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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



Wednesday, September 24, 2014

RSN: GOP's Vote-Suppressing Militia: Why Scott Walker's Thugs Are Getting Violent, Gun Nuts Meet Their Match: Why Gabby Giffords Isn't Playing Nice Anymore




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Chris Hedges | The Coming Climate Revolt
The banner that led the 400,000 person strong Peoples Climate March on Sunday, September 21st in Manhattan. (photo: Scott Galindez/RSN)
Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Hedges writes: "We have undergone a transformation during the last few decades - what John Ralston Saul calls a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. We are no longer a capitalist democracy endowed with a functioning liberal class that once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible."
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FEC Complaint Accuses Walmart of Breaking Campaign Finance Law
Naureen Khan, Al Jazeera America
Khan writes: "A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday accuses Walmart of flouting campaign finance law with a program that encourages employee contributions to its political action committee by making matching donations - for double the amount - to a charity set up to help Walmart workers in financial distress."
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Jeb Bush Gearing Up for 2016 Presidential Bid
Luke Brinker, Salon
Brinker writes: "A dozen years after he ran his last political campaign, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is gearing up for a 2016 presidential bid - a campaign that would open up a new front in the Republican Party's ongoing civil war."
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Gun Nuts Meet Their Match: Why Gabby Giffords Isn't Playing Nice Anymore
Jim Newell, Salon
Newell writes: "Somehow, politicians who support the lax gun policies that inevitably lead to such episodes, and won't even consider the slightest tweaks toward restricting gun ownership, feel that they don't deserve to be subjects of these sort of attack ads. They feel they can proselytize about the glories of gun culture all they want."
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US: Ebola Cases Could Hit 1.4 Million by Mid-January
Maria Cheng, Associated Press
Cheng reports: "New estimates by the World Health Organization and the U.S. health agency are warning that the number of Ebola cases could soar dramatically - the U.S. says up to 1.4 million by mid-January in two nations alone - unless efforts to curb the outbreak are significantly ramped up."
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GOP's Vote-Suppressing Militia: Why Scott Walker's Thugs Are Getting Violent
Heather Digby Parton, Salon
"True the Vote has managed to create the illusion that challenging voters at the polls is all that's saving the republic from an otherwise inevitable coup d'etat led by a secret cabal of Democrats rigging elections with ineligible voters. Apparently, this is the only way they can explain to themselves that they are not universally popular."
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Norway Will Pay Liberia $150 Million if They Stop Deforestation by 2020
Matt McGrath, BBC News
McGrath writes: "Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid. Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (£91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020."
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