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According to a Japanese news agency, Toyota is pulling up stakes at its Fremont, Calif., factory, known as NUMMI. This is the plant that was jointly run by Toyota and GM before GM’s bankruptcy filing this summer. The Detroit-based automaker decided NUMMI — where it built the Pontiac Vibe alongside the Toytoa Matrix and Corolla — was not integral to its future. NUMMI employs 4,700 people and is the only U.S. Toyota plant with UAW employees.

Armed men have opened fire from a vehicle outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul killing four people, according to CNN-Turk. CNN-Turk initially reported that at least three of the attackers were killed and one police officer later died from his injuries in a hospital. Police returned fire on the gunmen who were traveling in a white car ..."

Click on the Court TV link above. By using your browser's "back" button after casting your ("NO") vote, you can stuff it like a Thanksgiving turkey.Go get 'em FReepers!

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The following is a snippet of an e-mail I received from a long-time friend, now retired from the US Military. Add this to the list of the lengths to which the corrupt Clinton/Gore machine is/was willing to go to to fix the Florida vote."the USAF 1st Special Operations Wing, based in Hurlburt Fld, FL was alerted and deployed almost in its entirely in the early hours of Monday 6 Nov. United States Special Operations Command HQ, and US Central Command HQ, based in MacDill AFB, FL, were also alerted to meet contingency requirements. I can only hope that their ballots ...

We're behind 2 to 1 on question of Electoral vs. Popular vote! Go get 'em Freepers!Freep this poll!!

Here's why Gore has won my vote The vice president's priorities, policies, qualifications and insights are what we need in the next president. Special To The Observer Imagine that whatever you did, you could not fail. Your checks could never bounce. Regardless of your track record - be it nonexistent or abysmal - you could always find financial backing for any business venture. If that business venture lost money, no problem: you'd still have backers lining up to fund your next project. And it's been like this all your life - all the way back to high school, when you ...