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• Who Goes to Jail? BP CEO or Shrimper. The Shrimper, of Course, for Being a Victim of BP and Not Taking It. BP's Tony Hayward, Send Them a Box of Cigars, Care of His Puppets in Congress.
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• Insanity. There Will be Little But a Third World Nation Left to Defend. Chief of Staff of the Army: "U.S. Could be at War Another Decade"
• Former DOJ Attorney Allowed to Spread Lies on CNN -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• Dave Lindorff Challenges Real Journalists to Defy the BP/White House Selective Prohibition of the Gulf Catastrophe Press Coverage
• "We Who Advocate Peace"
• Chamber Of Commerce Rents Its Roof To Fox News, Fox News Refuses To Critically Report On The Chamber
• Slow Progress in Prosecuting Accused Guatemalan War Criminals
• "Liberals analyze their Obama 'despair'"
• Unemployed and Staring Down Desperation
• Former Contractor: ‘Cutthroat’ BP ‘Not Worried About Cleaning Up That Spill’
• Thousands of tourists and scientists have descended on Chile's Easter Island to catch sight of Sunday's total solar eclipse.
• Locally Owned Wind Power: Turbines Give Farms a Second Wind
• "Young Americans might not get full Social Security retirement benefits until they reach age 70 if some trial balloons that prominent lawmakers of both parties are floating become law."
• Immigrant in Arizona: “Knowing they can stop you & ask you for your papers does something to your dignity.”
• Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran
• Scientists: Obama not doing enough + VIDEO: Shrimpers exposed to Corexit “bleeding from the rectum”
• "Sold on a promise of cheap, clean electricity, dozens of communities in Illinois and eight other Midwest states instead are facing more expensive utility bills after bankrolling a new coal-fired power plant that will be one of the nation's largest sources of climate-change pollution."
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 147: The Curious Case of the Curious Spy Case -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• Right Wing Understands Saul Alinsky; Why Doesn't the Left? -- Thom Hartmann's July Exclusive "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash
• In Torrential Rain, Protesters Confront AZ Gov. Brewer at National Governor's Association -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• No Dominion: The Lonely, Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists Inside the Armed Forces
• DNC Proposes Shortening Primary Season and Lowering the Percentage of Super Delegates
• What the Heck are U.S. Warships Doing in Costa Rican Waters? There's a Much Bigger Story Here.
• The War Without End: Attacks kill 11 Afghan police, official in north
• Reid says Obama hasn't led enough on the tough stuff.
• NYT: "The Hard Work of Gun Control"
• "The planned closing of Nichols Elementary, the top-ranked school in Biloxi, Miss., has become an explosive subject in the city, reopening age-old racial divides."
• A New York Woman Can Testify to What Happens When Government Watch Lists Run Amuck
• "Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet."
• AFP: BP is in talks to sell up to 12 billion dollars (9.5 billion euros) of assets, including a substantial stake in a giant Alaskan oil field, to Apache Corporation, the Sunday Times reported.
• Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona
• "A year after House Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly approved legislation to improve food safety, public health advocates are growing frustrated that the Senate has yet to take up the bill." Might it be Due to the Agri-Business Lobby?
• BP Declines Comment On UK Press Report Of Possible Exxon Takeover Bid. Then EXXON/Mobil Might as Well Become a Member of the G-20. When Super Global Companies Exceed the Economic Clout of Sovereign Nations...
• Holder to Monitor Potential AZ Racial Profiling
• Afghanistan's Mineral Riches: A Conveniently Timed Zombie Story (Updated)
• Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP. BP Gives No Indication Of When Payments Resume.
• "BP has decided to reduce payments to tens of thousands of people whose claim files are incomplete, the secretary of Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services said. "This action is irresponsible and in complete contrast to BP's repeated promise that they will 'make things right,'" the secretary, Kristy Nichols, wrote in a letter sent Friday to federal oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg."
• "Despite his efforts on financial legislation aiming to correct years of deregulation, Paul Volcker is concerned that banks will still have too much wiggle room."
• WP: "Black voters still support Obama but are ambivalent about midterm elections"
• Democracy Now: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone Tackles Latin America’s Political Upheaval in "South of the Border", US Financial Crisis in Sequel to Iconic "Wall Street"
• The Founder of Greenpeace Knew that Aggressive Advocacy and Civil Disobedience are Necessary Against Those Who Harm the Planet -- BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
• Toyota tried to retaliate against university instructor who exposed their acceleration defects
• Gulf DOJ Investigation Update: "Attorney General Eric Holder signaled here that the Justice Department may be conducting a sweeping criminal investigation into the Gulf Coast oil spill, saying that its suspected targets may cover more than just BP."
• Thorold, Ontario Amputee Has His Artificial Leg Ripped Off By Police And Is Slammed In Makeshift Cell During G20 Summit – At Least One Ontario MPP Calls The Whole Episode “Shocking”
• Fox Hunting Ban in UK
• 37 Gubernatorial Races This Year
• Struggling states seeking more aid from Washington
• Fidel Castro Makes Rare Public Appearance
• Everyone Else is in Recession, But They are Hiring for the Wall Street Casino Business That Cratered Our Economy. Ain't That Ironic?
• "Oil unleashed temporarily in attempt to contain it." Say What?
• In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge
• Why EPA Wasn't Prepared for the Gulf Oil Spill?
• "Giddy" Bachmann Talks of "Fraud" at Right-Wing Freak Show
• Richard Power: Solar Eclipse Casts Shadow Over Easter Island, It Soon Passes; But the Shadow Faux News & U.S. Chamber of Horrors Cast Over Body Politic Only Deepens
• UK Guardian: Deepwater Horizon worker claims oil rig leaking weeks before explosion. Oil worker told the BBC's Panorama programme that both BP and Transocean, who owned the rig, were informed of the leak.
• "Wealthy Are Cashing in Huge, While Workers' Salaries Keep Shrinking. Times are tough for workers in the U.S. where a recession has a stranglehold on much of the economy, but life is perfectly rosy for those at the top."
• How Easy Is It For Peaceful People to Violate the Patriot Act?
• War Without End Update: Gen. Petraeus runs into resistance from Karzai over village defense forces.
• Bob Herbert: Unions Make the American Economy Stronger
• Thom Hartmann's July Exclusive "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash: Saul Alinksky's "Rules for Radicals"
• Cuba travel: Will U.S. tourists spoil the country?
• Saving Turtle Eggs from the Oil Spill
• Mayor Ron Dellums of Oakland said he supported a federal investigation under way into the death of Oscar Grant III, a young unarmed black who was shot and killed by a white officer.
• "Brace yourself: Fox News comes to the Middle East"
• "Recent NOAA reports that the BP oil spill would not reach around the Florida peninsula for several weeks may turn out to be off schedule. Tar balls are now being reported on the east coast of Florida."
• Is Obama "Tougher" on Illegal Immigrants Than Bush? Looks That Way. "The Obama administration has started sending federal agents to audit records of thousands of companies, forcing businesses to fire every illegal immigrant."
• Biden on spy swap: ‘I thought they’d take Rush Limbaugh’
• Middle class shuffle – how the banking system has given the illusion of prosperity with debt serfdom to working and middle class Americans. $14 billion in consumer credit yanked from the system last month.
• Race and Recession: Foreclosure Losses Still Mounting
• Archives: Address of John F. Kennedy upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, September 14, 1960
• "Value of oil skimming Gulf flotilla is uncertain." Ain't That Reassuring?
• Obama says country must help vets with PTSD. Couldn't Agree More.
• Bizarre Headline for Saturday from LA Times: "U.S. to crack down on smearing of olive oil's reputation."
• Midwives vs. Doctors in US Maternal Mortality Crisis
• "Clintons Eye $11 Million Estate." Where are the Middle Class Leaders?
• Petraeus for McChrystal: Lipstick on a Pig
• "Anadarko Petroleum is refusing to pay the $272 million dollar bill sent by BP stemming from the costs of cleaning up the oil spill gushing from the busted Macondo oil well, in which Anadarko owns a 25 percent nonoperating stake. Anadarko accuses BP of "negligence" or "willful misconduct"—something the company says it's not responsible for."
• "Britain's foreign office yanked Friday a blog posted by its ambassador to Lebanon that mourned the death of an "admired" Shiite cleric once considered Hezbollah's spiritual leader."
• Media Matters: What do Glenn Beck and Lindsay Lohan have in common? That's a Headline That's Got to Raise Some Interest.
• $200 Million GOP Campaign Avalanche Planned, Democrats Stunned
• Meet the conservative U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• Iran must halt woman's death by stoning. Unconscionable!
• 102 Killed by Bomb in Afghanistan
• RadarOnline: Tape captures Gibson's racist rant
• Italian resort of Forte dei Marmi turns against rich tourists. Glitzy Tuscan retreat is trying to stop locals being forced out by wealthy Russian visitors.
• Washington Still Has Problems With Democracy in Latin America
• Premium: "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" [Paperback] Outstanding Exploration of How the Current Theocracy in Iran is a Backlash to the CIA/British Coup of a Democratically Elected President In Iran Over Oil. The Costs of Empire and Evil.
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• Kentucky Union Members Take Fight for Jobs, Jobless Aid to Mitch McConnell’s Doorstep
• "The conservative right is set to spend $200 million on this fall's elections and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce leads the way with $75 million to push corporate candidates."
• A $7.2 billion federal stimulus package will help extend high-speed access to more poor and rural sections of the United States.
• China Renews Google’s License. You Can Bet Concessions to China Were Made by Google.

• "A growing number of Nevada Republicans are expressing skepticism over Angle's Senate candidacy. Some are even signaling they may not vote for the GOP contender over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November."
• For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in Sight
• From the Hall of Fame of Hypocrisy, The Heritage Foundation Forgets Its Role in the BP Gulf Catastrophe -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• California’s photovoltaic push
• David Sirota on How Higher Taxes on the Rich Stimulate Economies. You Got That Right!
• The Slow Pace of Change -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com "But what corrupts the political process most profoundly is the way our elections are financed. As a result of administration efforts to pass financial-reform legislation Wall Street funding for Democratic candidates has taken a big hit."
• Coast Guard Blocks Out Media at the Gulf; Activists Demand Answers
• Protesters, Waxman Urge Clinton to Vote No on Tar Sands Pipeline
• Greenpeace activists arrested off Israel coast for Environmental Protest
• Bizarre Headline of the Day: NY Roy Rogers auction offers Trigger’s remains
• Are Far Too Many Americans Becoming Know For Their Hate? Well, Yeah!
• A $7.2 billion federal stimulus package will help extend high-speed access to more poor and rural sections of the United States.
• Underemployed And Didn't Have Health Insurance ...
• CNN fires veteran editor for Mideast over Tweet
• Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills
• Republican Rep. Bob Inglis: Sarah Palin is a big fat liar
• Lucinda Marshall: The Catch-22 Of Oil-Wellian Logic
• 46 US Warships Plus 7,000 US Marines On Route To Costa Rica? (In Spanish)
• William Rivers Pitt: Playing the "Too Big To Fail" Card
• Is BP Trying to Cover Up the Mess It's Made on Alabama Beaches?
• The Flawed Good Cop-Bad Cop Democratic Strategy -- PM Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash "I would have preferred a clash of the Washington titans -- frontal assaults in which Republicans must promise not to do precisely what they did for unbroken years, because Democrats would be busy reminding voters -- over, and over, and over, Obama and Truman-style -- of just what those Republican years wrought, topped by the secondary argument that "No" -- but unmitigated "Yesses" to oil companies and health insurers and the slickest of Wall Street stockjobbers -- has been their only coherent comeback."
• Has Sludge Scandal Tainted Alice Waters?
• In Nevada, Obama Defends Economic Policies
• Democratic Governor of West Virginia Likely to Run for Byrd's Seat
• Jane Stillwater, We are ALL pelicans: The harsh consequences of environmental pollution
• Canadian nuclear plant rehab goes awry
• "A five-year-old incident in which two Denver residents were bounced from a town hall meeting held by President George W. Bush because of the bumper sticker on their car has reached the U.S. Supreme Court's door. The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked the justices to review an appellate court decision that found no First Amendment violation of the rights of Leslie Weise and Alex Young."
• "Historian On Countdown Debunks American History Lies From 'Glenn Beck University'"
• Cynthia Tucker, Another breakthrough: “Today” show will feature gay weddings
• Why the Mainstream Media Doesn't Cover the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan With Any Depth
• The BP Oil Spill? Ida Tarbell Saw It Coming
• Must, Must Read. Disaster Messaging by the Democrats: It Could be Fatal to America's Future -- George Lakoff for BuzzFlash
• Remembering Henry Wallace and the Progressive Movement
• Pro Publica: Investment Funds Stir Controversy Over Recruiting by For-Profit Colleges
• "Government Trying to Sweep Size of Oil Spill Under the Rug, Just As It Has Tried to Sweep the Economic Crisis, 9/11 and All Other Crises Under the Rug"
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• Income Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Highest in Decades, Data Show
• With the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday celebrations this week, a lot of people’s minds have started focusing on his successor.
• Paul Krugman: "Business leaders are feeling unloved, but giving them a group hug won’t cure what ails the economy." Let them cut out their country club memberships. What a sacrifice, eh?
• Iranians still facing death by stoning despite 'reprieve.' Fifteen could still die in horrific sentence after being allegedly convicted of adultery.
• United States v. Jan Brewer
• North Dakota's Democratic Party is outraged over the discovery of two posters hanging in a state agency's office, calling the anti-President Barack Obama posters "outrageous" and "obscene."
• Confused? We are: "The Obama White House has threatened to veto a pending intelligence bill if it includes a provision that would authorize the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to perform audits of intelligence programs at the request of Congress. But a Department of Defense Directive issued last week explicitly allows for GAO access to highly classified special access programs, including intelligence programs, under certain conditions."
• Boehner Invites Lobbyists To Help Form GOP Agenda In Intimate Meeting At His Office: GOP/Corporate Money Grope Session
• Traitor and Criminal? "Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, has pursued profits while testing local laws, and kept up questionable ties in Myanmar, Iran and Syria."
• Joe Conason: "We could easily slip into another Great Depression if our leaders continue to heed the chattering class on the deficit. But cutting spending is not just bad economics; it’s bad politics, too."
• Zombie K Street Project: The GOP Turns To Lobbyists To Draft Policy Agenda
• In Vienna, U.S. and Russia Exchange Prisoners
• Suicide attack in Pakistan tribal village kills dozens
• GOP Senator Caught Lying; Aide Who Knifed Girlfriend Did Work On Women’s Issues -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• "Hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Oakland, CA, angry at the verdict in the case of Johannes Mehserle, a white police officer who shot an unarmed black man, 22-year-old Oscar Grant, on Jan. 1, 2009."
• African-Americans Are Earning Less Than Their Parents Did
• Federal Judge Rules Gay Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional
• Smugglers in Iraq Blunt Sanctions Against Tehran
• Report: Antibody Discovered for 91% of HIV Strains
• Rahm Emanuel "Reassures" Business Leaders. How About Reassuring Main Street, Rahm, Mr. Multi-Millionaire Due to a Revolving Door Rainmaker Job.
• NYT: "Biggest Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich." Who's Crying Now?
• There's a new "Scramble for Africa" taking place, one that rivals that which gripped and stripped the people and resources of the continent in the hands of Europeans in the late nineteenth century.
• Washington Post Whopper on Trumka, Social Security & Taxes
• David Swanson on Bloated Defense Budgets
• Pro Publica: When the Police Control the Press
• President Obama's new slogan: 'Yes we did!'
• "Even as more tar balls wash up, Congress is on pace to break its record on oil industry contributions."
• Administration Continues to Allow BP and Government Officials to Violate First Amendment Rights: Cameras not allowed in Alabama wildlife refuge affected by oil spill (video)
• War—what is it good for?
• "Guns, knives, lawn chairs, animals -- just some of the items used to shoo away or threaten U.S. Census Bureau workers this year. Workers were involved in at least 431 reported incidents of violence as of Friday, according to the Census Bureau. Those incidents included 140 threats with weapons and 91 physical attacks, officials said. The number of incidents reported by census takers is more than double from the 2000 Census."
• Dave Lindorff: Capitalism is an Anti-Social Disease
• Joe Conason: "So often are the certitudes and pronouncements of the chattering class simply mistaken that they must always be treated with deep skepticism. That is especially true when anything important is at stake -- from the arguments for invading Iraq several years ago to today's economic stagnation. Whatever the conventional wisdom tells you must be true is almost certainly false."
• Ten Small Steps You Can Make to Change the World
• Obama Keeps Alive Boehner's Moronic Comments. We Like This!
• Labor Losing to DC Elites Over Job Creation, Unemployment?
• "The progressive movement that fueled Obama's stunning 2008 election victory is out of work. Sure, lots of people are unemployed - but the demographic groups at the heart of the Obama coalition have been hit especially hard. That's why it's so bitter to watch Obama so passive on the economy."
• Spy suspects plead guilty, will be deported immediately
• Big Oil Refuses to Negotiate Safety Bargain With Union Despite Deadly Accidents
• Weighing Safety of Weed Killer in Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily on Industry-Backed Studies
• The Year In Michael Steele Mania: Why The RNC Chairman Is 'The Gift That Keeps On Giving' (VIDEO)
• Three Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Norway and Germany for plotting terrorist attack
• "The progressive movement that fueled Obama's stunning 2008 election victory is out of work. Sure, lots of people are unemployed - but the demographic groups at the heart of the Obama coalition have been hit especially hard. That's why it's so bitter to watch Obama so passive on the economy."
• "For Democrats, Debt Debate and Familiar Ring of Disunity"
• Jim Bohlen, Led in Creation of Greenpeace, Dies at 84
• The Lies We Live By in Politics -- Shirley Smith for BuzzFlash
• The War Drones On, Ceaselessly Without End: "Nothing in this language presses on the conscience or interrupts America’s daily business. There is no hint of the value of the lives we destroy, no laying of those lives in our laps. There is only fog and numbness, and the war drones on." -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
• A GOP Senator Who Denounces Supreme Court "Judicial Activism" is Like Being a Vegetarian Who Owns a Slaughterhouse -- Special July 4th BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrites Edition
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• BP to Sell Tarballs as Dinosaur Souvenirs
• Rush Limbaugh Takes Swipe at Russian Spy Swap
• GOP Senators Are Receiving 'Unemployment Benefits'
• The Wicked Witch of the Southwest
• GOP Adopts New Blue Collar Hero: 'Joe The Hot Dog Eater'