If I am the President
I will prepare my people to become an employee of the world-a global workforce.
If USA is a world police; then RP is a world labor force supplier.
How to attain?
In college; they have to have an Elective subject in Language and Culture of the People they wish to serve or work for.
The government will be the one to look for job openings in the country of choice. This will ensure of no illegal recruitment. The OCWs are dollar-earner for the country and why not give this kind of support to them.
Let us face that we can not compete with the highly-developed countries in terms of manufacturing. ( Although, we can do something for that to step-up with them…) We simply do not have the technology. This is our weakness - let us recognize it. And most of all; let us recognize our strength – our intelligent and versatile labor force. This is our export – people services. We will man their manufacturing facilities. We will man their machines.
The Philippines is not a poor nation. It is the people behind the rein of the government that makes the nation poor. They are just too selfish. They are not serving the people-they are serving themselves at the expense of the people.
The key for our success is very simple; only by recognizing our strengths and potentials.
Religious Scandals
There are many incidents in the history of various religions that are a cause of embarrassment for that religion. Some are not considered embarassing to adherents of the faith - but are considered so by many people outside of the religion. Both types are included here. In no particularly order:
1. Inquisition [Catholicism]
The Medieval Inquisition is a series of Inquisitions (Roman Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184-1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s). It was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy. These were the first inquisition movements of many that would follow.
Torture was used after 1252. On May 15, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull entitled Ad exstirpanda, which authorized the use of torture by inquisitors. The Inquisitors were forbidden to use methods that resulted in bloodshed, mutilation or death. One of the more common forms of medieval inquisition torture was known as strappado. The hands were bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms. Weights could be added to the legs dislocating those joints as well.
The organization is still active today under the name of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Prior to becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger was the head of the congregation.
2. On the Jews and their Lies [Lutheranism]
Unfortunately the founder of protestantism Martin Luther was also a religous bigot. In his most famous book about Judiasm (written in 1543) we find the following gem:
“base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth. They are full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine, and the synagogue is an incorrigible whore and an evil slut …
If you want to read the entire booklet, it is available here. Two other books by Luther, Against the Papacy at Rome Founded by the Devil, and Against Hanswurst, are described as “rivaling his anti-Jewish treatises for vulgarity and violence of expression”, and “[are] so inexpressibly vile that a common impulse of decency demanded their summary suppression by his friends.”
3. The Book of Abraham [Mormonism]
The Book of Abraham is believed by Mormons to be the handwritten account of the prophet Abraham. In 1835 Smith was able to use his “Angel-given” tools to translate some Egyptian scrolls that he was given access to (at that time no one could read hieroglyphics). Upon inspection, Smith declared that they contained the Book of Abraham. He promptly translated the lot and it was accepted as scripture by the church (it is included as part of the Pearl of Great Price). The scrolls vanished and everyone thought the story would end there. But it didn’t - in 1966 the original scrolls were found in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The scrolls turned out to be a standard Egyptian text that was often buried with the dead. This fraud caused a number of mormons to leave the church and is still a hotly debated topic amongst mormons and their critics.
4. The End of the World [Jehovah’s Witnesses]
1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They computed 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to “seven times”. The WTS interpreted each “time” as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the “battle of the Great Day of God Almighty” (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn’t. The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: “The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year.”
The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate “according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation.” They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed.
Realizing how stupid they were looking every time they made a new failed prediction, they announced that the end of the world would occur 6000 years after the creation of Eve - a date that can not be calculated.
5. Lisa McPherson [Scientology]
Lisa McPherson (February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. Following her death the Church of Scientology was indicted on two felony charges “abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license”, putting under trial the nature of Scientology beliefs and practices. The charges against the Church of Scientology were dropped after the state’s medical examiner changed the cause of death from “undetermined” to an “accident” on June 13, 2000.
A civil suit brought by her family against the Church was settled on May 28, 2004.
6. Baptist Founder [Baptist Church]
You may be wondering why there is a photograph of a Mennonite buggy in this item - the reason is that the founder of the Baptist Church, John Smyth, eventually broke away from the church he founded and joined the Mennonites! That’s right - Smyth had so little faith in his own creation that he abandoned it. In addition, he tried to convince as many of his congregation as possible to abandon the baptist church - and a majority of them did.
7. Aisha [Islam]
Aisha was the six year old girl that was betrothed to Muhammad. At the age of nine she married him - becoming one of his 11 (or 13 depending on the source) wives. While most Muslims do not object to this marriage, it is a source of great scandal to many non-Islamic people. In Islamic tradition, she is attributed as the source of many stories about the life of Muhammad. It is believed that she was his favorite wife.
8. Metzitzah [Judaism]
Metzitzah b’peh is a controversial method of circumcision performed by some Haredi and Hassidic Jews in which, after removing the foreskin, the mohel (circumciser) sucks out the blood from the wound to clean it. The mohel spits the blood into a receptacle provided. Afterwards the circumcised penis is bandaged, and the act is considered complete. Metzitzah b’peh was implicated in the transfer of herpes from mohels to eight Israeli infants, one of whom suffered brain damage. When three New York City infants contracted herpes after metzizah b’peh by one mohel and one of them died, New York authorities took out a restraining order against the mohel. In three studies done in Israel, Canada, and the USA, oral suction following circumcision has been implicated in 11 cases of neonatal herpes.
9. Miracle Wheat [Jehovah’s Witnesses]
After a variety of newspaper reports claiming that a man had discovered a variety of wheat that was far more productive than normal wheat, the Jehovah’s Witnesses believed it to be a sign of a covenant from God relating to the end times. As a result, they bought up a lot of the wheat and offered it for sale at exorbitant prices. The official statement from the organization was:
Brother Bohnet writes us that he has gradually accumulated a crop of miracle wheat from the few grains he obtained as a start. He prefers that the first opportunity for obtaining this wheat shall go to THE WATCH TOWER readers. He will sell it for $1 per pound, including postage, and give the entire proceeds to our Society. All orders for this wheat should be addressed, Miracle Wheat Bohnet, 17 Hicks street, Brooklyn, N. Y. This will keep mail on this subject separate from his personal mail and from ours.
At trial, Mr. Russell admitted the seed packets had been mailed from the Watch Tower offices: “For the accommodation of our readers, we allowed this seed-wheat to be put up in pound packages and mailed from THE WATCH TOWER Office, just as the U.S. Government handles such seeds at Washington.” (ZWT 02/15/1913).
Needless to say, the wheat was not miraculous and behaved exactly like normal wheat.
10. Mountain Meadows Massacre [Mormonism]
The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass killing of the Fancher-Baker wagon train at Mountain Meadows in Utah Territory on September 11, 1857, by a group of Mormons and Paiute Indians. The Arkansas emigrants were traveling to California shortly before Utah War started. Mormons throughout the Utah Territory had been mustered to fight the invading United States Army, which they believed was intended to destroy them as a people. Initially intending to orchestrate an Indian massacre,[citation needed] two men with leadership roles in local military, church and government organizations, Isaac C. Haight and John D. Lee, conspired for Lee to lead militiamen disguised as Native Americans along with a contingent of Paiute tribesmen in an attack.
The emigrants fought back and a siege ensued. Intending to leave no witnesses of Mormon complicity in the siege and avoid reprisals complicating the Utah War, militiamen induced the emigrants to surrender and give up their weapons. After escorting the emigrants out of their fortification, the militiamen and their tribesmen auxiliaries executed approximately 120 men, women and children.
1. Inquisition [Catholicism]
The Medieval Inquisition is a series of Inquisitions (Roman Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184-1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s). It was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy. These were the first inquisition movements of many that would follow.
Torture was used after 1252. On May 15, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull entitled Ad exstirpanda, which authorized the use of torture by inquisitors. The Inquisitors were forbidden to use methods that resulted in bloodshed, mutilation or death. One of the more common forms of medieval inquisition torture was known as strappado. The hands were bound behind the back with a rope, and the accused was suspended this way, dislocating the joints painfully in both arms. Weights could be added to the legs dislocating those joints as well.
The organization is still active today under the name of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Prior to becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger was the head of the congregation.
2. On the Jews and their Lies [Lutheranism]
Unfortunately the founder of protestantism Martin Luther was also a religous bigot. In his most famous book about Judiasm (written in 1543) we find the following gem:
“base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth. They are full of the devil’s feces … which they wallow in like swine, and the synagogue is an incorrigible whore and an evil slut …
If you want to read the entire booklet, it is available here. Two other books by Luther, Against the Papacy at Rome Founded by the Devil, and Against Hanswurst, are described as “rivaling his anti-Jewish treatises for vulgarity and violence of expression”, and “[are] so inexpressibly vile that a common impulse of decency demanded their summary suppression by his friends.”
3. The Book of Abraham [Mormonism]
The Book of Abraham is believed by Mormons to be the handwritten account of the prophet Abraham. In 1835 Smith was able to use his “Angel-given” tools to translate some Egyptian scrolls that he was given access to (at that time no one could read hieroglyphics). Upon inspection, Smith declared that they contained the Book of Abraham. He promptly translated the lot and it was accepted as scripture by the church (it is included as part of the Pearl of Great Price). The scrolls vanished and everyone thought the story would end there. But it didn’t - in 1966 the original scrolls were found in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The scrolls turned out to be a standard Egyptian text that was often buried with the dead. This fraud caused a number of mormons to leave the church and is still a hotly debated topic amongst mormons and their critics.
4. The End of the World [Jehovah’s Witnesses]
1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They computed 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to “seven times”. The WTS interpreted each “time” as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the “battle of the Great Day of God Almighty” (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn’t. The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: “The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year.”
The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate “according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation.” They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed.
Realizing how stupid they were looking every time they made a new failed prediction, they announced that the end of the world would occur 6000 years after the creation of Eve - a date that can not be calculated.
5. Lisa McPherson [Scientology]
Lisa McPherson (February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. Following her death the Church of Scientology was indicted on two felony charges “abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult and practicing medicine without a license”, putting under trial the nature of Scientology beliefs and practices. The charges against the Church of Scientology were dropped after the state’s medical examiner changed the cause of death from “undetermined” to an “accident” on June 13, 2000.
A civil suit brought by her family against the Church was settled on May 28, 2004.
6. Baptist Founder [Baptist Church]
You may be wondering why there is a photograph of a Mennonite buggy in this item - the reason is that the founder of the Baptist Church, John Smyth, eventually broke away from the church he founded and joined the Mennonites! That’s right - Smyth had so little faith in his own creation that he abandoned it. In addition, he tried to convince as many of his congregation as possible to abandon the baptist church - and a majority of them did.
7. Aisha [Islam]
Aisha was the six year old girl that was betrothed to Muhammad. At the age of nine she married him - becoming one of his 11 (or 13 depending on the source) wives. While most Muslims do not object to this marriage, it is a source of great scandal to many non-Islamic people. In Islamic tradition, she is attributed as the source of many stories about the life of Muhammad. It is believed that she was his favorite wife.
8. Metzitzah [Judaism]
Metzitzah b’peh is a controversial method of circumcision performed by some Haredi and Hassidic Jews in which, after removing the foreskin, the mohel (circumciser) sucks out the blood from the wound to clean it. The mohel spits the blood into a receptacle provided. Afterwards the circumcised penis is bandaged, and the act is considered complete. Metzitzah b’peh was implicated in the transfer of herpes from mohels to eight Israeli infants, one of whom suffered brain damage. When three New York City infants contracted herpes after metzizah b’peh by one mohel and one of them died, New York authorities took out a restraining order against the mohel. In three studies done in Israel, Canada, and the USA, oral suction following circumcision has been implicated in 11 cases of neonatal herpes.
9. Miracle Wheat [Jehovah’s Witnesses]
After a variety of newspaper reports claiming that a man had discovered a variety of wheat that was far more productive than normal wheat, the Jehovah’s Witnesses believed it to be a sign of a covenant from God relating to the end times. As a result, they bought up a lot of the wheat and offered it for sale at exorbitant prices. The official statement from the organization was:
Brother Bohnet writes us that he has gradually accumulated a crop of miracle wheat from the few grains he obtained as a start. He prefers that the first opportunity for obtaining this wheat shall go to THE WATCH TOWER readers. He will sell it for $1 per pound, including postage, and give the entire proceeds to our Society. All orders for this wheat should be addressed, Miracle Wheat Bohnet, 17 Hicks street, Brooklyn, N. Y. This will keep mail on this subject separate from his personal mail and from ours.
At trial, Mr. Russell admitted the seed packets had been mailed from the Watch Tower offices: “For the accommodation of our readers, we allowed this seed-wheat to be put up in pound packages and mailed from THE WATCH TOWER Office, just as the U.S. Government handles such seeds at Washington.” (ZWT 02/15/1913).
Needless to say, the wheat was not miraculous and behaved exactly like normal wheat.
10. Mountain Meadows Massacre [Mormonism]
The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass killing of the Fancher-Baker wagon train at Mountain Meadows in Utah Territory on September 11, 1857, by a group of Mormons and Paiute Indians. The Arkansas emigrants were traveling to California shortly before Utah War started. Mormons throughout the Utah Territory had been mustered to fight the invading United States Army, which they believed was intended to destroy them as a people. Initially intending to orchestrate an Indian massacre,[citation needed] two men with leadership roles in local military, church and government organizations, Isaac C. Haight and John D. Lee, conspired for Lee to lead militiamen disguised as Native Americans along with a contingent of Paiute tribesmen in an attack.
The emigrants fought back and a siege ensued. Intending to leave no witnesses of Mormon complicity in the siege and avoid reprisals complicating the Utah War, militiamen induced the emigrants to surrender and give up their weapons. After escorting the emigrants out of their fortification, the militiamen and their tribesmen auxiliaries executed approximately 120 men, women and children.
THE ENRON SCANDAL
On November 29, 2001, the Wall Street Journal ran an article, "Running on Empty-Enron Faces Collapse as Credit, Stock Dive and Dynergy Bolts" in which they reported, "Previously, even though Enron's practices had worried some regulators, the Bush administration had kept its distance. Over the last decade, the company and its chairman, Mr. Lay, may have been Mr. Bush's biggest financial backers, donating nearly $2 million to his campaigns. Before the company's recent problems came to light, Mr. Lay enjoyed unusually good access to top administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, who earlier this year drafted a new national energy plan that seemed to lean heavily on Mr. Lay's suggestions."
Based on this report, from a newspaper highly supportive of the Bush-Cheney administration, it appears that the National Energy Plan was at least in part an effort to help one of Bush's largest contributors.
From the New York Times more light is shed on the secrecy. In particular,
note the paragraph describing what happened when an analyst asked a pointed
question about the balance sheet: cursing ensued! In other words, we are
not going to tell you.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/30/opinion/30LASH.html?todaysheadlines=&pagew
anted=print
November 30, 2001
Bankrupt Analysis
By ADAM LASHINSKY
"SAN FRANCISCO -- In early 2000, Enron, the natural gas pipeline company
turned online phenomenon, held a daylong conference in Houston for Wall
Street analysts and investors. The audience, packed with financial experts
on the natural gas and power industries, was wowed by all the talk of
Enron's online capabilities, especially its rapidly growing business of
electronically matching buyers and sellers of numerous commodities like
electricity and even network bandwidth.
The analysts were particularly receptive when Jeffrey Skilling, then Enron's
president, suggested that the company's money-losing broadband network
business alone was worth $29 billion, or an extra $37 a share. He even had a
nifty PowerPoint slide to explain his company's proper stock price.
Unsurprisingly, Enron's shares skyrocketed by more than 50 percent in the
first half of that year. Enron, it seems, had become an Internet company,
and decidedly old-economy energy-industry analysts were loath to be left
behind. Many openly acknowledged their lack of understanding of Enron's new
lines of business - but hey, the company told such a good story. Why quibble
over a few murky details?
Now Enron teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and it's tempting to paint its
demise as a series of extraordinary events driven by behind-the-scenes deals
hidden by questionable accounting. And in fact, there's no doubt that the
company was engaged in some pretty unusual deals, and that it was less than
forthcoming about them.
One of the lessons of the Internet boom is that it's often difficult for
analysts to understand and evaluate new kinds of businesses. And executives
like Mr. Skilling, who once swore at an analyst during a conference call for
asking a pointed question about Enron's balance sheet, don't do much to
foster the kind of open inquiry that could lead to better information.
But the Enron debacle is also emblematic of another problem that has become
all too evident in the last few years: Wall Street's loss of objectivity.
Investment banks make far more money from underwriting or merger deals than
they do from broker fees. Analysts at these firms often face conflicting
loyalties. They can be put in the position of having to worry as much about
whether a chief executive might find a report offensive as whether an
investor might find it helpful.
In early 2000, Enron let it be known that it was considering a separate
public offering for its Internet operations. Analysts who raised prickly
questions about an initial public offering could be assured that their firm
wouldn't be chosen for the underwriting. That I.P.O. never happened, of
course, as Enron's plans for the broadband business collapsed. Nevertheless,
Wall Street failed to ask the questions that might have protected investors
from Enron's plunging market value."
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Obviously, there are very shady dealings around the Enron-Cheney
relationship that need the full attention of Congress, the SEC, and the US
Justice Department. The energy plan wasn't about energy independence at all
or it would have addressed conservation much more seriously.
Donna Fezler
03/22/02 Stunning Depths of Government Collaboration with Enron Revealed Enron was built with $7 billion (with a "b") of your tax dollars.
03/29/02 The Army Secretary's Business
04/4/02 BBC to broadcast documentary on ENRON
04/1/02 Enron asks Bankruptcy Judge for Executive Bonuses
03/23/02 Arthur Anderson claims Federal Government does not have Constitutional Jurisdiction in shredding case. Given that the Enron case stretches across borders, my opinion is that the "Laws of other nations" clause may apply here. However, it would be interesting if the Enron case did result in reminding the public that the Federal Government is NOT supposed to be in the law enforcement business, which is reserved to the states.
03/25/02 Rumsfeld, White, and ENRON
03/26/02 White may have had inside information when he sold his Enron stock
03/26/02 Links between Enron and the War On Terror It's all about the oil
03/17/02 Anderson destroyed tons of evidence
03/17/02 Connecticut Authorities received bonuses after signing deal with Enron
03/12/02 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection?
03/14/02 Arthur Anderson to be charged in Enron Fraud.
03/15/02 US pulls plug on all future dealings with Enron and Anderson
03/15/02 Bush Flatly Refuses to Hand Over Energy Papers: "a threat to executive authority" Impeachment, followed by a decent tarring and feathering!
03/06/02 Bush and Enron were business partners
03/08/02 BREAKING: ENRON GAVE MONEY TO TALIBAN Used CIA as business agents in Afghanistan
03/07/02 Enron's links to the bin Ladens
03/04/02 Enron's code of ethics I know, I know, but at least it LOOKED good for a while.
# 02/23/02 ENRON MAINTAINED FAKE TRADING FLOOR TO TRICK ANALYSIS INTO THINKING BUSINESS WAS GOOD If this isn't fraud, what is?
# 02/20/02 ENRON's new $5 billion black hole Who and what is WhiteWing Associates?
# 02/25/02 Congressional investigator fears there are more Enrons out there.
# 02/25/02 ENRON at heart of Argentine collapse Argentine government’s Minister of Public Works says George W. Bush visited in 1988 to push transfer of Argentina's public energy into ENRON's private hands
02/04/02 ENRON inquiry in disarray Is there anyone working on the investigation who really wants it to go anywhere?
01/29/02 ENRON: Cash, Sex, and Fast Living Sounds like the final days of Rome
01/27/02 New York Times chart plots ENRON meetings with officials against stock price decline
02/07/02 Enron exposed the shady practices corporate executives use to swindle their investors ... and which congress ignores as long as those donations keep rolling in.
How Enron looted the public
How Enron looted the public, part 2
Enron scandal gets worse
Enron "only company to warrant an entire Amnesty International report, a chilling catalogue of human rights abuses from India to Latin America"
Wall Street looked other way while Enron collapsed.
02/12/02 ENRON Exploding The rich got richer, the poor got screwed, life goes on an usual in corporate America
ENRON AND THE WHITE HOUSE
03/04/02 Enron+Cheny+Taliban = War for OIL There is the motive for the murder of Baxter and the shredding of documents.
03/04/02 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban connection
01/28/02 Bush fired Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Hebert, Jr. on orders of ENRON CEO
01/29/02 ENRON: Friends in high places
01/29/02 Bush's Enron Amnesia
01/29/02 Current Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO was Global Managing Director for Arthur Anderson, the company which shredded Enron documents.
02/02/02 Bush handed key energy appointments to people chosen by Enron's Kenneth Lay
02/06/02 Bush: Enron can be investigated by the Justice Department because there is no conflict of interest.
02/05/02 Was Enron behind the war in Afghanistan?
01/27/02 74% of ENRON'S political contributions went to Republicans
01/27/02 Trillion Dollar Hideaway Where the rich stash their tax-free loot
01/27/02 ENRON, with almost 900 "subsidiaries" in tax-havens, did not pay income tax for four out of the last 5 years. Just keep that in mind while filling out the ol' 1040
01/27/02 Senator Lieberman's former aid now lobbyist for ENRON
01/27/02 ENRON poured money into policy think tanks
01/27/02 Newsweek reports on Alan Greenspan's awkward acceptance of the "Enron Award for Distinguished Public Service," handed out just days after the company admitted filing misleading financial reports.
01/27/02 ENRON spotlight falls on Cheney
01/27/02 ENRON C.E.O. not talking to President Bush, at least, not directly Part 2
01/27/02 BUSH ENERGY PLAN - POLICY OR PAYBACK? (BBC TRANSCRIPT) "Any fantasy that a CEO has can come true if you put enough money into Bush's political ambitions."
George Bush, the corporations' flag carrier The foreign press tells it like it is
Managing Partner of Arthur Anderson's Houston "shredding parlor" is a "Bush Pioneer"
ENRON did not pay income tax 4 out of 5 years
US Excel worksheet showing shift of taxation from corporations to citizens
White House worked directly with Enron in India power plant dispute
Enron entangles the Bush White House Cabinet Members received advance warnings, Ashcroft recuses himself
More on the Bush/ENRON connections.
Enron threat to Bush
Bush and Enron before the election
01/27/02 ENRON: Crimes were committed
Collapse of Argentina has ties to Bush and ENRON
Current head of Homeland Security Gestapo is former ENRON Executive Need a whistleblower silenced?
ENRON and Arthur Anderson STILL getting taxpayer money.
Letter from Waxman to Cheney regarding ENRON GIF file, so slow loading
02/17/02 ENRON put Bush in the White House
02/16/02 Bush, while Governor, helped Enron do what it was doing.
02/12/02 The NY Times tries to polish Rubin's ENRON image
02/12/02 Judge to White House: Save Enron Records
ARTHUR ANDERSON'S FRAUD
03/26/02 CEO of Arthur Anderson steps down Rats. Sinking ship.
01/27/02 More ENRONS out there; the rot is systemic
02/02/02 Arthur Anderson missed $644 million error Meanwhile, the IRS will draw and quarter any citizen who makes a ten cent mistake in the old 1040
01/30/02 "Suspicious" death of Arthur Anderson consultant
Current heads of SEC and GAO previously worked for ENRON's auditors
ARTHUR ANDERSON HOUSTON OFFICE ORDERED TO DESTROY ENRON DOCUMENTS BY CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS AFTER ARRIVAL OF SEC SUBPOENA
02/01/02 Enron board members APPROVED debt concealment
01/30/02 Waiting for the next Enron revelation It's dangerous to bring up Vince Foster, given that the FBI was exposed for the fraudulent manufacture of evidence in that case
02/03/02 Most Fortune 500 companies playing "Enron-esque" accounting games.
02/03/02 ENRON and Arthur Anderson are NOT exceptions
02/02/02 ENRON not the only bad apple
Managing Partner of Arthur Anderson's Houston "shredding parlor" is a "Bush Pioneer"
Arthur "Shredders-R-us" Anderson contacts to audit FBI files After all the destroyed evidence in the Oklahoma Bombing case I'll bet this gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling
Arthur Anderson's shady past What James C. Beyer is to murder, Arthur Anderson is to stock scams
THE BODIES PILE UP
03/08/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER WAS MURDERED
# 02/28/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER'S AUTOPSY POINTS AWAY FROM SUICIDE AND TOWARDS MURDER With new info
Enron corporation complicit in Human Rights violations When you donate to half of the US Congress, I guess you can afford to be.
02/04/02 ENRON: Let's blame the middle managers!
ENRON EXECUTIVE JOHN CLIFFORD BAXTOR FOUND DEAD OF PURPORTED SUICIDE
Whistleblower named Baxter as a key player who spoke out against ENRON's use of the LJM partnership to conceal hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. According to Baxter's lawyer, Baxter was going to cooperate with investigators. Oddly, the car in which Baxter's body was stopped in a turning lane between two medians in the middle of a major street, a rather atypical location for a suicide committed in a car. In addition, it is reported that the suicide gun was found in Baxter's hand. This alone rules out a genuine suicide, as the recoil of a fired .38 will remove it from a hand deprived of any nerve control from the brain.
01/31/02 Baxter death NOT ruled a suicide just yet.
01/27/02 Baxter told friends he "needed a bodyguard" shortly before death
01/27/02 ENRON investigator puzzled: Baxter had nothing to be ashamed of Flashback: Remember the totally bogus autopsy that "proved" Vincent Foster committed suicide?
02/07/02 Baxter's death looks like Foster's For the newcomers, Vince Foster's murder is covered Here
Is it time to start a new "Political Dead Bodies" list?
02/13/02 The official story of former Enron Vice Chairman Cliff Baxter contains "inaccuracies"
# 02/28/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER'S AUTOPSY POINTS AWAY FROM SUICIDE AND TOWARDS MURDER With new info
DELIBERATE CRIMES
Is ENRON the new BCCI?
01/28/02 Real media interview with COPVCIA's Mike Ruppert: ENRON a huge money laundering operation I was right, ENRON is the latest version of BCCI< and the S&L crises.
01/28/02 ENRON was pouring cash into British government as well Is that why Britain was such a staunch supporter of the invasion for the oil pipeline?
01/28/02 ENRON scandal hits Britain's Labor Party
ENRON had hundreds of "subsidiaries" in the Cayman Islands and other "tax avoidance" and "bank secrecy" havens
Enron's artificial shortages caused the California blackouts to raise prices. Phil Gramm helped make it possible
Bush/ENRON is just BCCI, S&L, and Iran-Contra updated.
ENRON continued to shred documents long after the court order forbidding the destruction of documents. Is ENRON the new BCCI?
Enron's five billion (with a "b") black hole Is ENRON the new BCCI?
9/11 stock trades link back to CIA and insider trading by Bush
ENRON's Black Magic Like BCCI, the trail links back to US Intelligence Agencies
IS SOMEONE TRYING TO TRIGGER A FINANCIAL NATIONAL EMERGENCY?
01/29/02 Enron's primary holders
01/29/02 J. P. Morgan's Primary Holders
01/29/02 Citigroup Primary Holders
The above charts (and many more just like them) show that the major financial players in the United States are all shareholders in each other. That means each and every major banking house has been hit by the staggering losses of the ENRON collapse. At the very least, this means that no matter who you do your banking business with, you will be paying higher fees to cover the shortfall from the disaster.
But the results from the ENRON collapse may be more far reaching, as the next article illustrates.
01/29/02 ENRON triggered K-Mart's Bankruptcy Ripples from ENRON collapse hit companies with thin margins
As draconian as the US Government has already become, conditions for citizens would be far worse in the event of a declared National Emergency. Through numerous Executive Orders already in existence, the President could, in the event of an emergency, activate all of the following.
Executive Orders:
• 10995: Right to seize all communications media in the United States.
• 10997: Right to seize all electric power, fuels and minerals, both public and private.
• 10999: Right to seize all means of transportation, including personal vehicles of any kind and total control of highways, seaports and waterways.
• 11000: Right to seize any and all American people and divide up families in order to create work forces to be transferred to any place the gov. sees fit.
• 11001: Right to seize all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
• 11002: Right to force registration of all men, women and children in the United States.
• 11003: Right to seize all air space, airports and aircraft.
• 11004: Right to seize all housing and finance authorities in order to establish "Relocation Designated Areas" and to force abandonment of areas classified as "unsafe".
• 11005: Right to seize all railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities, both public and private.
• 11921: Authorizes plans to establish government control of wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions.
Among the various National Emergencies under which the above laws may be activated by the President is a economic crisis such as the collapse of the equities markets and the banking system.
If ENRON were to force the major banking houses, which were major holders of the stock, into bankruptcy, as happened with K-Mart, the stage would be set for the "legal" transformation of the United States into the greatest dictatorship the world has ever known.
01/29/02 Stock Market drops over fears of more fraudulent accounting
01/29/02 Undersea cable giant Global Crossing files for bankruptcy
01/29/02 The ENRON fallout has just begun
01/30/02 More questionable accounting practices at Global Crossing
02/11/02 ENRON exemptions was a systemic scandal, not just confined to the current administration They ALL did it, they all should hang!
02/10/02 Enron used same financial methods as al Qaeda
02/10/02 Another ENRON domino falls
Based on this report, from a newspaper highly supportive of the Bush-Cheney administration, it appears that the National Energy Plan was at least in part an effort to help one of Bush's largest contributors.
From the New York Times more light is shed on the secrecy. In particular,
note the paragraph describing what happened when an analyst asked a pointed
question about the balance sheet: cursing ensued! In other words, we are
not going to tell you.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/30/opinion/30LASH.html?todaysheadlines=&pagew
anted=print
November 30, 2001
Bankrupt Analysis
By ADAM LASHINSKY
"SAN FRANCISCO -- In early 2000, Enron, the natural gas pipeline company
turned online phenomenon, held a daylong conference in Houston for Wall
Street analysts and investors. The audience, packed with financial experts
on the natural gas and power industries, was wowed by all the talk of
Enron's online capabilities, especially its rapidly growing business of
electronically matching buyers and sellers of numerous commodities like
electricity and even network bandwidth.
The analysts were particularly receptive when Jeffrey Skilling, then Enron's
president, suggested that the company's money-losing broadband network
business alone was worth $29 billion, or an extra $37 a share. He even had a
nifty PowerPoint slide to explain his company's proper stock price.
Unsurprisingly, Enron's shares skyrocketed by more than 50 percent in the
first half of that year. Enron, it seems, had become an Internet company,
and decidedly old-economy energy-industry analysts were loath to be left
behind. Many openly acknowledged their lack of understanding of Enron's new
lines of business - but hey, the company told such a good story. Why quibble
over a few murky details?
Now Enron teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and it's tempting to paint its
demise as a series of extraordinary events driven by behind-the-scenes deals
hidden by questionable accounting. And in fact, there's no doubt that the
company was engaged in some pretty unusual deals, and that it was less than
forthcoming about them.
One of the lessons of the Internet boom is that it's often difficult for
analysts to understand and evaluate new kinds of businesses. And executives
like Mr. Skilling, who once swore at an analyst during a conference call for
asking a pointed question about Enron's balance sheet, don't do much to
foster the kind of open inquiry that could lead to better information.
But the Enron debacle is also emblematic of another problem that has become
all too evident in the last few years: Wall Street's loss of objectivity.
Investment banks make far more money from underwriting or merger deals than
they do from broker fees. Analysts at these firms often face conflicting
loyalties. They can be put in the position of having to worry as much about
whether a chief executive might find a report offensive as whether an
investor might find it helpful.
In early 2000, Enron let it be known that it was considering a separate
public offering for its Internet operations. Analysts who raised prickly
questions about an initial public offering could be assured that their firm
wouldn't be chosen for the underwriting. That I.P.O. never happened, of
course, as Enron's plans for the broadband business collapsed. Nevertheless,
Wall Street failed to ask the questions that might have protected investors
from Enron's plunging market value."
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Obviously, there are very shady dealings around the Enron-Cheney
relationship that need the full attention of Congress, the SEC, and the US
Justice Department. The energy plan wasn't about energy independence at all
or it would have addressed conservation much more seriously.
Donna Fezler
03/22/02 Stunning Depths of Government Collaboration with Enron Revealed Enron was built with $7 billion (with a "b") of your tax dollars.
03/29/02 The Army Secretary's Business
04/4/02 BBC to broadcast documentary on ENRON
04/1/02 Enron asks Bankruptcy Judge for Executive Bonuses
03/23/02 Arthur Anderson claims Federal Government does not have Constitutional Jurisdiction in shredding case. Given that the Enron case stretches across borders, my opinion is that the "Laws of other nations" clause may apply here. However, it would be interesting if the Enron case did result in reminding the public that the Federal Government is NOT supposed to be in the law enforcement business, which is reserved to the states.
03/25/02 Rumsfeld, White, and ENRON
03/26/02 White may have had inside information when he sold his Enron stock
03/26/02 Links between Enron and the War On Terror It's all about the oil
03/17/02 Anderson destroyed tons of evidence
03/17/02 Connecticut Authorities received bonuses after signing deal with Enron
03/12/02 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection?
03/14/02 Arthur Anderson to be charged in Enron Fraud.
03/15/02 US pulls plug on all future dealings with Enron and Anderson
03/15/02 Bush Flatly Refuses to Hand Over Energy Papers: "a threat to executive authority" Impeachment, followed by a decent tarring and feathering!
03/06/02 Bush and Enron were business partners
03/08/02 BREAKING: ENRON GAVE MONEY TO TALIBAN Used CIA as business agents in Afghanistan
03/07/02 Enron's links to the bin Ladens
03/04/02 Enron's code of ethics I know, I know, but at least it LOOKED good for a while.
# 02/23/02 ENRON MAINTAINED FAKE TRADING FLOOR TO TRICK ANALYSIS INTO THINKING BUSINESS WAS GOOD If this isn't fraud, what is?
# 02/20/02 ENRON's new $5 billion black hole Who and what is WhiteWing Associates?
# 02/25/02 Congressional investigator fears there are more Enrons out there.
# 02/25/02 ENRON at heart of Argentine collapse Argentine government’s Minister of Public Works says George W. Bush visited in 1988 to push transfer of Argentina's public energy into ENRON's private hands
02/04/02 ENRON inquiry in disarray Is there anyone working on the investigation who really wants it to go anywhere?
01/29/02 ENRON: Cash, Sex, and Fast Living Sounds like the final days of Rome
01/27/02 New York Times chart plots ENRON meetings with officials against stock price decline
02/07/02 Enron exposed the shady practices corporate executives use to swindle their investors ... and which congress ignores as long as those donations keep rolling in.
How Enron looted the public
How Enron looted the public, part 2
Enron scandal gets worse
Enron "only company to warrant an entire Amnesty International report, a chilling catalogue of human rights abuses from India to Latin America"
Wall Street looked other way while Enron collapsed.
02/12/02 ENRON Exploding The rich got richer, the poor got screwed, life goes on an usual in corporate America
ENRON AND THE WHITE HOUSE
03/04/02 Enron+Cheny+Taliban = War for OIL There is the motive for the murder of Baxter and the shredding of documents.
03/04/02 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban connection
01/28/02 Bush fired Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Curtis Hebert, Jr. on orders of ENRON CEO
01/29/02 ENRON: Friends in high places
01/29/02 Bush's Enron Amnesia
01/29/02 Current Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO was Global Managing Director for Arthur Anderson, the company which shredded Enron documents.
02/02/02 Bush handed key energy appointments to people chosen by Enron's Kenneth Lay
02/06/02 Bush: Enron can be investigated by the Justice Department because there is no conflict of interest.
02/05/02 Was Enron behind the war in Afghanistan?
01/27/02 74% of ENRON'S political contributions went to Republicans
01/27/02 Trillion Dollar Hideaway Where the rich stash their tax-free loot
01/27/02 ENRON, with almost 900 "subsidiaries" in tax-havens, did not pay income tax for four out of the last 5 years. Just keep that in mind while filling out the ol' 1040
01/27/02 Senator Lieberman's former aid now lobbyist for ENRON
01/27/02 ENRON poured money into policy think tanks
01/27/02 Newsweek reports on Alan Greenspan's awkward acceptance of the "Enron Award for Distinguished Public Service," handed out just days after the company admitted filing misleading financial reports.
01/27/02 ENRON spotlight falls on Cheney
01/27/02 ENRON C.E.O. not talking to President Bush, at least, not directly Part 2
01/27/02 BUSH ENERGY PLAN - POLICY OR PAYBACK? (BBC TRANSCRIPT) "Any fantasy that a CEO has can come true if you put enough money into Bush's political ambitions."
George Bush, the corporations' flag carrier The foreign press tells it like it is
Managing Partner of Arthur Anderson's Houston "shredding parlor" is a "Bush Pioneer"
ENRON did not pay income tax 4 out of 5 years
US Excel worksheet showing shift of taxation from corporations to citizens
White House worked directly with Enron in India power plant dispute
Enron entangles the Bush White House Cabinet Members received advance warnings, Ashcroft recuses himself
More on the Bush/ENRON connections.
Enron threat to Bush
Bush and Enron before the election
01/27/02 ENRON: Crimes were committed
Collapse of Argentina has ties to Bush and ENRON
Current head of Homeland Security Gestapo is former ENRON Executive Need a whistleblower silenced?
ENRON and Arthur Anderson STILL getting taxpayer money.
Letter from Waxman to Cheney regarding ENRON GIF file, so slow loading
02/17/02 ENRON put Bush in the White House
02/16/02 Bush, while Governor, helped Enron do what it was doing.
02/12/02 The NY Times tries to polish Rubin's ENRON image
02/12/02 Judge to White House: Save Enron Records
ARTHUR ANDERSON'S FRAUD
03/26/02 CEO of Arthur Anderson steps down Rats. Sinking ship.
01/27/02 More ENRONS out there; the rot is systemic
02/02/02 Arthur Anderson missed $644 million error Meanwhile, the IRS will draw and quarter any citizen who makes a ten cent mistake in the old 1040
01/30/02 "Suspicious" death of Arthur Anderson consultant
Current heads of SEC and GAO previously worked for ENRON's auditors
ARTHUR ANDERSON HOUSTON OFFICE ORDERED TO DESTROY ENRON DOCUMENTS BY CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS AFTER ARRIVAL OF SEC SUBPOENA
02/01/02 Enron board members APPROVED debt concealment
01/30/02 Waiting for the next Enron revelation It's dangerous to bring up Vince Foster, given that the FBI was exposed for the fraudulent manufacture of evidence in that case
02/03/02 Most Fortune 500 companies playing "Enron-esque" accounting games.
02/03/02 ENRON and Arthur Anderson are NOT exceptions
02/02/02 ENRON not the only bad apple
Managing Partner of Arthur Anderson's Houston "shredding parlor" is a "Bush Pioneer"
Arthur "Shredders-R-us" Anderson contacts to audit FBI files After all the destroyed evidence in the Oklahoma Bombing case I'll bet this gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling
Arthur Anderson's shady past What James C. Beyer is to murder, Arthur Anderson is to stock scams
THE BODIES PILE UP
03/08/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER WAS MURDERED
# 02/28/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER'S AUTOPSY POINTS AWAY FROM SUICIDE AND TOWARDS MURDER With new info
Enron corporation complicit in Human Rights violations When you donate to half of the US Congress, I guess you can afford to be.
02/04/02 ENRON: Let's blame the middle managers!
ENRON EXECUTIVE JOHN CLIFFORD BAXTOR FOUND DEAD OF PURPORTED SUICIDE
Whistleblower named Baxter as a key player who spoke out against ENRON's use of the LJM partnership to conceal hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. According to Baxter's lawyer, Baxter was going to cooperate with investigators. Oddly, the car in which Baxter's body was stopped in a turning lane between two medians in the middle of a major street, a rather atypical location for a suicide committed in a car. In addition, it is reported that the suicide gun was found in Baxter's hand. This alone rules out a genuine suicide, as the recoil of a fired .38 will remove it from a hand deprived of any nerve control from the brain.
01/31/02 Baxter death NOT ruled a suicide just yet.
01/27/02 Baxter told friends he "needed a bodyguard" shortly before death
01/27/02 ENRON investigator puzzled: Baxter had nothing to be ashamed of Flashback: Remember the totally bogus autopsy that "proved" Vincent Foster committed suicide?
02/07/02 Baxter's death looks like Foster's For the newcomers, Vince Foster's murder is covered Here
Is it time to start a new "Political Dead Bodies" list?
02/13/02 The official story of former Enron Vice Chairman Cliff Baxter contains "inaccuracies"
# 02/28/02 BREAKING: ENRON EXECUTIVE BAXTER'S AUTOPSY POINTS AWAY FROM SUICIDE AND TOWARDS MURDER With new info
DELIBERATE CRIMES
Is ENRON the new BCCI?
01/28/02 Real media interview with COPVCIA's Mike Ruppert: ENRON a huge money laundering operation I was right, ENRON is the latest version of BCCI< and the S&L crises.
01/28/02 ENRON was pouring cash into British government as well Is that why Britain was such a staunch supporter of the invasion for the oil pipeline?
01/28/02 ENRON scandal hits Britain's Labor Party
ENRON had hundreds of "subsidiaries" in the Cayman Islands and other "tax avoidance" and "bank secrecy" havens
Enron's artificial shortages caused the California blackouts to raise prices. Phil Gramm helped make it possible
Bush/ENRON is just BCCI, S&L, and Iran-Contra updated.
ENRON continued to shred documents long after the court order forbidding the destruction of documents. Is ENRON the new BCCI?
Enron's five billion (with a "b") black hole Is ENRON the new BCCI?
9/11 stock trades link back to CIA and insider trading by Bush
ENRON's Black Magic Like BCCI, the trail links back to US Intelligence Agencies
IS SOMEONE TRYING TO TRIGGER A FINANCIAL NATIONAL EMERGENCY?
01/29/02 Enron's primary holders
01/29/02 J. P. Morgan's Primary Holders
01/29/02 Citigroup Primary Holders
The above charts (and many more just like them) show that the major financial players in the United States are all shareholders in each other. That means each and every major banking house has been hit by the staggering losses of the ENRON collapse. At the very least, this means that no matter who you do your banking business with, you will be paying higher fees to cover the shortfall from the disaster.
But the results from the ENRON collapse may be more far reaching, as the next article illustrates.
01/29/02 ENRON triggered K-Mart's Bankruptcy Ripples from ENRON collapse hit companies with thin margins
As draconian as the US Government has already become, conditions for citizens would be far worse in the event of a declared National Emergency. Through numerous Executive Orders already in existence, the President could, in the event of an emergency, activate all of the following.
Executive Orders:
• 10995: Right to seize all communications media in the United States.
• 10997: Right to seize all electric power, fuels and minerals, both public and private.
• 10999: Right to seize all means of transportation, including personal vehicles of any kind and total control of highways, seaports and waterways.
• 11000: Right to seize any and all American people and divide up families in order to create work forces to be transferred to any place the gov. sees fit.
• 11001: Right to seize all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
• 11002: Right to force registration of all men, women and children in the United States.
• 11003: Right to seize all air space, airports and aircraft.
• 11004: Right to seize all housing and finance authorities in order to establish "Relocation Designated Areas" and to force abandonment of areas classified as "unsafe".
• 11005: Right to seize all railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities, both public and private.
• 11921: Authorizes plans to establish government control of wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions.
Among the various National Emergencies under which the above laws may be activated by the President is a economic crisis such as the collapse of the equities markets and the banking system.
If ENRON were to force the major banking houses, which were major holders of the stock, into bankruptcy, as happened with K-Mart, the stage would be set for the "legal" transformation of the United States into the greatest dictatorship the world has ever known.
01/29/02 Stock Market drops over fears of more fraudulent accounting
01/29/02 Undersea cable giant Global Crossing files for bankruptcy
01/29/02 The ENRON fallout has just begun
01/30/02 More questionable accounting practices at Global Crossing
02/11/02 ENRON exemptions was a systemic scandal, not just confined to the current administration They ALL did it, they all should hang!
02/10/02 Enron used same financial methods as al Qaeda
02/10/02 Another ENRON domino falls
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