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To: Skywatcher who wrote (274219)	7/12/2002 3:11:08 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

"I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get Congress to do anything they don't approve of. The Israeli Embassy is practically dictating to Congress through influential Jewish people in the country." John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State in the Eisenhower administration, quoted by ex-Congressman Paul Findley,

To: Skywatcher who wrote (274219)	7/12/2002 3:49:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Aloha = Cooking the Books. Tactic the Same as used by Enron... Only the Scale of the Deception is Different: "The Aloha sale was so similar to what Enron Corp. did to hide its losses that Harken could have served as a model for the now-disgraced company, one accounting expert said." "The people at Enron could have gone to school on this thing," said Alfred King, former managing director of the Institute of Management Accountants, vice chairman of Milwaukee-based Valuation Research Corp. and former advisor to the Financial Accounting Standards Board." "They sold to themselves and recorded a profit," King said. "That's exactly what Enron did on a number of those off-balance-sheet transactions. On this one transaction at least, it's almost identical."