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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



Friday, October 31, 2014

RSN: Big Oil Spends Big Money to Defeat Santa Barbara Anti-Fracking/Drilling Measure, 50K Missing Voters? Nothing to See Here




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Tim Cook and the End of Gay Rights as a Wedge Issue
Tim Cook. (photo: unknown)
Richard Socarides, The New Yorker
Socarides writes: "On Thursday morning, the head of one of the world's most admired companies, Tim Cook, of Apple, announced that he is gay. Although not entirely a surprise, Cook had guarded his privacy."
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50K Missing Voters? Nothing to See Here
Patricia Murphy, The Daily Beast
Murphy reports: "Not only is there no urgency to fix the system, but Kemp is insistent that the system doesn't need fixing."
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Closure of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa 'Declaration of War': Abbas
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "Israel's closure of the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound to all visitors following the shooting of a Jewish hardliner is tantamount to a "declaration of war," Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday."
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Jessica Valenti | If That Viral Street Harassment Video Shocked You...You're Probably a Man
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK
Valenti writes: "There is by now a familiar pattern to campaigns to bring attention to the problems women face in the world: sexism gets documented in a way that is irrefutable, it goes viral, and then sexism continues on unabated."
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Number of Global Billionaires Has Doubled Since Financial Crisis
Jamie Merrill, Independent UK
Merrill reports: "The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a major new report from anti-poverty campaigners."
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Cops Do 20,000 No-Knock Raids Each Year. Civilians Pay the Price When They Go Wrong
Dara Lind, Vox
Lind reports: "Most of the time, when a person kills an intruder who breaks into his home, dressed in all black and screaming, the homeowner will avoid jail time. But what happens when the break-in was a no-knock SWAT raid, the intruder was a police officer, and the homeowner has a record?"
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Big Oil Spends Big Money to Defeat Santa Barbara Anti-Fracking/Drilling Measure
Kirk Siegler, National Public Radio
Siegler reports: "Think of California's Santa Barbara County and you might picture the area's famous beaches or resorts and wineries. But in the northern reaches of the vast county, oil production has been a major contributor to the economy for almost a century."
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