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Today's headlines:
Greg Palast Says, "Power Outage Can Be Traced to Dim
Bulb in White House; the Meeting with Kenneth Lay that Arnold
Forgot; A New Flashpoints Feature: "The Block Report".
5:01 PM PST
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House Greg Palast
is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein. As the power industry
dumped 16 Million dollars into Bush 2's presidential campaign
to have Daniel Fessler further deregulate power in Pete Wilson's
California (after Margaret Thatcher let them experiment with
Britain) Reagan slept and slept, while George Bush I dreamed
of ways to teach his son how further the degregulation process.
Ken Lay had the plan meeting with
5:21 PM PST
The Governors Race Fiasco Christopher Sprinkle speaks with
Carmen Balber and Arianna Huffington regarding the Ken Lay
meetings with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Riordan then
the mayor of Los Angeles. What was Dick Cheney's input? What
went on behind those doors? How to peel back the gate of those
secrecy? These issues are mused upon and the escape of Ken
Lay is brought up. Where is this guy. He has even escaped
Google which is still lamenting he and his wife losing 890,000
dollars on the sale of their four properties in Washington
State. Even when the evidence of his running the Texas Governor's
office of George W. Bush is even finding its way to the internet.
Website extra! Click
here and you will be taken to the 40 documents which outline
a very tightly woven web of association between Ken Lay and
George W. Bush. By reading these documents you can get a clear
feel for the foolishness which pervades the entire question
of deregulation and the politicians who shill for it.
For the EXTENSIVE Bush Lay archive of double dealing in the
energy markets click these documents to take you to the photostats
stored at http://www.thesmokinggun.com
5:30 PM PST
The Block Report This is the first segment of a locally produced
show with JR interviewing Kevin Epps, Black Film-maker discussing
his work in Hunters Point, Oakland, and the East Bay. In this
segment they discuss the effects of increased policing on
many bay area communities. Stuck between reducing crime and
reducing police oppression and the specter of selective enforcement
many bay area residents don't know where to turn. Very interesting
segment!
Top of the News: France finds itself in Hot Water as the
heat wave triggers a real-life episode of global warming acting
locally. With 3000 deaths due to a summer heat wave, the pressure
has been on to turn up the air conditioning and increase the
load on the 58 nuclear power plants which provide 80% of France's
electricity. 56 of these power plants are located on rivers
where cooling water is circulated to maintain safe operating
temperatures. The length of the heat wave combined with the
increased demand for electricity has raised the temperatures
of the rivers to life threatening levels for fish which cannot
extract oxygen from the water when the temperature gets above
26 degrees Celsius. 19 plants have asked to have their temperature
ceilings for discharge water raised to 28 Celsuis to ease
the cooling problem. One plant (pictured left at Fessenheim)
is being showered with water to keep it cool without success.
As the nuclear plants continue to heat the rivers and the
total heat energy in the local environment accumulates, France
finds itself caught in a deadly cycle of localized global
warming. The future is approaching more rapidly than we can
adapt to it, and the science we didn't comprehend yesterday
can kill us today.
web report by Michael Jordan
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