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Would You Have Preferred to Experience the Politics of 2010 Under Sedation?
Reagan's Legacy of Deregulation Goes Haywire in the Gulf The oil spill in the Gulf is the product of decades of conservatives pounding for deregulation, Cheney-era manipulation of federal regulatory agencies, and corporate insatiability. BuzzFlash, June 10, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3266 ++++++++++ Is BP Funding Oil-Company Biased "Climate Change" Education in America's Public Schools? Oil Washing Students the BP Way. A new report from PR Watch maintains that BP has close ties to the Alliance for Climate Education, Inc., the 'nation's largest provider of climate change education in public schools' BuzzFlash, July 24, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3545 ++++++++++ A Stieg Larsson Nightmare: Sweden Lurches to the Right The Sweden Democrats, a 20-plus-year-old, right-wing political party steeped in racism and Islamophobia, won 20 seats in Sweden's Parliament in the country's mid-September election. Truthout, October 19, 2010 -- http://www.truth-out.org/a-stieg-larsson-nightmare-sweden-lurches -right64334 ++++++++++ Disappearing Bees and Bayer: A Deadly Combo. What the EPA Doesn't Want Us to Know. A leaked document reveals that the EPA is disregarding findings 'that widespread use of clothianidin imperils the health of the nation's honeybees' says a Colorado beekeeper, the recipient of the document. BuzzFlash, December 22, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12123 ++++++++++ How the Insurance Industry Tried to Discredit Michael Moore They tried 'to push Michael Moore off a cliff' says Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA spinmeister, and now a determined health insurance whistleblower. His new book, 'Deadly Spin,' exposes the health insurance industry's misinformation and disinformation campaigns aimed at killing health care reform.
BuzzFlash, November 19, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11967 Chemical Relations: Monsanto and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently bought some 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock. It is also working in collaboration with Cargill. Why is the foundation, considered one of the world's leading philanthropic organizations, working so closely with corporate outlaws? BuzzFlash, October 11, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11834 ++++++++++ Right-Wing Groups Use Decline of White Birthrates to Stoke Fear of Homosexuality, Feminism and Abortion Right-wing groups warn that Western civilization is facing a 'demographic winter,' risking the destruction of what they call the natural family. Alternet, June 30, 2010 -- http://www.alternet.org/belief/147352/right-wing_groups_use_decli ne_of_white_birthrates_to_stoke_fear_of_homosexuality%2C_feminism and_abortion_/?page=entire ++++++++++ Right Wing Front Organizations Use Progressive Sounding Names to Promote Anti-Immigration and Anti-Environmental Agendas Just released Center for New Community report charges "Apply the Brakes" and The Weeden Foundation with supporting hard-core anti-immigration agenda BuzzFlash, July 22,2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3540 ++++++++++ Is There a 'Ronald Reagan Day' in Our Future? God help Us! February 6, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth Ronald Reagan. While the official Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission is planning its festivities, conservatives will try to turn it into a full-year of celebrating, honoring and capitalizing politically on the legacy of a decidedly mediocre president. BuzzFlash, June 17, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3294 ++++++++++ The Ruth Institute: Anti-Gay Public Policy Institute Stepping Out of the Shadows The San Marcos, California-based organization, a project of the controversial National Organization for Marriage, has a new 'strategic plan' which it hopes will make it a national force in the pro-marriage movement BuzzFlash, July 14, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3346 ++++++++++ Clarence & Ginni Thomas: Big Breasts + Big Bucks = Big Boobs Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has a lot on her plate these days. When she's not working to build Liberty Central, her new Tea Party-type organization, and focusing on defeating Democrats in next week's election, she recently made a little time to leave a voice message for Anita Hill, urging her to 'apologize' to her husband for sexual harassment charges made at his confirmation hearings some 19 years ago. Talk2Action, October 29, 2010 -- http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/29/113623/37 ++++++++++ Tim LaHaye's Apocalyptic Dreams Hits Pay-dirt with the Alleged Cop-Killing Plan of Michigan Militia If you thought that the wildly popular Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels told the entire End Times/Rapture story, think again. Welcome to LaHaye's 'Edge of Apocalypse,' the first novel of his new and improved, and even more apocalyptic, series of books. BuzzFlash, April 23, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3162 ++++++++++ Larry Jones' Feed the Children, Pornography, Payoffs, and Nepotism Run Amok Larry Jones, the founder of Feed the Children, has been fired over charges that he spied on the organization's top executives, surreptitiously accepted money from a supplier, and keeping a cache of pornographic magazines hidden in his office. That's only the tip of the iceberg! BuzzFlash, January 6, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/2172 ++++++++++ Frank Luntz's World of Word-craft If one man can single-handedly poison the debate over significant issues in America that man is Frank Luntz, the right-wing messaging guru who intends to turn the battle over regulatory reform into a repeat of the fight over healthcare reform. BuzzFlash, February 9, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/2197 ++++++++++ Ann Coulter, 'The Judy Garland of Right Wing Gaydom,' to Headline HOMOCON 2010. GOProud, a breakaway group from Log Cabin Republicans, is planning a humdinger of a late-September soiree in New York City. Some hard-line Religious Right leaders are apoplectic. GOProud describes Ann Coulter as "the Right Wing Judy Garland." But can she sing? Talk2Action, August 18,2010 -- http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/8/18/121021/596 ++++++++++ The Rise and Fall of ACORN 'Gotcha' Man James O'Keefe The man who dressed as a pimp and was responsible for a series of surreptitious videos 'exposing' ACORN may wind up in the company of real pimps if he is convicted and serves time for being part of a plot to tamper with the phones in the office of Senator Mary Landrieu. Talk2Action, February 1, 2010 -- http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/2/1/143331/2110 ++++++++++ Liz Cheney's McCarthyism: A Family Tradition? After spending months defending her father's decade of misinformation and disinformation about the War in Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, and the use of torture, the daughter of Dick and Lynne Cheney is in all-out attack mode against the Obama Administration. For the Cheney family, it's the same as it ever was. BuzzFlash, March 8, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3043 ++++++++++ Where in the World Is Obama's Missing Millions (people that is!)? While the Tea Partiers were on the move and the Republicans patented 'just say no,' Obama's aides and advisors sent his grassroots army packing. Smirking Chimp, February 12, 2010 - http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/26737 ++++++++++ Prison Rape: The Criminal Justice System's Dirty Little Secret Organizations from across the political spectrum are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder 'to adopt prison rape elimination standards mandated by 2003 legislation and completed 14 months ago.' BuzzFlash, August 23, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributor/3552 ++++++++++ Are a Significant Number of Afghan Men Raping Young Afghan Boys? 'Numerous reports alleged that harems of young boys were cloistered for 'bacha baazi' (boy-play) for sexual and social entertainment; although credible statistics were difficult to acquire, as the subject was a source of shame and 'dancing boys' was a widespread culturally sanctioned form of male rape,' the State Department's '2009 Human Rights report: Afghanistan' pointed out. BuzzFlash, September 22, 2010 -- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11780
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