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\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOverview of An Expatriate's Incisive Reporting<\/b>
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n By Peter Morgan<\/i><\/b>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n| <\/td>\r\n | \r\n\r\nIn a series of recent reports for the London Observer, \r\nThe Guardian and the BBC, American expatriate Gregory Palast has\r\nexamined the manipulation, money and politics behind California's\r\nmanufactured \"energy crisis\" and the Bush\/Cheney energy plan. \r\nThis overview provides an introduction his work, along with \r\nlinks to the articles themselves.\r\n<\/b>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n | \r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n | \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/b><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
\r\n\"They've eliminated the middle man.\r\nThe corporations don't have to lobby\r\nthe government any more. They ARE\r\nthe government.\" -- Former Texas Agriculture\r\nCommissioner Jim Hightower\r\n <\/b><\/p>
\r\n \r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <\/table>\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n | \r\n \r\n\r\n<\/b> Gregory Palast is an American expatriate journalist whose alarming Guardian and London\r\nObserver investigations into the 2000 U. S.\r\nPresidential campaign went virtually unreported in the nation where it occurred.<\/p>\r\n\r\n In a series of recent reports, Palast has examined the forces molding Bush's energy plan. Smells Like\r\nTexas, California Reamin', and Policy or Payback? analyze the influence corporate contributors have\r\ngathered inside the Whitehouse, a condition where Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim\r\nHightower charges, \"They've eliminated the middle man. The corporations don't have to lobby the\r\ngovernment any more. They ARE the government.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n | \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
\r\nPalast tours Texas, the\r\nnumber one state in emissions of\r\ngreenhouse gases and toxic chemicals,\r\na state filled with caustic air, ground,\r\nand water. \r\n <\/b><\/p>
\r\n \r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <\/table>\r\n\r\n <\/td>\r\n | \r\n \r\n\r\n<\/b> Palast's studies of California and Texas provide examples from which the rest of the nation may\r\nbenefit. \"Vending machine\" governance, where corporations basically purchase relaxed regulation, is\r\nfully on display in Texas. Palast tours Texas, the number one state in emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic\r\nchemicals, a state filled with caustic air, ground, and water. Texas based companies,\r\nsuch as oil-refinery operator Exxon, are proposing voluntary emission cutbacks, while Bush has\r\naxed the $1 million E.P.A. fund for civil enforcement to deter pollution, leaving law enforcement to\r\nTexas' weak state oversight. Further, Bush has reduced public\r\naccess to estimates on the impact of catastrophic failures--via explosion or chemical\r\nexposures--to residents living near toxic producers <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n | \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
\r\n\r\nCalifornia's 'energy problem' is a case\r\nstudy in manipulated shortages. <\/b>\r\n\r\nPalast writes,\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"California's electricity watchdog agency claims that speculators \r\nand a little club of energy merchants exercised raw monopoly power to overcharge state consumers by a\r\nbreathtaking $6.2 billion last year.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p> <\/p>
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