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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, March 12, 2014

RSN: Ukraine: Will the Nazis and Jews Make Nice?, Climate Activism Works, A Constitutional Crisis, et al



FOCUS: Steve Weissman | Ukraine: Will the Nazis and Jews Make Nice?
Orthodox Jews pray in the small Ukrainian city of Uman, some 200 km (120 miles) south of Kiev. (photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Hating Jews is nothing new in Ukraine. As far back as 1648-49, Cossacks and their allies in the Chmielnicki Massacres killed more than 100,000 Jews and destroyed some 300 Jewish communities."
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Carl Gibson | Climate Activism Works
Students die-in at the White House protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. (photo: Kristina Banks)
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "It's obvious to anyone that both Democrat and Republican senators who reject the idea of climate change or remain silent on the issue are doing so to appeal to their sugar daddies who are writing campaign checks."
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Dan Froomkin | A Constitutional Crisis
Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Froomkin writes: "Two top Senate leaders declared Tuesday that the CIA's recent conduct has undermined the separation of powers as set out in the Constitution, setting the stage for a major battle to reassert the proper balance between the two branches."
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Rebecca Solnit | By the Way, Your Home Is on Fire
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Solnit writes: "Sometimes the right thing to do in ordinary times is exactly the wrong thing to do in extraordinary times."
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Ronnie Cummins | GMOs: Ban Them or Label Them?
Ronnie Cummins, EcoWatch
Cummins writes: "Some campaigners have called for an outright ban of GE crops. In fact, several dozen nations, thousands of local governments in the EU and six counties in the U.S. (in California, Washington and Hawaii) have created GMO-free zones by passing bans."
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | The 'Next Citizens United' May Fuel a Popular Uprising
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
vanden Heuvel writes: "Pity poor Shaun McCutcheon. McCutcheon is the Alabama businessman suing the Federal Election Commission for abridging his First Amendment right to free speech - that is, if we define free speech as McCutcheon's right to donate upward of $123,200 in a single election cycle."
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Ohio Earthquakes Linked to Fracking
Amel Ahmed, Al Jazeera America
Ahmed writes: "Ohio authorities shut down a hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, natural gas operation in Mahoning County on Monday after two earthquakes were felt in the area, near the Pennsylvania border, local newspapers and broadcasters reported."
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Holder: Heroin an Urgent 'Public Health Crisis'
Eric Tucker, Associated Press
Tucker writes: "Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths an 'urgent and growing public health crisis' and said first responders should carry with them a drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose."
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