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Ashcroft Made Counter-Terrorism a Low Priority Prior to 9/11 2/28 MUST READ: Why Can't the Democrats Get Tough? 2/28 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" as a "Twofer"! 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. "Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, grilled top defense officials at a budget hearing about the lack of an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, their failure to capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and ...." 2/28 "The FBI is investigating the possibility that a power outage on the last day of the Winter Olympics was caused by a bomb" 2/28 Support Independent News Sources! Bush Sells Access -- and a Possible Washington Post Whitewash 2/28 Raising Money for Dole, Bush Once Again Jokes Around About Hitting the "Trifecta" of War, National Emergency and Recession. And the Grand Hypocrisy Party Fatcats Roared With Laughter. (Read down) 2/28 Press Falls for Lie About Clinton, Enron - Joe Conason 2/28 "Rules limiting media ownership are rapidly disappearing. If they are allowed to vanish, the nation's news landscape will change dramatically — and not for the better" 2/28 Next Stop, Yemen! 2/28 British Petroleum Claims It Won't Give Anymore Political Donations. Hmmm. 2/28 UNBELIEVABLE! Bush Incoporated Spurns Clinton/Gore Hi-Tech Programs 2/28 The February 27th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Oil Executives Lobbied on Drilling: Two Went to Cheney Task Force to Push for Gulf of Mexico Sale 2/27 "The drive to overhaul the nation's election system stalled in the Senate ... after Republicans failed to derail a Democratic-supported amendment" 2/28 Enron Still Shielding Tax Records 2/27 Is Dan Burton for Real? "The chairman of a House committee said Wednesday he may try to hold President Bush in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department records" 2/28 MISTAKES WERE MADE 2/28 Bizarre Letter from Elder Bush to Residents of Marin County 2/28 Doomsday Clock to Be Changed: First Time in Four Years As a Result of Sept. 11 2/28 What Happened on February 27, 1991? 2/28 At the Heart of the Bush Administration's "Great Game" 2/28 The White House is resisting calls by Senate Democrats for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to testify before the Appropriations Committee about anti-terrorism spending. 2/28 Beyond Banning Soft Money: The campaign finance reform legislation moving through Congress is a major step toward getting money out of politics -- but only the first that needs to be taken. 2/28 Ban on Junk Guns Reduced Fatalities in Maryland, According to Study 2/28 MUST READ: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: WHY DID BUSH SIT NEXT TO SASHA COHEN AT THE OLYMPICS? Just Ask "Where's the Beef"? The February 27th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Another Bush Incorporated Step Toward a Secretive Government 2/28 SCALIA SAVES ANOTHER ONE FOR THE GOP: WHY DON'T THEY JUST APPOINT HIM THE FIRST SITTING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO HEAD THE RNC? The Two-Faced Friend of American Workers is Living in the White House 2/27 Second Female Suicide Bomber Attack in Israel 2/28 "The House of Representatives ... passed a bill that would change the way Americans access the Internet" 2/28 U.S. Analysts Find No Sign bin Laden Had Nuclear Arms 2/27 Dick Armey Can't Help Himself. He Just Has This Need to Keep "Stimulating" Wealthy People. Different Strokes for Different Folks. 2/28 "Dole quit the presidential campaign in October 1999, complaining that 'the message is money and that's too bad, because that really diminished the process.' She was one of several Republicans unable to compete financially against Bush . . ." 2/28 Scientists Determine T-Rex Was Slow Moving 2/28 Wisconsin Republican Governor is Just Another Son of a Bush, To Paraphase Governor McCallum 2/28 Chris Dodd Calls for Investigation of Funeral Industry 2/28 Bartcop Needs Your Help to Help Out Julie Steele, a Victim of the Right Wing Clinton Entrapment Squad 2/28 U.S. to Weigh Computer Chip Implant 2/28 Ex-Enron chief made $66 million: Skilling says he'll use stock profits for defense. So? Are We Supposed to Feel Bad For Him? 2/28 Senate Faces Showdown Vote on Election Reform 2/28 How Michael Powell helped resurrect Ma Bell. 2/28	When Things Turn Weird, The Weird Turn Pro: Propaganda, The Pentagon And The Rendon Group 2/28 "[T]he pull of political gravity cannot long be defied. There are clouds scattered across GWB's fine view that are gathering into a storm." 2/28 Clueless in the Nation's Capital 2/28 The Freepers Are Doing Their Nasty Best to Snuff Aaron Sorkin. Check Mailbag for Email Address to NBC to Support Sorkin and Free Speech. 2/28 At Enron, Lavish Excess Often Came Before Success 2/28 "The creditors committee in Enron's bankruptcy case filed an objection Tuesday to company executives' efforts to access $30 million in liability insurance to pay mounting legal bills." 2/28 "For a man with a reputation as quick on his feet, it struck several senators as odd, indeed incomprehensible, that Skilling, with his Harvard MBA and savvy business background, never caught a whiff that something was rotten at Enron." 2/28 Too Much, Too Late: Sympathy for Reporters Follows the Death of Danny Pearl 2/28 The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot 2/28 Scalia: Stuck In the Past 2/28 Flaming Death No Accident, FBI Says 2/28 Labs Are Sent Subpoenas for Samples of Anthrax 2/28 Recent Media Decision Imperils Democracy by Representative Bernard Sanders, I-VT 2/28 Unbelievable Hypocrisy and Irresponsibility with OUR Money. Bush Uses Politics to Say That Congress is Using Politics With the Debt Limit. 2/28 Hard Questions for Nominee to Rights Post 2/28 America's Almost Shooting Gallery: Deputies draw guns on teen babysitter 2/28 No Sweat For Skilling 2/28 Paper Says Enron May Owe More in Pensions 2/28 Astros to Buy Enron Ballpark Name 2/28 "Ashcroft was so publicly compromised by the mere $50,000 he got from the robber barons at Enron that he recused himself from the Bush regime's "investigation" of its chief patron. But no such scruples trouble him when it comes to guns." 2/28 Superfund’s kryptonite: lobbyists. When big business screws up, you pay the tab. - Molly Ivins 2/28 SMASH HIT OF THE INTERNET: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Steps up to the Plate with a Prayer for America 2/26 "Thomas White, the former Enron vice chairman appointed by George W. Bush to be Secretary of the Army, should resign immediately." 2/27 Democrat Stopped Bush from Aiding Enron When He Was Governor of Texas 2/27 Raiding the People's Money: How the House Energy Bill (H.R. 4) Subsidizes Energy Industry (PDF doc) 2/27 Highly Recommended: A Washington Post Open Forum with David Brock 2/27 U.S. Already "Infiltrating" Iraq 2/27 THE GREAT FLORIDA EX-CON GAME: How the “felon” voter-purge was itself felonious, by Greg Palast. BuzzFlash Will Soon be Offering Greg's Book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" 2/27 DID AUTHOR OF GRANDSTANDING "AXIS OF EVIL" REMARK GET AXED? DO FISH SWIM IN THE WATER? 2/27 U.S. corporate parasites flee offshore, by Mark Shields 2/27 How Enron Did Texas 2/27 "Civil rights and education groups are opposing President Bush's nominee to head the Education Department's civil rights office, protesting his stances on affirmative action and other issues." 2/27 Watkins Criticizes Lay for the First Time 2/27 "Congress must call on the Bush administration to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Enron and restore public trust." 2/27 Enron's Skilling: I Didn't Lie. The Man Has a Future at that New Pentagon Disinformation Department. 2/27 "Opponents called Bush's proposal "welfare in wonderland," saying it was"truly bizarre" to expect them to find work in the middle of an economic recession." 2/27 U.S. Approaches bin Laden Family for DNA Samples. They Say They Killed a Tall, Robed Arab Who Other People Were Treating "With Deference." Yep, There's Only One Person Like That. Could They Be a Little More Vague? 2/27 "[Explanations of U.S.-caused deaths in Afghanistan] seem, if not deliberately false, then driven by an arrogant refusal to own up to truth when it happens to be embarrassing." 2/27 Sharon May Meet with Saudis About Peace Plan 2/27 Is the Soviet Republic of Georgia the Next "War on Terrorism" Battleground? 2/27 Journalist Daniel Pearl Was Killed for Being a Jew 2/27 The Other Enron Whistle Blower 2/27 Questions for Judge Smith. More Bush Nominees With Questionable Backgrounds. 2/27 Pentagon: No Tribunal Candidates. 2/27 America's Shooting Gallery: Gunfire kills Detroit girl, injures 4 2/27 Report: Agents left Cheney's itinerary in SLC souvenir shop. 2/27	Pentagon Shuts 'Disinformation' Unit. Sure They Do. And If You Believe That, I've Got a Bridge . . . 2/27 It Would Help if the Right Wing Media Learned How to Tell the Truth 2/27 Bill Moyers on Money and Politics 2/27 Russia Concerned About U.S. "Advisers" in the Former Soviet Republic of Georgia 2/27 Bush Plays Loose and Fast With ANWR Numbers. Disgusting. 2/27 The Enron-ergy Bill Hits the Senate 2/27 Falwell, Again, Firmly Plants Foot Into Mouth on Crossfire 2/27 "What [Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy is] NOT saying is that the War on Drugs CAUSES the very problem their ads complain about." Libertarian Party Puts Full Page Ad in Wash. Times and USA Today, Says War on Drugs Funds Terrorists. 2/27 U.S.: Bin Laden's whereabouts remain mystery. So Does All That Bellicose Grandstanding By The Cowbuy Wanna-be in the White House. "Dead or Alive," HAH! More Like "We Think He's Somewhere or Not! Hey, Look At This Terrorist Alert!" 2/27 Nonfamily Households Dominate Suburbs. 2/27 Senators May Not Delay Campaign Bill 2/27 State Department gains access to FBI crime database 2/27 Debate rages in Colorado Senate over patriotism bill. GOP Trying to Force Students to Study Patriotism. Sounds Like "Re-Education" Camp. 2/27 "That the Bush admin would cooperate so freely in the GAO investigation of such matters as pizza temp. in the Clinton WH stands in stark contrast to the admin's stand against another GAO investigation, this one involving Cheney's energy task fprce." 2/27 Ex-Enron executives helped Bush shape failed Texas tax plan 2/27 Ridge a Must-See Man for Lobbyists. And He's Still Hanging On To His Stock (see related story). Coincidence? Just Asking. 2/27 Superfund Gets the Super Shaft 2/27 The Lay-in-the-Lincoln-Bedroom lie helps instruct us in where spin comes from. 2/27 Cleaning Up in Bush's Wake. Bush's Comments In Korea "have further distanced prospects of renewed cooperation by Pyongyang." Remember, He's A "Uniter, Not Divider." Or Was That a "Divider, Yep Divider"? 2/27 What's God Got to Do With It? "What hooey! The Justice Department is a creation of men to enforce laws written by ordinary mortals . . . and, most important, to follow the precepts of the U.S. Constitution." 2/27 Ridge Holds Stock in 19 Companies. More Ethical Issues for Bush & Company. 2/27 Blunders that let bin Laden slip away 2/27 Bush's Energy Plan: Let's Drill 2/27 Press keeps hands off Texas' image 2/27 Ari Fleischer salutes a mendacious former national security adviser 2/26 Michael Moore Chats with Readers of the Washington Post 2/26 TOM DELAY'S INNER CIRCLE MADE BUCKETS OF CASH OFF OF ENRON: DELAY INITIATED THE DEAL A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: WHY IS BUSH IN A RUSH TO HAVE HIS FEDERALIST SOCIETY CLONE JUDGES CONFIRMED? Media Watch Special Report: The Daily Show with Guest Michael Moore 2/22 ANTHRAX EXPERT STANDS BY HER CLAIM: IT WAS AN "INSIDE" JOB, MEANING AN ARMY OR CIA RESEARCHER BuzzFlash Interview with Douglas Kellner, Author of "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election." THE CAMPUS VOICE: The Right Wing "Think Tank" Infiltration of College Campuses 2/28 THE LIGHTER SIDE: This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 2/25 These are Ironic Times 2/25 BUZZFLASH READER SATIRE: Because They're Not Like Us 2/27 Cloning of a President by Ted Rall 2/27 Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 2/25 Tom Tomorrow Vs. Ann Coulter 2/27 Dubya's Dayly Diary 2/28 What Me Worry 2/28 The Real Axis of Evil 2/25 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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