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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



Thursday, March 27, 2014

RSN: The Destruction of WV by MTR, NSA Spying, CIA Torture, Things Go Better With Kochs et al




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Paul Krugman | Things Go Better With Kochs
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Hey, I had to use that headline before someone else claimed it."
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Charles Pierce | The Todashev Case
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "He was shot and killed while he was being interrogated in his Florida apartment by the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police in connection with a triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts in which, it was alleged, Todashev was involved with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers suspected in last year's Boston Marathon bombing."
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A Tale of Two Torture Reports
Katherine Hawkins and Alka Pradhan, Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "We already know the CIA misled the Justice Department; the Senate's report should be made public."
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Donald Rumsfeld Says "A Trained Ape" Could Do Better Than Obama on Afghanistan
Elias Isquith, Salon
Isquith reports: "Donald Rumsfeld, the man who as defense secretary helped orchestrate and oversee not one but two disastrous wars, appeared on Fox News on Monday in order to bash President Obama by negatively comparing him to 'a trained ape.'"
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The House's NSA Bill Could Allow More Spying Than Ever. You Call This Reform?
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm reports: "The White House and the House Intelligence Committee leaked dueling proposals last night that are supposedly aimed at ending the mass collection of all Americans' phone records."
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Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood | Invasion of the Data Snatchers
Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "Techno-evangelists have a nice catchphrase for this future utopia of machines and the never-ending stream of information, known as Big Data, it produces: the Internet of Things."
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Mountaintops, Communities Permanently Altered in West Virginia
Kimberly Johnson, Al Jazeera America
 
A bumper sticker in McDowell County. (photo: Ian C. Bates/Al Jazeera America)
A bumper sticker in McDowell County. (photo: Ian C. Bates/Al Jazeera America)

Johnson reports: "The thunder comes with the shift change at the coal mines. It's the sound of surface mining, as hundreds of acres of mountain summits are pulverized and decapitated to extract coal close to the surface."
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The map below was prepared in 2009 by Appalachian Voices and shows the areas devastated by Mountaintop Removal:
 

 

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