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Enough is Enough. About How He Made Out Like a Bandit at Harken Oil, Bush Says, "I still haven't figured it out completely." There is Not a Shred of Dignity or Honesty Left in the White House. 7/9 BuzzFlash is Free to Everyone. But We Need Your Support Now to Keep It That Way. When It Comes to Practitioners of Phony Bookkeeping and Insider Trading, the Bush Administration is Rotten from the Top Down 7/9 BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR BOY GEORGE: DIVERT WITH FEAR AND DENY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY NO INSIDER TRADING AT BUZZFLASH, JUST THE HONEST TRUTH -- WHICH MEANS WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW. Bush and Harken Energy: The Dog Ate My Homework? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/8 Special: Get a Copy of "The Hunting of the President" Signed by Co-Author Gene Lyons with a Contribution (not tax-deductible) of $60 or More to BuzzFlash. Only 10 Gene Lyons' Autographed Copies Available! A Business Man Named George W. Bush, By Paul Krugman 7/9 "the Washington Post raised eyebrows by revealing Bush's former personal attorney was the SEC general counsel at the time the commission cleared him of wrongdoing in the stock sale" 7/9 Cokie is WRONG: Bush Was Never "Cleared" by SEC - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/8 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Did Bush Just Say, "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with those Shares of Stock"? 7/9 When Bush was on the Harken Energy Board of Directors and on the company's Audit Committee, the company cooked the books by using a phony transaction similar to Enron's Raptor scheme to conceal losses from investors. 7/9 HELDOVER FROM THE JULY 4th WEEKEND: THE BUSH/CHENEY FINANCIAL SCANDALS REPOSTED: Beyond the Corporate Malfeasance of Bush and Cheney, There's the Completely Irresponsible Appointment of Thomas "Enron" White as Our Secretary of the Army. Just Run the War on Terror the Enron Way. We are Betrayed. 7/9 NAACP Rates Election Reform 7/9 "We have to clean out the misguided conservative politicians who helped create the conditions in which the corrupt could thrive." 7/9 Is the Harken Oil Scandal Dead in the Water? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/9 Lie Father, Lie Son: With the Bushes, Lying is a Family Tradition, a BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/9 "US soldiers stormed the homes of Afghan villagers after they were bombed in a US air-raid last weekend and barred people from treating their wounded relatives, outraged Afghans said here." 7/9 Halliburton, Here We Come. Of Course, the Setup is Pitt Clears Cheney, Just As Poppy Bush's SEC Chairman Buddy and Junior's Personal Lawyer (SEC General Counsel) Did Not Indict Boy George When Poppy Was Prez. It's the Bush Way! 7/9 Washington, D.C., Registers Domestic Partners for the First Time 7/9 Buy "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" And Help Out Buzzflash.com Greg Palast, Media Hero. Give the Man a Round of Applause! 7/9 When In Doubt, Stamp Your Feet and Yell, "I'm Going to Take Care of Saddam Because My Daddy Told Me Too" 7/9 Republicans Won't Ask the Question. Most Democrats Won't Ask the Question. But Forbes Will: "Where are the Indictments"? 7/9 WorldCom Execs, Ex-Auditors Clash 7/9 MUST READ: A 1992 Mother Jones Article on the Highly Questionable Business Practices of the Busy Family 7/7 Bigotry in Islam — And Here 7/9 Text of Dim Son's Monday "I'm Not a Crook" News Conference 7/9 Paul Krugman in the Guardian 7/9 A Brit Journalist Gets Slimed by the Right 7/9 Pious Pledgers All 7/9 HELD OVER: A BuzzFlash Interview With David Brock, Author Of "Blinded By The Right," On The Role Of The Judiciary In The Right-Wing Agenda The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers , A BuzzFlash Premium Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Law 7/9 Anthrax Suspect Worked with Right Wing South African Party 7/9 KEEP YOUR EYES ON HARKEN OIL, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8 Company Man: Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Carlyle Group 7/9 Senators reject Enron excuses 7/9 McCain Joins in Call for Pitt's Resignation 7/9 A TRUE AMERICAN HERO WAS REMEMBERED BY A TRUE AMERICAN ZERO, A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 7/8 Justice Antonin Scalia Should be Impeached for Twisting the Constitution Into the Image of a Man Who Believes in a Theocracy. He's America's Rasputin Supreme Court Judge. 7/8 Peres and Palestinian Minister Meet for First Time in Ages 7/9 The message is that "everyone is accountable," he said. Everyone in America but Boy George, the Dim Son. 7/9 It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son." The Original Expose on George W. that the Bush Family Had Temporarily Banned Before the Election. 7/8 Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question Right Wing Media Guru Brent Bozell Gets Taken to the Cleaners by World Wrestling Entertainment. Bozell Will Fork Up $3.5 Million (of his right wing contributors?) Money and Apologize. 7/9 John Ashcroft, "J'Accuse" But We Have No Emile Zola's in America, Just Rich Journalists Happy that the Frat Boy is Giving Them Upper Income Tax Breaks. 7/9 The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! The July 8th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock REPOSTED MUST READ: Bush's Insider Trading Revealed. Hat's Off to the Center for Public Integrity Who Broke This Story in 2000! (BuzzFlash Linked to it then.) It Only Took the Mainstream Media Two Years to Catch Up. BUZZ INTO SUMMER! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Make a Buzz at the Beach! TIME TO EXHUME THE BODY? SEC Harken Investigation Under Fire 7/9 Defence failure keeps US in firing line 7/9 Merck Revenues Doubted 7/9		The Christian Right Flexes Its Muscle at the Texas Republican Convention 7/9 US fails to tackle Bermuda loophole 7/9 From the Archives: Crony Capitalism (The Carlyle Group) Goes Global 7/9 Pennies an Hour, and No Way Up: The Conditions of Sweatshop Workers 7/9 Mirror's Bush attack angers US shareholder 7/9 NAACP chairman again assails Bush administration 7/9 The Pol and The Pendulum: How A Republican Used His Personal Connections to Influence Newspaper Coverage and The Editor Who Quit Over The Matter 7/9 After the Bombing, Unspeakable Horror 7/8 Daschle Calls for Release of Bush's SEC File 7/8 A Laugh Riot: A Kinder, Gentler Bob "Bonehead" Barr 7/8 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Joe Conason on the Shady Financial History of One George W. Bush 7/8 Many African-Americans view GOP as enemy 7/9 DASCHLE SAYS HARVEY PITT IS THE PITS: BUSH DEFENDS HIS PITT MAN "FOR DOING A GREAT JOB" BOY GEORGE AND DICK CHENEY SHARE CORPORATE CORRUPTION STORIES TO CHEER EACH OTHER UP If the Democrats Let Bush Get Away With This Crock of B.S., It Will be Political Malfeasance, With No Excuses Allowed for the Dems. If CEO's Should Go to Jail for Corporate Hanky Panky, Put the Cuffs on George and Dick Right Now. 7/8 Man Shoots Girlfriend, Then Keeps Her in His Garage for Six Days Without Medical Care (read down) 7/8 Tom Ridge tipped to be Cheney's successor 7/9 Al Qaeda Figure Hidden by U.K. Intelligence-Report 7/9 U.S. Plans New Philippines Exercises 7/9 Young HIV Carriers Unaware of Virus 7/9 Yucca Mountain protesters rally 7/9 Bush's Appointments Mostly Retreads 7/9 ACLU asks California to monitor FBI spying 7/9 The Anthrax Attacks: Questions Nobody Wants To Ask 7/9 A Pledge to Establish Religion 7/9 Offshore firms like Tyco free of SEC order-WSJ. Is This How Harvey Pitt Gets Tough? They Should Throw Harvey Pitt in Jail. 7/9 A Black Republican Wises Up and Opts Out 7/9 Judge's Ruling Indicates Part of PATRIOT Act Is Unconstitutional 7/9 The Ugly Lie About Vouchers 7/9 TV Ads Question Bush/Cheney on Corp. Responsibilty 7/9 REPOSTED MUST READ: Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says. A Buzz Flashback The Role Of The Board Of Directors In Enron's Collapse, Prepared By The Permanent Submcommittee On Investigations Of The Committee On Governmental Affairs United States Senate 7/9 Professor miffed at Texas textbook decision 7/9 Was anthrax to blame for mail deaths? 7/9 A Tsunami of Scandal 7/8 Do as President Bush says, not as he did 7/8 A Rebellion of True Patriots May Be Brewing 7/8 WHY ALL HARD-WORKING AMERICANS HAVE BEEN BETRAYED BY GEORGE W. BUSH: THE TRUTH ABOUT HARKEN OIL From Canada: Dubya losing the benefit of the doubt 7/8 Hold the Candy: Scanners can mistake chocolate for bombs 7/8 Oh Sure, Harvey Pitt's Going to Get Tough on Dick Cheney's Halliburton Enron-Style Management. Yeah, Right. How do You Spell Whitewash? 7/7 "When polluters are allowed to run amok by a permissive administration, the environment and the American people wind up paying the price." Why I Quit the EPA. 7/8 No Wedding and Too Many Funerals 7/8 Any Veteran in Georgia Who Votes for Saxby Chambliss in Georgia is UnAmerican and Should Ask For Forgiveness Before God 7/8 Report: Powell Says "Bastards Won't Drive Me Out" 7/7 "An advertising agency criticized for overcharging the government for ineffective anti-drug ads has won a $152 million contract to run the ad program for at least another year." 7/7 What's at Stake 7/7 Wendy Gramm Knew What Was Going on at Enron Because She Sat on the Board of Directors 7/8 President Bush picks judges based on ideology--so why shouldn't senators reject them for it? 7/7 ''How to be a right wing pundit in 12 easy lessons'' 7/8 The fifth annual Muzzle Awards 7/8 Halliburton’s Home Court Gives Workers the Shaft 7/7 Bush Administration Supports Afghan Pipeline. Isn't That What We're Fighting For? 7/7 FROM THE 2000 ARCHIVES: Why The Media Silence On Bush’s Shaky Business Ethics? 7/6 From the Archives: Bush's No Good Trade 7/7 Changing the Subject, by Mary McGrory 7/7 Redefining Patriotism 7/7		Has Bush Ever Accepted Personal Responsibility for Anything? 7/6 "The Democrats have been intimidated by Mr.Bush's high approval ratings, but if they are unable to place these recent corporate scandals on the Republicans' doorstep this fall, then they deserve to be relegated to a permanent minority party status." 7/7 Something is Definitely Rotten in the White House 7/7 Despite assertions they knew little, Enron directors ignored repeated warnings about problems, Senate report says 7/7 Sleepwalking past the corporate crime wave 7/6 Bush and Cheney face scrutiny in financial scandals 7/7 Guess Who Was Auditor for Harken Oil? Andersen, Of Course. (Read Down) 7/6 If You're a Corporate Pirate, You Get to Keep the Booty 7/6 Accepting the Unacceptable: Our Anthrax Terrorist Maybe a Rogue Agent of the Bush Government Bioterror Program. Anyone Have Another Explanation? 7/6 Harken Energy - Bush’s No Good Trade FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush's Good Fortune, by Joe Conason 7/6 Bush Denounces Judicial Activism, Except When It's Done on Behalf of the Right Wing 7/6 Becoming a Christian Nation Under God and the Bush Regime 7/6 The Justice Department Should Start Investigating the Officials in the Bush Regime, as in Enron/Harken/Halliburton/Etc. 7/6 Bush's Grand Hypocrisy Party Politics Are Expensive for the Taxpayer 7/5 HELD OVER: INDEPENDENCE! Scalia's Death Penalty Lunacy: The Man's on Some Sort of Apocalyptic Evangelical LSD 7/6 Real patriots must act or symbolic gestures will be irrelevant 7/6 Ignorance isn't bliss for clueless executives: The know-nothing defense has been getting a workout 7/6 Institute for Policy Studies uncovers $7 billion in public assistance for Enron's global operations 7/9 BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison -- "July 4th" Laugh of the year from the Right Wing NewsMax Archives: Bush Urges High Ethical Standards 7/5 Everyone is Outraged in the Bush Administration, by Paul Krugman 7/2 Running the Country Like a Business, By Gene Lyons 7/5 Bush: When Attacked, Blame the Hired Help 7/5 Bush Does Not Measure Up to His Own Administration's "Standards" for Business Conduct 7/5 BUSH CHANGES STORY ON HIS ENRON/WORLDCOM-LIKE CORPORATE CAREER AT HARKEN. HIS DADDY'S FRIEND SAVED HIM FROM TROUBLE ONCE AGAIN. HOW COULD ANY SELF-RESPECTING WORKING PERSON VOTE FOR THIS WEALTHY BRAT/FRAT BOY WHO ALWAYS BLAMES "IT" ON THE SERVANTS? As Texas Oil Man, Bush's Business Practices Resembled Those of the Companies He Now Criticizes 7/4 UNSAVORY IN TEXAS More B.S. from the White House About Bush's Enron/WorldCom/Harken Oil Business Practices, in Which Ari Contradicts His Own Boss. 7/4 Bush's Business Practices Examined 7/4 Bush Snappishly Tells Nation, More or Less, I am Not a Crook. That's Because the SEC, Under His Daddy, Let Him Beat the Rap. As Usual for George, Daddy Pulled His Butt Out of the Frying Pan. 7/3 Crooks in the White House 7/5 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S ENRONS, BY FRANK RICH Remember When Bush Claimed, With a Straight Face, That He Didn't Know Ken Lay Well. Well, He's Lying Again. 7/3 Bush Wants the Hired Enron Help to Take the Heat 7/5 LIBERTY!, By Rebecca Knight. Reposted for the Fourth of July. 7/4 REPOSTED: Bush Did Try and Save Enron 7/4 A BuzzFlash Interview With Greg Palast-- Cruella's Letter, Venezuela, and Dan Rather The July 3rd BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american The Angry Liberal - Leave our Pledge of Allegiance Alone! 7/3 The Angry Liberal - School Vouchers: Can't We Just Teach School Stuff at School? 7/1 "One-Track Minds" - P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 7/1 Monkeys With Potatoes, Afoot In The Land... -- A Media Watch Special Report 7/1 Press Conference: UnansweredQuestions.Org - A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 7/2 "From Sublime To Ridiculous" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight 6/28 THE LIGHTER SIDE: What About that Plan to Invade Iraq? 7/6 These Are Ironic Times 7/9 It's Arthur Andersen Night at the Ball Park 7/9 US and THEM 7/6 The Evil GOP 7/7 Minority Report 2 7/8 Enron Eyes Wide Shut 7/8 Curious George W. 7/8

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