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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 2d ago

With Gas Prices, It’s ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’

You might think that the declining price of gasoline means that we don’t have to pay attention to all that talk about oil speculation driving up the price of oil. Right? Wrong. Even though the price of gas has fallen, you’re still lining the pockets of Wall Street every time you gas up. As Memorial
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 3d ago

Nestlé Plants the Seeds of Corporate Profits, Not Healthy Children

Earlier this year, Newark Mayor Cory Booker excitedly announced the launch of a new partnership between Let’s Move! Newark and Nestlé to address the obesity problem facing the children of Newark. “This is an amazing day in the city of Newark!” Booker exclaimed. Amazing, indeed. It’s amazing that New
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 3d ago

What we can learn from Facebook

Whether or not you’re an investor, it’s important to grasp the significance of what’s happened with the Facebook initial public offering (IPO). In the few days since its IPO, Facebook’s stock price has fallen almost 20 percent amidst news that underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and perhaps Facebook
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 5d ago

Nuclear industry had it in for Jaczko from Day One

News today of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chair Gregory Jaczko’s pending resignation is a terrifying example of industries trying to wreak havoc on those who regulate them – and winning. Jaczko sought to create tougher rules for the nuclear industry in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 1W ago

What price must web hosts pay for discarding data that identifies their users?

A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles has made a decision with chilling implications for journalists and, indeed, for anybody who hosts speech by others. I have blogged previously about a case in which we represent a journalist who reports on the digital music industry, on the blog called Digital Mu
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 1W ago

Appeals Court to secret donors: Face the American people

Even as the nationwide grassroots rebellion sparked by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission continues to spread, citizens concerned that our  democracy is being auctioned off to secretive, unaccountable interests are getting some backup from the lower federal
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 1W ago

Don’t get fooled again

Revisiting the lessons from deregulating derivatives is particularly important right now because Congress seems to have forgotten them. A report we issued Monday provides a road map of how derivatives wrecked the economy in 2008, and could do so again if Wall Street gets its way. Nine bills that wou
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 1W ago

THIS WEEK: Derivatives, resolutions, Internet freedom of speech and the 2012 Corporate Power Tool Award

This week, we’ve got our eyes on Congress, Wall Street, the “#1 Corporate Power Tool,” school districts and more! For better or worse, Washington D.C. is a city of awash with acronyms. And this week, there are a few capital letters that the medical device industry would rather you not pay any attent
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 2W ago

Defending bloggers and the first amendment

We have stepped in to defend a blogger against a motion to compel him to identify the author or authors of two anonymous comments to one of his stories.  The First Amendment and other arguments are interesting in themselves, but it currently appears that the case is going to become important for a d
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Public Citizen - Citizen Vox · 2W ago

Despite Shareholder Pressure, Corporat3Money Spigot Gushes Away

I have a nest egg, just like most working people have, where I tuck away a portion of my earnings in order to make things easier once it’s time for me to retire. But, I wonder, what good is planning for the future if my retirement investments are being spent by companies like 3M, Target [...]
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