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It’s amazing how oil companies stay so completely on message. The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry mouthpiece, is pushing the same…
Sep 16, 2010Did you ever find yourself a little overbooked, wondering how you can be at two or three places at once? Well, that’s…
Sep 16, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- The consumer group that recently launched a popular online animated satire of Google’s privacy problems embodied in an…
Sep 16, 2010The Tea Party is on a roll with its upset Senate primary victory in Delaware. If the rest of us don't start…
Sep 15, 2010The way natural gas promoters talk about their pet fuel, you’d think it was green as clover and safe as baby oil.…
Sep 15, 2010California-based Consumer Watchdog wrote to President Obama on Tuesday urging him to use the powers of his office to get tough on…
Sep 14, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today invited Google to participate in a conference, “Google, The Internet And The Future,” that the…
Sep 14, 2010Washington, DC – The California consumer group that pioneered the nation's toughest property casualty insurance regulation called on President Obama today to…
Sep 14, 2010Karen Ignagni, president of the health insurance industry's lobbying front AHIP, last week laid a portion of the the blame for a…
Sep 13, 2010On Thursday, Consumer Watchdog complained about the ad rejection in an open letter published on its site, and a Google representative confirmed…
Sep 10, 2010A message Thursday from Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius is unusual not just for its tough language toward health insurers,…
Sep 10, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- New comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Berlin show the top executive of the Internet giant fails…
Sep 9, 2010If you believe that health insurance companies will really go broke if they don't get 20% premium increases during a deep recession,…
Sep 8, 2010An anti-Google video is running on a billboard in Times Square, criticizing the search company on privacy issues. The 15-second cartoon depicts…
Sep 8, 2010Made wary by the Google Wi-Fi scandal, privacy advocates are concerned. Part of the problem is that there's so little public awareness…
Sep 8, 2010The animated creation portrays Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy old dude riding around in an ice cream truck offering up…
Sep 8, 2010Janet Adamy in the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription necessary) that health insurers across the country are using the health reform law…
Sep 8, 2010Mexico’s huge national oil company, Pemex, has shut down a large chunk of its natural gas fields because of the apparent kidnapping…
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