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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:

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

RSN: Study Links Global Warming to Hurricane Sandy and Other Extreme Weather Events, Taliban Attacks Afghan Parliament, Congress's Cat Burglars Are Pulling a Fast One on TPP




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Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger | Congress's Cat Burglars Are Pulling a Fast One on TPP 
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. (photo: Getty Images) 
Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger, Moyers and Company 
Excerpt: "It's hardly a surprise that Republican congressional leaders and their cadre of Democratic allies spurred on by Barack Obama are resorting to a bagful of parliamentary tricks to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a 'take it or leave it but you can't change it' fast-track to enactment by Tuesday." 
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley: "It's Time to Move the Flag" 
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate 
Mathis-Lilley writes: "As expected, Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies outside South Carolina's statehouse at a Monday press conference in Columbia, the state's capital." 
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Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Goodman writes: "'I have a people-powered campaign,' Stein notes. 'I am running with the only national party that does not take corporate funding.'" 
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Secret World War II Chemical Experiments Tested Troops by Race 
Caitlin Dickerson, NPR 
Dickerson writes: "While the Pentagon admitted decades ago that it used American troops as test subjects in experiments with mustard gas, until now, officials have never spoken about the tests that grouped subjects by race." 
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Are We on the Verge of a Nuclear Breakdown? 
Nina Burleigh, Rolling Stone 
Burleigh writes: "The route down America's underground WMD silos begins with five months of training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. There, the first requirement is signing a document committing to end the world if so ordered by the president." 
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Taliban Attacks Afghan Parliament 
Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni, Reuters 
Excerpt: "A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive." 
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Study Links Global Warming to Hurricane Sandy and Other Extreme Weather Events 
John Abraham, Guardian UK 
Abraham writes: "Human warming affects weather in two ways. It changes the odds that any given extreme event will occur. But more importantly it makes the events more severe." 
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