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• Democrats suffer from Americans' unwillingness to accept economic reality
• Tea Party Express spends more than $100k on staffer cruises
• "A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one." Yes, the Koch Brothers will be there, at least one of them.
• "The Obama administration filed an emergency request Wednesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the military from allowing openly gay troops from serving."
• Maureen Dowd on Ignorance Chic, Or the Rise of "Refudiating" Intelligence
• Anita Hill's Lawyer 'Shocked' By Call From Thomas's Wife
• MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election
• Democrats Have at Least One Huge Winner: Andrew Cuomo for Governor in New York. Dem holds 37 point lead over GOP Tea Partier Paladino among likely voters.
• Danny Schechter: Who Will Rescue Trapped Americans?
• Robert Parry on a Clash Over Less Evil Voting
• Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers
• Troops discharged for being gay try to re-enlist
• As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined.
• Michael Moore: Michigan Blues
• DOJ Probes TX Voter Intimidation Complaints During Tea Party Anti-Voter Fraud Drive
• Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell agree: No separation of church and state
• Deception and Devastation: The Ignored Dark-Sides of Suffering Joblessness
• "It's true that the Democrats are total chickens, but they're our chickens for the most part, and if we abandon them to the wolves they'll get eaten and then we are all screwed."
• Millions Face Bleak Winter When Jobless Aid Ends Nov. 30
• FOX Fraudcasting Used Internet in Cable TV Fight
• GOP Legislator Who Crusaded Against College Sex Ed Classes Owns Company That Sells Kinky Sex Gadgets
• BREAKING: Univision Will Not Air GOP Group’s Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote, After All
• The FOX Fraudcasting Factor
• NYT: "Taliban’s Elite, Aided by NATO, Join Talks for Afghan Peace." Whatever That Government Issued Headline Really Means. Although, Peace Talks, If Serious, are Good.
• Are Safe Dems Hoarding Campaign Cash?
• "Obama must win back white supporters who flocked to him in 2008 to stand a chance in 2012." True of False?
• Barbara Boxer in closest match of career
• Illinois: Giannoulias To Kirk: 'You're Trying To Suppress The African-American Vote'
• Britain Announces Severe Military Cutbacks: May We Follow Suit in the US
• Anita Hill: No reason to apologize to Thomas
• In California and Illinois, delayed state payments for higher ed expenses are taking a toll on students and the institutions they attend.
• New DNC Ad Slams GOP for Secret Plan to "Buy Election"
• ‘US’ Chamber Of Commerce Hosts Seminars With Chinese Gov Officials To Teach American Firms How To Outsource
• Sign up to Squash Glenn Beck. Click Here.
• "High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War"
• Bill Berkowitz, A Stieg Larsson Nightmare: Sweden Lurches to the Right. Sweden?
• For the Moment, And Only the Moment It Appears, Military recruiters told they can accept openly gay applicants
• As G.O.P. Seeks Spending Cuts, Details Are Scarce. Of Course, They are Magicians.
• CIA acknowledges "missteps" led to officers' deaths
• DNC On Pace For Top Fundraising Month - Raised $11.1M In First 13 Days
• High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War
• Will Richard Shelby Pull a Fast One With His U.S. Senate Seat?
• Robert Naiman: A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars
• Google's Street View Project Branded a "Serious Violation" of Privacy Laws for Erroneously Collecting Personal Data in Canada: Search Giant Forced to Apologize for "An Engineer's Careless Error"
• Another Example of Why Health Care Reform in the Hands of Private Insurers is Counter-Productive to Reducing Costs: Blue Cross is accused of price-fixing scheme in Michigan
• David Swanson: US Peace Activists Meet Afghan Peace Activists
• Weeks before a Jordanian doctor set off a bomb at a base in Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. officer was warned that he might work for Al Qaeda, according to an investigation.
• "Party on!" Fox Fraudcasting relentlessly promotes Tea Party Express tour
• Sestak Surges to a Statistical Tie in PA After Being Way Back
• FAIR: Taking the Public Out of Public TV PBS fare differs little from commercial TV
• Tea Party Group Accused of Illegal Corporate Donations, Voter Intimidation The King Street Patriots' "True the Vote" effort faces legal challenge on two fronts—from Texans for Public Justice and seperately from the state Democratic Party
• True or False? "Democrats try to woo women as more embrace GOP candidates"
• The Grizzly Bear Women are Setting Back Women's Rights
• "Corporate America has amassed a huge reserve of $1.6 trillion to $1.8 trillion in cash, and profits are rising strongly. What accounts for this astonishing success despite the lean times? The trick turns out to be based less on financial wizardry than brutal arm-twisting. Major corporations have learned how to squeeze more work from shrunken workforces, creating what Robert Reich calls a "decoupling of profits from jobs." They have engaged in the biggest wave of wage-cutting since the 1930's, with pay reductions often extorted by threatening to close plants and relocate jobs."
• Jim Hightower: Corporate Corruptistan
• Illinois GOP Worked With 'Birther' On 'Voter Integrity' Plan
• Joe Miller supporter: He “bowled over” my 8-year-old son, “didn’t care at all.”
• Robert Scheer on Obama's Taste in Aides
• Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity Pushes Koch-Funded Prop. 23 at Official RNC Rally in California
• Republicans Open Floodgates of Corporate Money
• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter
• Christine O'Donnell Stuns Audience With 1st Amendment Gaffe
• "Thomas’s Wife Reaches Out to Anita Hill." That's the NYT Headline. But Buried in the Article is This Worthy of Note Tidbit: "Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis University Communications office, confirmed that Ms. Hill had received the message, that she had turned it over to the campus Department of Public Safety yesterday. They, in turn, passed it on to the FBI." Now, why would a "let's make up" message be turned over to the FBI? (Since We Posted This on BuzzFlash, the New York Times Changed Its Story -- and Headline -- and Revealed that Virginia Thomas Wasn't "Reaching Out," She Was Oddly Asking Anita Hill to Apologize and Pray for Herself.)
• Dave Lindorff: Arise Ye Homeowners of America, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Mortgages!
• Fox Fraudcasting's Nazi fetish: Beck, O'Reilly, others repeatedly invoke Nazi imagery
• Banks Sold the Same Mortgage Over and Over to Investors
• Economics vs. Fakeonomics
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• Wife of Mayor Daley, Maggie, Leaves D.C. Hospital. For 8 Years She Has Battled Incurable Cancer Without Fanfare. Whatever One Thinks of Mayor Daley, He is Deeply in Love With His Wife, And Her Illness May be the Reason He Didn't Seek Another Term.
• A heated campaign is under way in Iowa, where conservatives hope to unseat three of the state's Supreme Court justices following a ruling last year that cleared the way for same-sex marriage.
• Bob Herbert: "However the elections turn out, Democrats must focus far more intently on the economic plight of ordinary Americans."
• Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity Pushes Proposition 23 at Official RNC Rally in California
• Indian gov't: Pakistan spies tied to Mumbai siege
• Who are the Stealth PACS?
• Lucinda Marshall: Along the Sexist Campaign Trail
• Angle To Latino Students: 'Some Of You Look A Little More Asian To Me'
• Univision Accepts $80,000 To Air GOP Group’s Ads That Tell Latinos Not To Vote
• Most Americans Don't Know that Most Americans Got a Tax Cut in the Stimulus Program
• Beware of Polls That Exclude Cell Phone-Only Voters
• France: Support for the Protest Movement Is Still Gathering Momentum
• Glenn Beck Hawking Survivalist Disaster Kits
• Is This the Moment a Viable Third Party Will Emerge in America?
• Paul Krugman: Central Bankers Favoring Foolishness Over Facts
• Bank of America announced on Monday that it would resume home foreclosures in nearly two dozen states, despite the running controversy over how banks handled tens of thousands of cases of homeowners facing eviction.
• Global Temperatures Continue to Rise
• Eco-Pranksters Throw a Monkey Wrench in Chevron's New "We Agree" Ad Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Others Create Mock Release Calling Out Environmental Issues In Which the Gas Giant is Embroiled
• "Most Americans say they want members of Congress to forge compromises to solve the nation's problems, yet many are turning to candidates in this tumultuous election season who are disdainful of compromise." We're from the Tea Party: God chose us not to make sense! Don't Reduce my Medicare Because I'm Against Socialized Medicine! It's God's Will.
• All the News You Don't Need to Know: "Mark Sanford is still seeing lover, Jenny Sanford says"
• "Goldman Sachs reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that exceeded estimates." Are You Smiling Yet?
• More Privacy Invasion from Feds: "U.S. Pushes to Ease Technical Obstacles to Wiretapping"
• "A federal judge said on Monday that she is learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops." But the Obama Administration will appeal until it gets a stay. In short the White House is legally continuing to defend DADT.
• Russia considering proposal to join missile shield. If China joins, we'll build to defend ourselves from Martians!
• Joe Miller's Security Guards? They're Unlicensed Survivalists
• Robert Reich: The Perfect Storm
• Rep. John Boehner has gone dark to avoid any unscripted moments that would lead to an 11th-hour gaffe.
• Your request is being processed... Christine O'Donnell SPLITS McCain Family: Senator & Daughter At Odds On Tea Party Favorite's Candidacy
• Is the Tea Party Movement Like a Pyramid Scheme?
• Ostroy Report: How to Fix the Political Debate Process
• In France, Labor Strikes Head for Showdown
• Eugene Robinson: The Wave and the Reality
• Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, America's Political No-Jocks Zone

• Rachel Tabachnik: Frying Pan to the Fire - Sen. Brownback's Apologies to Native Americans Were Part of Proselytizing Ritual That Demonizes Native Culture, Artifacts
• Richard Power: As the 21st Century's 1st Decade Ends, the Planet Sizzles & Human Rights Goes Up in Smoke; Yet, However Inevitable It Seems, Failure is Not an Option
• Pentagon temporarily locked down after 'possible shots fired'
• Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials
• Banks Shared Clients’ Profits, but Not Losses. Why Can't We All Get a Deal Like That?
• Citigroup Inc (C.N) reported its third straight quarterly profit, beating forecasts and boosting optimism that the banking sector is on track to recover even amid a tepid economic expansion. Banks Thriving; Americans Trying to Survive.
• Mississippi corrections officer fired for being gay
• Veterans Group Files FEC Complaint Against The Chamber: Foreign
• Joe Miller's Alaskan Militia
• For a Suburban Tea Party, Anger Is All the Rage
• Under fire for promoting violence, Beck doubles down to rally support for "radical" gun group
• Workers Without Status in France Emerge as a Social Force
• Nevada: Tea Party Senate candidate drove $138,000 Mercedes to interview
• Workers say they were ordered to vote Republican, Obama threatened
• GOP lawmaker: Illegal immigrants are like ‘Hitler’, should be shot
• Mortgage foreclosure uproar sweeps up Northeast Ohioans
• "Survey findings on far-right views give Germany its latest Führer furore"
• General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland
• In the space of about five minutes Friday morning, Fox Fraudcasting turned a shutdown of the Brooklyn Bridge over a suspicious flashlight into an international terrorist threat before dismissing the whole thing like it never happened
• Don't Cut Social Security, DOUBLE It
• High Court to hear appeal from former Attorney General Ashcroft on suit over post-9/11 arrests. Can't imagine who they will rule in favor of by a 5-4 vote, can you?
• Holder Claims He Will "Enforce" Anti-Marijuana Laws No Matter What. Uh, What's He Smoking? -- Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash
• Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Felons' Voting Rights Challenge
• Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
• With Voting Rights Groups Reeling, New Registrations Decline
• Republicans in Climate Denial: All of Them
• Sharron Angle, Nevada's Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for US Senate, told Hispanic schoolchildren that Mexican men in her ad may not actually be Latinos, and implied "terrorists" are coming to the US illegally from Canada.
• UN Conference Confronts Dramatic Loss Of Biodiversity
• Projection, Two Weeks Out - Nine Reasons Why Democrats Will Keep Control of the House
• New York: Four Men Found Guilty in Plot to Bomb Bronx Synagogues
• Reporter Handcuffed by Alaskan Tea Party Senate Candidate Talks About Candidate Accountability
• Meghan McCain: GOP Senate candidate O'Donnell perceived as 'nut job'
• Pentagon braces for huge WikiLeaks dump on Iraq war
• Don’t Let the Chamber and Big Biz Gut Workers’ Say on CEO Pay
• Will FBI Finally Zero In On U.S. Chamber of Commerce?
• Paul Krugman: China accounts for 97 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths, minerals that play an essential role in many high-technology products, including military equipment.
• Former surgeon general calls for marijuana legalization
• Iran has for the first time taken part in high-level discussions on Afghanistan after the US said it had "no problem" with its participation.
• Some Of Carl Paladino’s Recent Gay Bashing Was On Don Imus -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• Merkel Denounces Multi-cultural German Society
• Greed at a Glance
• "NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan." Maybe, they just re-release the same news release every year.
• Tax the rich or face worsening standards of living. It’s that simple.
• Gibbs: 'Don't ask, don't tell' will end under Obama administration
• Jesse Ventura Calls Bill O'Reilly 'A Spineless Puke.' Those are fighting words!
• The Reagan Legacy: ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
• The Labor Ground Game in the November Election
• New poll show Americans satsfied with federal workers by three to one margin
• Has the Democratic Leadership Abandoned House Progressives?
• Sharron Angle raised $14 million--by spending $12 million!
• With the Economy Front and Center, is "Faith Outreach" No Longer a Key Democratic Party Strategy?
• DSCC Investment in Saving Pennsylvania Seat May Exceed $9 Million
• Asked if He Will Engage Shareholders Before Doling Out Company's Political Contributions, Murdoch Says "No"
• Green Party candidates call for end of corporate personhood
• In the past decade, oil companies gave millions to support energy research at ten of the top American universities—producing "potentially compromised" research, according to a new study.
• ADL Smears Dissenting Jewish Organizations
• Alaskan reporter detained by security at Joe Miller event
• Very Serious Media People Wonder How Someone Like Christine O'Donnell Became A Media Star
• "Iraqi Government Still Paying al Qaeda to Kill Our Troops."
• Capitalism Would Have Killed the Chilean Miners
• DADT: "Obama now faces his own political crisis over the issue that threatens his support from key Democratic constituencies, undermines his relationship with the Pentagon and puts him in the odd position of defending a practice he has denounced as discriminatory and harmful to national security."
• Tomgram: Engelhardt, American Warscapes
• On October 6, amid the tidal wave of corporate cash flooding the 2010 campaigns—which could attach a $5 billion price tag to the most expensive midterm election in history—Bill Moyers told Common Cause that money in politics is "the dagger directed at the heart of democracy."
• The Working Families Party faces down the corporate backlash.
• Obamas Rally for Democrats in Final Push
• The Weaponization of Space: Corporate Driven Military Unleashes Pre-emptive Wars
• Colorado GOP Stands By Gay Remark
• Economic Bubbles Make Rich Richer and Others Unemployed
• Both parties are rolling out ads that take negative campaigning to another level.
• Fraud May Void a Quarter of Afghan Votes, Officials Say
• Republican Candidate John Raese's Wife Can't Vote For Him: Purged From WV Voter Rolls As A Registered FL Voter
• A French Lesson: Stop Attacks on Social Security!
• About 1,000 gas stations across France have run out of fuel because of nationwide strikes that are affecting transportation, Alexandre de Benoist, a Union of Independent Oil Importers official, told CNN Monday.
• Does Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Pose Danger to Religious Freedom?
• Troops 'overwhelmed and cannot defeat Taliban'
• The Way We Forget
• A Tea Party Dawn? A reality check for the morning of November 3rd.
• Feds Confirm Mumbai Plotter Trained With Terrorists While Working for DEA
• Count ACORNula: GOP Resurrects Minority Voter Enfranchisement Group It Killed to Raise Fear and Funds -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog for Truthout, By Mark Karlin
• Return of the Secret Donors
• Evangelical Christianity Surges in Cuba
• We Don’t Need Government off Our Backs – We Need Government on Our Side! -- Sue Pastin for BuzzFlash
• Gay Log Cabin Republicans Get DADT Repealed, Only to Have Obama Administration Try to Reinstate It. Say What? -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog for Truthout, By Mark Karlin
• Why Did Donna Brazile Use the F-word in Oprah's Magazine? -- Sue Wilson for BuzzFlash
• America's Founders Were Deistic Liberal Humanists Whose Core Beliefs the Likes of Glenn Beck Hate -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash
• "The Ones Who are Bitching Loudest Today are Precisely the People Who Created the Mess We're In" -- Barbara's Daily Buzz from Atlanta
• Chavez Blows It on Human Rights When He Denounces Chinese Dissident, Winner of Nobel Peace Prize -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash
• Neo-cons Make Last Ditch Effort to Inject Israel Into Midterm Election -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Holy Palin! O’Donnell Can’t Name A Recent Supreme Court Case In Debate But Promises To Put One On Her Web Site -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• The Nazi Virus and Human Experimentation -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
• Chemical Relations: Monsanto and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• The 15% Solution Serialization, Ninth Installment. Chapter 8 -- Guest Commentary for BuzzFlash
• The "Backlash" of the New Right Wing -- The September BuzzFlash/Truthout Review by Thom Hartmann -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive September "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Christine O'Donnell Questions Separation of Witch and State
• Rupert's Rodent
• Mark Morford: I am outraged! Are you not outraged?
• The Mustachioed Nihilistic Cheerleaders
• MadKane: When is a Slap Not a Slap?
• The Yes-Men Take on Chevron With Satirical Ad