No someone isn't scamming AT&T. AT&T are the roaches in this pudding.
So AT&T took over the billing for Directv a few months ago and I already paid one late charge before I figured out what was going on. They really want you to give them a credit card or bank account so they can avoid all that messy paper and postage (and incidentally take whatever they want whenever they want).
Here's the gimmick (using today's bill):
4/26/19 - Received bill
4/13/19 - Official Bill "Issue" date
5/06/19 - Bill due date
But the bill return slip has a barely legible quibble that says the payment may take 7 days to post.
Bottom line: you've got three days to get the check to them if you want to be sure to avoid late charges.
Their response will be "But we sent you an email a week ago, you could have paid on-line and avoided all this unpleasantness."
Like I would trust them with my credit card or bank account after this cr*p.
#1
I've noticed the shrinkage of the pay window lately for a lot of accounts - to about 10 days between receipt of bill and due date - but have not yet been bitten by the '7 days to post' varmint.
#2
Been with AT&T for cell phone service since '83. They play so many shenanigans and it's easy to see it will only get worse. They went heavily in debt to buy DirecTV and Time Warner and now those two are bleeding subscribers like crazy. I can see a day very soon now where AT&T will try to force all their cell customers to buy cable content too just to keep the cell service. I will be an ex customer of theirs at that point.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/26/2019 8:17 Comments ||
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When I first had to get AT&T 10 years ago, they are the only provider in my area, I signed up for autopay. I noticed my bank statement didn't add up right with my check register. Turns out AT&T took 3 months worth at once. I canceled autopay right then.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
04/26/2019 16:07 Comments ||
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[SALON] The reporting over the Syrian war these last 8 years has been an interesting masterclass in how to manufacture a narrative. The amount of reporting generated by journalists who never set foot in the places that they reported from was almost unprecedented. During these 8 years only a tiny handful of journalists actually travelled to syria to report on what was going on. Among these are Robert Fisk, Sharmine Narwani, Vanessa Beeley, Carla Ortiz, Eva Bartlett and Elijah Magnier. It's interesting to observe how radically different the reporting from these handful have been from the vast quantities of bullshit provided by the major media outlets. Fisk and "Journalism" in the same paragraph. Riiigghhht
In the interview linked before, Narwani goes into some detail on what she personally observed and discovered on the ground in Syria, covering western support (including US, UK, French and Israeli support), the violence of the opposition protests from day 1, the propaganda instrument that was the white helmets, the discovery of a chemical weapons factory run by one of the opposition groups, and how the FSA was essentially indistinguishable from al-qaida in syria, and more.
These are not new reports, and elements have been brought to light over the years, some of it by the small list of journalists mentioned above, but this gives a great overview of how western media organisations were, at best willingly duped and at worst knowingly complicit in fabricating a totally false narrative in one of the most deadly wars in the last 2 decades.
This is part 1 of a two part series. Part 2 coming soon.
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
04/26/2019 00:00 ||
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Among these are Robert Fisk, Sharmine Narwani, Vanessa Beeley, Carla Ortiz, Eva Bartlett and Elijah Magnier.
No bias there. We are all familiar with Mr Fisk. Care to google the others? Let's begin with the subject of this article, Sharmine Narwani:
An extremist named Sharmine Narwani finds a home at ‘Comment is Free’ (UK Guardian) It isn’t an easy title to win, but Sharmine “Dignity Rockets” Narwani is probably the most loathsome of all the Huffington Post bloggers, past or present. We’ve documented in the past her hatred for America, Israel (of course), and Huffington Post bloggers who dare to say stuff that she doesn’t like. She’s a liar, an anti-Semite, and a propagandist, not to mention a proud terrorism supporter. If all that doesn’t convince you, check out this page of quotes here.
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/26/2019 8:35 Comments ||
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#3
Argument by character assassination. Gosh, it's like arguing with the Left. They do the same shit.
When you argue, you provide evidence. You state claims and then back them up. You refute the opposition's arguments. The fact that they have personal views you find objectionable in no way refutes any facts they might have found.
I'm just getting more and more disappointed by the day. We're supposed to be better than the Left, dammit.
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
04/26/2019 10:14 Comments ||
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#4
*snicker*
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/26/2019 10:22 Comments ||
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#5
Backing up Herb here.
"the propaganda instrument that was the white helmets, the discovery of a chemical weapons factory run by one of the opposition groups, and how the FSA was essentially indistinguishable from al-qaida in syria" is all true.
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An interesting article. Particularly in light of swksvolFF’s comments yesterday about the plans of President Barack Hussein Obama, laid out in #8 and #11 here.
Ms Narwani certainly has all the polish a Columbia School of Journalism grad could hope to have purchased — the grammar and spelling are impeccable, the vocabulary elevated without overreaching — while the Marxism inherent in journalism education nowadays is clear. World War II as merely a great power exercise, seriously, not to mention casual, uncorroborated accusations against Israel — always the killer argument in certain circles. But mostly this piece serves —perhaps unintentionally — as an indictment of President Obama and his Mad Mullah and Muslim Brotherhood pals, not America as such. Reading through it, I see a good deal of what we here at Rantburg have been unhappy with over the years of this adventure, to the point where the only party worth cheering for has been the Kurds, about whom Old Spook reported for us after his return from the field.
It seems to me that both parties to this interview make assumptions about current and near-future power balances that appeared reasonable during the Obama years, but have already been superseded. America being replaced as world hegemon by Russia, China, and Iran? That’s looking more laughable by the day,
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"You could see in the photos the level of sophistication of the equipment, the large compression units, the pipes going from the laboratory upstairs to the heavier devices below. The one thing I did conclude from this discovery is that Syrian militants clearly had the means to access sanctioned, foreign — even American — equipment with dual-use technologies, that they were able to create production lines in the middle of war zones, that they were able to procure toxic substances. Chlorine was found in rows of containers at the front of the facility. Before this, the narrative was that the “rebels” couldn’t possibly be responsible for chemical weapons attacks because they couldn’t make or buy them. This facility showed they could make them…."
"In the early days, it seemed that on the eve of every U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria — or before an “international team” was about to arrive in the country — something violent and horrific would happen. You could almost time these massacres and chemical weapons attacks according to the politically significant event that was about to take place in a Western capital."
Your move, Frank G. Got some more laughter?
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
04/26/2019 15:15 Comments ||
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#8
Attack the press and eventually they won't go near. At that point you can feed them whatever you want.
#9
Herb, I don't doubt all sides committed atrocities. What I find disgusting is your kneejerk response to withdraw to our borders like a naive coward and someone who will be the first bleating: "How could this happen here???" when it does.
You're a blame-America-firster. I prefer to fight them over there, maintain law and free transit of the seas and air and protection of American citizens at home AND abroad FIRST. If that means we become world cop in some instances, I'm good with that. I won't be like you and prtetend evil and danger is inherent in our side rather than our enemies. NOT satire, putz
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/26/2019 18:14 Comments ||
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[SALON] The reporting over the Syrian war these last 8 years has been an interesting masterclass in how to manufacture a narrative. The amount of reporting generated by journalists who never set foot in the places that they reported from was almost unprecedented. During these 8 years only a tiny handful of journalists actually travelled to syria to report on what was going on. Among these are Robert Fisk, Sharmine Narwani, Vanessa Beeley, Carla Ortiz, Eva Bartlett and Elijah Magnier. It's interesting to observe how radically different the reporting from these handful have been from the vast quantities of bullshit provided by the major media outlets.
