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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, December 15, 2014

RSN: Earth Faces Sixth 'Great Extinction' With 41% of Amphibians Set to Go the Way of the Dodo




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Andy Borowitz | Citigroup to Move Headquarters to U.S. Capitol Building
U.S. Capitol building. (photo:  Wikimedia Commons)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "The banking giant Citigroup announced on Friday that it would move its headquarters from New York to the U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., in early 2015."
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The Palaces That Torture Built
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen are not the first Americans to employ waterboarding and other 'enhanced interrogation techniques' against our enemies. But they are almost certainly the only ones to get rich doing it."
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Thousands Rally in U.S. Cities to Protest Police Killings
Jennie Matthew, Agence France-Presse
Matthew writes: "Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in New York and Washington, stepping up demonstrations across the United States demanding justice for black men killed by white police."
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In Ferguson, Oath Keepers Draw Both Suspicion and Gratitude
Brian Heffernan, Al Jazeera America
Heffernan writes: "Since Nov. 25, members of the group - many of them armed - have been patrolling rooftops and sidewalks in the St. Louis suburb. Oath Keepers, regarded by some as a militia - although they reject that characterization - is made up of current and former members of the military, law enforcement and fire departments and other first responders from around the country."
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What's Next? Prosecuting a Pregnant Woman for Working Full Time?
Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, American Civil Liberties Union
Kolbi-Molinas writes: "This summer, Tennessee thumbed its nose at doctors, nearly every national medical association, addiction experts, and women's right activists and passed a law that essentially criminalizes pregnancy. In short, this deeply misguided law risks the health of women and babies by threatening expectant mothers who struggle with addiction or substance abuse with jail time."
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Earth Faces Sixth 'Great Extinction' With 41% of Amphibians Set to Go the Way of the Dodo
Robin McKie, Guardian UK
McKie writes: "A stark depiction of the threat hanging over the world's mammals, reptiles, amphibians and other life forms has been published by the prestigious scientific journal, Nature."
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Lima Climate Change Talks Reach Global Warming Agreement
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg writes: "International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions."
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