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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



Sunday, September 18, 2016

RSN: Trump Is Trying to Rewrite His History of Birtherism. This Is What Really Happened, Edward Snowden: Freedom and Democracy Are Threatened Not Only by Foreign Rivals, but Also by Our Own Government






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Edward Snowden: Freedom and Democracy Are Threatened Not Only by Foreign Rivals, but Also by Our Own Government 
Whistleblower Edward Snowden. (photo: Platon) 
Alan Rusbridger, Financial Times 
Excerpt: "I think the lesson of 2013 is not about surveillance but democracy. It's that if we, the public, are going to actually have a government that serves us rather than a government that we are subject to rather than partner to, it's a process of constant gardening and we have to be active participants." 
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Trump Is Trying to Rewrite His History of Birtherism. This Is What Really Happened. 
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress 
Legum writes: "Since 2011, Donald Trump has been the most prominent spokesperson for birtherism - the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen." 
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Family of Italian Killed in Drone Strike Gets More Than $1 Million From US 
Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Currier writes: "The United States paid over a million euros to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker killed in a U.S. drone strike in January of last year, according to newly released documents." 
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US Presidential Debate Rules Out Third Party Candidates 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party hopeful Jill Stein have failed to quality for the first planned U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates said Friday." 
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When Humanitarianism Became Imperialism 
Gregory Afinogenov, Jacobin 
Afinogenov writes: "In 1980s Afghanistan, two world powers converged on each other, obliterating the national borders that stood in their way. The first was the Soviet state, bent on defending the precarious gains of a 1978 Communist coup d'etat that it had actively tried to prevent." 
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One in Three Saudi Air Raids on Yemen Hit Civilian Sites, Data Shows 
Ewen MacAskill and Paul Torpey, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "More than one-third of all Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, such as school buildings, hospitals, markets, mosques and economic infrastructure, according to the most comprehensive survey of the conflict." 
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Sea Ice, Near Record Low, Is Not Rebounding 
Margaret Kriz Hobson, Scientific American 
Hobson writes: "A light winter snow fell on Barrow, Alaska, this week as scientists reported that the ice cover off Barrow's Arctic shores had declined to its second-lowest level in satellite history, tied with 2007." 
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