Major New Enron Documents Posted Online

Courtesy of Russ Kick and The Memory Hole

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Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

In a few recent posts, I have mentioned Russ Kick and his twin websites, The Memory Hole and The Memory Blog. The most recent [February 4] item on The Memory Blog looks very interesting…

Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) today publicly released a new set of evidence showing Enron energy traders fabricated repair needs in order to take a Nevada power plant offline during the height of power blackouts in California in early 2001. The evidence also highlights illegal gaming schemes that crossed into Canada and involved senior Enron officials. PUD evidence reveals that Enron’s market manipulation started at least two years prior to the western energy crisis as part of a premeditated plan to reap unjust profits from western consumers.

This would be bad enough, of course, even if Enron and Bush were not like this [holding two fingers very close together].

Click here for more details on the so-called president’s close friends, and their high moral values…

UPDATE: Brad here, jumping in with a quick update to Winter Patriot’s post. It’s a quote from comments on this thread posted by Nana, but it deserves to be front and center. The fake California Energy Crisis of 2001 being a pet bugaboo of mine…Thanks, Nana.

“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants …”

George W Bush
NY York Times, Jan 14 2001

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  1. 1)
    Dredd said on 2/5/2005 @ 10:17am PT: [Permalink]

    There is an outside chance they could be prosecuted for manslaughter or homicide.

    There were some deaths of elderly folk due to lack of energy, price increases, and supplies being terminated.

    Some Enron folk were caught on tape laughing about socking it to the "grandmas".

    Sickness in the name of capitalism …

  2. 3)
    Peg C said on 2/5/2005 @ 12:35pm PT: [Permalink]

    Didn’t you just know at the time that cheney and the energy companies were behind those blackouts. I must confess here that I did, and said so to many – who remained open-minded but skeptical. The single-minded, devil-take-the-hindmost greed just radiated off c like an evil miasma.

    I’m glad it’s finally coming out. Now to tie c to it directly, through his secret "energy policy" meetings.

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    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 2/5/2005 @ 2:37pm PT: [Permalink]

    Before all of us are dead the truth will come out. Cheney’s "energy task force" was secret for a bunch of reasons…Halliburton, Entergy, Enron, and others were feeding at the trough of the Iraq War before 9/11. The failure of the mainstream press to investigate what has already happened is a bottom line disgrace.

    If I’m not mistaken, "Kenny Boy" Lay (Bush’s pet name for the boss of Enron) spent two nights at the White House during Bush’s presidency. The second was AFTER the first revelations had come out. What did they talk about? Baseball? Pollution problems in Houston? Could it have been something about covering one’s ass-ets?

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    supersoling said on 2/5/2005 @ 4:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    Robert #4
    Don’t forget the documents from the Energy Task Force meetings, showing maps of the Iraqi oil fields. Sorry, no link, but this was all well before 911, which also ties into their compliance in the 911 attacks because in order to get at those oil fields, they needed a reason to be there in the first place. Hence the need for, what PNAC (neocon Project for the New American Century) called, a " Pearl Harbor " like event, in order to get the American people behind an invasion.

    Traitors of the worst kind!

  5. 6)
    Peg C said on 2/5/2005 @ 4:21pm PT: [Permalink]

    Oh, Robert – but to hasten the process! That is the key! It’s all so transparent…once people started daring to open their mouths, credibility wouldn’t be a problem. The world is too precious to sacrifice to cynical monsters who would destroy anything and anybody without batting their eyelashes.

    This is all so unbelievable and vile. I watched "The Manchurian Candidate" tonight, and, believe it or not, it didn’t seem far-fetched at all.

  6. 7)
    Peg C said on 2/5/2005 @ 4:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi, Supersoling –

    We must have been posting at the same time. Have you read Karl Schwarz’s article in Online Journal "Pop goes the Bush Mythology bubble, Part 5? Will you still think it was just "compliance" then, or, maybe, "complicity?" These characters are the guys from Hell. (Scroll down to Feb.2.)

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    supersoling said on 2/5/2005 @ 5:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yes Peg C, I meant complicity. I was just now looking for that article at Online Journal. I saw it the other day but didn’t have time to read it, so had returned to find it. Nice coincidence that you would be pointing me in that same direction. I’ve read the other four as well as other startling and disturbing information at that site. I will go read it now and get back to reply.
    Thanks 🙂

  8. 9)
    Peggy said on 2/5/2005 @ 5:58pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi, Winter & Everyone – Reading all this makes me SO ANGRY – WITH THE DEMOCRATS!!!! It’s THEIR job as the "opposition" to be investigating and keeping on top of things!!! Time to vote in NADER and sweep the White House, Senate and Congress clean – fumigating first. Oh, it’s so upsetting. What’s wrong with America????

  9. 11)
    Peg C said on 2/5/2005 @ 7:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    A footnote to the above post, I went to the petition site and was unable to access it – "Page not available." I wonder whether it’s been "shut down" or whether there are so many people eager to sign the site couldn’t handle the load. I’ll try again later.

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    supersoling said on 2/6/2005 @ 4:27am PT: [Permalink]

    Peg C #11
    There is another site that I found that explains about a law suit being brought by a New York City fireman against **sh for his "complicity" in the 911 attacks. That site is here: lawsuit
    There is also a petition to the pResident at this same site here petition

    Peggy #9
    Peg C provides a link to articles written by Karl Schwarz in her #7 post. This is who I believe that you asked me about in the "Second Inaugural " thread. At the bottom of his article #5, there are links to the previous four articles.

    Also, this is the first time that I am attempting to post links properly, per Winter Patriots instructions 🙂

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    Dredd said on 2/6/2005 @ 6:35am PT: [Permalink]

    I think several comments here about the cheney energy meeting secrecy must have major validity.

    They are stalling, stalling, stalling with the litigation.

    I wonder if they are also purging, sweeping, and cleansing the documents even as we speak?

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    Peg C said on 2/6/2005 @ 6:52am PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd –

    Of course they are! The stalling has to do with the creation of detection-proof forgeries, I’m sure. Given enough time, any crook can "prove" that he didn’t, in fact, do anything wrong.

  13. 18)
    Peggy said on 2/6/2005 @ 2:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hi, Supersoling – Thanks very much for the websites. It’s GREAT that Americans are suing DYMYA! Make him go down in history as the worst, most evil and most hated, "president", ever. If more and more lawsuits are launched, this will AT LEAST help raise questions and reduce the confidence of his supporters. As for the budget, I don’t even have to read about it – no doubt, it will now make America’s working class and poor "pay" for the tax breaks given to the rich, since America’s is basically "bankrupt". WHERE is the revolution of the masses? They need info, info and more info. I know I have to be patient – it’s not where, but WHEN, and it maybe coming sooner than we think!

  14. 19)
    Nana said on 2/6/2005 @ 6:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants …

    George W Bush
    Ney York Times, Jan 14 2001

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