1. More than sixty groups call for revocation of presidential secrecy directive…
The groups’ recommendations demand efficiency and openness from the Freedom of Information Act process, reforms in the classification system to reduce overclassification and ensure that presidential records are handled in accordance with US law and congressional intent.
2. Suspicious package at Bank of Canada shuts [...]

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Bob Cesca
For the last eight years, we’ve observed Karl Rove’s non-reality based universe in which logic was entirely abandoned in lieu of whatever reality the administration invented in order to serve its ridiculous policies and to mask its glaring nincompoopery. Intellectually dishonest at best — destructive and criminal at worst.
This didn’t end on Election Day.
Since [...]

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Joe Sudbay (DC)
This shouldn’t be a surprise. The Bush administration provided no oversight of Iraq. No oversight of the economy. No oversight of the country. So, this shouldn’t be a surprise:
In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s largest banks, [...]

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Russian threats to base missiles in the Baltic have been criticised as “provocative” by the US defence secretary Robert Gates.
Mr Gates told reporters after a Nato meeting in Estonia: “Such provocative remarks are unnecessary and misguided.”
Moscow sees a planned US missile shield in central Europe as a threat, and says it will place missiles in [...]

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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday November 12, 2008
The Bush administration has been planning since last spring to issue a final burst of federal regulations just before leaving office. It was recently announced that over 90 new regulations would be finalized before November 22 — 60 days prior to the end of Bush’s term — [...]

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By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Pictures of an American anti-missile radar installed in southern Israel were released earlier this week, depicting a recently completed military base, which will house the first permanent U.S. force to be deployed on Israeli soil.
Construction of the base was completed in the last few days at Mount Keren near the [...]

Modesto Bee
The State Department is preparing to slap a multimillion-dollar fine on private military contractor Blackwater USA for shipping hundreds of automatic weapons to Iraq without the necessary permits.
Some of the weapons are believed to have ended up on the country’s black market, department officials told McClatchy Newspapers, but no criminal charges have been filed [...]

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13/11/2008 10h45
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Gunmen kidnapped an Iranian diplomat and killed his local guard in northwestern Pakistan Thursday, police said, in the latest of a series of attacks in the region.
Hashmatullah Atharzadeh was on his way to the consulate in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, when unknown assailants attacked [...]

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Soldiers and officers convicted or implicated in the deaths of six priests in 1989 are free under a controversial amnesty law. Victims’ relatives and rights groups turn to Spain’s courts.
By Tracy Wilkinson and Alex Renderos
November 13, 2008
Reporting from Mexico City and San Salvador — The murder 19 years ago of six Jesuit priests by a [...]

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Gun sales and the paranoid right: A sucker born every minute
Crooks and Liars by David Neiwert
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Before Election Day, the NRA was doing what it always does: Raising the specter of the liberal bogeyman — you know, the Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your [...]