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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



Wednesday, July 20, 2016

RSN: 11 Ways the Republican Platform Attacks the Environment, Cornel West: Justice and Accountability Are Necessary to End Tension Over Killings by Police




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Cornel West: Justice and Accountability Are Necessary to End Tension Over Killings by Police 
Cornel West. (photo: unknown) 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Goodman writes: "We discuss the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality with Cornel West." 
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Inside the Police's Playbook for Repressing Protests at National Conventions 
Kris Hermes, Jacobin 
Hermes writes: "In 1968, outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, police violently cleared the streets of antiwar protesters, smashing heads and clubbing with abandon. Inside, even some Democratic Party officials blanched at the level of brutality." 
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Sources: Megyn Kelly Told Murdoch Investigators That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Her 
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine 
Sherman writes: "As a chorus of prominent Fox News women have gone public defending Roger Ailes against the wave of sexual-harassment allegations sparked by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit, the network's biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has been conspicuously silent." 
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Adam Hochschild | Me Tarzan, You Adam, How I Met the Ghosts of My Own Work in a Local Multiplex 
Adam Hochschild, TomDispatch 
Hochschild writes: "At almost 72, I recently went to The Legend of Tarzan, the IMAX version, with a screen so big I almost stepped inside it and a soundscape so all-enveloping that my already pathetic hearing might have been blown away for good." 
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In Some US Cities, Police Push Back Against 'Open-Carry' Gun Laws 
Julia Harte, Reuters 
Harte writes: "Tents, ladders, coolers, canned goods, tennis balls and bicycle locks are banned in the area surrounding the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. But guns are fine." 
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15,000 Education Staff Suspended in Turkey Post-Coup Purge 
Middle East Eye 
Excerpt: "Turkey widened its massive post-coup purge to the state education sector on Tuesday after vowing to root out supporters of an exiled cleric it accuses of orchestrating the attempted power grab." 
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11 Ways the Republican Platform Attacks the Environment 
Ben Adler, Grist 
Adler writes: "The Republican Party's 2016 platform, released on Monday at its national convention in Cleveland, has sections called 'A New Era in Energy' and 'Environmental Progress.' Both titles are inaccurate. Perhaps they're meant sarcastically?" 
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