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Cancelling Comcast Over the Phone is Hard
How hard can it be to disconnect from your internet and cable provider? It’s a battle if you are a Comcast customer, according to the experience AOL’s Ryan Block and his wife Veronica Belmont recently went through.
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Comcast Tells Customer The Only Reason He's Getting Bogus Charges Refunded Is Because He Recorded Call
Most of us have been in this situation, and probably once or twice with Comcast. You’re told by the first person that something is free, then you get a bill for it and when you call to find out why, everyone you talk to tells you you’re up Turd Creek sans rowing equipment. If only you had recorded that first call, right?
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A Bad Business Model Is Taking Over the World
Imagine if you could only fill up your car with one brand of gasoline. Once you bought the car, you were trapped — try any other brand, and your car wouldn’t even start. It sounds crazy, but this same business model is proliferating across industries from coffee machines to cleaning brushes. Changes in the global economy are only helping it to spread, almost always to the detriment of consumers.
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Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention
Since advertisers pay less to access your attention than your attention is worth, an excessive amount of advertising is produced. We are continuously swamped by attempts to distract us with messages we don't want or need.
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Why are most hazardous food recalls voluntary?
FDA product recalls seem to be almost ordinary, with fears of salmonella poisoning and undeclared allergens making regular appearances on primetime news. But up until recently, these recalls were merely suggestions made by the FDA—whether the product was actually removed from shelves was completely up to the company, putting most of the responsibility into the hands of the consumer in terms of knowing what produce was safe to buy and eat.
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30th November 1965 - Unsafe at Any Speed hits bookstores
32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book became a best-seller right away. It also prompted the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire) and a number of other road-safety initiatives.
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Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry to Its Knees on GMO Labels
General Mills' announcement on Friday that it will start labeling products that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a Vermont law shows food companies might be throwing in the towel, even as they hold out hope Congress will find a national solution.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren at Banking Hearing on Consumer Finance Regulations
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Q&A at an April 5, 2016 Senate Banking Committee hearing titled, “Assessing the Effects of Consumer Finance Regulations.”
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Dark money group spends $58,000 attacking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Since it formed in 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been under siege from financial institutions. Senate Republicans tried very hard to stop it from functioning at all, and since then they’ve tried to “tighten the leash” on the agency. Nearly five years since it officially opened, a new dark money group is taking aim at the agency — and no one has any idea who's behind it.
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Strengthen Your Door To Stop Burglars For Under $1
You hear us report on home burglaries quite often and safety is a concern for many people. But a trip to the hardware store could change all of that.
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The Internet Doesn’t Route Around Surveillance
One of the most famous quotes about the web says that “the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” But what about surveillance? Is it possible to make the internet route around spying? In the last few years, especially after revelations of pervasive monitoring by the NSA and its British sister spy agency the GCHQ, some countries, Brazil being the most vocal, have publicly announced their intentions to avoid sending internet traffic to the US and the UK in an effort to dodge surveillance.
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How 'Big Egg' Tried to Control Your Mayonnaise
This could be the Watergate of the sandwich condiment world. A major scandal has been brewing in the mayonnaise world over the last few months. If you don’t closely follow egg news that might come as a surprise, but the story keeps getting juicier, and now the United States Department of Agriculture is facing a lawsuit over the whole thing. The saga reveals how far some Big Agriculture insiders are willing to go to prevent consumers from having access to different kinds of food, which is something that should matter to anyone who doesn’t think...
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Your olive oil is almost certainly fake
Walk into your kitchen and pick up your bottle of olive oil. You know, that health-promoting nectar of Mediterranean age-defying prowess, lubricant of pasta, the only thing that makes your kale salad palatable? Yeah, that stuff is almost certainly not what you think it is. That's because unless you've plucked your own olives from your own backyard grove and crushed the fruit and pressed the oil yourself, that slippery substance was likely cut, adulterated, and deceptively labeled before it reached the bottle in your hands
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Soaring levels of antibiotic resistance found in supermarket chickens
The UK’s most common type of food poisoning bug is showing drastically increased resistance to antibiotics, testing has revealed, which could mean the infection becomes harder and harder to treat. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) tested campylobacter bacteria found in chickens sold in supermarkets across the country, and discovered that resistance to certain antibiotics had more than doubled.
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Tesco boss: 'Food price inflation could be lethal for struggling millions'
Tesco’s UK boss has warned that food price inflation could prove highly toxic for shoppers and lethal for those on a tight budget. Matt Davies said: “Everybody should be very, very clear how damaging food inflation is to the economy, to retail businesses and manufacturing businesses and how lethal it could be for millions of people struggling to live from week to week.”
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Organic Eggs Pit Factory Farms Against Family Farms
If the news shocks you that the dozen organic eggs you just bought came from hens living in factory-like conditions, you are not alone.
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EU drops law to limit cancer-linked chemical in food after industry complaint
The European commission has dropped plans to legally limit a pervasive but naturally occurring chemical found in food, that is linked to cancer, just days after lobbying by industry, the Guardian has learned. Campaigners say that leaked documents revealing the legislative retreat show “undue influence” by the food industry over EU law-making and a “permanent scandal”, although the issue is complex.
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WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents
The World Health Organization's cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws. In a letter and an email seen by Reuters, officials from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cautioned scientists who worked on a review in 2015 of the weedkiller glyphosate against releasing requested material.
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Kay Jewelers accused of swapping diamonds with fakes
From their relationship to his proposal to her wedding ring, everything was pretty picture perfect for Sophie and Aaron Long. But six weeks before the big day, doctors diagnosed Sophie with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For Sophie, it meant chemotherapy and weight loss. But after seven months, she beat the cancer. When she regained the weight she had lost from treatments, Sophie needed her wedding band and engagement ring resized. She said Kay Jewelers, where Aaron purchased the set, said the rings couldn't be altered as she needed, so the store would replace the rings with new ones two sizes bigger.
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Is Cadbury's move the end for Fairtrade? - BBC News
With Cadbury set to drop its Fairtrade certification, has the ethical-trade mark had its day?
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