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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



Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The Menace of the Military Mind

FROM RSN:

Chris Hedges | The Menace of the Military Mind
James Clapper testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (photo: Reuters)
Chris Hedges, TruthDig
Hedges writes: "In the military, whether at the Paris Island boot camp or West Point, you are trained not to think but to obey."
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FOCUS: Robert Reich | Widening Inequality Is Hobbling Equal Opportunity
Economist, professor, author and political commentator Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "America's savage inequality is the main reason equal opportunity is fading and poverty is growing."
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Steve Weissman | AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!
President Obama's speaks to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference. (photo: AP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Think back to August 2013, when Obama and Kerry called for a not-so-limited military strike on Syria following reports that the government of Bashir al-Assad had used poison gas. To this day, Washington has not shown that the horrific use of gas came from Assad's forces rather than from the Sunni rebels."
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Barbara Garson | The Public-Private Profiteers
Barbara Garson, TomDispatch
Garson writes: "In other countries with national health plans, a variety of independent health care providers ... deliver medical care, while the government doles out the compensation. They let a hundred healthcare providers bloom, but there's only a single payer. If the U.S. moved to single-payer healthcare, however, what would happen to the private health insurance business?"
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Judges Poised to Hand US Spies the Keys to the Internet
Kevin Poulsen, Wired
Poulsen reports: "How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites? It's one of the mysteries yet unanswered by the Edward Snowden leaks."
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Record Number of People Exonerated of Crimes in US in 2013
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington reports: "A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations finds that almost a third of the people in 2013's unprecedented crop of exonerations were convicted in cases in which, in fact, no crime was committed - a record-breaking number in itself."
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Richard Eskow | The Populist Moment
Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future
Eskow writes: "Of all the myths that circulate in Washington, perhaps none is more prevalent or intractable than the one that says that the United States is a 'moderate' nation - and that the 'center' of public opinion lies somewhere between the views of conservative Democrats and those of less extreme Republicans (a relative term at best)."
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Beware Republican Scam Donation Sites
Taegan Goddard, The Week
Goddard reports: "The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a series of websites that look like they support a Democratic candidate for Congress, but instead direct contributions to the Republican Party instead."
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Charles Pierce | More Bad News About Pipelines
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Recently, arguing that pipelines are safer ways to carry oil than are trains, Ed Schultz has signed aboard with out old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel that will carry the world's dirtiest fossil fuel from the blasted environmental moonscape of northern Alberta to the refineries along the Texas Gulf coast, and thence to the world."
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