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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, August 11, 2014

RSN: Ukrainians: War Is Really About Gas Reserves, (Fracking), Exxon Begins Drilling Russia's Pristine Arctic Waters





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Steve Weissman | From Iraq to Ukraine, Where Are the Adults?
A Yazidi man. (photo: AP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "When U.S. president Barack Obama began unilaterally bombing Islamist militants in northern Iraq, some Americans and Europeans may have thought he was doing the right thing to protect endangered Christians, Kurds, and ancient Yazidis."
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Ukrainians: War Is Really About Gas Reserves, (Fracking)
Anna Nemtsova, Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Locals seemed to have consensus on who’s at war: the U.S. and Russia over control of Ukraine, they all agreed. But even now, three months past the day the first shell fell on Slovyansk, they still had trouble comprehending why their green, sleepy hometown still was trapped in this conflict."
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FICO to Discount Medical Debt From Credit Scores
Al Jazeera America and Reuters
Excerpt: "With FICO’s new rules, negotiated between lending groups and the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), that era of tight lending practices could be coming to an end — increasing the chances that borrowers will get their loan applications approved or pay lower interest rates."
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Killing of Unarmed 18 Year Old Sparks Outrage in Missouri
Leah Thorsen and Steve Giegerich, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Excerpt: "The fatal shooting of a teen Saturday afternoon by a Ferguson police officer outside an apartment complex sent angry residents into the street, taunting police and firing shots."
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Nick Turse | As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan
Nick Turse, TomDispatch
Turse writes: "As John Kerry, then-chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, put it in 2012, the United States 'helped midwife the birth' of South Sudan. The choice of words may have been cringe-worthy, but hardly divorced from reality."
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Exxon Begins Drilling Russia's Pristine Arctic Waters
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
McCauley writes: "Despite increasing western sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, Exxon Mobil has begun drilling their first well in Russia's pristine Arctic territory on Saturday."
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Nature's Cathedral Under Siege
Kevin Fedarko, The New York Times
Fedarko writes: "This idea of a tabernacle that is marvelously open, but also precariously vulnerable, is also a useful metaphor to capture what is unfolding this summer as the canyon’s custodians confront a challenge that some are calling one of the most serious threats in the 95-year history of Grand Canyon National Park."
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