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Date: 2009-01-14 16:36:09

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Obama Want You Out of Credit Card Debt – Legally Erase 50-66% of Your Debts Now!

How would it feel to have your debt legally erased? There are little-known tactics and consumer protection laws that have enabled many Americans to erase their past due balances without having to worry about another demand letter from their creditors. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-20 06:02:31

Cuff ‘Em: Howie Long’s Son Lands DUI And Leaves Florida State, Morehead State Moron, Coach Was A Drug Dealer & Vicent Jackson On Probation?

news-kylelong.jpg “Cuff ‘Em” is a daily look at who’s in trouble with the law ... State basketball players aren’t the sharpest tools. Now, if you were going to rip off a credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:10:17

10 governors sign letter opposing union-endorsed, anti-worker, pro-bullying law; Sebelius not one of them

10 Republican governor's signed the following letter regarding proposed "card check" legislation that is supported by every major American union, and that Obama is expected to sign (credit to Club for Growth). The mis-named "Employee Free Choice Act" would take away workplace rights that workers have enjoyed for decades. The Honorable Harry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:01:00

Synthetic man

Susan Crane’s book on Ritual, Identity and Clothing During the 100 Years War has a chapter on “Talking Garments” ... . Who we are is represented by electronic entries on databases, card-sized pieces of plastic and of course, biometrics ... in 2007 for overstaying her visa, slipped back in. She has been barred from returning for five years [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:37:08

Credit Cards Dealing With Bankruptcy

by John Steed When a person or organization or institution files for bankruptcy, it is not always because they are unable to pay their creditors ... . The commonest of these are the institutions that offer credit card facilities. The advantage of going ... from giving credit. Most of them may have experts who can assess the ability of any debtor to pay [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:27:17

Update on Fraud

Last month/year I reported on a fraudulent scheme to separate $0.25 from me. Today I got a link to a news item about said fraud. News is slow here. But they have two very useful links. Instead, file a dispute with your credit card company ... I closed it, got my money back too, and reported it to the three credit bureaus, stuff to do first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:49:24

Guilty By Association

Many years ago, I used to run my sites out of an office building in an industrial part of Richmond. There were two other tenants in the building. One was an auto repair shop. The other was a drug dealer who used his unit to make illegal ... of association. The commentators asked me how many people I know who never run a Credit Card balance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:45:11

The Poverty Business

Sorry if this appears to be an older article, and not latest headlines, just thought it was interesting - loki The Poverty Business Inside U.S ... into Byrider, Tsosie drove off, jubilant, in a 1999 Saturn subcompact she bought entirely on credit ... access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:45:24

The End of Cash?

While it’s a bit premature to proclaim an end to cash-based society, I was recently reminded of just how plastic-dependent we’ve become ... Credit Card » We’re Homeless… » Save 5% on Gas Purchases With the Discover More Card ... chosen to arm their flight attendants with handheld credit card readers and subject themselves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:37:56

Discipline an Older Teen? My Son and the Get-Out-of-Jail Sheet

You may have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results. From that reference point, I decided I needed to change how I disciplined my teen son or run away from home, and I also needed to answer one question: Is it ever too late to teach a teen the right lesson? What had I been doing? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 10:45:34

Tamed By the Beast

A snowmobile is basically the biggest, meanest chainsaw you’ve ever seen, with two skis bolted to the front and a seat slapped on top. It roars. It spits diesel fumes. It wants to go faster. My mistake was listening to it. A couple nights before I met the beast, I was at a New Years Eve party in Ottawa, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:25:59

Fix Bad Credit

by John Cooper You do not have to just wait for negative marks on your credit report to fall off. You can remove them and improve your credit score ... card account the debt has been sold to a collection agency, and the lender has no need to save any ... dispute information requests, and debt validation. You can also help your credit score by opening [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:07:31

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/8/2009

The latest word is that an agreement with Russia has been reached, and the flow through the gas pipeline will resume.Also, look for the storming of the Israeli consulate in Montreal, as well as other Gaza-inspired violence around the world.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, Insubria, JD, Tuan Jim, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:49:00

Chase Behaving Badly: Unintended Consequences of the Fed's New Credit Card Rules

In late December, banking regulators agreed to new rules to limit actions by credit card issuers that consumer advocates deemed to be abusive ... your account agreement, which is the contract governing your credit card account. It provides ... rule changes would lead banks to restrict credit, particularly to riskier borrowers. What they may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:26:47

The Lexington Comair Crash, Part 22: Return of the Bluegrass Conspiracy – Hard Rain in the Balkans, Black Clouds Over D.C. (A)

By Alex Constantine(2006/Repost)A whale of a scandal threatens to swallow some half-dozen governments around the world. The English and the Saudis are already having fits over it. The latter have actually gone so far as to threaten the termination of all diplomatic relations with the UK if investigators there expose certain ... inconvenient facts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:41:00

Looking Around The World

Last night, while nursing a swollen foot (a matter for another article entirely), and trying to knock back the pain with massive doses of ibuprofen, I decided to start looking around to see if I was the only one with a fully dissenting opinion about Windows 7. Could I really be a closet curmudgeon? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:27:34

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

The Citi gang gets away

The financial implosion that wrecked America was largely cooked up by Citigroup, not only in its kitchens of "innovation" ... its Smith Barney unit, credit-card business and consumer finance units. The Wall Street Journal observes ... ? This institution that was deemed too big to fail has failed to unfreeze credit markets. Citigroup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:39:22

Ask the M-Network: What to do if you’re deep in debt

Last week the M-Network rolled out a new feature:  Ask the M-Network.  This week, we’re going to answer a question about debt from one of my readers ... to know if this is credit card debt or some other debt - there is a big difference. If credit card debt, then you might want to think about going to a consolidation company who can work on your behalf [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:00:07

Crafty Creditors Are Making Changes

This is a guest post from Tisha Tolar is a freelance writer providing content for CreditCardAssist ... . By today’s standards, a good customer can simply be late paying a debt other than the credit card ... and charges to accumulate, leaving you in even greater debt. Credit card companies rely on the fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:10:23

Shredding To Avoid A Security Maelstrom

Shredding To Avoid A Security Maelstrom By Dominic Donaldson on Jan 14, 2009 in Security | comments(0) ... was exclusive to the business world and governmental departments; until it was stated that there was no law in place to prosecute anyone rummaging through residential waste and taking what they found. With credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:21:48

Green Your City Breaks

When you think of eco-travel, visiting the world’s biggest cities is not usually what springs to mind. You might think of volunteering on an organic farm, camping in a yurt or tipi in the Welsh valleys, or staying in an eco-lodge in Australia’s Daintree rainforest. But a weekend trip to New York, Paris or Melbourne? Not so much [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:00:54

Operation Cast Lead Continues

Women of the IDF UPDATE 293. Last sentence more important than the rest ... come out, come out, wherever you are! The bombing of a UN school in Gaza killed 30, including children, who Hamas often use as human shields. Pictures of dead children in the Israel Air Force bombing of two United Nations schools in Gaza Tuesday afternoon have put Israel [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:17:00

by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown featured writerDandelion SaladEllen’s post Jan 3, 2009webofdebt.com Cartoon in the New Yorker: A gun-toting man with large dark glasses, large hat pulled down, stands in front of a bank teller, who is reading a demand note. It says, “Give me all the money in my account [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 17:24:55

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 15 January 2009

FINTAG COMMENT Timing. Cash is king and is never more so than when running a blog site ... . The bailiffs told me off and then gave me another 48 hours to come up with the readies. I put it on my credit ... for it. It's cash again. I took the ludicrous position yesterday of handing out free advertising space [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:00:31

ARUBA PROSECUTOR 5 page letter (don’t miss the part where he trashes Fox and me…never dull..)

I guess we got under the skin of Aruba prosecutor Hans Moss .. ….He and his office and the police failed to solve this missing person (murder?) so here is his idea: blame everyone else! See the Aruban prosecutor’s 5 page release below….and, by the way, we still would like to help him but he is too busy taking cover! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:06:05

Going cashless - against the grain

Forever the contrarian, it seems.  While others are opting for cash only transactions to avoid credit card balances, I am doing just the opposite.  I have streamlined my wallet to include only my ID, one credit card, an ATM/Debit card ... the handling of tainted and/or counterfeit billsAnd of course, some of the cons might be:Credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 01:05:00

Study: Americans Overwhelmingly Demand Simple Communications

Siegel+Gale recently completed a year long study of 1,214 American homeowners and investors that shows huge demand for simple, ... in the current financial crisis. Moreover, 63% of those surveyed feel that “banks, mortgage lenders ... interest in taking out a loan, and a 63% increased interest in applying for a credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:11:03

Cheap is the new black

From the Wall Street Journal: Hard-Hit Families Finally Start Saving, Aggravating Nation’s Economic Woes Rick and Noreen Capp recently reduced their credit-card debt ... s what economists call the “paradox of thrift.” U.S. household debt, which has been growing steadily since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:35:39

The college scam

It's actually worse than you probably think:Hickey got caught in an increasingly common trap in the nation's $85-billion student loan market. She borrowed heavily, presuming that all her debt was part of the federal student loan program ... of the student loan market. Private loans have no relation to the federal loan program, with one exception [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 14:00:00

Offshoring to India

I’m writing this article for those of you that know NOTHING about how software works because I believe that you need to know the possible ... , this means your medical RECORDS and your bank, credit card and brokerage account RECORDS. I heard ... transactions on their credit cards for only a few cents here and a few cents there. Well, let’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:36:02

Does Mobile Marketing Infringe on Your Privacy?

Naturally, privacy watchdogs answer the question in this post title with a resounding “Yes! ... a new car recently, and went on the mobile phone looking for a lower-interest credit card,” said Jeff ... to know that? Marketers for fast food companies, car insurance companies or credit card companies? It’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:52:51

Expect a Miracle - Make Miracles Happen

A long time ago a shopkeeper was opening a package of merchandise from England ... . When he opened it, there was a card on top. It said, “Expect a Miracle”. He almost threw ... to do, what you want to be and where you want to go one activates the law of successful achievement. The law [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:21:58

How to Tell Your Wife You Want To Be Really Spanked!

I’ve spent a lot of time reading everything I can find on F/M spanking relationships. I’ve read a lot of posts by men who are frustrated and don’t know how to tell their wife what it is that they want and crave. So, I decided to write a little F/M Spanking “Primer” from a wife to guys that a guy could copy, edit and print off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:15:32

More Privacy, Bit by Bit

More Privacy, Bit by Bit By Timothy B. Lee January 5th, 2009 at 6:45 am Before the Holidays, Yahoo got a flurry of good press for the announcement that it would (as the LA Times puts it) "purge user data after 90 days." My eagle-eyed friend Julian Sanchez noticed that the "purge" was less complete than privacy advocates might have hoped [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:45:02

ten things to do before you go solo backpacking

check visa requirements go to malaysia’s official website for ministry of foreign affairs and check the visa entry requirement for the countries ... ! photocopying the important documents photocopy your passport, ic, credit card, plane tickets, train ... your passport, ic, credit card, plane tickets, train tickets. email them to yourself. keep a copy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:32:12

Sure, I'm still hoping for the best from the Obama administration, but the hiring of Cass Sunstein and the banishment of Howard Dean aren't good signs

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is introduced by President-elect Obama as the new chairman of the DNC. But wait, isn't there somebody missing? by Ken For all my apprehensions about what we're gleaning about policies of the Obama administration and what's suggested by the people being brought in to staff the administration, let me be clear: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:44:15

Posts about Home Sales as of January 14, 2009

It’s Time For Girl Scout Cookies! - lakelandlocal.com 01/14/2009 photo credit: jrayfarm1980 This is a good time of year for cookie lovers … . The pushers will begin their booth sales on Feb. 27. That means you’ll most likely be able to find them … your cookies to the Cookies From Home program [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:24:35

Prevent Identity Theft From Happening to You

What is Identity Theft? It is the theft of your personal information, such as social security number, driver’s license number, credit card and bank account numbers, mother’s maiden name, and more, with the intent to obtain credit and credit cards from banks and retailers, steal money from the victim’s existing accounts, apply for loans, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:42:35

News and Commentary

Children Heavily Represented Among 917 Dead, Say Officialsby Michael Jansen - Irish Times / Common DreamsHealth officials in Gaza said yesterday that the Palestinian death toll since Israel began its offensive against the Strip on December 27th had reached 917 and the number of wounded 4,100 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:42:00

Premiers to press Harper for infrastructure boost

“We want to get those shovels in the ground sooner rather than later,” Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said. “We don’t want the recession to be over by the time we get infrastructure dollars spent.” Indeed, that would be disastrous. But, hey, money grows on trees, right? Spend away [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:12:27

Put Your Credit Card Away And Get Your Free Credit Report

It’s pretty safe to say that by now almost everybody in America that even remotely pays an interest to their credit knows that they’re entitled to a ... credit report report every year from each of the three credit bureaus. That law was voted in 2005, to protect the consumers and give them the possibility of ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:30:08

Federal Tax Brackets & Law Changes For 2009.

So what changes do we have in store for the 2009 tax year? Each and every year there are small changes to the ridiculously large tax code, but most of them will not effect the average taxpayer. However, there are some that definitely will, so I went looking to see what they are…and here is what I found out: The Income Tax Brackets Have Changed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:00:47

Review of Lexington Law Firm

by John Cooper Lexington Law is headquartered out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They are a credit repair firm ... . What else should I do to repair my credit? We suggest you open a new revolving line of credit ... . There are over 400 employees and 22 credit attorneys. Their business started in 1991 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:15:45

50 Ways to Budget Travel and Save Money on Vacations

Wouldn’t you want to travel more often without breaking the bank? What if I told you that instead of planning one family trip a year, you can go twice with the same budget? If you are at all interested, read on to find out how you can do simple things to save money next time you go on vacation! Airfares [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:00:17

Even Business Owner’s Need A Toolkit Once In A While

When something is broken and it needs fixed, what do you do? You have 2 choices, call someone in to fix it or do the work on your own. Ironically, it’s not that much different in business. You could either call someone in to help answer your questions and do the work, or learn the necessary materials on your own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:24:24

Erase Bad Credit

by John Cooper If you have bad credit there is hope ... has received some form of payment. For example with a charged off credit card account the debt has been sold to a collection agency, and the lender has no need to save any record of your account. Recent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:52:30

What To Do When Your Credit Card Is Lost Or Stolen

What To Do When Your Credit Card Is Lost Or Stolen January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off Unfortunately, ... , you should. It really isn’t as daunting to come up with a credit card action plan as it seems like it should be. All reputable credit card companies have a set policy that helps to protect you against [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:15:31

.Busy weekend again.

.Busy weekend again. Friday, 16 January 2009 @ 1:42 A concerned Monarch ... to solve this problem. One of His Majesty’s vision is to target zero poverty in Brunei Darussalam ... (the group that forms the “core” of the poor community) and including those in debt, have fulfilled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:42:43

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