Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Check out this documentary when you get a chance. If you skipped over it take a second look..

"Alex Gibney’s documentary examines the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of this Houston, Texas-based firm, which for a time made its top officers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and all by engaging in business practices alleged to have been little more than a complex shell game.

Enron founder Ken Lay and his successor as CEO, Jeff Skilling, are pretty well skewered in Gibney’s film, which in its own way is every bit as riveting as a suspense thriller. Without putting too fine a point of it, the film has all the elements of Greek tragedy; it is hubris that ultimately brings down the main characters. Arrogance, pride, power, the abuse of power"

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3552742516364588769&q=the+smartest+guys+in+the+room&total=74&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

gvn2fly12

I saw this a few months aga and could not believe the shit that went down with the likes of the power stations in Cali shutting down and some of the guys were laughing when they were telling people to sut them down. Can not believe how meny people were screwed over buy those assholes and the what some of them got away with, like that dude who left with his 250 mill and went to Hawaii.

Well worth a watch.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Unbelievable how well those scumbags lied and lied and lied and cheated, and stole... Oddly enough I came across this little bit of information:


" Over the last decade, the company and its chairman, Mr. Lay, may have been Mr. Bush's biggest financial backers, donating nearly $2 million to his campaigns. Before the company's recent problems came to light, Mr. Lay enjoyed unusually good access to top administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, who earlier this year drafted a new national energy plan that seemed to lean heavily on Mr. Lay's suggestions." Based on this report, from a newspaper highly supportive of the Bush-Cheney administration, it appears that the National Energy Plan was at least in part an effort to help one of Bush's largest contributors. "

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/enron.html

I think Iraq and Enron might have a lot in common besides the players themselves. Namely the dealings and practices employed.