time the press revived the investigation of Bush and Ken Lay

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Bush And Lay


Steve Cobble is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.


Four years ago this Wednesday, George W. Bush was taking time out from the campaign trail against Al Gore to travel to Houston to take in a game.

Where was he? Enron Field.

His host was Ken Lay. This was a big day for "Kenny Boy," as George W. once affectionately tagged him. One year earlier, Lay's Enron Corporation, one of the seemingly great economic stories of the 1990s, had agreed to pay more than $100 million over 30 years (!) for the naming rights to the new Houston baseball stadium.

On one level, Enron Field was a strange place for George W. Bush to be in April of 2000. Having already vanquished his main GOP primary rival, John McCain, an observer schooled in politics might have expected that Bush would be directly engaging Vice-President Gore in hand-to-hand political combat in a swing state. After all, both Florida and Ohio have baseball teams.

But Texas was never a battleground state, and Houston was never a place where W's presence was required for political reasons. So if George W. just wanted to take in a ballgame to relax, why not a visit to his old team, the Texas Rangers, the Sammy Sosa-trading/eminent domain-wielding/sales tax-increasing corporate juggernaut that allowed him to turn a mere $600,000 (mostly in loans) into $14 million faster than you can say "Hillary Clinton cattle futures".

Ah, but there is a reason. You see, according to Opensecrets.org, Enron bossman Ken Lay was well on his way to building the Enron family into the soon-to-be-President-Select's number one lifetime donor—and for a mere $736,800, a pittance compared to that $100M for the naming rights to Enron Field.

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1. Free press in America is almost dead

It's propaganda & show biz 24/7 now

The bush cabal is busy slaughtering women and children in Iraq in order to bring them "Democracy" The American military Men Women and machines are being used & discarded to protect the Oil & the OIL pipelines
Highly payed killers for hire aka mercenaries are referred to as civilian contractors by all major networks & cnn.

The American public must remain passive & placated by reality TV & infotainment passed of as News to a willing public that sucks on it to
keep the raw truth at bay.

Whats this got to do with your post

The American "press" will not revive shit until they themselves are revived.

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2. imo, Enron and not PNAC is the key to the whole cabal

Let it all come out.

Impeach Justice Enron Scalia.
Imprison Dick Cheney.

In this view, Rumsfeld is pretty much just a tool, or perhaps a loose cannon. PNAC exists as just one noisy klatsch--albeit, it's worth noting who among that crowd has taken Enron money.

The place to really see the connection is the document called Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century, prepared by an Independent Task Force of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University, in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations.

The current url for the report (in pdf format):

http://www.rice.edu/energy/publications/docs/TaskForceReport_Final.pdf



A link to a group that has tracked the true motivation and planning for the invasion of Iraq:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=884907706-324

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