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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, May 24, 2015

RSN: How Trade Agreements Amount to a Secret Corporate Takeover, Who Is Writing the TPP?, Israel's New Deputy Foreign Minister: "This Land Is Ours. All of It Is Ours."




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Elizabeth Warren and Rosa DeLauro | Who Is Writing the TPP?
Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: elizabethwarren.com)
Elizabeth Warren and Rosa DeLauro, The Boston Globe
Excerpt: "Modern 'trade' agreements are often less about trade and more about giant multinational corporations finding new ways to rig the economic system to benefit themselves."
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Joseph E. Stiglitz | How Trade Agreements Amount to a Secret Corporate Takeover
Joseph Stiglitz, Reader Supported News
Stiglitz writes: "The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called 'free-trade agreements'; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, largely in the US and the European Union."
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NSA Data Collection Program Without Authorization as Extension Filibustered in Senate
Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Zengerle writes: "By a vote of 54-45, the Senate failed to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to advance a bill that would have extended for two months provisions of the 'USA Patriot Act' that allow the collection of vast amounts of telephone 'metadata.'"
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Israel's New Deputy Foreign Minister: "This Land Is Ours. All of It Is Ours."
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Tzipi Hotovely gives speech to Israeli diplomats in which she says she will try to achieve global recognition for West Bank settlements."
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Scott Walker Promises Pre-Emptive Strikes to Prevent Attacks on US
Bill Barrow, Associated Press
Barrow writes: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is doubling down on his promises of pre-emptive strikes to prevent what he says are certain future attacks on American soil."
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The Cleveland Cops Who Fired 137 Shots and Cried Victim
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "They unleashed a hail of bullets to rival the final scene in 'Bonnie and Clyde.' But the man and women killed in 2012 were unarmed - and now these cops are claiming racial discrimination."
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Your Contribution to the California Drought
Larry Buchanan, Josh Keller and Haeyoun Park, The New York Times
Excerpt: "California farmers produce more than a third of the nation's vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. To do that, they use nearly 80 percent of all the water consumed in the state."
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