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Tricky Dick II: The Potential Halliburton Scandal 2/9 BuzzFlash Interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One 2/8 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" For Only $55! Outrageous: Bush Calls Farm Subsidies a National Security Issue 2/9 The February 8th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American. The BuzzFlash Mailbag Is On Vacation Until 2/15. 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. UNDER JEB, ENRON PLAYED A KEY ROLE SHAPING FLORIDA'S ENERGY POLICY National Enquirer Says: "JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL" 2/9 Scary! Police wearing balaclavas stopped 200 marchers and arrested six women before the Olympic opening 2/9 Diluting the Geneva Convention 2/9 Cheney Passes Pacemaker Test 2/9 Phone Cards Link Shoe Bomber to Al Qaeda 2/9 Pentagon Told to Preserve Enron Documents 2/9 Princess Margaret Dies 2/9 Taliban Foreign Minister Surrenders 2/9 Bush's Comments Bolster Old Guard in Tehran 2/9 Former Enron CEO Claims He Knew Nothing 2/8 Enron Probe Expands to Wall Street 2/9 Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should recuse himself from any Enron investigations because of entanglements with the company 2/9 Korean Lawmakers tie Bush trip to South Korea with Boeing's bid to sell fighter planes (Don't Need to Convert Into Korean Text) 2/9 An Oily Quagmire 2/9 Virginia House Votes to Allow Posting of 10 Commandments in Schools 2/9 "Bush the Second uttered this stunning contradiction and received thunderous applause from the gathered politicians and guests in the Capitol. Why?" 2/9 "With a strident tone and unrealistic expectations" 2/9 Bush Appoints a Terrorist's Friend 2/9 In Florida, angry crowd lashes lawmaker over lack of public testimony 2/9 Cheney's Ex-Company Settles Fraud Suit 2/9 Wendy Gramm quits post as a director for Invesco 2/9 Slick New Drug-War Ads Misfire 2/9 No Whistleblowing Protections For Airport Baggage Screeners 2/9 John Ashcroft's old political committees have continued taking donations and spending money during his service as attorney general — and the Federal Election Commission wants an explanation. 2/9 'Iran's oil and gas worth $3,000bn' 2/9 How Ari Flesicher Defamed Our Founding Fathers 2/9 Holy Toledo! Bush Administration Backs Ohio's Fight to Ban Late-Term Abortion Procedure. All Jokes Aside, Bush and Co. Have Declared War on Women's Rights. 2/9 FBI launches Global Crossing probe 2/9 The Book "1984" Online 2/9 "Judge Charles Pickering's career, and Mississippi's segregationist past, were under scrutiny Thursday by a Senate panel in the most contentious hearing held on any of President Bush's judicial nominees." 2/9 We are Losing a Fine Surgeon General 2/9 Making a Skilling 2/9 Bush, Oil and the Taliban 2/9 "Viewed under any other rubric, Bush's speech--received so rapturously by a well-stroked punditocracy--is entirely incoherent" 2/9 Bush Praises Job Training Program, Then Slashes Their Budget 2/9 Enron tale drags Bush aides along 2/9 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! What Passes for a Florida GOP Congressman's Humor is So Low, You'd Have to Pull It Out of the Gutter 2/9 Kidnap Suspect's Journal Points To Shadowy Past 2/9 Lawmakers Move to Restore Money for Highway Construction 2/9 Florida Lawmakers Probing Pension Fund Losses Linked to Enron Collapse 2/9	State of the Debate:Recent books on the Clinton legacy. 2/9 What Are They Hiding? 2/9 "The plan: government access to everyone's medical record through their hospitals and doctor's offices." 2/9 Betraying the Unemployed 2/9 The Money Changer 2/9 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 Man Who Wants Cheney's Enron Files 2/9 California Governor Candidates Trying to Tie Opponents to Enron Debacle 2/9 Arrogance and fear: the American paradox 2/9 Bush squanders America's victory: The greatest threat to U.S. dominance is not Islamic extremism, it's our arrogance, says a Times of London writer. 2/9 To make a mess as big as the Enron debacle, you need some friends in high places--Texas Senator Phil Gramm and his wife, for instance 2/9 The Unforgiving Mr. Bush 2/9 Getting Cash From the CIA: Agency’s Venture Capital Unit Grows Since September Attacks 2/9 Ex-Enron workers rip Skilling's story 2/8 Criticize Cheney, Go to Jail 2/9 More Sleazy Bush/Cheney Business Practices 2/9 Support Independent News Sources! More Offshore Legal Tax Evasion from an American Company 2/9 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 Montana GOP Governor Comes Under Fire 2/9 Election 2000: The polls were wrong then, Has Anything Changes? 2/9 EU Touts Plan for Palestinian State 2/9 O'Neill Cries at Senate Hearing and Claims He Was Born into a Ditch (We're Not Making This Up) It Happened: In Utah, Some Dissent is About to Be Classified as Terrorism! 2/8 Will the Right Wing Push McCain Into Inpendent Status? We Hope So. Here is One of the Spiteful, Loony Right Wing Sites Against McCain. 2/10 Bush court nominee lobbied for leniency in cross-burning 2/8 Bush Administration Allows Oil Drilling Near Utah Parks 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 Ken Lay's sister's business receives Enron money 2/8 Report that Enron Withheld Information for Four Years 2/8 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. 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 Must Read: From the Paul Krugman Archives 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 FAA, States Say Women Travelers Have Reported Incidents of Being Groped by Airport Security Screeners 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 Autopsy Shows Former Enron Executive Took Sleeping Aid, Other Drugs Before Alleged Suicide 2/8 "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 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 Senate OKs Cap on Farm Payments 2/8 Charles W. Pickering Sr is a Bad Moon on the Rise Go, Henry Waxman, Go! 2/8 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 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 GOP Ads Hit Democrats Over Stimulus 2/9 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 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 County of the Scopes Trial Is Told to Halt Bible Classes in Schools 2/10 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 Senate Challengers Gain Foothold 2/8 Sheriff Bush Wages War Against Evil To Cover Corporate Corruption of Government 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 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 The February 6th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia 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: Disabled student lawsuit: Beyond the letter of the law: From the UC Davis "California Aggie" 2/9 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Punch Lines 2/8 Greetings from Bush's Prayer Breakfast 2/8 Where's Cheney, A Flashtoon by Mark Fiore 2/9 ''Urgent call from Cheyenne Mountain'' 2/8 Attorney General: "America Must Cease To Be A Lurid Statuary of Deviant Sex" 2/7 Corporate Sponsorship: The Enron White House 2/9 Governor Ridge: "Patriotic Tattooing Has Commenced. All Citizens Are to Report to the Nearest Bankrupt K-Mart Outlet" 2/9 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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