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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



Saturday, July 11, 2015

RSN: BP Could Get Billions in Tax Breaks on Oil Spill Settlement, Cybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance, MH-17 Case Slips Into Propaganda Fog




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Robert Parry | MH-17 Case Slips Into Propaganda Fog 
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down on 17 July 2014 over Ukraine. (photo: Zurab Dzhavakhadze/Itar-Tass/ZUMA WIRE) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia." 
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Confederate Flag Comes Down on South Carolina's Statehouse Grounds 
Stephanie McCrummen and Elahe Izadi, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Members from a South Carolina Highway Patrol honor guard approached the Confederate memorial, and as one turned a lever to lower the flag, the assembled large crowd burst into sustained applause and chanted 'U.S.A.!' The flag will be placed in a museum." 
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Bernie Sanders Calls for Expansion of Social Security Benefits 
Dan Roberts, Guardian UK 
Roberts writes: "Democratic presidential hopeful renews calls for expansion of benefits and warns that Republicans will try to undermine Medicare and pensions." 
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Cybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance 
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "One way we can protect ourselves is with encryption, which provides security for our data, allowing us to send and store digital information safely, essentially scrambling the information. In order to unscramble it, you need a key, a password." 
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Mother of Eric Garner Praises New York's Appointment of Special Prosecutor to Probe Police Killings 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "It was July 17, 2014, after police pulled him to the ground in a chokehold and piled on top of him while he said 'I can't breathe' 11 times." 
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The US Military Conducted Germ-Warfare Experiments on Unsuspecting Residents of San Francisco in 1950 
Kevin Loria, Business Insider 
Loria writes: "The unsuspecting residents of San Francisco certainly could not consent to the military's germ-warfare test, and there's good evidence that it could have caused the death of at least one resident of the city, Edward Nevin, and hospitalized 10 others." 
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BP Could Get Billions in Tax Breaks on Oil Spill Settlement 
Jennifer Larino, The Times-Picayune 
Larino writes: "According to the Public Interest Research Group, at least $13.2 billion in the settlement is not defined as a penalty, meaning BP could potentially get tax breaks on that chunk of money. This includes payments to restore natural resources the spill damaged." 
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