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WAXMAN TO THE WHITE HOUSE: PUT YOUR ENRON CARDS ON THE TABLE		Archived 1/25/02 8:10am
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The National Security Council Aided Enron. The Bush Administration Gave Kenneth Lay All the Help and More. 1/25 Greenspan Doubts Need for Tax Cuts 1/25 Andersen Officials Grilled 1/25 SUPPORT BUZZFLASH, THE UnDRUDGE REPORT, NOW AND GET A PREMIUM, JUST LIKE PUBLIC TELEVISION! IT'S US OR RUSH! The January 24th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American 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. FROM THE ARCHIVES: BBC: DID BUSH TURN A BLIND EYE TO TERRORISM? by Greg Palast 1/25 Libby Dole, You've Got Some Explaining to Do! 1/25 Suicide Bomber in Tel Aviv 1/25 What Did Ken Lay Know on Aug. 20? "There are no accounting issues...no previously unknown problem issues," He Told Business Week 1/25 "That's what happened on Jan. 6, when chief White House economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey called the Enron Corp. (ENE ) collapse a "tribute to American capitalism." 1/25 FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON PRACTICALLY DICTATED THE FERC APPOINTMENTS. BUSH INCORPORATED DID THE BIDDING OF ENRON FROM DAY ONE. 1/25 BUZZFLASH EXCLUSIVE COINCIDENCE 1/25 Furious Lawmakers Grill Andersen Over Enron Files 1/25 Conyers Calls for Special Counsel for Enron (requires the Acrobat Reader) 1/25 Who Helped Cheney? by Michigan Congressman John D. Dingell 1/25 "The President has to identify with the little guy rather than with Ken Lay and his other Enron friends. That's why he's suddenly 'outraged.'" 1/25 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 Good Analysis of the Likely Source of the Anthrax Attacks. Note 6)Possible Portrait of the Anthrax Perpetrator 1/25 Enron suit cites racketeering charges A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Enron and The Gramms 1/25 "Texas Attorney General John Cornyn issued an opinion favorable to Enron as one of its affiliates sought to keep financial information secret while it competed for business in the deregulated utility market." 1/25 "The average net worth of the President, Vice President and the Cabinet falls between $9.3 million and $27.3 million--nearly ten times the average net worth of the Clinton Administration lineup. And not for nothing do they call it Grand Ole Petroleum"1/25 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 Dick Cheney, Wherever They are Hiding Him, Has Hired-Gun Mary Matalin Continue to Give the Finger to the American Public 1/25 A Lot of People Hate the Double Standard Nation, by Molly Ivins 1/25 America's Shooting Gallery: School Bus Driver with a Gun Kidnaps Kids 1/25 Arbusto Energy eyed 1/25 Bush Couldn't Capture Osama, the Mullah or the Anthrax Terrorist, So He's Instructed John Ashcroft to Make a Big Show of the Walker Trial 1/25 Conservatives mock U.S. 'solidarity' 1/25 "IN JUST ONE year, an astonishing $4 trillion of projected surpluses has vanished from the federal ledger, swallowed up by the president's (and Congress's) tax-cut package, by spending increases and by the economic downturn." 1/25 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush Violated Security Laws, SEC Report Says 1/25 Bush Gets "D-" in the 2001 Presidential Report Card by the League of Conservation Voters 1/25 Bush Picks a Real Winner for His AIDS Panel -- Tom Coburn is -- GET THIS -- Anti-Condom! THAT is Simply Beyond Comprehension! 1/25 The American Public Has a Right to Know Who is Shaping Its Energy Policy Under Clinton, the SEC Chief Tried to Change the Rules to Reign in the Renegade Accounting Firms 1/25 Bush's Picks For Courts Under Attack. 1/25 Did Andersen Speed up the Shredding? 1/25 Bush Incorporated Hypocrisy on Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction 1/25 The American Problem Is Domination of Politics by Money 1/25 Ashcroft's Media Scam: A Confederacy of Amnesia 1/25 Rumsfeld Sure Knows How to Win the Support of the British 1/25 Enron: History of Human Rights Abuse in India 1/25 Who Said the Bush Administration Didn't Help Enron? Paul O'Neill Opposed Efforts to Stop Offshore Banking, Which Was at the Heart of the Enron Scam. Bush Incorporated Probably Knew about Enron's Looming Problems Before the Inauguration. 1/25 Genuflecting Before the Bush Throne, by Gene Lyons 1/25 Budget Cuts in Massachusetts Spare Huge PR Staff of GOP Governor 1/25 USA: Washington Pressures EU to Drop GMO Labeling 1/25		As Long As The "Good Ole Boy" Network Runs Government -- Headed by Anti-Choice, Anti-Common Sense Bush -- Women Will Always Be Made Second Class Citizens and Will Get Paid Less For the Same Work That Men Do. 1/25 Republican Sen. McConnell Slams Enron Workers; What a Compassionate Conservative He Must Be 1/25 Some Servicewomen Told to Wear Robes 1/25 Nothing Like a Gun Show. Just Good Clean Fun for the Weirdos. 1/25 Texas Jobless Fund Will Run Out of Money in March 1/25 The Houston Chronicle is Still Playing Catch-up on the Enron Story 1/25 Enron's Dabhol Power Company Being Investigated for Possible Equipment Misuse 1/25 Good sense from Kerry on energy 1/25 AMERICA'S SHOOTING GALLERY: Teen Rents Gun at Florida Shooting Range, Buys Osama bin Laden Target and Commits Suicide 1/25 Grounding of Airbus fleet urged 1/25 Why Bush Deserves His Share of the 9/11 Blame. 1/24 Rundown of the 2002 Races for Governor 1/25 Sense and nonsense on cutting taxes 1/25 Daigle, a 17-year-veteran of the Norwich Police Department and chairman of the Norwich Republican Town Committee, was put on paid leave Dec. 7. Norwich police are conducting an internal investigation. 1/25 Political freedom imperiled online 1/25 House Democrats Propose Making the '96 Welfare Law an Antipoverty Weapon 1/25 FLASHBACK: EU Not Happy With Heavy-Handed Bush Efforts for Jack Welch and GE. It's Always About Who Greases Your Pockets. 1/25 Editorial: Whistle-blower took bold step at Enron 1/25 Smoking Gun in Enrongate: Let the Impeachment Begin? 1/25 Bush's offensive budget 1/25 GOP Congressman from Nebraska is a Hypocrite on Campaign Finance Reform 1/25 Gephardt Wants U.S. to Take Strong Steps on a Polluting Lead Plant 1/25 "Two congressional committees are investigating allegations that Enron Corp. manipulated energy trading markets to profit from insider information." 1/25 Bill to Change Bankruptcy Reconsidered 1/25 How campaign-funding laws let Enron buy influence 1/25 Two congressional committees are investigating allegations that Enron Corp. manipulated energy trading markets to profit from insider information. 1/25 "An antitrust research group said on Wed. it plans to file a lawsuit against Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department, charging that both failed to fully disclose contacts that led to a proposed settlement of the case against the software giant." 1/25 It Took Awhile for Dubya to Become Outraged 1/25 THE CASE of Enron and its auditors may become spring 2002's successor to the Monica Lewinsky case, but addressing the scandal fails to address the country's real problem, which is the domination of politics by money. 1/25 Dublin, Ohio, workers stung by Enron's fall 1/25 California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) $425 Million in The Carlyle Group 1/25 Court Rules that Florida's "Three Strikes" Law is Unconstitutional 1/25 55 Arrested at US Mission to the UN Urging Changes in U.S. Foreign Policy 1/25 Enron Got What It Paid For 1/25 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Don't Fall for Bush's Self-Serving 'Bipartisanship' 1/24 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Manhattan Institute, Alliance Capital and Florida 1/24 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: We Will Not Get Over It 1/24 The Current Texas Governor and Bush Have A Lot in Common When It Comes to Wrecking Budgets 1/24 Las Vegas Mayor Petitions Court to Stop Recommendation for Nevada Nuclear Dump 1/25 How Could Taliban Troops with 450 Tanks and Vehicles Just "Disappear" from Kandahar in December? 1/25 WATCH OUT: Bush's Latin America Czar Rides High 1/25 White House may be cooling to economic stimulus bill. Hmmm.... 1/25 "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 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 "One congressional aide told CNN the document destruction at Andersen was more widespread than the company has acknowledged, involving as many as 80 employees" 1/25		BUSH SAYS HE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT BIN LADEN: WELL, WE ARE GEORGE W. NEXT, BUSH WILL SAY CLINTON HELPED OSAMA GET AWAY. "Politicians love to have silent, passive punching bags during election years. That's why the GOP is pounding Mr. Tax-and-Spend" 1/24 Life and Debt, a Documentary 1/25 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 Police Go Bonkers Over Harry Potter in Pennsylvania 1/25 "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 Bill Kristol, Paid Pundit for Enron 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 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 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 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) Obscure 1997 SEC Decision, Paid For By Paid Enron Connections, Helped Enron Skirt 1940's Regulatory Laws 1/24 The January 23rd Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia 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 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 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: STRANGE JUSTICE 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) 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: The K Chronicles presents The Bush Babies 1/25 Rove Copyrights Patriotism 1/25 Bush Follows the Money (req. Flash) 1/24 Doonesbury. Need We Say More? 1/25 Songs of Enron 1/25 CHOKING BUSH CALLED CABINET MEMBERS FOR HELP, TOLD GOVERNMENT COULDN'T INTERVENE IN COLLAPSE 1/25 I Heard Know Little Kenny Boy 1/25 KMART Bankruptcy Scandal Rocks Washington 1/24 The White House For Kids: How To Be a Cigarette-Safe Kid 1/25 Bush Family Values Photo Album 1/24 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Work at Enron, for REAL! 1/25 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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