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• BP might drill once more in the same undersea pocket of oil in the Gulf whose catastrophic leak they just plugged. Unbelievable!
• Since the downturn began in December 2007, the economy has shed, on net, about 5.6 percent of its nonfarm payroll jobs.
• Middle class in shambles – more debt, more job losses, more deceit. Banks attempt final push to break up the middle class. Housing values down by 30 percent but total household debt only down by 2 percent.
• Corporations Donate in Honor of Lawmakers to Win Favors
• GOP Obstruction Against Judges Reaches New Low -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• David Sirota on America's Stadium Mob Mentality
• What the Heck are U.S. Marines Doing in Costa Rica? Obama's Tilt to the Right on Latin America -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash
• Poor U.S. gun regulation enables drug violence in Mexico
• Labor Fights Back for Living Wages and Jobs for All
• Child Inmates Crowded Into Haiti's Dangerous Post-Quake Prisons
• Russian Wildfires could spread to region irradiated by Chernobyl disaster
• Lobbyist Charged With Hiding Political Donations
• Jobs Report: Running Low on Economic Medicine
• One-two punch hits food stamps
• California: State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Pérez have asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to open an investigation into a tiny Missouri nonprofit organization that has pumped nearly $500,000 into a voter initiative to suspend the state's landmark climate change law.
• A Progressive in His 90s Running for the Democratic Nomination for the Late Senator Byrd's Seat in West Virginia
• Canada: Vancouver Hyatt Hotel workers fight back
• Paul Krugman on the Right Wing Flim Flam Man: "One depressing aspect of American politics is the susceptibility of the political and media establishment to charlatans. You might have thought, given past experience, that D.C. insiders would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans. But no: as long as someone on the right claims to have bold new proposals, he’s hailed as an innovative thinker. And nobody checks his arithmetic."
• Robert Parry: October Surprise Cover-up Unravels
• Take Note, Gay Marriage is Good for Business: Same sex marriage law could spell big business for Argentina.
• Josh Silver: Google-Verizon Deal, The End of The Internet as We Know It
• Ban Divorce if You Want to Preserve Marriages; Don't Ban Gays from Marrying -- A BuzzFlash Editor's Blog by Mark Karlin
• In Shakeup, Incoming Spill Claims Czar Will Drop BP’s Contractor
• Senate Rejection of Fed Nominee Slows White House Plan
• Education, Another Victim of Wall Street: Denver is now confronted with budgetary woes aggravated by esoteric financial deals that Wall Street peddled in the years before the credit crisis.
• Rachel Tabachnick: Strategic level spiritual warfare (SLSW) is the ideology behind the growth of "prayer warrior" networks across the nation.
• The Corporate Adversaries of Democracy on the Internet
• Senate Fails to Approve Settlement for Black Farmers, and More
• The Confused Political Landscape -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com "The conservative narrative is at a far remove from the realities ordinary Americans confront. Broad-brush bromides from Tea Party factions about liberty and mindless diatribes about Socialism as free-marketeers chuckle behind their backs cloud an already confused political landscape from which the electorate will be hard pressed to settle on a safe haven for its vote."
• David Lindorff: Surprisingly, There is Some Real Financial Reform in the Financial Reform Law, A Bounty for Whistleblowers
• Franken, Progressive Groups Begin Whip Campaign For Elizabeth Warren
• AFL-CIO: Social Security Report Shows Long-Term Strength
• UPS and FedEx accounts can be used by third parties for scams, and account owners pay the way
• Japan hits smokers where it hurts
• City Governments that Grow Produce for the People
• Guns and Genitals: Sex-Ed Montana Style. Many of the same states that resist comprehensive sex ed also have loose laws for gun ownership. Gun-rights advocates maintain that straight-forward education is the best way to keep kids safe. So why do we treat sex ed differently?
• Republicans want a return to George W. Bush
• Liberal Blogger Suggests Going To Tea Party Rallies & Burning Confederate Flags -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• Obama Raises Nearly $1 Million in Chicago
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 150: The Rightward Imperative of the GOP -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• The Bush "Hide 'Em" Game with the Law: Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned.
• Disinherit the Reactionary Windbags
• Mexico: Poisonous Pesticides on the Doorstep
• Gas Companies Drilling in Pennsylvania Have Committed Nearly 1,500 Environmental Violations in Just Two Years
• NYT: "With the American economic recovery hanging in the balance, private employers added 71,000 jobs in July, up from a downwardly revised 31,000 in June but below the consensus forecast of 90,000. The unemployment rate stayed steady at 9.5 percent. Over all, the nation lost 131,000 jobs in July, but those losses came as 143,000 Census Bureau workers left their temporary posts, the Labor Department said. June’s number was revised dramatically downward to a total loss of 221,000 jobs. The Department of Labor originally reported that the nation lost 125,000 jobs in June."
• Romer: Jobless Numbers Highlight Need for Stimulus
• Scientists Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill's No Threat to Gulf
• Nothing Could be Finer than to be a GOP Hypocrite in Carolina: South Carolina "Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley has consistently missed the April 15 tax-filing deadline, according to additional records released Wednesday, filing her income taxes more than a year late in 2005 and 2006."
• More on Republicans Obstructing Obama Appointments to the Federal Bench
• Reagan's Legacy Continues to Trickle Down: Nevada slashing health benefits to state workers
• Tucker Carlson Helping GOP Raise Money
• A Countercultural Conversation With Noam Chomsky
• BP Confirms That Thousands of Claims Decisions Will Be Deferred
• BP Enabled Release of Terrorist: Scotland released the convicted Lockerbie bomber from prison in August 2009 on the grounds he likely had three months to live, even though there was no consensus among specialists treating his prostate cancer that his prognosis was so dire, according to publicly available documents and people familiar with the case. He's still alive. Many men with prostate cancer can live for years.
• Senate Confirms Kagan by a Vote of 63-37
• "The government is not supposed to license favored press in this country. But what DOD is doing is choosing only to play ball with those outlets with which it is chummy enough to largely influence the coverage of."
• Union busting: Right-wing media relentlessly attack worker representation
• Learning About Reality from Fiction, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive August "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout
• London Becoming the World Capital of "Reputation Laundering": British PR Firms at Forefront of Advising Foreign Regimes Whose Controversial Activities Have Tarnished Their Countries' Images
• Conservative Jurist, With Independent Streak
• Bachmann Promotes Her Next Tele-Townhall Stunt on Breitbart's Website
• Report: M15 Head Told Blair That Iraq Was No Threat
• California's Proposition 25 would have "majority rule" on budgets
• Is Romer Resigning Out of Frustration at the Corporate Economic Tilt at the White House?
• The Republican plan to wreck the economy and then blame the Dems. Will it work?
• News to Us: Third Round of Climate Talks Begin in Bonn
• Red Bike Scare: Republican Candidate Warns Bicycle Rentals Will Lead to UN Take-Over
• In a historic decision for equal marriage, a federal court ruled Proposition 8 — California’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples — to be unconstitutional. Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, declared that the amendment to the California Constitution adopted in November 2008, violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process.
• Stanley Kutler, 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices
• Sears Sells ‘Smut,’ American Family Association Charges. Gee, I Just Wanted a Washing Machine! -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• The Ostroy Report: An Open Letter to Frightened Married Heterosexuals
• Killing Net Neutrality and is Google a Little Bit Evil?
• Futurama: China to breed humongous bus-subway hybrid that swallows traffic
• Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
• Report: Obama Launches New Program to Help Corporations "Take Advantage of Low Labor Costs" Abroad
• US Corporate Media Downplays Pentagon’s Special Commando Assassination Unit
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was pumped at welcoming another woman to the high bench.
• Obama DNI: We can kill you at will; Treasury Dept: And we can punish your lawyers
• The European Role Model
• Senate approves jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs
• Best misspelled tea bagger sign ever
• Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.
• As Google and Verizon try to cut a deal, FCC reaffirms commitment to 'freedom and openness of the Internet.' All he has to do is get the FCC to regulate the Internet as "common carrier" to preserve net neutrality. Why doesn't he do that?
• Russia Bans Grain Exports After Drought Shrivels Crop
• The Industrial Wars of the Last Century Have Created an Extraordinary Blowback Problem for the Global War Profiteers -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
• Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of Psychological Impact From BP's Oil Disaster
• Possible Verizon-Google Deal Worries Net Neutrality Advocates
• Bacevich: Vietnam vs. Munich and Creating an "Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome"
• "Stocks fell Thursday after first-time claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week. The high unemployment rate in the U.S. remains one of the biggest worries for investors. The surprise jump in claims last week suggests that employers are still reluctant to create jobs, which could keep a damper on economic growth the coming months." Money for Jobs on Main Street is Needed; Not Bonuses on Wall Street.
• Ellen Brown: What a Government Can Do With Its Own Bank
• Health-care law strengthens Medicare, report finds
• Fareed Zakaria: Iraq war wasn't worth the cost
• Obama Says Foes of Auto Bailout Lack Faith in America. Good framing for a change from the WH.
• The Growth Act Would Help Empower Women Around the World
• Save the Internet: Preserve Net Neutrality
• U.S. Military BANNED From Viewing WikiLeaks

• Drilling Industry and Gubernatorial Candidates Move to Weaken Some State Regulations
• VIDEO: Dim bulb Fox anchorette asks Rep. Van Hollen what a Democrat is
• Oil Rig’s Owner Had Safety Issue at 3 Other Wells
• Obama says his plan saved auto industry at South Side Ford plant in Chicago, as he visits his hometown for his birthday and some fundraising
• California gay marriage foes file notice of appeal
• Pentagon asks WikiLeaks to return leaked documents. Good luck with that one.
• The U.S. Department of Energy says it will drop plans to build a futuristic power plant in eastern Illinois but still use the location to store carbon dioxide underground. The so-called FutureGen project originally was to include an experimental coal-fired power plant near Mattoon. Carbon dioxide from burning the coal would have been stored underground.
• A candidate who plans to run against Alan Grayson for his District 8 seat has also run into some tax troubles. Republican Bruce O'Donoghue owes the IRS more than $300,000 after he failed to pay his payroll taxes for last year.
• E.J. Dionne: "Rather than shout, I'll just ask the question in a civil way: Dear Republicans, do you really want to endanger your party's greatest political legacy by turning the 14th Amendment to our Constitution into an excuse for election-year ugliness?"
• Poland: Alleged Israeli agent to be extradited to Germany
• Brown Votes No on Kagan. Not a Massachusetts Thing to Do.
• San Diego Mayor Stonewalls Medical Marijuana Regulations
• Indictments Widen Sweep of US-Somali Terror Case
• Network of right-wing PACs preys on small donors, nets millions in fees
• Genetically Modified Fish Soon to be in the Supermarket. Yuch.
• The Nation: "The GOP midterm election strategy is clear: stubbornly oppose anything and everything that might improve the economy and bank on voters to blame Democrats for these tough times come November."
• NYT Editorial: "Full equality for gay men and women should follow California’s decision that a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional."
• Sharon Angle, Running Against Harry Reid, is Head Inmate of the GOP Asylum for the Moment: “What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”
• Housing Boom's Jobs Aren't Returning as Economy Recovers
• Target Issues One of Those Non Apology "Apologies" for Misusing Its Corporate Personhood Campaign Cash on a Medieval Candidate in Minnesota
• Reid Says Renewable-Energy Funds Will Be Restored
• "Missing Oil" Washes Ashore
• "The curse of John Mitchell: How a middle of the road guy like me became a raving leftist—without changing one political opinion"
• Will Sharon Angle Shove Her Radical Religious Thinking Down the Throats of Americans Nationwide? -- Barbara's Buzz From Atlanta
• Former Wife of Mark Kirk, GOP Congressman Running for Obama's Senate Seat, Wouldn't Vote For Him and Identifies by Name a "Pernicious" Right Wing Staffer Who is Influencing Him
• David Sirota Invites You to Go Low Impact With Him
• President Obama echoes Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying he would join a union. He told the AFL-CIO Executive Council, “If I was a coal miner, I’d want a union representing me to make sure that I was safe. If I was a teacher, I’d want a union to make sure that the teachers’ perspective was represented as we think about shaping an education system for our future.”
• Returning to the Reagan October Surprise that Resulted in Jimmy Carter Losing the Election
• Legacy of Reagan, Continued: Schools and social services will be squeezed harder than first thought under Gov. Pat Quinn's latest outline of budget cuts. This in Illinois, Reagan's Home State.
• Charge: EPA Retreats from Environmental Justice
• We Need to End the Filibuster and We Need to End It Now
• TomGram: Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Ostroy Report: Federal Court Overturns CA's Prop 8 Ban on Gay Marriage. Closeted Republicans Everywhere Rejoice!
• Supermodel Naomi Campbell took the stand at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor on Thursday as prosecutors tried to undermine a key element of the former Liberian president's defense.
• The Bank Crisis: Where are the Prosecutions?
• 38 Republican Senators Vote To Filibuster A Deficit Reducing Jobs Bills
• Colbert Calls Out Laura Ingraham For 'Hideous, Hackneyed Racial Stereotypes' In Her Obama Book (VIDEO)
• The Forsaken Women of the Philippines: The Hardship, Humiliation, and Hypocrisy of Unsafe Abortion
• Has Obama Rebranded the Iraq Withdrawal? Yes, Sir.
• Brent Budowsky: Cry Baby Palin
• "“The B.S. WH Report, that falsely claims 75% of oil is gone, will be used by BP to save billions in penalties”
• Siegelman and the Downside to the Supreme's Court Ruling on Honest-Services Fraud
• Help Squash Glenn Beck on Facebook
• "The right wing has falsely portrayed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker -- who presided over the Proposition 8 trial in California -- as extreme or out of the mainstream. But Walker was nominated by Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush and has been praised by Republican lawmakers."
• Should Tony Blair be Prosecuted? If So, Put Him in the Docket with Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
• Energy Entrepreneurs Video: Chilean ecologist looks at a cactus patch and sees bio-energy's future.
• "A federal judge’s ruling Wednesday striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage is a historic and possibly pivotal legal victory for gay rights advocates, but the decision also poses a formidable threat to President Barack Obama’s strategy of relegating divisive social issues to the back burner."
• PIRG Report on Chemcial Insecurity and the World's Most Dangerous Companies (.PDF File)
• "Even among the minefields of Rhode Island politics, Providence Mayor David Cicilline has no fear that his sexual orientation will hurt him. The early frontrunner in the crowded contest to replace Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D) is 49, single and openly gay."
• Why Did the U.S. Consulate in Juarez Close and Then Re-open?
• Robert Reich: "Average Americans are hurting. But their pain isn’t coming from government. It’s coming from an economy whose benefits are concentrating ever more at the top, whose giant corporations are controlling ever more of our democratic process, and whose costs and risks are becoming ever more burdensome for the middle class and the poor. Public schools, parks, and libraries are closing or reducing hours and staff. Median hourly wages are dropping. Unemployment is at levels not seen in decades; long-term joblessness hasn’t been this bad since the 1940s. Social safety nets — unemployment insurance, Social Security, and Medicare — are endangered."
• Flood Disaster in Pakistan Means Starting from Zero
• Let Us Speak of Pheasants and Peasants
• The FBI's File on Howard Zinn
• Big Net Danger Sign for Consumers and Progressive Sites, Gooogle and Verizon Agreement: "An agreement could lay the foundation for a tiered system in which companies would pay to move their content faster, ending the policy of net neutrality and eventually leading to higher fees for consumers."
• U.S. consumer bankruptcies, after rising 9 percent last month from June, might exceed 1.6 million this year, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.
• Republicans Deny 9/11 Heroes Medical Care, But Won't Make Wealthy Help Pay for the GOP Twin Tower Wars -- BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
• Pakistan Violence: Sparked by Karachi's 300th Assassination This Year
• Amy Greene: Abusing Religion for Partisan Politics
• Rating Bank Reform
• Gay City News: "With Sweeping Clarity, Prop 8 Struck Down." Watch out for the Supreme Court though.
• Time magazine's cover is the latest cynical attempt to oversimplify the reality of Afghan lives
• Vermont: ACLU Sues for Records after Police Drag hHomeowner from House
• Deficit Scare Talk Is a Big Scam by Corporations and Right-Wingers; The Problem Is Not Enough Good-Paying Jobs
• Eight potentially poisonous personal care products
• Why Does Michele Bachmann Hate the Heroes of 9/11?
• "The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday."
• Right-Wing Bloggers Claim Racism No Longer Exists. Next Survey Will "Prove" Wall Street Financiers Aren't Greedy, No Doubt. -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Loonyville USA: "As President Obama heads home to Chicago to celebrate his 49th birthday with friends, about one-quarter of the American public still believe he was not born in the United States, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday."
• New York Senate Passes Temporary Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
• Free Press Echoes Boucher Worries of Impact of Comcast-NBC Merger
• BP oil spill: Obama administration's scientists admit alarm over chemicals. Environmental Protection Agency experts expressed concerns to superiors about use of dispersants, says whistleblower group.
• Harold Meyerson: "The president can choose a champion of small business to direct the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Agency. He can nominate Elizabeth Warren."
• Pro Publica: In an appearance on "Fresh Air," A.C. Thompson discusses the police shootings in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
• Lucinda Marshall: New data shows that, despite feminists’ best efforts, women have still failed to reach equality in the job market.
• Cyclists Are Said to Back Claims That Armstrong Doped. For Whatever It's Worth.
• Chris Dodd Supports Maintaining Filibuster. What Do You Need Republicans for When You Have the Likes of Dodd?
• "If it angers liberals that Barack Obama has forsaken them save for a videotaped message he'd audaciously made for Netroots in Las Vegas telling them not "to give up the fight", imagine how it must anger African Americans who have seen literally thousands of their own people get thrown under the wheels of a bus to appease racist right wingers who will never be appeased no matter what."
• What Would Jesus Do Department: Church Carnival Includes a "Shoot Obama" Game
• Connie Schultz: Blame the Babies
• After being called out for adding a white nationalist tweet to his favorites, Beck deletes his entire list.
• If Fox Fraudcasting is the Television Voice for the American Corporate-Sponsored Taliban, Glenn Beck is Mullah Omar -- BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week
• Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depression? -- Stephen Crockett for BuzzFlash
• Congressman Anthony Weiner Excoriates GOP on House Floor, Showing How a Dem Should Fight -- BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
• Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serialization, 7th Installment, Chapter Six -- Guest Commentary for BuzzFlash
• BuzzFlash/Truthout News Release: "Progressive News Site Truthout Welcomes BuzzFlash to Its Community: Collaboration Will Strengthen Progressive Voice," as of August 1st. -- A BuzzFlash Update
• GOP, "The Party Of No (Ideas)," Wants To Continue Saying No To The American People -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 149: Discard Alternate Reality: McCain Wins! Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Palin Dons the Codpiece
• Political Cartoons of the Week
• The Most Ridiculous Tea Party Quotes
• Tom Tomorrow
• Mark Morford: Gay Marriage Makes the World Shrug
• Teabaggers Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones