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JOHN "NRA COVERBOY" ASHCROFT WON'T ALLOW 9/11 LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CHECK GUN RECORDS! TO JOHN, THE NRA COMES BEFORE THE SAFETY OF AMERICANS!		Archived 2/14/02 8:44am Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n!
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, WE LOVE OUR BUZZFLASH READERS! Roll Call of Campaign Finance Reform Vote 2/14 FERC Chairman Ordered to Reveal Enron Contacts 2/14 Report that Daniel Pearl is Dead 2/14 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. Convicted Arms-for Hostage Figure Poindexter (Whose Sentence Was Overturned Based on a Technicality) is Now Heading Surveillance Agency Within the Pentagon. Will Oliver North be the Next Addition to the Bush Administration? Don't Laugh. 2/14 Convicted sex offender nearly wins GOP award 2/14 Support Independent News Sources! WAS THE GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY (GHP) GOVERNOR OF MONTANA INVOLVED IN AN ATTEMPTED COVER-UP OF A DRUNKEN DRIVING DEATH? 2/14 Say What? "A former CIA official will head a congressional investigation into U.S. intelligence agency failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks, despite some objections he was too close to the spy agency to have an independent eye" 2/14 As Usual, the House GOP Tries to Preserve Their Guiding Precept: "Government for the Rich, Even if Corrupt, and Government by the Rich, Even if Corrupt" 2/14 Votes on First Campaign Finance Reform Amendments 2/14 Only One Bill Means Reform, by John McCain 2/14 We Understand Mistakes, Not Cover-ups 2/14 NOTHING STOPS THE BUSH/ENRON ADVOCACY: Bush Administration Continues to Go to Bat to Recover Funds for Enron in India 2/14 MORE BULL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: PUBLICLY, BUSH SAYS HE SUPPORTS CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, WHILE HIS STAFF WORKS TO DEEP SIX IT 2/14 Watch Out for Those Mile-High Washroom Romps 2/14 BUZZFLASH READER EXPOSES REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY ON PLACING U.S. TROOPS UNDER FOREIGN COMMAND GOP Continues Push to Defeat Campaign Finance Overhaul 2/14 Do You Have Any Confidence in this Investigation by the Man "Kenny Boy" Lay Picked to Head FERC? 2/14 WHY IS THE WHITE HOUSE BLOCKING A FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN LAWSUIT? A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL Scary: Missouri Town Searched in Drug Raid 2/14 Senate Debates Election Overhaul: Would Allow Military Ballots Without Proper Postmarks. We Know What That Means. 2/14 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Iran Had Been Limping Along, in the Direction of Freedom, Until Bush Put Them on the Axis of Evil 2/14 Campaign Finance Debate Gets Boost From Enron Case 2/14 "Enron executive Sherron Watkins warned Chairman Kenneth Lay on Oct. 30 that "We need to come clean" and disclose the heavy financial losses from the company's complex web of partnerships." 2/14 Michigan Senate Passes Ban on New Oil and Gas Drilling Under the Great Lakes 2/14 "Rep. Steve LaTourette's (R-Ohio) frustration over the Bush administration's refusal to hand over documents about FBI malfeasance boiled down to a blunt message: "The conclusion reached by the Justice Department is crap." 2/14 FROM THE HOLD YOUR NOSE DEPARTMENT: Bush to Announce Global Warming Plan on Thursday 2/14 As US targets Iraq, key rebels balk 2/14 Bush and Lay, a Common Pattern of Stock Dumps? 2/14 REPOSTED: "A defense contractor once overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney will pay the government $2 million to settle allegations it defrauded the military, the U.S. attorney's office said." 2/14 U.S. Senate Passes Cockfighting Ban 2/14 The Bait-and-Switch Administration 2/14 Milosevic Scorns War Crimes Trial as 'Lynching' 2/14 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! Women Used As Sex Slaves for Taliban, al Qaeda 2/14 The Permanent War Campaign 2/14 U.S. military presence in Kyrgyzstan is worrying its Cold-War foes 2/14 Republican Party asks GOP candidate Riordan's wife to stop supporting Democrats 2/14 Stop Bush's Court Stacking 2/14 Bushed! 2/14 "I sincerely believe America has scraped the bottom of the barrel for male leadership talent with George Bush." 2/14 Sale of Aspen cottage fetches $10 million for Lay 2/14 Gallup Poll on Enron/Energy Scandal 2/14 Okay, Now We Have a TEDDY BEAR ALERT from the BUSH PERMANENT WAR PROPAGANDA-KEEP-THEM-FRIGHTENED-EVERY-MINUTE MACHINE. We are Not Making This Up. 2/14		The Republican Ten Commandments 2/14 FROM THE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS DEPARTMENT: Exteme Right Wing Austrian Leader and Saddam Hussein 2/14 " British-born chief suspect Sheikh Omar has confessed to kidnapping US journalist Daniel Pearl during intense interrogation, police sources said on Wednesday." Hmm, Wonder What They Mean by "Intense Interrogation"? 2/14 Al Qaeda Suspect Blows Himself Up in Yemen 2/14 Two Men Arrested Near Pentagon 2/14 America's Shooting Gallery: Teen Shoots Brother 2/14 Return of the 'military-industrial complex'? 2/14 Democrats Urge Bush to Have GOP Ads Pulled 2/14 Congressman Markey Questions Comcast's Web Tracking 2/14 What's in a Name? by Laura Flanders 2/14 John Walker Lindh Pleads Not Guilty 2/14 Retirement Rules Won't Affect Bush Administration Appointees 2/14 You Don't Care About Enron: In Bush's America, it just doesn't pay to give a damn about flagrant political corruption 2/14 Gunfire, Explosions Heard at U.S. Afghan Base 2/14 RIGHT WING HYPOCRISY: No Objections to U.S. Military Being Under Philippine Command. Under Clinton, the Right Wing Dogs Were Sceaming About U.S. Troops Being Under U.N. Command as a Betrayal of Sovereignty. (read down) 2/14 New VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden's 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program 2/14 Watch for the Timing of the Iraq Attack to Coincide with Revelations About the White House and Enron. Mark Our Words. 2/13 The Axis of No Access, by Maureen Dowd 2/13 Enron Flew Under the Radar 2/14 Calif. lawmakers seek contempt charge against Enron 2/13 The February 13th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia BIG BROTHER TO ARRIVE IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL: "Washington police are building what will be the nation's biggest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping areas, streets, monuments and other public places in the U.S. capital" 2/13 It's Amazing! Whenever an American Military Plane Crashes in Afghanistan, It's Never Due to Hostile Fire. We Need Some New Mechanics or Planes Then. Or Is It Just PR Spin to Dampen Any Criticism of the War Without End? 2/13 Bizarre Headline of the Day: "Hitler Secretary Recalls Dictator as a Pleasant Man" 2/13 Bush's War Rhetoric Sounds Hollow, by Joe Conason 2/13 October Strike on Taliban Hit Civilians, Survivors Say 2/13 The State of the Gun Industry 2/13 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" For Only $55! From the Curious Timing Department: FBI and Ashcroft Terrorist "Alert" Come on Same Day that "Kenny Boy" Lay Cops the Fifth and Questions About Afghanistan Bombing Failures and Treatment of Prisoners Reach a New Height. What a Coincidence! 2/13 Bush Administration Wastes Taxpayer Dollars on Medicinal Marijuana Busts in California. But Who is Watching the Bush Offspring? Just Asking. 2/13 "It is one thing to fight the enemy. It is quite another to fight like him." 2/13 "There's no better example than Kenny boy (of) cash-and-carry government," said Hollings 2/13 Funniest Headline of the Day: "Lay Drops Out of Think Tank" 2/13 Summary of Gore Foreign Policy Speech Delivered on Tuesday Night 2/13 Ken Lay Keeps His Trap Shut (Takes the Fifth) for Himself and for Bush and Cheney 2/13 FBI Makes Military Labs Key Focus in Hunt for Source of Anthrax 2/13 China Deepens Assault on Faith, Group Charges 2/13 John Ashcroft Warns Americans to Report Anything "Suspicious" to the Proper Authorities": Okay, BuzzFlash is Officially Reporting a Suspicious Relationship Between the Bush Administration and Enron. Now Investigate! 2/13 Campaign Finance Bill Sponsors Prepare for a Rush of Killer Amendments 2/13 Why is the Bush "Enforcer Squad" Targeting John Dean? 2/14 Media Prods Bush Adminsitration to Stop Conducting the "War on Terrorism" in Relative Secrecy 2/14 Pentagon and CIA making plans for war against Iraq this year 2/14 Pickering Hearing Focuses on Cross Burning Leniency Plea from Bush Nominee and Other Ethical Issues 2/13 Our Patriotic Fervor is Starting to Ring Hollow 2/13 Just Send the Entire Editorial Staff at the National Review to the Psycho Ward. Maybe They Can Get a Group Treatment Rate. 2/13 Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should recuse himself from any Enron investigations because of entanglements with the company 2/13		Bush and Andersen's Texas Two-Step 2/13 Kissinger, Nixon: Elder Bush 'Too Weak' for China 2/13 Dance the Samba with Barbara Bush! 2/13 Two Prominent Pataki Fundraisers Indicted for Grand Larceny and Insurance Fraud 2/13 Jeb's election-year memory losses 2/13 "Tyco International Ltd.'s chief executive officer, Dennis Kozlowski, is the hands-down winner of my ``pay for non-performance'' contest." 2/13 Bush Says He Wants to Cut Illegal Drug Use. Maybe He Should Start With His Own Family. 2/13 And You Thought the Reagan Hangover Was Bad 2/13 New Study Reveals Relationship of the NRA and the Right Wing 2/14 Did President Bush Pass Up an Attempt to Get Bin Laden Before 9-11? 2/13 Bush Appointments Include Fewer Women 2/13 Donald Rumsfeld: Matinee Idol or Prevaricator-in-Chief? 2/13 Report that "Kenny Boy" Lay Tried to Bully Tennessee Valley Authority 2/14 Nearly $1 million in checks written from the Kmart Corp. treasury helped fill the war chests of national political parties, mostly the GOP, since 1997 2/13 "TV evangelist D. James Kennedy has launched a campaign to raise $200,000 for the legal defense of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was sued for erecting a Ten Commandments monument last year" 2/13 REPOSTED: Thrift Savings Plan managers: White House thwarting $350M lawsuit 2/13 Does the White House have a blacklist? 2/13 REPOSTED: "JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL" 2/14 C-Span is Not Planning to Air Gore's Speech on Tuesday Night, But You Can See It on the Web at This Site 2/13 Community Voice or Captive of the Right? 2/13 Watching the Conservative Web 2/13 Ex-TVA director lobbied agency for Enron 2/13 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One: PART II 2/11 The February 8th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American. The BuzzFlash Mailbag Is On Vacation Until Valentine's Day. 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 SIMULTANEOUS TO ENRON DICTATING WHITE HOUSE ENERGY POLICY, ENRON LOBBYIST, TIED TO THE WHITE HOUSE, PLOTTED AGAINST DEMOCRATS 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) 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 "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: Bush worries about the fetus, ignores the child, from the University of Texas Daily Texan 2/12 THE LIGHTER SIDE: A Valentine's Day Message from the Great Pretender 2/14 Valentine's Day Special: Laura Bush Gets Risque, Says Size Does Matter 2/14 The Real Axle of Evel 2/13 Olympic Torch Lit By Massive Fire Bomb as Warning to Evildoers 2/14 The Top Ten Conservative Idiots for the Week 2/11 This Modern World 2/12 Nothing But the Spin for Bob Woodward 2/13 PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES AGGRESSIVE PLAN FOR PRIVATIZATION OF OLYMPIC GAMES 2/13 Bush Earmarks 1.5 Million Gold Stars for Education 2/12 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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