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Take Action:Stop the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA): The Corporate Attack on Our Environmental and Consumer Safegua
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JL
- 1 day ago - action.citizen.org
No Backroom Deals for Corporate Giants Negotiations on the U.S.-EU "free trade" deal, aka TAFTA, could begin soon. More than 600 corporate advisors are in the driver's seat, hoping to tip the scales for the 1% and shut out the public and Congress from in
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CFPB Complaints By Bank By Week
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JL
- 1 day ago - ec2-75-101-195-38.compute-1.amazonaws.com
This graph's purpose is to compare a bank's complaint count over time rather than comparing banks against each other. Data are combined by week to decrease the noise associated with lower weekend complaint rates
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Court Orders EPA to Move Forward on Power Plant Water Pollution Rule
Business  (tags: GoodNews, goodnews, government, politics, abuse, americans, dishonesty, business, consumers, corporate, energy, ethics, law, society, usa )

JL
- 2 days ago - earthjustice.org
Last week, EPA proposed multi-option rule; this week, federal court denies industry challenge to scuttle that rulemaking
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Apple Dodges Billions In Taxes
Business  (tags: americans, business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, economy, ethics, finance, government, investments, investors, usa, news, labor, law, marketing, money, society )

Robert
- 2 days ago - businessinsider.com
Apple's global cash tax rate was only 9.8%. It paid $3.3 billion of cash taxes on profits of $34 billion. (Cash taxes are the taxes Apple actually paid, as opposed to the "tax" line that appears on the income statement.)
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Apple Is Paying Almost No Taxes On The $102 Billion It Has Stashed Offshore: Report
Business  (tags: ethics, abuse, corporate, dishonesty, government, money )

Beverly
- 3 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Just one day before Apple's CEO Tim Cook is expected to argue for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill, a new report claims that the company is avoiding paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits.
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ALEC's Latest "Transparency" Move: Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws
Business  (tags: usa, society, lies, law, investors, investments, investing, government, ethics, finance, dishonesty, corporate, corruption, cover-up, americans, abuse, business, economy )

JL
- 4 days ago - prwatch.org
Shortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) told the press "we really believe in transparency," new documents show the organization directing legislators to hide ALEC meeting agendas and model legislation from the public.
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New Details on JPMorgan's Electricity Manipulation Prompt Renewed Call for Key Executive's Termination
Business  (tags: lies, law, money, society, usa, corruption, corporate, abuse, business, americans, consumers, cover-up, dishonesty, ethics, finance, government, crime, dishonesty, government )

JL
- 8 days ago - citizenvox.org
staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) claim that Ms. Masters was aware of the company's manipulation strategies, helped to conceal the schemes and lied to state & federal officials when confronted about the company's manipulation stra
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Video:Charts: Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer
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JL
- 13 days ago - motherjones.com
Fifty years after the groundbreaking "Gideon" ruling, public defenders are overworked, underpaid--and America's poor are paying the price.
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Tell Facebook: Attacking The Environment Is Not Pro-Immigrant ACTION
Business  (tags: immigration, government, usa, zuckerberg, facebook, ecosystems, environment, destruction )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - act.presente.org
One of the first actions taken by the new political group founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been to spend over $1 million in advertisements attacking the environment.
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New Report: Taxpayers on the Hook When Corporate Giants Dump Workers Onto Medi-Cal(Action)
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JL
- 15 days ago - calaborfed.org
Now a new report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research shows just how widespread the problem is, projecting that as many as 380,000 workers for big companies will end up on the state's Medi-Cal program by 2019.
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Victory! Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize
Business  (tags: corporate, business, environment, ethics, government, goodnews, GoodNews, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, sustainabledevelopment, world, oil, law )

JL
- 15 days ago - oceana.org
Belize's Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic & potentially definitive setback to The Government of Belize and the petroleum prospecting companies is
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Mozilla to Take Legal Action Against Spy Tech Firm Over
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JL
- 18 days ago - slate.com
Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, is well-known for battling online tracking.Now it's set to launch a fresh privacy-protecting offensive: taking on a controversial surveillance company that has been accused of selling spyware to authoritarian re
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Take Action: Tell the New Head of the SEC, Mary Jo White, to Force Corporations to Disclose Their Political Spending.
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JL
- 18 days ago - action.sumofus.org
Submit your comment to the SEC Send comments to the SEC supporting a rule change to require corporations to disclose political spending. A personal message will be the most effective, but feel free to use the one we provided.
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Few Meaningful Changes In Wake Of Dhaka Factory Collapse
Business  (tags: humanrights, death, corruption, asia, government, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Rana Plaza, factory, business, corporate, dishonesty )

Naoko
- 19 days ago - ipsnews.net
"What we see are token donations and empty promises that can't be enforced." -Scott Nova of the Workers Rights Consortium.
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The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
Business  (tags: wealth distribution, money, society, politics, usa, economy, government, business, Wall St bailout, Federal Reserve, trickledown economics, unemployment, criminal conspiracies )

Lynn
- 20 days ago - alternet.org
Do the math and you'll discover that the top 7% gained a whopping $5.6 trillion in net worth (assets minus liabilities) while the rest of lost $669 billion. Their wealth went up by 28% while ours went down by 4 percent.
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