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BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! The bottom line: Anytime you hear an elected official say the word "deregulation" - hold onto to your wallet. 8/15 From the Archives: Labor Leaders and Dems Blamed Deregulation for the Deterioration of the Electrical Grid. Cheney and the Bush Cartel Pushed for More Deregulation. Now the Biggest Blackout in History. It's the Bush Legacy in a Nutshell. 8/15 Joe Conason's "Big Lies." BuzzFlash is Offering Autographed Copies -- 8 Left John Dean: The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic. The Deadly Serious Crime Of Naming CIA Operatives. 8/15 Largest Blackout in U.S. History Under Bush's Watch. He Neglected the Need for Upgrading the Power Grids. By the Way, How Did He Know So Quickly That It Was NOT a Terrorist Attack? 8/15 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Pentagon Claims That It Was "Misunderstood" on Combat Pay Cut. Yeah, Right. 8/15 New Record: More Than 7300 "Spirit of 1776" Americans Have Ratified It: A BUZZFLASH DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FOR 2003: BE A PATRIOT, SIGN IT! We're Closing in On 7400 Signatures! Greg Palast on the Power Outage 8/15 Have Your Friends and Relatives Join Other Americans in Ratifying the BuzzFlash Declaration of Independence (Scroll Down, On Right Side of Declaration is E-mail Forwarding Form) Blackout serves as jolt for power companies' plans 8/15 How to Contact Congress? Buy the BuzzFlash 2003-2004,174-Page Congressional Directory as a Premium. Advocate and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com at the Same Time! (Includes Photos of Your Favorite Career Politicians) Content Provided by Capitol Advantage. Paul Krugman: Twilight Zone Economics 8/15 Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives. Military families reacted angrily Wednesday to news that pay for troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan could be cut as soon as October. 8/15 Three Cheers to the St. Petersburg Times Editorial Board: "Honor the Real Action Heroes" 8/15 Confusion Prevails in U.S. and Canada as to Source of Power Outage 8/15 Experts debate U.S. power grid's vulnerabilities to hackers -- or terrorists? 8/15 Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com. (Unautographed) "California is not the first state to establish a state-run lottery. But it is, I believe, the only one to offer its governorship as the prize." 8/15 Hundreds of Iraqis civilians are being held in makeshift jails run by US troops - many without being charged or even questioned. And in these prisons are children whose parents have no way of locating them. 8/15 Millions in Canada Lost Power Too 8/15 Dean Takes a Page from the Clinton Handbook 8/15 Be Cool This Summer in a BuzzFlash Hat! It All Started on BuzzFlash.com. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com! BuzzFlash Gets By With a Little Help From Its Friends. Last Month BuzzFlash Had More than 2.3 Million Users, But We Need Your Financial Support Because We Accept No Ads and Don't Charge for Subscriptions. Buy a Premium. (Not Tax-Deductible). Kristof: Believe It or Not 8/15 Michigan Residents Flee Refinery Blast 8/15 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Two U.S. Soldiers, 3 Iraqis Hurt in Attack on Convoy 8/15 Bustamente's Website 8/15 Buy Hillary's Book from BuzzFlash.Com! Remember, With Each Book, You Help BuzzFlash.com Continue to Fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way! Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died: Updated Casualty Figures. 127 U.S. Soldiers Have Died in Iraq JUST SINCE Bush Declared, "Mission Accomplished." 62 Have Died JUST SINCE Bush Said, "Bring Them On." Gore Might Not Run, But He Still Can Campaign 8/15 Bring Them Home, NOW! - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary From the Archives: John Negroponte, Ambassador of Terror 8/15 GOP Launches Slur Attack on Schumer 8/15 Sleep Well, Thomas; It Was a Pack of Lies - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary from Veteran CIA Analyst Ray McGovern California Recall: The Coup Inside of a Circus 8/15 Condoleeza Rice has Fans? Liar for President? 8/15 Hey FOX News Sue Us! Back by Popular Demand. BuzzFlash's "Fair and Balanced" June Interview With Al Franken Joe Conason: West Coast farce no laughing matter; California recall threatens to hijack democracy 8/15 Marketing the Invasion of Iraq 8/15 Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com. The Bush Legacy: Finding It Harder to Make Ends Meet 8/15 Many WTC Remains Are Unidentified 8/15 Get Your "Loaded Deck" of Playing Cards From Archives: Proof that Current Bush Cartel WMD "Sleuth" is Just a White House Shill in Disguise, a Good "Planter" No Doubt. "David Kay...said that Pentagon planners believe that Saddam is devising novel means of launching his most dangerous weapons." Riveting: A Book About the CIA Coup in 1953 that Put the Shah and His Secret Police Into Power in Iran. It Foreshadows the Bush "Adventure" in Iraq. A Premium from BuzzFlash.com. Shameless and Intolerable! Tax Cuts for the Rich, Paycuts for Our Troops Dying and Being Wounded in Iraq 8/15 From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000") Was the White House Behind the California Recall Effort and the Candidacy of Arnold "The Groper" Schwarzenegger? You Bet. US safer if Gore in charge: Albright 8/15 Excerpt from Jim Hightower's "Thieves in High Places" (Yes, BuzzFlash Will be Offering It as a Premium and Posting Our Interview with Jim) 8/15 Support Independent Media! Dr. Laura Has An Identity Crisis 8/15 Governor finds Democratic heavy-hitters in his corner; Clinton, Gore, Feinstein said to be among advisers 8/15 "Save California: Recall Bush" Bumper Stickers, From BuzzFlash.com (Will Begin Shipping On Or About August 22.) What is a legal sting? "government agents both sold the missile to alleged arms dealer Hemant Lakhani and also offered to buy it." 8/15 "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. Oh, Yeah, Right Department! "The United States said yesterday it had neither an exact count nor all the names of hundreds of people captured in Afghanistan and now detained at the Guantanamo Bay" 8/15 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! "Administration officials are leaving out key facts and exaggerating the significance of the alleged plot to smuggle a shoulder-launched missile into the United States, law enforcement officials told ABCNEWS." The Real "No Spin Zone": The BuzzFlash Mailbag! Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.	"Liberty Whistle" on Electronic Voting 8/15 "Either way you look at it, this disaster, affecting over 20 million people, is a screaming example of the failure of the Bush administration to protect the people and resources of the US." 8/15 Schwarzenegger's 2 sides when it comes to women 8/15 Another Hypocritical, Cynical Bush Appointment is Criticzed 8/15 "The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had one of the September 11, 2001 terror pilots under surveillance as early as March 1999 after a tip from German security services" 8/14 Molly Ivins: "Hang in there, Texas Eleven." 8/15 Alabama chief justice defies federal court order over 10 Commandmants. Hold him in contempt and then jail the sucker. 8/15 Hypocrisy Spotlight of the Day (Scroll Down) 8/15 New: "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq" - Get A Copy Today! Dubya Indemnity 8/15 Bush Criticized for Getting Tax Cuts So That the Rich Can Buy More Expensive Bottles of Wine, But Cutting Back the Pay of Our Combat Soldiers 8/15 Security Council Approves U.S. Resolution on Iraqi Council 8/15 Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. 10 Million Canadians Also Lose Power 8/15 Bush Gives Diamonds to the Rich and Paycuts to Our Combat Troops 8/15 Breakthrough NYT Editorial: White House Fantasies on Iraq 8/14 An Understudy Enters Center Stage; Lt. Gov. Bustamante Plays Major Role In Democrats' Bid to Hold Governorship 8/15 Tape Could Spell End of Blair 8/15 Appraising Arnold: "Schwarzenegger has bought himself insurance against his father’s Nazi Party affiliation in Austria." 8/15 Your Air Traffic Control Could Come from the Lowest Bidder. Feel Safe? 8/15 Whacko Right-Wing Alabama Judge Still Refuses to Remove the 10 Commandments Monument from the state judicial building 8/15 Incredible Triumph? Or Incredible Screwup? Lakhani Arms Sting "never involved any contact with actual terrorists." 8/15 Economic Outlook: Privatising Iraq will have dire results on the country and its people 8/15 Repost: TSA in ‘witch hunt,’ air marshals say 8/15 Warren Buffett Joins Schwarzenegger's Campaign 8/15 The Faux Foreign Policy Leadership 8/15 U.S. May Fine Some Who Shielded Iraq Sites 8/15 Missile Bust A Missed Opportunity? 8/15 Misleading "Healthy Forests" Proposal is more logging bill than forest fire prevention 8/15 Line at Clinton signing is on the left and right; Politics irrelevant to Auburn Hills crowd 8/15 Molly Ivins: Bully pulpit; The right tries to intimidate judges and Al Franken 8/15 Lawyers: WorldCom, Enron chiefs may never face prosecution 8/15 Blair ordered second interview of David Kelly, proving "that Tony Blair was closely involved in the attempts to force Dr Kelly to admit the full extent of his role in the row over the Iraq intelligence dossier." 8/15 Libya OKs $2.7B Lockerbie Fund 8/15 Could the Next Election Be Stolen at the Ballot Box? A Look at the Electronic Voting Machine Controversy 8/15 George Bush Debates a Reporter on the Newsworthiness of the California Recall. Meanwhile, Soldiers Die in Iraq. 8/15 Colorado Dems Take Road Trip To Support Renegade Texans 8/15 Anti-cancer drugs cut by Medicare 8/15 Bush Orders Cruise Missile Strikes On National Parks and Forests 8/15 U.S. technology workers learn a bitter lesson training your foreign replacements. When all a company values is profits, your job is expendable. It's about greed, plain and simple. 8/15 Reposted: 20 Lies About the Iraq War! More lies are being used in the aftermath. It's Not Just the Niger Uranium Lie; It's a Whole Orchestrated Avalanche of Lies. Thousands of Jobless Have Given Up Looking for a Job Altogether 8/15 British officer killed in Iraq ambush 8/15 FBI's Blind Eye Aided Spy Robert Hanssen 8/15 U.N. Official: Iraqis Ready to Turn on U.S. Troops 8/15 Norman Solomon: Pulp Nonfiction; Why focus on reality when there's so much show-biz puffery to go around? 8/15 Jim Hightower's "Thieves in High Places" - Part 1 of 9 8/15 "Public confidence in America's military involvement in Iraq has eroded recently with 42 percent of U.S. adults now describing themselves as "not certain" that committing troops to war was the right thing to do" 8/14 Is a political motive behind Ashcroft tour? Need we ask? 8/14 The Latest from Maureen Farrell: Dubya Jeopardy. Brought to You by the "Fair and Balanced" BuzzFlash.com. The Bush Deceit 8/14 Toxic, Psychotic Tom DeLay Forces Dem Heroes to Go on the Road Again. And You Know that Karl Rove Has a Hand In It To. 8/14 Updated: "9/11: Bush Knew" - A Collection of Articles That Paint a Much Different Picture than the one from the White House Why Does Bush Hate Our Troops? 8/14 Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, Available from BuzzFlash.Com The Guardian: US military pioneers death ray bomb (We are Not Making This Up) 8/14 Buy Bush's Brain and Help BuzzFlash.Com Grow. We Accept No Advertising. You are Our Sponsors. Bring Them Home Now 8/14 That's Entertainment, A BuzzFlash Editorial Over 50 Die in Day of Afghan Violence 8/14 Washington Post Actually Writes an Editorial Critical of the White House -- And Their Good Buddy, Toxic, Psychotic Tom DeLay 8/14 A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights Bremer says US troops 'not sitting ducks'. However, They Keep Dying Because of Bush's Lies. 8/14 Bigoted, Dingbat Alert: "A spokesman for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst apologized in writing Tuesday for remarks in which he sarcastically linked Democrats boycotting the Texas Senate with civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks." 8/14 The Past is Precedent: About the 1953 CIA-Sponsored Coup of a Democratically-Elected Government in Iran, An Interview with the Author of"All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror"	"U.S. soldiers shot into a crowd of thousands of demonstrators in a Baghdad slum on Wednesday, killing one civilian and wounding four after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at them" 8/14 BuzzFlash's May 31st, 2001, Interview with Jim Hatfield, Author of "Fortunate Son" "Watching Fox News Channel is like visiting a cult" 8/14 Terror, Tragedy and the Ultimate Sales Pitch 8/14 John Ashcroft, Truly Dr. Evil 8/14 "Weapons of Mass Deception," A BuzzFlash Interview U.S. Marines Land in Liberia 8/14 Pipeline to Justice 8/14 Judge still could derail the recall process, but it's a long shot 8/14 Montana Governor Judy Martz, a True Role Model for the Grand Hypocrisy Party, Won't Run Again Because Her Polling Numbers are SO Low 8/14 Lieberman Was Only Dem Candidate Booed in Oklahoma 8/14 Huffington embraces youth at Oakland stop 8/14 The August 13th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Get Eric Alterman's Brilliant Book Debunking the Myth of the Liberal Media and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com New CBS Poll on Economy: "Americans are getting more pessimistic about the economy – 60 percent say it's bad, the highest number recorded in a CBS News poll in ten years" 8/14 RICO 8/14 California's Embattled Governor Gains a New Adviser: Bill Clinton 8/14 Repost Must See! TakeBackTheMedia's "Army of One" Flash Movie 8/14 Chicago Tribune: If You Got Kids, Get Handguns Out of the Home 8/14 "Bush and the Republicans are depending on the infinitesimally short memory and attention span of the American electorate and, equally sad, much of the nation's news media." 8/14 A Bigger, Badder Sequel to Iran Contra is Happening Right Now 8/14 The True Character of Arnold's Spin Doctor? Do Donald Sipple's attack ads mirror a hidden past, that of an obsessive, hot-tempered man who beat two former wives? 8/14 Jesse Jackson: GOP sore losers use recall to circumvent democracy 8/14 Major U.S. Newspaper Finally Denounces Bush White House for Outing a CIA Agent. "There's a cancer somewhere in the Bush administration." Wall Street Bullish on the Spoils of War 8/14 Incremental resistance: John Ashcroft is now 1 for 20 in his frenzied, psycho-sexually driven rage to impose the death penalty on states whose legislatures have banned capital punishment. 8/14 Iraq Resumes Pumping Oil Through Turkey. Does Bush Mind Having Oil Pumped Throu-- . . Oh, That's Right, Bush Isn't (a) Turkey, He's a Chickenhawk. 8/14 Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That? Break The Silence On AmeriCorps Funding: The $100 million it would take to save the program is chump change in Washington. 8/14 Click Here to Make a Difference! BuzzFlash Depends Entirely Upon You. We are THE Pro-Democracy News and Commentary Site for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. We Have No Advertising, Just You. Help Us Expand. In California, Fight Proposition 54 8/14 Bob Herbert: No Work, No Homes 8/14 The Bear Flag Revolt 8/14 Questions for Condoleezza 8/14 The 'Zero Dropout' Miracle: Alas! Alack! A Texas Tall Tale 8/14 Dems Court Labor in Iowa 8/14 Where is the Money? 8/14 EPA's Pinocchio nose erodes public trust 8/14 No Apologies from Convicted Felon Poindexter. His Anti-Terrorism, Data Scanning Efforts at Pentagon Called Victims of Ignorance. Yeah, HIS and His Boss's. What a Schmuck. 8/14 Fresh Blood, or a Putsch? "Six senior generals [forced] into early retirement, with another half-dozen earmarked for the same treatment in the near." 8/14 Bush Asserts Sluggish Economy Is on Road to Recovery 8/14 A Look Inside Arnold's Portfolio 8/14 Buzz Into Summer! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! 9,000 Doctors want Universal Health Care, including two former Surgeons General and a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine 8/14 In the conversation with BBC journalist Susan Watts, Dr Kelly dismissed claims about the threat of Iraq's weapons made by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and US President George Bush as "spin." 8/14 Sidney Blumenthal: The right wing's summer of hate 8/15 AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior "Al Gore's Update: 'Something pretty basic has gone wrong'" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter The Texas Miracle - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison! "America's Future Depends on Your Response to This Column" by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal THE LIGHTER SIDE: Letterman: Top Ten Things Overheard During George W. Bush's Vacation 8/14 Powell to be excluded from upcoming White House picnic 8/14 Bush's Top Five Sources of Pre-War Intelligence 8/14 The Texas Air National Guard George W Bush Action Figure 8/15 The World According to Arnold Schwarzenegger (for real, though) 7/14 GOP Most Wanted Playing Card for R. James Woolsey 8/15 Fiore Presents: Recall Island 8/15 This Modern World: George Bush's Top Five Sources of Pre-War Intelligence 8/13 The White House's "Fear Factory": BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Jim McDermott

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The Northeast Blackout, The Largest Outage in History, Happened on Bush's Watch. Now, You Know How Gray Davis Feels Battling the Bush Cartel Utilities.