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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, October 8, 2016

RSN: Operation Brass Tax: Corrupt Chicago Police Were Taxing Drug Dealers and Targeting Their Rivals, Monsanto's Toxic PCBs Lurking in 26,000 US Public Schools, Report Says




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Robert Reich | The Trump Campaign Is Tearing Fox News Apart 
Robert Reich. (photo: Getty) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "I'm not overly worried about the unwinding social fabric of Fox News. In fact, it's the only good thing to come out of the Trump campaign." 
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Operation Brass Tax: Corrupt Chicago Police Were Taxing Drug Dealers and Targeting Their Rivals 
Jamie Kalven, The Intercept 
Kalven writes: "A CPD sergeant named Ronald Watts was running an elaborate criminal enterprise within the department, extorting a 'tax' from drug dealers and targeting their rivals." 
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Bernie Sanders Vows to Close Tax Loophole That Lets Trump Avoid Taxes 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "Earlier this week, Sanders promised to introduce legislation in the next session of Congress that would change a number of things in the tax code, including the exemption that the real estate industry carved out for itself from rules regarding passive losses." 
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How 10 Mega-Donors Already Helped Pour a Record $1.1 Billion Into Super PACs 
Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Super PACs seeking to influence the 2016 elections have collected more than $1 billion, a record haul driven by jumbo-sized contributions from rich donors on both sides of the aisle." 
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15 Years After the US Invasion, Afghanistan's Opium Production Is at Near-Record Levels 
Reuters 
Excerpt: "Opium production in Afghanistan increased this year to one of the highest levels on record as efforts to eradicate the crop in a country that provides much of the world's heroin collapsed, the United Nations said Wednesday." 
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Power Over Peace in Colombia 
Forrest Hylton, Jacobin 
Hylton writes: "Proponents of Colombia's peace deal underestimated their opponents' strength and failed to mobilize their own base." 
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Monsanto's Toxic PCBs Lurking in 26,000 US Public Schools, Report Says 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "On the same day that the agribusiness giant announced plans to set aside a whopping $280 million in PCB personal injury settlements, a study from scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that up to 14 million students in 26,000 schools in the U.S. could be exposed to unsafe levels of the highly toxic chemicals even though they were banned several decades ago." 
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