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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, May 19, 2014

RSN: First Responders vs. Frackers: Who Will Win?, They Can't Outlaw the Revolution, et al


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YES THERE IS A BRIGHT SPOT, MONTHLY SIGNUPS! The overall fundraising numbers are straining, but the monthly signups remain strong. That’s a very encouraging sign, because it means there is light at the end of the tunnel, (that isn’t a train.) Save RSN - Skip the Fundraising Emails - be a Sustainer Subscriber! / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

BREAKING: Cecily McMillan Sentenced to Three Months in Jail
Cecily McMillan and attorney Martin R Stolar. (photo: Andrew Gombert/EPA)
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "An Occupy Wall Street activist has been sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting a New York police officer as he led her out of a protest."
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YOU ARE DOING A GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE: You guys (and gals) are doing a great public service. I quote Marian Diamond, "The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across." Why the quote? Your service is helping to light up the universe- of thought. I know you will spend my pension money wisely. If I had more $ to give, I would do so. / Eldon, RSN Reader-Supporter

Chris Hedges | They Can't Outlaw the Revolution
Cecily McMillan. (photo: Jose Negroni)
Chris Hedges, TruthDig
Hedges writes: "Cecily McMillan, the Occupy activist who on Monday morning will appear before a criminal court in New York City to be sentenced to up to seven years on a charge of assaulting a police officer, sat in a plastic chair wearing a baggy, oversized gray jumpsuit, cheap brown plastic sandals and horn-rim glasses."
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AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion
Liana B. Baker, Soyoung Kim, Marina Lopes, Reuters
Excerpt: "AT&T plans to pay $48.5 billion to buy DirecTV, the top U.S. satellite TV operator, in a bid for growth beyond an increasingly competitive cellular market."
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China, Russia Outrank US When it Comes to Corporate Transparency
Margot Williams, Center for Public Integrity
Williams writes: "For journalists and researchers pursuing cross-border and global investigations, access to information on companies is a basic need, but one that is not always easy to fulfill."
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CIA Seeks More Time to Declassify Interrogation Documents
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News
Aftergood writes: "The Central Intelligence Agency today asked a court to allow more time to declassify its response to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on CIA rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) activities, which itself is undergoing a time-consuming declassification review."
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A Decade Later, Same-Sex Marriage Tide Has Almost Completely Turned
Sarah Posner, Al Jazeera America
Posner writes: "Now, 10 years after opponents of same-sex marriage believed they had launched a successful counterattack on the Goodridge ruling, they find themselves facing an extraordinarily rapid reversal of public opinion and legal precedent."
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Obama's New Problem: What to Do With India's Modi?
Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor
Sappenfield writes: "On Friday, President Obama did what just about everyone knew he must and invited Narendra Modi, India's new prime-minister-in-waiting, to the United States. It was anything but a routine invitation. Mr. Modi remains the only person ever to be banned from traveling to the United States under the International Religious Freedom Act."
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First Responders vs. Frackers: Who Will Win?
John Upton, Grist
Upton writes: "Frackers across the country refuse to divulge what’s in their special sauces of fracking chemicals, claiming the information is a trade secret – even when their poisonous cocktails are being pumped into the ground beneath us."
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