XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.conspiracy, alt.conspiracy.new-world-order
From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk
In article <1152919110.041185.293140@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
volcaran writes
>banana wrote:
>> In article <1152859114.500892.210450@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>> volcaran writes
>>
>> >banana wrote:
>> >> In article , David Fabian
>> >> writes
>> >> Enron guy 'Nicholas Hood', a 'face' on the Bristol scene and one-time
>> >> chairman of Wessex Water, was on the 'Prince's Council':
>> >
>> >Apart from your known prejudices, exactly how does one executive of
>> >Wessex Water
>>
>> Er, he was chairman of Wessex Water,
>
>Er, as chairman he was an executive.
>
>>chairman of @BRISTOL,
>
>Which has what links to Enron? To the best of my knowledge @Bristol is
>a leisure/quasi-educational development in Bristol.
>
>and
>> international vice-chair of Enron's water company Azurix.
>
>Yes he became a director of Azurix when the company acquired Wessex
>Water in 1998. Not that surprising that a senior director of the main
>operating company with knowledge of the industry should be on the
>sub-holding company board leading up to the IPO of the Enron water
>business in 1999. But frankly, so what?
He was a big figure in the Enron heist in southwest England, that's
what.
>I still fail to see how this
>contributes to your conclusion that "the royal family was deeply mixed
>up with Enron". At best the only link you have shown is that one member
>of the Prince's Council also happened to be a director of Enron
>subsidiaries for a short period after the company he was a director of
>was bought by Enron.
He was a big figure in the Enron heist in southwest England, that's
what.
Next you'll tell me the Barclay brothers aren't involved with the
'royal' family, and maybe even that there's no evvo that anyone other
than listed shareholders have any control over Las Vegas casinos.
>How does that constitute "deeply mixed up with"?
>
>>
>> >sitting on the Prince's Council demonstrate that "the
>> >royal family was deeply mixed up with Enron"? Incidentally Hood became
>> >a director of Wessex Water in 1987, Enron acquired Wessex Water in July
>> >1998 and Hood left a few months after the takeover in 1999. His
>> >appointment as a member of the Prince's Council predates the Enron
>> >takeover
>>
>> So what? Cazenove's have been mixed up with the 'royal' family for a
>> long time too. They then got involved in all of the big privatisations.
>> Lucrative contracts if you can get them.
>
>Again, which has what to do with Enron - the link you were claiming?
Your point that his involvement with the 'royal' family started prior to
holding office with Enron, was...?
>> >and my guess is that it owes far more to being a Merchant
>> >Venturer in Bristol but don't let me spoil the "guilt by association"
>> >tangent.
>>
>> Yes of course it relates to the Merchant Venturers - a crime gang in
>> which the 'royal' family have long been heavily involved:
>
>Their crimes being what exactly? While I have heard them referred to as
>part of the "Bristol mafia", it wasn't in the context of any rising to
>even a passing resemblance to Don Corleone.
Privatisation is pretty much the same story everywhere.
--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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