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• Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression? -- Stephen Crockett for BuzzFlash
• Bob Herbert: "There can be no robust recovery as long as corporations are intent on keeping idle workers sidelined and squeezing the pay of those on the job."
• Right Wing Movement of Violence: "US District Judge Susan Bolton received hundreds of threats at her court offices within hours of her ruling last week on Arizona's tough and controversial immigration law."
• The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday which would lift the current $75 million liability cap for oil spills while imposing new safety standards for offshore drilling. The Senate has yet to act, however, so the prospects for final oil spill and energy legislation are unclear.
• William Rivers Pitt: "Mr. Obama's performance to date has not lived up to expectations, to be sure. He simply must do better - and, pssssst, Mr. President, your best move might be to forego this nonsense about compromising with the GOP and just get stuff done through reconciliation, filibuster reform and the ever-handy Executive Order - but the public's collective impression of his performance to date has been thoroughly skewed by the absence in our national discussion of the last guy to occupy the Oval. The media wants you to forget George W. Bush ever happened."
• Congressman Anthony Weiner Excoriates GOP on House Floor, Showing How a Dem Should Fight -- BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
• Oil spill highlights conflict-of-interest issue within investigation agency
• The Man Who Knows Too Much and Let America Know the Truth: Military airstrike video leak suspect in solitary confinement
• Racism, Shirley Sherrod and the Obama White House
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• Robert Parry: A Neocon Re-write of American History
• "Slowing growth shows need for renewed policies to boost jobs and incomes"
• The New Credit-Card Tricks: Just months after historic legislation banned certain billing practices, card issuers have dreamed up new ones designed to trip up consumers.
• Michigan Oil Spill Damages Wildlife, Forces Residents To Evacuate
• The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts -- Michael Winship for BuzzFlash
• "In a press release the National Association of Evangelicals has urged Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, led by Terry and Sylvia Jones, to cancel their International Burn a Quran Day to be held on September 11."
• Militarism and Our Addiction to Entertainment is a Recipe for a Long, Slow, Painful Demise -- Tom Hastings for BuzzFlash
• Conservatives' perpetual dishonesty machine
• Bizarre Headline of the Day: "Arrests sought after burgers, fries tossed in pool"
• More on that Chelsea Thing, You Know THE Wedding
• Priorities, Priorities! "NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid"
• Where Are The Prosecutions? SEC Lets Citi Execs Go Free After $40 Billion Subprime Lie
• "[I]t’s hard not to conclude that hysteria is now the dominant characteristic of our politics and civic conversation."
• "Al Gore cleared of sex assault allegations in Portland." Will That as Much Coverage in the Corporate Media as the Original Charge. Of Course Not!
• The Pakistan Connection in Afghanistan (video)
• Ben Nelson to Vote Against Kagan. Why Doesn't He Just Become a Republican?
• Self-Styled Budget Hawk Mike Pence Defends Spending $560 Million On Unnecessary Weapons Program
• Arizona: Authorities say a bullet apparently was fired into an office of a Democratic congressman who has been an outspoken opponent of the state's immigration law. He's also a member of the House Progressive Caucus.
• Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serialization, 7th Installment, Chapter Six -- Guest Commentary for BuzzFlash
• Rep. Anthony Weiner Lets the Republicans Have It, Double Fisted
• Report: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to go through an ethics trial in the House
• "The FBI has been called in to help hunt those responsible for leaking tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war." And who is investigating the perpetrators of war during the Bush Administration?
• Okay, Okay, Here's Your Chelsea Clinton Wedding Fix for Saturday. Nice Photo of Hillary and Bill Too.
• Top Democrats Pressure White House Over WikiLeaks Revelations
• Despite Anger Over BP Spill, Washington Might Not Act on It
• Gag Us: The Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission
• That Big Sucking Sound in the Economy Is the Threat of Serious Deflation
• Brent Budowsky: George W. Bush book will boost Democrats in November
• Neo-Confederate GOP Hypocrite: "Notwithstanding his 2007 prostitute scandal and a more recent controversy surrounding his retention of a top aide who attacked his girlfriend with a knife, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is seeking the endorsement of the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association."
• Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Livelihoods
• "There are alarming links between increased reports of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the Colombian army and units that receive U.S. military financing," John Lindsay-Poland, lead author of a two-year study on the question, told IPS.
• Obama Attacks Republicans for Blocking Small Business Act
• Where Are The Prosecutions? SEC Lets Citi Execs Go Free After $40 Billion Subprime Lie
• Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest
• "BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as U.S. lawmakers prepared to vote on reforms that would put tougher restrictions on offshore drilling." What a coinky dink!
• Feminist Peace Network: "CIA Document Calls For Using Afghan Women As Messengers To Humanize The War." On the Other Hand, the Taliban do Suppress and Brutalize Women. It's a Harsh Patriarchal Structure. But the War Bruatlizes Them To. They are Pawns in "The Big Game."
• Who Pays for Agricultural Dumping? Farmers in Developing Countries
• Message to Beck: "Stop encouraging" potential murderers
• "Seeking to deflect charges of racism, anti-immigration activists have launched a cynical campaign to recruit environmentalists to their cause by blaming immigrants for urban sprawl, overconsumption and a host of other environmental problems, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center."
• "Paul Krugman hits on a familiar topic – that the appointing of Elizabeth Warren to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would not only give confidence to consumers that the President stands with them over banksters and scam artists, but to progressives who want to see some signal that their voices are being acknowledged, let alone heard."
• Tom Hayden: Obama Doubling Down on War, with Not Enough Votes to Stop Him Yet
• At 91, Pete Seeger Still a Leader in Arousing Progressive and Populist Principles in Song
• House Panel Advises a Reprimand for Rangel, Not Expulsion
• Bachmann Denies 9/11 Responders Funds for Health. How Unpatriotic!
• House Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic plan to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from the toxic dust and debris at ground zero.
• Women are the Casualties of the War in Afghanistan, Not Just the Taliban
• Rory O'Connor: Big Journalism? No, Another Phony Breitbart Beatdown
• Phyllis Schlafly Decries Government Assistance For ‘Unmarried Moms’
• Florida Judge Throws Out Anti-Health Care Reform Ballot Measure Because Of ‘Manifestly Misleading’ Language
• "The head of House Democrats’ campaign committee tried Tuesday to tamp down speculation that the party would try to push through major legislation during a lame-duck session of Congress this fall." And why not pass it?
• Paul Krugman: "Why does the Obama administration keep looking for love in all the wrong places? Why does it go out of its way to alienate its friends, while wooing people who will never waver in their hatred?"
• Can Banks be Unionized?
• Are Veterans' Families Being Defrauded Out of Their Full Death Benefits?
• Medicare Turns 45. If You are a Tea Party Senior Citizen and "Socialized Medicine," Please Tear Up Your Medicare Card and Save the Taxpayer's Money. Put Your Life Savings Where Your Convictions Are. Pay for Your Own Healthcare if You Oppose Healthcare for All Americans.
• From the Desk of P.M. Carpenter, a Farewell Note -- PM Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash
• Samuel Wyly and Charles Wyly, the Texan brothers and entrepreneurs who funded ads helping George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, were sued by U.S. regulators who accused them of misleading investors while selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stock.
• American iPad Users Pay Among the Highest for Data Worldwide
• NYT: "Obama Touts Car Revival as He Is Dogged by a Slowdown"
• Ladies & Gentlemen, Please Give A Warm Welcome To America’s Newest Minority: Racists! -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• TPC Exclusive: Owner of “BPCares dot”… well, dot everything… has a story to tell
• NYT: "With Recovery Slowing, the Employment Outlook Dims"
• BP Wants Experts to Keep Quiet; House Says No Way
• July is deadliest month of Afghan war for US
• The Right Wing Terrorists Among Us: We let them steal our constitutional protections, our civil liberties eight years ago and we still haven't gotten them back.
• Oh, and About that Wedding...Which Wedding?...the Chelsea Clinton one.
• Is the Michigan Oil Spill Sealed?
• To Choose or Not to Choose -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com "Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and president of the NAACP, made the observation recently that the world is filled with “a few geniuses and a liberal sprinkling of fools.” Voters have an obligation to reject the fools without sinking the entire democratic process."
• Greenpeace close 50 BP stations across London
• Texas Legislator Trying to Defund Planned Parenthood
• Schwarzenegger Cuts State Pay and Furloughs Workers But Finds Funds to Build Reagan Statue at State Capitol in Sacramento. Bow Before Reaganism, Even if Your State is Bankrupt Because of the Fiscal Policies He Set in Motion.
• Joe Conason on WikiLeaks’ Timeliness
• The Truth Behind the Tea Parties
• How WikiLeaks Could Change the Way Reporters Deal With Secrets
• WikiLeaker Private Manning on Suicide Watch
• Go Out and Agitate! Student Activists Prevail Over Nike. Jeni Le, one of the Madison activists with United Students Against Sweatshops, says this victory “shows that activism really works. It’s a coming of age for the student anti-sweatshop movement.“
• Pacific Rim v. El Salvador and the Perils of Free Trade in the Americas
• Obama Seeks to Expand U.S. Role as International Merchant of War: "The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier — holding 30 per cent of the market — but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials."
• Why would the bankrupt Chicago Tribune want to put Bill Cunningham's hate speech on TV? Keep supporting independent media like Truthout.org and BuzzFlash. The Internet is about all we have left that hasn't sold itself out.
• A new coalition, including the AFL-CIO and the Alliance for Retired Americans, launched a major mobilization to stop the federal deficit commission's drive to cut Social Security benefits and raise the retirement age.
• Exciting BuzzFlash Announcement About Its Future: Moving Into Its Second Decade with Truthout.Org -- A Special BuzzFlash Editor's Blog from Mark Karlin
• Canada: land of new jobs?
• Crist, as an Independent, Still Out Front for U.S. Senator in Florida Polls
• Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain
• Brent Budowsky: "Big Brother is bipartisan. The great hunger for your private information comes from the feds under Bush and Obama, from Democrats and Republicans, from business that wants to know everything you buy, from government that wants your e-mails and phone calls in the name of fighting terrorism and campaign managers that want your private information to target their political propaganda."
• Arizona Immigration Law Protesters Hit the Streets. Good for Them!
• GOP Senator Richard Shelby's Pork Parade Helps Fund Discrimination on Alabama Campuses
• Not Good! U.S. Economic Growth Slowed to 2.4% Rate in 2nd Quarter.
• Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador: Afghan War Unwinnable. The Friend of Our Enemy is Our Friend?
• Racism in Federal Government: A Case More Outrageous Than Shirley Sherrod’s Firing

• Obama Administration Considers Bypassing Congress on Immigration Reform
• The Pakistan-Afghanistan Connection
• Manning WikiLeaks Update: A US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the Wikileaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US, Quantico, VA, to be specific. Pentagon accuses WikiLeaks and Manning of putting Afghans and GIs at Risk. Excuse us, but hasn't the longest war in U.S. History with more than a thousand GI deaths and countless civilian and Afghan "contractor" mortalities put our soldiers and the Afghanis at greater risk?
• NYT Editorial: "But instead of implementing reasonable civil liberties protections, like taking requests for e-mail surveillance before a judge, the administration is proposing changes to the law that would allow huge numbers of new electronic communications to be examined with no judicial oversight." The Obama Administration is as intrusive as the Bush Administration on Civil Liberties, Maybe Worse.
• David Sirota: "When misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds," he wrote. "In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs."
• Share a Bike in Chicago. Could it be a Green Trend?
• Message Arizona Governor Brewer: The 'Dangerous' Mexican Border, Actually One of America's Safest Places
• Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show
• From the 1982 Archives of C-Span: A Fascinating Interview with I.F. Stone
• Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business. Say What?
• The Parallel Universe of Reality, Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy
• White House and Congress Inflict Setbacks on a Woman's Choice
• The Longest War in American History Update: Taliban Exploit Openings in Neglected Province
• Regulators Warned Company on Pipeline Corrosion that Caused Massive Leak in Michigan
• The Republican Right's Long Affair with Voodoo Economics
• Hoyer "Confident" Democrats Will Contain Electoral Losses
• The US has closed indefinitely its consulate in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city worst affected by the drugs war being fought by rival gangs.
• Will Sweatshop Activists’ Big Victory Over Nike Trigger Broader Industry Reforms?
• WTFood: Would you drink Jamba Juice’s ‘Cheeseburger Chill Smoothie’?
• Boehner's own Karl Rove, A Dr. Frankenstein Moment
• E.J. Dionne: The smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in American politics. This is not, as the now-trivialized phrase has it, a "teachable moment." It is a time for action.
• Germany: An 88-year-old retired civil servant has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews in a Nazi death camp. The former guard came under the radar of the prosecutors during their investigation into John Demjanjuk.
• Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney Legal Observer Arrested While Monitoring Police Behavior at Anti-Immigration Rally in Arizona
• Now Here is Something to be Alarmed About! "A lack of resources and organizational problems are hampering America's ability to identify nuclear weapons used in a terrorist attack, researchers say."
• Senator Ensign Aides Released to Testify to Grand Jury Looking Into Alleged Ensign Illegal Activity
• 100 Days of Outrage Against the Gulf Oil Disaster
• Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been a Dumping Ground for Pollution
• Andrew Breitbart Smells Like Bad Ass, And It's Time the White House Started Dousing Him and the Right Wing Media Slander Machine with the Disinfectant of Truth. -- BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
• Will California Legalize Pot?
• Peter Orzag, Budget Director, Exits Stage "Center"
• Tensions Increase Along the Border of Teabagistan & Bachmannistan
• Pessimism About Getting Rid of the Filibuster
• The GOP Plot to Screw the Economy and the Middle Class
• Reposted from Archives: MSNBC News Junkies Beware, Comcast's Likely Acquisition of NBC May Threaten Your Access to Independent Media
• What is Chris Matthews and Hardball trying to hide?
• Obama Signs Tribal Law & Order Act, Empowers Native American Rape Victims
• Hottest Decade on Record Ever
• Video- Rep. Weiner Goes Off On Republicans Over Blocking 9/11 Health Compensation Act (Whoa)
• Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm expressed growing worry on Wednesday that an oil spill, believed to be among the largest ever in the Midwest, might reach Lake Michigan if efforts to contain the oil were not strengthened.
• Yes! Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said she will sue conservative Andrew Breitbart for posting an edited video of her on his website that portrayed her as making racist remarks.
• The Pima County morgue is running out of space as the number of Latin American immigrants found dead in the deserts around Tucson has soared this year during a heat wave.
• Poll shows opposition to health care overhaul declining
• The Newt Gingrich Time Warp
• Plants at base of ocean food chain in decline, study finds
• Impossible to Believe These Two Still Have a Shred of Media Credibility: "Vitter, Breitbart Revive Death Panel Smear In Attack On FDA Breast Cancer Drug Decision."
• More and More Unemployed Give Up on Finding Work
• Watch Out: White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
• Are our oceans dying? Phytoplankton has declined 40% in 60 years as figures reveal Earth has been getting hotter since the Eighties
• BuzzFlash/Truthout News Release: "Progressive News Site Truthout Welcomes BuzzFlash to Its Community: Collaboration Will Strengthen Progressive Voice," as of August 1st. -- A BuzzFlash Update
• Publisher Puts Sarah Palin Bio for Evangelical Christian Tweens on Indefinite Hold -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• An agreement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it will drop a policy under which it had sought to prevent two of its attorneys from speaking out against cap-and-trade legislation is being hailed as a victory for free speech and the rights of whistleblowers.
• Missouri Tea Partiers Turn on Bachmann
• Haaretz: Thousands of Christian activists descended on Washington this week in a show of strength by America's pro-Israel Christians.
• Jim Hightower: Goldman's Golden Deal
• A Trove of FDR's Papers Finally Available to the Public
• House Committee Passes Important Checks on Corporate Spending on Elections; Measure Would Blunt Citizens United Ruling
• Perry Claims Texas Has The ‘Best Health Care In The Country’ While It Has The Worst Uninsured Rate
• Drilling accountability bill would regulate fracturing too
• Lack of Funds Hampers Global Fight Against AIDS
• Tea Partyers in Wonderland
• Shirley Sherrod, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt and American Racial Hysteria
• United States and Iran to Restart Talks
• Five Minutes with Delores Huerta
• House Votes to Eliminate Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
• Rangel to Stand Trial Before House Panel in Ethics Case
• Jim Hightower: Don't cry for Jamie Dimon, America.
• Republicans Block Senate Vote on Small-Business Bill
• Phoeniz, AZ: "As families leave the city, and state, some neighborhoods — already suffering from the weak economy — are left with fewer customers to sustain businesses." Just rewards.
• Boy, the Economy is Really in Bad Shape if the Federal Reserve is Shifting Policy: Fed Member’s Deflation Warning Hints at Policy Shift
• President Barack Obama says Shirley Sherrod "deserves better than what happened last week" when the black Agriculture Department official was ousted in a racial firestorm over selective remarks.
• With the global climate pact dead, China gets hungry for U.S. factory pork
• Did Bush DOJ Intentionally Appoint Tainted Special Prosecutors? Like, Yeah.
• Prison Lobbyists Working For AZ Gov. Brewer Are Set To Profit From Immigration Law She Signed
• EPA: 1M gallons of oil may be in Mich. river
• Brad Friedman Challenges Markos on Election Theft
• Corporations are recruiting former regulators to help negotiate an avalanche of anticipated federal rules. Yep, that's real corporate personhood!
• Director Robert Kane Pappas Explores If There Really is a Fountain of Youth
• The Terminator Update: Schwarzenegger orders government worker furloughs
• Republicans Hungry For Nuclear Pork
• Cook County IL GOP Official Leaves Amid Growing Scandal
• UN Declares Water, Sanitation as Human Rights
• The GOP's Facebook Anti-Semites
• Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories
• Will the American Oil Industry Backfire and Allow the Chinese to Emerge on Top of Electric Car Market? -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash
• Stuck in Fear Gear in Afghanistan, Hemorrhaging Blood and Billions of Dollars -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• GOP, "The Party Of No (Ideas)," Wants To Continue Saying No To The American People -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• McConnell and Republican's feelings on those out of work are, "I got mine, to hell with the rest of you." -- Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF Retired for BuzzFlash
• If We Learned Anything Last Week it Was that Right Wing Propaganda Works If There's No Pushback. -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• Right Wing Understands Saul Alinsky; Why Doesn't the Left? -- Thom Hartmann's July Exclusive "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash
• FOX Fraudcasting is a Racist Network that is the Unofficial Propaganda Voice of the Neo-Confederacy Movement -- BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 149: Discard Alternate Reality: McCain Wins! Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• A Must Read: BuzzFlash, What We are About. If our Fundraising bothers you, maybe this will explain your role in achieving a synergistic progressive economic and media without corporate or Wall Street Influence.
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Mark Morford: 92,000 pages of awesome misery
• Right-Winger Breitbart Now 'Doctors' Dr. King!
• Jan Brewer: The Statue of Intolerance
• Political Cartoons of the Week
• Dumbest Political Quotes of All Time
• Drill deep and don’t spill a drop with Oil Spill Condoms