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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, December 10, 2016

RSN: What I Saw at the Michigan Recount, Veterans at Standing Rock Take Solidarity to Flint Water Crisis




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Nick Sharp | What I Saw at the Michigan Recount 
A tabulator looks over a ballot during a presidential election recount. (photo: John Ehlke/AP) 
Nick Sharp, Medium 
Sharp writes: "On December 7, 2016, I volunteered as an observer with Recount Michigan 2016. I showed up at 9:00am sharp in the heart of Detroit, in heavily democratic Wayne County, Michigan." 
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Secret CIA Assessment Concludes Russia Interfered to Help Trump Win Election 
Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter." 
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Trump Said to Pick Drilling Advocate Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Interior 
Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times 
Halper writes: "Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), a member of the GOP congressional leadership and a strident advocate for increased oil and gas drilling on federal lands, to head the Interior Department, according to multiple news reports." 
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Veterans at Standing Rock Take Solidarity to Flint Water Crisis 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Hundreds of U.S. veterans that joined the historic uprising at Standing Rock at a pivotal moment ahead of a key victory are turning attention to their next act of solidarity, this time to stand with communities suffering from the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan." 
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The Ghost Ship Fire Is a Reminder: We Have to Make Our Cities Work for Everyone 
Heather Smith, Grist 
Smith writes: "Over a decade ago, a friend of mine moved into a warehouse in Oakland. The first time I saw it, the warehouse was an echoing, cavernous space, empty except for a few lonely trucks parked inside and a 1950s office chair rigged up so that it hung like a chandelier from the ceiling-mounted crane system." 
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The Fate of Honduras 
Parker Asmann & Dana Frank, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "It's rare for Honduras to make headlines during a US national election. But after Honduran human rights activist Berta Caceres was murdered in her home in the early hours of March 3, observers raised the connection between her assassination and Hillary Clinton's support for the 2009 coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya and unleashed a wave of violence against activists in the country." 
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America's First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm Goes Live 
Bobby Magill, Scientific American 
Magill writes: "In a few days, the water-bound wind turbines off of Rhode Island's Block Island are expected to generate electricity commercially for the first time, and New Englanders are set to become the first in U.S. history to use electric power generated from an offshore wind turbine." 
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