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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Immigrant Rioting Flares in France for Ninth Night — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov. 4 - France's worst urban violence in a decade exploded for a ninth night on Friday as bands of youths roamed the immigrant-heavy, working-class suburbs of Paris, setting fire to dozens of cars and buildings …
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Rantingprofs, The Glittering Eye, » Outside The Beltway, Washington Post, Tim Worstall and THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
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BBC:
No halt to French urban violence — French police have arrested more than 50 people, following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France. — Some 220 cars have been burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in mainly immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
Don Surber:
Girlcott This Linkfest — That is correct. Please GirlCott this linkfest so I can get lots of free publicity. It seems to be the marketing strategy for Abercrombie & Fitch. The once-proud retailer of clothing to uppercrust men decided to make a quick buck and hit the mallrat crowd in the '80s.
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KEN / Oblogatory Anecdotes:
Weekend Open Trackbacks! — Read Complete Post! — Its time for Open Trackback Weekend. You can trackback and commont on any subject. Please Link back to my site. — My Trackback URL: — http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/ 113117301298350876 — You can use the Wizbang Standalone Pinger to send trackbacks.
MacStansbury / macstansbury.org:
OPEN TRACKBACKS 6 — Open Trackbacks, all weekend long. — If your blogging software doesn't have built-in trackbacks, then you can use Simpletracks or the Whizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger. If you're not sure about trackbacking, then Harvey's primer on trackbacking.
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Common Folk Using Common Sense, Jo's Cafe, Bloggin' Outloud, Iowa Voice, The Junction and Two Babes and a Brain
The Evil Emperor Mindstation / Point Five:Open Trackbacks: Valour-IT Edition
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Soldiers' Angel, baldilocks, T. Longren, euphoricreality.net and Ipso Facto Cartoon Blog
LindaSoG / Something:Silly String Open Trackback Saturday
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New York Times:
Protesters Riot as Bush Attends 34-Nation Talks in Argentina — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 4 - President Bush's troubles trailed him to an international summit meeting here on Friday as anti-Bush protesters turned violent just blocks from the gathering site, and Hugo Chávez …
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings — White House Counsel to Give 'Refresher' Course — President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the indictment last week …
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skippy the bush kangaroo, The Left Coaster, » Outside The Beltway, Pandagon and AMERICAblog
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, is the subject of an inquiry into accusations …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Real Global Virus — The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. — National Review Online — Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once.
Kofi A. Annan / Washington Post:
The U.N. Isn't a Threat to the Net — The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held this month in Tunisia is to ensure that poor countries get the full benefits that new information and communication technologies — including the Internet — can bring to economic and social development.
James Glanz / New York Times:
U.S. Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds — An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Jarhead - a review — My wife, being a MOM (mother of a Marine), was keen to see the released-today movie, Jarhead, an adaptation of Anthony Swafford's book of the same name. So I took a couple of hours off (that I'll have to make up tonight and tomorrow) to go with her.
Jasper Mortimer / Associated Press:
Libya Reportedly Puts Blogger in Prison — CAIRO, Egypt - Libya has sent to prison for 18 months a blogger who criticized the government on the Internet, Human Rights Watch says in a report that inspired a series of Web tributes to the dissident Friday. — A Tripoli court convicted Abdel …
Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #20 — There were a couple of leading candidates for Cluebat of the Week this time around. Some would have been awarded on a collective basis (The French Government for their tepid response to rioting Muslims), some for individual achievement (Harry Reid's stunt in closing the Senate).
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Dafydd / Big Lizards:
Thickening the Plot — Borrowing a thought from frequent commenter KarmiCommunist, who seems ever exercised over the limitations of dualism, I think we've got the wrong end of the dog when we ask whether the riots in France are a "French intifada" or only a natural militant response …
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