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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



Wednesday, February 24, 2016

RSN: The Great Fukushima Cover-Up, Debtors' Prison in 21st-Century America


Republicans continue to prove they are incapable of governing! 


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Senate GOP Flatly Refuses to Consider Any Obama Court Nominee 
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with other members of the Senate G.O.P. Leadership on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (photo: Doug Mills/NYT) 
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times 
Herszenhorn writes: "Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday that there would be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, all but slamming shut any prospects for an election-year Supreme Court confirmation." 
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WTF Happened in the Nevada GOP Caucuses, Explained 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "Some say American democracy is a crucible; the Nevada Republican caucus Tuesday night more closely resembled a dumpster fire. And then Trump won." 
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Obama's Plan to Close Guantánamo Would Establish Indefinite Detention on US Soil 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Hussain writes: "A new plan calls for a number of Guantánamo prisoners to be transferred into permanent custody in the United States. This component of the government’s plan has alarmed many legal experts, who say that it would create a dangerous precedent for indefinite detention without trial in the United States." 
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Debtors' Prison in 21st-Century America 
Whitney Benns and Blake Strode, The Atlantic 
Excerpt: "For failing to pay parking tickets, court fees, and other petty municipal citations, black residents of Greater St. Louis are ending up behind bars." 
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Major Human Rights Abusers Are Largest Buyers of US Weapons 
Michael Kaplan, International Business Times 
Kaplan writes: "Between 2011 and 2015, 9.7 percent of U.S. arms deals went to Saudi Arabia, while 9.1 percent were with the United Arab Emirates. In the past year, Saudi Arabia has signed a number of multi-billion-dollar deals with Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense company." 
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El Salvador Creates Special Court to Protect Women's Rights 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "El Salvador approved the creation of a special court specifically to try violent crimes committed against women. The move is an attempt to crack down on the country's high rate of femicide, domestic abuse, and physical and sexual assault against women, which human rights organizations have called serious problems in the country." 
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The Great Fukushima Cover-Up 
Linda Pentz Gunter, CounterPunch 
Gunter writes: "March 11, 2011 might have been the day the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. But it was also the beginning of the Great Japan Cover-Up." 
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