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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



Thursday, December 8, 2016

RSN: Trump's EPA Pick, 'a Literal Stenographer for Oil and Gas', US Border Patrol Uses Desert as 'Weapon' to Kill Thousands of Migrants, Report Says




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Bill McKibben | Trump's EPA Pick, 'a Literal Stenographer for Oil and Gas' 
Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma. (photo: AP) 
Bill McKibben, New York Daily News 
McKibben writes: "Sometimes we say that so and so is a 'mouthpiece' of some special interest, meaning that they're in cahoots, that they express their views. Or maybe we say someone's a 'puppet' of industry. Most of the time these are metaphors. But sometimes they're literal." 
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Drowning in Information: NSA Revelations From 262 Spy Documents 
Micah Lee and Margot Williams, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "By the first half of 2004, the National Security Agency was drowning in information. It had amassed 85 billion phone and online records and cut the ribbon on a new hacking center in Hawaii - but it was woefully short on linguists who could make sense of captured communications and lacked enough network analysts to effectively monitor all the systems it had hacked." 
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Federal Judge Halts Michigan Presidential Election Recount 
Tresa Baldas, Kathleen Gray and Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press 
Excerpt: "A federal judge halted the presidential vote recount in Michigan on Wednesday, 'tying his decision to a state court ruling that found Green Party candidate Jill Stein had no legal standing to request another look at ballots.'" 
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Pipeline Spills in North Dakota Cost $40 Million in Property Damage Every Year, Report Finds 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "On Sunday, protesters in North Dakota celebrated as news that the Army Corps of Engineers would not be granting a necessary permit for the Dakota Access pipeline spread." 
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Trump's Attack on Union Leader Led to Threats Against His Children by Trump's Backers 
Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post 
Paquette writes: "Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn't see the tweet. His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter." 
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US Border Patrol Uses Desert as 'Weapon' to Kill Thousands of Migrants, Report Says 
Rory Carroll, Guardian UK 
Carroll writes: "The US Border Patrol agency has engineered the death and disappearance of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants by using the desert wilderness as a 'weapon', according to an advocacy group." 
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Thousands of Snow Geese Die in Montana After Landing on Contaminated Wastewater Pond 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Several thousand snow geese have died after a snowstorm forced large flocks to take refuge in the acidic, metal-laden waters of an old open pit mine in Montana." 
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