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• The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud suit on Friday that essentially says that Goldman built the financial equivalent of a time bomb and then sold it to unwitting investors.
• The Sitzkrieg of Sunday Mornings -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash "Republicans are less the Party of No than the Party of No Limits, No Decency, No Shame. I've never quite seen anything like it."
• World warming to US under Obama, BBC poll suggests
• Mitch McConnell Twists Himself Into a Contortionist Pretzel of Lies on Financial Reform -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• "Tea partiers in two camps: Sarah Palin vs. Ron Paul"
• The 100 Top Corporate Air Polluters in the U.S.
• Diverted by a Volcano, Merkel Takes the Bus Home
• Paul Krugman: Looters in Loafers
• Frank Rich: Welcome to Confederate History Month
• Supreme Court is deciding whether universities and colleges can deny official recognition to Christian student groups that refuse to let non-Christians and gays join.
• Bill Clinton: I Was Wrong to Listen to Bad Advice Against Regulating Derivatives from Rubin and Summers (Who Still Have Huge Influence in the Obama Administration)
• A Corporate Media Owned by Wealthy Interests is Going to Disseminate Propaganda Aimed at Perpetuating Wealth for the Wealthy. -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog by Mark Karlin
• Pot enthusiasts gather at California cannabis expo
• The Ecuadorean government has threatened to take over foreign oil concessions if the companies resist growing state control of the industry. President Rafael Correa said every day millions of dollars were going to oil companies that should go to the state.
• Kerry Says Energy Bill is Jobs Bill
• Report: German government may consider legal action in Goldman Sachs case. BuzzFlash likes that!
• Bachmann on LSD: Rep. Michele Bachmann said the "gangster government" has instituted a "takeover of one private industry after another," again making her questionable claim that "the federal government owns or controls 51 percent of the private economy."
• What else is there to say about a newly-inaugurated Virginia governor, a pro South African apartheid voice from the Reagan era who revived a disgraced racist predecessor's dream of a Confederate History Month and without even a mention of slavery and lynching?
• It's Deja Vu All Over Again: Pope vows to protect and punish in growing pedophile scandal
• U.S. Government Should Call for Full Derivatives Disclosure by CitiBank
• California Nursing homes received millions while cutting staff, wages
• WH Press Secretary Gibbs said the press “covers the food fight, but doesn't necessarily check who started it and whether they started it for a reason that was legitimate or not." He's got that right!
• Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, is one of the loudest and brashest apologists for the uber-orthodox faction now in control of the Vatican. His abrasive style has been on vivid display in the wake of the recent revelations that Pope Benedict may have turned a blind eye to the problem of pedophile priests. But whether he is attacking Catholics who only seek accountability or lashing out at the press for asking tough questions, Donohue constantly displays an obsession with homosexuality and anal sex. One has to wonder why.
• Black farmers try new tactics against weapons of mass foreclosure
• Bill Clinton: Limbaugh "Doesn't Make Any Sense." Yeah, it's scary how many people believe he does make sense! Limbaugh's like the snake in the Garden of Eden.
• Lucinda Marshall: Delusion By Exclusion–The Damaging Impact Of Global Media Misogyny
• Chris Hedges: America's greatest intellectual says "The mood of the country is frightening. ... It is going off into self-destructive fantasies."
• TomDispatch: Karen Greenberg, The Two-Guantanamo Solution
• After Health Care Passage, Obama Pushes to Get It Rolling
• Another Victory for the NRA and America's Shooting Gallery: Arizona to allow concealed weapons without permit. Oh, the bloody madness.
• New York Sen. Charles Schumer says five major airlines have agreed they aren't going to charge passengers for their carry-on bags. When are they putting in the pay toilets?
• Don Blankenship and the A.T. Massey Crime Spree
• Bankers Who Rob Banks Should Go to Jail. That's Just Common Sense.: "Accusations that Goldman defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky mortgages have only just begun to reverberate through the financial world."
• More than 200 former congressional staff members, federal regulators and retired lawmakers are employed by the mining industry as lobbyists, consultants or senior executives, including dozens who work for coal companies with the worst safety records in the nation, a Washington Post analysis shows. Blood is on their hands.
• Richard Power: Do You Understand the Power of the Pebble People? For Benazir Bhutto on Earth Day, with Help from Alice Walker, Yoko Ono and Bill McKibben
• NYT Editorial on Financial Reform: The White House and Democratic leaders need to push back hard against Republican posturing, making it clear to Americans that robust reform is the only way to protect the system - and taxpayers - from a repeat catastrophe. When Republicans try to block reform, they are doing nothing more than shilling for the banks.
• 33 States Reported Job Growth in March
• A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear.
• One of the most watched primary campaigns of 2010, and one of the most dramatic, is taking to the floor of the California Democratic Party Convention on Sunday, April 18th. In an impressive feat against blue-dog incumbent Congresswoman Jane Harman, primary challenger and progressive democrat, Marcy Winograd, has secured more than the needed number of votes to pull Harman’s Democratic Party endorsement recommendation and open the contest to debate today, Sunday, the last day of the convention.
• Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossing
• A couple of recent news reports --regarding public opinion and belief-- show the price being paid by the president, and his party, for not making the pernicious dishonesty of the disloyal opposition the main issue of our national discourse, as it so profoundly deserves to be. This reluctance to confront the dark forces has been Obama's most costly strategic error throughout his one-plus year in office.
• Ash prompts Obama to cancel Poland trip
• Stock Market Hustle – Three Ways Wall Street has Created a New American Serfdom. The Overly Expensive Mortgage Deduction, Wall Street Pseudo-Rally, and Attacking the Poor.
• Travelers are enduring spreading chaos as an Icelandic volcano continues to spew ash that winds are pushing south and east over an increasing portion of the European continent, causing more airports to shut and thousands of flights to be canceled.
• The Obama administration is for the first time drafting classified guidelines to help the government determine whether newly captured terrorism suspects will be prosecuted or held indefinitely without trial, senior U.S. officials said. The draft document envisions that a small number of suspected terrorists captured in the future could be detained and interrogated in an overseas prison, several of the officials said. At least in the short term, Bagram air base in Afghanistan would be the most likely prison to hold the suspects, they said.
• Polish leader, wife flown to Krakow for burial
• Neo-Con Leak: " Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran's steady progress toward nuclear capability, according to government officials familiar with the document."
• Legal Defender Isabel Garcia: Arizona Bill Forcing Officers to Determine Immigration Status Marks “All-Out Assault” on Latino Communities
• After Quake, Ethnic Tibetans Distrust China’s Help
• Incremental National Numbness and Disempowerment
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• Crocodile Tears on Wall Street -- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship for BuzzFlash
• Obama: On bank reform, Sen. McConnell is 'cynical and deceptive'
• Obama: Rules Needed to Avoid New Financial Crisis
• A state judge on Friday struck down an Arkansas law approved by voters that banned gay couples and other unmarried people living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
• Yes, Randi Rhodes is Still Broadcasting. Give Her Show a Listen. Hi Randi!
• Bill Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh
• Romney Backs Right Winger in GOP Senate Primary Over Gov. Crist
• Crocodile Tears on Wall Street -- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship for BuzzFlash
• Federal Taxes Drop for Middle Class -- News Release from Senator Bernie Sanders
• 1 in 3 Americans Failed to Return Census Forms
• The U.S. Army has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday. The dismissal for misconduct means Spc. Marc A. Hall will avoid criminal charges but lose all military benefits earned over at least four years of service, including an earlier tour in Iraq.
• General Electric Paid No Taxes in U.S.?
• The Man Who Made Billions Off of Rogue Goldman Sachs Scheme Gets Off Unindicted
• Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which fell 13 percent yesterday after U.S. regulators announced fraud accusations, didn’t disclose that it was warned nine months ago that investigators wanted to bring a case, people with direct knowledge of the talks said.
• Tim Rutten has a column in today's L.A. Times in which he cites the latest New York Times/CBS poll. He provides the actual numbers in the article. He also reveals the Tea Baggers for who they are: "Angry white males" who are screaming their rage at federal programs they support and who are aiding and abetting Republican politicians and consultants.
• Media Matters' Burns: Hannity yanked from Tea Party "Rally" to preserve Fox's "illusion of journalistic credibility"
• Krugman: "On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, called for the abolition of municipal fire departments. Firefighters, he declared, "won't solve the problems that led to recent fires. They will make them worse." The existence of fire departments, he went on, "not only allows for taxpayer-funded bailouts of burning buildings; it institutionalizes them." He concluded, "The way to solve this problem is to let the people who make the mistakes that lead to fires pay for them. We won't solve this problem until the biggest buildings are allowed to burn."
• Day of Silence Detractors Want to Preserve Students' Right to Bully -- BuzzFlash News Analysis by Meg White
• FoxPAC -- Fox News hosts and contributors raise big bucks for GOP
• President Obama signed into law a bill restoring unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans.
• He was a Nazi officer on the front lines of the Holocaust, sentenced to death at Nuremberg -- yet with the help of powerful friends, he walked free. For decades, Martin Sandberger lived in Germany undisturbed. Shortly before his death, SPIEGEL found him in a retirement home. A final meeting with a criminal.
• President Obama: Stand Behind Goodwin Liu or the GOP Will Pick All Your Federal Bench Appointments to Pieces
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• Senate Republicans Band Together in Opposing Financial Bill
• Pro Publica: Other Major Banks Did Deals Similar to Goldman’s
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• The Pentagon has blocked the start of a large wind farm in an economically depressed community in Oregon because the Air Force is concerned about potential interference with a radar facility.
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• Ex-Blackwater president indicted on firearms charges
• 80% of Early Money for Bachmann/Palin Soiree From Outside Bachmann’s District
• Pakistan sets new probe into Bhutto killing after scathing U.N. report
• An Enduring Memorial for Slaughtered Miners: Criminal Liability for Reckless Owners
• Exxon's Income Tax: $0 [UPDATED]
• Cable News Silent When Democrats Win Off-year Elections -- Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash
• Three years after Virginia Tech shooting, college gun bans prevail
• Paul Krugman: The Fire Next Time [McConnell's a klutz w/Luntz talking pts]
• The Case Against Jamie Dimon: Oligopoly, Pain, and Systemic Risk in Five Slides
• USDA Inspector General: meat supply routinely tainted with harmful residues
• Obama orders hospital visitation rights for gays, lesbians. Yes, this wouldn't have happened under Bush!
• Goldman Sachs fraud charges anger Americans, humiliate Republicans and put Tea Party leaders to the test
• UK:'Robin Hood' tax policies put redistribution on equal footing with saving planet
• Tea Party's After Party: More Extremism as Gun Rights Activists Hit Washington
• Health Insurers' Fast Food Holdings Raise Flag of Promoting Bad Health Habits
• Tennessee cleanup sends coal ash, anxiety, to Alabama site
• U.S. contractors failed to train Afghans to adjust AK-47 sights
• Resegregation of U.S. Schools Deepening
• Several GOP-ers May Aide with Obama on Financial Reform Bill, Although How Much Reform Remains to be Seen
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• Is President Obama Moving Fast Enough on LGBT Rights? -- BuzzFlash Discussion
• It's About Time: S.E.C./U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud in Lawsuit. "Goldman itself profited by betting against the very mortgage investments that it sold to its customers." Hallelujah!
• Why Are Right-Wing Politicians So Smug? -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash

• Sign This Demand, Just Click: "Seniors Who Disparage Healthcare as Socialism Should Burn Their Medicare Cards" -- A BuzzFlash Advocacy Project. Share on Facebook and Forward to Friends Through E-Mail.
• Obama Orders Mine Safety Crackdown, Six Massey Mines on Serial Violators List
• Ex-NY Congressman Had History of Groping Male Employees -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
• Catholic Church in Worst Credibility Crisis Since Reformation, Theologian Tells Bishops
• D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" Tells Us, Nearly a Century Ago, About the Racist Neo-Confederacy -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book Review of the Month, Exclusively for BuzzFlash. For April.
• Chinese Transport Ship Runs Aground Down Under, Badly Damages Aussie Landmark -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
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• Memo to Rush Limbaugh: Don't Look Now But Your Stupidity is Showing! -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• The Republican Party has assumed the mantle of “the party of no.” But at what cost to taxpayers? Here’s a breakdown of the most expensive word in American political history. Instead, Republicans continue to pull down their taxpayer-funded salaries, enjoy their taxpayer-sponsored benefits, and accept tax-free donations to think tanks.
• Ostroy Report: Tea Baggers are Republicans in Wolves' Clothing
• Rev. Billy: Our Church has brought murdered mountain mud from the once-prestine slopes of West Virginia back to Chase in New York City. Mountaintop Removal - The strip-mining that has decimated Appalachia - must end now. The EPA's new guidelines are the political solution. It's hard to see any change without the pincipal under-writer of dirty coal, JP Morgan Chase - changing it's ways.
• Autographed for BuzzFlash Readers, New Afterword. May 4th Release of Paperback Version of "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free," BuzzFlash Sold More than 600 Copies of the Hardcover Edition.
• Oregon: 0ne Example of Why We Need Universal Health Coverage
• Poor swath of conservative, anti-stimulus SC didn't want the money, but it's working
• What is it with the teabagger movement? Isn't enough to clearly demonstrate you're an all-around nincompoop? Or do you also have to flunk a spelling test to join?
• A good step away from nuclear weapons
• NY Times poll reveals Fox News' influence on tea partiers
• Rory O'Connor: Burma Video Journalists: Courageous Reporting From A Closed Country
• The Home of Anthrax Gets a New Home: Ft. Dietrick
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• Sen. George LeMieux Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for his Galactic Duplicity in Funding NASA Programs
• The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), which works to turn environmental values into national priorities, announced that Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been named to the 2010 Dirty Dozen as the “People’s Choice.” Rep. Bachmann won the nomination to the Dirty Dozen list through an online vote where she received 60 percent of the votes.
• In Europe, Volcanic Ash from Iceland to Curtail Air Traffic Until Sometime Friday Afternoon
• Must Read, George Lakoff: The Democratic Leadership Doesn't Understand the Power of Language and Framing, What Two Polls Show. Why are Dems Always on the Defensive When It Comes to the Terms of the Debate? Read on... -- George Lakoff for BuzzFlash
• Cyber-Warfare Chief's Deception
• Amazon dam delay overturned by Brazil judge
• No Jumpers Spotted At Goldman Sachs Headquaters - Yet
• Surest Sign the Tea Party is Out of Control, Considering It Makes No Sense Unless You Account for Its Racist Subtext: "Fox News Pulls Sean Hannity From Tea Party Rally." Even FOX is Concerned that the Tea Party Might Blow Up In Its Face?
• "Contradicting his cover story that tapes depicting brutal interrogations of terror suspects were destroyed without his knowledge, new documents show former CIA director Porter Goss personally approved—and even joked about—eliminating the evidence in 2005."
• Porn Star Gives Vitter a Pass in Senate Race
• David Sirota: Journalism Parasites
• VIDEO: Righties launching own network. Fox wasn't enough?
• O’Reilly Denies GOP Sen’s Charge Fox Lied about HCR Jail Penalty - Cue Video of Fox Lying 20+ Times
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• States Banning Coverage for Abortion Care. Send 'Em Dead Rats.
• 2005 destruction of interrogation tapes caused concern at CIA, e-mails show
• Republicans Working on New Contract on America
• Happy Tax Day! While Tea Partiers Waste our Money on Mindless Protests, Let's Take a Moment to Give Thanks for the Public Good -- BuzzFlash News Analysis by Meg White
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• Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts says U.S. Marshals should handcuff Massey Energy Co. CEO Donald Blankenship and “take him to jail.”
• From the Archives: Hundreds of pages of just-released documents that the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese compiled over four decades reveal a coverup of pedophilia that involved top church leaders and touched a prominent law-enforcement official.
• Of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Massey CEO Don Blankenship's team of corporate attorneys plea bargained an "unusual" probation sentence of 3 years from what the judge felt were criminal felony offenses committed during the 2006 fire at Aracoma's Number One mine which caused the deaths of miners Elvis Hatfield and Don Bragg. And even though his company was penalized $25 million, it apparently meant little more than a slap on the wrist since Blankenship personally pulled down at least $129.2 million in salary, bonuses, and perks between 1999 and 2008.
• "An elaborate human-smuggling network that ferried tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into Arizona using shuttle vans was broken up Thursday during a series of raids, federal authorities said."
• Payday loans, subprime mess, foreclosures share root problem
• Is Government Transparency on the Way? Well, At Least in a News Release.
• Steele Allies Point Fingers At Rove -- Say Former RNC Team Fanning Flames
• The Great American Bank Heist – On the Day we Reach a Monthly Foreclosure Filing Record Banks Announce Record Profits and the Stock Market is up 80 Percent.
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• The Watchdog: Elizabeth Warren She may be the only person in Washington who stands between us and Wall Street's next meltdown
• Afghanistan's Secret Troop Surge
• Obama Steps Up Mine Safety Review. The president also faulted a lack of government oversight at agencies that he said had been stacked with industry sympathizers. Then maybe he should stop appointing industry insiders, no offense.
• Wealth, Taxes and Economic Justice: America’s Tax Policy Needs an Extreme Makeover -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Hating on Don Blankenship Before Hating on Don Blankenship was Cool
• BBC: Afghans 'abused at secret prison' at Bagram airbase
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• NYT: "Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated." Don't throw your shoes at the TV screen. That plasma TV may be expensive.
• Apparently the actions of National Rifle Association member Timothy McVeigh didn't teach the organization that its violent anti-government rhetoric can have dangerous consequences
• Archives: The Vatican confirmed the authenticity of a 2001 letter published by French website Golias in which Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos congratulates French bishop Pierre Pican for not reporting a sexually abusive priest to the police.
• Having Tried Blaming Victims and Jews Already, Vatican Settles on Homosexuality as the "Cause" of the Ongoing Church Child Sex Abuse Scandal, For the Moment -- BuzzFlash News Analysis by Meg White Doesn't Anyone Realize This is a Religious Hierarchy of Tolerated Pedophilia in Panic Mode? Horrifying, Immoral and Criminal.
• FOX Getting Too Vitriolic, Even for Life-Long Republicans -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off FOX Campaign
• Christian Right Policy: Middle Class Whites Who Rather Get Screwed by the Rich Than Help the Poor
• "Frontline" Has "Memory Lapse" About Single Payer Healthcare in Documentary About Healthcare Reform
• Ten Lowest-Polling Tea Party "Action Items"
• Democrats Show Some Backbone on Wall Street Reform
• Big Bad Wolf Corporations Try a Makeover
• Huckabee and the Whole GOP Winger Leadership is Like a Freak Show Gaper's Block
• Letter to Holder Calling for Blankenship Investigation
• Contractor Deaths Accelerating in Afghanistan as They Outnumber Soldiers -- ProPublica on BuzzFlash
• Sarah Palin is now the perpetual freak show on American television, the star of every show, the leading lady of every network. Her every moment is chronicled ad nauseam.
• The U.S. military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek the consent of local shuras, or consultative conferences with those elders, to carry out the coming military occupation of Kandahar city and nearby districts – contradicting a pledge by Afghan President Hamid Karzai not to carry out the operation without such consent.
• Big Pharma's Stranglehold on the Media: Patients Reported Fractures Caused by Bone Drug Long Before Health Industry -- Martha Rosenberg for BuzzFlash
• Lou Dobbs Calls MSNBC "GE's gift to the Obama Administration." Yeah, and you are a gift to the gutter, Lou.
• Chavez Fuels the South Bronx
• Bill O'Reilly Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award for Claiming Nobody on FOX Suggested People Without Healthcare Coverage Would be Jailed, Even When it Happened on His Very Own Show.
• The United States is leading an effort by a handful of antiwhaling nations to broker an agreement that would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, according to people involved with the negotiations. It's about time.
• What You Will Never Hear from a Politician: Why You Should Want to Pay Taxes
• New Jobless Claims Up
• A 2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic
• Thoughts About A New Political Movement (Vol. #17) -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
• Recovering from Empathy -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash
• Nearly 800,000 U.S. TV households 'cut the cord,' report says. Could cable TV be endangered. We hope so. By, By, FOX.
• To Organize Against Wall Street, We Need a Narrative Focusing on Crime and Massive Fraud -- Danny Schechter for BuzzFlash
• Last drinks for Kabul's expat crowd, as Afghans target centers of "moral decay"
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• These are Ironic Times
• Americans were thrilled today to embrace a period of renewed austerity, jettisoning credit in favor of savings, rejecting needless extravagance in exchange for thrifty practicality, and they started with the American sandwich. Early this morning Americans threw away their buns and took up the KFC "Double Down" sandwich in signs that those who were making less bread were going to simply do without.
• GOP Now Officially The Confederacy of The Luntzes
• Teabagger Barbie And Friends: Robotic Sludge
• Mark Morkford: 37 things worse than a KFC meatwich
• The Tea Party Strategy to Avoid All Taxes
• Tea Party's New Motto: 'No Taxation Without MISrepresentation'