I just saw the Enron film and it was good.

[jazzjunkysue]

The same tactics used by Enron seem so familiar, because they're used by the b*** administration. It's an economic shell game, where the message is controlled to continue the cover up. And they don't care who they hurt or how much they have to lie, cheat or steal.

I didn't know they caused the California power grid to artificially shut down to raise the price of electricity so it would less higher. Bastards. The media didn't make that tactic clear. Beware of hikes in your power costs: It's manipulation, and it's illegal.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Looks good

Hope they put it on the internet.

[AP]

2. People who made the movie about Kissinger made this one. If you pay to see

it (or if you even sign up for two weeks free of Netflix and order the movie) you'll help those people to continue making documentaries about the truth.

[oscar111]

5. Exact name of film? showing in my neighborhood cinema palace?

or how is it getting out to the public?

how long is it?

this enron crime spree needs to get into the public mind

I saw on MSM the key tape, where one enron emplyeee says "you mean shut it down... Right, turn it off, just as if you had an outage" {my paraphrase}... was on CBS evening news IIRC. But all too briefly, and only once.

[AP]

9. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

Look up show times in your zip code or buy the book on which the movie is based:

http://www.amazon.com

Save it to your Netflix queue:

http://www.netflix.com/

[pnutchuck]

3. What's the name of the film?

I was in San Diego for the "power shortages."

[serryjw]

4. a little follow up for you

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/skil-f24.shtml
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i15enron.htm

[oscar111]

6. to end the awful Energy Bill that will repeat the Enron blackouts,

go to

www.publiccitizen.org

or similar url,

and sign up for alerts from their

CMEP critical mass energy project

page.

They seem the only group that is alerting us all when bad energy bill is up for votes, to email congresscritters.

nader left the group years ago.

superb group.

[oscar111]

7. Energy Bill would repeal FDR's PUHCA Public Utilities Holding Co. Act

which keeps utilities small by banning multistate utility co's.

Big ones play mean tricks, the bigger they get. FDR knew this. {just like banks}

PUHCA.. memorize that. Energy Bill would repeal all of it. Senate has nixed the bill several times, but NM sen Dominici keeps pushing again for it. Shame on you in NM for electing him LOL.

PUHCA {say Pooooo ca} and memorize that.

[oscar111]

8. Nominate 4 Greatest Page, button bott of orig post

i did .. you too pls

[Nomad559]

10. Have you seen this video

Enron Traders Caught On Tape

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=Enron_Traders

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Fraud Traced to the White House

Now might be a good time to repost a pretty thorough article by the wonderful Katherine Yurica - it might make sense after seeing the film.

Fraud Traced to the White House

How California’s energy scam was inextricably linked to a war for oil scheme



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By Katherine Yurica

This story begins with the California energy crisis, which started in 2000 and continued through the early months of 2001, when electricity prices spiked to their highest levels. Prices went from $12 per megawatt hour in 1998 to $200 in December 2000 to $250 in January 2001, and at times a megawatt cost $1,000.

One event occurred earlier. On July 13, 1998, employees of one of the two power-marketing centers in California watched incredulously as the wholesale price of $1 a megawatt hour spiked to $9,999, stayed at that price for four hours, then dropped to a penny. Someone was testing the system to find the limits of market exploitation. This incident was the earliest indication that the people and the state could become victims of fraud. The Sacramento Bee broke the story three years later, on May 6, 2001.

<more!!! a must read!!!>

http://www.yuricareport.com/PoliticalAnalysis/FraudinWhiteHouse.htm

[jazzjunkysue]

12. Yes-It does make sense after seeing the film.

I really only knew that Enron had "cooked" the books, but this documentary takes you through it like F911 so you can understand what really happened and who conspired to make it happen.

The short explanation is that Enron was given permission to post their earnings in a legal but dishonest way. They would get an idea for a commodity to sell, and then just post the earnings they predicted, even if the deal never happened and they never made a penny. Then, they'd have this debt that they didn't want the investors to see. That included the small individual stock owners and the other banks. So, their #3 guy (forgive me but I'm awful with names) created a bunch of fake companies where he would list the debt and take it off Enron's books. One was called Out M. Yass: (Out My Ass). One was called "Death Star." On and on it went, and the large banks who were investing and making a ton off Enron looked the other way. The sad thing is, the individual investors, the middle class workers, who had their entire pensions in Enron, had no way of knowing that Enron had little or no assets to back up it's earnings. So the shell game continued, until one small time young, new journalist asked whether or not the stock was over valued. Then it was all over in a few weeks. Several of the men did jail time, but, no one got back their pensions.

The scariest thing of all is all the video of the CEO's lying through their teeth to the owners, that the company was solid. It's just like Bush saying we need to invade Iraq and destroy social security. They just kept saying it until it was true. Until they were taken away in handcuffs, and people's lives were ruined. It sounded totally familiar, because it's what we hear from the Bush administration every day. And thet even got one of their top guys in control of a US
utilities commission. But Barbara Boxer fans can rejoice, cause she was the put bull hitting them with the tough questions at the hearings. God Bless Barbara Boxer.