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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, May 29, 2015

RSN: The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower, One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times, Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem




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Noam Chomsky | One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times
New York Times Building. (photo: Getty)
Noam Chomsky, The Noam Chomsky Website
Chomsky writes: "A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in the leading academic journal of media critique. So severe is this departure from journalistic integrity that it is also the subject of the lead story in the business section."
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Federal Investigation Leads to Strict Rules for Cleveland Police
Kristen Gwynne, Rolling Stone
Gwynne writes: "After a 21-month investigation and five months of negotiations, the City of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a consent decree enacting some of the strictest policing rules in the country."
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AFL-CIO Leader Warns It Could Sit Out 2016 Fight Over Trade
Ben Kamisar, The Hill
Kamisar writes: "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka warned Hillary Clinton that his powerful labor union coalition might not endorse her presidential campaign if she comes out in support of the controversial trade deal making its way through Congress."
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Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement - It Isn't.
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future
Johnson writes: "This is a message to activists trying to fight the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Stop calling the TPP a 'trade' agreement. TPP is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a trade agreement."
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Michael T. Klare | The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch
Klare writes: "Take a look around the world and it's hard not to conclude that the United States is a superpower in decline. Whether in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East, aspiring powers are flexing their muscles, ignoring Washington's dictates, or actively combating them."
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Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem
David Freedlander, The Daily Beast
Freedlander writes: "To many, Olio's case points to a changing culture around education, one in which teachers are on a hair trigger vulnerable to losing their livelihoods due to declining union protections and the rise of high-stakes testing."
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Moby on California Drought: 'The Way We're Living Is Stupid'
Brooke Jarvis, Rolling Stone
Jarvis writes: "As a record-setting drought expands in his state, the California resident has taken an interest in another part of the food system: the way the state's increasingly scarce water supply is allocated to state agribusinesses."
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