Enron Reexamined

We need to take another look at Enron. Enron was this big scandal about stock market fraud. It involved excessive privatization of public power, it involved the Bush administration and it involved the third tower that fell in New York City which contain corporate corruption watchdog files.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zMakN-EMLg

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Enron and the Bush Administration: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration_and_the_Enron_connection

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Bush, Enron and Bin Laden: www.loompanics.com/Articles/BushEnronandBinLaden.html

Thomas E. White - From Enron to Secretary of the Army: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_E._White

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Rosie O'Donnel talks about Enron's link to the third tower: www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54770

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Tower 7 contained SEC files relation to numerous Wall Street investigations that were also destroyed: www.thestreet.com/markets/matthewgoldstein/10041194.html

Overview of the suspicious nature of the fall of WTC7:

http://killtown.911review.org/wtc7/collapse.html

Privatized Orgies at U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan

This is once again another example of what happens when you privatize public services and remove public accountability. We've already talked about the dangers of Blackwater the American's privatizing of their military.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8474937

This story recently hit the news about contractors at the US embassy in Afghanistan. Most of the video clips are too raunchy for TV but the just of it is that the supervisors of the private security firm have been accused of being sexual deviants. Regularly holding drunken orgies for the past year and a half and demanding sex from new guards in exchange for promotions or preferred assignments.

Wait a minute. These are all men. Demanding sexual favors would mean gay sex. But I thought they didn't allows gays in the U.S. military. I guess that's another perk of privatization. Not that I have a problem with homosexuality. It's just demanding sex for promotions or preferred assignments whether it be gay or heterosexual is just plain wrong.

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Somehow I don't think the Taliban would be doing this.

A CSIS Scam

Toronto bomb plotter gets 14 years: http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/cp-article.aspx?cp-documentid=21505752

What's up with that? If 9/11 was an inside job was this just a scam? Who would want to bomb the headquarters of CSIS? They are insignificant. If someone did ever bomb the TSE or CSIS the prime suspects would be CSIS.

Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio, Operation Mass Appeal ... the list goes on. If MI6 and the CIA are corrupt, how can CSIS not be? What about Canada's Guantanamo bay? Torture to get fake false flag confessions. At one point I would have thought that would be absurd but now it looks much more likely.

Don't get me wrong. If the guy (kid) really was planning to blow people up that is very serious. It's just that given the obvious 9/11 inconsistencies which expands to England, Iraq and India, I'd have to say the whole thing is very suspicious. Like I said if CSIS or the TSE were ever bombed, CSIS would be the prime suspects.

Here we have a kid who gets 14 years for an alleged plan while the real villains who did the air India bombing all walked. Maybe Saad Khalid is Canada's own Hurricane Carter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=few4kiKjNzw

Summer Winds Down

Summer winds down. It's strange seeing no snow on the Lions. Have to go to Garibaldi or Baker for snow now. The glaciers. Wild blueberries are out. So are the bears. You can see their droppings near the berries.



Met a couple visiting from England on Mount Strachan today. They took the Baden Powell trail up the side then came up the Strachan trail along the side of the ski run. They came over to the ski run because there was a bear eating berries on their trail and didn't want to move so they decided to take a detour. I like Mount Strachan. You can see the Lions and Howe Sound.

Hollandaise sauce au gratin

Hey Moya. I'm not on Twitter but guess what we're having for dinner. Hollandaise sauce au gratin. On n'est pas jetable. Fake hollandaise sauce doesn't glaze properly. It doesn't taste right either. Moya Greene recently gave a really goofy interview with the Globe and Mail about her cooking skills she learned from a book.

Ever wonder why she never learned to cook until she was in university and had to feed herself? She admits her mother was a great cook and she learned to love good food at home. Yet she claims she never learned to cook from her mother. She claims she became an expert on French cuisine from a Better Crocker cook book.

Before that she was just another spoilt brat who never cooked at home. In her interview she made a snide comment about Bearnaise sauce pretending that the corporate way of cheap and easy had in some obscure way anything to do with nouvelle cuisine.



Hollandaise sauce really isn't that difficult. Egg yolks, gradually heated and whipped then taken off the heat and whipped while warm clarified butter is added. Great on a seafood schnitzel and magnificent when glazed au gratin. The high heat browns and fluffs it up. It's kind of like telling the difference between a fake diamond and a real one except we're talking about taste and consistency.

Moya Greene is a con artist that is wrecking havoc on the Post Office. Look at her track record at Bombardier and look how removing public accountability has dramatically increased train derailments at CN. Her blind arrogance insisting that the public and public sector managers are stupid is a clear recipe for disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUv4u0wgo1U

Stave Lake Discovered

Well Stave Lake is certainly interesting. It's a man made lake created by a dam to generate power. Right after the dam a second man made lake is formed, Hayward lake created by a second dam.

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Alouette lake right beside Stave lake is also made by a dam but is a slightly higher elevation. So here's the deal. They build a tunnel from Alouette lake to Stave lake and have the water pass through turbines to generate electricity. Then the water from Stave lake passes through another set of turbines to generate electricity and then it finally passes through a third set of turbines to generate electricity at Hayward lake.

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This was all built a long time ago and is a great example of ecofriendly power. Yes it screws up salmon runs and I don't see any fish hatchery like at Capilano dam. That hatchery is very effective but the salmon there aren't very large. Must be because of the really vigorous water they have to fight their way up. The Salon river in Langley is much easier for the Salmon to swim up and they are huge. You can see them count them at the fish trap.

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I find the tunnel from Alouette lake to Stave lake very interesting. They have the same thing from Buntzen lake to the Indian arm. The outlet in the Indian Arm looks like it's 100 years old. It look abandoned with broken windows but I'm told it still lets water out on occasion. I think they have another tunnel from another lake going to Buntzen lake but it's in a different district and they don't like to release their water. Hence the volume is down.

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The one draw back to a man made lake is these spooky stumps everywhere. However, there are other parts of the lake that are very nice with no stumps. I saw a black ferret hopping in and out of logs when I docked for lunch. I never new we had ferrets here.

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Stave lake is also home to the world famous mud flats where 4 wheel drive truck play in the mud along with dirt bikes and quads. It's a pretty unique place. Fire pits and beer cans everywhere. I saw a pretty incredible pulls on Youtube someone did to get another vehicle out of a big mud hole it was stuck in. I thought they were gonna pull their bumpers right off: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-1B7lUvtA

Then there's other one just showing how they roll inn the mud flats at Stave lake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nHxU-TfUE

Waterfalls UBC Research Forest Maple Ridge

I saw this video on YouTube the other day of some guys cliff jumping beside an awesome waterfall. It looked like Hawaii. Then I read it was Maple Ridge and was amazed. Turns out the UBC Research Forest is really close to Golden Ears and has a really cool set of waterfalls in it.

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Unfortunately it's closed to the public due to unsafe conditions. That is unfortunate. The only unsafe conditions I saw were all the empty beer cans everywhere. Drinking and cliff jumping is not wise. Not packing out your garbage is worse. Now thanks to a few irresponsible people the whole thing is closed to the public.

It is pretty nice though. Upper and lower falls with really nice deep swimming pools. Now that's what I'm talking about.