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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



Tuesday, April 5, 2016

RSN: Mark Ruffalo | We've Had Enough With Failed Trade Policies, Carbon Farming Is a Zero-Risk Strategy for Curbing Climate Change




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Mark Ruffalo | We've Had Enough With Failed Trade Policies 
Mark Ruffalo at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. (photo: Victoria Will/Invision/AP) 
Mark Ruffalo, Reader Supported News 
Ruffalo writes: "Hard working Americans of all political stripes recognize when the rules have been rigged against them, because they live day-to-day with the results." 
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Supreme Court Rejects Conservative Challenge in 'One Person, One Vote' Case 
Lawrence Hurley, Reuters 
Hurley writes: "The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the method all states use to draw their legislative districts, rejecting a conservative challenge that could have given more clout to white, rural voters." 
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Do You Own a Gun? Why Your Kid's Doctor Needs to Know. 
Angelica Zen and Alice Kuo, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "In 2011, after a lobbying push by the National Rifle Association, Florida passed the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act, restricting physicians from asking about gun ownership and from counseling about gun safety in routine appointments. Potential penalties include fines, suspension and loss of a medical license. A federal judge blocked the law as an unconstitutional restriction of doctors' speech. Then an appeals court panel overturned the ruling, emphasizing patients' rights to own guns and to privacy." 
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Justice Ginsburg Just Shut Down One of America's Most Notorious White Rights Activists 
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress 
Millhiser writes: "Edward Blum is the godfather of white rights litigation in the Supreme Court. He spearheaded the litigation in Shelby County v. Holder, which convinced five conservative justices to strike down much of the Voting Rights Act. And he played a similar role in a major challenge to affirmative action currently pending before the Supreme Court." 
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The End of Big Money in Elections? 6 Reasons to Think So 
Keith Barbalato, Yes! Magazine 
Barbalato writes: "This year's presidential election is projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history. As of this writing, more $127 million has been raised by PACs and political nonprofits to support the five remaining major-party presidential candidates. Because the amount of money in the system keeps growing, the problem looks like it's just getting worse. But some experts say big money in politics could disappear as quickly as it arrived." 
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The Who's Who of Middle East Leaders and Their Secret Billions 
Middle East Eye 
Excerpt: "Middle East and North African leaders and their families have used secret offshore accounts to stash billions of dollars of cash and manage investments and assets, according to information from the so-called 'Panama Papers' leak." 
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Carbon Farming Is a Zero-Risk Strategy for Curbing Climate Change 
David Wolfe, The Hill 
Wolfe writes: "Now that 195 nations, including the U.S., have agreed to ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions to slow the pace of climate change, the question everyone is asking is: How will we actually meet our targets set for 2035?" 
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