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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



Monday, October 31, 2016

RSN: Parallels Seen in Protests of Dakota Pipeline, Oregon Refuge, As Earth Warms, the Diseases That May Lie Within Permafrost Become a Bigger Worry




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Andy Borowitz | Fox: New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln 
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton. (photo: AP) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "In what may be the most serious allegation ever made against the former Secretary of State, Fox News Channel reported today that Hillary Clinton was involved in the conspiracy to murder President Abraham Lincoln." 
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Parallels Seen in Protests of Dakota Pipeline, Oregon Refuge 
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press 
Flaccus writes: "On the same day seven defendants celebrated their acquittal in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bag rounds arrested nearly 150 oil pipeline protesters camped out in North Dakota." 
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Money Manager Thinks "High-Decibel" Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Know Her Place 
David Dayen, The Intercept 
Dayen writes: "Roger Lowenstein, the journalist-turned-chairman of the Sequoia mutual fund, criticizes Warren, 'the nation's unelected regulatory czar,' for being too outspoken about the financial industry. At one point, Lowenstein condemns her for 'painting bankers with as broad a brush as Donald J. Trump uses to demean Muslims.'" 
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race 
Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica 
Excerpt: "Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That's basically what Facebook is doing nowadays." 
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Even in a Virtual World, the Harsh Reality of Sexual Harassment Persists 
Iman Smith, NPR 
Smith writes: "It's called virtual reality, or VR, and it's this technology that game developer Jonathan Schenker has a passion for. Schenker and his colleague Aaron Stanton created the VR game QuiVr - and, he was alarmed to discover a female user had been harassed while playing it." 
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Turkey Sacks 10,000 More Civil Servants, Shuts Media in Latest Crackdown 
Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters 
Pamuk reports: "Turkey said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July." 
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As Earth Warms, the Diseases That May Lie Within Permafrost Become a Bigger Worry 
Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American 
Goudarzi writes: "Researchers have predicted for years that one of the effects of global warming could be that whatever is frozen in permafrost-such as ancient bacteria-might be released as temperatures climb. Now they are witnessing the theoretical turning into reality: infectious microorganisms emerging from a deep freeze." 
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