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• House Republicans plan to vote unanimously against health-care measure
• NYT: With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades. If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression. In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
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• Will Pelosi Have the Votes for a House Vote on Healthcare Reform on Saturday? It is Looking mighty Close as Some Dems Have Already Declared to Vote "No." Stay Tuned.
• Obama calls Dem House of Representative holdouts on health care as vote nears on Saturday evening, if Pelosi has enough votes
• America's Love Affair With Guns and Violence Rips This Nation Apart Day After Day: Emergency call records moments after boy, 10, allegedly shot father in head. 'I shot him in the back of the head. I got so angry at him' boy tells operator. His father later died from his wounds
• Religious Wrong: Do 'New Atheists' and Old Evangelists Play the Same Game? -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Premium Sarah Palin "Going Rouge" Coloring Book: Receiving National Attention as a Great Comic, Hands-On Parody of Palin's "Going Rogue" Book
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) on Cigna's 92% Increase in Third Quarter Profits -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh? -- Dave Lindorff
• Bob Herbert: "Simply stated, we cannot continue sending service members into combat for three tours, four tours, five tours and more without paying a horrendous price in terms of the psychological well-being of the troops and their families, and the overall readiness of the armed forces to protect the nation."
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• Statement from Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on his decision to withdraw his single payer amendment to HR 3962. Can someone check to see if he still can move his arm from having it twisted so hard?
• Double-Digit Unemployment Is Obama's No. 1 Challenge
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• Pelosi's Challenge: Competing Fundraising and Caucus Member Demands on Healthcare Reform. Oh, and Then There's the Actual Public Policy of the Bill. (We're Being BuzzFlash Sarcastic. We Rate Pelosi a Much Better Legislative Leader than Harry Reid.)
• Working on the weekend -- Pelosi: House health reform vote on Saturday
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• Brent Budowsky: 10.2 percent jobless -- Obama must take on the banks
• Premium: An Unexpected Bestseller from the Most Unlikely Source -- "Keep on Trucking" R. Crumb -- With 50 Chapters of Illustrations on the Most Unlikely Topic: The Old Testament. Just released on October 19.
• Premium: Why Aren't More BuzzFlash Readers Buying Gore's New Book to Save the Planet? Strange. As Featured with Al Gore Talking to Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" on November 4.
• A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing dementia P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 6.
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• Premium Abbie Hoffman Fridge Magnet: "If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars." 2" x 3"
• Irony: Government health care rescues protesters at anti-government health care rally.
• David Sirota: Trade reform - save jobs, save the planet
• Political Carnival: Blunt warning from White House -- Do not go on Fox
• While Democratic leaders say they are confident they will have the 218 votes needed to pass major health care legislation this weekend, a number of House Democrats, including several from Republican-leaning districts in the South, have announced that they will oppose the measure.
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• Bill Boyarsky: Keep the Government Out of the News Business
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• 2 reported dead, 6 injured after a shooting at an office building in downtown Orlando. Alleged suspect captured, reported to be a former employee of a company with offices in the building who got laid-off. America, where we pledge allegiance to the NRA and the gun industry.
• Hypocrisy in motion: Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials -- that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork.
• Is Glenn Beck Being Treated By SEIU Nurses?
• Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Seeks to Rein in Abuses of PATRIOT Act -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• African-Americans hit inordinately hard by recession
• House Republicans Win the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for Leaving Preexisting Conditions Coverage Out of Their Bogus Healthcare Plan. As far as the GOP is concerned, hypocrisy is a preexisting condition.
• David Corn: Is the Tea Party Gang Turning GOP Into a Party of Hate?
• WTF? Pacific Gas and Electric Wants Rate Hike for Efficient Energy Users
• Could Revelations on Campaign Funding Blow the Roof Off GOP Corruption in Alabama?
• Human Rights Campaign reacts to Washington state Passes Referendum Ensuring Domestic Partners Have Rights
• New Survey Confirms Imminent Public Hostility: Many Wall Street Employees Will See Their 2009 Bonuses Dramatically Increase
• Clean Energy Could Create 850,000 New Jobs
• Double digits: Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years; And remember, this is the official rate, so the real rate is much higher.
• NYT editorial on the Republican Health Plan
• Michelle Obama on the cover of Glamour
• Jobs, jobs, jobs. Period.
• Eugene Robinson: Attack of the Palinites
• Fort Hood has felt the strain of repeated deployments Base leads Army posts in number of suicides since Iraq invasion
• Jon Stewart Devastates Glenn Beck in a Brilliant, Dark, Stunning Parody -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
• U.S. Readies Jobless Aid and Help on Homes
• NY-23 "gave Democrats another seat in the House, 27 of 29 congressional seats in New York and 258 seats overall. The outcome also was significant because it’s very rare for the party controlling the White House to flip control of a seat that way. Owens’ victory in New York’s 23rd was the first time since 2001 and only the sixth time in the past 30 years that has happened. And not since 1980 had a Democratic White House claimed a special election victory in a Republican-held district. Because of their unusual timing and low turnouts, special elections present challenging circumstances for the party in control of the White House in part because the opposition party is usually more ginned up than the defending party in these sorts of races. Even in California’s 10th district, where California Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi was elected in a much lower-profile special election on Nov. 3, his 53 percent vote share in a vacant northern California district was well below the 65 percent vote share Obama received there a year ago."
• Crazy but not insane? Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) begs for Sarah Palin endorsement, but scoffs at Glenn Beck: 'He's an interesting guy.'
• Four IL GOP Guv Candidates Deny Evidence Of Man-Made Climate Change
• More Poor Governmental Oversight: EPA Faces Allegations that It's Not Adequately Enforcing Rules Regulating Genetically Altered Crops
• Interactive Map: Insurance Market Concentration Creates Fewer Choices
• EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale
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• Credit card companies showing extra greed, loansharking levels of more than 30% interest
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) considering a run for governor. If she won, she would pick her own replacement.
• AIG Reports Profit but Warns of Continued Volatility
• People For the American Way Foundation Statement on Shooting at Fort Hood
• William Shatner dramatically recites Levi Johston's Twitter posts in 'Tonight Show' skit
• 14 Charged With Insider Trading in Galleon Case
• Markos Nails Tom Tancredo, Who Storms Off MSNBC Set
• GOP Health Plan Would Allow For 'Sweatshop Insurance'
• Reviews Raise Doubt on Training of Afghan Forces
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 6, 2009
• The Blackstone Group reports $275 million profit for third quarter, as the giant publicly held private-equity firm bounced back from the financial crisis last year.
• 1929 and 2009: A public job program is the answer
• Fox News owns the extremist images featured at Capitol Hill rally it promoted
• 12 states and DC urged EPA to adopt more rigorous national policies so they can meet federal air pollution reduction requirements for the region.
• President Barack Obama promised "answers to every single question" about Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood after an attack by at least one U.S. service member that left at least 13 soldiers dead and 31 wounded.
• Troubles for a Deal — and for Obama — in Honduras
• When Political Bureaucratese Becomes Legal Sleaze -- Ms. Smith Goes to Washington
• U.S. fed up with troops dying to prop up Karzai
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 6, 2009
• Paul Krugman: Obama Faces His Anzio
• Lack of health insurance played a role in thousands of child deaths, researchers say
• You have to hand it to Michele Bachmann and Her Fellow Right Wing Nut Jobs, Including Ms. Sarah: She has succeeded in turning the GOP into one big Tea Party. Signed, Sealed and Delivered.
• Spokane, WA -- pretty conservative city -- Considers Community Bill of Rights
• The parents of the Sacramento State student who was murdered in his apartment received a $29,000 hospital bill and a letter telling the victim to seek health care elsewhere.
• By announcing he doesn't want another term in office, embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed the Mideast peace effort into unknown territory Thursday, opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.
• Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors The Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by two Iowa men who spent 25 in prison after prosecutors allegedly fabricated evidence against them. Justices seemed divided on the issue of how much immunity prosecutors should enjoy.
• A dozen groups pursuing new-media ventures in Chicago received a combined $500,000 from the Community News Matters program, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
• Ponzi Crook Loses Knighthood & Claims of JFK Assassin Snapshots -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Environmental groups at odds over new tack in climate fight
• California falls short in examining deaths of children A law designed to allow public scrutiny of fatal abuse and neglect is unevenly enforced and leaves many unaccounted for.
• Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approves climate change bill requiring industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20% by 2020 from 2005 levels.
• All Opinions Are Not Equally Relevant Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, November 6. The difference is, however, that on Fox opinion is propped up by opinion whereas on programs that maintain some sense of integrity opinion is informed by factual material. One may not agree with the conclusions or the political motivation but liberal substance trumps right-wing ideological interpretations every time.
• More Coverage on the Fort Hood Shooting, Apparently the Largest American Military Base Shooting in History
• Getting ready for Saturday: House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote.
• Tragically Bizarre: Nadal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Was Army Psychiatrist. Alleged Gunman Trained in Disaster & Preventive Psychiatry.
• Strike One for Hotels in San Francisco
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• Likely Fort Hood Shooter Turns Out to be Alive, But Wounded and in Custody

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• R. Crumb's Illustrated "Book of Genesis" Has Been a Huge Seller on BuzzFlash, And It's Caught the Attention and Effusive Praise of Thom Hartmann in His Monthly Book Review Exclusively for BuzzFlash -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review
• Michele Bachmann and the Teabaggers: Outside the Capitol shouting 'Kill the Bill'; NYT describes them as a "generally older crowd, many in their 50s and 60s, predominantly, white, and many self-identified as Christians." screaming about 'No Socialistic Health Care.' Does that include Medicare???
• CREW calls on HHS: Why did the CDC approve distribution of H1N1 vaccine to Wall Street firms while the vaccine is unavailable to most Americans?
• FOX Faux News is this week's BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award winner. Actually, FOX is the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the century.
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• Abortion and the Capps Amendment: Why We Must Stop Negotiating With Terrorists on Healthcare Reform -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• 9 Universal Health Care Supporters Arrested At Lieberman's Office
• Greg Palast: TALIBAN = 9/11?? Afghanistan by Hypnosis
• FOX TV Losing Money. Murdoch Making Profit in Other Divisions. Read the Fine Print. Check Out TurnOffFox.Com.
• Italian Court Convicts Operatives: What About the Higher-Ups?
• Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
• Classy? No. Protestors Tie Dem Health Plan To Holocaust
• Progressive Leaders Urge Obama To Have Courage
• Insurer Cigna's 3Q profit grows 92 percent
• Margie Burns: Looks as though Sarah Palin's stock just dropped
• Top Bailout Recipients Spent $71 Million On Lobbying In Year Since Bailout
• She knows about scary -- Michele Bachmann to protesters: 'Scare' Congress
• Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out 'indivisible.'
• Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Stir Outcry in Britain
• Probably not coming somewhere near you: Palin book tour to avoid 'Democratic' cities
• Investigation: CA 'Spanky' Legislator Was Lying About Sex with Lobbyist
• New report: 25% of genetically engineered (GE) corn farmers take contamination causing shortcuts
• Norman Solomon: The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid
• Report Exposes Campaign of Racial Attacks From Far Right
• Michele Bachmann Staff Turnover in Overdrive
• Ostroy Report: A "Republican Renaissance?" Yeah, and I Hear the Mullet's Coming Back Too"
• Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch Trashes FOX News
• Consumer Reports finds BPA traces in common canned foods
• Skeeter Bites Report: NY Voters to Out-of -State Activists: 'Mind Your Own Business and Stay the Hell Out!'
• House approves extension of jobless benefits and tax credit for home buyers, measure goes to President Obama to sign.
• S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! The House could hold a rare Saturday vote this weekend to pass its health care reform legislation.
• U.S. Establishes Military Bases in Colombia as Honduran Crisis Continues
• Health care is big for House Democrats: big like Social Security in the '30s and civil rights in the '60s, big like the war stories retold now in party caucuses as lawmakers grapple with the floor vote that is just days away.
• Republican victories in VA, NJ hinged on economic worries; So were Dem wins in 2008.
• California lawmakers pass historic water package
• Rudy Giuliani's buddy, Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, pleads guilty to lying to the White House and said he would also admit to tax crimes.
• Seniors, doctors groups throw their support behind House healthcare bill
• Even Scrooge wouldn't stoop this low: Goldman Sachs Received H1N1 Vaccine Before Several Hospitals
• TPM take on Bachmann's Capitol teabagger festivities
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 5, 2009
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 5, 2009
• Manufacturing Jobs Continue to Decline
• J.P. Morgan Chase pays $700 million to settle with SEC
• ELECTION 2009: Gay candidates score visibility and victories in key Southern races
• Tea Party Activists Embrace Russian Crackpot and His Doomsday Scenario
• Lessons Learned in VA, CA and NJ: Is Rahm Emanuel Orchestrating 2010 Democratic Massacre?
• Pentagon pursuing new investigation into Bush propaganda program
• Report: 11 states emerging from recession
• The Obama Question: A failure of civic leadership? P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Thursday, November 5. "I happen to think the electoral trouble is grossly unfair to Obama. He has largely and faithfully stuck to his announced game plan -- securing an economic stimulus package, returning stability to the financial sector, and avoiding Bill Clinton's insurmountable mistake of forcing the details of health-care reform on Congress. For sure, it's been a grind, and many a compromise has been fathered. But those are the leading differences between governing and campaigning."
• Morons, your bus is leaving, again... "The election hysteria of 09 is remarkable for everything it is not about. It is as though someone mass injected spiked kool aid directly into the right-wing bloodstream over the last 48 hour period. Why yes, 2 + 2 does equal 5. So much is this lunacy out of whack with reality, that I feel as though I have to explain to a group of flatlanders that the earth is round."
• Tomgram: Nick Turse, In Afghanistan, the Pentagon Digs in
• UN relocating about 600 staff after Afghan attack
• Does The New York Times feel foolish having a huge magazine story on Dick Armey given how disastrous (for him) NY-23 went this week?
• GOP Senator Tom Coburn using secret hold to block bill on veterans benefits
• In Two Recent Scandals, Crimes Went On For Years Despite Warnings -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• Senate acts, in defiance of GOP, to extend unemployment benefits, expand homebuyer tax credit
• A Year After Grant Park: Somewhere Between Cannery Row & Desolation Row, Standing at a Bus Stop on a Street with No Name
• Kalamazoo, MI steps it up, passes anti-discrimination ordinance with nearly 62% of the vote, outlaws discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in matters of employment, housing and public accommodations.
• Bounty of New Documents Released By SEC Suggest Agency Knew Madoff's Activities Were Improper, But Shrugged It Off
• ProPublica: At University of Phoenix, Allegations of Enrollment Abuses Persist
• Danny Schechter: Time to Rally for Financial Reform
• Al Gore mentioned RepowerAmerica.org on "The Daily Show" -- here's who they are.
• Approximately 150 workers, union activists and students rallied October 28 in front of the Indiana statehouse to stand in solidarity with workers at several Indianapolis hotels. The workers at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, Westin Indianapolis and Sheraton Indianapolis City Center have been publicly campaigning for almost a year to unionize hotel workers.
• Italy Convicts 23 Americans for CIA Renditions
• A letter about healthcare reform to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) from former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop triggered a security scare that briefly shut down much of the Senate.
• What Defeated Gay Marriage Advocates in Maine Could Learn From Successful Pot Decriminalization Efforts in Colorado -- Be Elected
• Wrong Way Mark Kirk. GOP Aspirant for Obama's Senate Seat Wants Sarah Palin to Endorse Him! Holy Pit Bull!
• Mainers who use marijuana to relieve the symptoms of certain medical conditions will have easier access to the drug after voters approved Question 5 on Tuesday’s statewide referendum ballot.
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• Maine Families Denied Protections in Marriage Vote; Voters in WA Likely to Approve Ref 71
• Sad to Report, AP Declares It Official: Maine voters repeal gay-marriage law by 53%
• Former Hewlett-Packard Co CEO Carly Fiorina will run against Sen. Barbara Boxer.
• Finally!! Senate Clears the Way for Vote on Aid for Jobless Workers
• Al Franken Speaks Softly But Gets Results to Win this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award In a political and media era where shouting gets you noticed the fastest, perhaps the single best communicator in the upper chamber -- Al Franken -- has been noticed for his quieter, more subtle ways of conveying a point.
• Hoffman Gets His Teabags Dunked by Democrat Owens in New York's 23rd! Moral Here: Don't Get Kissed by the Hockey Mom with Lipstick if You Want to Win. -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
• Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010, Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey -- Dave Lindorff
• GOP's Health Insurance Reform 'Ideas' Don't Include Covering Pre-Existing Conditions -- BuzzFlash News Alert
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• BP Contests Record-Breaking OSHA Fine While Allowing 'Hundreds of Potential Hazards to Continue' -- BuzzFlash News Alert
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• Strip Joe Lieberman of his, er, power