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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



Friday, September 2, 2016

RSN: Standing Up to Apple, Taxpayers Subsidize Billions in Wall Street Bonuses: Report , California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves




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Robert Reich | Standing Up to Apple 
Robert Reich. (photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Website 
Reich writes: "For years, Washington lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have attacked big corporations for avoiding taxes by parking their profits overseas. Last week the European Union did something about it." 
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Taxpayers Subsidize Billions in Wall Street Bonuses: Report 
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Excerpt: "U.S. taxpayers have been subsidizing more than US$2 billion in executive bonuses at the nation's largest banks since 2012, according to a new report published Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies." 
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Leaked Catalogue Reveals a Vast Array of Military Spy Gear Offered to US Police 
Sam Biddle, The Intercept 
Biddle writes: "A confidential catalogue of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that can intercept wireless calls and text messages, locate people via their mobile phones, and jam cellular communications in a particular area." 
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Lead Levels Are Forcing More Than 1,000 Indiana Residents to Relocate 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR 
Kennedy writes: "More than 1,000 residents of a public housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana, are now forced to relocate because of dangerously high lead levels in the area's soil." 
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California Lawmakers OK Bill Penalizing Companies Boycotting Israel 
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Excerpt: "Both houses of California's legislature have now approved a bill to ban state government agencies from awarding contracts to companies that choose to join the international boycott against Israel's continued occupation of Palestine." 
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Coca-Cola Accused of Funding Colombian Death Squad 
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Excerpt: "U.S.-based Coca-Cola company along with more than 50 other companies were accused by Colombian courts of financing terrorism for their ties to the now-disbanded paramilitary organization, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a fact trade union leaders have been denouncing for decades." 
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California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves 
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica 
Lustgarten writes: "A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state's aquifers, even as the thirst for groundwater grows." 
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