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Greg Palast: Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in the White House 8/15 Joe Conason's "Big Lies." BuzzFlash is Offering Autographed Copies -- 3 Left Bush Claims He is Protecting the "Homeland" from Terrorism, But He Couldn't Prevent the Nation's Biggest Power Outage 8/16 The August 15th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Mentally disturbed gun collector arrested in shooting death in Minnesota: Killed his mother and wounded his father and step-mother. America's Shooting Gallery Never Takes a Vacation. (Scroll Down.) 8/16 The Real "No Spin Zone": The BuzzFlash Mailbag! Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. 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. BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Bush Cartel Was Informed that Democracy in Iraq Might be Impossible At This Time Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! Forgive Me. I Voted for George W. Bush. A BuzzFlash Exclusive From the Author of "Bush's Brain" The bottom line: Anytime you hear an elected official say the word "deregulation" - hold onto to your wallet. 8/15 "Clerics from across the Muslim sectarian divide blasted the U.S. occupation of Iraq in Friday prayers as guerrilla hit-and-run attacks in the center of the country inflicted more American casualties." 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 Sidney Blumenthal: The right wing's summer of hate 8/15 John Dean: The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic. The Deadly Serious Crime Of Naming CIA Operatives. 8/15 New Power Problems Arise in Northeast 8/16 California Recall - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison! Dean Of The Internet: Like no other political candidate, the former Vermont governor has used the grassroots power of the Internet to surge to the top tier of the Democratic presidential pack. 8/16 Hundreds protest outside Bush's fund-raiser at convention center 8/16 Ahnuld dismisses criticism, announces George Shultz is joining campaign 8/16 Against the Grain 8/16 AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior Landstuhl blood drive tries to fill emptying coffers; The war may be officially over, however the demand for blood continues. 8/16 Get Eric Alterman's Brilliant Book Debunking the Myth of the Liberal Media and Help Out BuzzFlash.Com BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Iceland Issues Whaling Permits, Harpoons Ready 8/16 TV Debate in Calif. Recall Will Be for the Chosen Few 8/16 From the Archives: Friends of terrorism; Bush's decision to bring back Otto Reich exposes the hypocrisy of the war against terror 8/16 DoD Identifies Army Casualty 8/16 U.S. apologizes for blowing down Islamic banner 8/16 Iraqis Offer Tips Over U.S. Blackout 8/16 House GOP rejected bill on improving grid in '01 8/16 Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That? Computer war game planning to use Gulf War II footage with help of Department of Defense and news organizations. Now, just like George Bush, you can sit in your comfy chair and kill innocent Iraqis. 8/16 Restoring Power to Detroit Could Take Days. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, Bush Lounges in Air Conditioned Comfort 8/16 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. GOP Operative Roger Stone Still Stonewalling on Source of Funds for Florida Recount 8/16 Buzz Into Summer! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! LA County stores now posting overcharge conviction notices 8/16 Washington Whispers: Clark as the Arkansas Traveler 8/16 Canadians Say Cause of Blackout Lies Elsewhere; Power Slowly Returning to Toronto 8/16 TakeBackTheMedia.com's Radio Commercial about Bush cutting Military Pay and Benefits (MP3) 8/16 LA County stores now posting overcharge conviction notices; stores charged undercover inspectors more than the advertised price for a product at checkout 8/16 Still In Dark On Blackout's Cause 8/16 Baghdad gun deaths are 47 times higher than this time a year ago 8/16 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! About Black Box Voting 8/16 How Can Bush Declare the War on Terrorism a Success? More Evidence of His Incompetence. The Taliban are Back. 8/15 Pentagon Claims That It Was "Misunderstood" on Combat Pay Cut. Yeah, Right. 8/15 The White House's "Fear Factory": BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Jim McDermott 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 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 Bustamante'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 Condoleezza 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 "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." "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 Criticized 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 Commandments. 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 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 Too. 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 "Al Gore's Update: 'Something pretty basic has gone wrong'" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter "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 Cartoon: The GWB AWOL Doll 8/16 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) 8/14 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

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If Bush Really Wants to Investigate the Cause of the Largest Blackout in American History, He Should Start with the Vice-President, Tom DeLay and Himself - A BuzzFlash News Analysis