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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



Friday, April 10, 2015

RSN: Secret Videos Expose Chevron's Corruption in Ecuadorian Oil Spill, Eric Garner Videographer Jailed After "Being Targeted" by NYPD, Now on Hunger Strike, Lobbyists for Spies Appointed to Oversee Spying




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Andy Borowitz | Poll: Americans Starting to Worry About Climate Change Now That It Affects Their Lawns
A Lawn in need of rain. (photo: Maureen Sullivan/Getty)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A new poll shows that Americans who were unconcerned about climate change as it wreaked havoc around the world are beginning to worry, now that global warming is affecting the appearance of their lawns."
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Lobbyists for Spies Appointed to Oversee Spying
Lee Fang, The Intercept
Fang writes: "Who's keeping watch of the National Security Agency? In Congress, the answer in more and more cases is that the job is going to former lobbyists for NSA contractors and other intelligence community insiders."
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Greece Repays $494 Million in IMF Loans
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Greece met a deadline Thursday to repay US$494 million in debt to the International Monetary Fund, snubbing rumors the country wouldn't pay up in time."
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Eric Garner Videographer Jailed After "Being Targeted" by NYPD, Now on Hunger Strike
Kate Briquelet, The Daily Beast
Briquelet writes: "Orta, 23, refuses to eat prison food over fears that New York Corrections Department officers will taint it with rat poison - a complaint echoed by 19 other inmates who filed a lawsuit last month claiming they were sickened by blue-green pellets found in their Rikers meatloaf."
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We Can't End Rape Stigma by Forcing All Victims to Identify Themselves
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK
"It's not anonymity that perpetuates stigma - rape culture does. And more so than protecting victims from the amorphous idea of 'stigma', anonymity in the media protects them from the very tangible - and often horrible - ramifications of coming forward."
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Your College Professor Could Be on Public Assistance
Seth Freed Wessler, NBC News
Wessler writes: "Paid as little as a couple of thousand dollars for each semester-long course, hundreds of thousands of people with doctorates or multiple master's degrees are earning near-poverty wages working as adjunct professors."
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Secret Videos Expose Chevron's Corruption in Ecuadorian Oil Spill
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch
Mellino writes: "The videos - some of which can be seen on Amazon Watch - show Chevron employees and consultants secretly visiting the company's former well sites in Ecuador to find samples that didn't contain crude oil to use in soil and water samples at later site inspections when the presiding trial judge would be there to monitor the testing."
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