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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, July 20, 2014

RSN: Threatening Whales and Planet, US Opens Up Offshore Oil Exploration



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I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile
(photo: Alan Rusbridger/Guardian UK)
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "A year into his exile in Moscow, he feels less, not more, isolated. If he is depressed, he doesn't show it. And, at the end of seven hours of conversation, he refuses a beer. 'I actually don't drink.'"
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Charles J. Ogletree Jr. | The Death Penalty Is Incompatible With Human Dignity
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., The Washington Post
Ogletree writes: "I have wondered countless times over the past 30 years whether I would live to see the end of the death penalty in the United States. I now know that day will come, and I believe that the current Supreme Court will be its architect."
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Keira Knightley | A Plea for Help for South Sudan
Keira Knightley, Reader Supported News
Knightley writes: "You hear these stories all the time in Africa. The brutality, the never-ending death and starvation. It's easy to become immune. And then you meet someone like Rebecca."
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Beyond Obamacare: Health Care as a Human Right
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "On paper, the concept is pretty simple. Activists like Marchenkova and Schlosser want a health care system that's built around people's needs rather than profit margins. They don't want anyone to struggle to get medical care because they can't afford it, or because they work at a job that doesn't provide a generous health insurance package."
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Bolivia Legalizes Child Labor for Kids From Age 10
Associated Press
Excerpt: "While most of the world is trying to diminish child labor, Bolivia has become the first nation to legalize it from age 10. Congress approved the legislation early this month, and Vice President Alvaro Garcia signed it into law Thursday in the absence of President Evo Morales, who was traveling."
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Threatening Whales and Planet, US Opens Up Offshore Oil Exploration
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
McCauley writes: "The Obama administration on Friday gave the greenlight for fossil fuel companies to begin exploring for oil in the waters off the east coast of the U.S., a move said to have a dire consequences for marine life in the short term and on our global climate for years to come."
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Nestle Is Bottling Water Straight From the Heart of California's Drought
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: "As residents of California are urged to conserve water and the state considers placing a mandatory restriction on outdoor water usage, Nestle is trucking away undisclosed amounts of the precious resource in the form of bottled water."
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