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May 26, 2006
Enron, Bush and Uzbekistan
From Democracy Now
We turn now to the connections between President Bush and Enron. Enron founder Ken Lay and his family rank among President Bush’s biggest financial backers of his political career. The family donated about $140,000 to Bush’s political campaigns in Texas and for the White House. The president personally nicknamed Ken Lay “Kenny Boy.”
Overall Enron employees gave Bush some $600,000 in political donations. According to the Center for Public Integrity this made Enron Bush’s top career donor - a distinction the company maintained until 2004. Shortly after Bush took office in 2001, Vice President Cheney met with Enron officials while he was developing the administration’s energy policies. Our guest Greg Palast examined the connections between Enron and the Bush administration in his documentary “Bush Family Fortunes.”
Enron's influence reached as far as Uzbekistan. In January, we interviewed the former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. He spoke about the relationship between President Bush and the Uzbek regime of President Karimov.
Go here for the full interview and audio and video options.
Posted by andrew on May 26, 2006 6:05 PM in the category Uzbekistan
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The painting at the attached link has four Uzbek women in it (to the left of the painting, next to Van Gogh) who had escaped over the border at the time of the masacre. They were put into the painting after hearing Jack Straw say on the radio, as a response to the massacre, 'Every nation has a right to pout down it's insurgents'...
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at May 29, 2006 4:34 PM
http://www.clareshepherd.com/gallery/popuppic.php?pic=shabbat&media=oil&name=Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan%20Oil%20Pipeline
Posted by: shedlily at May 29, 2006 4:35 PM
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