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RIGHT WING GOES TO BAT TO HELP BUSH SEIZE CONTROL OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY WITH NOMINEES THAT MAKE SCALIA AND RHENQUIST LOOK LIBERAL		Archived 01/26/02 9:45am
WAXMAN CHARGES WHITE HOUSE CHANGED ENERGY PLAN TO HELP ENRON


"United Defense Industries Inc., controlled by Carlyle Group Inc., would get $4.1 billion from the Pentagon over the next five years for its Crusader artillery system, according to internal budget documents." 1/26 "Congressional investigators planned to interview Cliff Baxter next week and had the impression from Baxter's lawyer that he would cooperate, according to a congressional source." 1/26 BUZZFLASH.COM IS NOW OFFERING "GRAND THEFT 2000: MEDIA SPECTACLE AND A STOLEN ELECTION." THE COVER OF THE BOOK IS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE CONTRIBUTION ALONE! 1/26 GAO Vows to Sue For Cheney Files 1/26 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. "Sugar Land police were examining a suicide note, said spokeswoman Pat Whitty, but she would not disclose its contents or say where it was found." 1/26 Proof that as an Attorney Harvey Pitt, Bush's Head of the SEC, Defended the Right of Andersen to Consult and Audit for the Same Client, Ergo Enron 1/26 The Truth, Unfortunately, General Franks, is that Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, the Anthrax Terrorist --and a Pretzel -- All Got the Better of Vietnam Evader George W. Bush 1/26 UNBELIEVABLE: BUSH MAY LIMIT ASBESTOS LIABILITY AND THUS SAVE HALLIBURTON FROM GOING UNDER! THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FLEECING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! IT'S A MIND-BOGGLING CONTINUATION OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 1/26 SUPPORT BUZZFLASH, THE UnDRUDGE REPORT, NOW AND GET A PREMIUM, JUST LIKE PUBLIC TELEVISION! IT'S US OR RUSH! ARMY SECRETARY, FORMER ENRON EXECUTIVE, PRESIDED OVER ENRON DIVISION THAT SOME EMPLOYEES WHOSE PROFITS WERE OVERSTATED AND ILLUSORY 1/26 Gay Survivors of September 11th Still Endure Struggles 1/26 NEWS FLASH: ENRON'S MAY, 2001, NEWS RELEASE ANNOUNCING RESIGNATION OF ENRON EXECUTIVE WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE 1/26 Women in Hate Groups 1/26 Henry Waxman Wants to Know Why an Enron Favor Was Put Into the Energy Plan at the Last Minute (READ "CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE") 1/26 ANOTHER VERSION OF ENRON SUICIDE STORY: "A former Enron Corp. executive who challenged the company's questionable financial practices and resigned last May was found shot to death in a car today, an apparent suicide, authorities said." 1/26 FORMER VICE CHAIRMAN OF ENRON COMMITS SUICIDE SHAMELESS AT THE WHITE HOUSE: BUSH SHILLS FOR THE INFAMOUS TRASH BOOK BY BERNARD GOLDBERG CLAIMING LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS. JUST CALL IT THE "WE'RE FOR SALE WHITE HOUSE" FROM NOW ON. Pat Robertson Gets Religion About Oil Refinery 1/26 Second Scandal Suicide? This One in Denver. 1/26 HOT BUZZFLASH: Karl Rove Got Ralph Reed Job With Enron to Keep Him Close to Bush 1/25 FLASHBACK: ENRON EXEC WHO BUSH APPOINTED AS ARMY SECRETARY WANTED TO PRIVATIZE ARMY ENERGY SERVICES TO ENRON. BUSH INCORPORATED WAS HELPING ENRON FROM THE BEGINNING. 1/26 Helen Thomas is Surprised by the Ease With Which Our Freedoms Have Been Curtailed 1/26 Strange Things Happen Department: Lame Duck Illinois GOP Governor Becomes America's America's Unofficial Chief Political Good Will Ambassador to Cuba. Go Figure. 1/26 ENRON "backed political campaigns, paid millions of dollars to charities and hung its name on skyscrapers and a sports stadium. It was not unusual, before the 2000 presidential election, to look up and see George W. Bush in the building, Ms. Stone said" Lawrence Korb, assistant secretary of defense under President, says Bush is Unnecessarily Inflating the Pentagon Budget 1/26 Bernard Goldberg's Book Bias is a Hack Job to Make Him Some Bucks 1/26 Senators Urge Bush to Back Campaign Finance Reform Bill 1/26 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Where's the Outrage? 1/26 "Our fine antichoice president declared this past Sunday to be National Sanctity of Life Day. Isn't that charming?" 1/26 The January 25th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia SURPRISE, SURPRISE! Bush Spending Proposal Lifts Defense Stocks. Papa Bush and the Carlyle Group and all the Big Defense Contributors to Junior Must be Pleased as Punch, Because They're Good as Gold Now. 1/26 The National Security Council Aided Enron. The Bush Administration Gave Kenneth Lay All the Help and More. 1/25 Bush and Giuliani Both Abscond with Papers Belonging to the Public 1/26 Florida Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Legislature Decides It's the Christian Legislature 1/26 With One Exception, GOP Senators Want to Give More of Our Money Back to Corporations that Don't Need It 1/26 White House Protects Bush from Enron Questions from the Press 1/26 Aids toll 'will surpass Black Death.' 1/26 Saudis Say They Will Not Tolerate Unveiled U.S. Servicewomen 1/26 Former executive claims Enron destroyed documents After Investigation Began 1/26 U.S. Considers Severing Its Ties With Arafat 1/26 U.S. Increases Troops in Southeast Asia 1/26 GAG ME WITH A SPOON AWARD GOES TO the Houston Chronicle for Running a January 24th Puff Piece: "Ken Lay known as man of humble beginnings" 1/26 GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY ACCUSES REPORTER OF BIAS BECAUSE HE USED TO WORK FOR THE DEMOCRATS. Well, if former party affiliations mattered, there would be no FOX news reporters. Even Roger Ailes is a Former Republican Operative, and He Runs FOX News! 1/26 ''Liberal media? In America? You must be kidding!'' 1/26 Republican New Jersey Mayor Indicted for Graft 1/26 All These Right Wing Journalists Fess up to Their Enron Problems 1/26 Don't Cry for Me Peggy Noonan! 1/26 When It Comes to "ENRONGATE," THE WHITE HOUSE DAMAGE CONTROL WILL TRY EVERYTHING BUT REVEALING THE TRUTH 1/26 Argentina's former President and Close Bush-Family Friend Carlos Menem accused of taking Iranian bribe in bomb cover-up 1/26		Press Release Announcing Cliff Baxter's Retirement from Enron -- Stayed On Payroll As A Consultant 1/26 Controversy clouds sale of Enron plant in India 1/26 Enron's Lay cancels meeting with Jesse Jackson 1/26 When the tough get shredding, by Daniel Schorr 1/26 Certified Public Scapegoat 1/26 Hmm, just why would the FTC cede oversight of high-profile media mergers to Ashcroft's Justice Dept.? 1/26 'You Were Right': Lawmakers Face SEC Chief Who Warned of Auditors' Conflicts 1/26 "A bizarre thing happened to me over the past week: Conservative newspapers and columnists made a concerted effort to portray me as a guilty party in the Enron scandal." by Paul Krugman 1/26 Media Makes Excuses for Not Covering More of Enron 1/26 Wendy Gramm, Wife of Corporate Shill Phil Gramm, Headed Enron Auditing Committee and Sold a Lot of Stuck Just in Time, So to Speak 1/26 Everybody's a TV Commentator: Former G.E. Chairman Welch joins CNBC team 1/26 US warplanes strike Iraq again 1/26 Investors Lured to Enron Deals by Inside Data 1/26 "But Enron is nothing if it is not a political scandal, and a government that does not examine its own role is failing its duty." 1/26 'Whacking' the Liberal Media. The Reality Behind Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" 1/26 "While conducting a peer review of troubled accounting firm Arthur Andersen's records, fellow 'Big Five' accountant Deloitte & Touche ignored newly bankrupt Andersen client Enron from its analysis." 1/26 Oil riches run out in Alaska 1/26 FLASHBACK: The Bush Family Friends and Donors Who Rode the Sub That Sank The Ehime Maru 1/26 FLASHBACK: A Little Bush-Connection History on District Judge Melinda Harmon (about halfway down article) 1/26 Alan Keyes Has a Dream 1/26 Bush Blocks Money for United Nations Population Fund. "The money should be released. The allegations are baseless, and the work of the U.N. fund in crucial areas of women's health around the globe deserves full American support." 1/26 Enron Does India, Part One: The Contract for the Dabhol Power Project 1/26 Tobacco Firm Seeks to Stop U.S. Anti-Smoking Ads 1/26 Peggy Noonan Fed From Enron Trough 1/26 More on the Half-Truths That Fill "Bias," Bush's New Favorite Book (We Guess He Got Tired of Reading the One about the Crocodile) 1/26 Inmates sue state youth prisons - Class action says conditions are inhumane 1/26 Hi-Tech Execs Meet With Cheney and Hastert to Pitch Broadband in Every Home 1/26 Hockey Dad Sentenced to 6-10 Years in Prison 1/26 Despite court order, Whitman tries to seize ombudsman's files 1/26 Political Reform Has to Start on Television 1/26 "If there are to be changes in its personnel, they ought to be made by a president who has a popular vote mandate." 1/26 The January 25th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American The Dean of the University of Texas and Enron are on Quite Friendly Terms 1/26 U.S. COMES UP SHORT IN AFGHANISTAN, BY FATHER ANDREW GREELEY 1/26 SUPPORTERS TO FORCE VOTE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 1/26 Senator Derails Bush Incorporated FTC Coup 1/26 WAXMAN TO THE WHITE HOUSE: PUT YOUR ENRON CARDS ON THE TABLE Blowing the Lid off the Secrecy of Bush Incorporated 1/26 K-Mart Launches Accounting Probe. Paging Martha Stewart. 1/26 Cheney Says Afghan Prisoners in Cuba Getting Treated 'better Than They Deserve' 1/26 Alleged Shoe Bomber Did Not Act Alone. BuzzFlash Said That From Day One. 1/26 "California tax officials say the embattled Enron is nearly a year late in paying a $493,000 tax bill" 1/26 Man Who is at the Center of Vanessa Leggett's Book Has Been Arrested 1/26 America's Shooting Gallery: "Two adults and their two children were shot to death at their home, and a 16-year-old family member was in custody today, state police said." 1/26 "I think the Senate should not act on any Supreme Court vacancies that might occur until after the next presidential election," Says Former White House Counsel Abner Mikva 1/26 FROM THE ARCHIVES: BBC: DID BUSH TURN A BLIND EYE TO TERRORISM? by Greg Palast 1/25 You Saw It First on BuzzFlash on Tuesday, Major Media Prints It on Friday: Neil Bush Trashes American Media While Lobbying Bush Family Friends in Saudi Arabia 1/25 "The Bush Administration intervened with top Indian officials last year in a bid to salvage Enron's Dabhol project in India, according to documents released on Friday that shed new light on the administration's relations with a major financial backer." "That's what happened on Jan. 6, when chief White House economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey called the Enron Corp. (ENE ) collapse a "tribute to American capitalism." 1/25		FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON PRACTICALLY DICTATED THE FERC APPOINTMENTS. BUSH INCORPORATED DID THE BIDDING OF ENRON FROM DAY ONE. 1/25 Good Analysis of the Likely Source of the Anthrax Attacks. Note 6)Possible Portrait of the Anthrax Perpetrator 1/25 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Enron and The Gramms 1/25 "Texas Attorney General John Cornyn issued an opinion favorable to Enron as one of its affiliates sought to keep financial information secret while it competed for business in the deregulated utility market." 1/25 Dick Cheney, Wherever They are Hiding Him, Has Hired-Gun Mary Matalin Continue to Give the Finger to the American Public 1/25 Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity' 1/25 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush Violated Security Laws, SEC Report Says 1/25 Bush Picks a Real Winner for His AIDS Panel -- Tom Coburn is -- GET THIS -- Anti-Condom! THAT is Simply Beyond Comprehension! 1/25 Enron: History of Human Rights Abuse in India 1/25 Who Said the Bush Administration Didn't Help Enron? Paul O'Neill Opposed Efforts to Stop Offshore Banking, Which Was at the Heart of the Enron Scam. Bush Incorporated Probably Knew about Enron's Looming Problems Before the Inauguration. 1/25 Genuflecting Before the Bush Throne, by Gene Lyons 1/25 Budget Cuts in Massachusetts Spare Huge PR Staff of GOP Governor 1/25 As Long As The "Good Ole Boy" Network Runs Government -- Headed by Anti-Choice, Anti-Common Sense Bush -- Women Will Always Be Made Second Class Citizens and Will Get Paid Less For the Same Work That Men Do. 1/25 Republican Sen. McConnell Slams Enron Workers; What a Compassionate Conservative He Must Be 1/25 Nothing Like a Gun Show. Just Good Clean Fun for the Weirdos. 1/25 Texas Jobless Fund Will Run Out of Money in March 1/25 Rundown of the 2002 Races for Governor 1/25 Daigle, a 17-year-veteran of the Norwich Police Department and chairman of the Norwich Republican Town Committee, was put on paid leave Dec. 7. Norwich police are conducting an internal investigation. 1/25 House Democrats Propose Making the '96 Welfare Law an Antipoverty Weapon 1/25 FLASHBACK: EU Not Happy With Heavy-Handed Bush Efforts for Jack Welch and GE. It's Always About Who Greases Your Pockets. 1/25 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Don't Fall for Bush's Self-Serving 'Bipartisanship' 1/24 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Manhattan Institute, Alliance Capital and Florida 1/24 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: We Will Not Get Over It 1/24 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. 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) BuzzFlash Interviews Gene Lyons: Part II A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: STRANGE JUSTICE 1/23 BUZZFLASH MEDIA WATCH SPECIAL, By Gloria Lalumia: TIM RUSSERT PLAYS DUMB 1/21 BuzzFlash presents "The Angry Liberal" - Enron, Part II: Republicans Cash In on Ken Lay (And Vice Versa) FROM JUNE: How Ethical is the Bush Administration Anyway? 1/19 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Bush Pioneers, Andersen Consulting, and Enron 1/16 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Ken Lay, Enron, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 1/12 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 "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." THE CAMPUS VOICE: FROM THE ARCHIVES: Viewpoint: Carlyle's tentacles stretch far, from the University of Texas Daily Texan 1/26 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The K Chronicles presents The Bush Babies 1/25 "What About The Forgotten Victims Of Enron Like Our Great Mother In Law Of President Bush?" 1/26 Doonesbury. Need We Say More? 1/25 Songs of Enron 1/25 Bernard Goldberg's New Book: "Lies" 1/26 I Heard Know Little Kenny Boy 1/25 President Announces Faith-Based Economics: "Erasing The Stain of The Clinton Surplus" 1/26 The White House For Kids: How To Be a Cigarette-Safe Kid 1/25 this is me by georg bush 1/26 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Work at Enron, for REAL! 1/25 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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