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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

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, February 14, 2014

Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook

FROM RSN:

Glenn Greenwald | Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook
National Intelligence Director James Clapper. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald reports: "Clapper has been not only shielded from prosecution, and not only allowed to keep his job; he has has now been anointed the arbiter of others' criminality."
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Elizabeth Warren's Post Office Plan May Revolutionize the Financial Lives of the Unbanked
Rich Smith, DailyFinance
Smith reports: "If the post office sounds like a strange place to be going for banking services - it is (at least in this country). But expect more and more Americans to start doing just that in years to come."
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Goodbye Voting Rights
The New Yorker
Excerpt: "In the magazine this week, Jeffrey Toobin writes about Attorney General Eric Holder and his efforts to enforce the principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
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Comcast's Takeover of Time Warner Is a Horrible Deal for Consumers
Dan Gillmor, Guardian UK
Gillmor reports: "Regulators and competition authorities are supposed to consider the public interest when looking at such deals. In no way does the public interest benefit from this one."
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Portland Residents Tell Mayor: 'Stop Arresting Homeless People'
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "The group, a self-described 'angry mob,' carried pitchforks and torches while demanding that Mayor Charlie Hales end policies that criminalize homelessness."
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Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion Levels Homes in Kentucky Town
Joanna M. Foster, ThinkProgress
Foster reports: "Adair County, Kentucky remains under a state of emergency after a natural gas line explosion early Thursday morning."
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Harvey Wasserman | US Sailors Sick From Fukushima Radiation File New Suit
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch
Wasserman reports: "The suit includes an infant born with a genetic condition to a sailor who served on the USS Ronald Reagan as radiation poured over it during the Fukushima melt-downs, and an American teenager living near the stricken site."
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FOCUS: Frank Rich | Boehner Surrenders, But the Party of No Will Rise Again
New York Magazine columnist Frank Rich. (photo: NY Magazine)
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "The GOP is still the story. It is a hard-right party that will be happy to once again hold the government hostage to its demands if it gains a Senate majority to go with its House majority in November's midterms. It's a party that right now stands essentially for one thing: It is against Obamacare."
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