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Scott Walker Padded Salary Increases for Cronies During Budgetary Distress: 24% Salary Increase for Aide with 2 Public Pensions

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BuzzFlash - Feb. 19 (Investigative Report) - Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin who is spearheading the GOP effort to crush collective bargaining, lavished relatively large salary increases on his staff when he was chief executive of the Milwaukee County Board. Walker surreptitiously did this

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Message to Tea Party: Don’t Be Fooled Again

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BuzzFlash - By Jacqueline Marcus - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - The Teabaggers are the oil industry’s stoolpigeons.

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Smart Pig: BP's OTHER Spill this Week

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BuzzFlash - By Greg Palast - May. 28 (Investigative Report) - On Tuesday, Pump Station 9, at Delta Junction on the 800-mile pipeline, busted. Thousands of barrels began spewing an explosive cocktail of hydrocarbons after "procedures weren't properly implemented" by BP operators, say state inspectors "Procedures weren't properly implemented" is, it seems, BP's company motto. Few Americans know that BP owns the controlling stake in the trans-Alaska pipeline; but, unlike with the Deepwater Horizon, BP keeps its Limey name off the Big Pipe.

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Another Feingold Idea

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BuzzFlash - By Jeff Fleischer - Aug. 29 (Opinion) - This amendment is another example of putting country before party, as four of the current appointments owe their jobs to fellow Democrats -- Obama, Clinton, Salazar, and Joe Biden -- getting promoted. Both parties should endorse it. This isn't another divisive amendment designed to fire up voters. It's simply a modest step to empower them.

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How Scientific Illiteracy Cost Us 20 Years on Global Warming

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BuzzFlash - By Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum - Jul. 13 (Editorial) - This summer, as the U.S. Senate debates whether to join the House of Representatives in passing the first law in U.S. history to control global warming, expect to hear a lot of misinformation, a lot of absurdity, and a lot of gobbledygook. You'll hear assertions that the globe isn't warming any longer -- cooling has set in. You'll see any local temperature variation (in the cooler direction, anyway) seized upon to the same end. You'll hear the sun invoked -- rather than human industrial emissions -- as the cause of climate change.

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Greenspan's Fraud -- Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BuzzFlash - By Thom Hartmann - Jan. 29 (Review) - What do you do when you want to screw only the working people of your nation with the largest tax increase in history and hand those trillions of dollars to your wealthy campaign contributors, yet not have anybody realize you've done it? If you're Ronald Reagan, you call in Alan Greenspan. Through the "golden years of the American middle class" - the 1940s through 1982 - the top income tax rate for the hyper-rich had been between 90 and 70 percent. Ronald Reagan wanted to cut that rate dramatically, to help out his political patrons. He did this with a massive tax cut in the summer of 1981.

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David Harvey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism"

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BuzzFlash - By Thom Hartmann - Jan. 29 (Review) - Here's the bad news - most Americans don't know what "neoliberalism" is. But the good news is that David Harvey has written the most brilliant, concise, and clear history of neoliberalism I've ever found. It should be required reading in every civics class in high-school and college in America, and everybody who votes or considers themselves informed about politics and economics (and the intersection of the two) should have a dog-eared copy next to their bed or favorite chair for regular re-reading. Harvey begins with the imposition of neoliberalism - a radical economic/political theory that everything will work out optimally if only the power of democratic governments are reduced to virtually nothing and the power of economic elites (known as "the free market") hold most power in society - in Iraq and Chile. Iraq was going to be the Great Example for the neoliberals - they were so convinced of their theory that they didn't have a Plan B for any time after the invasion - and it utterly failed. Which is why you only read about the Iraq experiment in neoliberalism in books written by the few people, like Harvey and Naomi Klein, who have noticed it.

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Bush's legacy will pin Obama from the start

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BuzzFlash - By P. M. Carpenter - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - After Israel's ghastly disproportionate actions in Gaza, it was hardly shocking to read yesterday in the New York Times that our incorrigible ally was ready, willing and eager to preemptively blast Iran last year. That almost inconceivably nitwitted act appears to have been imminent, for as the Times reported, Israel -- "out of its disbelief and anger at an American intelligence assessment completed in late 2007 that concluded that Iran had effectively suspended its development of nuclear weapons four years earlier" -- was randy to drop a few of our "bunker-bunking bombs ... on Iran's main nuclear complex." So the Israeli Dr. Strangeloves asked to borrow some. Oh, and by the way, they added, you wouldn't mind if we sort of flew over Iraq to get to Iran, would you?

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George Lakoff: Don't Think of a Maverick! Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

BuzzFlash - By George Lakoff - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - It looks like, in certain respects, the Obama campaign is making some of the same mistakes of the Hillary campaign and the Kerry and Gore campaigns.

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The Illegal Employer Problem (from Thom Hartmann's book Screwed)

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:34:50 -0700

BuzzFlash - By Thom Hartmann - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - If illegal immigrants could no longer work, unions would flourish, the minimum wage would rise, and oligarchic nations to our south would have to confront and fix their corrupt ways. The cons like to blame the immigrants. They call what's happening an "illegal immigration" problem. It's not. We don't have an illegal immigration problem in America. We have an illegal employer problem.

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Greg Palast on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Election

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:29:23 -0700

BuzzFlash - May. 17 (Interview) - We've got the documents. We ain't guessing. When I say they had caging lists targeting innocent black soldiers, I have the lists. I have the soldiers' names. We spoke to their families. In fact, interestingly, "60 Minutes" came into our office and said, "My God, to prove what these caging lists are, you're going to have to make hundreds of calls and spend hundreds of hours going through this stuff." And we said, "Yeah, it's reporting. Try it. It won't hurt you."

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