BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 12:26 PM

Immediately after the outage, GWBush said the answer is to let his Cheney team tackle the problem. Odds are this was govt-sponsored terrorism. Just like on 9-11, when the Pentagon bombed itself and then pointed outward from the rubble, the US govt-controlled media immediately pointed the finger at Canada after the power outage. And troops rolled out across the American northeast and now people think MORE govt control is the answer.

What's needed is a return to small, locally-owned power companies. Let communities use oil or methane, whatever suits them. Use a grid only for emergencies. If this doesn't happen, the govt can turn off the power any time it wants. The answer is NOT more govt control.

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 01:46 AM

And as long as you are reading the Palast article, remember the California energy problems, and read that Ahnold was a big part of the whole package:


http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/08/11/enron/index_np.html

He has been questioned about his meeting with all these important energy people and claims he doesn't remember anything about it. Uh huh.

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 01:38 AM

The Shrubya Family are all mad............

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 10:34 PM

THERE IS NO COINCIDENCE TO THIS LITTLE GEM
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/bushmargieburns.html

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 10:13 PM

Yup, and the American voters LOVE 'EM FOR IT!

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 10:12 PM

Yah, and so what is up with Texas having a separate power grid from the rest of the country, anyway? Heard anything about that little detail?

Subject: RE: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 07:42 PM

Noraml, Alice. Every time that the Bushes deregulate anything, the American people get fleeced. Doesn't matter which industry it is. Telecommunication, energy and now we're getting ready to give away media to the corporate thugs.

On paper, one would think that deregulation would bring about more competition and more choices for the consumer but it doesn't work that way. Sounds good but we end up with some crook even deeper in our pockets.

And lets not loose sight of the makeup of those who were involved in writing the Bush/Cheney "energy" policies. All oilmen! Not one danged environmentalist. Not one alternative resource person. Just a bunch of rich, fat, white, Republican and male, ahhh, oilmen!

Go figure.

Bobert

Subject: BS: Papa Bush, Enron, dereg, Dubya= blackout
From: Alice
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 07:07 PM

The India outsourced jobs are nothing compared to what led to the current power blackout.

Here is an article by Greg Palast today, giving us the timeline that led up to our current power grid problems.

Greg Palast writes, "...before I
                   was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an
                   investigator of corporate racketeers...one devious                                          little bunch of
                   operators out of Texas, Houston Natural Gas,
                   operating under the alias "Enron," talked an
                   over-the-edge free-market fanatic, Britain's
                   Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, into licensing
                   the first completely deregulated power plant in
                   the hemisphere.
                                        ... in 1992, just
                   prior to his departure from the White House,
                   President Bush Senior gave the power industry
                   one long deep-through-the-teeth kiss
                   good-bye: federal deregulation of electricity. It
                   was a legacy he wanted to leave for his son,
                   the gratitude of power companies which ponied
                   up $16 million for the Republican campaign of
                   2000, seven times the sum they gave
                   Democrats.

                                ,,,And the Pataki-Bush Axis of Weasels permitted
                   something that must have former New York
                   governor Roosevelt spinning in his wheelchair in
                   Heaven: They allowed a foreign company, the
                   notoriously incompetent National Grid of
                   England, to buy up NiMo, get rid of 800 workers
                   and pocket most of their wages - producing a
                   bonus for NiMo stockholders approaching $90
                   million.

                   Is tonight's black-out a surprise? Heck, no, not
                   to us in the field who've watched Bush's
                   buddies flick the switches across the globe. In
                   Brazil, Houston Industries seized ownership of
                   Rio de Janeiro's electric company. The Texans
                   (aided by their French partners) fired workers,
                   raised prices, cut maintenance expenditures
                   and, CLICK! the juice went out so often the
                   locals now call it, "Rio Dark."

Read the entire article at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=257&row=0