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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:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Sunday, December 20, 2015

RSN: University of California Drops Prison Investments Amid Student Demand, What Happened to the Arab Spring?, The 3rd Democratic Debate Showed the Candidates at Their Best, Until the Moderators Got in the Way


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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Lurking Within That Ominous Omnibus Spending Bill 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2015. (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company 
Excerpt: "There is an unwritten rule in Congress that before you do even a little for the working class you must do a lot for the donor class. So while the $1.1 trillion - yes, that's a 't' - budget bill now winding its way to passage contains some tax breaks for low-income workers, in reality, it's a bonanza for Big Business." 
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The 3rd Democratic Debate Showed the Candidates at Their Best, Until the Moderators Got in the Way 
Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine 
Traister writes: "A thoroughly substantive, respectful, funny debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (and Martin O'Malley, who was, again, a participant) that was going extremely well until it was driven completely off the rails by its startlingly inept moderators." 
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Kenya Says Investigating Device That Caused Air France Flight to Paris to Make Emergency Landing 
Joseph Akwiri, Reuters 
Akwiri writes: "Kenya is investigating a suspect device found in a toilet on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris with 459 passengers and 14 crew onboard that made an emergency landing in the port city of Mombasa, the Interior Minister said on Sunday." 
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Exit, 'Pharma Bro' 
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic 
Calamur writes: "Martin Shkreli, the infamous 'Pharma bro' who was arrested Thursday and charged with securities fraud, has resigned as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company announced." 
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University of California Drops Prison Investments Amid Student Demands 
Curtis Skinner, Reuters 
Skinner writes: "The University of California system said on Friday it will drop its roughly $30 million worth of investments in private prison companies following demands from a black student group." Curtis Skinner, Reuters 
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What Happened to the Arab Spring? 
Gilbert Achcar and Nada Matta, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "Millions of people took to the streets demanding dignity, democracy, and social justice. Mass mobilizations on an unprecedented scale in recent history took place in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, and transformed social and political dynamics across the whole region. A politics of hope became possible." 
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This Company Is Bottling Air in Canada and Selling It to China 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "After recently being duped by a non-existent climate change realtor, my guard against fake businesses is permanently up. So when I heard about a company selling bottled air, I assumed it was a conceptual art project, a commentary on the state of global air quality. But, no. It's real." Katie Herzog, Grist 
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