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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



Sunday, March 23, 2014

RSN: The Week the World Stood Still, Why the Exxon Valdez Spill Was a Eureka Moment for Science, et al



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Noam Chomsky | The Week the World Stood Still
Noam Chomsky (photo: Graeme Robertson/Guardian UK)
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch
Chomsky writes: "Here was the oddest thing: within weeks of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on a second Japanese city on August 9, 1945, and so obliterating it, Americans were already immersed in new scenarios of nuclear destruction."
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Jimmy Carter Issues 'Call To Action' Against Subjugation Of Women
National Public Radio
Excerpt: "Carter tackles a fundamental question of equality head-on: the subjugation of women in cultures around the world."
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Dan Froomkin | NSA Lawyer Likens Publishing NSA Secrets to Drunk Driving
Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Froomkin writes: "The intelligence community's top lawyer on Friday defended the Obama administration's hostility toward revelations of national security secrets - and likened the act of publishing them to drunk driving."
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Obama Meets With Facebook, Google, Others on Privacy, Surveillance
Alina Selyukh, Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
Excerpt: "Executives of several large U.S. Internet companies, including Facebook Inc and Google Inc, met with President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss their concerns over government surveillance programs."
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NSA Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
Excerpt: "But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors - directly into Huawei's networks."
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With Health Law, Workers Ponder the I-Quit Option
Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press
Johnson reports: "For Stephanie Payne of St. Louis, who already had good insurance, the law could offer another kind of escape: the chance to quit her job."
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Why the Exxon Valdez Spill Was a Eureka Moment for Science
Elizabeth Shogren, National Public Radio
Shogren reports: "Twenty-five years of research following the Exxon Valdez disaster has led to some startling conclusions about the persistent effects of spilled oil."
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