Sunday, 11-19-06: The deputy prime minister for Israel called for the killing of all the leaders of Hamas and walking away from peace talks. And he calls for Israeli Arabs to be stripped of their citizenship and transported to Palestine. In the meanwhile, Hamas and Fatah are in talks about forming a unity government for Palestine. Israel has killed a series of Hamas leaders with missile strieks from helicopters in recent years, including the founder, but hasn't targeted members of the Hamas-led government, elected 10 months ago. More than a thousand scientists met at the Beijing Conference on Global Warming and Environmental change. They warn that CO2 emissions increased four times as fast as predicted during the last decade. They call for "urgent and drastic action." Only three countries are doing less than the US on global warming: China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. More than a million cluster bombs contaminate southern Lebanon, left behind by the Israelis. They kill or injure an average of three people a day, mostly farmers. In local news, some bookstores are refusing to stock O. J. Simpson's new book, "If I Did It." They'll still order it for those who want it. Monday, 11-20-06: In recent months, Israel has been bombing the homes of militants in Gaza. They call the resident 30 minutes before the airstrike and warn him. Yesterday they called Mohammed Baroud to tell him to clear out, and he got on his cellphone and called supporters. Dozens and then hundreds of people flocked to his house, many of them women and children. Israel called off the airstrike, and a spokesman condemned the tactic as "cynical." Israel also fired a missile at a car in Gaza City yesterday. They killed a man and wounded nine other people. Four of those wounded were children. The youngest was five. Hamas fired 8 rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot. They wounded one person. Last week they killed a woman in the same town. On Friday the UN passed a resolution calling on Israel to pull its troops out of Gaza, and requesting a fact-finding mission into the deaths of 19 members of an extended family killed in an Israeli artillery attack earlier this month. Israel, Australia and the US voted against it. A study finds that the happiest country on Earth is Denmark. The US ranks number 23. Britain ranks 41st. China is 82nd, and India is 125th. Zimbabwe and Burundi come in at the bottom of the list. Tuesday, 11-21-06: Heather Mills McCartney says rumors about her being in a romantic relationship with her personal trainer are false, and that she'll never remarry. "I haven't got a lover," Mills told Extra. "At the moment, I'm focusing on my daughter." O. J. Simpson's book, "If I Did It," and his TV special have been canceled. When asked about it, he said he felt indifferent. He'd already been paid the $3.5 million anyway. He said he only did it for the money, as part of his kids' "legacy." On his trip to Vietnam, Bush was asked whether any lessons from Vietnam applied to the war in Iraq. He said, "One lesson is that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take awhile. It's just going to take a long period of time for the ideology that is hopeful, and that is an ideology of freedom, to overcome an ideology of hate. We'll succeed unless we quit." All of the intelligence agencies in America working together recently submitted a report to Bush saying that we can't win in Iraq. Henry Kissinger (who's been acting as a personal adviser to George W.) just said this week that military victory is no longer possible in Iraq. Bush also said, "One of the most poignant moments of the drive in was passing the lake where John McCain got pulled out of the lake, And he's a friend of ours. He suffered a lot as a result of his imprisonment, and yet, we passed the place where he was, literally, saved, in one way, by the people pulling him out." In his autobiography, McCain wrote that the shouting crowd who pulled him out stripped his clothes off, spitting on him, kicking him, and striking him repeatedly. They "seemed intent on killing me." A Vietnamese woman intervened, or he'd be dead now. In local news, a prostitute was seen getting into an off-duty policeman's car. David Howe's been on paid leave since November 2nd. IN 1999 the same officer was reprimanded for picking up prostitutes and having them masturbate while he watched, in exchange for not arresting them. Wednesday, 11-22-06: Christian conservatives are urging shoppers to boycott Wal-Mart because of its low-key outreach to some gay-rights organisations. One group, Operation Save America, is going to do prayer-and-preaching rallies outside many Wal-Marts on Friday. A survey finds that 44% of Americans are confident that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the next 50 years. Wowee! 6 Muslim clerics were taken off a US Airways flight Monday evening. Three of them said their prayers in the terminal before the plane was to leave. A passenger passed a flight attendant a note saying, "Arabic men." The captain called the airport police. They and a federal air marshal agreed this was suspicious and took the men off the plane. Thursday, 11-123-06: 4% of Americans think Thanksgiving commemorates "the defeat of the Canadians." Friday, 11-24-06: A rancher in Arizona threatened to shoot a Mexican-American family of hunters, and called them names as well. He's been ordered to pay them $98,000. Roger Barnett accused them of trespassing, though they weren't on his ranch at the time. He claims to have detained more than 10,000 migrants in the last ten years, and has been accused of abusing many of them. 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