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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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Monday, October 15, 2018

Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically





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Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically 
Fossil fuel emissions. (photo: J David Ake/AP)
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. So far the Netherlands has only reduced 13% from 1990 levels."
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Protests outside the White House. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
Protests outside the White House. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)








Bunch writes: "People should be very afraid — not just of these proposed rules, but about why Team Trump wants this in the first place."
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People hold signs during a protest at the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC over Khashoggi's disappearance. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
People hold signs during a protest at the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC over Khashoggi's disappearance. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Saudi Arabia to Hit Back in Case of Sanctions Over Jamal Khashoggi
Patrick Wintour, Guardian UK
Wintour writes: "Saudi Arabia has said it will retaliate against any sanctions imposed over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, as JP Morgan and Ford swelled the ranks of western companies pulling out of a high-profile conference in Riyadh next week."
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Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. (photo: Jeff Roberson/AP)
Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. (photo: Jeff Roberson/AP)

Missouri GOP Senate Nominee Misleads on His Pre-Existing Condition Hypocrisy
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Israel writes: "Josh Hawley, the Republican nominee against Missouri’s US senator Claire McCaskill (D), has made protecting people with pre-existing conditions a key part of his campaign platform — even as he undermines those protections as his state’s attorney general."
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Democratic candidate for Georgia's Governor Stacy Abrams. (photo: John Bazemore/AP)
Democratic candidate for Georgia's Governor Stacy Abrams. (photo: John Bazemore/AP)


Stacey Abrams: GOP Opponent Creating 'Miasma of Fear' Over Voting in Georgia
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "As a crisis of potential voter suppression in Georgia deepened, the Democratic candidate for governor accused her opponent of seeking to disenfranchise people of color and women by creating a 'miasma of fear' around voting."
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Pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador on Oct. 3. Romero, who was killed in 1980 by a right wing will death squad during Mass, will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday. (photo: Slavador Melendez/AP)
Pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador on Oct. 3. Romero, who was killed in 1980 by a right wing will death squad during Mass, will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday. (photo: Slavador 

In El Salvador, Slain Archbishop Oscar Romero Seen as Saint Long Ago
Marcos Aleman, Associated Press
Aleman writes: "On Sunday in the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially make Romero a saint nearly three decades after he was martyred by an assassin’s bullet to the heart. But for many Salvadoran Roman Catholic devotees who already know him as 'Saint Romero of the Americas' that will only formalize something they have long known in their hearts."
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The iceberg that calved from Pine Island Glacier in September 2017, which was 4.5 times the size of Manhattan. The current crack could calve an even larger iceberg. (photo: NASA and USGS)
The iceberg that calved from Pine Island Glacier in September 2017, which was 4.5 times th

Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
Laura Geggel, Scientific American
Geggel writes: "Scientists are concerned the glacier is spawning icebergs more frequently than it used to."
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