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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:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Showing posts with label Thalidomide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thalidomide. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2015

LAPD Ted Rall tape spliced? Hendrick & Co.: Save me!, VoteVets



Six independent audio experts now say they think the LAPD tape — used as a pretext to get Ted Rall fired from the LA Times — was spliced!
aNewDomain -- The LAPD audiotape The Los Angeles Times said it used to justify my firing as a longtime editorial cartoonist and columnist sounds spliced,...
ANEWDOMAIN.NET|BY GINA SMITH

We have created this campaign to help save the lives of these puppies. They were taken from their mom at just 5 weeks old so that someone could make some quick cash. You wont believe what the "owners" did next...[read more]
With every shirt sold, you can help save their life!


A tenacious woman that really cared and stood her ground. An example for all regulators to do their jobs and abandon their excuses for inaction!!!
In 1960, Dr. Frances Kelsey was only a month into her job at the Food and Drug Administration when she was asked to sign off on a drug providing relief to morning sickness in pregnant women.
The drug was already in use in countries around the world and the drug company insisted it was safe. But Kelsey believed that not enough research had been done and blocked its sale in the U.S., refusing to give in to hardball corporate pressure.
The drug was thalidomide, later blamed for dire birth defects in thousands of babies, many of whom were born with deformed or missing arms and legs.
In 1960, Dr. Frances Kelsey was only a month into her job at the Food and Drug Administration when she was asked to sign off on a drug providing relief to...
WWW.LATIMES.COM|BY LOS ANGELES TIMES



The Hill shared a link.
Monday’s totals are evidence of outrage among the Democratic Party’s base, MoveOn said.
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Right Wing Iraq Veterans attack President Obama! They shouldn't blame just the Iranians, but also the folks who started the Iraq War and empowered the Iranian regime's influence in Iraq in the first place.
Disputing the president's claim that opponents of the nuclear pact want another war.
WWW.BLOOMBERGVIEW.COM

RSN: The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here, When Oppression Is the Status Quo, Disruption Is a Moral Duty




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Andy Borowitz | Trump Fails to Back Up Misogynist Slurs With Anti-Woman Proposals, Rivals Say 
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Tempers flared in the aftermath of Thursday night's Republican debate, as rival candidates accused the billionaire Donald Trump of failing to back up his misogynist slurs with concrete and workable anti-woman proposals." 
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Bree Newsome | When Oppression Is the Status Quo, Disruption Is a Moral Duty 
Bree Newsome, The Root 
Newsome writes: "I'm struck by the way society can commemorate the movement of the past while condemning the movement of the present. Or how it can continually celebrate social progress in the most abstract of ways while ignoring the realities of what is required for social progress to occur." 
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Sanders: Some Hillary Critics Are 'Sexist' 
Mark Hensch, The Hill 
Hensch writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that some detractors dislike former secretary of State Hillary Clinton because she's a woman." 
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Michael Brown's Father Urges Protesters to Step Up Efforts on Shooting Anniversary 
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK 
Swaine writes: "Michael Brown's father on Saturday urged the protest movement roused by the death of his son in Ferguson, Missouri, to intensify its efforts to reform the criminal justice system following the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting." 
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Frances Kelsey, FDA Officer Who Blocked Thalidomide, Dies at 101 
Scott Neuman, NPR 
Neuman writes: "Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, whose tireless efforts uncovered a link between the drug thalidomide and severe birth defects, has died at age 101." 
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Harvest of Facebook User Data Prompts Calls for Tighter Privacy Settings 
Josh Halliday, Guardian UK 
Halliday writes: "Facebook has been urged to tighten its privacy settings after a software engineer was able to harvest data about thousands of users - simply by guessing their mobile numbers." 
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The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here 
Eric Holthaus, Rolling Stone 
Holthaus writes: "Thanks to the pressure we're putting on the planet's ecosystem - warming, acidification and good old-fashioned pollution - the oceans are set up for several decades of rapid change. Here's what could happen next." 
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