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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



Monday, August 22, 2016

RSN: A Cheap Shot at Bernie Sanders' Summer Home, White House Official Cozied Up to Google Before Antitrust Lawsuit Was Shelved, Uncovering the $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants




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Robert Parry | A Cheap Shot at Bernie Sanders' Summer Home 
Bernie and Jane Sanders. (photo: Melina Mara/WP/Getty Images) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "Charles Lane and other Washington Post editorialists defend neocon and neoliberal orthodoxies by demonizing foreign leaders who step out of line and now by making fun of Bernie Sanders for buying a summer home." 
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Mass Incarceration Is Predicated on Massive Myth of Monstrosity 
Katherine Beckett, The American Prospect 
Beckett writes: "Recent calls for criminal justice reform rest on the demonstrably false idea that people who have contact with the criminal justice system can be neatly divided into two distinct categories, and that only those in the comparatively innocent (nonviolent) category deserve reform." 
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Uncovering the $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants 
Annie Waldman, ProPublica 
Waldman writes: "Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would phase out its use of private prisons. While significant, the move will not put an end to the booming immigrant detention industry. Private prison companies will continue to receive millions in government contracts to detain unauthorized immigrants." 
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Who Will Police Baltimore's Police? 
The Editorial Board, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Underlying the culture of impunity is a matrix of laws, rules and procedures that rig the system so thoroughly that discipline is rare, often reserved for cases that make a stink in the media." 
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White House Official Cozied Up to Google Before Antitrust Lawsuit Was Shelved 
David Dayen, The Intercept 
Dayen writes: "The revelation about the White House's contacts with Google prior to the FTC decision is another example of the extraordinarily close relationship between Google and the Obama White House." 
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An Ethiopian Medalist Just Led a Protest That Could Land Him in Jail 
Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post 
Sieff writes: "When he crossed the Olympics marathon finish line, Feyisa Lilesa put his hands above his head in an 'X.' Most of those who watched Lilesa's spectacular silver medal performance didn't know what that meant - or just how dangerous a protest they were watching." 
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The Myth of the Sustainable City 
John W. Day and Charles Hall, Scientific American 
Excerpt: "Urban areas are usually celebrated for their energy efficiency and low per capita carbon dioxide emissions, but such accounting ignores how and where they acquire their resources." 
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