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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, June 16, 2014

RSN: The US Military's Campaign Against Media Freedom



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Chelsea Manning | The US Military's Campaign Against Media Freedom
A woman protesting voter fraud in Iraq’s general election. (photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
Chelsea Manning, The New York Times
Manning writes: “I believe that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.”
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Nate Silver | Most Women Like Hillary Clinton ‘Evolved’ on Gay Marriage Years Ago
Nate Silver, Five Thirty Eight
Silver writes: “If you were at a dinner party and the woman seated across from you was a wealthy, white, well-educated, liberal-to-moderate Democrat, it would be fairly safe for you to assume she supported gay marriage. But if that woman were Hillary Clinton, you’d have been wrong — at least until March 2013”
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Insurgent Advance Slows in Iraq as Images of a Mass Killing Spread Online
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: “An offensive by insurgents that threatens to dismember Iraq seemed to slow on Saturday after days of lightning advances as government forces regained some territory in counter-attacks, easing pressure on the Shia-led government in Baghdad.”
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David Sirota | The Problem With Philanthropy
David Sirota, In These Times
Sirota writes: “Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political convention, but not necessarily at a tech industry conference. And so former Vice President Al Gore’s discussion at Nashville's tech-focused Southland Conference this week could be viewed in context as a jeremiad spotlighting taboo truths about tech culture and philanthropic traditions.”
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Major Supreme Court Rulings in June
Dexter Mullins, Al Jazeera America
Mullins writes: “June is a big month, and not just because of the World Cup. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is expected to issue several major rulings in the next few weeks, and the outcomes will have significant impacts on several areas. We broke down the major cases so you can get up to speed.”
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Johannes Mehserle Still Says He Was Trying to Tase Oscar Grant
Paul Elias, Associated Press
Elias writes: “A former Northern California transit officer cried on the witness stand Friday while describing how he shot and killed an unarmed man on a train station platform more than five years ago.”
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Migrant Children Accuse Border Patrol Agents of Physical and Sexual Assault
Steven Hsieh, The Nation
Hsieh writes: “Five immigrant rights groups filed a complaint Wednesday accusing US border officials of participating in the systemic abuse of unaccompanied migrant children detained near the southwest border, including physical and sexual abuse, painful shackling and denial of adequate food and water.”
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