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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



Monday, September 28, 2015

RSN: Despite Warning of Environmental Damage, Egypt Floods Gaza's Tunnels With Seawater, Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling, Trump Hotel Workers Use Candidate's Anti-Latino Rhetoric to Galvanize Union




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Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling 
Activists protest against the Shell drilling rig Polar Pioneer in Seattle, Washington, on 16 May, 2015. (photo: Jason Redmond/Reuters) 
Karolin Schaps, Reuters 
Schaps writes: "Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude in a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky." 
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Elizabeth Warren Just Gave the Speech That Black Lives Matter Activists Have Been Waiting For 
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post 
Lowery writes: "In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for broad policing reform - including de-escalation training and body cameras for all police officers - and likened the current Black Lives Matter movement to the civil rights movement that won black Americans the right to vote in the 1960s." 
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Trump Hotel Workers Use Candidate's Anti-Latino Rhetoric to Galvanize Union 
Daniel Hernandez, Guardian UK 
Hernandez writes: "In protests, Spanish language radio ads, press releases, and Facebook videos, organizers are highlighting Trump Hotel employees' own immigrant stories, and channeling the Nevada Latino worker community's outrage at the Republican presidential frontrunner into political and union engagement by a population that makes up the bulk of Trump's Las Vegas hotel employees - and a powerful swing state voting bloc." 
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The Pope's Favorite American Radicals 
Virginia Cannon, The New Yorker 
Cannon write: "Last week Pope Francis expressed fondness for people who have lived life raw and have complicated stories to tell. He seems to prefer their company to that of people who tend toward piety and entitlement-hence his decision to decline a Capitol Hill luncheon invitation in order to break bread with the homeless. Dorothy Day would have joined him at that table. Thomas Merton would have done so in spirit." 
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Owner of Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Won't Stop Fighting for Her Patients 
Max Blau, Guardian UK 
Blau writes: "61-year-old abortion activist Diane Derzis has persevered in her field despite the murder of one abortion doctor, the bombing of her clinic, and the perpetual barrage of protesters seeking to shame her clients." 
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Despite Warning of Environmental Damage, Egypt Floods Gaza's Tunnels With Seawater 
Mohammed Omer, Middle East Eye 
Omer writes: "Egyptian military vehicles are transferring Mediterranean Sea water to the Rafah border, to fill a newly-built crude canal, flooding and destroying the lifeline tunnels connecting Egypt and blockaded Gaza. But the story goes deeper: the Egyptian government is trying to economically crush Hamas, an ally of the Muslim brotherhood." 
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