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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, December 30, 2016

RSN: Noam Chomsky | US Isolation, Trump's EPA Pick Rouses Suspicions Over Ties to Koch Brothers




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Noam Chomsky | US Isolation 
Noam Chomsky. (photo: ZKM) 
Noam Chomsky, ZNet 
Chomsky writes: "The US is becoming even more isolated than it has been in recent years, when US-run polls - unreported in the US but surely known in Washington - revealed that world opinion regarded the US as by far the leading threat to world peace, no one else even close." 
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Standing Rock Activists Eye Pipeline Finances to Cement Dakota Access Win 
Sam Levin and Julia Carrie Wong , Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Indigenous activists are focusing on the Dakota Access pipeline's finances before Donald Trump takes office in an effort to further strain the oil corporation and cause continuing delays that they hope could be disastrous for the project." 
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Can Alexa Help Solve a Murder? Police Think So - but Amazon Won't Give Up Her Data. 
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post 
Wang writes: "While police have long seized computers, cellphones and other electronics to investigate crimes, this case has raised fresh questions about privacy issues regarding devices like the Amazon Echo or the Google Home, voice-activated personal command centers that are constantly 'listening.'" 
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Paul Ryan Introduces New Rules Banning Lawmaker Livestreaming 
Charley Lanyon, New York Magazine 
Lanyon writes: "Paul Ryan introduced a new package of rules on Tuesday that would punish lawmakers for taking pictures and videos of procedures on the House floor." 
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As So-Called Populism Gains Strength, Billionaires Keep Getting Richer 
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress 
Pyke writes: "As right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world's richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars richer in 2016." 
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Agreement Reached on Syria Cease-Fire 
Mark Katkov, NPR 
Katkov writes: "Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in Moscow that the Syrian government and Syrian opposition forces have agreed to a nationwide cease-fire to begin at midnight local time." 
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Trump's EPA Pick Rouses Suspicions Over Ties to Koch Brothers 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "Scott Pruitt - Donald Trump's controversial pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - is under fire for his supposed ties to a nonprofit controlled by billionaire oil tycoons, Charles and David Koch." 
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