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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



Sunday, December 21, 2014

RSN: NYPD Officer Videoed Punching Teenager Suspended, Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA's Torture Scandals






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Greenwald and Maass | Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA's Torture Scandals
Jessica Chastain in 'Zero Dark Thirty.' (photo: Snap Stills/Rex Features)
Glenn Greenwald and Peter Maass, The Intercept
Excerpt: "NBC News yesterday called her a 'key apologist' for the CIA's torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her 'The Unidentified Queen of Torture' and in part 'the model for the lead character in 'Zero Dark Thirty.'' Yet in both articles she was anonymous."
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Juan Cole | Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Wikileaks has released a government assessment of drone strikes aimed at assassinating top leaders. The document urges such strikes, but is amazingly frank about the drawbacks."
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NYPD Officer Videoed Punching Teenager Suspended
Peter Holley, The Washington Post
Holley writes: "A New York police officer captured on a smartphone video punching a black teenager during an arrest has been suspended, according to news reports."
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Apple's Tim Cook Makes 'Substantial' Donation for Gay Rights in US South
Jonathan Kaminsky, Reuters
Kaminsky writes: "Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook, the highest-profile U.S. business leader to publicly acknowledge being gay, has made a 'substantial' donation to a gay rights effort in his native Alabama and two other southern U.S. states, activists said on Thursday."
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The Day I Saw 248 Girls Suffering Genital Mutilation
Abigail Haworth, Guardian UK
Haworth writes: "It is well established that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not required in Muslim law. It is an ancient cultural practice that existed before Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It is also agreed across large swathes of the world that it is barbaric."
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Rebecca Solnit | Coyote
Rebecca Solnit, The New Yorker
Solnit writes: "You can take the woman out of the Church but not the Church out of the woman. Or so I used to think, as my mother, a lapsed Catholic, carried out dramas of temptation, sin, and redemption by means of ice cream and broccoli. She had left behind the rites and the celebrations but not the anxiety that all mistakes were unforgivable."
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Some Gray Wolves to Be Returned to Endangered List
John Flesher, Associated Press
Flesher writes: "A federal judge on Friday threw out an Obama administration decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list - a decision that will ban further wolf hunting and trapping in three states."
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