A friend from Argentina sent me the following picture today. It is self explanatory and has been seen everywhere in the world except in the United States. Why? In analyzing Bush for several years I keep finding that it is not only his immediate circle that insulates him -- the press insulates us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/where-is-the-north-amer_b_9932.html

What Judy forgot: Your right to know

THE MOST intriguing revelation of Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's news conference last week was his assertion that he would have presented his indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby a year ago if not for the intransigence of reporters who refused to testify before the grand jury. He said that without that delay, "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005." Had that been the case, John Kerry probably would be president of the United States today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10852.htm



The coverup worked:

NO ONE really noticed, but Patrick Fitzgerald made an unassailable point last week about the timing of the indictment that his CIA leak investigation has produced so far. - The prosecutor was in effect showing that the quixotic pursuit of a nonexistent right or privilege by some news organizations is one reason President Bush was reelected last year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ARTICLE10854.HTM

New claims of abuses by US soldiers in Afghanistan are more evidence of rights violations in the "war on terror", with a pattern of impunity for such infractions, Amnesty International said.

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5254


From Information Clearing House

Sweet Victory: United Methodist Church Calls For Withdrawal:

Last week, the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society--the social action committee of the church that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney belong to--resoundingly passed a resolution calling for withdrawal with only two 'no' votes and one abstention.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=31572


From Information Clearing House

United States of America v Rafil A.Dhafir:

By Katherine Hughes

Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on Thursday, October 27th, 2005 for sending humanitarian aid to starving Iraqi civilians through his charity Help the Needy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10859.htm

Attorney Tells Why Guantanamo Detainee Attempted Suicide in Front of Him.

By Democracy Now!

More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing desperation of prisoners and the military’s reporting of the events. Audio and transcript.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10853.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3580/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Employers in heavily-unionized US industries are turning to bankruptcy courts as a strategy for gutting union contracts. Their goal: to impose layoffs and givebacks even deeper than the ones agreed to during concessions of the early 1980s.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110205LA.shtml

Environmentalists are alarmed at Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. He has demonstrated a judicial philosophy of limiting the scope of federal legislation based on the Commerce Clause, which is the basis for nearly every major federal environmental law in the US.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110205EA.shtml