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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



Monday, March 31, 2014

RSN: The GOP Courtship of Sheldon Adelson, US Nuclear Waste Dirty-Bombs New Mexico With Plutonium, et al


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FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The GOP Courtship of Sheldon Adelson
Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Sheldon Adelson watches a lion dance at the opening ceremony of the Sands Cotai Central in April 2012 in Macau. (photo: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The New York Times today has a lovely look at yet another wonderful byproduct of our bright new age of campaign finance."
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William Boardman | US Nuclear Waste Dirty-Bombs New Mexico With Plutonium
WIPP is the third deepest geological storage site in the world, behind two facilities in German. (photo: AP)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "It was Valentine's Day when the nation's only radioactive nuclear waste facility first released radioactive particles including Plutonium and Americium into the atmosphere of New Mexico and beyond, including into Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico."
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Beware the Surveillance Reform Trojan Horse: What's Not in the New NSA Laws?
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "This week was undoubtedly a turning point in the NSA debate. Edward Snowden said it himself on Monday, as some of the NSA's most ardent defenders…suddenly released similar proposals endorsing the end of the NSA's bulk collection of phone records as we know it."
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Evidence Implicates Russian-Trained Snipers in Kiev
Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast
Dettmer writes: "The first crack of a sniper's round in Kiev's Independence Square came shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of February 20 and the last about seven hours later at around four o'clock in the afternoon drawing to a close the bloodiest day in what had been a months-long struggle to oust Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych."
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New GOP Bid to Limit Voting in Swing States
Steven Yaccino, Lizette Alvarez, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to fight back against the nation's most restrictive voting laws, passed by Republicans there last year."
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Movie Review: 'Boys of Abu Ghraib'
Mark Jenkins, National Public Radio
Jenkins writes: "Essentially a one-man show, writer-director-star Luke Moran's Boys of Abu Ghraib observes a soldier's deployment at the prison during its most notorious post-Saddam year, 2003."
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François Truffaut, Liberal Filmmaker
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Brody writes: "Many of Truffaut's films from that time reflect—or, rather, refract—the politics of the day in terms of the filmmaker's distinctive range of concerns, the first of which is the raising and schooling of children, and the way that the private and public realms intersect in their lives."
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Report: Climate Change Already Impacting 'All Continents'
Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress
Spross reports: "The next big report from an ongoing international effort to nail down the science of climate change will be released on Monday."
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