hauling thirty trash cans to the curb! Unbelievable. This is a great video please check it out at http://www.rethos.com/news/view/911-The-Story-of-Stuff

My early Holiday gift to the Rethosaria - sharing an opportunity and recognizing your talent! - Philip McMaster

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:47:02 -0500
HAPPY HOLIDAYS ! My gift to you this season are some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains I've collected over the years. All I ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol around the world and brings attention to at least one of the Climate Change related projects we're working on (Like "STOP the GLOFs") The rest will be up to you to use and design as you wish. Almost one year ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol (Peace Plus One) to the HK Environmental Protection Association. http://www.d...

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500

King or Queen of your own sustainability domain!

We'd like to offer you some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains collected over the years.

What we ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol (the 3 finger symbol) around the world and brings attention to, and supports at least one of the Climate Change related projects we’re working on (Like “STOP the GLOFs”) The rest will be up to you.

Almost two years ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainab...

? - The Tapestry Commmunity

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:49:01 -0500
Rayn, What are you involved in locally here in CO? Tapestry

Alliance Accepted! - Entertainment Consumers Association

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:54:37 -0500

An Idea: Here Buy - Alec Henderson

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:48:44 -0500
To all my allies: First to all of you that I have not yet written to individually, I am sorry. I am trying to get to reach out to everyone and to spend some time looking at each persons posts here on Rethos. In the meantime, I have started a Wiki that I would really appreciate getting some help with and input regarding. Its called Here Buy It allows anyone to publish information regarding local merchants who are not big box conglomerate monster stores. The goal is to provide an easy way for people to find goods and services in their local ar...

Alliance Accepted! - Benjamin Ackerman

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:29:33 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - April

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:55:45 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Kyle de Beausset

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:29:20 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - The Tapestry Commmunity

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:28:11 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - The Water Project

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:17:51 -0500

Ally Request - Amanda Bice

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:57:30 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Martha Runnette

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:37:50 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Shandra Forrest-Bank

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:04:31 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Peace Plus One

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:56:17 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:47:52 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Allyce

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:57:56 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Advansun

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:57:51 -0400

The Adam Weishaupt Society

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:55:46 -0400

The Adam Weishaupt Society is a Conspiracy game which discusses the nature and lifecycle of disinformation. Through the course of the game, real information will come into question and be confused as infochannels are used as a venue for memetic dissemination and evolution.

Please come to Los angeles for Darfur Rally

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:07:10 -0400

Monday October 15 in Downtown LA 12 noon!!!

Help to stop American Investment in Darfur! Join me in downtown Los Angeles for a rally!

Click here to sign up

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer Martin

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:12:22 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Laurie Walker

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:12:17 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - DanRose

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:00:22 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:34:31 -0400

US Government links/information - Alec Henderson

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:55:19 -0400
Greetings: The website commondreams.org contains a great list of links to all official and political web sites by/of or pertaining to the United States Federal Government. I have posted it on my blog at http://www.rethos.com/news/view/433-First-Access-Information-Devices-from-Commondreams-org Please note that the list is attached as a word file which you can down load. The document contains all the links and requires that you depress the "ctrl" button while clicking to open. These links are extemely important to anyone attemping to pursuade others in the global community. It is firs...

Alliance Accepted! - Alec Henderson

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:45:28 -0400

Are you a great designer, or translator?

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400

We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of

1. SOCIETY

2. ENVIRONMENT

3. ECONOMY

... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.

You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.

Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents “Society, Environment, Economy” in your linguistic communi...

Convert website into something attractive

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:51:00 -0400

The three finger Sustainability Symbol is beginning to attract attention on and off the internet. This is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, more and more people are learning about the campaign (personally passing it along from one individual to another),

on the other hand, our website stinks.

It’s homemade, and as you will see, I’m no web designer!

If there are any talented web designers out there in the Rethosarian community, please have a look at www.DragonTHINK.com and make a suggestion of how we could use some of the existing conte...

Alliance Accepted! - Michael Oppenheimer

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:30:59 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:11:06 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Josh Cohen

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:04:44 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Professor Cramulus

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:00:47 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Rachel

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:58:41 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - The Mountain Fund

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:20:38 -0400

Volunteers needed for Medical Trek to Peru

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:51:35 -0400
Trek4Good is a volunteer program of The Mountain Fund. This program was started in order to address the need of volunteers to both see the country of Nepal, and to also contribute their time. By hosting volunteer visits that are close to the people and the cultures of the country, we help to prepare them to be more effective volunteers with a deeper understanding of the issues. Every Trek4Good trip either has a volunteer component built in, or is organized to raise funds for a particular project we support. It is another way that we can support our community-based partners around the world ...

HIMEOBS cleanup

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:46:38 -0400

Volunteers needed to clean up waste created by an accident during a HIMEOBS operation. Please bring: heavy gloves, rags, antiseptic, toothbrush, positive attitude, gas mask, ear plugs. We are in need of volunteers who know how to work with animals covered with slime and gore.

Accident has not yet occured, but likely will take place at some point between the specified hours. The cleanup crew needs to be at ready and at attention in case of disaster.

Blood tests will be available after the cleanup, free of charge.

Lunch will be served...

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Home by home, crisis engulfs nation

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U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures at Record

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Color of money: Lenders more likely to give minorities costly loans

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Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill

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Student loan â€œcrisisâ€ just an invention?

Countrywide adds insult to injury

Countrywide e-mail snafu angers borrowers

Mortgage lender chairman Angelo Mozilo accidentally replies to floundering customer with disparaging e-mail.

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New Book Offers Glimpse of Nepalese Porters Lifestyles

Bancruptcy up 38% and climbing

Fear of Regulating

Gamers for Net Neutrality Launches

Plastic Card Tricks

Chase mortgage memo pushes 'Cheats & Tricks'

Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons

Correction of the web address! - Philip McMaster

You're invited to Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" - Philip McMaster

Develop a Mashup - Water the World

Think Democracy's Sexy? Volunteer with AisB!

Halliburton Victim Twice Over - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Story of Stuff - Alec Henderson

My early Holiday gift to the Rethosaria - sharing an opportunity and recognizing your talent! - Philip McMaster

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

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Alliance Accepted! - Entertainment Consumers Association

An Idea: Here Buy - Alec Henderson

Alliance Accepted! - Benjamin Ackerman

Alliance Accepted! - April

Alliance Accepted! - Kyle de Beausset

Alliance Accepted! - The Tapestry Commmunity

Alliance Accepted! - The Water Project

Ally Request - Amanda Bice

Alliance Accepted! - Martha Runnette

Alliance Accepted! - Shandra Forrest-Bank

Alliance Accepted! - Peace Plus One

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Alliance Accepted! - Allyce

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Advansun

The Adam Weishaupt Society

Please come to Los angeles for Darfur Rally

Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer Martin

Alliance Accepted! - Laurie Walker

What Gets Seventh Generationâ€™s â€œDirector of Corporate Consciousnessâ€ Out of Bed in the Morning?

Student loan â€œcrisisâ€ just an invention?