Remember how we used to scoff in disdain over the 'state-run' media in the USSR.  Well, Russians are reverting back to what they used to be (if they ever really did change) and the good old USA is becoming more and more like the former 'evil empire'. Doesn't this sound as if it could happen here?

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Sincerely,

Cathy Vance

Subject: What's this crap???!

What's this crap about we had to go to war with the army we've got? Hell, it's been Bush and Rumsfeld's army for four years! I want to know why, if we can buy things like flak jackets to send to our family member in Iraq...why the hell can't the army get them?

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: The Silence of the Lambs

There comes a time in every wedding ceremony where the pastor gets to the part where he looks at the audience of friends and relatives gathered before him and says, "If anyone knows why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony speak now or forever hold your peace." Well that's exactly where we are right now in the history of this country. We must speak up now or forever hold our peace. Some people refer to it as the tipping point. Or the point of no return. Whatever you wish to call it, it is upon us.

It is the place in time where those in power are so encouraged by the lack of resistance to their lies and corruption that they feel there will be no consequences to more and more overt acting out of their schemes.

Much like a child who pushes its parents to see how far it can go, our government has been trying for the last four years to see just how much it can get away with. And the answer so far has been relative silence. It's amazing just how far we have let things go when one outrage after another has piled up around us. The stolen election of 2000. The lies of this administration to get us into a war in Iraq. The totally inept waging of that war. The turning of a huge surplus into the mother of all deficits. The deliberate rolling back of environmental standards and ignoring of the solid global warming science. The trade deficit and the devaluation of the dollar which threaten the global economy. Iraq Prison scandals, the failure to get Osama, distracting from the war on terror with the bogus Iraq war, And the steady chipping away at our civil liberties... I could go and on.

And, look, I know it's part of the problem. When confronted with a mess of epic proportions the natural tendency is to run and hide. Just pretend it's okay and go on with your life. Maybe someone else will clean it up. But we all know that if we do that eventually things get so out of hand it becomes a crisis. I hate to say it but we have arrived at that point.

This administration has stolen another election through voter suppression and fraud. You don't want to admit it or believe it, but it's true. You know in your gut there could not be a majority of americans who observed the wreckage piled around them and said "YES GIVE ME FOUR MORE YEARS OF THIS"! There is more than enough evidence out there to convince your average american if they only looked for it. But you don't want to see.

Yes the Major Media outlets are controlled by the corporations and they are not telling us about it. But if you are at BuzzFlash reading this, you already know how to find the info.

Why are we silent? Why are we not in the streets raising our voices? After 2000 when they told us we were crazy and stopped the vote count and it turned out when all the votes WERE counted, Gore won, do we not have the right to raise bloody hell at the merest hint of such tactics again? I understand your fear. These people are ruthless. But that fear is also telling you this threat to our way of life is real.

People who would rule through fear are the opposite of what this democracy is all about. That is the way of dictators and facists. So this is it folks. Four more years of this and America will be an entirely different place just as it is now from where we were four years ago. Let them steal the will of the people yet again and there will be nothing left of our democracy. We didn't ask for this nor do we want to face it. But it is here none the less. It's up to you and I to raise our voices and let them know this cannot be tolerated.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Rummy gets an earful from the troops!

I heard part of the Rumsfeld dog and pony show on CNN this morning, and was stunned by Rumsfeld's "answers" - quite frankly I have a hard time understanding why this man has not been sent either to prison, or the funny farm!

When asked why - after almost 2 years of war - so many vehicles in Iraq still lack sufficient armor to protect our troops, the best he could say was "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up." Who did this man study military management under, Robert MacNamara?

He said that we are working as hard as possible to produce the 6,000 plus armored humvees (and bolt on armor kits) needed now in Iraq - at the astounding rate of 400 per month.

400?

What happened to the nation that produced thousands of liberty ships in a matter of months during the 1940's, while also producing thousands of B-29's in those same months? Is our industry so weak it can no longer function to meet the demand for vehicles - are they so badly hampered by outsourcing that we can no longer produce enough vehicles in TWO YEARS?

Man, this just boggles the mind - that the nation that can put out millions of cars and trucks for the paying public cannot find the capability to produce more than 400 vehicles every month that could save lives.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the administration needs to consider additional emergency contracts to manufacture the needed vehicles - even if this does upset some of Bush's friends in those companies currently struggling to keep up with demand.

Stephen

Subject: Greetings from the White House

December 8, 2004

How was your Pearl Harbor Day?

Happy Holidays!!!! The House passed the Intelligence Bill so Bush can go ahead and put Goss in charge since he has been extraordinarily successful at getting rid of most of the guys at the CIA who told Bush the truth, which he proceeded to ignore.

Two ladies from the 9/11 group were on the Today Show and said they would have liked to have had something in the bill about people who funneled money to terrorists. Surprisingly there was no mention of there being disappointment that bin Laden is still out there which brings me to…

Seasons Greetings!!!! to the USA and Afghanistan from the Cheneys. Hamid Karzai was inaugurated president of Afghanistan. Cheney has declared that Afghanistan is now free. Presumably they are free because they had a controversial election, but succeeded in electing Bush’s chosen one. Let me predict now that Allawi will be elected in Iraq, even if Bush has to wipe out every Sunni in the country.

Gucci Fashion House has come out in favor of Karzai and they need a fashion plate. Bin Laden is much too ethnic. Karzai’s sense of fashion will only get better when the oil pipeline is secure. Happy Birthday, on Christmas Eve, Mr. Karzai. What happens if Karzai decides to speak up for the Afghanis and tell Bush to get the hell out of Kabul? Ask Mr. Aristide in Haiti or Chalabi in Iraq, what happens when our puppets try to cut the strings?

Deck the halls with regime changes. I know Bush campaigned against nation building and regime change and that wasn’t a mistake (he doesn’t make any), but he has changed his mind. We did it in Haiti, we supposedly did it in Afghanistan, we probably will get Allawi in Iraq, but Venezuela didn’t cooperate. We just need to shock a little awe into those people, but how? We can’t just go bomb the crap out of them, can we? Hell yes!

They won’t be home for Christmas, you can bet on that. Bush went to Camp Pendleton in a strange, but stylish, Star Trek meets GI Joe jacket. I noticed that not all soldiers in the usual photo-op choir loft were cheering or clapping. He won’t be in Iraq because those Marines are armed.

"In the battle for Fallujah, the terrorists hid weapons in a cemetery, they hid ammunition in private homes, they hid bombs in mosques," the president told the cheering crowd of Marines and family members. "But they could not hide from the United States Marines."

And you bombed cemeteries, private homes and mosques and how many civilians, who couldn’t afford to leave the city, did you slaughter, Mr. Bush? You can’t tell us because then the US citizenry will know why the Iraqis don’t want us there.

Rummy was with Cheney in Afghanistan, but he ran into a GI with an actual question about sending soldiers to Iraqi junkyards to search for armor for their vehicles. Searching for something appropriate to say, since his boss had said the soldiers are sent with everything they need because we take care of our troops, was a no-win situation. Most of the Humvees are as well armored as the one belonging to Governor Schwarts-his-fart and he does occasionally run into people who hate his administration almost as much as they hate hearing him say things like, "I'll be back, girlie boys."

I can’t seem to find Rummy’s actual quote for some unknown reason, but I heard it on the Today Show and it went something like, "sometimes you have to go with what you have and not what you might want." You would think the guy had asked for accommodations at the Holiday Inn. They want Kevlar vests, they want armored vehicles, they want to live to get their college benefits, they want an actual reason to be there, they want what you and Bush promise, you pompous turd. You said the best.

They went to war without preparation because we had to get there before they debunked all the reasons for the war. They want the best and you gave it in tax cuts to the people with the highest incomes. Maybe Bush will dress like Santa and take vests and armor to the troops for Christmas. Nah, he will be at the ranch, safe and secure, with his girls while yours are dying.

Peace on Earth? Not a chance, but there is another Christmas decoration controversy. We had a manger scene stolen in OKC and the owner hopes they learn about Jesus from it. Madame Trousseau's in England is being accused of being offensive in their treatment of the same. They have not chosen wisely.

Tony Blair, Prince Phillip and Dubya as the wisemen, is good and sarcastic. I have no idea why they put poor silent Phil in there, but Tony and Dubya are quite amusing. Bringing completely useless baby gifts is very Bush-like, except for the gold, but Bush would have given that to the guy who told them where to find God’s other chosen one. Jesus would have been given no health care. They could have had Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist. One wiseman is always depicted as black.

I have never heard of the people portraying Mary and Joseph, but they could have used either of Bush's "virginal" type daughters and maybe Clay Aiken or Jebby Bush. They seem to be more upset about Samuel L. Jackson and Hugh Grant as the lowly shepherds.

There was a priest asking why be so offensive. Which is more offensive, recasting the nativity or using Jesus and God to wage a completely unjustifiable war for fun and profit? Portraying George W. Bush as God’s man, the savior of the world, when he takes from the poor to give to the rich and the only jobs he creates involve getting kids shot at, is as offensive as it gets.

All of you "Young Republicans" and "College Republicans" give George W. Bush a really good Christmas present and dig out your patriotism and sign up. There should be NO young or college Republicans on campus to protest anything, they should be fighting THEIR war in Iraq. The next one who tries to convince me that Bush is God's man for us is going to get a snoot full.

Karen Webb
Moore, Ok.

Subject: Take a minute or two

Here's the link to contact the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. Send them a brief note to express your feelings on the rigged election.

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

Here's the one I sent:

Barry Sussman

Subject: Check out Kerik made millions from agency contractor (AP/MSNBC)

Isn't this a MAJOR conflict of interest...or with the BUSHEVIKS...BUSINESS AS USUAL?!?

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Back to the past!

All across the country we have read reports about unreliable electronic and optical scan voting.

We all should insist on going back to the old fashioned manner of voting....no punch cards...no optical scans...nothing but the real thing. Yes, a paper ballot with boxes next to a candidate’s name. Just like the Canadians, you mark an X in the box next to your candidate’s name. And Canadians can attest to the smoothness of their elections. I can just hear the republicans howling their objections...we won’t get national results for 2-3 days after poll workers hand count the ballots! We will have to hire more poll workers! I say to the howlers, "Better late than incorrect. Better to hire extras...human error is a lot easier to uncover."

We should be yelling back, "SO WHAT, if we don’t get the total national votes for 2-3 days. What’s the big hurry?" And if it takes more poll workers to guarantee the correct count, then so be it! Our votes should never be compromised by those who insist on instant vote results and half-assed, cheap and manipulated elections.

Cathy

Subject: Jonathan Greenberg Interview--BEST EVER

I must tell you that, as a political historian, the interview is the best I have read which means 200,000 pages, or more, copied plus many books since Bush came into power.

This interview should be circulated through the internet and major press. I have not read his book but will start tonight.

What has distressed me is the absence of study on PNAC and ATR whose policies are exactly what Bush is proposing and some he has implemented. Is not Bush a TOOL of those two groups?

BuzzFlash is a great site. I never miss a day on it and copy much of your information.

OK! Why not support us? I will. I have been remiss and my only rationale is that I visit so many I cannot afford to support all of them. You are SPECIAL.

clarence swinney
-political historian-
burlington nc

Rosamond

Subject: What they really need....

Let's see, 2.3 trillion or is it 3.2 trillion goes missing from the DOD (poof - gone, no investigation, just money down the ol' memory hole -- even BuzzFlash can't jog people's memory now and then) and the military can't get decent equipment?????? How many new billionaires were made with that missing moola? (And what else do you think it got spent on?????) But what those troops really need is to get home and stop dying for, as Ted Rall so aptly puts it, George Bush's geopolitical aims.

In the long run, like so much of the planned chaos, it's just another way to get more money sent their way and to get the draft reinstated. Fighting for America has absolutely nothing to do with Iraq.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Conyer's hearing on ohio vote fraud coverage...Please pass this on

Pacifica broadcast the entire John Conyers hearing on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage on Dec. 8, 2004, but not the mainstream media. No Republicans attended the forum held by the Minority members of the House Judiciary Committee. Below are some reports.

John Conyers is trying to collect a couple million emails on the voting investigation. He has set up a special form for you to ask questions of the committee.

Please send off an email with a question for the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Ohio Vote.

Click below and take a moment to write your opinions of the 2004 Presidential vote.

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage (truthout)

From Selma to Ohio: A Report from the Conyers Hearing (truthout)

Hana G.

Subject: Neglected Coverage of 2004 Election Irregularities

On December 8, Rep. John Conyers hosted a congressional forum in which verifiable evidence of vote suppression and compelling indications of vote manipulation in Ohio were detailed by panels of witnesses. One witness who previously served as an international elections inspector recounted incidents in Ohio that would never have been permitted in El Salvador’s elections. Yet we ignore these disturbing reports from within our own borders?

C-SPAN and several radio stations carried the forum live. Concurrently, mainstream media covered stories such as Basketbrawl, Martha Stewart’s incarceration and Scott Peterson’s sentencing hearing. One day later, a search on CNN.com returns no hits regarding this forum and the only mention at MSNBC.com is on Keith Olbermann’s blog. ABC.com has a short story, but the headline does not appear on their home page.

I am baffled by the media silence and appalled by the republican absence in this critical moment in American democracy. This may well be the least partisan yet most important issue facing our nation today. We cease to function as a representative republic when we cannot guarantee that the will of the people has been upheld. I urge the media to begin full and prominent coverage of the investigations into the 2004 election and the process to reform our voting systems.

Link to watch the Conyers Forum online: http://www.c-span.org/
(click on House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures (12/08/04):

Link to 113 under-reported election irregularities/potential fraud stories (11-2 to present): http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_art_1128_1204.htm

Tom McIntyre

Subject: Spoiled Ballots are overwhelmingly in favor of Kerry

A hand recount should be able to discern voter intent of at least 40%, as possibly as high as 60%, of the 92,000 uncounted ballots. They will break for Kerry in the range of 70% - 80%. Projected Net Kerry gain: 25,760 - 44,160. That would reduce Bush's margin down to as little as 63,000 or as high as 81,000.

That is why it is urgent that these vote counters be watched like a hawk.

UNCOUNTED VOTES IN HAMILTON COUNTY Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. December 8, 2004 (northnet.org)

Challengers need to be present to raise objections if the crooks start throwing out Kerry votes - as they have no doubt been instructed to do by Uncle Tom Blackwell. Uncle Tom wants to be governor, then President.

Brad F.

Subject: The Associated Press is a whore

Hi Buzz,

Here is a "press release" I just sent to the Associated Press. They are really pissing me off lately.

Thanks - you guys rock.

Peter Glasser

Subject: today's headline

BuzzFlash:

Today's headline on your website should have read:

RUMSFELD TELLS TROOPS TO TOUGH IT OUT, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE TANK ARMOR, BODY ARMOR, ENOUGH BULLETS, AND OTHER CRITICAL EQUIPMENT

A BuzzFlash Reader

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Subject: Rumsfeld Poetry

Hi BuzzFlash,

A little Rummy poetry to lighten the day for U.S. troops.

(I didn't edit this...he actually made these statements. Only in America.)

Good luck Mr. Wilson.

Andy Grainger
London Canada

Subject: Am I nuts?

Okay, I've heard the tape of O'Reilly saying "Christmas is a federal holiday to celebrate the philosopher Jesus" on Air America Radio twice today. I swear, each time I heard it, it sounded to me like he said "felafel-er." Am I nuts?

Cory Hinman, another liberal Evangelical who, if he's not nuts, fears that his brother in Christ Bill O'Reilly makes a mistake common among Christians, in that rather than letting Jesus impress His values on him, O'Reilly impresses his values on Jesus.

Ann Arbor, MI