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WITH A GREEN LIGHT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THE GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY ROLLS OUT THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION SQUAD		Archived 01/16/02 7:46am
ANDERSEN EXEC ORDERED DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AFTER LEARNING OF S.E.C. INQUIRY


"We're Such a Crooked Company" 1/16 Actual August 2001 Letter from Enron Whistleblower to Ken Lay (needs adobe) 1/16 KEEP INDEPENDENT NEWS ALIVE: SUPPORT BUZZFLASH, THE UnDRUDGE REPORT, NOW AND GET A BOOK! Senator Carl Levin Calls Bush's Nuclear Arms Plan Dangerous 1/16 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. The bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. has 2,832 subsidiaries, of which 874 are registered in the Cayman Islands or other tax and bank secrecy havens. 1/16 NYSE moves to delist Enron 1/16 Norwegian Finance Minister Marries Gay Partner 1/16 The January 15th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Osama Has Escaped, the Anthrax Terrorist is at Large, the Economy is in the Dumps, Bush, a Failed Businessman, is Attacked by a Pretzel, and We are Supposed to Trust Him on the Economy? Enronomics = Contributors Get Richer 1/16 The Hypocrisy of Bush's Appeal to So-Called "Heartland Values" 1/16 U.S. Loses Trade Case to Europeans on Offshore Tax Havens 1/16 Bush Re-Elect Drops Below 50% 1/16 "Palestinian police arrested the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, wanted by Israel for the assassination of a cabinet minister, as the killing of two settlers strained a battered truce." 1/16 Social Security to Settle Racial Bias Suit 1/16 McGreevey Sworn in as New Jersey Governor 1/16 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 Andersen Fires Lead Enron Auditor 1/16 "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stepped in to defuse a row between reformist deputies and the hard-line judiciary Tuesday" 1/16 A Second Auditing Firm Could Be Caught In The Widening Web Of Enron's Problems 1/16 “I am incredibly nervous that we will implode,” An August letter to Lay warned, investigators say 1/15 Will the Democrats Wimp Out on the Enron Investigation? 1/16 America's Shooting Gallery: Man Kills Four Family Members and Himself in Pennsylvania 1/16 Some Bait and Switch from Bush Incorporated on Pollution 1/16 IMPORTANT ARTICLE: "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 A BUZZFLASH UNRESOLVED MYSTERY: IF ONLY DOGS COULD TALK U.S. Should Consider Leaving Military Bases in Saudi Arabia, Levin Says 1/16 "Judging from the Enron case, the system's rightful fruit must be that executives get out unscathed, the little guys get screwed, and competition gets ditched in favor of a mega-monopoly" 1/16 Sen. Carnahan Will Run to Keep Seat: Eat Your Heart Out John Ashcroft 1/16 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 Bond Between Enron, Andersen Went Beyond Auditing 1/16 "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" The Worst Thing About Enron: Checks and Balances Failed 1/16 Eight Questions for Bush About Enron 1/16 Another Gun Guy Nut Job, This One a Democrat 1/16 REPOSTED: Carlyle's Way 1/16 Harpers Magazine Weekly Review 1/16 Pelosi Is Highest-Ranking Female U.S. Lawmaker Ever 1/16 The average net worth of 15 of the top Bush cabinet officials, including the President and Vice President, was between $9.9 and $28.9 million 1/16 America's Shooting Gallery: Utah lawmakers moved Monday to wipe out rules banning guns, including legally concealed weapons, at the nine state universities and colleges. 1/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Enron's secret bid to save deregulation in California" 1/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: O, Brother! Where Art Thou? 1/16 Not only is the U.S. military stopping journalists from getting first-hand information from the battlefront, but the Pentagon has purchased exclusive rights to all satellite images as well--which effectively prevents any ind. review of bomb damage. 1/16 Racicot conflict? The damage is done 1/16 Politics keep high court at status quo 1/16 U.S. General, I Mean, ATTORNEY General Ashcroft Will Seek Life Sentence for John Walker Lindh Instead of Death Penalty. 1/16 Egyptian student found with pilot radio had worked for U.S. government contractor received security clearance 1/16 Environmental Engineer Testifies Monsanto Knowingly Released Toxic Chemicals in Alabama 1/16 America's Shooting Gallery: Two Students Shot, Wounded at New York School 1/16 YES, IT'S TRUE: National Park Service Gives Approval to Using Dynamite to Explore for Oil in the Everglades! 1/16 America's Shooting Gallery: Man Killed Outside Houston School 1/16 CRONY CAPITALISM THRIVES IN THE BUSH "ENRONOMICS" REGIME Huey Freeman: American Hero 1/16		Let's Also Profile Enron Casualties 1/16 Enron Pumped Cash Into Tanks Too 1/16 Will There be a Renewed Call for Campaign Finance Reform? 1/16 Bush, the corporations' flag-carrier 1/16 "Clinton smoked a joint 30 years ago and we heard about that for 8 years. W. was a stumbling drunk and virtually self-confessed cocaine snorter and yet that story evaporated as quickly as it materialized." 1/16 Experts study anti-bioterror caches 1/16 CIA 'ignored warning' on al Qaeda 1/16 The Justice Department has concluded that the government can legally go forward with Clinton administration-era clean air lawsuits against power companies. 1/16 WHAT SHOULD BE CHANGED BEFORE THE RULE FOR SEPTEMBER 11 VICTIM COMPENSATION BECOMES FINAL: The Need For Fairness For Domestic Partners 1/16 Government officials are examining whether Enron Corp.'s extensive use of a controversial tax strategy, once opposed by the Clinton administration, contributed to its financial problems. 1/16 America's Shooting Gallery: Two Students Shot, Wounded at New York School 1/16 FBI Examining Anthrax Link at Rutgers 1/16 Despite conflicts, Justice Dept. to decide on counsel 1/16 Judge overseeing host of Enron suits recuses self 1/16 State Budgets Burn Through Anti-Tobacco Funds 1/16 Chicago's procedures for granting or denying permits have nothing to do with regulating the content of speech in city parks, and everything to do with efficiency and public safety, says Supreme Court 1/16 Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again? 1/16 Tattletales for an Open Society: An Open Letter to Dr. Lynn Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman 1/16 Did George W. Bush do Business with the Taliban? 1/16 U.S. OKs oil drilling in Big Cypress, despite environmental worries 1/16 Ken Lay's E-mail to Enron Employees Assuring Them of the Company's Strength 1/15 Senate panel reviews Enron over tax breaks 1/16 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 Judge overseeing host of Enron suits recuses herself, due to conflicts 1/15 Quote of the Day from Donald Rumsfeld About the Prisoners Held at Our Base in Cuba: "It's not going to be a country club." Gotch Ya, Don. 1/16 "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 Despite President's Denials, Enron & Lay Were Early Backers of Bush 1/15 Special Forces Join Effort in Philippines 1/16 That's Quite a Shellacking the President Took! Ouch! 1/15 High court "clarifies" car search power 1/16 Computer Sleuths Seek Enron E-Mails 1/16 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 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 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 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 THE ANGRY LIBERAL on Beer and Pretzels 1/15 Bush Says He Feels Fine, Despite Large Bruise on Face 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 More Disgusting Efforts to Attack Tom Daschle (Read Down) 1/15 Predatory Lenders Feel the Heat: Fed's Reforms Fall Short, Say Critics and Borrowers 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 Document Destruction Examined 1/15 Silencing the Alarm at Enron 1/15 Officials support national ID plan 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 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 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 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 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 Greed is the creed 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 Snapshot of Professional and Economic Interests Reveals Close Ties Between Government, Business 1/15 Disgraceful handling of Indian trust fund continues 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 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 BUSH LIED -- AND HERE'S THE PROOF 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) 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 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: This Dubya Ain't for Women, from the University of Texas Dailly Texan 1/16 THE LIGHTER SIDE: FLEISCHER: WHITE HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RUMORS ARE "PATENTLY UNSUBSTANTIATED" 1/16 The Presidential Prayer Squad 1/15 Terrorist White House Coffee Table Sent to Cuba for Interrogation 1/16 An Angel Appears at the National Press Club 1/16 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! Top ten innocent explanations for Arthur Andersen's end-of-Enron document shredding party. 1/16 Top Ten Conservative Idiots 1/15 BUSH FAINTS, HITS HEAD, LOSES ALL MEMORY OF ENRON 1/15 FBI's Most Wanted -- Evil Pretzel 1/15 Reporters Ask Bush Hard Ball Questions 1/15 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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