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The Oil Administration: Our Money and Soldiers to Protect the Oil Company Profits: It Ought to be a Crime


O'Neill Cries at Senate Hearing and Claims He Was Born into a Ditch (We're Not Making This Up) It Happened: In Utah, Dissent is About to Be Classified as Terrorism! 2/8 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" For Only $55! The February 7th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Former Enron CEO Claims He Knew Nothing 2/8 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. Is Jeb Lying? Records Show He Spoke with Ken Lay. Jeb Says He Did Not "Recall" Speaking With Lay. Hmmm. Is Selective Memory A Family Trait or a Political One? 2/8 E-mails Concerning Kidnapped WSJ Reporter Found On Suspect's Computer in Pakistan 2/8 "President Bush's claim that his budget will end deficits is based on hundreds of billions of dollars in gimmicks, including impossibly low spending proposals, critics say." 2/8 Bush's Magic Budget 2/7 Cheney goes from asset to albatross 2/8 Autopsy Shows Former Enron Executive Took Sleeping Aid, Other Drugs Before Alleged Suicide 2/8 Enron Exec Cops the Fifth 2/7 Charles W. Pickering Sr is a Bad Moon on the Rise Survivors say U.S. raid killed allies 2/7 "The Enron scandal can be boiled down to this: Kenny Boy Lay and his colleagues gave Dubya the financial equivalent of oral sex, and in return received from the Usurper and his colleagues the regulatory equivalent of oral sex." 2/8 Call Out the Special Prosecutor on Enron 2/8 CONGRESSMAN SAYS 'Substantial evidence' of Lawbreaking at Enron Found 2/7 Senate OKs Cap on Farm Payments 2/8 Two Million Workers Will Likely Exhaust Their Regular Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the First Half of 2002 2/8 "Alan Keyes 'Is Making Sense' looks for all the world like one of those old Lyndon LaRouche infomercials" 2/8 America's Shooting Gallery: Brock High School baseball coach recovering from shooting 2/7 Worries Over Oil Exploration in Utah 2/8 White House Entices a Democratic Ohio Congressman to Abandon His District 2/8 Enron's Political Potential 2/8 America's Shooting Gallery: 3 men found dead in Missouri City house 2/8 Watch Out: Tom Ridge is Suggesting that the U.S. Government Might Need Some "Reorganizing" 2/8 Does Anyone Know Why Howard Kurtz Suddenly is Writing Like He Has Grown a Brain? 2/8 We Need An Audit of the Bush/Cheney Papers. Who Cares About Rudy? 2/8 Arthur Andersen and the Baptists 2/8 Federal Court Limits 'Three Strikes' Sentences 2/8 Children of the Future, Stay in the Womb as Long as You Can 2/8 More Get Rich and Pay Less in Taxes 2/8 Ashcroft to Reduce Immigration Appeals Judges. Immigrants could "face deportation orders after arguing their case before a single judge." Man, This Ashcroft Guy is a Piece of Work. Someone Please Direct Him to the Dark Place From Whence He Came. 2/8 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! EPA Rebuked for Sewage Safety 2/8 Flush Rush! BuzzFlash Will Lend You the Toilet Paper. 2/8 $270 Million Enron Man Stays in the Background 2/8 Social Security Pledges May Haunt Both Parties 2/8 Power bestowed by God, says Musharraf 2/8 Cheney's Enron Tip Sheet 2/8 "I've got one piece of advice for all you children of the future: Stay in the womb as long as you can." 2/8 Senate Dems probe Enron clout on FERC 2/8 America's Shooting Gallery: Airguns Easily Converted to Lethal Weapons 2/8 Welfare: "New" Plan, Old Budget 2/8 Rumsfeld Hears Some Contrary Words 2/8 States consider restricting open records, meetings 2/8 Florida execution stayed by high court 2/8	Report: Execs sold off stock knowing of loss concerns 2/8 Giuliani's Paper Play Irks Some Historians. Who Does This Guy Think He Is, George Bush? C'mon Folks, The Paperwork of Public SERVANTS Is The Public's. 2/8 A Political "Little Enron" - a new energy trading outfit has hatched in the shadows of City Hall. PowerSol Energy Marketing 2/8 U.S. paid Afghan warlords for help in the war - report. 2/8 Insatiable Pentagon 2/8 Drug/Terror Ads Controversial 2/8 Bush Makes Decision on Detainees. Some Get Rights, Some Don't. He Says It'll Help Our Soldiers Receive Treatment Under the Geneva Convention Rules. Sure. And Our Enemies Will Simply Pick and Choose Who To Give Rights, Just Like He Does. 2/8 Liar! Liar! Pants On Fire: Ex-GOP chair's affidavit contradicts earlier slush-fund remarks. 2/8 LAY'S TIES TO BUSH GO BACK YEARS Senate Challengers Gain Foothold 2/8 Sheriff Bush Wages War Against Evil To Cover Corporate Corruption of Government 2/8 Man Tries to Enter Cockpit on Flight to Argentina 2/8 "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) turned in a bravado performance at the Washington Press Club Foundation's 58th Annual Congressional Dinner." (halfway down) 2/8 Head of FERC is Ken Lay Appointee: Bush Incorporated = Enron Incorporated 2/7 Andersen under attack from all sides 2/8 Pelosi rock 'n' rolls into new job S.F. Democrat sworn in as first female whip 2/8 Tell the Ameican Conservative Union that Ann Coulter is Out of Line. Although Being Ann Coulter and Being Out of Line is Kind of Redundant. 2/8 What Andrew Fastow Knew: Here's what the former Enron finance chief told CFO in 1999 about those now-infamous third-party investments 2/8 Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: New Afghan Leader Has Big Ties to Oil Industry. 2/8 Bush's executive-privilege two-step: His documents are too precious to give Congress, but those of the previous administration aren't worth protecting -- as long as they make Bill Clinton look bad. 2/8 Powell cranks up rhetoric on Iraq 2/8 Falwell tells Palm Beach Baptists God loves the Taliban. And We're Betting That Allah Loves Falwell. Sure It's Kitschy, But It Beats War. 2/8 Bush Urges Americans to Pray. Hey, We've Been Praying Every Day Since December 12, 2000. It Hasn't Seemed to Help So Far, But We'll Keep At It. Thanks, George. 2/7 Must Read: From the Paul Krugman Archives 2/8 Poor Afghan parents selling children to survive 2/8 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Stunning Palast Indictment of Bush-Bin Laden Complicity (9 min. video, req. Real Video Player) Palast's New Book Will Soon Be Available As A BuzzFlash Premium. 2/7 "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 Jeb Couldn't Wait to Meet With Ken Lay 2/7 BUSH'S WAR WITHOUT END: IT'S "1984" ALL OVER AGAIN The February 6th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Bush court nominee lobbied for leniency in cross-burning 2/8 Bush Administration Allows Oil Drilling Near Utah Parks 2/8 Ken Lay's sister's business receives Enron money 2/8 Support Independent News Sources! Helen Thomas, BuzzFlash Loves You Dear! 2/7 MUST READ: A 1999 KEN LAY SPEECH ON THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE FOR A GOOD MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The War Keeps Expanding 2/8 '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 The Texas Supreme Court to decide on Republican judge who filed to run in wrong race 2/7 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) 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 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	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. Convict's DNA Sways Labs, Not a Determined Prosecutor 2/7 Bush Is No Big Pal of Small Business 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 Report that Enron Withheld Information for Four Years 2/8 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 It's So Brazenly About 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 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 Hastert Confirms It: Money Rules 2/8 The Bell Tolls for the Free Republic Forum 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 FAA, States Say Women Travelers Have Reported Incidents of Being Groped by Airport Security Screeners 2/8 Bomblets threaten Afghans. "Sometimes they explode. 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 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 A Bush Family Quiz 2/7 Bush is Shaky on Women's Rights 2/7 We've been snookered by Bush's war-mongering 2/7 Winterless Olympics? Commentary Touches on Global Warming and State Efforts to Lower CO2. However, Let's Not Forget That Bush Declined to Participate in the Kyoto Treaty Because It Would Hurt His Corporate Sponsors. 2/8 Cheney to get routine check of pacemaker 2/8 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Justice Dept. Begins Detaining Middle Eastern Immigrants Who've Ignored Deportation Orders. Memo For "Absconder Apprehension Initiative" Says "Find" Ways to Detain Them. 2/8 BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Enron, Part III: Enron Supported Both Sides (Except the Democrats) 2/5 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com "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." BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron THE CAMPUS VOICE: Univesity of Minnesota - Twin Cities Students Protest Patriot Act, Fear Civil Liberties Threatened 2/8 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Punch Lines 2/8 Greetings from Bush's Prayer Breakfast 2/8 The Mechanical Soldier by Bush-Toons 2/7 ''Urgent call from Cheyenne Mountain'' 2/8 Attorney General: "America Must Cease To Be A Lurid Statuary of Deviant Sex" 2/7 The Enron Scandal Humor List 2/7 Enron Field to be Renamed "Scumbag Park" 2/7 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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The Oil Administration: Our Money and Soldiers to Protect the Oil Company Profits: It Ought to be a Crime