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Experian credit bureau Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

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"I have the Experian credit reports!" - Clarence Beeks to Hieu Minh Ngo

“I have the Experian credit reports!” – Clarence Beeks to Hieu Minh Ngo

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service:

“The issue in my mind was the fact that this went on for almost a year after Experian did their due diligence and purchased” Court Ventures, Martin said. “Why didn’t they question cash wires coming in every month? Experian portrays themselves as the databreach experts, and they sell identity theft protection services. How this could go on without them detecting it I don’t know. Our agreement with them was that our information was to be used for fraud prevention and ID verification, and was only to be sold to licensed and credentialed U.S. businesses, not to someone overseas.”

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“Firms of all sorts are using consumer data in ways that may not just be contrary to consumers’ expectation, but could also be harmful to their interests,” Ramirez said. “This problem is perhaps seen most acutely with data brokers — companies that collect and aggregate consumer information from a wide array of sources to create detailed profiles of individuals. Their success depends on having more and better data than their rivals. The concern is that their mega-databases may contain highly sensitive information. The risk of improper disclosure of sensitive information is heightened because consumers know nothing about these companies and their practices are invisible to consumers.”

If you rent an apartment, apply for a mortgage, apply for a credit card, Experian is one of the big three that gets your data. Then they sold it to anyone with the money. Who else bought this data?

What the deal is now…

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The deal Republicans want now, if I’m hearing correctly, is to open the government, raise the debt ceiling for like 6 weeks in exchange for debate and negotiations around entitlements (of which Obamacare is one!).

It’s a distinction without a difference, same garbage crap sandwich…

Amy Poehler on Activism

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“As I get older, I realize that I am old, But I also realize I don’t know very much and all I have is the present moment. And I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people any more about judge, or talk, or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream, and support, and do things.”

via Actress and Worldwide Orphan’s Foundation activist Amy Poehler at Variety Power of Women awards (cred to Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress).

Watch the entire speech below:

Let’s start “Both Sides Do it PAC”®©™ to rival “No Labels” in uselessness

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I just saw a “No Labels” commercial on Liberal TV aka MSNBC, with a message from two guys who literally had labels before and after their names. Jon Huntsman and Evan Bayh were on the TV telling me about how “No Labels” pushes for common sense solutions that don’t make sense on paper or in reality and assembling self-righteous bi-partisan rudderless “gangs of some number less than 12 but more than 4” to play at solving problems. Which means they are really vague about what they are going to do and really wrong about what to do and really wrong how to do it. The “No Labels” mantra: “Both Sides Do It” so if we don’t act like we are from “Both Sides” and got elected to represent that side…”No Labels” wins! The “It” in “Both Sides Do it” being something the Republicans have done to stop President Obama from winning anything. Then the people without Labels tell us how Washington should work: everyone make a deal, screw your base and judge against the labeless razor: if no one is happy and a deal is made that deal is the best!

Get it? Elections don’t have consequences, Labels do! And only bad consequences come from Labels!

I didn’t vote for “No Labels” and neither did anyone else. I voted for people with some sort of party affiliation (or non-affiliation), platform promises and promised attempts at initiatives. Those things are all labelled. I don’t know when labels got to be such a bad thing. But now they are because Huntsman and Bayh said so. Huntsman’s the guy who didn’t get that Republican nomination because he didn’t understand that the label: “black President’s ambassador to China” wouldn’t help him out in the primary. Bayh’s the guy who quit because of partisanship (things looked bleak for Dems and he thought he would lose) just as the craziest Republicans running for the US Senate added “forcible rape = no preggers” to their 2012 platform.

So I figure, some of us bloggers need to get into this biz. Let’s just start “Both Sides Do it PAC”. We can get on Sunday Shows, Morning Shows, evening shows and all we have to say is: “Both Sides Do it!”. There are so many people I can recruit to this new PAC, and I can be ambassador to blacks, we can sprinkle some other people of colo…oh wait, “No labels” amiright? I’m a real flag pin I mean real American! I can feel America getting less label-y and more one sides-y already.

You think I am being snarky? You just labelled me! See “Both Sides do it!”®©™.

 

Chris Matthews: Obama doesn’t like playing cards with pols

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I heard Chris Matthews on the TV saying something to the effect that Obama doesn’t like to politic aka do things like play cards with politicians just to build rapport:

Their Wednesday game had a codename, “the committee meeting” (“people would come up and say, ‘Is there a committee meeting tonight?’,” remembers Walsh ), and it became so popular among Democrats, Republicans and lobbyists alike that two tables were sometimes required. The game started at a local country club, moved to Link’s living room, and then finally to his basement, which Link transformed into a full-blown poker den, complete with vents to accommodate all the cigarette and cigar smoking. (“I refuse to answer that question,” he chuckles, when asking about Obama’s puffing habits, “because I know Michelle too well.”

via Obama Poker Player: His Lousy Bluffing Skills – The Daily Beast

Obama did this all the time: the playing of the cards. With people of all walks of political life in Springfield. The real issue is that these people don’t want to cooperate or talk to him because it’s bad for them. They have spent every waking moment since it was clear Obama was it in 2007 that he’s a monster. To their constituents, often exclusively Fox News viewers President Obama is no legitimate Head of State and Commander in Chief. He is Bilderburg group charing, Kenyan Marxist, Commie, Socialist, Bleeding Heart liberal, Black Panther, Muslim, Radical Christian, Godless, Idiot Manchurian Candidate incapable of not using a teleprompter, Evil Mastermind of the national gun purge of 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014, Anti-Christ, Closet Gay, Chicago gangster, effete suburban house husband neutered, Pimp Misogynist lover of white women chained to radiators, militant race separatist, Reverse Racist, evil of all evil usurpers of what’s good about apple pies and this US of A.

Obama negotiated with Putin and Assad over chemical weapons. Obama is talking to f*cking Iran on the damned phone for chrissakes. He reaches out to the republicans all the time. They just reject him! These GOP f*ckers can’t talk or be fair to him because they use him as their boogeyman to say: vote for me or it’s over for you. They aren’t looking at polls that say: who’s at fault for the shutdown? or who would be responsible if US doesn’t raise debt ceiling? The poll they look at: how much would your base hate you if you made a deal with (alleged) President Obama?

So how do you “fix” that relationship?

The Koch bros. are financing the Tea Bagger Shutdown

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all your tea bagger are belong to us

all your tea bagger are belong to us

The Koch bros. are financing the Tea Bagger Shutdown:

The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Included was $5 million to Generation Opportunity, which created a buzz last month with an Internet advertisement showing a menacing Uncle Sam figure popping up between a woman’s legs during a gynecological exam…

They really, really hate the President.