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MATHEWS
STREET
AMERICA
A Voice of
We the Posterity
Father Avelino "Abba" Ramos, Mother Kimiyo Yamagishi Ramos, and little sister.
Mathews Street house. 1968.
​"I paid off my mortgage loan in full just as we agreed by written contract -- but valid ample wire-transfer-ready funds delivered before foreclosure sale were deliberately refused and rogue entities breached contract, violated law and auctioned our house anyway. Attorney sabotaged wrongful foreclosure case I filed, then the court denied due process violating clear letter of the law and sheriffs evicted three of us from the home my family has owned for sixty years since 1965, allowing huge fix n' flip company who were amply warned before bidding I would be forced to bring this lawsuit, yet now they're listing our house on the open market for unjust profit, aiming to strip our multi-generational family of over $900,000 of our equity, destroy my retirement security and extended family's safety net I built, and throw a senior into homelessness and financial destruction."
The Law says NO. And so do I. Lawsuit is far from over." -- Renee Shizue Ramos Yamagishi, Berkeley CA
"Counting Stars"
[Artists: One Republic]
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Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars
I see this life like a swinging vine,
Swing my heart across the line
In my face is flashing signs,
Seek it out and ye shall find.
Old but I'm not that old
Young but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told
I I I I feel something so right
By doing the wrong thing
And I feel something so wrong
By doing the right thing
I could lie, couldn't I, couldn't I?
Every thing that kills me makes me feel alive.
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
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Oh, take that money watch it burn,
Sink in the river the lessons I've learned
Ye-e-yeah ....
I feel her love
And I feel it burn down this river every time
Hope is our four-letter word
Make that money, watch it burn [repeat]
Old but, I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told!
And I feel something so wrong by doing the right thing
I could lie, couldn't I, couldn't I?
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Oh, take that money watch it burn,
Sink in the river the lessons I learned [repeat]
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive
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Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting
We'll be counting
Stars
The back story of the Titanic has emerged after so many years ....
'We need to dismantle the Fed, to save our country' - Aaron Swartz (Last Tweets of his Natural Life)
Nakano Takeko, onna-bugeisha samurai warrior, Japan. Legendary in naginata swordsmanship, she fought many battles. In 1868 she was killed by a shot to the chest, while defending Aizu-Wakamatsa Castle with the Aizu clan; they were outnumbered in battle by 15,000.
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