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Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works 12/16 Electronic Voting Investigator Bev Harris to Reveal Newly Discovered Potential Electronic Voting Security Breahces at Seattle News Conference on December 16th The Special Saddam Hussein BuzzFlash Mailbag BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! More bloodshed in Iraq as world leaders exult capture of Saddam 12/16 "US Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, facing demands to pay back the money it has overcharged the American government for petrol in Iraq, has won a $222m (£127m) contract for work without competitive tender." 12/16 According to DEBKAfile analysts, these seven anomalies point to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein was not in hiding; he was a prisoner. 12/16 December 15th Mailbag. The Real "No Spin Zone": The BuzzFlash Mailbag! Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. At Far as the White House and Saddam: When Does One Chickenhawk (Or In the Case of Cheney and Bush, Two) Call Another Chickenhawk a Chickenhawk? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary James Baker Boasts "I Fixed Florida," According to Palast. (Scroll Down) 12/16 BUSHel Full of Lies for the Holiday Season: A BuzzFlash Four-Book Special that Catalogues the Bush Lies from Soup to Nuts Without You, There is No BuzzFlash! Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! We have no subscription fees or corporate or organizational advertising. Your purchases pay for the site and help us expand. The Lies About Iraq and the Truth About Al-Qaeda: A BuzzFlash Two-Book Special Al Franken's "Fair and Balanced" Book is Now One of Our Premiums at BuzzFlash.com! "Get Negative, Stay Negative" from BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter Drive the Message Home, "Save America: Recall Bush" End America's Nearly Three Years of a Bush Cartel Halloween Nightmare Hussein Tells Interrogators He Didn't Direct Insurgency 12/16 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Get It and Support BuzzFlash: New! The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq: "a chilling portrait of the cabal of neo-cons who have commandeered American foreign policy" The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney must disclose his contacts with energy executives, including some from Houston's Enron Corp., as the Bush administration drew up its energy policy. Let's See, 5-4 for Cheney! Earlier This Month, We Posted a Link to This Article in Which a Republican Illinois Congressman Said That He Knew U.S. Was About to Capture Saddam. That Was on December 2. A Planned Christmas Surprise, as BuzzFlash Had Predicted? U.S. Troops Disperse Pro-Saddam Protest in Tikrit; "Shortly afterwards U.S. soldiers charged the protest, beating and arresting some protesters, the witnesses said." 12/16 Neither Bush Nor Saddam Will Divert BuzzFlash From the Issues the Bush Cartel Wants Buried: BuzzFlash.com Talks with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., About His Emile Zola-like "J'Accuse" Indictment of the Bush Anti-Environmental Record Highly Recommended: In Response to the "Capture" of Saddam, We are Re-Running Our March 17th Editorial, "Endgame," That Lists the Real Reasons the Bush Cartel Went to War With Iraq. Saddam is a Dramatic Distraction from the War on Terror. Actual Headline: Branson Says Schwarzenegger Trying To Woo Virgin 12/16 Powell Has Cancer Surgery 12/16 Congressman Jim McDermott Charges that Capture of Saddam Was Timed for Maximum Political Effect 12/16 James Carville, "Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back." Available on BuzzFlash.com. Your Carville Book Purchase is the Way We Pay for the Site. Remember, No Outside Advertising, No Subscription Fees, No Sales of Our E-mail List. We Depend on You. The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, by Tom Tomorrow , Creator of "This Modern World" Our Dead GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Thurmond Paternity Claim Valid, Family Says 12/16 Meanwhile, in Iraq the slaughter goes on 12/16 Get Your "Loaded Deck" of Playing Cards Be Cool in a BuzzFlash Hat! Doug Basham: The Capture Of Saddam Hussein Does Not Change AT ALL That This Nation Was Lied Into War And Our Soldiers Died As A Result. The Progress Report: What Does Saddam's Capture Mean?; Gilmore's Rebuke; and the Growing Inequality in the Economy 12/16 "At trial, the tyrant could reveal embarrassing secrets about his past warm dealings with the US, writes Amin Saikal." 12/16 Report: Saddam Tells Interrogators 'No WMD' Uh-Oh! Pro-Saddam Rallies Held in Iraq. 12/16 Updated, Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Dean Must be Getting Under Bush's Thin Skin 12/16 Saddam Could be Offered a Deal. Read from Karl Rove's Script and the Bush Cartel Won't Execute You. 12/16 Words Come Back to Haunt GOP Hypocrite Janklow: "I have a theory, and it's an accurate one, that most people who go to prison are losers," said Janklow. "They don't know how to be winners. They weren't even successful at crime," 12/16 Conference on Electronic Voting reveals stark division on computer systems' reliability; "Trust no one," the computer scientist intoned. 12/16 Updated: Bush Cartel Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Veterans After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots 12/16 Flashback: Rumsfeld Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein 12/16 Christopher Scheer: Hussein's Capture Is Yesterday's News 12/16 Saddam Sideshow Obscures Reality 12/16 Dean Says America Not Safer After Capture 12/16 Stock Up on this Holiday Gift: "The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything" The High Price of Hunting the Taliban: Saddam's wife 'turned him in' 12/16 Anti-smoking advocates in California are fuming about one of the famous governor's favorite vices: cigars. Arnold Update. 12/16 Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. City Buzzing Over Limbaugh 12/16 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. "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" DVD The Comic Strip That Has Been, At Times, Temporarily Banned by the Washington Post and Other Papers for Being Critical of Bush, "A Right to be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury." Now Available as a Premium on BuzzFlash.com. 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. Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com. "The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception." Now in Stock. Buy Your Holiday Gifts at BuzzFlash.Com And Support Our Growth! Keep BuzzFlash Free for Everyone and Free From Advertising. We Don't Even Rent Our E-mail List. Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives. "Saddam Hussein Captured: Was It Worth It?" from BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal	Bush Continues with Today's Edition of the Saddam Show: Yada, Yada, Yada 12/16 Father Of Slain Soldier Finds No Joy In Saddam's Capture; Pastor Says Administration Not Upfront On Reason For War 12/16 Support Independent Media! Get the "Trials of Henry Kissinger" DVD at BuzzFlash.com. We found this recently released -- and overlooked -- documentary absolutely riveting. Dick Meyer: Pigs At The Taxpayer Trough 12/16 The Day After: Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S. 12/16 World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Media's Anti-Gore Bias Continues 12/16 Rush "Junky" Limbaugh Seeks to Keep Medical Records Private. The Truth Shall Set You Free, Rush. 12/16 The 2004 Bushism Calendar: A Natural for Your Holiday Gift Giving. Hey, George, we're not laughing with you, we're laughing AT you. "Saddam Tunnel" - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Thomas Burns Will Durst: And now it's time to play "Who the Hell Said That?" (They're totally full of crap, whoever they are) 12/16 The useless AARP: Most of the AARP's 35 million members -- 82 percent, according to a Democratic pollster -- are spitting tacks over AARP's support of the Medicare bill 12/16 All the President's Henchmen: Fast Facts about Five Future Felons 12/16 Few Defenders for Connecticut Republican Governor After Ethics Misstep 12/16 Washington Wrap: A Post-Saddam Primary; Anti-Dean Ad War Goes Global; Clark Tells All; Breaux To Retire; and more 12/16 No Political Show Trial for Saddam: Human Rights Watch 12/16 The Daily Mislead: White House Debates Mercury Policy Behind Closed Doors 12/16 'Five Lies' Excerpt: Bait and Switch 12/16 Soldiers in Iraq 'did not have WMD protection' 12/16 Sen. Thurmond Had Illegitimate Daughter 12/16 Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty 12/16 Bin Laden hunt unlikely to heat up 12/16 Bush's Legacy of Incompetence: More Classified Data Missing at U.S. Weapons Lab 12/16 Daily Reality Check: Out of the Hole, But Not Out of the Woods 12/16 A New American Revolution: 2667 "House Parties" meet to discuss regime change in America 12/16 Aviation Security, Texas Style: recent incidents revealing chinks in the state's aviation security armor run the gamut from comic to tragic. 12/16 The Problem Prisoner: Saddam Hussein 12/16 "Essie Mae Washington-Williams will go to court if Strom Thurmond’s family refuses to admit she is their kin, her attorney said Sunday." 12/16 Michael Moore: We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! 12/16 Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins. Now Available from BuzzFlash.com. Greg Palast: Jessica Lynch captures Saddam; Ex-dictator demands back pay from Baker 12/16 Repost: Fewer Polluters Punished under Bush Administration, Records Show 12/16 BushGreenWatch: Tracking The Bush Administration's Environmental Misdeeds 12/16 Birth control or abortion? Congress is about to choose for you 12/16 Corporate Captives: The Acton Institute attacks "Health Care Without Harm" and environmentally-conscious religious activists 12/16 IBM to Move 5,000 Software Jobs to India, China 12/16 Army to stop conditional enlisted promotions to ease backlog 12/16 Rescuing U.S. Democracy from Partisan Gerrymandering 12/16 Sen. Breaux, D-La., to Retire Next Year 12/16 Carlyle Group has set aside nearly $350 million for specific investments in Asia. This just following Bush's sucking up to China. Coincidence? Just asking. 12/16 Two Explosions Echo Across Afghan Capital 12/16 Resistance to occupation will grow 12/16 Media's silence speaks clearly about their loyalties 12/16 Repost: Special Baghdad Edition of The Washington Monthly's Who's Who 12/16 The National Guard is Finished (second letter) 12/16 Troop R&R Budget So Far Won't Cover Costs 12/16 Anti-US books find an eager audience among German youth 12/16 Repost: Some troops not happy with Bush Thanksgiving Day visit 12/16 Supreme Court to Hear Cheney Energy Task Force Case 12/15 The Perfect Companion to Al Franken's Book: "The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly." Now At BuzzFlash.com. "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD! 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! Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute! How the Bush Cartel Has Created a Shadow, Secret Government, Not Accountable to the American People 12/15 Remember the Goal of the Bush Cartel is to Use Saddam to Crowd All the Revealing Negative Corruption and Incomptence Stories About Bush Inc. Out of the News, So, Everyday Will Have Stories Like This: "Captured Saddam Faces Tough Interrogation." 12/15 Best-Selling Michael Moore Book, "Dude, Where's My Country?", Is Now Available as a Premium from BuzzFlash.com Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq 12/15 Car Bomb Wounds 4 at Iraq Police Station 12/15 The wife of a victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging President Bush and several other high-ranking administration officials failed to prevent the attacks from occurring and are now obstructing justice.12/15 To Counter Bush, the Democrats Must Present a Different Version of a Safe World 12/15 Ah, Yes, Days and Months to Let Little Details Dribble Out and Suck Up the Press Coverage: Iraq's Aziz Helped Identify Saddam, Official Says 12/15 "Save California: Recall Bush" Bumper Stickers, From BuzzFlash.com (In Stock and Shipping!) More of Bush Cartel Distraction by a Thousand Leaks: TIME Exclusive: Notes from Saddam in Custody. 12/15 Democrats in Connecticut Ask Governor to Step Aside 12/15	U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Saddam Sideshow Obscures Reality 12/15 Is BuzzFlash worth $1 a day to you? For about $1 a day, you can buy One Premium a month and help BuzzFlash stay Independent. We Take No Advertising. Help Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Message. (BuzzFlash Contributions are Not Tax-Deductible) Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! GI's death brings war to small town 12/15 Juan Cole: Reflections on the Capture of Saddam Hussein (Scroll Down) 12/15 Terror Panel Seeks Civil Liberties Board 12/15 Greg Palast Gets Sardonic: Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam: Ex-Dicatator Demands Back Pay From Baker 12/15 Bush Cartel Tried to Retaliate Against GOP Congressman (and Vietnam Veteran) Because He Opposed Bush's Cutting $2 Billion from Veterans' Healthcare Services 12/15 Andrew Card, Bush's Chief of Staff, Has Gone FUBAR! He Has the Honor of Being This Week's BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite. (For Your Audio Pleasure, Scroll Down) A Story About Neil Bush's Business and the Houston School District 12/15 Bob Herbert: The War Against American Workers 12/15 GOP Lawmaker Seeks Halliburton Hearings 12/15 Get Paul Krugman's Book at BuzzFlash.com That's the Constitution You Hear Burning: Bush Signs Bill Expanding FBI Authority 12/15 Mondale jabs Bush's 'radical' foreign policy 12/15 Kucinich Makes Media An Issue 12/15 U.S. Draws on Israeli Methods for Iraq 12/15 The Bushes are poor judges of judges 12/15 Pakistan President Musharraf Escapes Bombing 12/15 Islamic Extremism Spreads in Central Asia 12/15 Depleted Uranium Shells Pose Cancer Risk in Iraq 12/15 Union Backers of Gephardt and Dean Duke It Out in Iowa 12/15 General Clark to Testify for the Prosecution at Milosevic Trial 12/15 Dean Gains Endorsements in the South 12/15 With Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody, the war may become more deadly. 12/15 Reposted: Bush ally's firm vies for Medicare cards 12/15 Senators Want Action on Gitmo Detainees 12/15 Phoenix Rising 12/15 What Goes Round, Comes Round: Republicans eye raising Virginia's gas tax 12/15 Q and A With Ray McGovern 12/15 We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole! -- by Michael Moore 12/15 Revealed: shocking truth of Britain's 'Camp Delta' 12/15 Bush should forgo recess appointments 12/14 Pentagon proves a pipeline to Boeing 12/15 10 years later, NAFTA harvests a stunted crop 12/15 Reposted: A Baghdad Thanksgiving's Lingering Aftertaste 12/15 Alleged Neil Bush Contract With Chinese Chipmaker 12/15 The Redistricting Wars 12/15 Movement of forces into Iraq in next few months will slow R&R program 12/15 Wesley Clark calls for transparent trial of Saddam 12/15 Dean Makes Racial-Political History 12/15 "Cooking with George" - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison Wall Street J on BuzzFlash: "Buzzflash.com's lead headline this morning was both petulant and plaintive: 'Saddam Hussein Captured in Tikrit. This Does Not Absolve George Bush of His Lies!' As we write, the Buzzflashers are waxing conspiratorial." 12/15 Neo-Ineptitude: Baltimore Sun Calls for Wolfowitz to Step Down. The Whole Bush Cartel Should Resign and Face Prosecution for High Crimes Against the Nation. This is Your Brain on Propaganda, by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell Whatever Happened to the Plame Investigation? An Act of Treason by the Bush Administration Gets Buried Alive. On Killing Children: An Open Letter to US Military Spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Saddam Hussein Captured Alive in Tikrit. This Does Not Absolve George Bush of His Lies! Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. THE LIGHTER SIDE: MISSION ACCOMPLISHEDER! The World Sleeps Safely Tonight Knowing a Delirious, Nappy Hairball Living in a Hole is Finally in Republican Custody! 12/16 Mission Accomplished Again, Well Sort Of 12/16 Fiore: Santa's Workshop 12/14 Rules for Being a Republican 12/15 The Dubya Chronicles 12/15 Bush International Turkey Tour 12/15 He's Got the World on His Finger 12/15

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