President George W. Bush has destroyed America's economy along with America's reputation as a truthful, compassionate, peace-loving nation that values civil liberties and human rights.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11533.htm

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe said Tuesday the purported Egyptian government document naming countries where such prisons existed is a new lead which must be followed up.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5536348,00.html


From Information Clearing House

There are now eight members of Congress who have put their names to a bill calling for a special committee of the House to investigate impeachable crimes by the Bush administration. To date, all of them are Democrats.

http://www.counterpunch.com/lindorff01092006.html


From Information Clearing House




http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

While before world opinion was able to fool itself into believing that there was an element of decency, ethics, respect for human rights or other aspect of higher moral ground in US/UK policies, the combined effort of Bush and Blair was able to completely remove whatever was left of that illusion.

http://tinyurl.com/bsmbb


From Information Clearing House

Imperialist Devastation of Peoples and the Evils Done in our Names

By Manuel Valenzuela

The world burns while we live lives of consumption and production, happy worker bees stuck in hour long commutes working most of our productive lives. We live in peace and harmony at home, distracted from reality by our television screens and movie theatres, by our lavish lifestyles and wasteful society. In the land of the individual the communality of peoples is an alien principle. Content, conformist and passive thanks to our nation of plenty, we care not for peoples outside our borders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11530.htm

TUESDAY

On Tuesday afternoon, a set of 5 indictments of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity, in five separate areas, on moral, political, and legal grounds were delivered to the front gate of the Bush White House by a delegation organized by the Bush Crimes Commission.

The delegation included former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors Larry Everest and William Blum, and members of Progressive Democrats of America, After Downing Street, Code Pink, Democracy Rising, Spirit House, and World Cant WaitDrive Out the Bush Regime.

In front of rolling TV cameras, White House personnel refused to take the indictment papers, first telling the crowd of 40 the reason was "security"; when it was pointed out that the envelope was open and they could verify its contents, they said they were "not authorized to accept any material for the president from the public." In minutes a police hazardous materials squad showed up to examine the plain white envelope left at the gate and carry it off in a plastic bag, eliciting the comment at the press conference, "To a government that commits crimes against humanity, the truth is hazmat."

The indictments (which were also sent by certified mail to the White House, and mailed and hand-delivered to the Department of Justice) allege war crimes and crimes against humanity authorized by the Bush Administration in relation to 5 areas: 1) Wars of Aggression, 2) Torture and Indefinite Detention, 3) Destruction of the Global Environment, 4) Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, 5) Knowing Failure to Protect Life During Hurricane Katrina.

The International Commission of Inquiry's second tribunal will be held at Riverside Church and the Columbia University Law School in New York, January 20-22. Witnesses will include Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, former British ambassador Craig Murray, former arms inspector Scott Ritter, journalist Dahr Jamail, and many more. The administration has been offered the opportunity to present a defense. For details, go to www.bushcommission.org.

At least 10 different media organizations or reporters came to the press conference, and Ive done several radio interviews off the press conference.

Here are a few links:

Coverage on Democracy Now:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/11/1436222

Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjb/sets/1813607/
(Courtesy Matthew Bradley)

Don Spark:
speakers - http://re-sist.net/indict/spe.html

delivering the white house indictment -
http://re-sist.net/indict/whi.html

hazmat picks up the indictment. Truth is deadly and hazardous to them http://re-sist.net/indict/haz.html

delivering the indictment to alberto gonzales at the justice department http://re-sist.net/indict/jus.html

A couple of links:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/6615
http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog


Informant: C. Clark Kissinger
From ufpj-news

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132043/index.php

International citizens' commission attempts to serve indictments at White House
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132052/index.php#


Informant: root

Marking the fourth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, January 11, 2006, Amnesty International released new testimonies alleging the use of torture and ill treatment against prisoners in the US detention center and additional details on several detainee cases.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011106Z.shtml

Greg Palast writes: When de-coding politicians' babble, to get to the real agenda, don't read their lips, read their budgets. And in his last budget, our President couldn't spare one thin dime for education, not ten cents.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011106O.shtml