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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



Saturday, October 22, 2016

RSN: Now Is the Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma, The US Government Wants to Read Travelers' Tweets Before Letting Them In





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Bernie Sanders | Now Is the Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma 
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at a rally in support of Proposition 61, held at the American Federation of Musicians Hall in Los Angeles, October 14. (photo: Los Angeles Times)
Bernie Sanders, Los Angeles Times 
Sanders writes: "Prescription drug prices in the United States are the highest in the world - by far. Californians on Nov. 8 have a chance to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry's greed and spark a national movement to end this price-gouging." 
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The US Government Wants to Read Travelers' Tweets Before Letting Them In 
Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Currier writes: "Soon, foreign visitors to the United States will be expected to tell U.S. authorities about their social media accounts." 
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Chicago Cops Who Broke "Code of Silence" to Report Police Drug Gang Face Deadly Retaliation 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Two Chicago police officers say they have faced retaliation and suffered from PTSD since they blew the whistle on a gang of their fellow cops who were demanding bribes from drug dealers in the housing projects of Chicago." 
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NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever 
Lee Ferran, ABC News 
Ferran writes: "Before the signing of the USA Freedom Act in June 2015, one of the NSA's most controversial programs was the mass collection of telephonic metadata from millions of Americans - the information about calls, including the telephone numbers involved, the time and the duration but not the calls' content - under a broad interpretation of the Patriot Act's Section 215." 
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Rallying the Black Vote in Freddie Gray's Baltimore 
Cajsa Wikstrom, Al Jazeera 
Wikstrom writes: "Marvin 'Doc' Cheatham is on a mission. He has been sitting outside the elementary school in Baltimore's Matthew Henson neighbourhood since early morning, hoping to register new voters and convince them they can bring change." 
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Central American Migrants Showing Record Levels of Mental Health Problems 
Nina Lakhani, Guardian UK 
Lakhani writes: "Central American migrants are suffering from record levels of mental health problems, amid a rise in violent attacks after a US-sponsored immigration crackdown forced them to use more perilous routes through Mexico." 
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Watchdog: EPA Action to Protect Flint Residents From Lead Was Delayed 7 Months 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR 
Kennedy writes: "The Environmental Protection Agency had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint, Mich., from lead-tainted water a full seven months before it did so, an EPA internal investigation has concluded." 
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