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By Thomas Ferraro
Reuters
Friday, November 3, 2006; 7:50 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Bob Ney of Ohio resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, three weeks after pleading guilty in the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal.

Ney submitted a letter of resignation, effective immediately, to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican who along with other lawmakers had urged him to step down immediately.

Ney had said in August he would not seek re-election to a seventh two-year term in the November 7 elections.

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No surprise here……. there must be alot of crazy liberals in Britain, Canada, Mexico……why even Israel!

LONDON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) — The United States was regarded as a threat to world peace by its neighbors and allies, according to an opinion poll published by the Guardian newspaper on Friday.

The poll was carried out by the Guardian in Britain and other leading newspapers in Israel, Canada and Mexico, using professional local opinion polling in each country.

According to the poll, in Britain, 69 percent of those questioned believed U.S. policy had made the world less safe since2001. In Canada and Mexico, America’s immediate northern and southern neighbors, 62 percent of Canadians and 57 percent of Mexicans said the world had become more dangerous because of U.S. policy.

As for Israel, the U.S. strong ally in the Middle East, support for the United States has fallen. Only one in four Israelis polled said U.S. President George W. Bush had made the world safer, while36 percent thought he had added to the risk of international conflict.

The poll showed that those in Britain, Canada and Mexico surveyed overwhelmingly rejected the decision to invade Iraq. Only in Israel, 59 percent of the surveyed supported the war and 34 percent were against.

Some 71 percent of Britons said the invasion was unjustified, a view shared by 89 percent of Mexicans and 73 percent of Canadians.

In Britain, 1,010 adults were interviewed by telephone on Oct. 27-30. A total of 1,078 people were asked in Israel, 1,007 in Canada and 1,010 in Mexico.

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Reporters Without Borders accused the Israeli government of indifference to repeated acts of violence by its troops against journalists after a young Palestinian cameraman sustained serious gunshot wounds on 3 November 2006, in Beit Hanun, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
“We again urge Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government to call the Israeli Defence Force to order,” the press freedom organisation said. “Journalists working in the Gaza Strip are often the victims of what appear to be targeted shootings. Such behaviour towards media personnel will continue until transparent investigations are carried out and those responsible are punished.”
A Palestinian, seriously wounded according to witnesses by Israeli troops in the nearby town of Beit Hanoun, is carried into the hospital in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Friday. (AP / Hatem Moussa)
The victim was Hamza Al Attar, 21, a cameraman working for the Palestinian news agency Ramattan, who was shot in the back while covering a protest by women in Beit Hanun calling for an end to the ongoing siege of the town by Israeli troops. He was wearing a bullet-proof vest marked “Press” and was more than 500 yards from the nearest Israeli tanks when shot. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors described his condition as critical.

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At least 20 Palestinian terrorists have been killed as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered their third day of operations in northern Gaza Friday morning, according to army sources.
Seven Palestinians were killed on Thursday when IDF troops operating near the town of Beit Hanoun engaged terrorists in a fierce firefight.
On Friday morning, a four-man Hamas rocket cell was eliminated in an Israeli air force strike near Gaza City.
Back in Beit Hanoun, Israeli ground forces surrounded the town, which has served as the launch pad for hundreds of recent rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns, and forced all of the local men to gather in a public area for questioning.
As the army moved to round up the locals, a group of 60 gunmen holed up in a Beit Hanoun mosque opened fire on the Israelis. During the ensuing gun battle, portions of the mosque’s roof collapsed. Palestinian sources cited by Ha’aretz said that all of the gunmen escaped unharmed.

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“The town is completely sealed off from the outside world. Last night I drove round and it was incredibly tense. Palestinian youths, many armed, were running around the outskirts. I could see Israeli tanks in total control of the town centre. Israeli observation drones also flew overhead throughout the night to monitor the town.
“What appears to have happened is that a group of Palestinian gunmen were trapped by Israeli troops inside the al-Nassr mosque overnight.
“After appeals from Hamas on radio throughout the night for people to go to the mosque to get the gunmen out, women marched from neighbouring towns to gather round the mosque and get the fighters out.
“Both the Israelis and Palestinians agree there was siege that was lifted by the crowd of women. Both sides agree there were shots fired into the crowd. But, after this the stories start to differ.
“Israel said there were half a dozen Palestinian militants in the crowds and they say that they have no knowledge of hitting any women. The Palestinians say that many of the women were injured and two were shot dead.

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By the thousands they descended on Beit Hanoun, answering Hamas’s overnight radio pleas to rescue besieged Palestinian gunmen from the mosque.
Veiled and carrying mobile phones and handbags they charged past Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers through the deserted streets of a border town in the midst of the most intensive Israeli military operation in northern Gaza in recent months.
The plan was to smuggle their men out in women’s clothes, some of the marchers wearing double sets under their voluminous black cloaks and veils.
A firefight erupted when gunmen who had been holed up in the mosque for more than a day ran free to join the crowd, leaving at least one of the women dead and dozens more injured by Israeli troops.

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UPDATE: 2:45P.M. 11 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN 3 DAYS
Not a word about this on CNN today……that I’ve heard.

8 U.S. Soldiers killed in 2 days. 100 Iraqi Security Forces killed in 2 days. But according to Tony Snow, the leaked report earlier in the week was back from when things “were violent.” Gee…looks to me like November may be even more violent than back when things were violent, Tony!

From correspondents in Baghdad
November 04, 2006
SEVEN American troops were killed on Thursday in Iraq, the US military said overnight, updating an earlier toll.

Three US marines died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al-Anbar province in western Iraq, a statement said.

Earlier statements had said three army soldiers were killed on Thursday in a Baghdad bomb attack and one more marine was killed in the west.

The deaths bring to 2825 the number of US troops to have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.

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ABC plays voicemails of Haggard ’s alleged calls to his dealer.

UPDATE: Haggard has now admitted to purchasing meth, but claims he did not do it….he threw it out. He was buying to for himself, but he never used it. He stated he did get a massage from Jones, to whom he was referred from a hotel he was staying at in Denver. Riiiigggggghhhhhtttttt! In 24 hours he’s gone from “I do not know this guy” to…… he gave me a massage and I bought meth.

BAGHDAD - Iraq cancelled all military leave on Friday and put the armed forces on alert to thwart any outbreak of violence after the verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein, which is expected on Sunday.

“All military personnel are on alert. Leave has been cancelled and we are on alert for any possible emergency,” said Major General Ibrahim Shaker, the spokesman for the Iraqi defence ministry.

“Those on leave should report to their units,” he added.

The Iraqi High Tribunal is expected to pronounce its verdict on Sunday in the trial of the ousted Iraqi leader and seven co-defendants accused of ordering the murder of 148 Shiite villagers in the 1980s.

If found guilty of crimes against humanity Saddam could be sentenced to death.

While Iraq’s Shiite and Kurdish communities celebrated Saddam’s fall after the US-led invasion of March 2003, he still retains support among some armed factions of the Sunni minority, which might protest the verdict.

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Gee, this sounds like real good news doesn’t it? Well……this article I posted yesterday, shows these figures are already back in the dumper.

The number of U.S. workers applying for jobless benefits rose by an unexpectedly large 18,000 last week to 327,000.

Bullshit Bullshit and more bullshit…….

By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer | November 3, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low of 4.4 percent in October as employers added 92,000 new jobs — flashing a picture of a strong labor market as the midterm elections draw near.

The latest report, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed that the civilian unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage point from 4.6 percent in September. It marked the third month in a row that the politically prominent jobless rate declined.

The tally of new jobs added to the economy in October fell short of economists expectations for an increase of around 125,000 positions, however. Nonetheless, job gains in both August and September turned out to be much stronger than previously estimated — and that took a lot of the sting out of October’s less-than-expected payroll performance.

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We Don’t Need Another (faux) Hero…

Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can’t make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains

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