BuzzFlash.net: published http://buzzflash.net buzzflash.nethttp://buzzflash.nethttp://buzzflash.net/img/es/buzzflash_buzz-logoalt1_small.jpg Collaborate publishing site and blog's communication swapping Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:20:01 -0600 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/meneame/ en <![CDATA[Revisiting 9/11]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083662 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083662 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:20:01 -0600 geobear Legal System/Rule of Law justice war crimes 911 media http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083662 Some number of people in Generation Y (the Millenials, who are now 28 and younger) can say, “I went to college, and what I learned was that 9/11 was an inside job.” Several influences are contending for the attention of that generation: the 9/11 Truth movement; the pro-Constitution and end-the-Fed movements (call it the Ron Paul movement); and the Tea Party movement. Most of these matters are outside the scope of this article, but when the 9/11 Truth movement holds sway, there is need to correct the national narrative. That national narrative has been hijacked by the faces of “Old Media,” rendering stories that are bought, paid for, and/or dictated by those who hold undue sway in the public discourse. Their story is impossible.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083662 <![CDATA[In one day, Grayson piles up 50 co-sponsors for Medicare buy-in bill]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083659 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083659 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:50:02 -0600 PHred42 Health and Wellness health care http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083659 In just two days, Alan Grayson has piled up 50 co-sponsors to his Medicare buy-in bill, which is designed as a stand-alone bill rather than as an amendment to the health reform bill. Here is the complete list of 50 co-sponsors:

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083659 <![CDATA[Paul Krugman: Health Reform Myths]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083632 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083632 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:01 -0600 RicKelis Health and Wellness healthcare reform responsible plan myths http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083632 Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized that their electoral prospects will be better if they can point to a real accomplishment. Polling on reform shows signs of improving. And I’ve been really impressed by the passion and energy of Obama. But reform still has to run a gantlet of misinformation and outright lies. So let me address three big myths about the proposed reform: (1) Obama is proposing a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy — [but] the only part of health care in which there isn’t already a lot of federal intervention [like Medicare and Medicaid] is the market in which individuals who can’t get employment-based coverage buy their own insurance, [which] is a disaster that reform aims to fix; (2) proposed reform does nothing to control costs — [but] the Medicare actuary's assessment finds that it would raise total health care spending by less than 1 percent, while extending coverage to 34 million Americans — and the C.B.O. has just concluded that the arithmetic of reform will look better in its second decade than it did in its first; (3) health reform is fiscally irresponsible —[a denial of the] C.B.O. predictions that reform would actually reduce the deficit. Compared with the Platonic ideal of reform, Obamacare comes up short. If the votes were there, I would much prefer to see Medicare for all. For a real piece of passable legislation, however, it looks very good. This is a reasonable, responsible plan. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083632 <![CDATA[Capitol Idea: Stay Classy, Eric Massa]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083615 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083615 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:10:01 -0600 SNance Democratic Party eric massa glenn beck right wing http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083615 In reality, if not for his strange public meltdown and the personal behavior that apparently set it all in motion, Massa could have been on track to become a Democratic Party superstar.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083615 <![CDATA[Congress Votes for War, 65 Dissent: by Tom Hayden]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083579 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083579 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:45:01 -0600 OrpRam Congress grd-crrptn-fscsm-mltrsm-rsrc gwot fraud-empr-dth http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083579 A plain reading of yesterday's vote on the Kucinich war powers resolution is that an overwhelming majority of the House has authorized the Afghanistan war, including a majority of Democrats. The war now has greater legitimacy. The vote was 356-65-9. [If Rep. John Conyers had been present, the dissenting bloc would have been 66, including just five Republicans. Few members took the option of abstaining.] Strong Kucinich supporters will feel vindicated that their hero took a lonely stand and forced the House to a moment of choice. Critics will note that a dubious war has been legitimized, and that it will be more complicated for those who voted "aye" to reverse course in the months ahead. -- The outcome will make the anti-war forces appear weaker for now than they are, and appearances do matter. --- --- By contrast in Germany, 100-plus members of the Left Party demonstrated inside the Bundestag last week against expanding the German troop commitment, and were thrown out of the parliament for hours. They too lost the vote, but they made their point to the German people and parliament, drawing a sharp line in German politics.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083579 <![CDATA[Report Details How Lehman Hid Its Woes as It Collapsed]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083635 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083635 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:40:02 -0600 Justice4alltoday Abuse of Power/Corruption banks lehman bailout tarp congress http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083635 It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroner’s report — a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand to conceal the bad investments that led to its undoing. Richard S. Fuld Jr., Lehman’s former chief executive, certified the misleading accounts, the report said. “Unbeknownst to the investing public, rating agencies, government regulators, and Lehman’s board of directors, Lehman reverse engineered the firm’s net leverage ratio for public consumption,” Mr. Valukas wrote. Mr. Fuld was “at least grossly negligent,” the report states, adding that Henry M. Paulson Jr., who was then the Treasury secretary, warned Mr. Fuld that Lehman might fail unless it stabilized its finances or found a buyer. Lehman executives engaged in what the report characterized as “actionable balance sheet manipulation,” and “nonculpable errors of business judgment.”

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083635 <![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now! on Healthcare, Afghanistan War and the Supreme Court's ruling]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083614 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083614 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:40:02 -0600 DandelionSalad Progressive Issues kucinich healthcare afghanistan http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083614 Videos on the post. Audio also available on the post. "Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins us to discuss two House debates in which he’s played a central role this week. The Ohio Democrat is threatening to vote against his party’s healthcare reform package because it does not contain a robust public option. Meanwhile, Kucinich’s bill to force the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan was taken up on Wednesday. After a rare three-and-a-half-hour debate on the war, the majority of House Democrats joined with Republicans to defeat the measure. "

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083614 <![CDATA[CIA may have poisoned entire French village]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083631 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083631 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:05:01 -0600 Lori_Price_CLG Abuse of Power/Corruption cia terrorism biowarfare fort detrick http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083631 12 Mar 2010 In 1951 a quiet village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were committed to asylums and hundreds afflicted. Now, evidence suggests that the CIA peppered food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind-control experiment at the height of the Cold War. H.P. Albarelli jnr, an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the U.S. army's top-secret Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. During the 1950s, the U.S. launched a vast research program into the mental manipulation of prisoners and enemy troops. Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated "local food products." [Gee, al-Qaeda's a paragon of virtue, alongside CIA terror cells. And so, when Citizens for Legitimate Government asserts that the H1N1 virus, etc., was possibly concocted in a US lab (so the pharmaterrorists could make a *killing* on mercury-laden vaccines) it isn't a stretch, is it? --LRP]

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083631 <![CDATA[U.S. judge rules for Chevron in Ecuador case]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083610 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083610 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:01 -0600 Betty Business and Economy chevron ecuador toxic environment http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083610 When the case first filed in the U.S., Chevron appealed that it should be moved to Ecuador. It was confident in Ecuador's judiciary system. When the case continued in Ecuador under President Correa and no longer confident of Ecuador's judiciary, Chevron asked that the case be moved back to the United States for arbitration. Ecuador protested this change; however, a US judge ruled in favor of Chevron's request and arbitration will proceed in the U.S. further delaying the complaint by the indigenous population.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083610 <![CDATA[The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource - by Stephen Lendman]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083565 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083565 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:01 -0600 OrpRam Environment grd-prd fscsm-fraud-empr-hgmny-env-h2o-ineqlty-hr http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083565 In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars," noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water: -- ecological terrorism; -- a global water crisis; -- along with overuse, waste and pollution, it can cause "the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth;" -- the road to "an ecological crisis with commercial causes but no market solutions; (they) destroy the earth and aggravate inequality; the solution to an ecological crisis is ecological, and the solution for injustice is democracy;" and -- water rights are natural and "usufructuary....water can be used but not owned;" it belongs to everyone as part of the commons as an essential "basis of all life....under customary laws, the right to water has been accepted as a natural, social fact." --- --- Shiva lists nine water democracy principles: (1) it's nature's gift; (2) it's essential to life; (3) "life is interconnected through water;" (4) it must be free "for sustenance needs;" (5) it's limited and exhaustible; (6) it must be conserved; (7) it's a commons; (8) "no one has a right to overuse, abuse, waste, pollute," or own it; it belongs to everyone; it can't be treated as a commodity; and (9) there's no substitute. --- --- --- Corporate profiteers have other ideas and, since 1997, have met triennially at the World Water Forum (WWF) to discuss privatizing water globally in coordination with the World Water Council (WWC). It's dominated by two of the world's largest water companies, Suez and Veolia, as well as the World Bank, other financial interests, UN bodies, and powerful interest groups representing business and world nations. --- WWC's agenda is profits through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) wanting to privatize global water resources, sell them to the highest bidder, promote destructive dam and water diversion projects, extort high prices, and make an element of life available only to those who can afford it. --- Their scheme involves controlling city/municipal/community distribution as well as stealing public water, bottling it, selling it at exorbitant prices, and claiming it's pure when, in fact, it's no safer than tap water.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083565 <![CDATA[Maher: Obama’s ‘mistake’ was not telling Republicans to ’suck on it’ | Raw Story]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083621 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083621 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:40:01 -0600 Sparrows Democratic Party dems made mistake bipartisanship rethugs retarded http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083621 "I think the biggest mistake that he has made in his first year was to put bipartisanship ahead of fixing the country," Maher declared Wednesday on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. He said Obama should have "com[e] in with all the energy from the election and saying, you know what, we're in a crisis mode, I won this election by a sizable mandate -- here's what we're going to do; if you don't like it, Republicans, you can suck on it."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083621 <![CDATA[Dubai Investigation Exposes Israeli Ops in USA]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083608 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083608 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:50:01 -0600 bloozguy Abuse of Power/Corruption israel mossad usa http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083608 "The New York Times reported on March 1 that, “At least two suspects in the killing of a Hamas official in a hotel here in January traveled to the United States afterward, according to a person familiar with the investigation.” “One suspect traveling on a British passport arrived in the United States on Feb. 14; the other used an Irish passport and arrived on Jan. 21, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case. He did not say where the men entered the country, and added that there was no known record of their leaving,” wrote Robert F. Worth in a story filed from Dubai. Worth’s report noted that if the suspected assassins who entered the U.S. presented foreign passports, they would have been photographed and finger printed upon arrival. "

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083608 <![CDATA[GE's Dirty Green Jobs]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083603 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083603 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:02 -0600 protect_democracy Right Wing ge environment racism http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083603 we bring good things to life.....The abuses suffered by GE's "green" workers confirm our worst fears that there's little guarantee so far that green jobs are going to be good jobs. What are now touted as green jobs can all too easily instead be minimum wage jobs with poor working conditions without job security or benefits.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083603 <![CDATA[Study Debunks Insurers' Explanation for Exorbitant Rate Hikes]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083601 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083601 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:02 -0600 Laudyms Progressive Issues health care costs propaganda http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083601 The pro-health care reform group Health Care for America Now has released a study (pdf) that contradicts insurance companies' claims that their recent, exorbitant rate hikes were driven by increases in the cost of medical care. The study shows that over the last eight years premiums have almost doubled, while medical inflation only increased by 40 percent. HCAN found that insurance companies are raising their rates more than 20 percent faster than the amount they are paying out to doctors, and twice as fast as their underlying costs of medical care are rising. In short, insurance companies are hiking premium prices much more quickly than their costs are increasing.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083601 <![CDATA[Amnesty International: Annual State Dept. Reports Should Include 'All Rights']]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083587 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083587 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:20:02 -0600 SNance The World clinton human rights http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083587 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the Obama administration's first full review of human rights around the globe to much fanfare. However, this new set of reports, like their annual predecessors, are incomplete and do not live up to the expectations of a key U.N. declaration of human rights, according to a prominent global advocacy organization.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083587 <![CDATA[Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists and Economists Call On Senate to Address Climate Change Now]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083611 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083611 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:01 -0600 protect_democracy Environment environment climate change http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083611 Nobel Prize-winning economists and scientists will deliver a letter to the U.S. Senate today, urging lawmakers to require immediate cuts in global warming emissions. The letter was signed by more than 2,000 prominent U.S. economists and climate scientists, including eight Nobel laureates, 32 National Academy of Sciences members, 11 MacArthur "genius award" winners, and three National Medal of Science recipients.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083611 <![CDATA[Innocent man helped by Gitmo Attorney: the case Liz Cheney doesn’t want you to read about]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083613 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083613 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:15:01 -0600 Laudyms Abuse of Power/Corruption rule of law mccarthyism innocence http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083613 It isn’t just that he was an innocent man thrown into Gitmo, or that he was held even after a CIA analyst concluded that he was innocent, or that National Security Council Staffers were aware of his innocence and actively trying to bring about a review of his detention — Mr. al-Rabiah’s case is apt because after the CIA’s 2002 determination of his innocence, he spent another seven years wrongly imprisoned, regaining his freedom and seeing his children only after retaining the help of American attorneys. Ms. Cheney, Mr. Kristol, Mr. Thiessen and Mr. McCarthy assert that American lawyers who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees are helping the enemy in a time of war. Here is a case, however, where the Guantanamo Bay detainee was innocent, languished for years in custody without a lawyer despite official knowledge of his innocence, and ultimately achieved his freedom with legal help.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083613 <![CDATA[Party Hack Moulitsas Threatens Kucinich by Sean Fenley]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083604 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083604 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:05:01 -0600 DandelionSalad Democratic Party kucinich healthcare fenley moulitsas http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083604 "Anyone who thinks that perhaps the public sector could do a better job than the private one on virtually anything, is chewed up by the Democratic-Republican Party’s meat grinder and swiftly spirited off to Nowheresville — or perhaps the Central African Republic as was done to former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Anyone standing in the way of historic health care reform (sic) is as good as dead. It’s times like these where establishments like Kos’s web blog should be illuminating people to the mystifications of the ‘liberal’ Democrats, but in good standing as a card carrying Republican-Democrat that’s precisely the opposite of what Kos seems to be pursuing."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083604 <![CDATA[Sanders: ‘One year later, the White House gets it’]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083545 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083545 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:05:02 -0600 PHred42 Barack Obama health care reform http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083545 “We have wasted month after month negotiating with people who do not support serious reform,” he said at a progressive media summit on Capitol Hill. "It's been a year now and I think the White House finally got that message."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083545 <![CDATA[Trying To Change The Senate Climate: Reid 'Wants Bill Soon,' But Carbon Regulation Plans Still Stalled]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083516 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083516 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:05:02 -0600 SNance Environment climate carbon epa http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083516 Legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a new cap-and-trade system has languished in the Senate for the better part of a year. The bill has gone nowhere, despite the best efforts of supporters who keep the flame alive, and occasional assurances of progress from the lawmaker taking the lead on the bill this year, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Meanwhile, things are just about as much a stalemate over on the second climate front that's opened up in the Senate over the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to limit emissions under the Clear Air Act.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083516 <![CDATA[The Speech For Which We Have Been Waiting]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083546 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083546 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:10:02 -0600 PHred42 Abuse of Power/Corruption corporate crime bank heist http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083546 On Thursday, Senator Ted Kaufman (D., DE) is due to deliver a strong blow to the overly powerful and unproductively mighty within our financial sector. He will say, according to what is now on his website,

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083546 <![CDATA[GMAC Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $6.3 Billion, Says Watchdog]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083547 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083547 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:25:01 -0600 PHred42 Abuse of Power/Corruption corporate crime bank heist bailout http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083547 The Treasury Department sank billions into auto finance giant GMAC Inc. without an exit strategy or proof the company was viable – a decision that could cost taxpayers $6.3 billion, a new watchdog report says.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083547 <![CDATA[The Dangers of Deficit Reduction: by Joseph E. Stiglitz]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083572 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083572 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:50:01 -0600 OrpRam Business and Economy greed-prd dbt-cptl-fscsm-mltrsm-fnncl fraud-ineqlt http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083572 The financial sector has imposed huge externalities on the rest of society. America's financial industry polluted the world with toxic mortgages, and, in line with the well established "polluter pays" principle, taxes should be imposed on it. Besides, well-designed taxes on the financial sector might help alleviate problems caused by excessive leverage and banks that are too big to fail. Taxes on speculative activity might encourage banks to focus greater attention on performing their key societal role of providing credit. --- --- Over the longer term, most economists agree that governments, especially in advanced industrial countries with aging populations, should be concerned about the sustainability of their policies. But we must be wary of deficit fetishism. Deficits to finance wars or giveaways to the financial sector (as happened on a massive scale in the U.S.) lead to liabilities without corresponding assets, imposing a burden on future generations. But high-return public investments that more than pay for themselves can actually improve the well-being of future generations, and it would be doubly foolish to burden them with debts from unproductive spending and then cut back on productive investments. --- --- These are questions for a later day -- at least in many countries, prospects of a robust recovery are, at best, a year or two away. --- For now, the economics is clear: Reducing government spending is a risk not worth taking.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083572 <![CDATA[House Passes Bill Banning Deceptive ‘Census’ Mailings]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083556 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083556 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:01 -0600 SNance Legal System/Rule of Law rnc fundraising census http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083556 Last month when we first wrote about the faux "Census" mailers from the Republican National Committee, we reported that though deceptive, the mailings were likely legal. That could change soon. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that specifically bans misleading mailings that are designed to look like they're from the Census Bureau.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083556 <![CDATA[The 9/11 hijackers are alive]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083589 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083589 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:00:01 -0600 PHred42 Video 9/11 treason http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083589 According to the chief of Japans Democratic Party who says that the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that 9/11 was a complete hoax. Dr. David Ray Griffin is a professor and author who wrote The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and he says that he agrees; the World Trade Center was a hoax.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083589 <![CDATA[The BRAD BLOG : The Real Targets of the ACORN Smear Campaigns: Verifiable Truth, American Democracy]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083512 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083512 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:01 -0600 Sparrows Abuse of Power/Corruption acorn smear campaign right wing murdoch congress http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083512 The truth behind the hoax was 'hiding' in plain sight, if only the media and Congress had bothered to seek it out... ~~~ “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” - Mark Twain ~~~ "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke ~~~ In a society increasingly dominated by dictatorial and corrupt corporate wealth and power, a collection of community organizations, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), steps forward to become the voice of the most vulnerable of our citizens --- the poor and lower-middle class. It is a national coalition which not only strives to insure that these otherwise atomized and powerless masses retain and exercise their equal right to vote, but a caring organization which seeks a living wage for all citizens; that tries to protect them from predatory lenders and phony foreclosure assistance scams. At a time when the heartless and uncaring Bush/Cheney cabal left thousands of our fellow citizens to sink or swim in a toxic soup of petrochemicals, flood waters and decaying bodies, ACORN, according to the Congressional Research Service [PDF], stepped forward to assist "in the clean-up of 1,850 homes and" organized "10,000 hurricane survivors into the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association." So it comes as no surprise that ACORN has become the target of a years-long relentless right-wing assault, most recently spearheaded by the likes of accused federal felon James O'Keefe and his serial dissembling employer and publisher, Andrew Breitbart. Neither is it a surprise that the phony pimp's video hit pieces emerged on Rupert Murdoch's own Fox "News" Channel, which Robert Greenwald so forcefully demonstrated was but the propaganda arm of the GOP in Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. ~~~ It is, however, slightly more surprising, and certainly most noteworthy, that now that they've been exposed as hoaxes, even Murdoch's own New York Post was forced to describe the doctored tapes as a "'heavily edited' splice job that only made it appear as though the organization's workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage...[with] many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers...taken out of context so as to appear more sinister." What is truly disturbing, however, is that this concocted tale would be unquestioningly accepted as legitimate by the corporate media and by Congress, which, in their rush to mollify the noisy hard-right, displayed a profound ignorance of basic concepts of fundamental fairness and due process of law.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083512 <![CDATA[Why Obama and Dems Seem Incapable of Taking a Firm Stand on Anything: by Jim Hightower]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083586 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083586 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:45:01 -0600 OrpRam Democratic Party grd-prd cptl-fscsm-fnncl fr mrkt fraud-econ ineqlt http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083586 The Obama-ites seem incapable of firm stands. They excite us by boldly addressing our economic woes. But when it comes time to follow through -- it's droopsville. --- --- With the support of five GOP senators, the "jobs, jobs, jobs" bill passed in both houses of Congress. But ... what a letdown. What a fraud. And an insult. --- --- Remember when Wall Street bankers shouted "Fire!" two years ago? Both parties rushed to the rescue, not with "conservative" tax relief, but with trillions of public dollars that they put directly in the hands of the same Wall Street arsonists who started the fire. --- We expect pious Republicans to consider millions of struggling American workers to be less worthy than a few greedheaded bankers, but not the Party of Roosevelt. Yet one Democratic leader said of this feeble bill, "Better something than nothing." --- Maybe they're fooling themselves -- but not us, and certainly not the jobless. --- This bill is nothing. And if Democrats don't stiffen their spines, they'll be nothing, too.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083586 <![CDATA[The U.S. will no longer turn a blind eye to Israeli settlements - Ha'aretz]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083576 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083576 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:40:02 -0600 RicKelis The World israel palestine us eu no mo building http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083576 Even Mahmoud Abbas would have been hard put to dream up a greater victory for Palestinian diplomacy than the one handed to him Tuesday on a silver platter by the Israeli Interior Ministry. The condemnations have been pouring in since the plan to build 1,600 homes in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood was announced. Not only from U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, but from the United Nations, the European Union and world leaders, all of them slamming the decision. While government officials were busy yesterday blaming each other for the bad timing, it seems they were missing the bigger picture: Washington and the international community will no longer accept, even by looking the other way, Israeli construction in East Jerusalem. The capital is now the focus of the cold (but slowly warming) war between Israel and the Palestinians.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083576 <![CDATA[EU Parliament backs Goldstone Report on Israel's war crimes-Jerusalem Post]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083575 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083575 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:40:01 -0600 RicKelis Legal System/Rule of Law israel eu goldstone rpt war crimes http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083575 BRUSSELS (AP) — In a move likely to worsen EU ties with Israel, the European Parliament urged its 27-member states Wednesday to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in Gaza. The parliament also called on Israel to immediately open border crossings with the Gaza Strip, saying the blockade was worsening the humanitarian crisis there. The resolution backed the findings of a UN-appointed expert panel chaired by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, which concluded that both sides committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity throughout the IDF operation that began in December 2008 and ended in January 2009. The parliamentary move would give the EU an unprecedented role in evaluating the progress of Israel's war crimes probe

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1083575 <![CDATA[President Obama Joins the Fight Against Mitch McConnellism]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083518 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083518 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:35:01 -0600 RDemocrat Barack Obama mitch mcconnell president obama http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1083518 Its about time. For decades Progressives in Kentucky have been completely disgusted with the anti-American tactics used by Mitch McConnell and his minions in the Kentucky Republican Party who followed him like obsessed disciples. When President Obama first entered office I could not believe that a man as seemingly intelligent as he is could ever think he would be able to work with a man such as McConnell. Now, it appears after reaching out to McConnell and his radically Corporate Republian Party and pulling back a bloody nub just as we predicted here the President has had his fill. Thankfully, he is finally taking McConnell and his crowd to task.

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