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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TRIES TO MUSCLE THE ABA INTO NOT VOTING ON MILITARY TRIBUNALS	Archived 2/4/02 1:02pm
KEN LAY REFUSES TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS: MAYBE HE'LL SEND HIS WIFE


Did Taxpayers Subsidize a Bizarre Bush Administration Superbowl Ad Linking Drug Use to Terrorism? You Bet. This Karl Rove Focus-Group Driven Propaganda Should Have Been Paid for by the Republican National Committee. This is Truly Orwellian. 2/4 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Enron is a values scandal, and specifically a conservative values scandal" 2/4 Cheney Refuses to Tell Us What Enron Dictated to His Energy Task Force, But the Bush Administration Released Clinton e-mail to Dan Burton. What Brazen Hypocrites! 2/4 Poppy and Barbara Bush and the Lays are Tight, Very Tight 2/4 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 to Cut Program that Helps Quickly Identify Terrorists. Is the "War Against Terrorism" More Spin Than Substance? 2/4 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. The February 4th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American War is Handy Politics for Bush 2/4 Pakistani Police Make Little Progress in Search for Reporter 2/4 When in Doubt, Wag the Dog 2/4 Boston Globe to Bush: "Sounding tough is not the same as acting smart" 2/4 Protests at World Economic Forum Remain Peaceful, for the Most Part 2/4 Unbelievably Sophomoric: Bush Keeps a "Scorecard" of Al-Qaeda Killed or Captured 2/4 Join the BuzzFlash Fan Club! "President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget proposal to be released Monday would run a large deficit, veer far from his party's traditional goal of shrinking government and result in cuts to everything from highway spending to jobs programs." 2/4 U.S. Mission Concerned About NATO Support 2/4 Oh Where, Oh Where Can Osama be? Oh Where, Oh Where Can He Be? 2/4 More Enron Execs to Cop the Fifth 2/4 Bush's Domestic Flank is Weak and Dems Know It 2/4 Sneak Attack: It Was Actually a Guerilla Attack on Abortion Rights, by Bob Herbert 2/4 Another Obstacle to Campaign Finance Reform 2/4 Bush Tries Back Door Approach to School Vouchers 2/4 "Cheney may be hiding more.... Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money," Says Time Magazine. 2/4 The White House Propaganda Machine is Working Overtime 2/4 "The News in its editorial said the reason why Pearl could have been abducted was because he was following leads to write about how [Pakistani] police permitted hardcore Islamic groups to function despite the ban imposed recently" 2/4 "There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves." 2/4 We're Paying So That Bush Can Wrap His Budget in the Flag, Literally 2/4 Bush's Speech Shuts Door on Tenuous Opening to Iran 2/4 Will Bush's Loose Lips Sink Ships? 2/4 In Volcker, Andersen Trusts 2/4 Read Down in Article to Find Out Where Katherine Harris Gets Her Hair Cut 2/4 Will the Bell Toll for the Free Republic 2/4 Alliance that Drove Out Taliban is Unraveling 2/4 You Didn't Hear Bush Say "Enron" 2/4 Budget director says Bush will hold the line on nonmilitary spending 2/4 SCARY: "People the government suspects of terrorist involvement will be arrested on the most minor of crimes -- spitting on the sidewalk or petty credit card swindles" 2/4 The Gun Nuts Got Utah to Allow Guns in the State Capitol. Now Bush is Scheduled to Speak There. We Bet They Don't Allow the Gun Nuts in With Their Guns. But What About the Rest of Us the Rest of the Year? 2/4 When Dubya and Lay Were as Close as This 2/4 Journalist Missing in the Philippines 2/4 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. "Saudi Arabia has been trying to persuade the United States to help foment an internal revolt against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for the last 10 years, a former Saudi intelligence chief said on Sunday" 2/4 Leaders Warn U.S. It Must Deal Head-On With Mideast 2/4 Bush Adminsitration Calls Afghanistan Oil Pipeline Promising. Anybody Surprised? 2/4 The Houston Chronicle stays loyal to Kenny Boy, According to the Houston Press 2/4 The Washington Times Told An Environmental Group They Could Buy an Ad to Rebut Information Published in the Moonie-Owned Paper 2/4	The Last Refuge of a Politician in Trouble 2/4 No Federal Guards for Nuclear Plants 2/4 Don't Cry for Me Pat Robertson! 2/4 This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow 2/4 The Secrets of Chewco, or the Business Bandits 2/4 Bad Deeds Indeed 2/4 Of Course Bush Identifies with the Wealthy, by Molly Ivins 2/4 Reports of more contacts with Enron and other power companies 2/4 A Culture of Deception at Enron 2/4 The American Academy of Pediatrics is announcing its support on Monday for the right of gay men and lesbians to adopt their partners' children 2/4 Enron Officials Seen Facing Prosecution 2/4 Road Money Tapped for Congressional Pet Projects 2/4 Bush to Request Big Spending Push on Bioterrorism 2/4 The dark side of capitalism: The collapse of Enron is a corporate allegory of our times 2/3 Bush Sells Out Cuba Policy to Hardline Extremists. He Wants to Make Sure that He Gets the Radical Florida Exile Vote in 2004 -- and That They Will Help Jeb in 2002. The Bush Cabinet Bangs the Drum Loudly Against Iran 2/4 Oklahoma Republican Governor Keating: Racial profiling has a role in preventing terrorism. More from the "Ends Justify The Means" GOP crowd. 2/3 Wolfowitz Takes Hardline with NATO 2/4 State of the President 2/4 Gore: ''There are other choices — choices where there are very sharp differences between the parties. Real differences.'' 2/3 Pro-Life Foreign Aid 2/4 Study Puts Finland First, and U.S. 51st, in Environmental Health 2/3 Enron execs pocket big bonuses 2/3 Wall Street banks 'knew about Enron' 2/3 FLASHBACK: That Other Bush Boy The president's brother Neil hopes to profit from his family's influence. 2/3 "A parade of European security officials expressed alarm today about what they considered an aggressive, go-it-alone stance staked out by President Bush in his State of the Union address last week." 2/3 Enron Internal Investigation Details Failure to Supervise Partnerships 2/3 As written, Bush's Military Tribunal order violates, in different ways, the rights of all four categories of persons subject to them 2/3 Gov. Davis met with Enron leader, but ignored his advice 2/3 Iraqi oil exports to US surged in 2001 2/3 Several incoming officials advocate an unyielding hostility toward Cuba and the maintenance, if not strengthening, of a trade embargo that is four decades old. 2/3 Despite Recession, Perks for Top Executives Grow 2/3 Bush to Propose $379B Defense Budget 2/3 Bush Wants Permanent Estate Tax Phaseout 2/3 AOL Time Warner's CNN to be sued by Al-Jazeera for airing bin Laden interview 2/3 No Jail Time for Jeb's Daughter Noelle. Double Standard For Bush Kids Or Is It Simply The Best Lawyering Money Can Buy? We Sympathize for Her, But Her Uncle Has Cut Off Federal Aid to College Student Convicted of Smoking Marijuana. Hypocrisy. 2/3 Mike Smith, the newly named assistant secretary for fossil fuels at the U.S. Department of Energy, told a Charleston audience Wednesday that he would work to ensure that oil, natural gas and coal industry's interests are heeded in Washington. 2/2 State of the Enron by Frank Rich 2/3 Lay's hearing will be aired on TV, over the Web 2/3 "The mainstream media is aware of [the financial scandal that is Enron], but most Americans are not, because the corporate news outlets refuse to report on it. It is not conspiracy. It is complicity." 2/3 The New World Order of the Heritage Foundation 2/4 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Enron Vetted Bush Energy Regulators 2/4 New York City Teachers Count Losses in Enron Mess 2/4 And I thought the Dems were the ones trying to portray Cheney as an ominous goon doing the bidding of the big oil producers. 2/3 "Support President Bush or bear the consequences." White House Gets Involved In Alabama Redistricting, Threatens to Work Against Local Democrat. Don't They Have More Important Things to Do? 2/3 Bush wants to take back $5.8 million from Kentucky Education programs. 2/3	Minutes of Enron board meetings show that chairman Ken Lay and other directors had detailed information over a period of years about the complex partnerships that kept hundreds of millions of dollars in debt off the company's balance sheet. 2/3 "What did [Bush and Co.] do for the [Enron] on its way up, not at the end of its free fall?" 2/3 Back in the Fray, Gore Announces PAC 2/3 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com "It becomes easy to see how the continued deficit spending of our government will rob the Social Security Trust Fund, into which the taxpayers have paid." 2/3 Churches on Right Seek Right to Back Candidates. Hey, As Long As You Give Up Your Tax-Exempt Status, You Can Say What You Want. 2/3 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 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) "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." Is Gore Testing the Waters for 2004? 2/4 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron Bush Promotes Plans at GOP Retreat. Read Only If You Have a Strong Stomach. 2/3 Drug coverage for seniors alarms Texas officials 2/3 Just Because They're Best Sellers Doesn't Mean They're Intelligent Books. 2/3 The Village Voice Covers the Protests at the World Economic Forum 2/4 The point is obviously lost on Secretary Thompson and his White House allies: But politics and pregnancy don't mix. 2/3 End the coverup: "By the same token, voters have a right to know to whom the White House turns when a task force with 10 Cabinet-rank members works on energy policy." 2/3 What Enron Wants (from Bill Moyers' Now site) 2/3 Bush the Conqueror? Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. 2/3 For the Carlyle Group's Robert Grady, the best deals are just around the corner. 2/3 Fed. agency that manages the retirement savings accts of current and former govt. workers yesterday accused the Justice Dept. of trying to undermine its independence and its ability to sue a firm that it contends bungled a computer contract. 2/3 Bush's 401(k) plans met with criticism; Enron workers cry 'fluff,' businesses fear rules 2/3 Divide and Conquer, A Road Map to the GOP Agenda Through Bush's SOTU 2/3 The perils of economic fundamentalism 2/3 Forgotten Prisoners of War: The "dangerously squalid conditions in the Shebarghan prison." 2/3 The Enron PAC’s Last Waltz? 2/3 Enron's All in the Family. Ken Lay's Family, That Is, And They Made Big Bucks Because of It. 2/3 Ken Lay's Property in Houston. Just Houston. Who Knows How Many Houses They Have? 2/3 Liberal Bias in Media is a Myth, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 2/5 Are Their Killer Cellphones? 2/5 The February 4th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - The Angry Liberal's State of the Union Message 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 THE CAMPUS VOICE: Minorities view A&M negatively, study says 2/4 THE LIGHTER SIDE: These are Ironic TImes 2/4 What About Those Top Ten Conservative Idiots, Huh? 2/4 "It was the second time in 48 hours that a news organization had left the false impression that the kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter had been murdered" 2/4 Liberty Has Been Secured 2/3 Al Franken Will Try a Sit-Com On for Size 2/4 Oh, to be a Journalist at the World Economic Forum 2/4 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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KEN LAY REFUSES TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS: MAYBE HE'LL SEND HIS WIFE