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"We all know what happened. A bunch of bastards picked the pockets of their own employees. That's not a scandal. It's a blinkin' outrage"		Archived 01/15/02 11:00am
CRONY CAPITALISM THRIVES IN THE BUSH "ENRONOMICS" REGIME


“I am incredibly nervous that we will implode,” An August letter to Lay warned, investigators say 1/15 Bush's Chief of Staff Was Told of Enron's Call for Help. What Did Bush Know and When Did He Know It? 1/15 KEEP INDEPENDENT NEWS ALIVE: SUPPORT BUZZFLASH, THE UnDRUDGE REPORT, NOW AND GET A BOOK! Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. Ken Lay's E-mail to Enron Employees Assuring Them of the Company's Strength 1/15 With the Collapse of Enron and Declining Value of Halliburton, the Bush/Cheney Role Models of Corporate Management, and a Disastrous Budget Problem in Texas, Bush Hits the Road to Promote "ENRONOMICS" for America. There's a Sucker Born Every Minute.1/15 PRETTY STRONG EVIDENCE OF INSIDER TRADING AT ENRON, CONGRESSMAN DINGELL SAYS 1/15 Judge overseeing host of Enron suits recuses herself, due to conflicts 1/15 Enron execs 'cooked the books,' Attorney Charges 1/17 "And by day's end, the question of how, exactly, a heavily guarded leader of the free world could swallow a pretzel and lose consciousness went largely unexplained," writes the Chicago Tribune about "the puzzling choking-pretzel incident" 1/15 A BUZZFLASH UNRESOLVED MYSTERY: IF ONLY DOGS COULD TALK Despite President's Denials, Enron & Lay Were Early Backers of Bush 1/15 Army Corps Changes Wetlands Rules 1/15 That's Quite a Shellacking the President Took! Ouch! 1/15 American Reportedly Held Hostage in Afghanistan 1/15 Bush's Biggest Donors Gain From High Prices in California Crunch 1/15 Oh Lord! Don't Subpoena Vanessa Leggett Again! 1/15 Henry Waxman Has a Few Questions to Ask Ken Lay. Read the Letter. (Adobe Required) 1/14 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE U.S GERM WARFARE PROGRAM. Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. The January 14th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia The January 14th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American BuzzFlash Presents "The Angry Liberal" - Enron, Part I: R.M.S. Enron Sails for America! Cheney Better Come Clean On Enron 1/15 Was Phil Gramm's retirement from the Senate in early September tied to the Enron debacle? 1/15 Message to Democratic Party: Stand up for Justice. Don't Wimp Out! 1/15 Greenspan May Not Back Tax Cuts 1/15 Norton Never Submitted Fish and Wildlife Critique of Controversial Proposal to Relax Wetlands Rules 1/15 Back to Barbarism in Afghanistan 1/15 Tommy Thompson is Following the Bush Model of Trying to Keep the Truth Manufactured from a Central Command, Which is To Say "No One Say a Word Until I Hear from Karl Rove." 1/15 When People Allege You Turned a Blind Eye to Cooking the Books and Destroyed Evidence, Hire a PR Agency and Lobbyists. That's What Andersen Did. 1/15 "President Bush fainted briefly in the White House residence Sunday after choking on a pretzel while watching a National Football League playoff game on television" 1/14 Treasury Department Says It is "in the Process" of Providing Enron Answers. We're Not Holding Our Breath. 1/15 Enrongate on Democrats.com 1/15 A Republican Governor Signs a Law to Allow the New Jersey Legislature to Hide Behind a Veil of Secrecy 1/15 THE ANGRY LIBERAL on Beer and Pretzels 1/15 Bush Says He Feels Fine, Despite Large Bruise on Face 1/15 Message to Bush: It Looks Like Osama bin Laden Can Run AND Hide, Despite Your Tiresome John Wayne Imitation. We'd Feel a Little More Secure if He Wasn't Running Around. Stop Talking a Big Game and Deliver. 1/15 Ken Lay Threatens India With Sanctions 1/15 Enron fall turns dreams to dust 1/15 The Enron Candidate to Replace Phil Gramm, the Current Enron Candidate, in the Senate: Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Texas Attorney General John Cornyn 1/15 National Polls Shows Disagreement Among Election Officials About "Reform" (needs adobe) 1/15 Court Rejects Ohio Death Row Case 1/15 Was that North Korean Ship Running Drugs to Japan? 1/15 More Disgusting Efforts to Attack Tom Dashcle (Read Down) 1/15 In Pakistan, The Rogue to Fear Most Is the One Following Orders 1/15 Predatory Lenders Feel the Heat: Fed's Reforms Fall Short, Say Critics and Borrowers 1/15 Dallas Number One in Drunken-Driving Deaths. Hmmm. 1/15 For the Fourth Time in Six Months, BuzzFlash is Running Another Story About How Bush is Trying to Keep his Governor's Records Secret by Storing Them in Papa's Library. Is this a Bush Monarchy or a Democracy? We Know What They Think. What About You.1/15 SEC Gives a Slap on the Wrist to Accounting Firm. We Guess They Decided They Had to Look Like There is a Reason Taxpayers are Paying Their Salaries. 1/15 ENRON SPIN CYCLE Enron Document Destruction Examined 1/15 Enron's Internet monster 1/15 Silencing the Alarm at Enron 1/15		'Keeps' in Pakistan struggle to survive 1/15 Officials support national ID plan 1/15 Against the Enron End-Run 1/15 "Despite hydrogen's immense promise, the administration's plan is in fact a setback for greater near-term fuel efficiency, for reducing our reliance on Middle Eastern oil and for slowing global warming." 1/15 Big Oops in Listing of W Aide. Oh Yeah, Sure, Right! 1/15 "A frequent flier on Enron corporate jets, Bush received $774,100 from Enron management and the company itself including $312,500 for his campaigns for governor." 1/15 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Wendy [Gramm], under President Reagan and President Bush, served as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission" 1/15 Writers on the Right 1/15 Mr. Enron & His Buddy Mr. President 1/15 Enron collapse stirs echoes of '80s savings and loan woes. 1/15 US warns India on Enron 1/15 The Bush-Enron Lovefest Connections (updated as often as we can) 1/15 U.S. Advisers to Expand War on Terror to Philippines 1/15 Who's Accountable for Enron? 1/14 The Bush Administration Has Been Awfully Quiet about the Shoe Bomber's Al-Qaeda Connections. Why? 1/14 HERE IS PROOF THAT THE GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY POOHBAHS DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW UNETHICAL THEY ARE: MARC RACICOT CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD BE WRONG TO BE RNC CHAIRMAN AND LOBBY FOR ENRON AT THE SAME TIME 1/14 America quietly changes war aim 1/15 Top Bush official savaged over Enron comment 1/15 Moscow demands new arms treaty with US 1/15 FROM THE ARCHIVES: George W. Bush Gets Layed 1/15 "George Will needs to do his homework quite a bit better." 1/15 "Accidental" Fall Kills Missing Ebola Virus Specialist 1/15 Conservatism Flunks Its Finals, Part II 1/15 The greatest success yet this session of Congress has been its failure to pass an economic stimulus bill. 1/15 Will the Justice Department Investigate Enron or Conduct a Damage Control Operation for the Bush Administration? A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY 1/13 At Enron, The Rich Got Richer 1/15 Greed is the creed 1/15 "According to both the Washington Post and the Washington Times, the current phase of the campaign to turn Daschle into Satan was ordered by the President himself." 1/15 How to create a phony power crisis: The Bush-Enron connection 1/15 Lawmaker sees 'strong evidence' of insider trading at Enron 1/15 "This lawsuit should have been filed by the mainstream press, not me. But I think they're too worried about who is going to get the next interview with George and Laura Bush." 1/15 Former Enron CEO Made 1/15 Snapshot of Professional and Economic Interests Reveals Close Ties Between Government, Business 1/15 Disgraceful handling of Indian trust fund continues 1/15 Teen Pilot May Have Targeted Fla. Military Base 1/15 America's Shooting Gallery: Man shoots estranged wife, himself 1/15 Bush moves worry environmentalists; Businesses want to weaken Air Act 1/15 EVERYONE KNOWS IT’S WENDY (last 3 paragraphs) 1/15 GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY AT ITS MOST BRAZEN 1/15 The land of the free becomes the home of the hypocrite 1/15 Bush chief of staff aware of Enron call 1/15 If You're Over 50 and You Have an Opinion About Bush and Enron, You Should Vote in this Poll (left column) 1/15 "We know that they were trading fast and loose with offshore corporate entities that were hiding their debt from the public," said Lieberman 1/14 The military is exploring ways to stop the around-the-clock anti-terrorism patrols that fighter jets have been flying over American cities since Sept. 11 1/15 Tom Wales Fought for Gun Control. Maybe He Died for It. 1/14 Hillary Clinton Joins with Survivors to Call for Changes in WTC Compensation Fund 1/15 Clinton and Gore are Starting to do Some Fundraising for 2002 Congressional Battle 1/15 "Mr. Lay made no secret with us about his close relationship with the president and the White House and so on. We've been told that he in fact says things like, "I'll help you with what you need politically" (READ DOWN THIS INTERVIEW) 1/14 Just Call It the EPA WHITMANGATE 1/14 Mr. Bush, What We Need is a "Container Defense System," For Real 1/15 "If this memo is what it looks like, I'm afraid that the folks at Arthur Andersen could be on the other end of an indictment before this is over," Sen. Joseph Lieberman 1/14 Private Sector, Public Doubts 1/15		New Jersey Troopers Avoid Jail in Case That Highlighted Profiling 1/15 GOP Retirements Give Democrats Early Edge in House Races 1/15 ENRON AND STAFF ARE THE NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF BUSH CAMPAIGN FUNDS: GOP "ENRONOMICS" AT WORK Let's Not Run Headlong Into a National I.D. 1/15 U.S. to Face Record Sanctions after WTO Ruling 1/15 Bush Faces Flak Over Family Links with Winner of U.S. Defense Contract 1/15 Someone Let Paul Weyrich Out of His Padded Cell Again 1/15 Biography of Karl Rove. Notice No Military Service. Just Another Grand Hypocriscy Party Chicken Hawk, Along with Cheney, Ashcroft and Bush. 1/14 They're Busted In Shell Game, by Jimmy Breslin 1/14 Enron: Now the IRS Joins the Hunt 1/14 Who Killed Enron? 1/14 Geraldo's hunt: That's entertainment 1/14 "George II was the drill instructor who taught the troops that the first -- and possibly only -- word in the Bush political vocabulary is "loyalty." Next on the Bush Family Grudge List: Saddam Hussein. 1/14 Former Enron employees deeply angered by their treatment as company went down: Americans should take note as they support a White House schooled in "Enronomics" 1/14 Bush's Soot Heaven for America 1/14 THE HOME PAGE FOR THE CARLYLE GROUP 1/14 Kashmiri Militants Vow to Continue Violence Against India 1/14 We Knew There'd be Scandals 1/14 As BuzzFlash Reported Months Ago, Bush is Trying to Keep His Papers as Governor Out of the Public Domain by Storing Them at Daddy's Library. What a Coward. 1/14 HOT ITEM: READ THIS PBS INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER HEAD OF FERC TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW KEN LAY USED HIS WHITE HOUSE CLOUT TO TRY AND MUSCLE ENRON-FRIENDLY POLICIES THROUGH (READ DOWN) 1/13 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Meet Enron, Bush's Biggest Contributor 1/14 Saudis Tacitly Support Terrorist Network, Book Asserts 1/14 George W. Bush Was Shilling for Enron back in 1988, Despite What He Has Said 1/12 BUSH LIED -- AND HERE'S THE PROOF FROM THE WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG DEPARTMENT: The Bush administration is considering whether to restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to make germ weapons 1/14 Democratic Surge of Voters in New York State 1/14 Right Wing Organization Takes a Disgusting Rumor Mongering Shot at a Gay American Ambassador 1/14 The Republican Gravy Train 1/14 RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) EEOC Can Ignore Arbitration Deals 1/15 Blast from the Past: Bush dodged Vietnam draft, court told 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ENRON/BUSH ADMINISTRATION 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: ENRON MAKES WHITEWATER LOOK LIKE A PUDDLE 1/13 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Ken Lay, Enron, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 1/12 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Ballad of Poor Kenneth Lay 1/4 President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism law, But Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Remain Key Obstructionists (1996) Faith in democracy is crucial, Moyers says. Bill Moyers for President! 1/6 "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." THE CAMPUS VOICE: Where Have All The Students Gone? 1/15 THE LIGHTER SIDE: I Did Not Have Improper Relations With That Woman, Miss Enron 1/14 The Presidential Prayer Squad 1/15 A BUZZFLASH READER SATIRE: The True Story of a GOP Survivor and Her Heroic Battle to Overcome Moral Superiority Addiction 1/15 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Ironic Times 1/15 Top Ten Conservative Idiots 1/15 BUSH FAINTS, HITS HEAD, LOSES ALL MEMORY OF ENRON 1/15 The Dubya Chronicles 1/14 Reporters Ask Bush Hard Ball Questions 1/15 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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