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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, January 27, 2015

RSN: Africa's Quiet Solar Revolution, 1.5M Lifted Out of Poverty in Ecuador Under Correa, Legalized Bribery




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Zephyr Teachout | Legalized Bribery
Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday leaving his office in the Legislative Office Building. (photo: Nathaniel Brooks/NYT)
Zephyr Teachout, The New York Times
Teachout writes: "Under current law, campaign contributions are illegal if there is an explicit quid pro quo, and legal if there isn't. But legal campaign contributions can be as bad as bribes in creating obligations."
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How Bernie Sanders, in New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very Unhappy
Ari Rabin-Havt, The American Prospect
Rabin-Havt writes: "Bernie Sanders, the United States senator from Vermont, plans on using his new position as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee to take on too-big-to-fail financial institutions by advocating for their dissolution."
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Democrats Filibuster Keystone Pipeline Bill
Elana Schor, Politico
Schor writes: Republicans' Keystone XL pipeline push was stopped short by the first Senate filibuster of 2015 as Democrats blocked Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid to end debate on the bill."
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Argentina to Dissolve Intelligence Body After Prosecutor Death
BBC News
Excerpt: "The move comes after the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman - hours before he had been due to testify against senior government officials."
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1.5M Lifted Out of Poverty in Ecuador Under Correa
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Correa administration has also dramatically reduced inequality in the country. In 2007, the country's wealthiest earned 42 times that of the poorest, while in 2014 that was reduced to only 22 times."
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Africa's Quiet Solar Revolution
Lorena Galliot, The Christian Science Monitor
Galliot writes: "Now, however, a new solar energy movement is bringing kilowatts to previously unlit areas of Africa - and changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
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