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Subject: Code Red Terror Alert

I'm listening to the morning news right now, and isn't it just interesting how convenient this breaking "terrorist plot" just happened to occur one full day after Joe Lieberman lost his bid for the democratic senate race in CT?

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The pattern continues. A terrorist plot is uncovered just as the masses start to question national security strategy. The day after Senate Democrats brought a vote to pull out of Iraq, we catch a few idiots in Miami who were supposedly trying to blow up the Sears Tower, despite the fact that they lacked the means and ability to do so. Then there were the guys busted for supposedly plotting to blow up a New York subway exactly a year after the London bus bombings. And don't forget the release of new Osama bin Laden tapes just before the 2004 election as well as the very day after the Supreme Court decision striking down the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. And now today, a few men in England were arrested for a plan to blow up planes flying to America, just a day after Connecticut voters flatly rejected Joe Lieberman and the war in Iraq.

Lieberman Update #17

by Tony Peyser

It doesn't take much
To be out of touch.

Bush giving that kiss
Helped lead to this.

Thoughts of August he'll remember
When things go south in November.

BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE

There is a man with political aspirations who should pay close attention to what happened to Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's primaries. A man who has also bent over backwards sucking up to George Bush! A man who would do well to heed the pulse of this nation, to hear what people are saying, if he truly intends to remain in politics--listen up, John McCain, for this country is tired of wimps who support an even bigger wimp, we are tired of the policies that subvert democracy, we are sick of the arrogance and the ignorance, we are disheartened at the corruption and the wheeling and dealing, we want our country back, and the only way we can get it is to make sure there is a big CHANGE in Washington, D.C.!

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

We'll be brief today before we return to one of our favorite issues tomorrow: the strategically clumsy and self-defeating support by progressive advocacy groups of Republican "moderates," like Lincoln Chafee.

But for the moment, we wanted to return to the issue of how successfully the authoritarian neo-cons have captured our language. Take "centrist" or "centrism" for instance.

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,

A giant thanks to all of those hard working Democrats in Connecticut, who believe in the Democratic party and want to bring it back to the present world we face today, to help it to breathe again, to represent the majority of Americans again, and responsible leadership is the only way to do that.

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

They are blinded by their own self-righteousness. And this explains their over-the-top aggressive rages. They have very little capability of being self-critical or self-analytical in any fashion. They are zealous and aggressive in pursuing the policies of the authorities to which they’ve committed, whether it be religious or political, or the compilation of the two.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

George Bush's stubborn lawyer cronies are at it again, according to a story today in the Washington Post. Instead of complying with the Supreme Court's simple insistence that Bush exercise even a basic degree of human decency and follow the laws he swore to uphold, the Bush Administration has a different solution: just change the law.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Paul Rogat Loeb

Ned Lamont's primary victory over Joe Lieberman may turn out to be a key moment in stopping the Bush Administration's destructive policies. But that depends on what the rest of us do.

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Subject: I Refuse To Be Marginalized Any More

I've been watching the Lamont-Lieberman race with great interest and am relieved and even somewhat optimistic to hear what the Democrat Connecticut voters said with their votes.

Those of us who saw and spoke about all the propaganda issuing forth from the Bush 43 administration have been continuously castigated, demeaned, accused of treason, treachery and terrorism, and given all sorts of other unsavory labels.