-Caveat Lector- "Public Citizen today called on Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to explain evidence indicating that he helped Enron continue hiding information about its financial condition and took actions enabling it to funnel potentially billions of dollars belonging to shareholders and employees into offshore tax havens."
"It seems clear that the Bush administration is trying to return the favors done by friends and donors," Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook said. "Bush is helping out his buddies at the expense of every consumer in California, and his refusal to cap wholesale prices is threatening to wreak havoc on the entire western region of the United States." This may be heavy for survivors of abuse. "A former top executive of the failed US energy firm Enron who had strongly criticised the company's murky accounting methods was found dead in his car yesterday from a gunshot wound to the head." also includes : - civil liberties - Cash, Relationships Help Explain Bush Administration's Hands-Off Policy in California Electricity Crisis - Top Power Suppliers Gave Millions to Republicans; Two Key Power Companies Headed by Men With Close Ties to Bush - O'Neill and Enron - Baxter death Teachers Commit Many S.Africa Child Rapes - Study - 1/24/02 By Patricia Reaney - LONDON (Reuters) - "A third of all child rapes in South Africa are committed by school teachers, researchers said in a new report on sexual violence against young girls. "The world needs to wake up to the fact that schools are a major site of sexual harassment and rape for children," said Dr. Rachel Jewkes of the Medical Research Council in Pretoria. Jewkes and her colleagues found that 33 percent of South African women raped before the age of 15 were attacked by teachers, another 21 percent by relatives and a similar number by strangers or acquaintances. The national survey interviewed 11,735 women between the ages of 15 and 49. Jewkes found that 153 women, or 1.3 percent, said they had been raped before the age of 15. Of those, 15 percent were attacked between the ages of five and nine. Eighty-five percent were attacked between the ages of 10 and 14." (CBS) Child abuse can happen anywhere. What can you do to stop it, or to learn more about it? There is an enormous amount of information about child abuse on the Web. The range of topics - statistics, prevention tips, local contacts, studies, organizations - can be overwhelming. Here are some places to start. As always, please use caution contacting any resources listed. http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,56759-412,00.shtml >From one hell to another, life at Woomera Detention Centre 1/26/02 The harsh regimen endured by Australia's asylum-seekers is provoking mounting protests but, as ALAN TENNANT reports, the political dividends are high. "What I am referring to is the tendency to use coercive management and behavioural strategies such as tear gas, room trashings, children being put in solitary confinement, separated from their parents, made to stand out in the hot sun, being called various things like terrorists and queue-jumpers." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=836924&thesection=news&thes ubsection=world Confession: Ex-Haverhill priest admits he molested kids for years - by Robin Washington and Tom Mashberg 1/26/02 - A long-time Haverhill priest who was suspended by the Archdiocese of Boston over accusations of pedophilia admitted yesterday that he molested numerous young boys while wearing a cleric's collar and said he, too, had been abused by a priest during his teen years. http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/prie01262002.htm Belgium still haunted by paedophile scandal - Belgium's most hated man, convicted paedophile Marc Dutroux, has been locked up for the last six years without trial. Andrew Osborn wonders why it is taking so long for justice to be done - 1/25/02 - "He stands accused of committing the vilest of crimes - of raping, torturing and murdering young girls as young as eight for his own sexual gratification. And yet Marc Dutroux, already a convicted paedophile, has still not been brought to justice. Dutroux, Belgium's public enemy number one without equal, has been incarcerated since 1996 and yet still there is no trial date. It might be this year it might be next - who can say, officials shrug.His alleged crimes brought 350,000 people onto the streets of Brussels in 1996, the largest public march of its kind in this small country's history and yet still nothing has been done." http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,639371,00.html Boy May Have Been Victim Of Ritual Killing - Ananova - 1/25/02 - Guardian Detectives hunting the killer of a boy whose torso was found in a river believe he may have been the victim of a ritualistic murder. They believe the boy could be the first person in the UK to die in a "muti" killing of a kind known to have been practised in South Africa. The killings are done by witch doctors who use the victim's body parts for black magic potions. Police have revealed that they have found seven half-burned candles wrapped in a white sheet washed up on the southern shore of the River Thames in London. Http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree ACLU Calls for Monitoring of USA PATRIOT Act; Says Administration Misinformed Public After September 11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 24, 2002 WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today called upon Congress to establish bodies of government officials and private citizens to monitor implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act and criticized the Administration for providing misinformation to the public in the aftermath of September 11. http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=540 February 15, 2001 Cash, Relationships Help Explain Bush Administration's Hands-Off Policy in California Electricity Crisis - Top Power Suppliers Gave Millions to Republicans; Two Key Power Companies Headed by Men With Close Ties to Bush WASHINGTON, D.C. Nine power companies and a trade association that stand to gain the most from President Bush's hands-off policy in California contributed more than $4 million to Republican candidates and party committees during the last election, and some of the company heads have close personal ties to Bush, according to a new Public Citizen report. Three of the companies Enron, Reliant Energy and Dynegy are based in Texas and gave more than $1.5 million to Bush s campaign, his inauguration committee, and the Republican National Committee, which served, in effect, as an arm of the Bush presidential campaign. Two companies Enron and Reliant Energy are headed or steered by Kenneth Lay and James Baker III, both close Bush advisors. According to the report, the contributions and personal relationships could explain why the Bush administration has refused requests by bipartisan groups of eight western governors and 20 members of the California congressional delegation to intervene in the California and regional power crisis, and cap wholesale electricity prices. The companies and the association more than doubled their contributions in 1999-2000 compared to the last presidential cycles, as they pushed for deregulation in Congress and across the nation. "It seems clear that the Bush administration is trying to return the favors done by friends and donors," Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook said. "Bush is helping out his buddies at the expense of every consumer in California, and his refusal to cap wholesale prices is threatening to wreak havoc on the entire western region of the United States." http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1000 Jan. 18, 2002 Evidence Indicates That O'Neill Helped Enron Hide Financial Condition; Public Citizen Calls on Treasury Secretary to Explain Public Citizen Sends Letter to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Public Citizen today called on Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to explain evidence indicating that he helped Enron continue hiding information about its financial condition and took actions enabling it to funnel potentially billions of dollars belonging to shareholders and employees into offshore tax havens. In a letter to O'Neill, Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook said she is "deeply concerned" about O'Neill's actions. She asked the secretary to provide detailed information about his communications with Enron executives and Bush administration officials about the tax havens. "The secretary owes the public an explanation," Claybrook said. "His actions have created a tremendous appearance of impropriety. He has a duty to taxpayers, Enron shareholders and Enron employees to clarify this matter."..... But on Feb. 17, 2001, O'Neill announced that the Bush administration was going to review the matter, effectively delaying it. As a result, Enron and other companies could continue to hide money in the Cayman Islands and other offshore accounts. Enron has 874 subsidiaries registered in the Cayman Islands and other nations with weak bank disclosure laws. http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,639812,00.html Former Enron executive found shot dead - David Teather in New York Saturday January 26, 2002 - The Guardian A former top executive of the failed US energy firm Enron who had strongly criticised the company's murky accounting methods was found dead in his car yesterday from a gunshot wound to the head. John (Clifford) Baxter was found by police on a routine patrol in the affluent Houston, Texas, suburb of Sugar Land at about 2.30am yesterday morning. He was alone in his Mercedes and a suicide note was found. His death deepens the mystery surrounding the collapse of Enron, which has threatened to engulf the Bush administration, left thousands of workers without jobs or savings and could bring down one of the oldest names in the accounting profession, Arthur Andersen. 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