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"- A former Enron Corp. employee has written a letter to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer claiming that he has knowledge the company's trading arm manipulated wholesale electricity prices in California." " the United States refused to participate in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-sponsored talks in Paris in May 2001, on ways to crack down on offshore and other tax and money-laundering havens." "President George W. Bush on his lifelong, unfortunate abuse of alcohol which has recently become so great that it caused him to lose consciousness, fall to the ground and cut open his face in the White House last Sunday." "the Lays paid about $4 million -- an amount greater than Lay's entire salary from Enron that year -- to buy variable annuities that will, starting in 2007, guarantee the couple an annual income of about $900,000" http://www.truthout.com/02.18C.Plans.for.War.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,649917,00.html Pentagon and CIA Making Plans for War Against Iraq This Year Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill Thursday February 14, 2002 The Guardian The Pentagon and the CIA have begun preparations for an assault on Iraq involving up to 200,000 US troops that is likely to be launched later this year with the aim of removing Saddam Hussein from power, US and diplomatic sources told the Guardian yesterday. President George Bush's war cabinet, known as the "principals committee", agreed at a pivotal meeting in late January that the policy of containment has failed and that active steps should be taken to topple the Iraqi leader. Germany and France warn Bush on Iraq http://www.truthout.com/02.22B.Germany.France.htm http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/19/wirq19.xml Germany and France warn Bush on Iraq By Toby Helm in Berlin and Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 19/02/2002) THE transatlantic rift deepened yesterday when Germany joined France in opposing military strikes against Iraq as part of a new front in the war on terrorism. Too Much Surveillance Means Too Little Freedom - 'Big Brother' in America (February 19) http://www.iht.com/articles/48463.htm Too much surveillance means too little freedom William Safire Tuesday, February 19, 2002 'Big Brother' in America WASHINGTON Stipulated: The protection of the U.S. capital, its monuments and its centers of authority is a vital national interest....When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control. This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans. So far, the reaction has been a most un-American docility. In a Shift, U.S. Uses Airstrikes to Help Kabul http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/asia/19AFGH.html February 19, 2002 In a Shift, U.S. Uses Airstrikes to Help Kabul By JOHN F. BURNS KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 18 — American forces appear to have opened a new phase in the war in Afghanistan with two bombing raids over the weekend that Afghan commanders in the area said were aimed at clashing militia forces rather than the Taliban or Al Qaeda. A statement on Sunday by the United States Central Command said American aircraft dropped precision-guided bombs when "enemy troops" attacked forces loyal to the eight-week-old Kabul government near the southeastern city of Khost on Saturday afternoon. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000012166feb17.story February 17, 2002 EDITORIAL A Natural Seducer - In the article, Robert Kubey, a media studies professor at Rutgers, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology professor at Claremont Graduate School, offer a gripping explanation of how images and sounds from the small screen seduce us by evoking a biological reaction that has been wired into our brains over millions of years of evolution. The researchers are hardly the first to describe the "orienting response," which dilates blood vessels to the brain, slows the heart and constricts blood vessels to major muscle groups at the sight of sudden or novel stimuli. Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov studied it back in 1927, recognizing it as an adaptive response that evolved to help our ancestors vigilantly scan the environment for lions and other threats. http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=DCC82857-AA3C-41FB-997D-EDA05CC 774E3 "Ian Mulgrew Vancouver Sun 2/23/02 "The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." Former Employee Says Enron Manipulated California Power Market By Jason Leopold Dow Jones Newswires 2-24-2 LOS ANGELES - A former Enron Corp. employee has written a letter to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer claiming that he has knowledge the company's trading arm manipulated wholesale electricity prices in California. For more than a year, California Gov. Gray Davis and other state officials have alleged that energy companies, including Enron , manipulated the price of electricity and natural gas in the state by withholding supplies to create an artificial shortage and gouging utilities by charging prices for power that were 10 times higher compared with previous years. Dear friend of MoveOn, The White House continues to stonewall on Enron. Attorney General Ashcroft has recused himself because of campaign donations. Congressional committees are meeting and posturing, but who's going to run a thorough investigation of Enron and its undue, perhaps criminal influence in government policymaking? It's time for the Bush administration to appoint an independent counsel, to get to the bottom of the Enron story and to restore trust. Join us in calling for an independent counsel at: http://www.moveon.org/accountability/ Enron deliberately bought political influence and dismantled proper government oversight. Enron bilked its workers, its investors, and the American public. Public officials and corporate officers must be held accountable, to root out this kind of corporate piracy. The scope of the Bush administration's ties to Enron .... Vice President Cheney is still refusing to release records of the six secret meetings his energy policy task force held with Enron. That task force called for tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry.... See our website for some helpful links that document the extent of the Enron-White House connections. Posted on Mon, Feb. 25, 2002 Philadelphia Inquirer In its unilateralist disregard, U.S. is the real 'rogue state' By Richard B. Du Boff and Edward S. Herman Most people believe that their own country is virtuous and that only others misbehave enough to qualify as international outlaws. But the United States has elevated this popular sentiment to the level of national policy - by designating certain countries, of its own choosing, as "rogue states." The dictionary defines rogue as "a fierce and dangerous animal, like an elephant, that separates itself from its herd." By this standard, the United States, not the piddling tyrannies named by the State Department, is the world's number one rogue. Since it obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 - cities, not military targets - the United States has bombed 18 countries, and invaded still others, with no declaration of war nor any possibility of retaliation, at least until Sept. 11. In the case of Afghanistan, the United States launched a unilateral war of revenge against a brutal regime of its own creation, although none of the 19 hijackers were Afghan and none of the thousands of "detainees" held in the United States and abroad have been charged with any participation in the crime. Furthermore, the alleged "mastermind," still at large, might well have been turned over to the United States through negotiations - which President Bush rejected outright from the start. All this is defended on the ground that we are "so good" (as the President has said) and always act in the world's interest. But in fact, U.S. actions reflect the power of corporate interests. For example, the United States refused to participate in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-sponsored talks in Paris in May 2001, on ways to crack down on offshore and other tax and money-laundering havens. http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0102/president.html January 2002 Pastor Counsels President On Alcohol Problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- WASHINGTON DC - - At the request of First Lady, Laura Bush, Pastor Deacon Fred of Landover Baptist Church has agreed to counsel President George W. Bush on his lifelong, unfortunate abuse of alcohol which has recently become so great that it caused him to lose consciousness, fall to the ground and cut open his face in the White House last Sunday. So shocked were Presidential advisers by the severity of the problem that they were unable to create a plausible explanation for the passing-out episode on the spur of the moment. The official explanation was, incredibly, that the President choked on a pretzel while watching football alone in a White House room. http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/enron_insure.html Ken Lay's Nest Egg Thousands of former Enron employees saw their retirement funds disappear when the energy giant collapsed -- but Kenneth Lay has millions socked away in lawsuit-proof investments. by Bill Hogan Feb. 21, 2002 For Kenneth and Linda Lay, "liquidity" might not be such a big concern. Late last month, the wife of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay tearfully told a national television audience that she and her husband were struggling to avoid personal bankruptcy following the collapse of the Houston energy-trading company. What Linda Lay failed to tell viewers of NBC's Today show, however, was that she and her husband had shifted millions in personal assets to investments that are beyond the reach of creditors or legal judgments. In February 2000, Mother Jones has learned, the Lays paid about $4 million -- an amount greater than Lay's entire salary from Enron that year -- to buy variable annuities that will, starting in 2007, guarantee the couple an annual income of about $900,000. While stocks and most other ordinary investments are open to attack by creditors, life insurance policies and annuities are protected in many states. Variable annuities of the sort purchased by the Lays are basically tax-deferred investments wrapped in insurance policies. http://www.truthout.com/02.27A.Lay.Skilling.htm Lay and Skilling Discuss Bush and Profits t r u t h o u t | Video WASHINGTON - 02.26.02 | In this video tape of an October 2000 Enron company meeting obtained by US Representative Henry A. Waxman, chairman Kenneth Lay speaks directly about his support of George W. Bush http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0209/ridgeway.php Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway Scientist Says Anthrax Culprit Knows Too Much Germ Theory - Finally, after three months of screwing around, the FBI may be moving on the anthrax case—or maybe not. A report this week in The Washington Times says investigators are homing in on a single suspect, a former U.S. scientist who learned to make a weapons-grade strain of the bacteria in a government lab. On Monday, an FBI spokesman told the Voice there is no prime culprit, and insisted the bureau is still interviewing hundreds of people. That's just the kind of stalling and wavering Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has been railing about. The outspoken director of the Federation of American Scientists' working group on biological weapons says the FBI has likely known the identity of the anthrax perp since October. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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