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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

Toyota

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



Monday, February 17, 2014

Our Sinister Dual State




FOCUS: Chris Hedges | Our Sinister Dual State
Chris Hedges. (photo: TruthDig)
Chris Hedges, TruthDig
Hedges writes: "The government officials who, along with their courtiers in the press, castigate Snowden insist that congressional and judicial oversight, the right to privacy, the rule of law, freedom of the press and the right to express dissent remain inviolate."
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Paul Krugman | Barons of Broadband
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. (photo: AP)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Comcast, a gigantic provider of cable TV and high-speed Internet service, has reached a deal to acquire Time Warner, which is merely huge. If regulators approve the deal, Comcast will be an overwhelmingly dominant player in the business, with around 30 million subscribers."
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John Kerry Calls Climate Change a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'
Gillian Mohney, ABC News
Mohney reports: "Secretary of State John Kerry today spoke in stark terms about the dangers of climate change and compared those who deny it is happening to people who believe the world is flat. "
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US Sinks to 46th in Global Press Freedom Rankings
Oliver Knox, Yahoo! News
Knox writes: "The United States did not live up to the promise of the First Amendment last year, “far from it,” sinking to 46th in global press freedom rankings, a respected international nonprofit group said Wednesday."
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Gettysburg of the GOP Civil War
Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
Obeidallah writes: "It truly appears that we are on the verge of a reckoning within the GOP beyond simply the targeting of a few seats. Who will win is anyone’s guess, in part, because there are so many Republican factions fighting each other. "
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The Wal-Mart-Ization of Higher Education: How Young Professors Are Getting Screwed
Keith Hoeller, Salon
Hoeller writes: "Though the devastating labor upheavals caused by the new global economy have been widely noted, this new academic labor system has been imposed with hardly any notice by the public at large. "
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Climate Change: Time for the Skeptics to Put Up or Shut Up
Henry Porter, Guardian UK
Porter writes: "The absolute proof of manmade global warming is unlikely to arrive until it is too late and so the deniers are scrupulously indulged with equal time in the argument, where, taking the part of Little Britain's wheelchair user Andy to our Lou, nothing is ever good enough for them."
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Russian Environmental Critic Sentenced to Three Years Forced Labor
John Upton, Grist
Upton reports: "An activist who coauthored a report cataloging the appalling environmental damage wreaked by Olympic construction will spend the next three years in a Russian penal colony."
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