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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, April 13, 2014

RSN: Now We Know What's Being Done in Our Name, Parasitic Flatworm Could Decimate Coral Reefs Worldwide, et al

FOCUS: Robert Parry | Reagan-Bush Ties to Iran-Hostage Crisis
If Hamid Aboutalebi can be denied a Visa for his alleged role in the Iran hostage crisis, then why not deport George Bush Sr.? (photo: Iran)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "The double standard - getting worked up over the allegations about Iranian Ambassador Hamid Aboutalebi and going silent over the evidence implicating Reagan and Bush - is just the latest in a long series of examples of the U.S. government's hypocrisy."
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Charles Pierce | Now We Know What's Being Done in Our Name
The CIA held detainees in secret 'black site' prisons overseas and abducted others who it turned over to foreign governments for interrogation. (photo: Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "We finally have been favored with the most inevitable leak in the history of the republic. Somebody's sent the Senate committee's report on the CIA's torture program, and its description of what was done in our name, out into the world."
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Justice John Paul Stevens | The Five Extra Words That Can Fix the Second Amendment
Justice John Paul Stevens, The Washington Post
Stevens writes: "Each year, more than 30,000 people die in the United States in firearm-related incidents. Many of those deaths involve handguns. The adoption of rules that will lessen the number of those incidents should be a matter of primary concern to both federal and state legislators."
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FBI Agents Were Deployed in Hundreds of JSOC Raids Conducted in Iraq & Afghanistan
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter
Gosztola writes: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed an alliance with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and deployed agents in hundreds of raids conducted as part of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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Jim Wallis | Another Pro-Life Issue
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
"Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the closest American prelate to Pope Francis, took nine other bishops to the Mexican-American border for three days of listening to the stories of people who are suffering from America's horribly broken immigration system."
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Yes, California, Your Prison Conditions Are Still Unconstitutional
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress
Flatow writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court found that the state's prison health care was so deficient that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But California still hasn't gotten the message."
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China Takes On Big Risks in Its Push for Shale Gas
Keith Bradsher, The New York Times
Bradsher reports: "Residents of this isolated mountain valley of terraced cornfields were just going to sleep last April when they were jolted by an enormous roar, followed by a tower of flames. A shock wave rolled across the valley, rattling windows in farmhouses and village shops, and a mysterious, pungent gas swiftly pervaded homes."
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Parasitic Flatworm Could Decimate Coral Reefs Worldwide
Yale Environment 360, EcoWatch
Excerpt: "The parasite has been detected at the Great Barrier Reef, and because it has no known natural predators, researchers are concerned it could spread quickly and decimate reefs worldwide."
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