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		<title>APPLE FINED  FOR MISLEADING CONSUMERS IN ITALY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Apple  just got busted in Italy for selling bogus extended warranties to cover Apple products.The scheme was simple.  Apple sold “Apple Care” extended warranties  to cover Apple products for one year past their traditional one year warranty.The problem was, though, that Apple failed to tell consumers that products in Italy are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cantaloupe Kills, Congress Does Nothing&#8230; Costco Steps in to Save Consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deaths from listeria linked to cantaloupes now have risen to 13 and meanwhile Congress does nothing about food safety. Where are the hearings, where is the outrage that Americans are being poisoned? Yes, poisoned by cantaloupes, not once but 19 times since 1984 according to federal officials.
Yet not a word from the White House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Cards Say it ALL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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While politicians try to convince Americans the recession is over, the greeting card industry knows different. Quietly recession sections have popped up in greeting card displays around the country. No longer are there just sections for birthdays and anniversaries, now you can find “Recession” cards right next to the “Out of a Job” section. Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart Short Changes California Consumers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Walmart is now shortchanging thousands of consumers in California when they return merchandise. Here is how the scheme operates. Consumers who bought an item prior to July 1, 2011 were charged the price of them item plus sales tax which might in some areas be as high as 8.50%.  On July 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Joinder Lawsuit Attorney Offices  Raided</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE
The California State Bar Association has  raided the offices of Kramer and Kaslow seizing records of their so called mass joinder suit. When you call the main number of the law firm at 818-224-3900 you get a recording from the state bar.It is never a good sign when you call  a law office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Secretly Provided Drive up Discount Loans to Bankers  While Stiffing Homeowners In Need</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was such a closely guarded secret that it took a court order to force the Federal Reserve to admit the details of its discount loan program for bankers. Now the details are out. 
As tens of thousands of homeowners faced foreclosure in 2008, big banks were showered with billions in quick easy loans at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DORITOS SHORTCHANGE CONSUMERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone stole my Doritos. How often do you hear that cry while watching football with friends? If you haven’t heard it, you soon will as someone has stolen  20% out of Doritos bags across America. The thief, it turns out, is Frito-Lay which has confessed recently that they have shortchanged consumers 20% over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Proposes to Legalize Money Laundering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE
The New York Times in an editorial  today  slammed the idea of a &#8220;Tax Holiday&#8221;  for corporations
 See original article below editorial
NYT Oct 24
No Holiday
&#8220;Big business has clearly decided that the economic crisis is too important to waste. While Washington debates how to create jobs and cut the budget deficit, major corporations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Rent a Car  Refuel Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.investigativeguy.com/dollar-rent-a-car-refuel-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car rental companies are notorious for tacking on hidden extra charges when you you get your bill ,but Dollar Rent A  Car has one that takes the cake. Dollar now has a  refuel charge  if you return the car with the tank full but you don’t have a receipt . Yes even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BANKERS ARE UPSET WITH CONSUMER ADVOCATES…GOOD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Events, Two Heros
When a Wall street banker attacks you, you know you are doing something right.
Elizabeth Warren, who oversees the the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was grilled by members of the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. The reason for the grilling and attack by committee members was that she helped [...]]]></description>
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