Any links to CBS "Enron Tapes" video yet??

Wow. This is explosive.

Enron Tapes Air Dirty Laundry
LOS ANGELES, June 1, 2004


When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports.

"Burn, baby, burn," they said.

Four years after California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard – on audiotapes obtained by CBS News – gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.

"He just f___s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million."

"Will you rephrase that?" asks a second employee.

"OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day," replies the first.

The tapes, from Enron's West Coast trading desk, also confirm what CBS reported years ago: that in secret deals with power producers, traders deliberately drove up prices by ordering power plants shut down.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/printable620626.shtml

Those despicable traders were salivating at the though of Bush being elected. I wonder if more Americans will finally stop drinking the pro-corporation anti-regulation kool-aid. It's a vivid reminder that these guys are working against the interests of the consumer.

Nor do I have much sympathy for most of these employees who gleefully cast their ballots for Bush in 2000. They got what they had coming to them. Chickens come home to roost.

Link (same as above): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml

Top left of page, under 'Free Video'.

Got a weird message when I first viewed it. Said that the videos were only working with RealPlayer for the moment?

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Now we know why Arnold was backed by Bush, and why he "settled" with the crooks so they could get off cheap. I guess that's what "tort reform" is all about.

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