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Enron suit cites racketeering charges		Archived 1/24/02 8:59am
The American Public Has a Right to Know Who is Shaping Its Energy Policy


BUZZFLASH SMOKING GUN: In June of 2001, President of India's Congress Said the Enron Dabhol Power Project Came up in Discussions with Bush Administration 1/24 BUZZFLASH SMOKING GUN FLASHBACK: MORE ON CHENEY'S INVOLVEMENT WITH ENRON AND THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT 1/24 Why Bush Deserves His Share of the 9/11 Blame. 1/24 Dick Cheney, Wherever They are Hiding Him, Has Hired Gun Mary Matalin Continue to Give the Finger to the American Public 1/25 Kenneth Lay Resigns as Chairman and CEO of Enron, But Stays on Board. The Corporate Bandits are Sticking Together for the Time Being. 1/24 SUPPORT BUZZFLASH, THE UnDRUDGE REPORT, NOW AND GET A PREMIUM, JUST LIKE PUBLIC TELEVISION! IT'S US OR RUSH! 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. Ultimatum in Enron case: Judge sets deadline for agreement to stop destruction of records 1/24 The Current Texas Governor and Bush Have A Lot in Common When It Comes to Wrecking Budgets 1/24 Andersen Consulting's Duncan Wants Immunity Or He Won't Testify 1/24 Failed Texas Businessman Bush, Supported by Failed Enron, with a Vice President Who Headed Failing Halliburton, Tells Us He Knows What's Best for a Failing Economy. Got It? Did the Bush Administration Help Enron by Waiting So Long to Send in the FBI to Stop the Shredding? They Still Aren't Securing Documents at Andersen to Our Knowledge. 1/25 Bush Ran From Serving in Vietnam and Now He's Running Away from the Press 1/24 Daschle Answers Critics in Ad Blitz 1/24 "On Tuesday, Bowsher called Pitt's proposals a sham intended to give the (accounting)industry more power to discipline itself rather than submit to outside scrutiny." 1/24 "The US government is blocking an international drive led by Britain to increase aid for the world's poorest countries in the wake of last year's terrorist attacks." 1/24 Gephardt Urges Energy Independence 1/24 The president and the evildoers, by Arianna Huffington 1/24 Okay, So Why Isn't the Justice Department Stopping the Andersen Shredding? Very Good Question Indeed. 1/24 Army Secretary Who Made Millions off of Enron Spoke with Enron Officials at Least 23 Times Since September 10th 1/24 FBI INVESTIGATES ENRON SHREDDING: BUSH DRAGS IN MOTHER-IN-LAW TO PLAY THE VICTIM CARD. HE HID BEHIND ANN RICHARD'S SKIRT LAST WEEK. WHAT A GUY! 1/23 Al Sharpton Wants to Help Bush's Mother-in-Law 1/24 John Walker May be a Traitor, But to the Bush Administration He's Just a Diversion from Their Failure to Capture Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and the Anthrax Terrorist...Not to Mention Enron 1/23 BUSH SAYS HE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT BIN LADEN: WELL, WE ARE GEORGE W. NEXT, BUSH WILL SAY CLINTON HELPED OSAMA GET AWAY. "Projected federal surpluses over the next decade have plunged 71 percent from last year's estimates" Don't Tell Bush, He'll Want Another Tax Cut! 1/24 Kerry: Bush Energy Plan to Help Industry, Not Public 1/23 "Politicians love to have silent, passive punching bags during election years. That's why the GOP is pounding Mr. Tax-and-Spend" 1/24 "Halliburton faces significant legal risk, which raises its default probability," Moody's wrote" 1/24 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. How Ari Fleischer Avoids Telling the Truth 1/24 Bush Cracks Jokes About Shoe Bomber: Excuse Me! 1/23 Enroning on Empty 1/24 Kerry Attacks The Bush Energy Policy. Finally! Someone Give That Man a Cookie! 1/24 "Choicepoint, a database firm that sells information about individuals and companies to clients, including the FBI and insurance firms, left an internal corporate database viewable to anyone with a Web browser, the company confirmed." 1/24 "An independent special prosecutor is imperative to investigate possible criminal violations by Enron Corp." 1/24 The Enron "security" team included an FBI agent and four Central Intelligence Agency veterans 1/24 The Death of Outrage 1/24 Enron's human toll 1/24 Canceling George W. Bush's prized tax cut is more popular than keeping it — especially if doing so would help avoid a deficit, finds an ABCNEWS.com poll. 1/23 Bill Kristol, Paid Pundit for Enron 1/24 13 senators pressured SEC to abandon proposed audit rule 1/24 AOL picks up where Justice leaves off 1/24 Recuse Me! Conflicts Of Interest In Congress 1/24 Alaska's Republican Senator Is Desperate to Drill in ANWR. Makes One Wonder What He'll Gain Personally And/Or Financially From the Trashing of the Wilderness. 1/24 A Human Rights Site? In China? Not Quite. 1/24 Concern Grows Over Iran's Influence in Afghanistan 1/24 President Bush called today for nearly $50 billion in additional military spending for the war on terrorism, the largest increase for the Pentagon in two decades. 1/24		Homeland Security Chief May Lack Means to Implement Major Initiatives 1/24 "It looks like the Bush administration will take another stab at cutting the Small Business Administration's budget." 1/24 An Anti-Choice George Bush Delays Clean Underwear for Afghan Women. C'mon Laura, Do You Really Care About Them Or Was That Just Another Publicity Stunt? 1/24 Gramm Says Didn't Know of Enron Woes; There's Speculation He Might Have Used The "Cup Hands Over Ears, Hum Loudly" Method of Conflict Avoidance. 1/24 It is apparent to everyone, except the Bush administration, that Vice-President Dick Cheney is hiding something. 1/24 Bring Out the Dead: Tallying up the casualties in the face of indifference 1/24 Jerry Falwell, Unplugged. 1/24 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) "The huge US government budget surplus - which one year ago was estimated at $5.6 trillion over 10 years - is set to disappear as the effects of the economic slowdown and the Bush administration tax cuts take effect." 1/24 Obscure 1997 SEC Decision, Paid For By Paid Enron Connections, Helped Enron Skirt 1940's Regulatory Laws 1/24 "From Bush on down, there will be much chest-beating by politicians, but little action, over the injustice of it all. The rich will keep their tax cuts to come, and, like Enron's executives, they will continue to make out like bandits." 1/24 "Credit Suisse First Boston -- the investment bank that managed some of the most hyped stock offerings of the Internet boom era -- agrees to pay a $100 million fine for improperly pumping up share prices." 1/24 Bush Incorporated Still Can't Identify Anthrax Terrorist -- Or Won't Identify Him or Her Because of Military Relationship. So Now the Reward Money is Being Doubled. 1/24 "An independent special prosecutor is imperative to investigate possible criminal violations by Enron Corp., its officers and its auditor, Andersen Co." 1/24 Iraq: the phantom threat 1/24 Will Durst’s satirical take on the tough times ahead for multi-millionaire Kenny Boy Lay 1/24 Poll Says 2/3 Of Us Would Be Okay With More War, As Long As We Didn't Go It Alone 1/24 FBI Director Mueller Claims Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan Has Stopped Some Planned Attacks 1/24 "Suppose that on Monday, January 7, President George W. Bush had branded hundreds of Justice Department employees as potential security risks because they were union members?" Well, He Did. 1/24 "The FBI has surely known for several months that the anthrax attack was an inside job." Report By Federation of Scientists 1/24 The parallel is Watergate: Forget Whitewater, Enron has the stink of conspiracy 1/24 The January 23rd Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia The January 23rd BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Good Lord! Linda "What's Wrong with Indentured Servants" Chavez Actually Debunks a Right Wing Ollie North/Osama bin Laden Myth Caroming Around the Internet 1/24 FLASHBACK: Ken Lay Was On Bush's Short List for Treasury Secretary. Imagine That! And They Had Only Just Become Friends. What a Co-Ink-A-Dink That Must Have Been. 1/23 U.S. Supreme Court Decides to Hear Case That Could Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program 1/24 Al Qaeda Transfers to Guantanamo Suspended 1/23 A Weak Case for Carrying Concealed Handguns in Ohio 1/24 "Two more terrorism cases that once seemed compelling fell apart in recent days, suggesting the huge national law-enforcement dragnet that followed the Sept. 11 attacks has yet to pay off big." 1/24 BuzzFlash Interviews Gene Lyons: Part II FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE ARROGANT REHNQUIST COURT REWRITES OUR CONSTITUTION: "FEDERALIST" JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IS A THREAT TO OUR MOST SACRED DOCUMENT Daschle Offers Alternative Economic Package 1/23 Karl Rove, Your Pants are on Fire! ""Some on the other side, they have a plan we ought to raise taxes in a recession," Rove said, arguing basic economics that tax hikes are bad for an economic downturn." 1/23 Dick Armey Makes a Scum Pond Look Like a Fresh Water Lake 1/23 Bush Expresses Support for Overturn of Roe V. Wade 1/23 The Grand Hypocrisy Junkyard Dog Soft Money Affiliates are Out to Do a Character Assassination Job on Tom Daschle 1/23 Nuclear Arms Plants' Security Lax, Report Says 1/23 More Hypocritical Recess Appointments from the Bush Administration 1/23 Rove Waves Flag For G.O.P. Candidates 1/23 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: STRANGE JUSTICE 1/23 Connie Chung Does CNN 1/23 Message to Katherine Harris: Maybe Ken Lay Will Contribute a Million to Your Campaign. He's Selling His Four Homes in Aspen. 1/23 Bush Urges Congress to Pass Tax Plan. Didn't He See The Poll That Said More Americans DON'T WANT HIS "ENRICH THE RICH" TAX CUT? Is He Deaf? I Bet A Campaign Contribution From Enron Would Unclog Those Republican Ears! 1/23 Bush wants to make the US safer for the Republican party 1/23 Bush Incorporated, Vain or Glorious? 1/23 The Enron Greed Just Keeps on Coming 1/23 Pashtun Faction Says U.S. Raids Killed Civilians, Not Taliban 1/23		Kennedy and Bush Negotiate on Patients' Rights, Alarming Their Allies 1/23 Enron Contributions at issue in judge's confirmation 1/23 Genuflecting Before the Bush Throne, by Gene Lyons 1/25 "An East Tennessee family suing to stop Bible classes in the public elementary schools of Dayton, the town made famous by the "Scopes Monkey Trial," asked a federal judge Tuesday to make a ruling without a trial. " 1/23 Enron Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg 1/23 Enron’s close friends are feeling a bit faint 1/23 Plutonium May Soon be Passing Through a Neighborhood Near You on Its Way to South Carolina 1/24 Phil Gramm, Recuse Yourself! 1/23 Absolute Power Does Corrupt Absolutely 1/23 FERC chief's ouster raises Enron-Bush questions 1/23 A Pro-Life Bush Out of the Closet: Abortion Foes Get Bush Backing at Anti - Roe Rally 1/23 Tobacco Firm Seeks to Stop U.S. Anti-Smoking Ads 1/23 Vinson & Elkins parry Enron onslaught 1/23 Female American Military No Longer Required To Wear Veil When Off-Base In Saudi Arabia 1/23 MUST READ, UNBELIEVABLE STUFF: Neil Bush Sighting in Saudi Arabia, the "Unofficial" Bush Family Business Partner 1/22 Was Enron a Cult? 1/23 Enron Got Its Money's Worth: Look No Further Than the Energy Plan 1/23 John Walker Returns to U.S. Soil to Become Karl Rove's Little PR Whipping Boy to Divert Attention from Enron and Bush's Failure to Capture Any of the Top Terrorist Leaders 1/24 REPOST: Enron: A Scandal So Good That It Hurts 1/23 Here Comes "Daschlenomics": The GOP Readies Its Rhetorical Playbook 1/23 Dear John (Ashcroft) 1/23 "The Sept. 11 attacks didn't stop members of Congress from traveling at the expense of special interests" 1/23 BUZZFLASH MEDIA WATCH SPECIAL, By Gloria Lalumia: TIM RUSSERT PLAYS DUMB 1/21 BuzzFlash presents "The Angry Liberal" - Enron, Part II: Republicans Cash In on Ken Lay (And Vice Versa) State's late Enron buys questioned: This Conflict of Interest First Reported on BuzzFlash. See "Florida, Enron, and Alliance Capital" in Our BuzzFlash Contributor Archives (first posted on BuzzFlash on 1/14) FROM JUNE: How Ethical is the Bush Administration Anyway? 1/19 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL - Can The "National Review" Transform Itself Into A "New Age" Right Wing Media Publication? Which Is To Say, Can It Master The Art Of Fiction Writing? 1/18 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Bush Pioneers, Andersen Consulting, and Enron 1/16 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 "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: Bush Exposed as Tool of Industry, from the Yale Herald 1/23 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Something Smells At the White House 1/23 Bush Follows the Money (req. Flash) 1/24 THE TOP TEN CONSERVATIVE IDIOTS OF THE YEAR: ANNIVERSAY EDITION! 1/21 A Tax Cut Will Cure Your Ills 1/23 Laura Bush's Message to Victims of the Enron Collapse 1/22 What Me Worry? or a Smirk a Day Keeps the Truth Away 1/24 KMART Bankruptcy Scandal Rocks Washington 1/24 The Presidential Prayer Squad 1/22 Bush Family Values Photo Album 1/24 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Dubya's Dayly Diary 1/23 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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