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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:

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Friday, January 6, 2017

RSN: The Republicans Just Made It Much Easier to Sell Off National Parks, The Year of the Commando: US Special Operations Forces Deploy to 138 Nations, 70% of the World's Countries





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Nick Turse | The Year of the Commando: US Special Operations Forces Deploy to 138 Nations, 70% of the World's Countries 
U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (photo: AP)
Nick Turse, TomDispatch 
Turse writes: "For America, 2016 may have been the year of the commando. In one conflict zone after another across the northern tier of Africa and the Greater Middle East, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) waged their particular brand of low-profile warfare." 
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Corporations Prepare to Gorge on Tax Cuts Trump Claims Will Create Jobs 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "The official line from U.S.-based multinational corporations is that if they get a huge tax break, they'll bring home the trillions of dollars in profits they've stashed overseas and use it to hire tons of Americans. (Nearly 3 million, says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce!) But now that Donald Trump's election means it might really happen, corporate executives are telling Wall Street analysts what they'll actually use that money for: enriching their shareholders and buying other companies." 
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Massachusetts Sheriff Offers Prison Inmates to Build Trump's Wall 
Scott Malone, Reuters 
Malone writes: "A Massachusetts county sheriff has proposed sending prison inmates from around the United States to build the proposed wall along the Mexican border that is one of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's most prominent campaign promises." 
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Chicago Law Department Is Sanctioned Again for Withholding Police Shooting Record 
Stacy St. Clair and Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune 
Excerpt: "Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Law Department again has been sanctioned for withholding records involving a fatal police shooting, marking the eighth time in recent years a federal judge has formally punished the city for failing to turn over potential evidence in a police misconduct lawsuit." 
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GOP Aims to Rein In Liberal Cities 
Reid Wilson, The Hill 
Wilson writes: "After consolidating power in Washington, D.C., and state capitals under President-elect Donald Trump, Republicans are moving to prevent large cities dominated by Democrats from enacting sweeping liberal agendas." 
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Blackwater Founder Claims Private Security Is the Answer to Europe's Refugee Crisis 
Belen Fernandez, Middle East Eye 
Fernandez writes: "Starting the new year off with a bang, the Financial Times has just published a dispatch by Erik Prince, notorious founder and former CEO of the private security contracting firm Blackwater, the outfit responsible for projects such as the 2007 Nisour Square massacre of Iraqi children and other civilians." 
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The Republicans Just Made It Much Easier to Sell Off National Parks 
Nicole Gentile, ThinkProgress 
Gentile writes: "The U.S. House of Representatives just made it easier for the government to sell or give away national parks, national forests, and other public lands." 
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