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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



Monday, September 1, 2014

RSN: Utah Fracking Fine Highlights Wastewater Pond Threat, Israel Plans Largest West-Bank Settlement Expansion in '30 Years'




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Bill Simpich | The Ferguson Grand Jury Will Love Officer Darren Wilson
The casket of Michael Brown exits Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church at the end of his funeral on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (photo: Robert Cohen)
Bill Simpich, Reader Supported News
Simpich writes: "'When that prosecutor finishes with that police officer in that grand jury, they're going to love him.' This is not a quote from the Ku Klux Klan. This quote is from Jerryl Christmas, a local Ferguson defense attorney, talking about the Michael Brown case. How is that possible?"
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Israel Plans Largest West-Bank Settlement Expansion in '30 Years'
Reuters
Excerpt: "Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years and a Palestinian official said would cause only more friction after the Gaza war."
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US Telecoms Giants Call on FCC to Block Cities' Expansion of High-Speed Internet
Dominic Rushe, Guardian UK
Rushe writes: "Chattanooga has the largest high-speed internet service in the US, offering customers access to speeds of 1 gigabit per second - about 50 times faster than the US average. The service, provided by municipally owned EPB, has sparked a tech boom in the city and attracted international attention."
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Ralph Nader | The Crime of Overbilling Healthcare
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "How extensive is this commercial crime wave? The nation's expert on computerized billing fraud, Malcolm Sparrow, who is an applied mathematician at Harvard, estimates medical billing fraud adds up to a minimum sum of $270 billion a year or at least ten percent of all health care expenses."
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UN Urges US to Stop Police Brutality After Missouri Shooting
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Nebehay writes: "The U.N. racism watchdog urged the United States on Friday to halt the excessive use of force by police after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman touched off riots in Ferguson, Missouri."
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California Passes 'Yes-Means-Yes' Campus Sexual Assault Bill
Aaron Mendelson, Reuters
Mendelson writes: "Californian lawmakers passed a law on Thursday requiring universities to adopt 'affirmative consent' language in their definitions of consensual sex, part of a nationwide drive to curb sexual assault on U.S. campuses."
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Utah Fracking Fine Highlights Wastewater Pond Threat
Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America
Moskowitz writes: "When fracking causes controversy, it's often because of wells - either the ones used to inject chemicals and water into the ground to break up gas-rich shale rock or the ones used to dispose of all the waste and water left over from the injection process. Often overlooked is a another way to dispose of that waste: massive surface ponds."
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