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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Thursday, January 23, 2014

RSN: 'Stop Fast Track' of TPP & Behind West Virginia's Massive Chemical Spill, a History of Poverty and Pollution



Frank Rich | Get Ready for Rand Paul
Rand Paul. (photo: Jeff Malet/maletphoto.com)
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "The one-two punch out of McDonnell and Christie has pretty much leveled the media and GOP Establishment fantasy that the Republicans might nominate a 'centrist' conservative for president in 2016. As I've said before - and before Christie's fall - the front-runner for that nomination, at this early date at least, is Rand Paul."
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Watchdog Report Says NSA Program Is Illegal and Should End
Charlie Savage, The New York Times
Savage reports: "An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency's program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only 'minimal' benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down."
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APA Drops Guantanamo Torture Case
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "America's professional association of psychologists has quietly declined to rebuke one of its members, a retired US army reserve officer, for his role in one of the most brutal interrogations known to have to taken place at Guantanamo Bay, the Guardian has learned."
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Floating Surveillance Aircraft Raise Privacy Concerns
Craig Timberg, The Washington Post
Timberg reports: "They will look like two giant white blimps floating high above I-95 in Maryland, perhaps en route to a football game somewhere along the bustling Eastern Seaboard. But their mission will have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with war."
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Behind West Virginia's Massive Chemical Spill, a History of Poverty and Pollution
Katie Valentine and Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Valentine and Atkin report: "Industrial pollution, like what turned the Pond Fork River white, is a constant worry for many West Virginians, but [Maria] Gunnoe said it took a major chemical spill like the one that polluted the water of 300,0000 West Virginians to get the nation to notice."
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Over 50 Groups. One Call: 'Stop Fast Track' of TPP
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Excerpt: "With the launch of StopFastTrack.com, the organizations highlight how renewal of Fast Track legislation, also known as Trade Legislation Authority, would take away Congress' democratic power in deliberating and amending the TPP, which thus far has been negotiated behind closed doors, with the only information about it being provided through leaks."
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