Marriott Hotel Phone Scams Class Action Lawsuit.

 arne.sorenson@marriott.com

Arne, 

As you know, scammers are using Marriott's name to bilk Americans. They call with the claim that Marriott is giving them free stays. The callers have Indian accents same as the people at your customer service centers.Who speak rapidly and are purposefully difficult to understand. 

I have tried to get in touch with someone at Marriott regarding this scam but all I get are heavily accented spokesdroids who are unable or unwilling to put me through to anyone above the role of beancounter.

We need to talk because if we don't I will tarnish the Marriott brand worse that it already is.

The truth is, Marriott has known about these phone scams since 2015 and other than run its corporate lie hole, it has done nothing. Because Marriott is a scumbag corporation they have farmed out their customer  and employee communications to India so when a customer or Marriott employee calls the get to speak with someone they can barely understand. In typical corporate gangster fashion, Marriott is hiring as few Americans as possible. They probably have illegals working in all their overpriced fleabag hotels.

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RELATED: Marriott was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging the hotel chain used an autodialer to contact individuals’ cell phones to advertise their Vacation Club in violation of federal law.Lead plaintiff Cheri Astrahan alleges in her class action lawsuit that she received several unsolicited calls on her mobile phone for the Marriott Vacation Club in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Astrahan says she received the calls despite being on the National Do Not Call Registry and without giving prior consent to Marriott to contact her via phone with the advertisements.

The plaintiff alleges that the unsolicited calls lasted for a year. She says that when she answered the calls, she heard a pre-recorded or artificial voice attempting to sell her a timeshare service.

Astrahan claims that she asked the company to stop calling her; however, she continued to receive calls about the Marriott Vacation Club.

“Plaintiff requested for defendant to stop calling plaintiff, thus revoking any prior express consent that had existed and terminating any established business relationship that had existed,” alleges the Marriott class action lawsuit. “Despite this, defendant continued to call plaintiff in an attempt to solicit its services and in violation of the National Do­-Not-­Call provisions of the TCPA.”

According to the complaint, Marriott violated the TCPA by accessing and using the plaintiff’s cell phone number without consent. Astrahan also alleges that Marriott used an autodialer and robocalls – a further violation of the TCPA.

The TCPA was enacted by Congress in 1991 to curtail use of telephone solicitors used by companies that do not have permission to contact the individuals they dial. It also regulates the use of automatic dialers and pre-recorded messages, fax advertisements, unwanted text messages, and enforces the National Do Not Call Registry and other do-not-call lists.

The plaintiff seeks to represent a nationwide Class of people who received solicitation or telemarketing calls from Marriott using an autodialer or prerecorded voice over the past four years. The plaintiff also seeks to represent a nationwide Class of people who received such calls and expressly revoked consent, but still continued to receive unsolicited calls from Marriott. Further, the plaintiff seeks to represent another nationwide Class of those who were on the Do Not Call Registry, but still received unsolicited calls for the Marriott Vacation Club.

The plaintiff is seeking damages, including up to $1,500 for each violation of the TCPA by Marriott for herself and all putative Class Members. The plaintiff also wants a court order stopping Marriott from contacting individuals in violation of the TCPA.

Astrahan is represented by Todd M. Friedman, Adrian R. Bacon and Meghan E. George of the Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman PC.

The Marriott Vacation Club TCPA Class Action Lawsuit is Cheri Astrahan v. Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. d/b/a Marriott Vacation Club, Case No. 8:17-cv-02139, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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Friend, sign the petition: Cancel the final two presidential debates. SIGN THE PETITION The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on September 29 was, to put it lightly, an unmitigated disaster. During the debate, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and told hate group Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” confirmed he has already decided the election doesn’t count, defended his maskless rallies, continued his racist tirade by calling COVID-19 the “China plague,” and so much more. But Trump’s statements about his policy positions—if you can even call them that—weren’t the only jaw-dropping moments of the evening. All night, Trump slung attacks at his opponent. Trump yelled over Biden at every possible opportunity, repeatedly criticized Biden’s education and intelligence, and even went so far as to invoke Biden’s son Hunter’s struggle with addiction while the former vice president was talking about his son Beau, a decorated veteran and public servant who died of brain cancer. Donald Trump is beyond shameful. Sign now if you agree that the Commission on Presidential Debates cannot continue to enable this behavior. SIGN THE PETITION If Trump’s callous and cruel behavior in office wasn’t enough to demonstrate that he makes it impossible to have respectful, productive conversations, this debate certainly was. In addition to his interruptions and interjections, he couldn’t even adhere to basic debate rules. The American people deserve to hear from each candidate about how they will lead the nation through the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the fight for racial justice and police accountability, the climate change crisis, and other emergencies facing our country. Donald Trump has made it clear that he’s only interested in a shouting match, not a debate about the future of our crumbling democracy. The Commission on Presidential Debates must cancel the final two debates and spare voters from Trump’s pissing contest. Click here to AUTOMATICALLY the petition calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to cancel the final two presidential debates. It is clear Donald Trump cannot have a respectful conversation. AUTOMATICALLY SIGN THE PETITION Our message to the Commission on Presidential Debates: September 29’s first presidential debate clearly demonstrated that Donald Trump cannot adhere to debate rules. He repeatedly shouted over both Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace and slung personal attacks at the former vice president. The American people deserve much better than Donald Trump’s shouting matches. Cancel the final two presidential debates. In solidarity, Sarah Hogg, Daily Kos

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An Open Letter To All The Lazy Greedy Do Nothing Lawyers Who Allowed Our Legal System To Become So Abysmal

 Slackers and Sellouts,  

I'm writing to a lot people regarding social media censorship and how it is killing free speech and threatening our democracy because it punishes unpopular speech with threats, intimidation and coercion while giving liars total immunity as long as the don't call an asshole an asshole a a traitor a traitor. As you know, Zuckerberg profits from lies designed to harm Western Democracy. That's treason but if you call that traitor a traitor on social media you will be deboosted, shadow banned and banned. Twitter denies shadow banning and deboosting but they do it. 

My speech on the public square know as Twitter has been violated. My blogs went from 1000 of views per day to maybe 50 per week due to deindexing and deboosting.  This happened over night. I suspect my factual content may have ruffled some feathers. I can only speculate as to what caused the Google gods to de-index my blogs. It may have been my expose of the weight loss surgery industry and the medical industry. It may have been my expose` on Doctor Oz weight loss quackery. It may have been my articles about the pedophile epidemic within the GOP and among the criminal elite. It may have been my articles about the FDA's revolving door and that the medical industry is the leading cause of preventable death and injury. I pissed off a lot of rich people and I've been places in Cyber Siberia gulag as a result. 

The thing about it, lies are more deadly that cancer. Lies are responsible for the deaths of perhaps 1 million Iraqis and the liars who created those lies were not even arrested. Today the FCC allows broadcasters to air lie filled political over the people's air waves. Youtube allows lie filled ad. This is how it is in the post truth era. 

Teddy Roosevelt and President Taft warned about corporate power and their worst fears have come true. Mussolini said that a better name for fascism is corporatism. Corporations are above the law. There's no arguing that.  The can lie, steal, kill and main with immunity and we peasants might get lucky and get a few coins from a some pathetic class action lawsuit while millionaire corporate perpetrators such as Heather Bresch of EpiPen infamy at worst get scolded by a bunch of pathetic grandstanders in congress. That vile pig walked away with over $25 million and kids died. Ain't that Amerika? 

Lawyers are not looked down upon by the general public for no reason. Our courts are a joke. Our criminal justice system is corrupt and for profit. America is a fascist kleptocracy run by oligarchs far more dangerous than errand boys in congress who serve them. 

Now that the bill of rights is an empty shell of itself and the 1st Amendment is subject to the whims of social media corporations the very essence that made America the land of the free and home of the brave has been subverted by fools who are so blinded by greed that they can't or won't grasp the concept or importance of protecting free speech. The first amendment is the first amendment for a reason. The social media is the public square and any speech in that cyber public square should be subject to the same limits and protections that the constitution and court ruling provide. But in reality and under the guise and vagueness of "keeping communities safe"  you can say what every you want as long as some social media Nazi bot of moderator agrees with it. Nazi defines it perfectly. Hitler did a lot of his evil under the guise of keeping people safe from some real or imagined threat but the cyber Nazis have deemed language that offends them as a threat and they squelch through threats, intimidation, coercion deboosting and shadow banning. Nazis in 1930's Germany controlled the narrative then and Nazis in 2020 America control it now. If you think this is hyperbole think again. They taught us in the classroom that can't happen here. Wake up academia. It has happened here.  

Short of a military coup or a very bloody revolt I really doubt if this can be turned around but I think every legal remedy should be tried. Lies and tolerating lies and the liars who tell them got us to the post truth era. The Bible tells us and science tells us that there are homo-sapiens that are simply no damn good. Robespierre said that to punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency and to forgive them is cruelty. He also said that peoples don't judge in the same way as courts that hand down sentences. He said they throw lightning bolt and kick tyrants into the void. He said that style of justice was as valid as any court. That's probably going to happen. 

The joke among my friends when they were young and heading off to college/academia that it would be four or more years of postponing reality. They were right. Academia with its intellectualism and philosophical bullshit is not the real world. It's a bubble and when people leave the bubble, part of them remains in that bubble. When you are in the upper crust you don't think a lot about what the peasants are having to deal with everyday. You yammer about the injustice of cops screwing with blacks and the poor while foolishly thinking peaceful protests will actually shame the ruling class will be moved into acting in an honorable and moral manner. After they killed MLK the 6 days or rioting is what got civil rights legislation passed. It wasn't intellectuals. 

It has come to this because of gutless comfortable well off snobby elites don't give a crap about the people simply are not feeling the pain. Talk is cheap. 

The US will probably go down the shitter. It's well on its way now. The depravity goes from the bottom to the top and social media and its lie spreading vampires increase it. It has infected our value system. Legalism trumps morality at every turn. Our most well known lawyers Dershowitz and Giuliani are the scum of the earth and our most famous MDs Dr Oz and Dr Drew are filthy charlatans. A moral non post truth society would have never tolerated those four scoundrels and they would have never gained notoriety. What those punks would have gotten had the attended my high school is the crap beaten out of them.  There was probably never a time in their vile lives when they weren't the scum of the earth but today we excuse, tolerate and reward slime like them. Giuliani and Dershowitz have not even been disbarred and Oz and Drew Pinski are still licenced in their states to practice medicine. You know they saying about the Nazis coming for the socialists, trade unionists and the Jews. Today's Nazis are coming for the Blacks, the Browns and the poor. When the peasants are gone, they will come for the academics.    

Complacency and silence is evil. This turning a blind eye to this fuckery is as bad as the fuckery itself. Allowing our neighbors and those who can't fight for themselves to suffer when you can help is immoral. Lawyers can fight for the peasants. See Robespierre.  Lawyers can navigate the cruel maze that it the legal system they created. Lawyers can help but they won't. Lawyers can defend the rights of the peasants but they won't because when you are comfortable there is no motivation to do so an altruism is about as rare as unicorn shit.  I hope this makes people who have the tools to fight for people who can't fight for themselves uncomfortable enough to join the fight. If every lawyer were to sue social media wrongdoers from the punks at the top to the weasels who censor, deboost and otherwise squelch speech and obstruct citizen journalists things could change. The EU has sued Google and won. Show some courage and old style Americanism and fight for those who can't fight for themselves.

If any of you plan to do anything to try to save this democracy, let me know what it is. 

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A lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse — the white teen charged with shooting three Kenosha protesters — says he's suing Joe Biden for libel

 

• Lin Wood, an attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, said he is suing Democratic nominee Joe Biden and the Biden and Kamala Harris campaigns for libel.

• Wood's tweet was posted following a video tweeted by Biden showing a montage of white pride groups, and Trump's refusal to condemn them on the debate stage Tuesday. 

• In the video, there is a photo of Rittenhouse who was armed with a Smith & Wesson AR-15-style.

• "On behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse, I shall sue @JoeBiden & Biden/Harris Campaign for libel," Wood tweeted.

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An attorney who said he is representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, announced on Twitter that he will be suing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for libel. 

Lawyer L. Lin Wood tweeted his plans several hours after Biden tweeted a 50 second video calling out President Donald Trump's ambiguous response when asked to condemn white supremacists at Tuesday's debate. The debate footage is spliced into a montage of footage of white pride groups around the country.

Rittenhouse, who faces murder and assault charges, was also featured in the video. 

 

Wood tweeted his support for Trump, and announced that he plans to sue for libel. 

"On behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse, I shall sue @JoeBiden & Biden/Harris Campaign for libel. I am partisan in 20/20 supporting @realDonaldTrump. I am non-partisan trial lawyer who aggressively pursues truth to achieve justice," he wrote. "Put in your hearing aid, Joe. You will hear footsteps."

 

Rittenhouse, who has become a symbol for the right, faces multiple charges including first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide, as well as a misdemeanor charge of possession of a deadly weapon.

The 17-year-old drove to Kenosha from his home in Antioch, Illinois to protect local businesses from looting amid unrest ignited by the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse, who is seen in a video firing an AR-15 style rifle into a crowd of people, is accused of fatally shooting protesters Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz on Aug. 25.

 

Wood, a traitorous and dangerous vocal right-wing attorney, has a history of working high profile and first amendment cases.

He represented Richard Jewell, a one-time suspect in the 1996 summer Olympics bombings; former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page; and Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who aimed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in their neighborhood. 

Messages left for Wood and the Biden campaign were not immediately returned Thursday morning.

You can contact Lucifer Lin Wood here: 

P.O. Box 52584
Atlanta, GA 30355-0584
Telephone: (404) 891-1402
Facsimile: (404) 506-9111

OpEd: Lucifer Lin didn't post the address of his office. I suspect he knows how fucked he is. I won't post it either even though its public information. I don't want anyone shooting this snake. I'd rather this shithead spend his days in fear or move to Russia where he will be safe and let the CIA deal with him there. 

• Read more: 

• Accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse will fight his extradition to Wisconsin for homicide case, lawyer says

• The Proud Boys chairman says members of the extremist organization are running for office — and you might not know if you're voting for one

• Kyle Rittenhouse — the teen charged with first-degree homicide over the shooting of 3 people at Kenosha protests — was obsessed with Blue Lives Matter and appeared 'on edge' before shots rang out

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Fox News reporter John Roberts on Thursday tore into Trumps Twitter MAGAts berating him for asking White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during a press briefing whether President Donald Trump denounces white supremacy.

 Fox News reporter John Roberts on Thursday tore into Twitter users berating him for asking White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during a press briefing whether President Donald Trump denounces white supremacy.

“For all of you on Twitter who are hammering me for ... asking that question: I don’t care,” Roberts told Fox News’ Melissa Francis on-air after the briefing. “Because it’s a question that needs to be asked. And clearly, the president’s Republican colleagues ... are looking for an answer, too.”

“So stop deflecting,” he added, visibly frustrated. “Stop blaming the media. I’m tired of it.”

Trump has faced bipartisan backlash for refusing to forcefully condemn white supremacy during the first 2020 presidential debate Tuesday.

Debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News asked Trump if he was willing to denounce “white supremacists and militia groups” and tell them to “stand down” in places like Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon — cities where heavily armed far-right extremists have shown up to anti-racism demonstrations as counterprotesters.

“Sure, I’m willing to do that,” Trump responded, “but I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing.”

Moments later, Trump instructed Proud Boys, a violent neo-fascist street gang, to “stand back and stand by” before pivoting back to the dangers posed by “antifa and the left.” Proud Boys leadership reportedly viewed the statement as both an endorsement and a call to violence.

On Wednesday, Trump attempted to walk back his comments by claiming he isn’t familiar with the Proud Boys.

“I don’t know who Proud Boys are,” Trump told reporters. “But whoever they are, they have to stand down and let law enforcement do their work.”

Roberts on Thursday called Trump’s claim of ignorance “puzzling.”

“If he didn’t know who they were, why did he denounce them?” Roberts said. “Why didn’t he say, ‘Well, I don’t know who they are. Can you give me a little bit more information about them?’ And then make a decision about it. So this all remains very puzzling.”

During the briefing Thursday, Roberts had asked McEnanay for a “definitive and declarative statement” about whether Trump denounces white supremacy and all groups that espouse it.

McEnanay appeared to shrug off the controversy surrounding Trump’s remarks during the debate earlier in the week, listing a few past statements the president has made condemning bigotry.

“The president was asked this. He said ‘sure’ three times,” McEnany said. She later stated that Trump “has condemned white supremacy more than any president in modern history.”

But Roberts continued to press her: “Can you right now denounce white supremacy and the group that espouses it?”

“I just did,” McEnany said. “The president has denounced white supremacy, the KKK and hate groups in all forms. ... His record on this is unmistakable.”

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Open Letter To Governor Ron DeSantis aka Governor De Satanist.

Dear Governor DeSantis,

You are doing a great job dealing with this liberal hoax. MAGA! Trump is right, testing causes more positive results so cut back on testing. It will panic people and continue undercounting the deaths. Keep the bars and schools open to full capacity and keep the churches open. MAGA!

Masks are a symbol of socialist tyranny. MAGA! As a devotee of Ayn Rand, my rights and well being are more important that others. MAGA! Let the weak die.MAGA! Jesus was a wimp! MAGA! Nice guys end up getting nailed.

On a moral note, I am glad you are doing what you are doing because the MAGAt Floridians and other Trumpanzees will see an early grave and you are helping to make that happen so fuck Florida and its crime, its two legged snakes, it's traitors, its election fraud, fact haters, its racists, its criminal Rick Scott and anyone who votes Republican. 

As your asshole constituents continue to piss in the pool they infect other states like Georgia but unfortunately that COVID-19 piss from filthy Florida infects state that have a majority of moral people. Maybe it would be a good idea if Florida would secede so that in a decade or two it will be under the ocean and the rest of us won't have to keep bailing your freeloading ass out. 

Keep up the good work Ron. Your efforts are helping to make America Great Again.  

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