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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonkie who wrote (849)	1/19/2002 6:08:20 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 5185

Raiscot and W have no sense of public propriety. Even members of the Republican Party in Congress worry about Raiscot's actions.

To: zonkie who wrote (849)	1/19/2002 10:27:51 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 5185

zonkie... See this thread. Subject 52306

To: zonkie who wrote (849)	1/22/2002 11:07:07 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 5185

Here is something interesting concerning Brazil and their energy problems. I am not surprized to see Bush and Enron named in the article. This is only part of it, click at the bottom if you want to read the whole article. Also note James Bakers name and his ties to one of the companies accused of ripping off consumers in California. Does anyone wonder why he went on TV so many times during the election scandal telling people that the ballots had all been counted and Bush won? _________________________________ "And global energy giants linked to oil and energy-man US President George W. Bush, have positioned themselves to make a killing on the catastrophe, according to Brazil's Valor Economico. The paper noted that Enron and El Paso Energy are situated "to benefit greatly from the energy shortage ravaging Brazil" when they start up two Brazilian thermal generating plants next month that will sell into the wholesale energy market. "Higher profits from these plants are expected," Valor said. Enron is a company close to the hearts of the Bush family with several top-level officials of the former President Bush Snr administration working for Enron either as officers or consultants with George Snr himself, collecting numerous lucrative speaking fees from the company. Enron also financially supported Dubya's presidential bid. Texas-based Reliant Energy, who has former President Bush Snr's Secretary of State James A. Baker III on its board, charged California $1,900 per megawatt hour for electricity in May this year - power the State urgently needed to avoid blackouts. California Governor, Gray Davis, publicly accused Reliant Energy of price-gouging. Brazil is in deep trouble and the cuts in energy use are looking like a 15 -16 percent overall plunge in industrial output. Coupled with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease across Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, the South American continent is in dire straits. Meanwhile, faced with the spectacular failure of deregulation in California, Massachusett's, Pennsylvannia, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand the deregulation mafia has been working overtime looking for someone to blame for not making the politicians fully deregulate. Now, some global energy companies are also pushing another insanity designed to separate the public from its money." scoop.co.nz