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A BLAST FROM THE PAST TELLS IT ALL: BUSH'S "ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN" IS JUST ENRONOMICS BY ANOTHER NAME

Archived 01/08/02 4:04pm

BOOK CHARGES THAT BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO STRIKE A DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN IN RETURN FOR OIL PIPELINE RIGHTS, PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH. THAT WOULD BE UNCONSCIONABLE, WOULDN'T IT?

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President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism law, But Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Remain Key Obstructionists (1996)

Start Coughing Now: Bush Incorporated Regulators Urge Easing U.S. Rules on Air Pollution 1/8

Bush Defends Deficits: Shame on You Mr. Republican! Your Tax Cuts for the Rich Caused Them After All. Keep Trying to Sell the American Public Snake Oil. 1/8

"Texas doctors who sexually molest patients, traffic child pornography and commit any number of other sexual offenses are routinely allowed by state medical regulators to keep practicing medicine." 1/8

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The January 8th, Part Deux BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

"President Bush's big-business donors, who reaped handsome returns on their political investments in 2001, are hoping for continued dividends this year." 1/8

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Just Call it the Dr. Strangelove Administration. It's Deja Vu All Over Again. 1/8

President Clinton's 1998 Speech Against Terrorism, Posted on, of all Places, a Conservative News Site 1/8

God Bless Paul Krugman! 1/8

It Would be Funny, If He Weren't the President. 1/8

CNN yanks promotion that refers to anchor Paula Zahn as ``sexy'': Just Call It the Trash Bin News Network 1/8

Why Aren't the Right Wing Media Shills All Over the Montana Governor About This One? We Know the Answer. She's a Republican, So She Gets a Free Pass to Go, Like Any Member of the Grand Hypocrisy Party. 1/8

What happened when America's top female fighter pilot refused to put Saudi Arabia's cultural sensitivities before her own 1/8

Party Manners: GOP chair will keep selling influence for personal gain 1/8

Tom Ridge Isn't Strongly Denying the Potential Involvement of Military Anthrax in the Domestic Terrorist Attacks. He Doth Protest Too Little. 1/8

In Canada, a News Conglomerate is Censoring Columnists and Running Coast-to-Coast Canned Editorials 1/8

BuzzFlash Never Thought that We Would Enjoy Reading William Safire. At Least the Guy Isn't a Knee Jerk Right Wing Jerk Pundit. A Conservative With Consistent Convictions. Hey, Mr. Safire, That's Quite a Compliment Coming from BuzzFlash. 1/8

Anti-Union Bush Effort is Voided by Federal Judge 1/8

Someone tell the Attorney General he must protect the public, not the NRA 1/8

Hey, Mr. Bush, Are You Going to Get Your Right Wing Junkyard Dogs to Blame Clinton for this One Too? It's on Your Watch. Step up to the Plate and Accept Responsibility Like a Man. 1/8

REPOSTED: Organizing to Bring Back the Bill of Rights 1/8

Our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Let Us Memorize Them and the Freedoms that are Being Suppressed. 1/8

MSNBC Hires Alan Keyes to Host Talk Show: Will It be Called "Alan Keyes Makes No Sense"? 1/8

The federal judge hearing the suit brought by angry shareholders of Enron Corp. against top executives and directors of the former energy giant previously owned stock in the corporation 1/8

Enron Doesn't Want to be Tried In Its Hometown. It Would be Hard to Avoid the Tomatoes. 1/8

Supreme Court Decides to Leave Evolution Alone 1/8

Working a maze of tight-lipped sources is the key to covering America's latest television war 1/8

WHEN PARTISAN PR PASSES FOR NEWS 1/7

"Not over my dead body" is memorable and dramatic. It won't change the math. 1/7

PBS to air weekly news series with Bill Moyers 1/8

The Moon Media Machine: It's Everywhere, And He's Anti-Jesus to Boot, but Bush Incorporated Loves the Guy to Pieces 1/8

Iranian Reformers Will be Tried In Secret 1/8

Rent's $1.50, Includes Heat 1/8

"Members of Congress are demeaning themselves with this subterfuge." 1/8

Conservative Watch's top ten stories of 2001 1/8

A SPECIAL GLORIA LALUMIA BUZZFLASH MEDIA WATCH RETURNS! 1/7

The January 7th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

FLIGHT 587 WITNESSES BLAST FEDS, INDICATE THE PLANE MAY HAVE EXPLODED. WAS IT THE VICTIM OF A SHOE BOMBER? 1/7

"The next time you hear a conservative politician make the promise, “If elected, I will run government like a business,” you might want to ask “Which business?” 1/7

How Bush's shallowness makes him a good war president. 1/8

Marc Racicot's Ten Worst Ideas (as Montana's Governor). About half-way down page. Article from August, 2000, but Says A Lot About the Guy Now in Charge of the RNC. 1/8

Howard Fineman, You've Won Quite an Honor! 1/8

10 seeking Jeb Bush judgeships switched to the GOP 1/8

"American officials privately warned the [New Zealand] Government that the way it responded to the September 11 terrorist attacks would be treated as a "touchstone" for future relations between the two countries." Sounds A Lot Like Extortion. 1/8

Bloody evidence of US blunder 1/8

Repost: Winning With the Military Clinton Left Behind 1/8

The day Ashcroft censored Freedom of Information 1/8

Dissent's a dirty word 1/8

Bush Admin Lies About the Economy. "Is Larry Lindsey really an economist? It's sort of hard to figure after his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday." 1/8

U.S. Probe Of Sept. 11 Financing Wraps Up; Terror Money Traced Via ATM, Credit Card Usage 1/8

The 401(k) terrorists 1/8

Remote Afghans Are Slowly Starving 1/8

Cracks in the Crown 1/8

U.S. Encouraging Proxy Wars on Terror 1/8

Murdoch's News Corp Lays off Half US Online Staff. Hey, Who Needs News Staff These Days When So Many News Sources Just Repeat Other People's Stories? 1/8

Pilot found dead by plane near Petaluma was being investigated by police 1/8

FLASHBACK 1997: Taliban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline 1/7

My Kafkaesque trips in the INS bureaucracy 1/8

<">"Osama bin Laden's fanaticism should prompt us to examine our own religious beliefs-- and to zealously preserve our secular society." 1/8

"A plan for publicly funded ballparks for the Yankees and Mets hit a snag Monday when Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city won't build stadiums this year because of its budget crisis." 1/8

Studies Indicate Gulf Oil and Gas Rigs Are Islands of Legal Contamination 1/8

Captain of Boat Says Weapons Were Bound for Palestinian Authority 1/8

US NE states mull clean air lawsuit vs Bush admin 1/8

"Don't Blame Clinton For Sept. 11" by Harley Sorenson 1/8

Creditors Seek to Move Enron Case 1/8

"When Michael Moore's publisher insisted he rewrite his new book to be less critical of President Bush, it took an outraged librarian to get it back in the stores." 1/8

Daschle Urges Bush to Pick Hispanic for SEC Seat 1/8

Singapore 'terror network' broken 1/8

Pentagon concedes weakness of military strategy in Afghanistan 1/8

Hey Shrub, Stimulate This! 1/8

"The governor called Tulsa voters ``dumb'' for failing to elect his wife. He later apologized." 1/8

Paris Reporters Say Bush Threatened War Last Summer 1/8

Bush Hypocrisy Watch 1/8

"It's reassuring to know that the laws are going to be enforced by someone who's handled a gun." Oh, Those Texans are a Stitch! 1/8

Ford set to shed 20,000 jobs and shut plants 1/8

Vietnam and the Bill O'Reilly Nothing But Spin Zone, A BUZZFLASH CONTRIBUTION 1/7

Everywhere is the Front in Afghanistan -- and the Truth About Slain Journalists 1/8

Democracy Now With Amy Goodman Returns to the Pacifica Network, Sort of 1/8

U.S. Seeks Thousands Ordered Deported 1/8

Insurance Firm Can't Wait for Client to Die 1/8

Ground Zero Ailments Feared 1/8

Where White-Collar Criminals Belong: Jail 1/6

Mr. Bush, Can You Do Something to Protect Us, Please? 1/9

REPOSTED FROM DECEMBER: THE ULTIMATE IN CYNICAL, MORALLY CORRUPT LEADERSHIP: BUSH SAYS, "I HIT THE TRIFECTA" 1/7

America's Shooting Gallery: The Bronx 1/8

Outrageous! How the Right Wing Uses Demonizing Lies to Raise Funds! 1/6

Will the Media Give Bush a Pass on Enrongate? Does a Cat Meow? 1/8

Greg Palast.com 1/7

They Must be on LSD at NewsMax. Lay off the Magic Mushrooms Guys. The Straight Jacket Crew is Coming for You. 1/9

A Real Democratic Runs for Governor of Texas Against Sanchez, Who is a Hispanic Bush Clone 1/7

Chinese trader may get death sentence for importing bibles 1/7

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Hillary Was Right! 1/7

GOP, Enron in Bed But Press Snoozes 1/9

Gray Davis, Say It Ain't So 1/9

FROM THE ARCHIVES: George W. Bush held an investment in a company that leased a chain of psychiatric hospitals where patients died and the conditions were so appalling that many were shut down 1/7

Military asks researchers for help develop 'odor bomb' foul enough to clear crowds 1/9

Democratic Underground's Year in Review: 2001 1/9

"The virtually nonexistent U.S. casualty rate is either a signal achievement or a debacle in the making. At the moment, no one can say for sure." 1/9

Bush Signs Education Bill, Hails Bipartisanship 1/9

Bush Makes First Recess Appointment: The Worst are Yet to Come 1/9

Military not warned about suicide plane 1/9

Michigan congressman forced to strip to underwear for security at Washington airport 1/9

"But so is the realization, no matter how uncomfortable, that we can never fully eradicate risks that come from out of the blue." 1/9

Federal charges due for man found with knives at airport 1/9

Supreme Court Narrows Reach of Disability Law 1/9

New PC cops outlaw dissent 1/9

New crises stalk Bush on the domestic front 1/9

Give greed a chance 1/9


REPOSTED: Bin Laden Brother Gets French Book Banned in Switzerland. Book Says U.S. and Taliban Were Negotiating for Oil Pipeline. 12/31

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Ballad of Poor Kenneth Lay 1/4

"Cleaning Evidence" is Okay for this Republican Governor. It's the GOP Double Standard at Work. 1/6

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT: "I Am Not the Taliban," Jerry Falwell Protests 1/4

Who Said It? Ashcroft or McCarthy? 1/6

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE HOLIDAYS: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2

BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: EVEN MORE ON THAT GOPAC MEMO AND THE WASHINGTON TIMES ATTACK ON BUZZFLASH AND DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES 12/31

Faith in democracy is crucial, Moyers says. Bill Moyers for President! 1/6

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Former Political Director of Newt Gingrich's GOPAC Claims BuzzFlash is Full of "Profanity Laced Vitriol." He must Have Confused us with Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Chris Matthews, Karl Rove and Newt. We're Choir Boys and Girls at BuzzFlash.com. 12/29

BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: MORE ON GOPAC 12/30

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Afghan Death Toll Doubted, from the Indiana University Daily Student 1/8

THE LIGHTER SIDE:

Rush Limbaugh Online 1/8

Was Mullah Omar, Who Allegedly Escaped on a Motorcycle, a Steve McQueen Fan? 1/8

These are Ironic Times 1/7

THE TOP TEN CONSERVATIVE IDIOTS IS BACK! 1/7

George Bush Wants You to be a GOP Team Leader! (This is Not a Parody Site. It's for Real.) 1/6

Pitching in for a Better Tomorrow 1/8

Bush Returns to Texas for a Hanging. We Guess This Passes for Humor When You Hold the Record for Executing People. 1/6

The Dubya Chronicles 1/7

The Donald Rumsfeld Fan Page, For Real! 1/7

Tom Tomorrow's Comprehensive Guide to the Enron Collapse 1/8

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