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Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards
By Graydon Carter
Luntz
Speak! How Republicans consistently word issues to trick working class
Americans into voting against their own interests...(or how the Republicans
greenwash a load of crap for Americans to swallow) Frank Luntz's Double
Think Tank!
'He's
Just Sleeping, I Kept Telling Myself'
Night
and Fog by Chris Floyd
Paul
Krugman | The Dishonesty Thing
Kelpie
Wilson | Torture in the Redwoods
Report:
North Korea says explosion was a planned demolition
Diplomats
invited to North Korea blast site Reuters, UK
 "Don't Think of an Elephant!"
UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff
talks about how
transforming the language of politics can help win the good fight.
And in his introduction to Lakoff's book, AlterNet's
executive editor Don Hazen acquaints us with the master of the art and
science of political framing. (Bart
Nagel photo)
also see: Framing
the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives
use language to dominate politics
and: Linguistics
professor George Lakoff dissects the "war on terror" and other
conservative catchphrases
Professor Lakoff filed daily dispatches
about the language used in the major speeches of the Republican National
Convention.
• August
30: All terror, all the time
• August
31: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps — if you can afford the boots
• September
1: Red-meat night frames Kerry
• September
2: Freedom, liberty, freedom
Thom
Hartmann: 'Bush family wounds America below the belt line'
FOCUS: Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time'
Listen
to QD-Crewdoo's Mal-wart mp3
GOP Congressman: War
in Iraq Not Justified
Harassment At Bush Speech
by Glen Wooldridge
FOCUS:
F.B.I. Harrassing Political Activists
U.S. Destroys Operation Against Al-Qaida
Voter
Registration Drive August 20th
Click
here for a mega list of email actions and petitions you can sign!
Venezuela Voters Turn
Out in Huge Numbers
Chavez Appears
Victorious in Venezuela
VOTING:
Is the Florida Department of law enforcement trying to suppress votes?
GOP
Eyes Abolishing the Income Tax. Which, Means of Course, the Middle Class
and Poor Will Pay More and the Wealthy Less. If you are a Middle Class
White Male And You Vote for Bush, You are Condemning Your Family to an
Economic Mugging. 8/15
Hecklers
banned at Bush rallies
Kerry, Bush Cross Paths In the Quad
Cities
By David VanThournout 08/07/04
CBO Report: Bush
Tax Cuts Tilted to Rich
FOCUS: Venezuela's
Referendum and the Nation's Poor
Porter Goss: "I
am Not Qualified."
Bill
Maher: 'Bush blew it the morning of 9/11'
Greg
Palast: 'Will the gang that fixed Florida fix the vote in Venezeula?'
White
House Has Some Terror Experts Worried 8/12
Bush
erodes cooperation among security agencies in outing foreign spy. Eventually
they won't share with us, not that this matters to the Bush cabal.
California's
SUV Ban - The Golden State has outlawed big
SUVs
Failure
of Leadership By
BOB HERBERT
Porter
Goss Nominated as new CIA Chief
(Ray
McGovern on Porter Goss)
Bush
Campaign Worker Recommends Unhappy American Workers Should Take Prozac
Whitehouse
leaker at it again, seriously compromising the war
on terror. For the most secretive Administration in the history of America
they sure out a lot of friendly operatives. And all in an effort to overshadow the
DNC!
Thom Hartmann: Ralph
Nader: Let The Voter Beware...
CBS News reports: Americans are paying a stiff price for bargains at the mega
corporation Wal-Mart.
Halliburton Accused of
Fraud under Cheney
Joe
Fields: 'Playing politics with terror warnings: A timeline'
BuzzFlash
Interviews Paul Krugman, Witness to the Great Unraveling of AmericaThe
Twelve Security Failures of Bush II
Shoulder to Shoulder
By William Rivers Pitt
Kimberly
C. Elliott: 'Flip-floppers make better presidents'
Brian
Morton: 'The L word'
Welcome to Baloney Beach!
08/02/04
British
detainees tell stories of torture at Guantanamo
Article
III, Section 2 and the Wobbly Wall Between Church and State
Ruth
Lopez: 'Where are you, good Republicans? Where's your pride?'
Mike
Whitney: 'Land of the free? Bush, civil liberties, and the 9-11
Commission'
Ed
Naha: 'State of seizure'
Inside
the torture pens of Gitmo: Terrorism suspect's suit tells of U.S. abuse
Jim Hightower: Bush
Zones Go National
Military
Intelligence Directed and
Encouraged Torture
Bush
Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
Why Hugo Chavez is
Heading for a Stunning Victory
Iraq Reimposes
Death Penalty
Study: 9 Million Lost Health
Coverage Since 2001
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Bush
is in deep trouble: An analysis of the post-convention Zogby poll
Fox Network Violates
Public Trust
By David VanThournout 7/24/04
Elaine
Cassel: 'Why I am scared of George Bush -- and why you should be, too'
New
documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners
Airline
Collapse May Cost U.S. Billions
Baghdad Burning: Electricity four
hours off, two hours on...
White House Posts
Highest Deficit in US History
Peter
D. Molan: 'Why this really is the most important election of our lifetime'
"Impossible
is Nothing" by Cody Claeys 6/11/04
David
Rossie: 'Hard to argue with the reality in 'Fahrenheit''
Patriot
Game, Media Shame
Some
Republicans defect to Kerry's camp
Molly
Ivins: 'One America, two Americas, red America, blue America'
Omar
Barghouti: 'Wither the Empire: The rise of global resistance'
John
Dean: 'A closer look at the 9/11 commission report'
Jim
Hightower: 'Extremism on Viagra'
Naomi
Klein: 'Anybody but Bush — and then let's get back to work'
Dissent
at the War Memorial | Howard Zinn | August 2004
Issue
Ron Reagan:
The
Case Against George W. Bush
Isabel
Hilton: 'Ghost prisons a blot on America's moral leadership'
Canadian
sent to Syrian prison disputes U.S. claims against torture
Juan
Cole: 'Arguing with Cheney'
Jimmy
Carter: 'You can't be a war president one day, a peace president the next'
POWER
TO THE PEOPLE
Rick
Perlstein: 'Leave it to cleaver: Dems should use a wedge of their own'
Robert
Koehler: ''Free speech zones' getting crowded'
Kos:
'Can the Democratic Party stay relevant?'
A Tiny Glimmer Of Hope
by David VanThournout 7/26/04
If you
think that Biometric authentication is unfakable, think again! Children
could do this!
Senator
Tom Daschle :"Doing Right by America."
Class
Action Suit Against Wal-mart
Richard
Clarke: Honorable Commission, Toothless Report
Doug
Ireland | Congress Votes for Torture
The Roots of Tyranny
by
David VanThournout 7/19/04
Being a supporter of President Bush has the same effect on you as
watching Fox News. The more you follow the news, the more misinformed you
become
Bush
& Sharon: The Oil Connection
Just
how stupid does George "I want to be a Peace President" Bush think
we are?
See George Bush and John
Kerry sing "This Land Is Our Land"
Bill
Moyers: This is the Fight of Our Lives 7/18
Capitol Times:
Not-so-Curious
George
REPUBLICANS
BLAST BUSH ON ENVIRONMENT
Paul
Krugman: The Arabian Candidate
Slim-Fast
trims Whoopi from ads
Byron
York: Sodomizing Children at Abu Ghraib "Worked"! A BuzzFlash Reader
Contribution
John
W. Dean: 'What happens in the event a of terror attack on the election?'
"Bush
is a bigot," Editorializes the Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin 7/19
Video
of Congresswoman Corrine Brown being consored for speaking out on the 2000
election scandal
Outfoxing
the Conservatives
Joan
Chittister: 'You will read this only here (unfortunately)'
Retired
professor recalls Bush as a sarcastic and mediocre student
Christian
Dewar: 'Who would Jesus torture? The religion of George W. Bush'
Watch
Seymour Hersh Talk about how little we actually know about Abu Ghraib, the
Ideologues in power now, etc. (Mr. Hersh starts at
about 1:06)
Wayne
Madsen: 'No postponement, just bedlam at the polls'
On War by Geraldine
Perry
William Rivers Pitt:
The Push
American Politics: A Dish Gone Cold
By
David VanThournout -- 07/11/04
The
BuzzFlash Interview: Washington Post Columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. Tells
Democrats to Stand Up And Fight Back!
Gary
Trudeau Remembers Classmate George W. Bush 7/15
Under the new rules published
by the Department of Labor, 6
million American workers will be stripped of their overtime pay.
...investigative journalist Seymour Hersh of the New
Yorker told the American Civil Liberties Union this week that videotapes
were made of young boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib. "The worst is the
soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told the group's
convention. Hersh reports there was "a massive amount of criminal
wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and
higher." See the video of Hersh's ACLU speech7 - the information
about the prison comes at about 1 hour and 30 minutes in.
Watch
the video (Sy Hersh starts at about 1:06)
Who's
embarrassing whom?
Paul
Krugman: 'Machine at work'
Former
Ambassador Joe Wilson can sum up his opinion of President George W.
Bush’s post-Sept. 11 administration quite simply. “Everything they
have put into play since Sept. 11 has come up horse turds." 7/14
MoveOn
Works the Hollywood Spotlight to Amplify Its
Voice
Attorney General
John Ashcroft has repeatedly
rebuffed requests by Congress and public interest groups for basic
information about how the Patriot Act is being used. Now – in a cynical
public relations ploy – Ashcroft has released a thirty-page
piece of propaganda wrapped in the guise of public disclosure. The
document does not contain information needed for members of Congress to
make an informed decision about whether to extend provisions which expire
in 2005. Instead, it avoids key issues, distorts basic law and presents a
self-serving selection of Patriot Act "successes." Sign
the petition calling for the removal of John Ashcroft.
Rather than just giving us some shallow alternative to
the Bush-bashing Dixie Chicks and John Mellencamp,
Parton shows her class on this album by avoiding politics and instead
celebrating God, our men and women in uniform, and the nation that loves
them... Again, Joseph Goebbels would be proud. Read
the whole psycho right wing rant...
More
Stalinesque Tactics: "Bush campaign staffers apparently were trying
to ensure a friendly crowd for his speech. Some Democrats and independent
voters in line were turned away when they admitted they weren't sure they
were going to vote for Bush."
What
Would Abraham Lincoln Say About Canceling a Presidential Election? -- A
BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Bush
Cartel Talks of Steps to Potentially Cancel ("Postpone") the
Presidential Election:
This is For Real Folks!
How
to Overthrow Corporate Rule in 5 Not-so-easy Steps
Elizabeth
Sullivan | Skids
are Greased for Oil Crisis
Terrorist
Tree Huggers
Ron Arnold, Father of the
'Wise Use' Movement, sets his Sights on 'Eco-Terrorists'
by Bill
Berkowitz
Greg Guma |
Privatizing
War
W. David Jenkins III: 'Setting Kathleen Parker
straight'
Joyce Marcel |
Some More
Thoughts on Moore
Australia's
koalas face extinction, foundation says
Tour
Chernobyl's Radioactive "dead zone"
Mike
Shannon: 'There's still hope'
FACING
THE ENEMY ON THE GROUND
Scott Ritter, AlterNet
The Iraqi resistance has been years in the making. And with the help of
American involvement, the insurgency will continue to flourish and grow
until no force can defeat it.
America as Empire By Geraldine Perrry
07/06/04
Archbishop:
Climate Change Threatens Species
Democracy
seldom occurs at the tip of a bayonet. Our means must reflect our
desired ends. That thought never occurs within the flawed
psyche's of the neo conservatives or enters the delusions of the
masses kept in dream like thrall by their propaganda
machine.
Cooking
with the Sun!
David VanThournout | John Kerry: No Cake Walk
07/02/04
Hinchey/Rohrabacher
medical marijuana amendment
Kerry
Chooses Edwards as Running Mate
Check out Ecovilla Coop! We are gathering at Peabody's
Coffee shop on Saturdays from 7pm till about midnight for open
mic night. Come out and voice your self and enjoy a cup of the kind
fair trade coffee!
Ken
Fireman | Scandals Seen as Hallmark of White House Under Pressure
US
Experts say Global Warming Faster Than Thought
Marjorie
Cohn | The Reincarnation of Saddam Hussein
Saul
Landau | "Democracy" and "Human Rights" in Venezuela
Florida
Purges Valid Black Voters
Kelpie
Wilson | Bush and the Thin Green Line
Prison
Chief: Rumsfeld Authorized Torture, Israelis Involved
Charlie
Tuna: Unsafe At Any Speed
What
is Good By William
Rivers Pitt
t r u t
h o u t | Perspective
Sunday 04 July 2004
Peter
Bergen: 'Did one woman's obsession take America to war?'
Rumsfeld
gave go-ahead for Abu Ghraib tactics, says general in charge
Google
Censoring Michael Moore?
Presently this site is under my scrutiny. I don't necessarily buy this
one. If anyone else would like to
look and see what they think I would appreciate your input. --Crow--
"If
he [John Kerry] can find a third side to an issue, I'm confident he'd take
it," Bush said. [In reference to Kerry's supposed waffling on the
Patriot act]... Hey George... If you can't find a third way you haven't looked
at it hard enough, have oversimplified it and you're probably a fanatic!
Baptists
Angry at Bush Campaign Tactics
THE
PATRIOT'S ACT: WHAT'S MORE AMERICAN THAN ASKING QUESTIONS? -- by Michael
Moore
Joseph
Goebbels would be proud of the American propaganda anointment utensil some
here refer to as the "liberal" media... give me a break. Does
anybody watch this crap anymore? Why would the Bush administration fear
Saddam Hussein's testimony?
Cheney
wasn't just telling Senator Leahy to "Go F*** Yourself." His
real audience was us, the citizens of America.
"If
the president's speeches to the nation about his decision to go to war had
received a significant fraction of the journalistic attention that Moore's
film has, it's a good bet 5,600 American soldiers would sill be enjoying
their release from the military—rather than being called back to duty to
carry out an increasingly chaotic and counterproductive occupation."
Editor's note: Not to mention the 858 Americans who might still be alive
today...
Joe
Bageant: 'Is our president a wackjob?'
Undeterred,
Insurgents Keep Up Deadly Attacks Across Iraq
Katherine
van Wormer: 'The damaged mind of George W. Bush'
E.J.
Dionne: 'Anti-Bush passion powers new political tidal wave'
Eric
Alterman: Think Again: Michael Moore, Cause for War? If the Media had
investigated Bush's Iraq claims even a portion of the time they've spent on
Moore's film, perhaps 700+ soldiers would still be alive today. 7/2
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