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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



Tuesday, December 29, 2015

RSN: Pentagon Thwarts Obama's Effort to Close Guantanamo, Neocons Object to Syrian Democracy




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Robert Parry | Neocons Object to Syrian Democracy 
Syrians shout slogans against Bashar Assad during a rally. (photo: Wael Hamzeh/EPA) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "The Washington Post's editorial board is livid that President Barack Obama appears to have accepted the Russian position that the Syrian people should decide for themselves who their future leaders should be." 
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The Worst Civil Liberties Betrayals of 2015 
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate 
Excerpt: "What's been bad in the past is still rather terrible in 2015, and we've invented some great new ways to ensure that U.S. citizens are neither very safe nor free." 
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Pentagon Thwarts Obama's Effort to Close Guantanamo 
Charles Levinson and David Rohde, Reuters 
Excerpt: "In interviews with multiple current and former administration officials involved in the effort to close Guantanamo, Reuters found that the struggle over Ba Odah's medical records was part of a pattern." 
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'How Do You Buy $7 Billion of Stuff You Don't Need?' 
Bryan Bender, Politico 
Bender writes: "Robert McNamara's creation, known as the Defense Logistics Agency, has grown into a global, $44 billion operation that, were it a private enterprise, would rank in the Fortune 50." 
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The New Scramble for Africa 
Padraig Carmody, Jacobin 
Carmody writes: "The BRICS powers aren't anti-colonial counterweights. They're looking for new markets and resources for their corporations, just like Western countries." 
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TSA Moves Closer to Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses for Travel 
Jad Mouawad, The New York Times 
Mouawad writes: "As soon as next year, a driver's license may no longer be enough for airline passengers to clear security in some states, if the Department of Homeland Security has its way." 
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Kofi Annan | The Grassroots of Climate Change 
Kofi Annan, Project Syndicate 
Annan writes: "It is now our collective duty to hold our leaders to account and ensure that they turn promises into action - especially in the world's most vulnerable regions, such as Africa." 
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