ConsumerAffairs.com We hear a lot lately about the aging of the Baby Boom generation, usually in the context of the strain all those old boomers are putting on Social Security and Medicare. But the rapid aging of the American population is good news for lots of industries, including those who make wheelchairs, bifocals and hearing [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com A federal class action demands that AOL stop intruding on millions of people’s privacy by tracking their Web browsing and selling the information to third-party advertisers. Co-defendants ScanScout and Brightcove also are accused of overriding privacy controls on private citizens’ computers to stalk them as they browse the Web. In the suit, filed in [...]

  U.S. boxes consume annual output of nine power plants ConsumerAffairs.com What’s the biggest energy hog in your home? Your refrigerator? Your microwave? Not even close, says the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). In a report, NRDC says the cable TV set-top box, present in about 80 percent of U.S. homes, consumed approximately 27 billion [...]

FBI Press Release U.S. Attorney’s Office June 27, 2011 Eastern District of New York (718) 254-7000 Gary Foster, a former vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department has been arrested on bank fraud charges arising from his embezzlement of more than $19 million. Foster was apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday morning [...]

By Vince Robertiello Are cell phones carcinogenic? Health organizations and experts in the wireless field apparently are divided on the issue Nobody knows for sure but there is lots of speculation, according to. Dr. Lissa Rankin, OB/GYN, who blogs for Care2, an activist organization. In her recent blog she joins the chorus and, to be on [...]

ConsumerAfffairs.com A federal class action claims Internet payday lenders eDebitPay and Platinum Online Group take information from loan applicants “and use it to forge checks on behalf of the applicants … without the applicants’ knowledge or consent.” eDebitPay was recently found in contempt of court and fined $3.7 million after a federal judge found that the [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com The price of gas has gotten to be like the weather. Everybody compains about it but nobody does anything. Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to change that. The Vermont independent is introducing legislation that would require federal commodity regulators to halt excessive oil speculation. “We have a responsibility to do everything we can to lower [...]

By Vince Robertiello The Republicans are wavering on Medicare according to woman’s advocate Robin Marty, writing in the latest issue of activist Care 2′s weekly causes report. She says Newt Gingrich is likely to lose the GOP presidential nomination over it.  Congressional candidate Jane Corwin may miss a projected House seat win because of it.  But [...]

By Vince Robertiello HOUSTON — Recently, ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva announced that his company would discontinue its involvement in a controversial oil drilling project in a remote area of the northern Peruvian Amazon. According to Care 2, a California-based activist organization Care 2, the oil company had been under fire from environmental and human rights [...]

By Vince Robertiello More than 70 percent of U.S. coal-plant capacity are already more than 30 years old — the operating lifetime for which coal plants were typically designed. In an article for California activist Care 2’s publication Carole Buczynski notes, Instead of withdrawing subsidies from this dying industry and using it to hasten the [...]