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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

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



Wednesday, October 7, 2015

RSN: Confirmed: American Academy of Pediatrics Cuts Ties With Monsanto, Meet the Right-Wing Rebels Who Overthrew John Boehner




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Tim Dickinson | Meet the Right-Wing Rebels Who Overthrew John Boehner 
John Boehner. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "The Republican civil war has claimed its biggest casualty yet. The revolution that toppled John Boehner was carried out by a group of intransigent conservatives who had made the speaker of the House's job hell ever since the Tea Party wave of 2010 elevated him to power." 
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Steve Weissman | Is Bombing Syria Any Better if Putin Drops the Bombs? 
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News 
Weissman writes: "'History will perhaps remember, God forbid, that the third world war quietly began on Wednesday the 30th of September 2015,' wrote the left-leaning French magazine L'Obs." 
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Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit Activist, Dies at Age 100 
Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press 
Kaffer writes: "She was just Grace. That's how longtime friend Ron Scott describes Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs, who died Monday morning at home in Detroit. She was 100." 
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Jesse Jackson | Alabama's New Jim Crow Far From Subtle 
Jesse Jackson, CounterPunch 
Jackson writes: "In Alabama, 50 years after Selma, voting rights are once more under assault. Even as Alabama finally took down its confederate flags this year, it has raised new obstacles to voting." 
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The Counted: Are Police Hiding Behind 'Suicide by Cop' Shootings? 
Jon Swaine and Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "None of the shots that struck Tommy Smith outside his mother's house among the stubbled grain fields of Arcola, Illinois, came from his own gun. During his encounter with police on a chilly evening in early January, Smith, a 39-year-old hotel maintenance supervisor, never turned the AR-15 rifle against his own body..." 
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The Surreal Reasons Girls Are Disappearing in El Salvador: #15Girls 
Kelly McEvers and Jasmine Garsd, NPR 
Excerpt: "It's our first morning in El Salvador's capital. We're eating breakfast and we get a call from a local reporter we know. There's a crime scene, he says. A girl. You should come. We take a taxi to what looks like a major intersection in San Salvador. When we get there, we look around. And then we see her, slumped on a street corner." 
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Confirmed: American Academy of Pediatrics Cuts Ties With Monsanto 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "EcoWatch can exclusively confirm that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has ended its corporate partnership with Monsanto following the efforts of a group with surprising clout: Mom bloggers." 
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