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ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH	Archived 12/28/01 11:41am
SO MUCH FOR BRINGING CIVILIZED JUSTICE TO AFGHANISTAN


"Afghanistan is demanding the United States halt its bombing, possibly within days." 12/28 Bush-Cheney Recount Fund Shifts $270,000 to GOP in Parting Gift 12/28 "I think they believe there has to be a tax cut for the common cold," Tom Daschle Said. Give 'Em Hell Tom. 12/28 India and Pakistan Trade Accusations and Sanctions 12/28 REMEMBER BUZZFLASH NEEDS YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT THIS NEW YEAR'S, AND YOU GET A FREE GIFT WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTION! THOSE RIGHT WING SITES GET MILLIONS FROM THE BUSH / FALWELL / ROBERTSON / CHENEY / SCAIFE CROWD. Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. Democrats Rally Against Tax Cuts For The Rich 12/28 A Tour Through Cheney's Newly Remodeled -- At U.S. Taxpayer's Expense -- 33-Room Mansion: "Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, prefers the Schwinn Airdyne bicycle." Isn't That Sweet? 12/28 The December 28th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Bin Laden's Escaped to Pakistan, Kabul Says 12/27 When Nobody's Looking, Bush Grants China Special Trade Status 12/28 The December 28th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American U.N. Halted Probe of Officers' Alleged Role in Sex Trafficking 12/28 Who Failed Us at the FBI? The White House is Failing Us Now By Doing Nothing About It. 12/27 CDC Not Offering Much Guidance to Postal Workers. Few Take Government's Offer of Free Anthrax Vaccination. 12/28 "An estimated 24,000 unexploded bomblets are lying on Afghan soil, posing a deadly hazard to civilians and children in particular" 12/28 Al-Qaida prisoners headed to Cuba 12/28 Suit Says Police Officer Accidentally Killed Columbine Student 12/28 "Birds of a Feather" (scroll down) 12/28 Poll: Consumer Confidence at Lowest of Year 12/28 Everyone but the Bush Administration Believes Reid is Part of the Al-Qaeda Terrorist Attacks. Is It Just That It Would be Politically Disadvantageous for the Bush Administration to Acknowledge the Obvious? 12/27 BUSHED: A Diary of Year One With Our Unelected President 12/28 BLAST FROM THE PAST: PHIL GRAMM, Vietnam Draft Dodger. ChickenHawk Extraordinarie (read down). 12/28 Peru Knows the Horrible Legacy of Military Tribunals 12/28 UK Minister Slams U.S. Right Wing, i.e. Bush 12/28 India, Pakistan Exchange Shelling in Kashmir 12/28 BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS HENRY "BULLDOG" WAXMAN ON ENRON AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION Bush Bashes Women Again. 12/28 Florida Figure in Funeral Gate Scandal Company that Bush Had Associations With Committed Suicide 12/28 Wisconsin State Government Could be Brewing in Scandal 12/28 Commercialization May Limit Internet. May? How About "Did"? Read the Article 12/28 OPEC Leaders Expect Oil Production Cuts To Raise Prices. Still Wanna Buy An SUV? 12/28 No Excuses: Don't use terrorism as reason for limiting public access 12/28 A Dead Man Walking Toward Freedom? 12/28 Bush Grants China Full Trade Status; Terminates Law that Withholds Normal Trade Relations with Communist States that Restrict Emigration. This Guy Just Doesn't Care About Anything Other Than Profits for His Friends and Family. 12/28 Farmers Abashed, or Irate, Over Subsidy List 12/28 Official: Plastic explosive 'very sophisticated' 12/28 The selective blame game played by conservatives 12/28 Layoffs nearly triple in 2001 12/28 Poll: Americans Don't Mind Holiday Travel Delays 12/28 Central Asia Concern Grows that U.S. Has Used Depleted Uranium 12/28 Property Owners, Feds Face Off 12/28 "In America, where we value freedom above all else, patriotism is a lot more complicated." 12/28	Long winter ahead for American dissent 12/28 "How much has the world really changed? Not very much . . ." 12/28 Did 'Jihad' arms course visit U.S.? 12/28 Promises, Promises: New Year's Resolutions I'd Love to Hear 12/27 Still in jail. More on the Despicable Treatment of Vanessa Leggett. 12/28 Enron Broadband Services joins affiliates in Chapter 11 12/28 Applied Digital pushes microchip to plant in foreigners for tracking. 12/28 "Montana and federal officials have approved plans for a controversial copper and silver mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in western Montana." (req. registration) 12/28 U.S. Avoiding POW Designation. Probably So The Bush Administration Can Avoid the Geneva Convention Rules. 12/28 Giuliani Delivers Farewell Address 12/28 Anger as Iran MP is jailed 12/27 After Giving 90% of Its Large Contributions to the GOP and Buying the White House, Enron Unloads a $100,000 on the Senate Democrats a Week Before Going Bankrupt. That's What You Call a Set-up. DEMS Will Donate Money to Charity. 12/27 Powell Tries to Calm Kashmir Feud 12/27 Arab-American Secret Service Agent is Not Allowed on Flight 12/27 Bomb Attempt Has Officials in France on Defensive 12/27 On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Ashcroft! On, Blitzen! 12/27 In Illinois, Students With Severe Disabilities Face Loss of School 12/27 Disabled Russians gain mobility, visibility 12/27 "Naked Air — where the only thing you wear is a seat belt." 12/27 Stock Broker Fined Record $429 Million 12/27 Slain Afghan Warrior Against the Taliban is Reborn as Revered Icon 12/27 Texas Teachers May Have Lost Millions in the Downfall of Enron 12/27 A Year of Bush and the Most Layoffs in a Long-Long Time 12/27 U.S. Military Decides to Take a Pass on Sending Our Soldiers Into Afghan Caves 12/27 The Growing Illusion of Free Speech 12/27 Furtive Past Complicates Search for Mullah Omar 12/27 Shoe Bomb Suspect Had Possible Al-Qaeda Link, According to Sources OTHER Than the FBI 12/26 Afghan Women Inch Back Into Their Jobs, Very Slowly Indeed 12/27 A Cat Fight in Congress Over Catfish 12/27 Federal agencies have spent millions in recent years to erect free-standing smoking shelters 12/27 I.R.S. Offers Amnesty to Companies That Admit Tax Illegalities 12/27 In Rewritten Internet Fables, the Late Bird Gets the Worm 12/27 Iraq Claims It Has Hit an Allied Warplane 12/27 Human Rights at Home 12/27 A New Kind of Abortion War 12/27 Why Doves Must Fly 12/27 "Progressives have a basic choice. We can respect each other and discuss differences honestly, or else we can ignore facts, exaggerate differences, and waste time." 12/27 Holiday Sales Slump: Merchants Hope Post-Christmas Spending Will Brighten Retail Picture 12/27 How Marc Racicot's Legislative Manipulation for Deregulation Screwed Montana's Public Utilities: "And oh, how we now wish we had looked a lot harder before that tragic leap." 12/27 FBI Anthrax Probe Eyes Vaccine Users 12/27 Season's Greetings From Houston, the Bipolar City 12/27 Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course 12/27	THE IRAQ HAWKS 12/27 What is happening to Saudi society? 12/27 Rights Activists Worry Over U.S.-Indonesia Military Ties 12/27 A closer look: Yemen's about-face 12/27 "South Korean educators expressed concern on Wednesday over the spread of a children's song that praises Osama Bin Laden" 12/27 A University of Washington senior wants the student Senate to show support for the war in Afghanistan, but his resolution failed twice amid cries of racism. 12/27 Trying to Balance Attention on Terrorism, the Economy and Politics 12/27 The conservative contradictions are stacking up 12/27 Campaign to alter Muslims' image of US falls short 12/27 "But a “funny” thing happened on the way to this faith-based paradise." 12/27 No credit history? It may raise your insurance 12/27 Some See Nature as a War Victim 12/27 America's Shooting Gallery: Grandmother Killed in Christmas Day Shooting Spree 12/27 U.S. Undermining China's Security 12/27 Campaign Gifts, Lobbying Built Enron's Power In Washington 12/27 U.S. Bombing Kills Up to 40 in Afghanistan-Reports 12/27 Indian Missiles Put 'in Position' 12/27 Holy War Lured Saudis as Rulers (AKA Bush Family Business Partners) Looked Away 12/27 DEMOCRACY OR AUTOCRACY? by Jim Hightower 12/27 Olympic Organizers Say No Lockers for Guns at 2002 Games; Gun-Rights Activists Object 12/27 Will the Enron Scandal Break Wide Open? 12/27 Kentucky's Disdain for Gun Control Complicates Attempts to Boost Capitol Security 12/27 Mysterious Oil Spill Killing Hundreds of California Seabirds 12/27 THE NEW LEADER OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IS SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE 12/25 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE U.S GERM WARFARE PROGRAM. Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. The Big Ten Media Chart 12/21 "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) CONTRIBUTE HERE: HELP KEEP BUZZFLASH A VOICE OF REASON AMIDST A CLAMOR OF RIGHT WING MEDIA SHILLS AND WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES TELLING AMERICA TO "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" -- AND GET A FREE BUZZFLASH T-SHIRT THE CAMPUS VOICE: THE LIGHTER SIDE: BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Bush Demonstrates a New Circumcision Technique 12/27 Flashin' for the Kids! 12/25 Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 12/25 Dress 'Em Up Dubya 12/26 Geraldo's the best comedy on TV 12/26 Okay, George, Carry the Dog Like You Care About It If You Want to Appear Warm and Fuzzy Like Karl Rove Told You to Do. It's Not Going to Bite You. 12/27 'A Visit From St. Dubyalas' 12/25 Mad Magazine Names Jerry Falwell the Dumbest Person of the Year 12/27 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! OSAMA TAUNTS AMERICA ONCE AGAIN. THE GUY THINKS HE'S A MESSIAH, BUT HE'S JUST PSYCHOTIC. Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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