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Become a Stalinist-Style Spy for the Bush Administration. We are Not Making This Up. Here is the Volunteer Form. Report Suspicious Democrats in Your Neigborhood. Rat on Green Party Members. Volunteers Needed. Scary and For Real. 7/17 "The substance of his Administration's domestic policy, as opposed to its rhetoric, has been to use the power of government to augment the wealth of the already wealthy, regardless of the country's circumstances," from the New Yorker 7/17 IF YOU VALUE BUZZFLASH, BUY A BOOK NOW! WE DEPEND ON YOU! WE HAVE NO RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE, THANK GOD. Order Your Copy of "Forbidden Truth" Today -- Available as BuzzFlash Premium! Shipped by July 24th. First Edition in English is Hot Off the Press. We Pay First Class Postage. Fundraising Letters in Florida Say State GOP Can be Bought. Imagine That! 7/17 Only 15 Greg Palast Autographed Copies of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." First Come, First Served. (Minimum Support of $60) 7/17 Nothing Stops Their Shamelessness: Bush Rallies Behind Judicial Nominee with Enron Ties 7/17 Amid Broad Distrust of Corporations, Most Say Bush's Efforts Fall Short 7/17 Cheney's Grimy Trail in Business: His career offers a textbook example of shady doings. 7/17 Living Behind the Bush Iron Curtain 7/17 REPOSTED: US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies 7/17 SEC Investigator of Bush Now Defends Enron's Jeff Skilling. It's a Whole Secret Society of Corruption. Where's the RICO Act When You Need It? 7/17 "No Moral Authority" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight 7/16 REPOSTED: Mike Magnum, Proprietor of Gunguys.com gun shop and liquor emporium 7/17 FCC OKs Sharing of Phone Company "personal customer data" Without Your Consent. Michael Powell is Despicable. 7/17 Democrats lose by not putting foreign policy in play. Yes, Yes! 7/17 What's Larry Klayman Up To, Anyway? 7/17 BUZZ INTO SUMMER! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Make a Buzz at the Beach! Mom Kills Self and Kids in Texas in Triple-Murder Suicide 7/17 Why won't Bush let the SEC release the Harken file? By Joe Conason 7/17 Military jets escort plane after passengers seen passing notes 7/17 "The Sad and Sordid Whereabouts of bin Cheney and bin Bush" -- A Free Online Chapter addition to "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore 7/17 Will European Banks Turn Away Saudi Family Cash? 7/17 The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers , A BuzzFlash Premium Stalinist Power Grab Alert: Bush Is to Propose Broad New Powers in Domestic Security. 7/17 Man Who Videotaped L.A. Police Brutality Pleads Innocent to Other Charges 7/17 Who Would Have Thought George W. Bush and Nikita Krushchev Would Have a Corps of Neighborhood Spies in Common? 7/17 The Bush Scorecard of Evil 7/17 House Passes Fraud Penalties Bill 7/17 A TALE OF GUNS, BOOKS, TERRORISTS AND THE NRA The White House is Betting that Mainstreet America is Not Hearing About The Bush/Cheney Legacy of Corporate Greed, and They're Probably Right. Of Course, the Democrats Aren't Drawing Much Attention to the Issue, Alas. 7/17 Ex-Officer Convicted in Louima Trial 7/17 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question Can Greenspan Rescue a Shrub? 7/17 The July 16th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american Seven Killed in West Bank Ambush 7/17 Official Inquiry Ordered for All Visa-Issuing Foreign Posts 7/17 The George W. Bush Bob-and-Weave, A BuzzFlash Editorial IRA Apologizes to Families of 'Civilian Casualties' 7/17 Steps to Wealth For Boy George, By Paul Krugman 7/17 Did You Know That There is a Wall Street "Plunge Protection" Team? 7/17 Faith-based capitalism's plunge into the market abyss 7/17 Greg Palast's Book Tour is Coming to D.C. and Baltimore 7/17 Pakistan and the Triangle of Terror 7/17 WTO Protestors Appear Prophetic 7/17 Bush Continues to Extend Big Brother Into Soviet Style Watch Over Citizens 7/16 Pakistani Army on Collision Course with Musharraf? 7/17	U.S. sailors held in Vancouver gay-bashing 7/17 Teens More Likely to be Crime Victims 7/17 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Protests in Paraguay Turn Ugly 7/17 Jeb, Florida's high court and terrorism: Grandson of Batista and lawyer of 1976 Cubana Airline bombing suspect 7/17 HIV-Positive TV Muppet A Target For Republican Lawmakers Who Obviously Have Nothing Better To Do With Their Time. Tauzin, Barton, Burr, Pickering, Stearns and Upton Send Letter to PBS Over New Character on South Africa's "Sesame Street". 7/17 The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller Industry Tackles Packaging of Nuclear Waste for Yucca 7/17 White House Approves Navy Sonar that Harms Whales 7/17 The Evidence Keeps Coming On How Jeb Bush And Republicans Put State Government Up For Sale 7/17 Private Groups in Pittsburgh Halt Millions in School Aid 7/17 From the Archives: Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile 7/17 Bush Refuses To Release United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) Report 7/17 Energy-efficient schools grasp green incentive 7/17 House Passes Fraud Penalties Bill 7/17 Bin Laden Alive and Healthy Despite Shrapnel Wound, Newspaper Editor Says 7/17 Turmoil reportedly besets joint inquiry into attacks 7/17 Production Up at U.S. Weapons Makers, Including "one ammunition factory [that is up] to its highest level in 15 years." Go George! We Bet Poppy is LOVING You For All The Cash He's Making. 7/17 Railroading the public: More crony capitalism at work in Bush’s Amtrak plan 7/17 Bush Family-Planning Policy Criticized 7/17 Citizenship Applications Up Since 9/11 7/17 The watchdog didn't bark: Why didn't the media question Bush's shady stock dealings before he became president? 7/17 Government Agrees to Fund Purchase of Protective Gear for Residents Living Near Army Incinerator 7/17 Poll suggests concern about economy chipping away at Bush's support 7/17 Nat. Review protests journalist detention 7/17 Imam at German Mosque Preached Hate to 9/11 Pilots 7/17 From the Archives: Governor denies using Texas' business to benefit his partners (1988) 7/17 Cartooning Terror 7/17 Bush Family-Planning Policy Criticized 7/17 It's the Real Thing: "Coke announced this week that it would start counting against its yearly earnings the options it grants employees." 7/17 Tainted Army Boss May Fall On Sword. Thomas "Enron" White MUST Go. 7/17 "Vice President Dick Cheney may or may not be shaking in his boots at the thought of 10 years at some Club Fed" 7/16 DO YOU WANT TO KEEP ON GETTING BUZZFLASHED EVERYDAY? SUPPORT US NOW AND GET A GIFT. Bush Spoke About Something He Knows About -- Hangovers -- And the Market Dropped 400 Points, Only to Recover Somewhat After Bush Finished His Laughable Remarks 7/16 Harken Oil, James Baker, the bin Ladens, the Carlyle Group and Boy George 7/16 Pentagon Changes Story on Afghan Wedding Bombing -- and Then Changes It Back 7/16 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. Disillusioned investor class may turn away from GOP 7/16 "For the second time in as many weeks, President Bush offered reassuring words today about the nation's economy. And for the second time, investors drove stock prices steeply down just after his address" 7/16 "The president is trusted by the American people and is liked by the American people, and the press is bored by that story," Says Ari 7/16 "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is pushing a series of sweeping proposals that would weaken congressional oversight of the Pentagon and give the military more freedom to manage itself than ever before." 7/16 Mr. Bush's Empty Rhetoric 7/16 Update on Bush's Plan to Allow More Dirty Air 7/16 War on Terror Scorecard - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/12 Bush and Cheney: Two Role Models for Corporate Corruption. Ah, But that So Eminently Qualifies Them to Lead the Grand Hypocrisy Party! 7/16 Bush Job Performance Approval Drops 7% According to Latest Zogby Poll 7/16 Bush Says Economy is "Suffering From Hangover." The kind you get after eating pretzels and beer and passing out? Just asking. 7/16 New Harken Revelation: Bush Signed Stock "Lockup" Letter	Bush Enriched Himself And His Texas Ranger Cronies By Seizing Private Property "Monkeyshine, Monkey Do" - P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 7/15 "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock "I Plead 'Justifiable Paranoia,' Your Honor" - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/16 The July 15th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Uh, Excuse Us, But Where is Dick? 7/16 REPOSTED: Bush Administration "Operation Big Brother" About to Begin. It's Kind of a Soviet-Era Citizen Spy System. No Kidding, The Bush People Learned a Lot from Stalin. 7/17 Bush Shatters Fund-Raising Record 7/16 America's Most Wanted Guns: Gun Manufacturers Make a Killing off of Crime 7/16 The Rap on Bush and Cheney 7/16 Bush Brothers Practice Capitalism for the Rich 7/16 'My friends are crooks. The companies they run look corrupt. The regulators I appoint are too soft. My colleagues in government face lawsuits for fraud...." 7/15 Bush’s Rangers Deal Violated President’s Corporate Responsibility Rules Of Ethics, Integrity, Personal Responsibility, Transparency, And Public Trust - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 7/12 The Power to Imprison 7/16 REPOSTED: What Fertilized the Bushes? 7/16 "If the United States ever begins a serious effort to curtail greenhouse gases, much of the credit should go to the California legislators who this month approved a bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions from cars sold in that state." 7/16 That Watchdoggie in the Window, by Molly Ivins 7/16 "President Bush is poised to reject the advice of his own fact-finding team and cut off millions of dollars to a United Nations family planning program" 7/16 Time Magazine: Is Florida Bad for Kids? 7/16 "The state atty. gen.'s office has charged the former head of Pennsylvania's D.A.R.E. program with stealing more than $80,000 from the anti-drug program and using his position to obtain free booze, food and rooms worth $32,000 from an area hotel." 7/16 Bush digs himself into a hole and keeps digging 7/16 Beyond Bush's glowing approval rating, by Joe Conason 7/16 Harkening Back to Texas 7/16 An American journalist is detained because he questioned Foggy Bottom's Saudi policies. 7/16 WorldCom's book-cooking was laid out chapter and verse in a shareholder suit more than a year ago. 7/16 A Silver Spoon To The Top 7/16 FBI hires CIO from Mormons 7/16 THE "THANK GOD REINFORCEMENTS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED" DEPARTMENT: "After months of hesitancy, leading Democrats have begun to challenge President Bush directly on his conduct of foreign affairs, offering pointed criticisms of his policies...." 7/15 Irony of All Time: Reagan Appointed Federal Judge Begs Democrats to Speak Out About the Bush Administration's Violation of Civil Liberties! 7/15 REPOSTED: A Boob in the Hall of Justice is Back! (audio) 7/15 Watch Out for the Government Spy on Your Block: The Bush Administration Moves Us One Step Closer to a Stalinist State 7/15 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison -- "Georgie Gets Tough" The Angry Liberal - Leave our Pledge of Allegiance Alone! 7/3 A BuzzFlash Interview With Greg Palast-- Cruella's Letter, Venezuela, and Dan Rather Monkeys With Potatoes, Afoot In The Land... -- A Media Watch Special Report 7/1 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 7/16 CEO Bobbleheads 7/15 Operation TITS strikes on Southwest Arthur Road. 7/16 Dubya's Dayly Diary 7/17 These are Ironic Times! 7/15 Market Watch, by Bill Mitchell 7/17 Smirk Alert 7/15 Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 7/15 Corporate Criminal 7/15 Hey, Jeb, You're Looking Good! 7/16

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