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Congress, Overriding a Clinton Veto, Passed the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Soon accounting firms, the companies they audited and the investment banks that sold their stock got very cozy indeed. 2/2	Archived 2/2/02 6:25am
BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron


BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com Attorney General REBUKED By The Nation's Immigration Judges. They're Concerned that America's "Core Legal Values" Have Been Compromised Since 9/11. 2/1 Lay gave list of favored names to White House for energy panel 2/1 FRIDAY NIGHT on PBS, Bill Moyers' "Now" asks "What Did Ken Lay Discuss With Dick Cheney At Their Private Meeting?" (check your local listings for time) 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! Bush Incorporated Sticks to the Karl Rove Game Plan: Keep Americans Scared and They Will Vote Repulican 2/1 Bush's SOTU Speech: "One-Note Symphony" 2/2 Enron Bosses Remain Jet Set as Firm Sinks 2/2 Jobless Rate Takes Unexpected Fall. "But that occurred because the labor force shrank by 924,000 — not because employment went up." 2/2 THE ENRON scandal should be enough to show that the nation's audit system needs an overhaul 2/2 Enron: not the only bad apple by Greg Palast 2/2 "John Ashcroft: Year One" by the Violence Policy Center 2/2 Join the BuzzFlash Fan Club! 'Because I Won': The Cost of Being Popular 2/2 Ashcroft keeps himself abreast of foolishness 2/2 Bin Laden says Americans headed for 'unbearable hell.' 2/1 Iraq Co-Operated with Nuclear Inspection -- IAEA. To Misuse an Edward G. Robinson Quote: "Where's Your Evil Now, Bush?" 2/2 Was It Hacked by Protesters? "The website of the World Economic Forum crashed from an apparent denial-of-service attack Thursday, just as the collection of business and corporate leaders began its meeting here." 2/2 Judge: Feds May Have Entrapped Arab 2/2 Jeb's Dilemma: Get Tough on Drugs and Put Your Daughter in Jail, Or Reconsider The Laws on Nonviolent Drug Offenders. 2/2 Intricate Screening Of Fliers In Works: Database Raises Privacy Concerns 2/2 Afghans Search Countryside for Aid. There's Nothing Like Winning Their Hearts and Minds by Bombing Their Country to Hell and Then Hiding the Food We Promised Them. 2/2 Ralph Reed's guerrilla war: What the cherub-faced operative was doing behind the scenes 2/2 Big talk from the small-minded: Bush's 'axis of evil' war rhetoric crumbles under scrutiny 2/2 Iran, Iraq and North Korea "responded with outrage to Bush's onslaught against them". If They Weren't Planning on Attacking Us Before, They Probably Are Now. Good Job, George! 2/2 Enron fall-out embroils Britain’s Labour government 2/2 Bush, don't just talk about `integrity' show it 2/2 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. We Already Know What State the Union's In 2/2 TV Ad Assails Dole for Enron Fundraiser 2/2 A Surprise From the Court. No, They Didn't Kick Bush Out. But, It's A Nice Win Over Bad Verdicts Due To Trivial Laws 2/2 White House Errs in Congress Flap 2/2 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Carlyle (Incl. Pappy Bush) looks to cash in on US energy problems 2/2 Bush Uses "a budget gimmick" (We Call It Enronomics) For Export-Import Bank. 2/2 It's Okay For Everyone Else to Stop Fighting During the Olympics, But When Bush Is Blowing Up Other Countries, It's Business (War) As Usual. 2/2 The Cheating of America: Think Enron and Arthur Andersen Are Exceptions? Think Again. 2/2 Dems Shed Light on Project Sponsors 2/2 Large GOP Contributor Participated In Secret Energy Task Force Meetings. 2/2 "When he said in September that defeating terrorism would be the chief purpose of his presidency, he meant it." Unfortunately, for Bush, "voters rate the domestic economy their top worry over terrorism by a 2-to-1 margin." 2/2 Noelle Bush's traffic records show use of prescribed drugs 2/2 RNC Marc Racicot Tells Conservative Activists "We will resist all efforts to repeal the tax cuts." 2/2 Free Condoms for Athletes at Olympics Draws Protest From Conservatives 2/2 Critics accuse the Bush administration of being inappropriately influenced in drafting its proposal to shift media merger oversight from the FTC to the Justice Department. 2/2 How should our political system punish Congressman Billy Tauzin? 2/2 Missile Defense Cost May Increase The February 1st Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia The February 1st BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Sanctioning Incompetence in the Bush Administration 2/1 Congressional investigators want to know how Enron executives were able to cash out millions of dollars in company stock while employees saw their retirement savings wiped out. 2/1	Will The Assault Never End? No, Not the War on Terrorism, The War on Roe v. Wade. Bush Administration Now Classifies a Developing Fetus as an "Unborn Child.'' Just Like The Taliban, Bush Wants Control Over Women and Their Bodies. 2/1 The Hypocrisy is Astounding: Bush Policy on Releasing Records Differs in Case of Clinton Ones Defense Department Cannot Account for $2.3 Trillion Dollars! 2/1 Bush Is Indebted To Enron’s Professional Abettors, Too. 2/1 Second Enron Warning Disclosed 2/1 U.S. military admits special forces mistakenly killed 21 anti-Taliban fighters 2/1 Enron refusing to cooperate with investigation, senator says 2/1 The Vice President Can Win Only If We Have Another Bush v. Gore -like Ruling, by John Dean 2/1 Midtown Manhattan is an Armed Camp 2/1 Because of Bush's "Tort Reform" as Texas Governor, Enron Employees Have Limited Legal Options 2/1 Gray Davis wants Enron probe 2/1 Jeb Bush Doesn't Want Anyone to Know that Education in Florida is Third World in Quality, According to a Deep-Sixed Report 2/1 If You See the Lays on the Corner Begging for Money, Drop Them a Penny from BuzzFlash.com. 2/1 Tribal war erupts at home as Karzai asks for help 2/1 We Don't Need a Faith-Based White House Office. We Need a White House that Has Faith in Democracy. 2/1 Katherine Harris: Go Away Already! 2/1 GAO TO SUE CHENEY WITHIN 2 OR 3 WEEKS Enron CEO Wife--Poppy's a Pal, Says Bush's dad 'supportive' 1/31 "If true, these allegations would show that Bush's energy pol. led directly and predictably to the most devastating terrorist attack in history, an attack that caused billions in property damage and cost thousands of innocent Americans their lives." 1/31 Bush's fraudulent economic plan 2/1 If You Value Your Opened-Mind, You Will Avoid Alexandria, VA, This Weekend. 2/1 W & Enron Do The Numbers Alike 2/1 FERC may probe Enron on California wholesale power pricing. California's Suggestion Last Year That Texas Companies Were Gouging Them On Electricity Prices Doesn't Seem Too Far-Fetched These Days. 2/1 President Bush's singling out of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "an axis of evil" is invoking parallels with the alliance headed by Nazi Germany that plunged the world into war. 2/1 Enron's Vince Foster? 2/1 A long war against Enron terrorists 2/1 ENRON MEMO LINKS KEN LAY'S WISHES TO CHENEY'S ENERGY POLICY Sexual Abstinence is on George W. Bush's Mind -- And He Wants Us to Fund It 1/31 George Bush's Permanent War 2/1 Quote of the Day: From New Enron CEO, ""The good news is not only do I not know what went wrong, it is literally of no interest to me," Cooper said. 1/31 "The wife of ex-Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay spent a week under the tutelage of a public relations expert before her teary-eyed appearance this week on NBC's ``Today'' show, her sister-in-law said." Evita Didn't Need a Coach 1/31 Bush Budget to Seek Job Training Cut. Perhaps Everyone Who Is Out of Work Can Join the Army. We're Now Perpetually At War. 1/31 McGrory's Article that Bush SOTU = Caesar will make you STYS and find you ROLTLOL! (sick to your stomach and rolling on the floor, laughing out loud). This Must Be Satire, It Can't Be Real. 1/31 Enron ties itself up in knots, then falls over 2/1 Bush's Permanent Tax Cut Seen Costing $627 Billion 2/1 Bush can't have guns and tax cuts, too 2/1 Disgusting. World Trade Center steel becomes a souvenir. 2/1 Why Detroit's Metro Times is Suing John Ashcroft 2/1 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) The Righteousness Brothers at it Again, by Gene Lyons 2/1 John Ashcroft was "doing what despots and would-be despots always do: attempting to intimidate into silence those who dare to question him." 2/1 Did I watch the wrong channel? The media gushed over an "eloquent" and "passionate" State of the Union address many of us didn't see. 2/1 CBO reports U.S. entering into deficits 2/1 Bankruptcy Judge Will Order Enron to Release Internal Report on "Questionable Partnerships and Accounting Practices." 2/1 Houston Law Firm (where RNC Chair Racicot and TX AG Abbot works) Says They're Cuttings Ties To Enron 2/1 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he regretted that Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat was not killed when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, but said Arafat can still be a partner for peace. 2/1 Executive Privilege: Forget Enron, Remember Salvati 2/1 Should Enron's board members have similar jobs with other firms? 2/1	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. Cheney's Lies and Other Tales of the Veep 2/1 Rumsfeld Urges Huge Military Modernization, None of Which Will Stop A Guy With a Shoe Bomb. 2/1 Enron is significant also because "it follows so quickly in the wake of other corporate disasters that have served to undermine confidence in our business institutions -- and because it may foreshadow others to come." 2/1 "Hate of the Union," A Report On The Swift Reaction of Other Countries to George's State of the Union 2/1 Ernst & Young Played Unusual Role In PNC's Recent Accounting Trouble. Yet another Big Five firm is getting caught up in post-Enron accounting questions. 2/1 A Chat with Paul Begala, Author of "Buck Up, Suck up, and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room" 2/1 The Sky is Falling - Rumsfeld Warns of Further Threats 2/1 State of the Union: Corrupt 2/1 Former Consumer Product Safety Commission Chief Wants Recalls to be More Effective Using Marketing-Free Product Registration Cards or Online Registration 2/1 Defense Shares Rally on Results. Who Wants to Bet Papa Bush and The Carlyle Group Are Opening Champagne This Weekend? 2/1 Bah, Humbug! 2/1 "Unbridled legal hypocrisy is a recurring theme of the ideologically-impoverished Bush imperium." 2/1 Walking Away from Afghanistan 2/1 Program sends kids to college for free 2/1 Andersen spent millions lobbying for deregulation 2/1 Three Times Sen. Dianne Feinstein Wrote and Asked the Bush Administration to Meet About CA's Energy Crisis, Three Times They Declined, All the While Leaving The Door Wide Open for Enron. Imagine That! 1/31 Here Comes the Bush Wrecking Ball on Social Service Programs 1/31 White House Spends Millions On Super Bowl Anti-Terror Advertisements. Hey, It's Just Your Tax Dollars. Who Cares Where They Spend It, Right? Who Needs Medicare or Prescription Drugs When We've Got Two Super Bowl Ads! 1/31 It’s Kristol Clear: Bill’s a Hypocrite. Joe Conason on The Weekly Standard's William Kristol 1/31 The Bush Family Values Center 1/31 Ernst & Young "is getting caught up in post-Enron accounting questions." 1/31 John Dean Reviews Political Books: "If Kellner [author of Grand Theft 2000] is correct, Enron may prove a calamity for George Bush." We are Offfering "Grand Theft 2000" on BuzzFlash.com (see Link near top of first column) 1/31 The reckless, almost unhinged character of US foreign policy is a manifestation of the desperate crisis of the ruling elite. 1/31 Bush and Andersen's Texas Two-Step 1/31 Since taking office, George W. Bush has lavished spectacular taxpayer funded largesse on the corporate media that made excuses for his inadequacies, overlooked his corruption, shielded him from scandal, and escorted him into the White House. 1/31 George Bush's delusion: Tragedy does not give America a free hand 1/31 Republicans say they may try to stop planned GAO lawsuit. They Sure Are Working Hard to Keep Cheney's Energy Policy Panel Secret. Must be Hiding Something BIG. 1/31 Janet Reno Collapsed During Speech in New York 1/31 Caught on Tape - Enron Employee Asked if Lay Was on Crack. ALSO, NBC Reports (at bottom of story) They Found 10 Homes Owned by the Lays, NOT For Sale. Hmmm. How, Um, Interesting. 1/31 "Voting Rights in Peril" by Congressman John Conyers Jr. 1/31 BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - The Angry Liberal's State of the Union Message 1/30 Cheney Lied About Why GAO Backed Off. They Were Going to Sue The White House Four Days Before September 11th. (requires Acrobat Reader) 1/30 FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON PRACTICALLY DICTATED THE FERC APPOINTMENTS. BUSH INCORPORATED DID THE BIDDING OF ENRON FROM DAY ONE. 1/25 BuzzFlash Interviews Gene Lyons: Part II 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: Former Middlebury College music scholar released from Chinese prison 2/2 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Another Priceless Antoinette Moment 2/1 BuzzFlash Reader Satire: Another State of the Union 1/30 Bush Proposes Tax Cuts For The 2nd Homeless 2/2 "Let Them Eat Cake" - George Antoinette 1/30 REPOST (because it made you LOL): "This is Me" by Georg Bush 2/2 PRESIDENT TO CHRISTIAN TRUCKERS: "LET THE RIVERS FLOW RED WITH THE BLOOD OF THE EVIL ONES" 2/2 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron