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Consumer prices fell by the greatest amount since the Department of Labor began publishing seasonally adjusted changes in February 1947. Net worth also sees biggest drop on record based on data going back to 1951. 12/17

Showering Before or After Work -- Ann Davidow exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Tuesday, December 16. A distinction is often made between those who "shower before going to work" and those "who shower after work", the after-work crowd being held in somewhat lower esteem. Union workers and auto-related jobs seem to be thought of as non-essential elements of our economy while Wall Street execs who received no-strings funds are allowed to cling to bonuses and retirement packages as if those extra millions were needed to put food on their tables. Excessive executive pay is an outrageous affront to ordinary Americans.

BuzzFlash News Network Shoe-Throwing Incident Solves Curious White House Mystery -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

If Bush Claims That the Shoe Throwing Reporter Represents the "New Iraq Democracy," Then Why Did Bush Allow Him to Get Beaten Up, Arrested, and Probably Tortured? Why Doesn't Bush, In the Name of Democracy, Request and Ensure His Release? Oh Yeah, We Forgot That Bush is a Fraud.

My kingdom for a shoe -- P.M. Carpenter Exclusively on BuzzFlash.com for Tuesday, December 16. Here's a statistic, as reported yesterday by the Washington Post, that genuinely enrages and makes me want to fling a bleeping shoe or two at a certain someone: "Study groups have pegged total infrastructure repair needs at $1.6 trillion." OK, OK, enough with the shoe-throwing and substitute expletives already. But our holiday from reality is over, which itself is way overdue, and that's what merely one of the many infuriatingly outstanding bills looks like: an incomprehensibly immense figure that never needed to be. One point six trillion -- and that number, you may have noticed, is for infrastructure repair; which is to say, that's the necessary expenditure just to patch things up as they are.

Madoff bought influence in Washington 12/17

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Los Angeles Daily News refers to our president-elect in a photo caption as "Burka Abeam" 12/17

Attytood: Shocking, obscene and possible criminal talk from a high-elected official captured on tape, and it's not Blagojevich 12/17

Minnesota Recount Enters Crucial Phase Tuesday

WP-ABC Poll: 70% of Americans say Obama should fulfill promise to withdraw forces.

Greg Palast: Obama Slam-Duncans Education: Foul Choice Of Basketball Buddy For Education Secretary 12/17

Obama, promising to address global warming and energy sources, formally named the rest of his team today: physics Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu as his Energy Secretary; Lisa Jackson as his Environmental Protection Agency Administrator; Nancy Sutley as his chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; and Carol Browner as assistant to the president for Energy and Climate Change, a new post. At the news conference in Chicago, Obama said Chu, an academic, "values science." 12/16

Electoral College Votes: It's official: Barack Obama elected 44th president

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For once at least a little compassion shown towards desperate Americans: Fannie Mae to stop evictions in foreclosures: report 12/17

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FAIR: As Usual, NYT Ignores Iraqi Opinion: Anecdotes trump polls on withdrawal 12/17

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Bid to split Taliban, Al Qaeda; In Afghanistan, US and NATO reassess their strategy amid concerns that their efforts are failing. 12/17

President-elect Barack Obama will name Chicago public schools superintendent Arne Duncan as his secretary of education at a news conference tomorrow at a Chicago elementary school, a senior Democratic official said. Duncan is CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, a member of the informal Obama basketball pick-up games (Duncan was captain of the Harvard b-ball team), and a strong gun-control advocate. (The BuzzFlash Editor Served with Duncan on the Board of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.) 12/16

Veterans Affairs Slammed for Recovering Benefits From Widows 12/17

The expectation that Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar will be nominated as Interior Secretary by President-elect Barack Obama presents Republicans with a prime pickup opportunity in a swing state, an early sign that their fortunes may be turning after two disastrous elections in which the party lost a combined 13 seats in the Senate. 12/16

Some of the world's biggest banks have revealed they are victims of an alleged fraud which has lost $50bn. 12/17

More About Arne Duncan, the New Secretary of Education and Current CEO of the Chicago Public Schools 12/16

BuzzFlash News Network Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) gets baseball justice from the Motor City -- Be-Elected

List of victims in alleged US Ponzi scheme include world's big banks, the rich and the famous 12/16

Mary MacElveen: Perhaps Gitmo should remain open 12/17

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The brother of the journalist now famous for hurling his shoes at President Bush said his sibling's actions were "spontaneous" and represented millions of Iraqis who want to "humiliate the tyrant." Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who sometimes worked as his brother's cameraman, described the reporter's hatred for the "material American occupation" and the "moral Iranian occupation."

Japan as ground zero for no-waste lifestyle 12/17

Illinois House Begins Impeachment Proceedings Against Blagojevich, But Backs Off Special Election Out of Concern that Republicans Might Win the Seat on a Backlash Vote

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Could Osama bin Laden Have Done More Damage to the Economic Infrastructure of America than Bush and the Republicans? We Doubt It. "States' Funds for Jobless Are Drying Up."

The Village Idiot: Bush Says So What if Al-Qaeda Had Nothing to Do with the Iraq Invasion 12/16

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Home values seen losing over $2 trillion during 2008 12/16

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would look to pass a economic stimulus package of around $600 billion in the first two weeks that Congress meets next month 12/16

Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns

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BBC: Iraq Rally. "Thousands of Iraqis have demanded the release of a local TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush at a Baghdad news conference."

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Report: Richardson Under Federal Probe Regarding Campaign Donations in New Mexico 12/16

FDR's New Deal Blueprint For Obama: How The Revolutionary WPA Jobs Program Helped Move A Nation Mired In Depression And Redefined The American Worker 12/16

McClatchy: Iraqi who threw shoes covered U.S. bombing of Shiite area 12/16

AIG got over $150 billion in bailout money from Congress, and supposedly to keep this company - and our economy - alive. AIG was quickly found to be issuing large "retention bonuses" to 135 executives, though - between 6 months to one year's salary for each of them. The CEO of AIG then told congress that it was going to 168 people. Now we learn that the awards are actually going to another 2,000 executives, and could go to as many as 7,000. Was the bailout just a bonus package for AIG execs? 12/16

US Supreme Court Tells Appeals Court to Revisit Case of Gitmo Torture Allegations 12/16

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President-elect Barack Obama's team says an internal review shows his staff "was not involved in inappropriate discussions" with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over the selection of Obama's Senate successor. 12/16

Yes to train travel: On weekend before Jan. 20 inauguration, Obama to arrive in Washington by train 12/16

Bill Berkowitz: Religious Right to Newsweek: 'Woe to [You] for Even Printing This' 12/16

Newshounds: Merry Christmas Is Fox News Newspeak 12/16

McCain unsure if he'd support Palin for president. How do you like them apples?

Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks 12/16

Bernard Madoff scam claims nonprofits among its many victims. Foundations, museum, schools are big losers 12/16

It's Time for the Dems to Do What Bill Frist Threatened to Do: Repeal the Filibuster, for the Sake of the Nation. Otherwise, Mitch McConnell and His GOP Wrecking Crew Will Continue to Take Down America. 12/15

Supreme Court needs a fly swatter: The Supreme Court has turned down another challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president because of his citizenship. 12/16

Illinois House Sets Probe of Blagojevich 12/16

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Will Labor Get What it Wants From Obama? Despite the fact that Obama may wait on some of their priorities, union officials remain positive about the prospects for labor under Obama. 12/16

Giving is the Best Way to Receive 12/16

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Rolling over (again): Leahy Buckles, Will Push Back Holder Hearings 12/16

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Atlanta City Hall Closed on Fridays, as Part of Budget Cuts 12/16

David Sirota: Executive Pay Packages: We Told You So, Part 4 12/16

Muntadhar al-Zeidi is an overnight sensation. (Update: NYT assigns "folk hero" status) 12/16

Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Becomes a Folk Hero 12/16

Rude Pundit: Because We Won't Have Him to Kick Around Much Longer, Part 2 (Featuring Shoes and a Fun and Easy Real Protest Idea) 12/16

A short-form application for big bailout bucks: two pages 12/16

Gross Domestic Product: 40 Percent of the United States GDP comes from 5 States; California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois. 12/16

Whistleblower Thomas M. Tamm, who tipped off the Times in 2004 about the NSA eavesdropping without FISA oversight, is telling his story now. 'I thought this [secret program] was something the other branches of the government—and the public—ought to know about. So they could decide: do they want this massive spying program to be taking place?' 12/16

Looking at 2010: Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) says he won't run for another term. Of course, Four years ago, he broke a pledge to leave Congress after six terms. 12/16

New York Crank: Give me that old soft shoe...a short meditation on flying footwear, despotism, bad jokes and violence 12/16

Mary MacElveen: Letter to Senator Richard Shelby stating I am boycotting Alabama 12/16

David Swanson: Bush Comparison Seen As Unfair to Dogs 12/16

Will Afghanistan Be Obama's Downfall? 12/16

"It was one of the more quirky provisions attached to the $700 billion financial bailout plan: a $20 monthly benefit for employees who regularly bike to work. The bike commuter benefit is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, but one of the main problems is few companies are ready to implement it. Several say they don't even know how it would work, and they need guidance from the Internal Revenue Service, which is unlikely to arrive before year-end." 12/16

Danny Schechter: Did Wall Street "Go Rogue" or Was it Rogue Already? 12/16

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Back to the Future with The Complex? 12/16

World Court Inquiry Sought In Afghan Rapes 12/16

Obama sightings not that novel anymore 12/16

NY Gov. Paterson's Office Is Not Amused by 'Saturday Night Live' Skit 12/16

Stimulus Package To First Pay for Routine Repairs; They need the help 12/16

AP Interview: Rice says Iran scaling back in Iraq 12/16

Alleged Madoff fraud has worldwide exposure 12/16

Supreme Court Allows Suits Over Cigarette Marketing over "light" cigarettes 12/16

In Utah, the Parowan Prophet predicts disaster will prevent Obama from taking office 12/16

BuzzFlash News Network On Bush's Final Trip To Iraq, Journalist From Egypt Angrily Hurls His Footwear At The U.S. President -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

Goose Island- The Beginning of the Next American Revolution? 12/16

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Union Official on "John" GOP Senator David Vitter. Morgan Johnson, president of the United Auto Workers local representing General Motors workers in Shreveport, said "He'd rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers."

Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Last U.S. House seat filled on grave of stolen 2004 election 12/16

Iraq's Farewell Gift To Bush / Contempt 12/16

BuzzFlash News Network To Make Charges Disappear, Legal Expert Says Blago Needs A Magician -- Not A Criminal Defense Lawyer -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

The Bush $700 Billion Pin Stripe Loophole: "Executive Pay Limits May Be Difficult to Enforce. Loophole in bailout provision Bush administration insisted upon leaves ability to curtail large sums paid to Wall Street executives in doubt." Of course, if you're a union member, the Republicans want to drain you of your blood before they will save America's auto industry.

Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up? 12/16

'Killing a Brown': New Evidence of Extremists in the Military 12/16

Spousal Ties to Lobbying Test a Vow From Obama 12/16

David Michael Green: Tales From The Planet Bizarre, Episode 473: Still Lying, Still Allowed To Lie 12/16

NYT: Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of an American political dynasty, has decided she will pursue the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a person told of her decision said Monday. 12/16

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan today said impeachment proceedings will begin immediately against Gov. Rod Blagojevich after allegations he used his office to try to sell the vacant U.S. Senate seat of Barack Obama. 12/16

An Iraqi television station on Monday demanded the immediate release of one of its journalists who caused a furor when he hurled shoes at visiting US President George W. Bush. The man has got sole! How many people have the guts to do what he did? Bush ducked pretty well, by the way. First time that we have complimented him in 8 years. 12/15

Electoral Vote Takes Place on Monday 12/15

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America's Shooting Gallery 12/15

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AG Madigan tells MTP about Blagojevich rumor: 'We have heard that there is a possibility that tomorrow he will make an announcement where he will step aside.'

Homelessness, hunger on rise in US cities: report 12/15

Southern Republican Senators Do More to Bring America To Its Knees Than Bin Laden! Bloomberg: "GM, Chrysler Bankruptcies Would Cause Turmoil for U.S. Economy."

Will Obama ease US policy toward Cuba? We certainly hope so. The current policy is ineffective and counterproductive. Interaction with Americans would more effectively precipitate democracy. Also, in a recession, we are losing out on business in Cuba. 12/15

An AP review of the challenged votes in the disputed Minnesota senate race found relatively few ballots that would be difficult to assign. With Coleman leading by only about 200 votes, it looks like the remaining ballots could tip in favor of Franken. The state's Secretary of State has set a goal of completing the challenged ballot reviews by Friday. 12/15

No Time for Trivia. Looking for a Legacy of Economic Destruction? Look no Further than Bush and the GOP. 12/15

 Bush's Legacy of Neglect: Obama left with little time to curb global warming 12/15

Commercial Carriers Succeed in Blocking Free Broadband Service, At Least for Now 12/15

McCain Whacks RNC, Defends Obama Over Blagojevich 12/15

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Militias in Congo Tied to Government and Rwanda 12/15

Hamas, Showing Split, Hints It May Extend Truce 12/15

Times of London: The Death of the Daily Paper 12/15

Is a UAW contract worth the paper it's written on anymore? Just a year after the UAW agreed to historic contracts with the Detroit automakers, its leaders have to reopen the contract in the most extraordinary, even humiliating, conditions. Republican U.S. senators, who ultimately scuttled a loan package, were in effect demanding a rewrite of the UAW contract last week, something labor experts said was unprecedented. Richard Block, a professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University, said GOP senators' attempts to rewrite the terms of the UAW contract opened a new and -- for unions -- unwelcome chapter in labor relations. 12/15

Times of London: Conditions for most of the 1.5m Gazans have deteriorated dramatically in the past month, since a truce between Israel and Hamas, the ruling Islamist party, broke down. 12/15

LATimes: For some Senate Republicans, a vote against the bailout was a vote against the United Auto Workers, and against organized labor in general. 12/15

Bush Plays President in Surprise "Visit" to Baghdad 12/15

Rove Reportedly Will �Help Lead’ GOP’s Fight Against Eric Holder For Attorney General 12/15

Canada Has the Good Fortune Not to Have Treasonous GOP Southern Senators Who are Putting a Dagger Into the Heart of the American Economy: Canada Promises $2.8 Billion in Auto Aid 12/15

An unpublished federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts the effort as crippled by poor planning, waste and deception, leading to a $100 billion failure.

In N.Y., Caregivers Grapple With Likely Loss of Programs for Dementia Patients 12/15

Remember when Detroit 3 came to nation’s rescue, senators? 12/15

Blagojevich Had to Change Lawyers Because He Owed a Half a Million Dollars to His Previous Counsel 12/15

Global Warming Could Accelerate Due to Release of Methane from the Ground and Oceans 12/15

Bomb blast kills two policemen at Oregon bank. Motive Not Yet Known. 12/15

Jason Leopold: Military Entangled in 'Extreme' Missionary Christian Reality TV Show 12/15

UK Prime Minister: Pakistan linked to most UK terror plots 12/15

Surprise from the Departing Ruinous Rampage of the Busheviks: "The Federal Reserve on Thursday will vote on sweeping reform of the credit card industry that would ban practices such as retroactively increasing interest rates at will and charging late fees when consumers are not given a reasonable amount of time to make payments."

Obama and Daschle should opt for single-payer 12/15

Collected recyclables pile up as profits they generate fall 12/15

Obama: HUD pick central part of economic blueprint 12/15

Michigan Will Not Vote Republican For a Generation 12/15

Obama's Tight Knit Circle of Friends Vow to Bring Chicago to D.C. 12/15

Fears of New Ethnic Conflict in Bosnia 12/15

The Blagojevich "Step Aside" Option 12/15

Former U.S. Contractor Alleges 9-Month Detention in Iraq. Translator Says He Was Denied Attorney, Phone Calls While Held For Months. 12/15

Evan Bayh Forming Blue "Cowering" Dog Caucus in the Senate 12/15

"A look at the Senate vote in terms of population shows that senators representing just 26% of citizens overcame senators whose states account for 64% total U.S. population. The nay saying Senators represent 78 million citizens, while those who wanted to vote on the bill account for 192 million. The remaining 30 million are factored in for the 12 no shows." 12/15

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BuzzFlash News Network Rudy Giuliani -- is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. In a recent interview with Sky News, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani showed that the true hypocrisy of politics comes after all the votes are counted. He told the reporter that thanks to Obama's election, "We can now be an honest nation and not a hypocritical one." So, let's get this straight. Now that a man that you disparaged at every opportunity is our incoming president, we can stop being hypocritical? Clearly Giuliani isn't including himself in that "we," because that statement alone drips with hypocrisy.

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BuzzFlash News Network Sam Zell is the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week. Usually we give a Media PUTZ to someone on the air, over the airwaves, in print, or online who compromises the integrity of the media. Well, this week's winner doesn't write, edit, or speak his way into the media world, but has clearly made his own stamp in a very short period of time. Sam Zell is the owner of the Tribune Company, completing a leveraged buyout in April 2007. His previous media experience was when his Chillmark fund owned the radio broadcast group Jacor Communications, Inc. between 1992-1999. But what Zell has done to the media properties within the Tribune Company is why we honor him this week. Slashing budgets, pages, and workers. Bringing in clueless radio people who didn't know the first thing about print. Consolidating Washington bureaus, diluting local coverage.

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BuzzFlash News Network Rachel Maddow is The BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award for December 10. While she has got an affability that disarms barbed right-wing guests, and a charm that can defang Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow never compromises her principles or holds back on her candor. She's redefined the framework of progressive conversation on television in a way that is unthreatening, but not diluted.

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