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<IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= DeLay and Abramoff’s ‘Made in the USA’: Shame, Shame, Shame Listen to an excellent <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5492833" title="NPR Weekend Edition">NPR Weekend Edition</a> story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a “shining light of the Republican Party” during one of many “fact-finding missions” to the region. <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060617_delay_abramoff_marianas/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060617_delay_abramoff_marianas/</a> Copyright © 2006 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com <IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= DeLay and Abramoff’s ‘Made in the USA’: Shame, Shame, Shame Listen to an excellent <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5492833" title="NPR Weekend Edition">NPR Weekend Edition</a> story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a “shining light of the Republican Party” during one of many “fact-finding missions” to the region. <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060617_delay_abramoff_marianas/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060617_delay_abramoff_marianas/</a> Copyright © 2006 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com