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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

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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



Saturday, June 28, 2014

RSN: Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune From Open Records Laws



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Robert Reich | Break the Koch Machine
Portrait, Robert Reich, 08/16/09. (photo: Perian Flaherty)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "A number of billionaires are flooding our democracy with their money, drowning out the voices of the rest of us. But Charles and David Koch are in a class by themselves."
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Germany Cancels Verizon Deal Over Spying
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "The German government has canceled a contract with the U.S. firm Verizon Communications Inc. as part of an overhaul of its internal communications, prompted by revelations last year of U.S. government spying."
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Paul Krugman | The Incompetence Dogma
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "What's interesting about this success story is that it has been accompanied at every step by cries of impending disaster."
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Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune From Open Records Laws
Radley Balko, The Washington Post
Balko reports: "As part of the American Civil Liberties Union's recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to SWAT teams across that state. It received an interesting response."
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US Pledges to Stop Producing New Landmines
Hayes Brown, ThinkProgress
Brown reports: "The United States announced on Friday that it will no longer produce new anti-personnel landmines (APL), letting its current stockpile dwindle and moving towards finally implementing a treaty banning the use of the weapons that have killed an estimated 20,000 people annually."
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Heavily Fracked Oklahoma Has More Earthquakes Than California
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis reports: "Oklahoma has had nearly double the number of earthquakes as California, local news reported after five earthquakes on Thursday morning rattled an area of the state where oil and gas drilling is prevalent."
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Canada's High Court Sides With First Nations in Land Rights Case
Benjamin Shingler, Al Jazeera America
Shingler reports: "Canada's top court has sided with a British Columbia indigenous tribe in a case that could have wide-reaching implications for land disputes over traditional aboriginal territories."
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