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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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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		<title>Highway Robbery At Coachella</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes it is true scumbag scalpers bought out the tickets to Coachella. As if the $320 price wasn’t bad enough the scumbags are now selling the tickets for $1000. Yes not a $100 markup but a $700 markup.  Here are some of the scalpers involved Ticket Gumbo, Turbo Tickets, Stub Hub, findticketsfast.com and dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCAMMERS TO GET RICH OFF STRANDED TRAVELERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The misery of stranded travelers in airports worldwide  could mean record profits for companies that swindle travelers at airports. Case in point, BBG Communications which has 350,000 pay phones in airports world wide.The company has a policy of not disclosing to consumers the outrageous amounts consumers get charged when they swipe a credit card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC EXCUSES GRAVE ROBBERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jmattes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rest in peace is not a term on the minds of bureaucrats at the FTC.  The FTC has proposed new rules, no, not to protect you, the consumer, but to give debt collectors more rights. They have proposed allowing debt collectors to go after larger numbers of people linked  to a person who [...]]]></description>
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