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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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The MaryHunter / TMH's Bacon Bits:
Bacon Break — Open Post Weekend
Brian / The Blue State Conservatives:
TBSC Friday Linkfest - Week 6
Discussion: Palmetto Pundit
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Rioting Spreads From Paris Across France  —  AUBERVILLIERS, France - Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person.
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Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
Paris When It Sizzles  —  THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM "quartiers sensibles"—sensitive neighborhoods—for the troubled, predominantly Arab and African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at the heart of their society.
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 …
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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Alan Clendenning / Associated Press:
Summit Leaders Deadlocked on Free Trade
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Real Teen
Washington Post:   Anti-U.S. Protests Flare at Summit
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Bush Staffers Ordered To Attend Ethics Meetings
Mimus Pauly / skippy the bush kangaroo:
and now, an unintentionally funny headline...  from the washpost …
Discussion: The Heretik
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.
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James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:
Jarhead Suffers Typical Military Movie Flaws
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
RAW NUMBERS  —  The UK's Telegraph offers up a Big Lie on the Iraq war: … There are actually two lies in one in the above claim regarding the wounded - one is the total number, and the second is the implication that they've been discarded and forgotten.  We debunked them both here.
Discussion: euphoricreality.net
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Associated Press:
Cheney urges exception to torture ban for CIA  —  Vice president makes closed-door appeal to GOP senators  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Holy Crap! Cheney Leaves a Big, Slimy Trail
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ANOTHER CIA LEAK; WHO CARES?  —  For the last two years, we have been complaining about the CIA's war against the Bush administration, which has been fueled by one leak after another on the part of CIA officials.  These leaks, all or most of which involved classified information …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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.
Townhall.com:
MONEY FOR MCCAIN  —  Sen. John McCain, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has gotten a tepid response to a New York City fund-raiser Monday for his "Straight Talk America" political action committee.  —  McCain signed a Sept. 27 letter announcing his appearance at the St. Regis Hotel Nov. 7.
Discussion: QandO, Donklephant and Decision '08
Associated Press:
Dutch police foil attack on El Al plane  —  A Dutch terrorism suspect arrested in October allegedly hoped to shoot down an El-Al airliner at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, a Netherlands television program reported Friday, citing police and secret service documents.
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.

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