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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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Friday, July 17, 2015

RSN: Obama Administration Is Rolling Out New Rules to Protect Waterways From Coal Mining, Koch Brothers Made Donations to 19 Members of Congress Who Voted to Deny Fair Compensation to Asbestos Victims, US/Israeli/Saudi 'Behavior' Problems




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Robert Parry | US/Israeli/Saudi 'Behavior' Problems 
President Obama with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Reuters) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "There is a madness in how the mainstream U.S. media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity's survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of the Ukraine crisis and now in how Official Washington is framing the debate over the Iranian nuclear agreement." 
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Four US Marines and Gunman Killed in 'Act of Terrorism' in Tennessee 
Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK 
Lartey writes: "Official sources did not agree on whether the attack was being treated as an act of domestic or international terrorism." 
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Federal Agency Rules Civil Rights Act Protects LGBTQ Workers From Discrimination 
German Lopez, Vox 
Lopez writes: "In a new decision, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that 'allegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily state a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex.'" 
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Koch Brothers Made Donations to 19 Members of Congress Who Voted to Deny Fair Compensation to Asbestos Victims 
Environmental Working Group 
Excerpt: "House Judiciary Committee members who voted for a bill that could delay or deny fair compensation to asbestos victims received almost $3.3 million in campaign contributions over the last five years from companies that would benefit from the legislation, according to an investigation of federal records by Environmental Working Group (EWG) Action Fund." 
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US Taxpayers Have Spent Over $1.4 Billion on Police Misconduct Since 2010 
Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch, The Wall Street Journal 
Excerpt: "The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from $168.3 million in 2010." 
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70 Years Later, Health Impacts of First US Nuclear Detonation Still Being Felt 
Russell Contreras, Associated Press 
Contreras writes: "People who lived near the site of the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert and later developed cancer and other health problems need to be compensated, a U.S. senator said Thursday." 
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Obama Administration Is Rolling Out New Rules to Protect Waterways From Coal Mining 
John Light, Grist 
Light writes: "The Obama administration's less-than-stellar relationship with the coal industry is about to get worse. The Interior Department is rolling out new rules to protect waterways and groundwater from the various toxic messes made by coal mining companies." 
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