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• It means Republicans are FRAUDS when it comes to being deficit hawks. See how easy that was?
• Ever Heard of a Green Subdivision?
• The Impatient, Disenchanted Electorate -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com "One wonders if Newt Gingrich, for example, ever says anything rational or if he’s just the same propaganda-induced opportunist he always was. His broadsides against the president are so absurd only a mind-numbed Fox devotee could find them credible, and describing Sarah Palin as a “strong personality” who has the potential to be a “strong candidate” relegates potential nominees to the status of Entertainment Now celebrities, like Paris Hilton or fifteen-minute famer Joe the Plumber."
• NYT Editorial: "Do the Republicans really want to tell voters in the fall that they have done nothing to respond to the spill?" Apparently yes.
• State car inspections curtailed in New Jersey to save money, as more lives will surely be lost
• 99 Weeks Later, Jobless Have Only Desperation. A National Tragedy of Epic Proportions. Shameful for a Great Power of the Rich, By the Rich and For the Rich.
• GOP Senator Shelby's Pork Parade
• Join Al Gore: Repower America
• The BP spill is by far the world’s largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the well’s flow rate, announced by federal scientists on Monday.
• BP Already Putting the Delay Button on Claimants
• Few in U.S. move for new jobs, fueling fear the economy might get stuck, too: "With many people locked in homes by underwater mortgages, only 1.6 percent of Americans moved between states in a one-year period that ended in March 2009 -- a labor stagnation not seen in half a century."
• Brooklyn-Queens Oil Spill Is City’s Gulf Counterpart
• Cheney Still in Hospital as Doctors Search for His Heart -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• Redux: Press Group Awards GOP Propaganda Outlet Fox Fraudcasting Prime Seat in White House Briefing Room
• Not the News That We Wanted to Hear: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the unemployment rate could rise for a couple of months before it goes down.
• The Legacy of Beck and FOX Fraudcasting: More Domestic Terrorists By the Day, "Police: Prison Guard Killed Lawyer, Stole Guns For 'Overthrowing The Federal Govt'"
• Obama Claims He Will Stick to Continued Drawdown of Troops in Iraq
• Center for Constitutional Rights Vs. Targeted Killings
• Brent Budowsky: Will the Democrats Keep Control of Congress?
• It means Republicans are FRAUDS when it comes to being deficit hawks. See how easy that was?
• Legal Move to Outlaw Toxic Lead-Based Ammunition and Fishing Tackle
• Connecticut: Republican Senate Primary Takes A Mean Turn
• The New Afghanistan Policy: Murder Inc.
• Sign of the Oligarchical Times: Rich candidates abound in midterms
• GOP Rep. Bob Inglis slams Republican demagoguery, bemoans anti-Semitic tea party conspiracy nonsense, decries Sarah Palin’s ignorance, and looks for a job.
• What Would Constitute "Victory" in Iraq? Hell, If the White House Knows. The Puppet Government Will Likely Fall As Soon as We Pull Out. Same in Afghanistan. Like the British, We are Just Playing a Losing Game of Death and Looting of Our Treasury in the Last Days of Empire.
• Republicans Go Psycho Hysterical Again: Mitch McConnell Wants Hearing On 14th Amendment 'Birthright Citizenship'
• Digby: "Wacky" GOP notions have a way of quickly becoming mainstream, and Democrats can't deal with it
• Maxine Waters Plans to Challenge House Ethics Panel
• Why are the Feds letting rich people cut in line at airports?
• New Nielsen Survey Shows Internet Habits Changing: Social Networking and Online Gameplay Take Up Greatest Percentages of Time on Average — While Email Use Drops By Nearly 30% In One Year
• Business and conservative groups are preparing a flood of campaign money to try to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats.
• Widespread struggle offers human rights vision: A movement rises in Arizona
• Stressed States Are Forcing Workers to Retire Later
• The New Yorker on Wikileaks: "We might even decide, nine years after our arrival, that it is time to leave Afghanistan."
• BP Executive Turned Alyeska Pipeline Into "Deeply Distressed" Company
• Conservatives Are Clueless On Jobs
• "After the way it handled the 9/11 health bill last week, the United States House of Representative has no right to pass ethical judgment on Charlie Rangel or anybody else."
• Defiant Bangladesh garment workers protest anew against the slave wages of Wal-Mart and other profiteers
• WashPost TV critic smears ABC's Amanpour as possible Taliban sympathizer
• Kagan Vote Is Expected This Week
• Obama Takes a Beating in the Polls on War Stewardship: Barely one in three Americans favor Obama's management of the war in Afghanistan. And 43%, the most ever, say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
• BP Spill May Cost Gulf Coast Homes $56,000 Apiece in Value
• Student Deported With His Family Inspires DREAM Act Amendment
• State of the Corrupt Corporate Media: FOX Moves Up to Front Row in WH Press Conference Room, Although AP Gets Helen Thomas's Seat. That Any News Organization Could Consider FOX Fraudcasting a News Outlet is Worthy of a Barf Bag.
• Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | A Sad Day in Harlem
• They are Uncorking Champagne as Profits Rise on Wall Street, Chanting: "Let Them Eat Cake" -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• FBI Continues Attack on Civil Rights, Demands Increased Powers
• Connie Schultz | Give the Kids a Healthy Start
• Sign of the Times: Chinese Carmaker Completes Purchase of Volvo
• Putting marijuana on the ballot could energize Democrats to vote in California
• New Survey Shows Companies Shifting Focus to Executive Retention — and Salary and Bonus Increases. Sure to Ignite Public Outrage.
• "GOP Is Setting the Stage for Investigations of Obama" if They Win the House or Senate. When Will the Democrats Learn That You Don't Mollycoddle and Make Nice with a Rabid Tiger? Apparently, Never.
• If Fox Fraudcasting is the Television Voice for the American Corporate-Sponsored Taliban, Glenn Beck is Mullah Omar -- BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week
• "Kyl: Illegal Aliens' Kids Shouldn't Be Citizens Wants Hearing on 14th Amendment Which Grants Citizenship to Children of Illegal Immigrants Born in America." By the Time the Right Wing Tries to Remove All the Amendments to the Constitution, We'll be Back With Slavery, Prohibition and Women Not Having a Right to Vote."
• "A federal jury found two Guyanese men guilty on Monday of conspiring to blow up Kennedy International Airport, concluding a month-long trial that centered on the men’s plan to set off a series of explosions along a fuel pipeline that cuts through the city. But the plot never advanced beyond the conceptual stage, and the planning sessions, some of which were recorded by a confidential informant, were at times grandiose and absurd. Suggestions of destroying the American economy vied with calls for a “ninja-style attack.”" Glenn Beck is Much More of a Threat to American Lives Than These Two Idiots Are.
• Even as President Obama sends more American troops to Afghanistan, his NATO allies are starting to bring their troops home.
• Community leaders call for peace on Chicago streets
• Why Gas Leaks Matter in the Hydraulic Fracturing Debate
• * View * Edit * Set template * * * * Share8 Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts Friday 30 July 2010 by: Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | Democracy Now! Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called "Recorded Future" that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future.
• High court trims Miranda warning rights bit by bit. Another unraveling of our civil liberties.
• Chris Hedges: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn
• Rachel Tabachnick: Why Christian Zionists Love Jews and Other Notes from the End-Times
• An Antidote to Unaccountable Corporate Lies: How to still pass the DISCLOSE Act
• It's Not Baloney. Cold cuts could cause cancer: study.
• Rescue Plan for Endangered Sea Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
• In the Dog Days of Summer, Obama Delivers a Death Blow to Vulnerable Women
• Hypocrisy on Parade: Throwing Boulders at Oliver Stone -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• The Crisis of Middle Class America: Good Analysis About a Complex Problem
• Betrayal of Democracy in Honduras
• Now This Would be Good for TV Ratings: "Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama." Maybe Lindsay Lohan Should Ask the Questions.
• "Energy Measure Sparks Few Hopes"
• Army Suicide Report Ignores Suicide-Causing Drugs
• For the Record: "Pelosi Feels ‘Very Confident’ About November Elections"
• Freaky: "6 cities to train mail carriers to dispense anti-terror drugs"
• "The Senate will likely spend only a day this week on a narrow oil-spill response bill that appears fated to stall because of another Republican filibuster. The Senate is scheduled to take a recess until mid-September after this week, giving lawmakers a chance to campaign back in their home states."
• With Minnesota governor's race, Democrats hope to break long losing streak
• Ban Coal Ash From Federal Procurement
• Why Doesn't Congress Want to "Disclose" Special Interest Election Contributions? Do We Need to Ask?
• Single-Payer Isn't Dead: How States Are Keeping the Movement Alive
• Washington's Ethical Double Standard
• Flap over 'execution' of Canada geese goes national. In New York and elsewhere, the geese are killed as nuisances and dangers to aircraft, but a growing legion of fans is crying foul.
• Dave Lindorff: I was listening to NPR’s “Morning Edition” broadcast this morning in the car, and I heard a reporter say that President Obama was “redefining” the American role in Iraq, now that he had brought the number of US forces in that country down to “only” 50,000 troops, and that “combat operations” would be ending effective this month. The remaining forces, the reporter announced, with no hint of irony and no explanation, would “only” be engaged in helping to train Iraqi troops and police, and in “counter-insurgency” operations. Excuse me, but aren’t we at war in Afghanistan, and isn’t that operation, involving about 200,000 US, Australian and NATO troops (excluding the Dutch, who are pulling out after the country’s participation in it brought down the conservative government), called a “counter-insurgency” campaign? Isn’t counter-insurgency by definition a kind of “combat”?
• Breitbart Rules of War: If You’re on Defense, You’re Losing – The G.O.-Tea Party Is on Defense, And Dem Polling Is Up
• Reagan Budget Director David Stockman Trashes Current Republican Fiscal Policy in NYT
• Obama Uses Andy Griffith to Sell Healthcare Reform to Seniors on the Weather Channel. Read down the story. Where's Opie?
• Zero Tolerance for 9/11 Bigotry Against Muslims
• "It was billed as the most diverse tea party rally ever. For three hours Saturday afternoon, we waited for the diversity to show up."
• RNC Dosen't Stand by Its Man, Cancels Fundraiser with Character Assassin Breitbart
• Economic Recovery for the Few
• Paul Krugman: " Do you remember how public hatred of the health care reform was going to be the dominant issue in the midterm elections? Do you remember how there was going to be a firestorm of disapproval over the Democrats’ use of reconciliation to pass the legislation despite the fact that they only had 59 out of 100 Senators? Neither do I."
• State Department Relents: Progressive Colombian Journalist Allowed to Come to Harvard
• Iran stoning woman offered asylum by Brazil's president Lula. Offer raises hopes Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, will be spared. That's a positive development, but Sharia law's deadly treatment of women has to go.
• More Losing Strategy in America's Longest War: "The Obama administration is starting to count more heavily on hunting down insurgents and less on winning over civilians." As if we were winning over civilians anyway. So now, it's officially a policy of "targeted killings." What a moral, bloody morass.
• The Strange Case Of The Mysterious Uber-Racist 'Tea Party Comix'
• "Disasters are Just a Normal Part of Doing Business for These Oil Companies"
• Immigrant Maids Flee Lives of Abuse in Kuwait
• Shirley Sherrod and the 50 State Neo-Confederate Racist Southern Strategy
• The Graveyard of Empire: "High Iraq deaths cast doubt on US stability talk."
• Elizabeth Warren: My Mission Is to Restore America's Great Middle Class
• Afghanistan and the Sacrifice Trap

• The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today condemned donations by Target and Best Buy to a political committee supporting the election of an anti-equality candidate for Gov. in MN and asked them to make it right by contributing to groups that support pro-equality candidates.
• How Glenn Beck Tried To Snooker Stephanopoulos
• When university presidents serve on many corporations’ boards, governance experts say, someone is getting short shrift.
• Greenspan: End Bush tax cuts
• Los Angeles Community College District has awarded a series of multimillion-dollar contracts to a firm that districtLos Angeles Community College District construction project officials said needed to be babysat. The firm is also a big campaign donor.
• Why is Ingraham's book on the NY Times' nonfiction list?
• Boondoggle for Military-Industrial Complex: "US to activate missile shield over southern Europe: report"
• Not Reassuring Department: Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case
• What is the Point of America Continuing Failed Policies. Don't Winners Learn From Their Mistakes? Apparently, That's Not Us. "Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis." We Can't Even Provide Electricity to a Nation Awash in Oil.
• "Documents show heavy use of dispersants in Gulf of Mexico" "Despite an administration order limiting the use of controversial chemicals, every request sent by BP or local Coast Guard commanders was approved."
• Jane Stillwater: Billions for Afghanistan, But No Place for Justice -- literally -- in Alameda County
• Can We Reduce the Outrageous Costs of Textbooks Through Open Source Alternatives?
• Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions
• Christians United for Israel Linked with "Demon-Blasting" Church
• Kristoff: Could the decades-long global impasse over abortion worldwide be overcome — by little white pills costing less than $1 each?
• 4 killed in Iraqi bombings, closing out deadliest month in 2 years
• Cheney Has Heart Surgery, Again. Still No Confirmation That An Actual Heart Was Found.
• Afghanistan War: Whatever is Happening There is the Opposite of Getting Better -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash
• Tim "Mediocrity" Pawlenty, GOP Gov. of MN, Testing the Waters of Running for President in 2012
• Tim "Mediocrity" Pawlenty, GOP Gov. of MN, Testing the Waters of Running for President in 2012
• House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a vote before November elections on whether to extend tax cuts for those with annual income over $250,000 a year, she said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
• WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle
• TomGram: Ann Jones, In Bed With the U.S. Army
• Palin Does a FOX Fraudcasting Stint
• Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression? -- Stephen Crockett for BuzzFlash
• Witness says Army offered him cash to 'infiltrate' WikiLeaks
• The Corporate Media is Starting to Downplay the BP Catastrophe
• Frank Rich on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks' Documents: "Kiss This War Goodbye"
• Oil-soaked waste worries Gulf Coast landfills' neighbors
• Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force in a Few Nations, While Others, Like the U.S., Dawdle
• Protesters push Iran to free U.S. hikers
• More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country.
• Teenager converts his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle into an electric car.
• An August "Everyone's on Vacation" Headline in Salon: "Trigger rides again: Roy Rogers' iconic horse lives on, stuffed and high-priced. We take a look inside his recent bizarre auction."
• Ethics trials highlight racial tensions in Congress: Proceedings slated for House members Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel could create a rift between the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democratic leaders.
• Okay, Chelsea and Marc are Married Now. We Can Get on With Summer.
• Great job with the escapes from AZ private prisons, Huh Jan Brewer?
• What's It Like to Drive a Silent Electric Car?
• The Right Wing Armed, Incendiary, and Locked and Loaded: The Appleseed Project
• Bob Herbert: "There can be no robust recovery as long as corporations are intent on keeping idle workers sidelined and squeezing the pay of those on the job."
• Right Wing Movement of Violence: "US District Judge Susan Bolton received hundreds of threats at her court offices within hours of her ruling last week on Arizona's tough and controversial immigration law."
• The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday which would lift the current $75 million liability cap for oil spills while imposing new safety standards for offshore drilling. The Senate has yet to act, however, so the prospects for final oil spill and energy legislation are unclear.
• William Rivers Pitt: "Mr. Obama's performance to date has not lived up to expectations, to be sure. He simply must do better - and, pssssst, Mr. President, your best move might be to forego this nonsense about compromising with the GOP and just get stuff done through reconciliation, filibuster reform and the ever-handy Executive Order - but the public's collective impression of his performance to date has been thoroughly skewed by the absence in our national discussion of the last guy to occupy the Oval. The media wants you to forget George W. Bush ever happened."
• Some Democrats Running in 2010 Want to Keep a Distance from President Obama
• President Obama to Celebrate 49th Birthday in Chicago
• Obama says he'll call GOP's bluff on deficit talk
• Maureen Dowd on "Mad Men" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
• Why is the US in Afghanistan - Russia and China?
• "The only effective antidote for the current brand of rightwing extremism is courage of conviction. Either Democratic leaders grow some spine or the nation tumbles into another political nightmare coupled with economic disaster. Attempting to appease fanatics is insanity."
• The Longest War Update: "Burden of Afghan war shifts even more to the U.S. U.S. troops now account for about two-thirds of the NATO force in Afghanistan, and Americans make up nearly two-thirds of July's Western military fatalities."
• Afghans Riot Outside U.S. Embassy. What are We Doing There, Again?
• Congressman Anthony Weiner Excoriates GOP on House Floor, Showing How a Dem Should Fight -- BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
• Fracking With Food: How the Natural Gas Industry Poisons Cows and Crops
• Death toll from Pakistan floods rises to 1,100
• Oil spill highlights conflict-of-interest issue within investigation agency
• The Man Who Knows Too Much and Let America Know the Truth: Military airstrike video leak suspect in solitary confinement
• Racism, Shirley Sherrod and the Obama White House
• Will Los Angeles Finally Get Serious About Mass Transit?
• Retirement anxiety ratchets up for young workers
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• Robert Parry: A Neocon Re-write of American History
• Michigan Oil Spill: The Obama administration said Saturday it repeatedly warned Enbridge Energy Partners about safety issues along its Lakehead oil pipeline system that runs through Michigan, even calling company officials to Washington earlier this year for a meeting on what it deemed "a series of major failures."
• "Oil-damaged wetlands may just have to wait it out"
• "Slowing growth shows need for renewed policies to boost jobs and incomes"
• The New Credit-Card Tricks: Just months after historic legislation banned certain billing practices, card issuers have dreamed up new ones designed to trip up consumers.
• Veterans agency eases penalties on medical marijuana
• The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts -- Michael Winship for BuzzFlash
• "In a press release the National Association of Evangelicals has urged Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, led by Terry and Sylvia Jones, to cancel their International Burn a Quran Day to be held on September 11."
• Militarism and Our Addiction to Entertainment is a Recipe for a Long, Slow, Painful Demise -- Tom Hastings for BuzzFlash
• Conservatives' perpetual dishonesty machine
• Bizarre Headline of the Day: "Arrests sought after burgers, fries tossed in pool"
• More on that Chelsea Thing, You Know THE Wedding
• Priorities, Priorities! "NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid"
• Where Are The Prosecutions? SEC Lets Citi Execs Go Free After $40 Billion Subprime Lie
• "[I]t’s hard not to conclude that hysteria is now the dominant characteristic of our politics and civic conversation."
• "Al Gore cleared of sex assault allegations in Portland." Will That as Much Coverage in the Corporate Media as the Original Charge. Of Course Not!
• The Pakistan Connection in Afghanistan (video)
• Ben Nelson to Vote Against Kagan. Why Doesn't He Just Become a Republican?
• Self-Styled Budget Hawk Mike Pence Defends Spending $560 Million On Unnecessary Weapons Program
• Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serialization, 7th Installment, Chapter Six -- Guest Commentary for BuzzFlash
• Rep. Anthony Weiner Lets the Republicans Have It, Double Fisted
• Report: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to go through an ethics trial in the House
• "The FBI has been called in to help hunt those responsible for leaking tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war." And who is investigating the perpetrators of war during the Bush Administration?
• Okay, Okay, Here's Your Chelsea Clinton Wedding Fix for Saturday. Nice Photo of Hillary and Bill Too.
• Top Democrats Pressure White House Over WikiLeaks Revelations
• Despite Anger Over BP Spill, Washington Might Not Act on It
• Gag Us: The Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission
• Neo-Confederate GOP Hypocrite: "Notwithstanding his 2007 prostitute scandal and a more recent controversy surrounding his retention of a top aide who attacked his girlfriend with a knife, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is seeking the endorsement of the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association."
• Andrew Breitbart Smells Like Bad Ass, And It's Time the White House Started Dousing Him and the Right Wing Media Slander Machine with the Disinfectant of Truth. -- BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
• BuzzFlash/Truthout News Release: "Progressive News Site Truthout Welcomes BuzzFlash to Its Community: Collaboration Will Strengthen Progressive Voice," as of August 1st. -- A BuzzFlash Update
• GOP, "The Party Of No (Ideas)," Wants To Continue Saying No To The American People -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• Right Wing Understands Saul Alinsky; Why Doesn't the Left? -- Thom Hartmann's July Exclusive "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 149: Discard Alternate Reality: McCain Wins! Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Climate Debate Resumes as Gore Cleared of All Charges
• Sarah Palin and America by Heartburn
• Tea Partiers Raise Havoc at Colonial Williamsburg, Refuse to Pay Sales Taxes
• The Truth About Sarah Palin’s $3.8 Trillion Hand Job
• Why So “Liberal” With Charlie Rangel Coverage?
• Don Davis, David Stockman Blasts Reaganomics, But NY Times Drops Graphic