1. Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker…
Pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan coast and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports.

2. CNN: Scooter Libby may have requested Bush pardon…
As President Bush gets closer to leaving the White House, expectations are mounting that he will follow [...]

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THE world’s international financial institutions will be reshaped and worldwide regulatory and accounting rules reformed as a result of the G20 meeting.
The global leaders’ 11-page statement spoke of broad principles, leaving the details to be worked out by aides before another summit meeting in April, after Barack Obama assumes the US presidency.
But the gathering in [...]

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by Matthew Rothschild
Global Research, November 16, 2008
The Progressive - 2008-11-12
This week and into next, NorthCom and NORAD are conducting a joint exercise called “Vigilant Shield ’09.”
The focus will be on “homeland defense and civil support,” a NorthCom press release states.
From November 12-18, it will be testing a “synchronized response of federal, state, local and international [...]

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Agence France-Presse
Published: Sunday November 16, 2008
For a full transcript of Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes, see CBS News.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.

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Think Progress by Faiz Shakir
OBAMA: Yes. I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture, and I’m going to make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in [...]

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Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Monday November 17, 2008
Email noting relationship with White House came just a month after Bush took office
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff told his colleagues at his former law firm that he had an “agreement” regarding communications with a former assistant to then-Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, perhaps the most substantial documented tie between [...]

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By JACQUES STEINBERG
When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a “60 Minutes” segment about President Bush’s National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it [...]

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Muriel Kane
Published: Monday November 17, 2008
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is making waves by criticizing Treasury Secretary Paulson’s handling of the bailout and saying that Congress should take back whatever is left of the $700 billion “blank check” it issued to the Bush administration in October.
In a letter posted on his website, Inhofe told his Senate [...]

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Panel finds widespread Gulf War illness
11/16/08
ANNE USHER/Cox News Service
WASHINGTON - At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict, a congressionally mandated report being released Monday found.

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Published: Nov. 16, 2008 at 7:31 PM
DALLAS, Nov. 16 (UPI) — The man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work the day Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy 45 years ago in Dallas has broken his long-running silence.
Buell Frazier, 64, was thrust into the national spotlight after the Warren Commission, the high-level panel that investigated [...]