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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:

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Showing posts with label Enron. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2014

RSN: Dismantling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Will Cost $4.4B, UN Chief: Gaza School Attack a 'Criminal Act'





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Ayn Rand and the Myth that Markets Aren't Free Enough

Thomas Frank, Salon
Frank writes: "This summer will mark 13 years since the series of disclosures that led to the sudden bankruptcy of the Enron Corp. of Houston. The collapse of the gas-and-power leviathan, then one of the largest companies in the nation, was the starting gun for the modern age of neoliberal scandal, the corporate crime that set the pattern."
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How the FBI Is Creating Terrorists
Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
Berkowitz writes: "The federal government has all sorts of arrows in its quiver when it comes to gathering intelligence to thwart such attacks. And that is where it begins to gets dicey."
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UN Chief: Gaza School Attack a 'Criminal Act'
Jason Burke, Guardian UK
Burke writes: "A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a 'moral outrage' and 'criminal act' by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon."
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Libya Violence Escalates With 22 Dead
Guardian UK
Excerpt: "In a statement early Sunday, it said 'heavily armed groups' have shelled 'civilian targets' endangering thousands of citizens and leaving hundreds of families displaced."
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Ohio's 4th Largest City Has No Drinking Water
John Seewer, Associated Press
Seewer writes: "Long lines formed at water distribution centers and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie."
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No Longer Ignored, Evidence Solves Rape Cases Years Later
Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
Eckholm writes: "Like hundreds of thousands of other rape kits across the country containing evidence gathered from victims, that of Ms. Ybos lay untested for years on a storeroom shelf."
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Dismantling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Will Cost $4.4B
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Dismantling the San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California will take two decades and cost $4.4 billion, but spent radioactive fuel will be held at the site indefinitely, according to a game plan from Southern California Edison."
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Crimea's Case for Leaving Ukraine



Robert Parry | Crimea's Case for Leaving Ukraine
A map showing Crimea (in beige) and its proximity to both the Ukrainian mainland and Russia. (photo: Consortium News)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "If you were living in Crimea, would you prefer to remain part of Ukraine with its coup-installed government – with neo-Nazis running four ministries including the Ministry of Defense – or would you want to become part of Russia, which has had ties to Crimea going back to Catherine the Great in the 1700s?"
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After Pledging Transparency, PBS Hides Details of New Deal With Billionaire Owner of NewsHour
David Sirota, PandoDaily
Sirota writes: "Last month, in response to Pando’s revelations that anti-pension mogul John Arnold secretly was financing PBS’s 'Pension Peril' series, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting issued a scathing report demanding immediate reform."
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Ralph Nader | California's Coming Minimum Wage Restoration
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "In commencing this effort, Mr. Unz is uniting conservatives and liberals in supporting this initiative and is hopeful that Silicon Valley billionaires or megabillionaires will help fund this citizens' campaign."
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In the Midwest, a Storm Brews Over 'Frac Sand'
Richard Mertens, Christian Science Monitor
Mertens reports: "Sand has become a valuable – and deeply divisive – commodity in the upper Midwest."
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A Kiev Question: What Became of the Missing?
C.J. Chivers, The New York Times
Chivers writes: "In the weeks since, Ukraine's interim authorities have allowed opposition members to search prisons, morgues and hospitals for their missing."
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Hundreds Celebrate Chokwe Lumumba's Life
R.L. Nave, Jackson Free Press
Nave reports: "The Jackson Convention Complex was packed this morning and afternoon for the memorial services for Lumumba, who died Feb. 25 at the age of 66."
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The Children of Japan's Fukushima Battle an Invisible Enemy
Toru Hanai, Elaine Lies, Reuters
Hanai and Lies report: "Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside - fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives."
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Friday, March 7, 2014

RSN: Enron Billionaire Brags About Being Expert on Cutting Pensions, 44 Years a Prisoner: The Case of Eddie Conway, et al



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Robert Parry | Putin or Kerry: Who's Delusional?
John Kerry. (photo: file)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Official Washington and its compliant mainstream news media operate with a convenient situational ethics when it comes to the principles of international law and non-intervention in sovereign states."
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Tom Engelhardt and Mattea Kramer | Why Washington Doesn't Want to Leave Afghanistan
Tom Engelhardt and Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch
Engelhardt and Kramer write: "At stake has been leaving a residual force of U.S. and NATO trainers, advisors, and special operations types behind for years to come, perhaps (the figures varied with the moment) 3,000-12,000 of them."
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David Sirota | Enron Billionaire Brags About Being Expert on Cutting Pensions
David Sirota, PandoDaily
Sirota writes: "One particular reaction to Pando's scoop was downright newsworthy, and that was the reaction from John Arnold himself."
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Amy Goodman | 44 Years a Prisoner: The Case of Eddie Conway
Amy Goodman, Truthdig
Goodman writes: "Marshall 'Eddie' Conway walked free from prison this week, just one month shy of 44 years behind bars."
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Meet the Company That Can Track Everywhere You've Been and Tell Police About It
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Ganeva writes: "As it turns out, DHS didn't need a national license-plate database, because such a database already exists. It's run by a private company called Vigilant Solutions and ICE and other law enforcement agencies have been dipping into it for years."
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Steeped in Bloody History, and Seeing a Chance to Rewrite It
Andrew Higgins, The New York Times
An excellent historical perspective on the depth of Russia's ties in the Crimea. Required reading.
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Nine-Month-Old Baby May Have Been Cured of HIV, US Scientists Say
Scott Malone, Reuters
Malone reports: "A 9-month-old baby who was born in California with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS may have been cured as a result of treatments that doctors began just four hours after her birth."
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Friday, June 21, 2013

Mythology


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