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DID ENRON STEAL FROM EMPLOYEES? DID THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TIP ENRON OFF ON INTERVIEWS WITH WHISTLE BLOWER?		Archived 2/5/02 10:19am
KEN LAY IS MISSING. MAYBE HE'S HIDING OUT WITH DICK CHENEY. AFTER ALL, THE WHITE HOUSE DOESN'T WANT "KENNY BOY" SINGING LIKE A CANARY. STAY TUNED.


"The administration's new motto seems to be "Leave no defense contractor behind," by Paul Krugman. 2/5 SENATOR HOLLINGS CALLS FOR A SPECIAL ENRON PROSECUTOR: "WE'VE GOT AN ENRON GOVERNMENT" BUZZFLASH.COM IS NOW OFFERING "GRAND THEFT 2000: MEDIA SPECTACLE AND A STOLEN ELECTION." THE COVER OF THE BOOK IS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE CONTRIBUTION ALONE! The Big Dog Was the Top Draw in NYC: Bush Squandered Potential Deal with North Korea, Clinton Implies 2/5 Report that Bush Administration Paid Villagers Over Mistaken Raid 2/5 BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Enron, Part III: Enron Supported Both Sides (Except the Democrats) 2/5 The February 5th 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. The February 4th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Judge Blocks Bush Clarence-Thomas-Clone Civil Rights Appointee 2/5 John McCain Has Skin Lesion Removed 2/5 The Axis-of-Inefficiency Budget 2/5 European leaders insist diplomacy is the way to deal with three nations singled out by Bush 2/5 In Pathetic Understatement, Rumsfeld Concedes Raid "May Have" Killed Friendly Afghans 2/5 Antonin "The Enforcer" Scalia is Now Telling the Catholic Church What to Do. He's Confused Being on the Supreme Court with Being God. 2/5 Olympic Sniper Scare 2/5 Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003 2/5 Justice Department Won't Appoint Special Enron Prosecutor 2/5 "Mr. Bush continues to suggest that it's possible to increase spending, address the deficits that lie ahead in Social Security and expand tax cuts. That math didn't work last year; it's more dubious now." 2/5 Join the BuzzFlash Fan Club! As law nears, GOP unloading its `soft money' 2/5 Irony is NOT Dead. No Way. Not by a Mile. Prepare Thyself: Bush, Blair nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. No Kidding. Some Right-Wing Norwegian Who Must Have an A-MAZ-Ing Sense of Humor. 2/5 5 Palestinians Killed in Gaza 2/5 Bush Tries Again with His Useless Discount Drug Plan For Seniors. Plus, He Throws It Back to the States to Expand THEIR Programs for Lower-Income Medicare Recipients (Even Though They Don't Have the Money to Pay For It). 2/5 The AFL-CIO called on U.S. regulators on Monday to bar directors of Enron Corp. from serving on other companies' boards, arguing the directors were ''substantially unfit'' for such duties. 2/5 Judge Implicates 43 in French Oil Scandal 2/5 Anticlimax of the Week: Lay Resigns from Enron Board of Directors 2/5 Bush Kids Gone Wild. The Sheer Hypocrisy of Special Rules for Letting the Bush Kids Off, But Harshly Punishing Minorities and Poor Kids for the Same Offenses. 2/5 Don't Cry for Me Prince Charles 2/5 Conflicts cloud Enron's private partnerships 2/5 White House Lied About New York City Aid 2/5 Funeral Gate on Democrats.com 2/5 For the Bush Budget, It's Deja Vu All Over Again 2/5 Only 10% at World Economic Forum are Women 2/5 "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said yesterday that in times of national tension, the country should not compromise constitutional values in the name of homeland security." 2/5 Yemen Fights Own Terror War 2/5 Bush Still Pushing School Vouchers 2/5 William Bennett Tries to Position Himself for a Position with Bush Incorporated. The Royalties on that Silly Book He Wrote Must Be Running Out. 2/5 Did Al-Qaeda Try to Kill Clinton? 2/5 Bush to Cut Program that Helps Quickly Identify Terrorists. Is the "War Against Terrorism" More Spin Than Substance? 2/4 Ethics Violations of the Bush Administration 2/5 Getting Lay: Will Enron's top brass go to jail? 2/5 Exquisite Right Wing Hypocrisy 2/5 "[T]he latest Bush administration budget is notable for a number of firsts, including the use of pictures and Kermit the Frog quotes." 2/5 Inside the World Economic Forum 2/5		Ashcroft role in Microsoft case raises ethics issue. Donations: He withdrew from Enron probe, but not antitrust suit 2/5 FBI Joins Pakistan Hunt for Kidnapped U.S. Reporter 2/5 Democrats’ retreat mantra: help the little guy 2/5 Iraq Offers Dialogue with U.N. Without Preconditions. I Guess We Don't Need That Trillion Dollar Military Budget After All. How Lucky for Bush. Now He Can Put That Money To Programs that HELP People. 2/5 Mysterious ailments plague Hill mail-handling staffers 2/5 Confusing the Facts of the GAO-Cheney Dispute: How Ari Fleischer and the VP Have "consistently exaggerated the GAO's request to make it appear unreasonable and to paint the administration as a victim." 2/5 Dabhol Power Corporation - Enron’s India saga 2/5 Ominous Results in Democratic Poll 2/5 Critics say Bush budget funds unneeded weapons 2/5 Bush: all war all the time 2/5 America's Shooting Gallery: Youth Playing With Rifle Is Shot to Death 2/5 Justice Ginsburg: Freedom more important than security 2/5 Liberal Bias in Media is a Myth, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary 2/5 To Deflect from the Enron Scandal, the Bush Administration Tries to Appear a Little Green 2/5 U.S. Wants Broadcast Rental Fees 2/5 "Congressional supporters of campaign finance legislation are considering altering their bill to leave free-spending rules in effect for the current election season and defer major changes until the beginning of 2003" 2/5 Letters to the Editors in the Seattle Times about the "State of the Union" 2/5 "New questions about accounting practices at Tyco International and Enron Corp. provoked a broad selloff on Wall Street Monday as investors grew more doubtful about the honesty of corporate bookkeeping in general." 2/5 Senate Panel to Vote on Lay Subpoena 2/5 Cheney Refuses to Tell Us What Enron Dictated to His Energy Task Force, But the Bush Administration Released Clinton e-mail to Dan Burton. What Brazen Hypocrites! 2/4 Poppy and Barbara Bush and the Lays are Tight, Very Tight 2/4 Did Taxpayers Subsidize a Bizarre Bush Administration Superbowl Ad Linking Drug Use to Terrorism? You Bet. This Karl Rove Focus-Group Driven Propaganda Should Have Been Paid for by the Republican National Committee. This is Truly Orwellian. 2/4 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Enron is a values scandal, and specifically a conservative values scandal" 2/4 Is Gore Testing the Waters for 2004? 2/4 War is Handy Politics for Bush 2/4 When in Doubt, Wag the Dog 2/4 Boston Globe to Bush: "Sounding tough is not the same as acting smart" 2/4 The Village Voice Covers the Protests at the World Economic Forum 2/4 Unbelievably Sophomoric: Bush Keeps a "Scorecard" of Al-Qaeda Killed or Captured 2/4 "President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget proposal to be released Monday would run a large deficit, veer far from his party's traditional goal of shrinking government and result in cuts to everything from highway spending to jobs programs." 2/4 U.S. Mission Concerned About NATO Support 2/4 Oh Where, Oh Where Can Osama be? Oh Where, Oh Where Can He Be? 2/4 More Enron Execs to Cop the Fifth 2/4 Bush's Domestic Flank is Weak and Dems Know It 2/4 Sneak Attack: It Was Actually a Guerilla Attack on Abortion Rights, by Bob Herbert 2/4 Another Obstacle to Campaign Finance Reform 2/4 Bush Tries Back Door Approach to School Vouchers 2/4 "Cheney may be hiding more.... Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money," Says Time Magazine. 2/4 The White House Propaganda Machine is Working Overtime 2/4 "The News in its editorial said the reason why Pearl could have been abducted was because he was following leads to write about how [Pakistani] police permitted hardcore Islamic groups to function despite the ban imposed recently" 2/4 "There now seems little doubt that Enron's executive suite harbored thieves." 2/4 We're Paying So That Bush Can Wrap His Budget in the Flag, Literally 2/4 Bush's Speech Shuts Door on Tenuous Opening to Iran 2/4 Will Bush's Loose Lips Sink Ships? 2/4 Pakistani Police Make Little Progress in Search for Reporter 2/4		In Volcker, Andersen Trusts 2/4 Read Down in Article to Find Out Where Katherine Harris Gets Her Hair Cut 2/4 Will the Bell Toll for the Free Republic 2/4 Alliance that Drove Out Taliban is Unraveling 2/4 You Didn't Hear Bush Say "Enron" 2/4 Budget director says Bush will hold the line on nonmilitary spending 2/4 SCARY: "People the government suspects of terrorist involvement will be arrested on the most minor of crimes -- spitting on the sidewalk or petty credit card swindles" 2/4 When Dubya and Lay Were as Close as This 2/4 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. "Saudi Arabia has been trying to persuade the United States to help foment an internal revolt against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for the last 10 years, a former Saudi intelligence chief said on Sunday" 2/4 Bush Adminsitration Calls Afghanistan Oil Pipeline Promising. Anybody Surprised? 2/4 The Houston Chronicle stays loyal to Kenny Boy, According to the Houston Press 2/4 The Washington Times Told An Environmental Group They Could Buy an Ad to Rebut Information Published in the Moonie-Owned Paper 2/4 The Last Refuge of a Politician in Trouble 2/4 No Federal Guards for Nuclear Plants 2/4 FLUSH RUSH! LEND A HELPING HAND TO BUZZFLASH.COM! The Secrets of Chewco, or the Business Bandits 2/4 Bad Deeds Indeed 2/4 Of Course Bush Identifies with the Wealthy, by Molly Ivins 2/4 Reports of more contacts with Enron and other power companies 2/4 A Culture of Deception at Enron 2/4 The American Academy of Pediatrics is announcing its support on Monday for the right of gay men and lesbians to adopt their partners' children 2/4 Road Money Tapped for Congressional Pet Projects 2/4 The Bush Cabinet Bangs the Drum Loudly Against Iran 2/4 Wolfowitz Takes Hardline with NATO 2/4 Pro-Life Foreign Aid 2/4 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com John Dean Reviews Political Books: "If Kellner [author of Grand Theft 2000] is correct, Enron may prove a calamity for George Bush." We are Offfering "Grand Theft 2000" on BuzzFlash.com (see Link near top of first column) 1/31 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) "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." BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON PRACTICALLY DICTATED THE FERC APPOINTMENTS. BUSH INCORPORATED DID THE BIDDING OF ENRON FROM DAY ONE. 1/25 Former Enron Chief Kenneth Lay Appears to Have Substantial Assets at His Disposal 2/5 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 THE CAMPUS VOICE: A Tale of Two Boobs: John Ashcroft and what's best for the breast 2/5 THE LIGHTER SIDE: These are Ironic TImes 2/4 What About Those Top Ten Conservative Idiots, Huh? 2/4 "It was the second time in 48 hours that a news organization had left the false impression that the kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter had been murdered" 2/4 Explaining the Enron collapse through simple financial terms 2/5 New U.S. Patriot Registration 2/5 Oh, to be a Journalist at the World Economic Forum 2/4 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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