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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 Sat, 17 May 2008 13:50:02 -0500 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/meneame/ en <![CDATA[The O'Reilly Meltdown: The Gift That Keeps Giving]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52160 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52160 Sat, 17 May 2008 13:50:02 -0500 theprogressivetruth Busheviks bill o'reilly political comedy http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52160 Of course by now most of us have seen the original Bill O'Reilly meltdown that has recently surfaced on the interweb. So, it was only a matter of time before the internet(s) geniuses out there started to manipulate, edit, and tweak O'Reilly's hissy fit to further mock the mockable. Visit The Progressive Truth to see more of O'Reilly, the gift that keeps giving.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52160 <![CDATA[An Antiwar March Through Towns Unused to One: by Michelle York]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52175 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52175 Sat, 17 May 2008 12:25:02 -0500 OrpRam Progressive Issues wllstrt-greed-fscsm-mltrsm free spch-peace-vetrns http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52175 Since the war in Iraq began five years ago, the Second Brigade at Fort Drum has put in four tours. For the past week, opponents of the war have taken several routes through the conservative and largely rural reaches of upstate New York - small communities that have sent many of their young men and women into the military right after high school and have paid a disproportionate price. On Saturday, which is Armed Forces Day, protesters ranging from peace activists to Iraq Veterans Against the War will hold a daylong rally outside Fort Drum. What they lack in numbers - there were only about 40 on the road on Wednesday - they have made up for in passion, having walked about 80 miles so far. The marchers started from several places, including Rochester, Ithaca and Utica, and merged on Wednesday, signifying the beginning of their final trek toward Fort Drum, just north of Watertown, near the Canadian border. Planners say they have a dual message: to protest both the war and what they see as poor treatment of veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52175 <![CDATA[Bush and EPA Wage War on Science: We All Lose When Scientists Are Asked to Hide Inconvenient Truths]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52167 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52167 Sat, 17 May 2008 10:50:01 -0500 OrpRam Environment prstc cptlsm-wllstrt-greed-wh-lies env-sci-truth http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52167 A child’s biopsy shows early-stage cancer, with a high survival rate if treated in time. But his parents secretly pressure the doctor to alter the results because they don’t want to pay the medical bills. Criminal? Immoral? It’s not so different from what’s been happening at the Environmental Protection Agency these days. Except that the health of all of us, as well as our planet, is at stake. Evidence has been mounting for some time of growing dangers to our environment from ozone, mercury, carcinogens, and, the most cataclysmic of all, global warming. But the EPA has been pressuring its scientists to withhold inconvenient truths, and thus the need to do something about them. The list of alleged falsehoods and manipulations is long and outrageous. Here are some lowlights listed by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., before Senate hearings held last week.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52167 <![CDATA[Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52179 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52179 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:25:02 -0500 Sparrows Democratic Party obama and the gauntlet mccain-lieberman http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52179 An inflammatory first report on the domestic threat of "violent Islamist extremism" issued a week ago via the Senate Committee on Homeland Security turns out not to have been drafted by the Committee at all. The report was drafted solely under the direction of Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (CT)-- a pro-war "Independent Democrat"-- and ranking Republican Susan Collins (ME). It appears that other members of the Committee, including Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), had no part in authoring the controversial document, titled: "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat."(PDF). "Neither Senator Obama nor his staff had any input into the report," said the spokesperson in Obama's Washington, DC, office Wednesday evening.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52179 <![CDATA[California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52113 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52113 Sat, 17 May 2008 04:55:01 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans califirornia gay rights http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52113 I know, we had this story from several sources yesterday, including one that I posted. But something struck me when I was listening to a news report this morning that gave me a new prospective on this issue. The California Supreme Court is made up of mostly rethug appointees. Rethugs in California are now proposing to put a constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage on the November ballot. Is this all a republican plot to get the Religious Reich voters out to vote this year, when there is reason to believe that they would stay home rather than go to the polls to vote for McCain (R-Idiot)? As you know, McCain (R-Idiot) is either with them or against them depending on which side of his mouth he is speaking from today. Republicans are desparate. It is not hard to believe that the Republican-serving California Supreme Court made this decision to get the base fired-up. I hope that warrant for Karl Rove has been issued.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52113 <![CDATA[Senate Votes To Revive Ban On Media Cross-Ownership]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52156 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52156 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:20:01 -0500 OrpRam Media prstc cptlsm-greed-repubs-media-cross ownrshp ban http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52156 The Senate voted Thursday night to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a TV station in the same market. The unusual “resolution of disapproval,” sponsored by Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) and 24 other senators, was approved on a voice vote. Republican FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin has described the agency’s action as a “relatively minor loosening” of media ownership restrictions. The FCC approved the rule on a 3-2 vote in December with both Democrats dissenting. The FCC decision allows one company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the nation’s 20 largest metropolitan areas. The TV station may not be among the top four in the market and, post-transaction, at least eight independent media voices must remain. The rule replaced an outright ban on cross-ownership.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52156 <![CDATA[Troubling, tired tactic - Bush engages in fear-mongering -- AGAIN!]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52130 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52130 Sat, 17 May 2008 01:50:02 -0500 RicKelis Republicans republican losers bush fearmongers http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52130 Here they go again. Republicans peddling fear. The most recent offender was President (sic) George W. Bush, who linked anyone who would talk with the nation's enemies to those who have succumbed to "the false comfort of appeasement"-- a most incendiary buzz word. It's also a tiresome tactic that elevates partisan politics above the national interest - especially inappropriate for a sitting president. Voters should reject such transparent attempts to exploit their fears for political advantage. Politicians will stop doing it when it no longer works, Simply vilifying those who favor a different approach with foreign foes is no way to advance the nation's interest.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52130 <![CDATA[U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal"]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52162 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52162 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:02 -0500 NewsSophisticate Progressive Issues bushco's illegal wars http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52162 On Capitol Hill yesterday, an American soldier named Matthis Chiroux publicly announced his refusal to deploy to Iraq."I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school. I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old," the now 24-year-old said."I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq[...] My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation… I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation," he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52162 <![CDATA[Court approves evil gay agenda--Mark Morford]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52139 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52139 Fri, 16 May 2008 23:05:02 -0500 kladner Progressive Issues marriage gays uptight people http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52139 "This is the bad news. As you read these very words, shrill cultural conservatives from Orange County to Fresno to Stockton are holding meetings in all sorts of grungy subbasements and moldy rec rooms and sterile Holiday Inn conference rooms, sipping watery Sanka and sweating profusely in their armpits and scowling like angry cats as they work to put a quick and painful stop to all this gay-loving God-hating nonsense, by way of an initiative on the November ballot outlawing icky and confusing gay marriage, by constitutional decree, once and for all. See? Same as it ever was: One beautiful step forward, one giant jackboot back."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52139 <![CDATA[John Cusack’s War: The Actor Battles to Un-Embed Hollywood With His New Film, ‘War, Inc.’ - by Jeremy Scahill]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52158 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52158 Fri, 16 May 2008 22:00:03 -0500 OrpRam Progressive Issues prstc cptlsm-wllstrt-grd-fscsm-mltrsm-dcmntry film http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52158 John Cusack began working on his new film “War, Inc.,” which premieres in LA and New York May 23, about a year into the US occupation of Iraq. From the moment US tanks rolled into Baghdad, Cusack was a voracious consumer of news about the war. He took it deadly seriously, regularly calling independent journalists and asking them questions as he sought as much independent information as he could. Watching the insanity of the erection of the Green Zone and the advent of the era of McWar, complete with tens of thousands of “private contractors,” Cusack set out to use the medium of film to unveil the madness. He wanted to do on the big screen what independent reporters like Naomi Klein, Nir Rosen and Dahr Jamail did in print. Over these years of war and occupation, Cusack has become one of the most insightful commentators on a far too seldom discussed aspect of the occupation: the Corporate Dominance of the U.S. War Machine.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52158 <![CDATA[What else has Bush lied about? er..What else HASN'T Bush lied about?]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52129 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52129 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:10:03 -0500 RicKelis Busheviks bush lies militarism iran iraq http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52129 At a press conference last week in Baghdad, U.S. Army Major General Kevin Bergner was to make a connection of some 20,000 weapons, explosives and ammunition found in the cities of Basra and Karbala to Iran. But U.S. explosive experts checked the weapons cache and found there was no connection. Zero. This time the White House "spin" was stopped before it got off the ground. How many other untruths have been foisted on the American public to keep this tragic war going?

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52129 <![CDATA[McCain (R-Idiot) Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52108 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52108 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:25:03 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans mccain (r-idiot) obama stupidity http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52108 McCAIN (R-Idiot): "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52108 <![CDATA[All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52143 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52143 Fri, 16 May 2008 19:10:02 -0500 Sparrows Busheviks bush holocaust survivor http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52143 Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Would you say no, you are not an anti-Semite? Consider your own words when you thought no one was keeping score: "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell." Only an anti-Semite would think this type of humor is acceptable. Did you tell the Jews of Israel they were going to hell? No, instead, you told them that American Democrats are Nazi sympathizers and in an act of sheer indecency, the right wing Likud party orchestrated the greatest applause you ever got. For shame!

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52143 <![CDATA[Lieberman On Bush Comparing Democrats To Nazi Appeasers: ‘The President Got It Exactly Right’]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52123 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52123 Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:01 -0500 OrpRam Busheviks ncns-wh-isrl-greed-fscsm-mltrsm-zionism-hgmny-dth http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52123 Delivering an address before the Israeli Knesset today, President Bush said that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Democrats favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. Obama quickly responding, criticizing Bush for using the “60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack.” As MSNBC reported, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), a strong supporter of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), has also now issued a statement, saying that he wholeheartedly agrees with Bush’s comments: President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and that holds that — if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers — they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52123 <![CDATA[Eugene Robinson: The GOP's Ideas Deficit - Washington Post]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52132 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52132 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:25:02 -0500 RicKelis Elections reagan era over conservatives done gop http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52132 it doesn't matter who wins the Democratic nomination or even who wins the general election in the fall. Regardless of who takes the oath of office in January, the paradigm that reigned for nearly three decades -- the notion that government is useless, if not inherently evil -- is no longer operative. The Reagan era in American politics is about to end, and we have George W. Bush to thank for its demise. GOP party leaders speak of the need to refurbish the "Republican brand." The problem goes far beyond packaging, though. It's not that the box needs to be more colorful; it's that the ideas inside have long since gone stale.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52132 <![CDATA[Official Urged Fewer Diagnoses Of PTSD]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52109 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52109 Fri, 16 May 2008 16:35:01 -0500 sacredsage Health and Wellness veterans ptsd denying benefits http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52109 A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition. "Given that we are having more and more compensation seeking veterans, I'd like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out," Norma Perez wrote in a March 20 e-mail to mental-health specialists and social workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs' Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center in Temple, Tex. Instead, she recommended that they "consider a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52109 <![CDATA[Bush, Speaking In Knesset, Calls Israelis “Appeasers”]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52110 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52110 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:40:02 -0500 SpinDentist Busheviks bush arrogance obama israel http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52110 If we take Dana Perino at her word, which is dangerous in itself, Bush was not focused on Barack Obama with his “appeaser” comments in the Knesset. So who is negotiating with “terrorists and radicals that he is targeting? The Israelis themselves are negotiating with Syria, and Bush has the stones to criticize them in the Knesset. Booyah!

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52110 <![CDATA[Audio Recording of McCain's Political Endorser John Hagee Preaching Jews Are Cursed and Subhuman]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52069 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52069 Fri, 16 May 2008 14:50:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans mccain (r-idiot) religious reich hagee http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52069 To assert that any human group is somehow spiritually different from the rest of humanity is the most extreme form of racist bigotry. In the sermon recording I discovered, John Hagee does just that: Hagee clearly states his theological view that Jews are not "spiritually alive". Hence, John Hagee singles out Jews as being of a lesser order than other humans: subhuman. In his sermon, Pastor Hagee asks how God will get Jews, whom Hagee refer to as "dry bones", to go back to the land of Israel. As an answer John Hagee cites Jeremiah 16, verses 15

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52069 <![CDATA[Maliki Stalls US Plan to Frame Iran]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52033 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52033 Fri, 16 May 2008 13:45:02 -0500 NewsSophisticate Busheviks moron bush and his world of wars http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52033 The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse US charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.The news media's failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the US military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy. BushCO and Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq and especially its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52033 <![CDATA[How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52104 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52104 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:55:03 -0500 spectral_ev Busheviks bush http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52104 George Bush should have thought twice before playing the Nazi card. It only invites his opponents to re-visit the Bush family history.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52104 <![CDATA[Iraq War Harms US Security]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52035 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52035 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:55:02 -0500 populist101 The World war iraq security failure http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52035 with U.S. casualties again spiking and American troops bogged down in Iraq indefinitely, there have been virtually no prominent articles taking the neocons to task for their lack of realism in failing to see the security risk their policies have created

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52035 <![CDATA[The Shameful Mistreatment of Foreigners]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52034 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52034 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:55:02 -0500 populist101 Miscellaneous tyranny foreigners http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52034 Whenever a government is engaged in grave wrongdoing, it is up to an aroused citizenry to finally put a stop to it. The problem facing our country is that we have frightened citizens with severely diminished consciences who looks upon the state as their savior and depend on it for their sustenance.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52034 <![CDATA[Bush: Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaida are all the same]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52080 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52080 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:10:03 -0500 Sparrows Busheviks bush hezbollah hamas al-ciada http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52080 U.S. President George Bush said during a closed working meeting between the American and Israeli teams that there is no difference between Hamas, Hezbollah and Al-Qaida. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her U.S. counterpart Condoleezza Rice also took part in the meeting, held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, which focused on the latest developments in Syria, Lebanon, Iran and the Gaza Strip. Note: Just ole prez showing his intellectual skills when it comes to foreign policy.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52080 <![CDATA[Democrats Position For War Funding Approval]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52066 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52066 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:20:02 -0500 OrpRam Democratic Party wllstrt-greed-wh-cong-fscsm-mltrsm-isrl-hgmny-iraq http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52066 The House kicked off a partisan debate Thursday on a Democratic plan to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans as the price for approving President Bush’s long-stalled request for war funding. People whose unemployment benefits have run out would also get a 13-week extension. The Democratic plan would impose a surtax on individuals with incomes above $500,000 to pay for the 10-year, $52 billion cost of boosting the GI Bill to try to provide Iraq veterans with college educations. Couples would pay the tax on income exceeding $1 million. “We are talking about people who are making over $1 million to pay a small sacrifice for this war where our military families are paying a huge sacrifice,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. Senators in both parties, however, were balking at the one-half of a percentage point increase in tax rates. At the same time, Republicans and business groups said the plan amounts to an increase in taxes on small businesses that pay taxes at the same rates as individuals.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52066 <![CDATA[Apocalyptic Christian Nationalism at Its Scariest]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52079 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52079 Fri, 16 May 2008 10:40:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans religious reich dominionism rethugs http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52079 See McCain's (R-Idiot) spiritual advisors in action. These are excerpts from "Silhouette City," a new documentary by Michael Wilson that investigates apocalyptic Christian nationalism. The film tracks the rise of this religious fervor over the last three decades, from fringe Christian survivalist groups of the 1970's to today's mainstream movement. As you can see from this clip, the current leaders of apocalyptic Christian nationalism include Rev. Rod Parsley and Rev. John Hagee, whose endorsement John McCain (R-Idiot) has actively sought.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52079 <![CDATA[Has the Battle for America Begun?]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52082 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52082 Fri, 16 May 2008 09:45:01 -0500 Sparrows The World americans wising up ultra-rich china http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52082 According to Asia Times Online (April 8, 2008), Currency Wars “has become a runaway bestseller in China in the past nine months. The book caused a sensation of interests and heated discussions in Chinese cyber space and other media on Western intentions behind its demand that China quickly appreciate the value of its currency. Song Hongbing, the book's author, draws from a wide range of literature in English and argues that the modern history of international finance is primarily a process of how a very small number of powerful families in the West have established their control over governments and international institutions. “According to Song, there is no such thing as a free market when it comes to global finance and financial institutions. From the Rothschild family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the rise of J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and other prominent U.S. financial powerhouses, Song sees all the modern wars, depressions, and manmade disasters having a linkage to the manipulation of a handful of Western private bankers.” And it’s not only in China . Through the internet, hundreds of millions of people are wising up to what the central banks and global corporations run by the world’s super-rich are doing to them.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52082 <![CDATA[(Burger King and) Invasions of Privacy-Katrina vanden Heuvel]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51970 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51970 Fri, 16 May 2008 08:50:02 -0500 kladner Progressive Issues farm workers burger king spying privacy http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51970 "Two weeks ago, I asked a Burger King spokeswoman whether the company had hired a private investigative firm to infiltrate the non-violent Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) or Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). She declined to comment. I asked whether the company was aware of any executives making "libelous" comments against CIW via online posts and e-mails. Again, no comment. Now we know why. The Fort Myers News-Press linked Vice President Steve Grover to the anti-CIW posts that he made through "his young daughter's online alias."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=51970 <![CDATA[CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production: By Patricia Grogg]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52076 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52076 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:30:02 -0500 OrpRam Environment env-green farming-organic-local-dvrsfctn-innovatn http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52076 The application of agro-ecological techniques and the salvaging of traditional farming methods have revolutionized food production in rural areas along the southern edge of the Cuban capital. Cuba is currently facing the urgent challenge of boosting agricultural productivity because of the rise in global food prices. A number of farms in the outlying Havana district of Batabanó that are taking part in the Programme for Local Agrarian Innovation (PIAL) have seen improvements in their harvests and livestock. The key seems to lie in efforts to capitalize on natural conditions in the area and in the openness to innovative ideas, particularly with regard to crop diversification.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=52076 <![CDATA[In Address to Knesset, Bush Lies About Obama’s Position on Mideast Negotiations - Then White House Lies about Lying]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51998 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51998 Fri, 16 May 2008 06:25:01 -0500 rgernreich Busheviks worst president ever campaign 2008 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=51998 George Bush took the occasion of his address to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel to end the longstanding tradition of U.S. presidents leaving domestic politics behind “at the water’s edge," by deliberately misstating Barack Obama’s position on negotiating with U.S. adversaries. Predictably, White House spokespeople were then sent out to say that Bush wasn't referring specifically to Obama.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=51998 <![CDATA[Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52028 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52028 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:15:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans bush liar idiot moron fool http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=52028 Obama himself quickly responded to the comparison, calling it a false attack and listing past presidents who didn't think that diplomacy was such a bad idea: "It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel." ... Bush is a total idiot.

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