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POPSFormer UK Ambassador: CIA Sent People to be ‘Raped with Broken Bottles’ Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan's natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. "The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan," Murray noted. "There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's about. It's about money, it's about oil, it's not about democracy."
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POPSDaring to Question Al Gore "The director of "Not Evil, Just Wrong," a documentary challenging Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the 'right kind' of questions to be asked of him. "
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POPSFun with Dick and Jane | tea leoni alive and amplified, richard jenkins, tea leone, indicted, liar liar, angie harmon, george segal, tea leoni, alec baldwin, dharma and greg, dumb and dumber, globodyne, gloria garayua, jim carey, téa leoni, spanglish, bonnie and clyde, me myself and irene, jim carrey, enron, Fun with Dick and Jane
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POPSAl Gore sued by 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming Fraud "The tragedy of Ravelle's sudden death in 1991 allowed Gore to continue using "flawed science" as the basis for CAP and TRADE - a concept spawned by the scandalous ENRON corp." The largest of the greenhouse gases is in fact water vapor, Co2 is not a pollutant, plants need it to breathe. Do some research instead of blindly following yet another defunct religion
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POPSBlue Dog Dem: Healthcare CORPORATIONS more inportant than people The Blue Dog Dems are nothing but corporate tools, bought & paid for . I'm so sick of the "rationed care" meme. We ration care in this country based on how much you can afford. For more and more Americans, that's ZERO. And in rationing care based on how much you can afford, we spend MORE MONEY and have WORSE HEALTH OUTCOMES that just about every other industrialized nation. The people who cry over the evils of "Socialized Medicine" have no problem with "Corporate Medicine". The same corporatist framework that gave us Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and the others yet undiscovered, waiting to explode. These are the profit-driven "bureaucrats" that right now, at this moment, are looking for ways to deny paying for people's healthcare (even in the absence of fraud) because FINDING WAYS TO NOT PAY PEOPLE'S HEALTH BILLS IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN ACTUALLY PAYING THEM!
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POPSCan email patterns within a company signal impending doom? This study was based primarily on email patterns amongst employees of Enron before the collapse. Would be fascinating to know if similar patterns were evident at Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and other financial firms leading up to their collapse. If so, you have to wonder if the public will ever be privy to this kind of data (anonymously) in real-time as a way to anticipate and avoid financial loss.
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POPSThe American Empire Is Bankrupt by Chris Hedges
The cost of daily living, from buying food to getting medical care, will become difficult for all but a few as the dollar plunges. States and cities will see their pension funds drained and finally shut down. The government will be forced to sell off infrastructure, including roads and transport, to private corporations. We will be increasingly charged by privatized utilities—think Enron—for what was once regulated and subsidized. Commercial and private real estate will be worth less than half its current value. The negative equity that already plagues 25 percent of American homes will expand to include nearly all property owners. It will be difficult to borrow and impossible to sell real estate unless we accept massive losses. There will be block after block of empty stores and boarded-up houses. Foreclosures will be epidemic. There will be long lines at soup kitchens and many, many homeless. Our corporate-controlled media, already banal and trivial, will work overtime to anesthetize
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POPSendgame for gramm? this is very interesting- this article also states his wife Wendy helped pull of the Enron shenanigans as well
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POPSThe Future of Journalism is 'Decoding' Mystery Mystery solving is the future of journalism that has grown out of the puzzle solving of the past. The 'transparency movement' will deluge us with information; it's our job to see the trees for the forest.
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POPSGlobalization And Its Fall Out It has helped some corporations increase their profits and markets, but many corporations like AOL/Time Warner and Enron whose non-sustainable growth was based on deregulation accompanying globalization have themselves either gone bankrupt or lost their value. Following the globalization path is proving to be a recipe for non-sustainability for the rich and impoverishment and destitution for the poor.
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POPSCry, the Beloved Republic And Mr. Hanson asks where is Rep. Rangel...the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee? FTA: "As it transpires, we witness a Pravda-like media, that used to evoke Enron at every juncture, now either stay mum, or, worse, write these pathetic, scratch-your-head op-eds about how odd it is that the Chicago-organizing, Reverend Wright devotee, three-years in the Senate veteran would be presiding over all this sleaze." Cry, indeed; or do something about it!
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POPSA Cure for the Ailing Financial Industry If financial reports were made available online individual investors would act as citizen regulators. As long as companies' balance sheets are forced to be written in much easier to analyze formats then motivated investors could keep a close eye on how a company is run. Let the people decide if there is any wrong doing taking place.
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POPS A New Circus Comes to Town 
Washington's Marion Barry being jailed while elected, Quixotic Bill Clinton unfazed by the Rush Limbaugh windmill and riding off into the sunset with fair Dulcinea Lewinsky unceremoniously dumped from the saddle. And, of course, there's Obama's Toddling Town, the Windy City of Richard and Richie Daley with its "corruption that works." Am I the only person who experienced an unexpected surge of warm fellow-feeling for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when Hillary was named secretary of state? I wouldn't wish dealing with her on my worst enemy, who'd be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I think about the next four years of Hillary's dutiful efforts at global peacemaking, and I hear a chorus of voices echoing around the world--from Israelis and Palestinians, Iraqis and al Qaeda, Taliban and NATO troops, Pakistanis and Indians, Sri Lankans and Tamil Tigers, Georgians and South Ossetians, Colombian soldiers and FARC guerrillas, Hutus and Tutsis, Congolese rebels and other Congolese rebels--all saying,
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POPSSwitch To Global Rules With the growth of the global economy, it makes sense that companies have a common accounting system. But getting on the same page will be costly.
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POPSRubin-Enron-Citi-One more reborn savior??Not! (Recall this from 2002) "But the Democrats have been unsure about whether to pursue the investigation into the political realm. Part of this timidity is a desire to avoid the appearance of partisan excess that, in the Clinton scandals, drew a backlash against the Republicans. But they are undoubtedly afraid that some of their own luminaries, Rubin chief among them, might end up on the wrong side of a subpoena. It would be a shame if these fears, and the media's reluctance to pursue these issues independently, kept the public from learning the truth about the political corruption involved in Enron's rise and decline."
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