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CONGRESSMAN SAYS 'Substantial evidence' of Lawbreaking at Enron Found 2/7

Head of FERC is Ken Lay Appointee: Bush Incorporated = Enron Incorporated 2/7

Dick Cheney Going to Middle East. Follow the Oil 2/7

Is Lay No Longer on the Lam? His Lawyer Claimed He Was Missing on Monday, But This Article Implies He Was in Washington? Was He Collaborating on a Cover Story with Bush Incorporated? Just Asking. Who Knows? Very Suspicious Indeed. 2/7

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"Mr. Pickering's nomination is an affront to black people from coast to coast. But in a Bush White House, when civil rights come up against the Republican right, it's not even a close call." 2/7

By Unanimous Voice Vote the Senate Extends Jobless Benefits. Hey, Ari, When There's Something Worth Passing, The Senate Passes It. But, Your Boss's "Enrich the Rich" Stimulus Bill Was Garbage from Day One. 2/7

The February 6th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

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Jeb Couldn't Wait to Meet With Ken Lay 2/7

BUSH'S WAR WITHOUT END: IT'S "1984" ALL OVER AGAIN

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EPA STAFFER MEMO WARNED CHENEY NOT TO BLAME ENVIRONMENTAL REGS FOR ENERGY SHORTAGES, BUT THE TRUTH DIDN'T FIT ENRON'S AGENDA

CIA Makes Al-Qaeda Announcement to Keep Americans from Getting "Distracted" by Bush Administration/Enron Scandal 2/7

Republicans are Even Criticizing the Secrecy of Bush Incorporated 2/7

Judge Keeps Walker Lindh in Custody 2/7

Helen Thomas, BuzzFlash Loves You Dear! 2/7

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A Republican Who's Afraid to Admit It 2/7

Bush Won't Put Money Where His Mouth Is 2/7

'America will be the chef and its Nato allies the bus boys who stay to clean up the mess' 2/7

REPOST: Do Unto Others . . . Oh, Never Mind 2/7

Bush Admin. Wants 'Charter Forests' 2/7

America's Shooting Gallery: Two funeral home workers found fatally shot in Wisconsin 2/7

The Texas Supreme Court to decide on Republican judge who filed to run in wrong race 2/7

It Was Clinton at Waldorf Instead of Dessert 2/7

Bin Laden Fled to Iran, Cook Says. Is Osama's Chef Cooking this Up? It Sounds Fishy. One Wonders If Chef Haji Has a Beef with his Former Boss. 2/7

How Execs' Get-Rich-Quick Schemes Worked 2/7

Social Security Takes on Role of a Cash Cow 2/7

Arizona's Farnsworth Wants "IN GOD WE TRUST" in Each Classroom, School Auditorium, and School Cafeteria. 2/7

Bush and Ken Lay: Slip Slidin' Away 2/7

Enron's leaders still don't get it 2/7

Enron execs touted their ethics on an educational CD 2/7

It's Time to Shut Indian Point, Cuomo Says 2/7

Convict's DNA Sways Labs, Not a Determined Prosecutor 2/7

Bush Is No Big Pal of Small Business 2/7

What You Don’t Know Surely Can Hurt You 2/7

The relationship between the White House and Enron, the doomed energy company, focuses attention on the very ways in which the US is run 2/7

Singapore shows folly of security-first society 2/7

Bush budget trickery 2/7

Sen. Grassley chides Justice Dept. for failing to respond to inquiries about subpoena of reporter's phone records 2/7

Call It the Bin Laden Budget Blowout 2/7

House Democrats Ahead in Finances 2/7

Anti-Americanism has taken the world by storm 2/7

FLASHBACK: Ken Lay's Access as Described in the Mother Jones 400 2/7

"To make his new wartime budget work, holding deficit spending to ''only'' $80 billion, President Bush is counting on leading a huge herd of sacred cows to slaughter." 2/7

Saudi Official Admits 15 of 19 Hijackers Saudi 2/7

Armey rips Bush volunteer proposals, calling the plan "obnoxious" and asserting that Americans "give best when we give from our own hearts." We also think he's mad because Clinton created the program that Bush wants to expand. 2/7

The National Women’s Law Center Opposes Pickering Nomination, Urges Senate to Reject Nominee -- "serious, longstanding and consistent hostility to women’s reproductive rights and equal rights for minorities and women." 2/7

Kenny Boy’s Quiet, With Good Reason, by Joe Conason 2/7

Keeping abreast of Ashcroft's prudery 2/7

ANWR oil lease funds part of Bush proposal 2/7

The Bell Tolls for the Free Republic Forum 2/7

Bush Budget's Low Growth Rate for Medicare Is Questioned by Lawmakers 2/7

The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered the government to justify the presence of US troops in the country following a challenge by two lawyers. 2/7

A buildup in search of an enemy 2/7

Bomblets threaten Afghans. "Sometimes they explode. 2/7

And the fetus follies keep rolling along 2/7

Watching the Conservative Web 2/7

Is Bush Trying to Cover Tracks? 2/7

Pakistani Police Find Someone to Blame for the Kidnapping of a Wall Street Journal Journalist 2/7

Wisconsin Congressman Critical of Bush Budget 2/7

Kerry coffers lead presidential contenders 2/7

Airport security firm 'finished,' DOT says 2/7

Oh Those Grand Hypocrisy Party Conservatives. Clinton Must Bare All, But King George Must Have His Zone of Privacy in Which to Conduct the Business of Bush/Cheney Inc. 2/7

Enron Payments To Top Journalists Sign Of An Ongoing Trend 2/7

A Bush Family Quiz 2/7

What About that "Rogue Trader" Accused of Running Off with $750 Million? 2/7

Bush is Shaky on Women's Rights 2/7

We've been snookered by Bush's war-mongering 2/7

Four Israelis Killed in Attack on West Bank Settlement 2/7

The Big Business Backlash for Bush 2/7

Is the White House a Subsidiary of Enron? 2/7

Ashcroft Comes Up Goose Eggs on Terrorist Tipster Offer 2/7

The World Economic Forum, Day Five 2/7

An Indefensible Military Budget 2/7

FROM THE SAY-WHAT-DEPARTMENT: Bush Aides Say Deficits Won't Hurt Economy 2/6

Bush's "Benefit the Rich" Stimulus Bill Dead. Daschle Says Votes Just Aren't There. 2/6

Oh My Lord, Some Republican Senators Actually Criticize Bush Foreign Policy Rhetoric! Will Wonders Never Cease! 2/6

The Pentagon Spending Spree 2/6

Rumsfeld Uses Third Reich As Example of How He Plans to Change U.S. Military

An Orgy of Defense Spending: Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Rhetoric Fabricates a Need 2/6

"Oh, I know the news media likes to say, 'Where's ol' Osama bin Laden?' He's not the issue," Bush said on a trip one day after he released his 2003 budget plan." George, You Made Him the Issue, Remember? 2/6

'Victims Of Enron’s Lies' 2/6

America's Shooting Gallery: Man shot at Mobile Register 2/6

FOLLOW THE OIL: "A delegation from the Bush administration is in Colombia for meetings with the country's president as Washington considers expanding military aid by $98 million to help protect an oil pipeline from guerrilla violence." 2/6

DID ENRON STEAL FROM EMPLOYEES? DID THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TIP ENRON OFF ON INTERVIEWS WITH WHISTLE BLOWER? 2/5

BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Enron, Part III: Enron Supported Both Sides (Except the Democrats) 2/5

The State of the Union 2002, An Editorial Cartoon 2/6

Jeb's Lieutenant Governor Says "Teachers Don't Know the Truth" 2/6

KEN LAY IS MISSING. MAYBE HE'S HIDING OUT WITH DICK CHENEY. AFTER ALL, THE WHITE HOUSE DOESN'T WANT "KENNY BOY" SINGING LIKE A CANARY.
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The predictable awfulness of the Bush Republicans 2/6

Molly Ivins: Going for Broke 2/6

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Andersen Under Fire in Arizona 2/6

"Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, plans to ask Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, to provide any information that would link Bush campaign officials to Enron" 2/6

Pension Chiefs Want Head of the S.E.C. to Withdraw 2/6

SENATOR HOLLINGS CALLS FOR A SPECIAL ENRON PROSECUTOR: "WE'VE GOT AN ENRON GOVERNMENT"

White House Eats His "Money Grubbing" Words About NYC 2/6

Like His Paid-for Man Bush, Ken Lay Can't Accept Responsiblity 2/6

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What Is Dick Cheney Afraid Of? 2/6

Not Conservative Enough? Watch Out! Minnesota Republican activist aims to 'expose' false conservatives 2/6

"A U.S. bankruptcy judge has granted a sweeping motion by Enron's creditors to interview Arthur Andersen executives and subpoena thousands of documents" 2/7

Arthur Andersen’s Contract to Audit FBI Unaffected by Mounting Evidence of Criminal Activity 2/6

"Bush administration officials say that helping former welfare recipients move into higher-paying jobs is a top priority, though the president's budget has no money dedicated to the effort." 2/6

Rumsfeld's Surrender (and Let's Remember that the Enriching of Defense Contractors Enriches the Carlyle Group, the Bush Family and Bush Contributors) 2/7

Rove Asked to Itemize Enron Contacts and the White House Spins up Some Gibberish 2/6

Ken Lay leaves California in the dark -- again, by Barbara Boxer 2/6

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush Scrubbers 2/6

REPOST: When Dubya and Lay were As CloseAsThis 2/6

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A no-questions-asked war: Bush can’t fight for justice and human dignity while ignoring them 2/6

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Did this man predict Sept. 11? Strange story of a jailed spy unfolds in Toronto court 2/6

Bushwhacked: $5B Slashed From Pledged WTC Aid 2/6

"Although Mr Bush campaigned on the promise that he would force the Pentagon to make "hard choices" in its weapons programme, it now seems he has given the military a blank cheque to have it all." 2/6

UN Fears Bush 2003 Budget May Reduce Food Aid 2/6

Pitt's Accounting Fix Leaves a Lot Broke 2/6

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Proposed Aid Cut Stuns Youths. Photo Op One Day, Your Program on the Chopping Block The Next. More of that Famous Bush Compassionate Conservatism. 2/6

Ultra-conservative and republican-funded "Club For Growth" meeting scared off by farmers upset with the "welfare" label they were given by the group 2/6


BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com

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

BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2

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