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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:

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

RSN: A Top Haven for Tax Cheats That May Surprise You: The US, Land Grabbing Is Killing Honduras' Indigenous Peoples




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Andy Borowitz | Trump Says He Will Sue Everyone in Wisconsin 
Donald Trump. (photo: Abin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "In a sharply worded post-election threat on Tuesday night, the Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump said that he intended to sue the entire population of Wisconsin 'for everything it's worth.'" 
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A Top Haven for Tax Cheats That May Surprise You: The US 
Paul Wiseman and Marcy Gordon, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The U.S. lambastes and strong-arms countries that help drug lords and millionaire investors hide their money from tax collectors. Critics say it should look closer to home." 
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Government Bites Merger, Merger Bites Dust 
David Dayen, The Intercept 
Dayen writes: "Drugmaker Pfizer's decision to terminate its proposed merger with Irish firm Allergan shows that the federal government does have the ability to prevent market consolidation and blatant tax avoidance - if it just displays a little aggressiveness." 
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Mississippi Law Opens a New Front in the Battle Over Gay Rights 
Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times 
Jarvie writes: "As the state-by-state battle over gay rights rolls on, Mississippi's governor has signed a 'religious freedom' law that may go further than any other state in clearing the way for businesses and government workers to deny basic services to LGBT couples." 
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Border Patrol Agents Allegedly Loot Immigrants Before Deporting Them Back to Mexico 
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "Federal immigration agents may be looting or failing to return personal belongings to immigrants before deporting them back to Mexico, leaving them vulnerable to extortion without their identification cards or money, alleges a new complaint from various human rights and immigrant advocacy organizations." 
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Land Grabbing Is Killing Honduras' Indigenous Peoples 
Andrea Reyes Blanco and Tim Shenk, teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Berta Caceres wasn't the first and, unfortunately, she won't be the last. The world-renowned Lenca leader, assassinated last month in Honduras for her opposition to government-backed megaprojects, is one of an increasing litany of fallen fighters for Indigenous and environmental rights in Honduras and around the globe." 
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The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Harms Your Health 
Rebecca Leber, Grist 
Leber writes: "Climate change is bad for your health. There's no question that the impacts of a warming world - harsher heat waves, increased flooding - will put a strain on our nation's public health. But other health-related climate consequences have proven more difficult to tease out and thus more difficult to quantify." 
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