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Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
http://www.knology.net/~olefogie/INDEX.HTM
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Who's Who Historical Society
Tells about the practices of the Who's Who Historical Society, a company of Gibraltar Publishing:
What they promise, how they recruit members, what the results of membership are and how they try to
prevent members from cancelling their membership.
http://www.internationalwhoswho.de/
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Notice to the Public Regarding GothCon
Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
http://www.gothcon.com/
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University of Phoenix Sucks
Read student opinions and experiences.
http://uopsucks.com/
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iMind
True stories from the former employees of the now-defunct iMind Education Systems.
http://www.imind.com/
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Jumpstart Ford
A campaign blaming Ford Motor Company on America's oil addiction, war, global warming, rainforest
destruction, toxic waste and oil spills, human rights abuses, and air pollution.
http://www.jumpstartford.org/
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State Farm Sucks
Links to protest, news, and consumer educational sites about the USA mutual, bank, insurance, and
annuities conglomerate.
http://moviereview.net/state/
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Wells Fargo Bank: The Worst Bank in the World
Detailed account of systemic problems with Wells Fargo.
http://www.greggman.com/pages/wellsfargo.htm
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The Truth About Escrow.com
Buyer of car at auction falsely claimed to have returned the car. Escrow.com refused to remit funds
to seller for over a year, even after binding arbitration instructed them to.
http://www.noescrow.com/
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Attention: Insurance Alert!
Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era
subsidiaries, and suspicious name change.
http://www.insurance-alert.net/
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Oil is Thicker than Blood
The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in
genocide taking place in Sudan.
http://mathaba.net/sudan/bloodoil.htm
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Canadian Airlines Retirees Class Action Against Air Canada
1500 Canadian Airlines retirees fight to have Air Canada reinstate their travel benefits.
http://www.factor6070.ca/
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Save The Redwoods/Boycott The Gap
Save The Redwoods/Boycott The Gap
http://www.gapsucks.org/
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Mitsubishi!
Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints,
and environmental issues.
http://www.mitsubishisucks.com
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International Paper Hall of Shame
OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
http://www.iplexingtonplant.org
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Liz Claiborne: Sweatshop Production in El Salvador
Archived documentation and links by the National Labor Committee about abusive factories that
produce Liz Claiborne clothing.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/liz/
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Made in China
National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the
People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor
activists, and other abuses.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/chinareport/table_of_contents.shtml
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Topsites LLC and MyDirectory LLC
An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory,
including traffic analysis and background business details.
http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/topsites_topsitez_us.htm
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Afternic Sucks
Consumer complaints about poor customer service and business practices.
http://AfternicSucks.com
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The Fresh Market Employee Message Board
Message Board containing comments from employees who work at The Fresh Market chain of Grocery
Stores located in the southeastern U.S.
http://pub86.ezboard.com/femployeemessageboardfrm1
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Virgin Air Crew Lies
Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
http://www.virginaircrewlies.com/
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UNUM Provident Crime
Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident.
http://www.corporatecrimefighters.com
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Xamplify Sucks
Find a critical overview and executive profiles of the Berkeley-based technology start-up backed by
wealthy businessmen, renowned professors and progressive journalists on this parody site.
http://www.xamplifysucks.com
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Fair Trade Coffee Campaign Against Second Cup
A national campaign, led by Caféjustice, aimed at pressuring Canada's largest specialty coffee
retailer Second Cup to address the coffee crisis by offering its customers Fair Trade coffee.
http://www.boycottsecondcup.com
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Capital One Credit Card Class Action
Lieff Cabraser filed suit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class against Capital One alleging
violations of the Truth in Lending Act, as well as a variety of unfair and misleading business
practices.
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/capital_one.htm
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Sustainable Energy & Economy: Report on Chevron
Alleges human rights abuses and complicity in killing Nigerian civilians, calling on World Bank to
discriminate in its investments.
http://www.seen.org/pages/reports/chadcam04_28_00.shtml
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EndPredatoryLending.org
Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an
unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it.
http://www.endpredatorylending.org/
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Baker Book House
Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and
permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission
granted improperly.
http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/marburg.htm
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Burson-Marsteller
Collection of third-party information about the public relations firm whose clients include Dow
Corning, Phillip Morris, and Monsanto.
http://www.bursonmarsteller.com/
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Dow Jones
Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
http://www.dowethics.com/
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Pepsi Pulls Rank At Oregon High School
"West Salem High cheerleader Andrea Boyes ... hit upon the idea of selling bottled water at
sports game, with label bearing her school logo. But her plan ran into trouble when soft drink
giant Pepsi got wind of it." News and reader comments. [Plastic]
http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/11/04/15534812
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The Citigroup Watch
News and commentary critical of the practices of the major banking and insurance group.
http://www.innercitypress.org/citi.html
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Multinational Monitor
Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous
substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/
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The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow
"AOL, the internet service provider, paid a $3.5m penalty to the securities and exchange
commission, the chief US financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to
those in the WorldCom case." By Nils Pratley. [Guardian]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html
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The China Lobby's Campaign for Two-Way Trade with China
Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for
China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor]
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html
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General Dynamics and TRW
Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate
transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html
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IdeaLab Shareholder Lawsuit Information
links to PDFs of the lawsuit filed in an L.A. Superior Court and articles in the press covering
said lawsuit
http://www.ilshareholders.com/
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False Advertising by The Bosley Medical Institute
10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer
protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
http://www.bosleymedicalviolations.com
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Sony Anti Environmental Efforts
A leaked document shows Sony Corp. has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of
undercutting the pressure to reduce toxic waste from electronic manufacturing.
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html
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Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents
Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown &
Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute.
http://www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html
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New York City Transit
Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
http://www.NewYorkCityTransit.com
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Murderous U.S. Judges
Alleges that AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and US Federal Judge James M. Ideman conspired to
murder filmmaker Gyorgy Fodor. Sign a petition to President Bush. Place a bet to win a bribe.
[Note: Some disturbing photos.]
http://www.uspresident.net
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Sucks500.com
Online forums for criticisms of U.S. corporations, institutions, celebrities, and other topics.
http://www.sucks500.com/
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Home Depot Sucks
Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will
phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to
other anti-HD websites.
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/
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Tobacco from Spain
A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet
(particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites.
http://www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk/
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Critical Shareholders Organization
English version of German activist site that publishes information about firms they've found that
violate human rights or basic environmental practices.
http://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/Aktuelles/ENGLISH/english.html
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Six Firms Added to Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit
Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich
added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana
Islands.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3638/9_41/63058111/p1/article.jhtml
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Staples Destroys Forests
Through paper and furniture sales, Forest Networking paper argues that this firm destroys old rain
forests.
http://forests.org/recent/2000/stdesfor.htm
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Deadson & Wretches Symphony of Tar
Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal,
and Vancouver every summer.
http://bensonandhedges.org/
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Chevron's Dirty Hands
"Chevron... has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot
and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil
rigs." By Danny Kennedy and Victor Menotti. [San Francisco Bay Guardian]
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Worldview/
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Huntingdon Life Science Protest
Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/shell/279
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British Aerospace
Committed to producing innovative, high-specification ways of killing people. Are you a feudal
Middle Eastern dictatorship which tortures your political opponents? British Aerospace says: No
problem! We just want your cash. [Site contains dark humour but it does have a very serious point.]
http://www.angloarabia.com/
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