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Is the Ethiopian Regime Manipulating Power Distribution Like Enron Did in California?

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Is the Ethiopian Regime Manipulating Power Distribution Like Enron Did in California?

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Remember California and Enron? Yes, that Enron! The Enron that collapsed from a ~$100 billion electric and other energy distributor to nothing overnight in 2001 because of greed. Earlier that summer in 2001, California was hit by 38 blackouts (many died of dehydration), and Enron, as a major electric power distributor in that State, was in the middle of all the blackouts. Enron employees were telling the electric power generators to turn off electricity to California for no apparent reason, but to make it seem that “power was scarce” – but the real reason behind this was Enron’s greed (due to the blackouts, Enron hiked up electricity costs to unbearable levels.) For more on Enron, watch the documentary “Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room.” It is sad that the same greed is being played on Ethiopia’s poor by the ruling party, Woyane. To make the point of “Ethiopia’s transforming economic growth” (which many, including the WB and IMF, believe has been exaggerated) – the regime has subj

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