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A Mayan Palace of Shame
Alleges that Mayan Resorts operates a scam. Includes material from US State Department and Texas Attorney General.
mayanresorts.org

Attention: Insurance Alert!
Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era subsidiaries, and suspicious name change.
www.insurance-alert.net

BAE Systems
Criticizes Europe's largest arms exporter as greedy and a supporter of dictatorships.
www.angloarabia.com

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.
www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/marburg.htm

Blue Hippo info
Explains why this financing firm is a rip-off, suggests alternatives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueHippo_Funding

Canadian Airlines Retirees Class Action Against Air Canada
1500 Canadian Airlines retirees fight to have Air Canada reinstate their travel benefits.
www.factor6070.ca

CNN Money - Special: Scandal, Inc.
Ongoing news and analysis about assorted corporations, executives and court cases.
money.cnn.com/news/specials/corruption

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.
www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html

Concern Over the Sale of Sydney Airport to MAP
Hochtief Airport GmbH is involved in allegations of corruption and unethical dealings in Europe and elsewhere.
expage.com/hochtiefairport

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.
www.kritischeaktionaere.de/Aktuelles/ENGLISH/english.html

Dow Jones
Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
www.dowethics.com

Eye On Wackenhut
Union-maintained site focused on the second largest private security company in the United States, which is alleged to cut corners in hiring, training, and oversight. News articles, whistleblower case reports, and other resources.
www.eyeonwackenhut.com

FAIR - News Corp / Fox
Ongoing collection of reports on bias by Fox News. By the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=2

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.
www.bosleymedicalviolations.com

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.
multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html

GreenZap Scam
Alleges that this online payment processor is not all it appears to be.
www.greenzapscam.com

Guardian - The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow
States that AOL paid a $3.5 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the government financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case. (June 28, 2002)
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html

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.
www.homedepotsucks.com

How I Sued PayPal And Won
Federal judge found Legal Disputes section of PayPal's User Agreement substantively unconscionable.
www.rebel101.com/sue_paypal.htm

Huntingdon Life Science Protest
Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
members.tripod.com/~close_hls

International Paper Hall of Shame
OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
www.iplexingtonplant.org

Jumpstart Ford
Campaign to tell Ford Motor Company to manufacturing the most fuel-inefficient cars in America and stop fueling America's oil addiction and global warming.
www.jumpstartford.com/home

LeaseComm
Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
www.knology.net/~olefogie/INDEX.HTM

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.
www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/chinareport/table_of_contents.shtml

Mitsubishi!
Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
www.mitsubishisucks.com

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.
multinationalmonitor.org

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.]
www.uspresident.net

New York City Transit
Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
www.newyorkcitytransit.com

Notice to the Public Regarding GothCon
Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
www.gothcon.com

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.
mathaba.net/sudan/bloodoil.htm

Plastic - Pepsi Pulls Rank At Oregon High School
A high school cheerleader hits upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports games, with labels bearing her school logo. But her plan runs into trouble when Pepsi gets wind of it. With news and reader comments. (November 4, 2002)
www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/11/04/15534812

Pressler and Pressler
Discusses questionable conduct of a collection firm and shows how to deal with it.
www.geocities.com/presslerclub

Report Scams Here
The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
www.scam.com

ScamFraudAlert
Discussion board covering varied topics such as financial fraud, consumer issues and alleged internet scams.
www.scamfraudalert.com

ServiceMaster Consumer Issues
Information about ServiceMaster and its subsidiaries including lawsuits, governmental investigations, employee comments, and consumer complaints.
www.syix.com/emu/html/servicemaster.html

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. (May, 2000)
www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3638/9_41/63058111/p1/article.jhtml

Sony Anti Environmental Efforts
A leaked document shows Sony has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting their pressure to reduce toxic waste in the manufacturing of electronics.
www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html

Stop Waste Management
Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray.
www.stopwmx.org

Sue Paypal
Complaints against Paypal and eBay.
www.suepaypal.org

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.
www.seen.org/pages/reports/chadcam04_28_00.shtml

Tell on Apple
Site by a group of former Apple Computer Authorized Resellers suing the company for fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition and false advertising.
www.tellonapple.org

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] (June, 1997)
multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html

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.
www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk

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.
www.dynamoo.com/diary/topsites_topsitez_us.htm

University of Phoenix Sucks
Read student opinions and experiences.
uopsucks.com

UNUM Provident Crime
Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident.
www.corporatecrimefighters.com

Virgin Air Crew Lies
Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
www.virginaircrewlies.com

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.
www.internationalwhoswho.de