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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, April 21, 2014

RSN: The Deepwater Horizon Threat, Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Imperative, et al



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Robert Parry | Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Imperative
Neo-Nazis at Ukrainian protests. (photo: Drugoi)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "After the Feb. 22 coup in Ukraine – spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias – European and U.S. diplomats pushed for a quick formation of a new government out of fear that otherwise these far-right ultra-nationalists would be left in total control."
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The Mentality of J Edgar Hoover's FBI Undergirds Today's Surveillance State
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "As the filmmakers noted in an interview with the AP, the parallels between Nixon-era FBI whistleblowers and Edward Snowden's NSA revelations are almost eerie in their similarity."
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It's No Longer Legal to Sexually Harass Unpaid Interns in New York City
Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine
Waldman writes: "'It's insane,' said Craig Gurian of the Anti-Discrimination Center, and others correctly called the loophole 'sleazy' and 'horrifying'—and pricked the New York City Council into action."
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Frida Berrigan | Solidarity and Social Change in Aisle 5
Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence, openDemocracy
Berrigan writes: 'Sorry everyone,' the checkout girl addressed the line forming behind me. 'She's got WIC.' The word sounded like a curse, a logjam, a headache.
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Dies at 76
Bill Chappell, National Public Radio
Chappell writes: "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the former boxing champion whose conviction for a triple murder was overturned after he served nearly 20 years in prison, has died of prostate cancer. Carter, whose story inspired a Bob Dylan song and a Denzel Washington film, was 76."
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The Onion Debuts Bush's Paintings of Dead Iraqi Children
Greg Mitchell, The Nation
Mitchell writes: "Earlier this month, on several occasions here or at my own blog or on Twitter, I complained about the fawning media coverage of George W. Bush, world-famous painter."
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The Deepwater Horizon Threat
S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, Jacqueline Savitz, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Four years ago this Sunday, BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, destroying the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 workers and setting off an uncontrolled oil gusher lasting 87 days."
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