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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



Tuesday, December 30, 2014

RSN: The NSA's Ongoing Efforts to Hide Its Lawbreaking, US Unable to Counter ISIS Despite Billions Spent on Weapons




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Robert Parry | The Victory of 'Perception Management'
President Ronald Reagan meeting with media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on Jan. 18, 1983.  (photo: Reagan Presidential Library)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered 'perception management' to get the American people to 'kick the Vietnam Syndrome' and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure continues to this day getting the public to buy into endless war."
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Patrick Cockburn | US Unable to Counter ISIS Despite Billions Spent on Weapons
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch
Cockburn writes: "A strange aspect of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is that there has been so little criticism of the failure of expensively equipped Western armies to defeat lightly armed and self-trained insurgents."
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What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler, Moyers & Company
Excerpt: "The haphazard assembly of activists who came together under the Occupy banner did not follow the time-honored rules of community organizing. But they were willing to risk actions that were highly disruptive, and they put on display a high level of sacrifice among participants."
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The NSA's Ongoing Efforts to Hide Its Lawbreaking
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Friedersdorf writes: "The NSA will demonstrate a commitment to lawfulness when it ceases to break laws."
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Kids and Jails, a Bad Combination
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "There are few bright spots in America's four-decade-long incarceration boom."
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Palestinians to Submit Resolution for UN Statehood Bid Today
Louis Charbonneau and Ali Sawafta, Reuters
Excerpt: "Arab U.N. delegations on Monday discussed a Palestinian plan to make peace with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite Israeli and U.S. opposition."
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Almost 7,000 UK Properties to Be Lost to Rising Seas
Damian Carrington, The Guardian
Carrington writes: "Almost 7,000 homes and buildings will be sacrificed to the rising seas around England and Wales over the next century, according to an unpublished Environment Agency (EA) analysis seen by the Guardian."
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