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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



Monday, June 29, 2015

This, that, American Racism & Bigotry, Global Warming, TPP leaks





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This weekend His Holiness the Dalai Lama affirmed his support for Pope Francis' call for climate action, and called for a 2 year timeframe to plan a transition off of fossil fuels.
This is getting serious:


U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority amounts to roughly $400 million a year.
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen said the Palestinian Authority violated the terms of a funding law.
HILL.CM


 
"Those flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage, this is about resistance to civil rights."
-Ken Burns, Filmmaker behind "The Civil War" series
Burns joins Morning Joe to discuss the series and the recent calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from government locations across the South.
ON.MSNBC.COM


TPP: 
A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter, and it's as bad as many of us feared.
Now we know why the corporations and the Obama administration want the TPP, a huge "trade" agreement being negotiated between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it's too late to stop it.
The section of the TPP that has leaked is the "Investment" chapter that includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses. WikiLeaks has the text and analysis, and the Times has the story, in "Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.":
An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment "expectations" and hurt their business, according to a classified document.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's remaining economic agenda -- would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings -- federal, state or local -- before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.
The WikiLeaks analysis explains that this lets firms "sue" governments to obtain taxpayer compensation for loss of "expected future profits."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-huge-tpp_b_6956540.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000015

It's as bad as we feared.
A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public.
HUFF.TO



Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the VRA. Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.
BILLMOYERS.COM



http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/06/29/obama-interview-david-attenborough?cmpid=ait-fb

David Attenborough makes the case for how childlike wonder for the natural world can help stop ‪#‎ClimateChange‬—and Barack Obama agrees. What an amazing conversation.

President Barack Obama sits down with famed naturalist David Attenborough to talk conservation and climate change.
TAKEPART.COM



The gathering is just over one month after Dylann Roof allegedly entered an historic church in Charleston and shot to death nine African Americans during a Bible study meeting.

The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s Pelham, North Carolina, chapter have reserved the Statehouse Grounds in South Carolina for a rally next month....
POLITI.CO|BY ADAM B. LERNER



WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? 

PoliticusUSA shared a link.

Public pressure finally became too much for NBC as the network finally did the right thing and dumped Donald Trump from The Apprentice and won't televise the beauty pageants that he owns.
POLITICUSUSA.COM

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