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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



Tuesday, May 27, 2014

RSN: NYT's One-Sided Ukraine Narrative, EPA Orders Duke Energy to Clean North Carolina Coal Ash Spill, et al




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Robert Parry | NYT's One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Reporters listen to Russian president Vladimir Putin's speech, displayed on TV screens during a nationally televised question-and-answer session in Moscow, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo: Pavel Golovkin/AP)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "As part of the New York Times' sorry descent into becoming a propaganda sheet for the U.S. State Department, the Times' front-page story on the Ukrainian presidential election offered a near perfect distillation of Official Washington's false narrative on the crisis."
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Privacy Under Attack: The NSA Files Revealed New Threats to Democracy
Eben Moglen, Guardian UK
Moglen writes: "We all know that the United States has for decades spent as much on its military might as all other powers in the world combined. Americans are now realizing what it means that we applied to the stealing of signals and the breaking of codes a similar proportion of our resources in relation to the rest of the world."
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More Than 50 Rebels Killed in Biggest Ukraine Government Assault
Sabina Zawadzki and Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters
Excerpt: "More than 50 pro-Russian rebels were killed in an unprecedented assault by Ukrainian government forces, which raged into a second day on Tuesday after a newly-elected president vowed to crush the revolt in the east once and for all."
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US Trains African Commandos to Fight Terrorism
Eric Schmitt, The New York Times
Schmitt writes: "United States Special Operations troops are forming elite counterterrorism units in four countries in North and West Africa that American officials say are pivotal in the widening war against Al Qaeda's affiliates and associates on the continent, even as they acknowledge the difficulties of working with weak allies."
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After Mass Shootings, the Status Quo Reigns Supreme in Congress
Jaime Fuller, The Washington Post
Fuller writes: "After the shooting at University of California, Santa Barbara on Friday, a rampage that left six students dead, many parents and politicians found the federal government's past responses to similar tragedies to be one of the culprits. 'Have we learned nothing?' Richard Martinez, father of one of the victims, said. 'These things are going to continue until somebody does something, so where the hell is the leadership?'"
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EPA Orders Duke Energy to Clean North Carolina Coal Ash Spill
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch
Baker writes: "The US Environmental Protection Agency and Duke Energy reached a deal Thursday afternoon to clean up one of the largest coal ash spills in US history."
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