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Follow the Oil: Musharraf, Karzai agree major oil pipeline in co-operation pact 2/10

FROM STARS AND STRIPES: Thrift Savings Plan managers: White House thwarting $350M lawsuit 2/10

"The Heritage Foundation (virtually an extension of the Republican National Committee) believes in two things: that the rich need more tax cuts and that the poor need more lectures on what's wrong with them." 2/10

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Rumsfeld Suggests that Photgraphers Must Use Captions Provided by the Military, Then Claims They Aren't Allowing Photos of Prisoners Due to the "Geneva Convention." Hypocrite Censor. 2/10

Democrats Accuse Bush of Using Enron Style Accounting in Budget 2/10

John Dean on the First Step in the Enron Cover-up 2/10

Enron's last-minute bonus orgy 2/10

"The budget includes full funding for the $475 million system, which is built by United Defense Industries Inc., a defense contractor controlled by the Carlyle Group Inc." 2/10

THE ANGRY LIBERAL: WEEKEND EDITION 2/10

BIG FARMS MAKING A MESS
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West Bank Refugee Camp Surrounded 2/10

The February 9th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

Democracy Corps.Com 2/10

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARIES OF CALIFORNIA ENERGY CRISIS

Our "Wartime" President Supported the Vietnam War, But Let Other Young Men Die in His Place. That's the Plain Truth, for Bush -- and for Cheney and Ashcroft Too. 2/10

Power Peddling 2/10

Bungling on the 9-11 Prisoners 2/10

Jeb Bush's daughter waives fast trial 2/10

FBI failed to get Lindh's statement in writing 2/10

Florida State pension fund analyst was alarmed by Enron stock buys 2/10

Ex-Marine Must Battle Iran and the Bush Administration 2/10

FROM ARCHIVES: "US Energy Giant Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay has said that the Indian Government could be subject to US sanctions unless the top energy trader and its partners recover $1 billion dollar they invested in Dabhol" (Read Down) 2/10

Some Enron Players in Florida 2/10

Deal still possible on energy task force papers, agency official says 2/10

Is the White House Really Being "Quiet" on Campaign Finance Reform? We Doubt It. 2/10

UK Tells White House to Rein in the Hawks 2/10

A Year of W. 2/10

The February 8th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American. The BuzzFlash Mailbag Is On Vacation Until 2/15.

Enron, Oil, the Bush Administration and Central Asia 2/10

Religious Christian Publication Tries to Tie Domestic Partnership Benefits to Enron Collapse. Say What? 2/10

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One 2/8

BuzzFlash Interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer

For Whatever It's Worth: Riyadh Shocked the White House 2/10

Katherine Harris is Getting Sued by Her Kinfolk! 2/10

Gore Plans Foreign Policy Speech 2/10

UNCONSCIONABLE: RIGHT WING RAG SAYS WHITE HOUSE TO REVIVE "TRASHING STORY," WHICH BUZZFLASH SHOWED WAS A LIE AND FABRICATION! GUTTER POLITICS FROM BUSH "BIG LIE" INCORPORATED. 2/10

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

Hope that U.S. strike killed bin Laden fades. Then Who Did It Kill? 2/10

''The Pentagon wanted to hide the fact that its missile test failed, so they went to Lincoln Lab to get them to produce a fraudulent study that said otherwise" 2/10

Scary! Police wearing balaclavas stopped 200 marchers and arrested six women before the Olympic opening 2/9

Diluting the Geneva Convention 2/9

To Detroit's Dismay, McCain Proposes Rise in Fuel Standards 2/10

Any Democratic Senator Who Votes for Pickering Isn't Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit 2/10

FROM THE RECENT ARCHIVES: GAO V. CHENEY IS BIG-TIME STALLING:The Vice President Can Win Only If We Have Another Bush v. Gore -like Ruling, by John Dean 2/10

"The Boston Archdiocese late Thursday turned over to authorities the names of 49 priests it says have been accused of sexual abuse of children, bringing the number of priests whom the church has named to as many as 87" 2/10

"A top Revolutionary Guards commander has warned that his forces will destroy Persian Gulf oil fields if the United States threatens Iran." 2/10

Bigger than Bioterror 2/10

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

Cambodia stunned by UN withdrawal of Khmer Rouge trial 2/10

European Fury at Bush's "Axis of Evil" Speech 2/10

Coalition Forms to Reverse Rising Trend of Uninsured Americans 2/10

Bush heating cuts draw fire in Mass. 2/10

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should recuse himself from any Enron investigations because of entanglements with the company 2/9

Amtrack's Chronic Malnutrition Diet 2/10

Enron Exec Parrots "Hogan's Heroes" 2/10

A Guantanamo Gulag 2/10

Enron's Operations in Argentina 2/10

County of the Scopes Trial Is Told to Halt Bible Classes in Schools 2/10

Ashcroft Asked to Explain Remarks Offensives to Followers of Islam 2/10

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

Taliban Foreign Minister Surrenders 2/9

GOP Ads Hit Democrats Over Stimulus 2/9

Cheney Passes Pacemaker Test 2/9

Phone Cards Link Shoe Bomber to Al Qaeda 2/9

Tricky Dick II: The Potential Halliburton Scandal 2/9

Former Enron CEO Claims He Knew Nothing 2/8

TIME FOR A SPECIAL COUNSEL, SENATOR ERNEST HOLLINGS

Democratic Representative Calls for ENRON/BUSH Appointed FERC Chairman to Resign

Outrageous: Bush Calls Farm Subsidies a National Security Issue 2/9

Enron Probe Expands to Wall Street 2/9

Pentagon Told to Preserve Enron Documents 2/9

Bush's Comments Bolster Old Guard in Tehran 2/9

Princess Margaret Dies 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

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

FBI launches Global Crossing probe 2/9

An Oily Quagmire 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

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

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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

Free Republic Members are Downright Offensive to Civilized Society! 2/11

And You Too, Alan Dershowitz? 2/11

"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

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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

George Will Rights Favorably of Joe Lieberman: That's the Kiss of Doom for a Democrat 2/11

Criticize Cheney, Go to Jail 2/9

More Sleazy Bush/Cheney Business Practices 2/9

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More Offshore Legal Tax Evasion from an American Company 2/9

Montana GOP Governor Comes Under Fire 2/9

China Bible "Smuggler" Freed 2/11

Credit card lenders raise rates on financially strapped consumers 2/11

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"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


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

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Disabled student lawsuit: Beyond the letter of the law: From the UC Davis "California Aggie" 2/9

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REPOSTED: PRESIDENT: "I DID NOT HAVE IMPROPER RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN: MISS ENRON" 2/10

Jeb Bush Doesn't Recall Speaking with Enron 2/10

A Reference for Confused Americans 2/11

Axis of Enron 2/10

Bush Tips His Hat to New Campaign Finance Reform Package 2/10

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

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