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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



Friday, April 24, 2015

RSN: A Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That and More, "Rough Ride" in Baltimore Police Van Yielded Spinal Injury Death 10 Years Before Freddie Gray, A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit




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Charles Pierce | Feeding Senators for Little Fun and No Profit
Former senator Jeff Bingaman sits down to eat with Senator Bob Corker in the Senate cafeteria. (photo: unknown)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Invisible People always have existed within the toxic fairy tale about the American Dream that we tell each other when electing someone every four years."
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US Drone Strike Killed American and Italian Citizens Held Hostage by al-Qaida
Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman and Jon Boone, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Barack Obama has expressed his 'profound regret' over a drone strike that killed two innocent hostages - an American and Italian - being held captive by al-Qaida, before praising what he claimed was his administration's exceptionally transparent response to the tragedy."
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Surveillance Reform Bill Returns With Concessions to NSA on Data Collection
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman writes: "The architects of the USA Freedom Act, a bill that seeks to stop the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records, have agreed to grant the surveillance giant temporary abilities to continue monitoring foreign targets who enter the US while agents seek domestic warrants; and to permit the agency to do the same for domestic targets for whom it has a probable-cause warrant who subsequently travel overseas."
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A Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That and More
David Korten, YES! Magazine
Korten writes: "The document substantiates claims by opponents that the TPP is a corporate-rights agreement designed to facilitate the export of US jobs, allow corporations to sue governments for enacting labor and environmental protections, make it illegal for governments to favor local businesses, and advance the colonization of national economies by global corporations and financiers."
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Laura Gottesdiener | A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit
Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch
Gottesdiener writes: "While everyone loves to hear about legendary industrial Detroit, no one wants to hear about its de-industrialized progeny, and especially not about foreclosures - not again."
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"Rough Ride" in Baltimore Police Van Yielded Spinal Injury Death 10 Years Before Freddie Gray
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "'Something happened in that van,' Michael Davey, lawyer for the Baltimore police union, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Something like what happened in 2005 to another Baltimore man, who also suffered ultimately fatal spinal injuries after being placed in a police van."
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Oklahomans Feel Way More Earthquakes Than Californians; Now They Know Why
Joe Wertz, National Public Radio
Wertz writes: "Historically, Oklahoma got less than two of those a year, but in 2013 it became two a week. It's only gotten more active since then - last year, the state had three times as many earthquakes as in the entire seismically active state of California."
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