Cat Out of the Bag - Hillary Clinton on GE Payroll

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MSNBC Suspends Shuster Over Clinton Comment
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/08/msnbc_suspends_shuster_over_cl.html
Updated: 3:50 p.m. By Howard Kurtz

MSNBC suspended correspondent David Shuster this afternoon for making a disparaging remark about Chelsea Clinton as officials in her mother's campaign raised the possibility of punishing the network by pulling out of a planned debate in Cleveland.

While filling in as an anchor yesterday, Shuster was discussing the 27-year-old's role in Hillary Clinton's campaign when he asked: "Doesn't it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"

Howard Wolfson, the campaign's communications director, denounced the prostitution metaphor, calling it "disgusting," "beneath contempt" and "the kind of thing that should never be said on a national news network."

Noting that Clinton had just agreed to participate in an MSNBC debate Feb. 26 in Cleveland, Wolfson said: "I at this point can't envision doing another debate on that network."

In a statement, MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines called Shuster's language "irresponsible and inappropriate" and said he had "extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks."

David Shuster. (MSNBC).


As for the Ohio debate between Clinton and Barack Obama, which is scheduled to be moderated by Brian Williams and Tim Russert, Gaines said that "our conversations with the Clinton campaign about their participation continue today, and we are hopeful that the event will take place as planned."

Last night, after Shuster made the remark as the guest host on "Tucker," Clinton spokesman Phillippe Reines contacted him and said the pimping reference was offensive. Shuster e-mailed back that he was referring to the fact that Chelsea is making calls to convention superdelegates but refusing to talk to the press. Shuster did make that point on the air -- after his pimped out comment, which was not delivered as a joke.

Reines was incredulous at the lack of an apology, but Shuster stood his ground.

Today, however, Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who runs MSNBC, called Reines, telling him that the comment was clearly wrong, and tried unsuccessfully to reach Wolfson.

Last month, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews expressed regret for suggesting that Clinton's political success can be traced to sympathy stemming from her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Wolfson noted both incidents in suggesting that the Clinton camp may boycott future MSNBC debates.

"At some point you have to question whether there is a pattern at this particular network," he said.

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Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php
by systemfailure Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 at 1:43 AM

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television;
* MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft);
* Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.
==================================================

WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

Television Holdings:
* CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.
================================================================
VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Television Holdings:
* Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix.
* 20 major market US stations.
Media Holdings:
* Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
* Simon & Schuster Publishing.
=============================================
DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)
Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
======================================================

TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign)
America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest merger in corporate history.
Television Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.
Media Holdings:
* HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.
Other Holdings:
* Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.
=======================================================
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* The Golf Channel (33%).
MEDIA HOLDINGS:
* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.
OTHER HOLDINGS:
* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

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Wow, did you know that GE owns a good share of the Nuclear Weapons Market?

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GENERAL ELECTRIC ADVERTISEMENT FOR A FRIDGE, MAY 2000 DEPICTS BOEING HEADING FOR WTC

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Hey look it is the 9/11 engine plane part found in the wreckage...

General Electric Made!

[oh yeah, there may be some inconsistencies in the two...]

[den carts]

You realize that shuster is a complete dickhead and he tried to argue with and belittle Ron Paul on one of the nbc morning shows he was interviewed for.

Shuster is a NWO lapdog. If he said anything bad about one of their candidates it's only because it slipped out.

[trailhound]

Yeah this is what really matters. This also reaffirms the need for an energy revolution. Energy is their primary means of enslaving us. Well that and mind control, drugs etc.

 We need to become self reliant. I know that is easier said than done, but we have the knowledge to do it. We need to stop buying their crap and start creating self sustaining homes.

 of course they will probably just kill us... i hate logic sometimes. but we should try to be free and independent despite them.

[trixi1]

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php
by systemfailure Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 at 1:43 AM

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television;
* MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft);
* Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.
==================================================

WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

Television Holdings:
* CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.
================================================================
VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Television Holdings:
* Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix.
* 20 major market US stations.
Media Holdings:
* Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
* Simon & Schuster Publishing.
=============================================
DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)
Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
======================================================

TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign)
America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest merger in corporate history.
Television Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.
Media Holdings:
* HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.
Other Holdings:
* Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.
=======================================================
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* The Golf Channel (33%).
MEDIA HOLDINGS:
* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.
OTHER HOLDINGS:
* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

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You realize that shuster is a complete dickhead and he tried to argue with and belittle Ron Paul on one of the nbc morning shows he was interviewed for.

Shuster is a NWO lapdog. If he said anything bad about one of their candidates it's only because it slipped out.

Shuster is a piece of f**king shit.

But who is worse, Shuster or Clinton who can force them to suspend him for exercising free speech?

I mean Matthews had to apologize publicly for saying that she was seen in a new light after standing by Bill after he raped 500 women.

Just wait until she is President.

Instead of getting suspensions and having to apologize publy, you will be executed publicly.

It is going to be like Galicula!

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General/Electric = G/E = Good/Evil

The Masonic Principal of the Duality of Man

Look at their wonderful products...

They Poison the water...(Evil)


Then they filter it for those that can afford it (if you trust them-i guess good)

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General Electric does Gas Treatment too?

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Deadly Deception:
General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment
http://www.newday.com/films/DeadlyDeception.html
by Debra Chasnoff

Deadly Deception juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives have been devastated by the company's involvement in building and testing nuclear bombs.

These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industry. Nine months after this powerful video won an Oscar in 1992, the corporate giant did indeed pull out of the deadliest business of all. Ideal for classes on business ethics, advertising, environmental issues, the arms race, media literacy, and community organizing.

Deadly Deception juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives have been devastated by the company's involvement in building and testing nuclear bombs.

These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industry. Nine months after this powerful video won an Oscar in 1992, the corporate giant did indeed pull out of the deadliest business of all. Ideal for classes on business ethics, advertising, environmental issues, the arms race, media literacy, and community organizing.

Appropriate for:
High School•College/University••

27 minutes • DVD • Closed Captioned
27 minutes • VHS

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General Electric's Nuclear-Powered Returns
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/18/0518ge.html
Tara Murphy, 05.18.2001, 2:30 PM ET

NEW YORK - President Bush's energy plan sounds like a renaissance for nuclear energy, proposing to increase reactors at U.S. licensed plants. The plan is a vision covered in red tape, but won't likely impact investors' wallets in the near term.

Most experts don't see a new nuclear plant being built for decades due to the onerous licensing process and environmental issues, such as storing radioactive waste. But Bush wants to add reactors to current plants and that may clear the bureaucracy faster. U.S. companies haven't been building plants here, but they've been active in more nuke-friendly countries and are ready to reap the benefits in the U.S. when the time comes.

"If the U.S starts building nuclear plants in significant numbers, that would have to be looked at, but we're pretty active," says John Redding, manager of marketing and public affairs of GE Nuclear Energy, a unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).

GE, which supplied many of the reactors when U.S. plants were being built in the 1970s and 1980s, is building two plants in Taiwan and constructed two nuclear plants for Tokyo Electric Power, which have been running for four years.

The company doesn't expect any major changes in U.S. nuclear operations in the next one to two years. However, if Bush's nuke plan comes to fruition, GE is ready with its licensed Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) nuclear plant design, which was completed in May 1997, says Redding.

GE Nuclear Energy is a segment of GE Power Systems, which raked in $15 billion in revenue for the company in fiscal 2000. The parent company's sales were $129.8 billion in 2000.

GE is an energy heavyweight even without nuclear energy, says Lawrence Horan, analyst at Parker/Hunter, tagging their natural gas energy turbine generators as a breadwinner after capturing a 70% market share in the U.S.

"GE is sold out for two years, and probably about 85% sold out for the third year, referring to 2003," says Horan, who considers GE's nuclear prospects a "small, long-term positive," given the public opposition that it faces.

Nuclear options could buffer GE's balance sheet from future weakness, says Bear Stearns analyst John Inch, who agrees that the resurgence of nuclear energy is a long-term process.

"By the time some of these plans and actual revenue come[ s] into the build cycle, this might be a very nice offset to some of GE's other power businesses," says Inch, postulating if GE's strong turbine shipments ever begin to wane.

By building at current sites, Bush's plan avoids many complex issues associated with building new plants. Since several of the plants could operate four to six reactors but only have two or three, it's feasible.

Also, obtaining a design license and then operating and construction licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might be easier, says Jennifer Weeks, director of a research project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. However, the need for energy environmental issues, including nuclear waste disposal, would still be addressed, she says.

Exelon (nyse: EXC - news - people ), the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., stands to get a leg up from a nuclear comeback. The holding company, which was formed through the merger of Unicom and PECO Energy, is co-developing a design for a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) in South Africa and says it will apply for a design license in the U.S. in 2001, if it passes feasibility testing.

On May 3, Corbin MacNeil, Exelon's chairman and chief executive, testified in front of a senate committee that the PBMR, which has been used in Germany, is safe and economical, costing $125 million to $150 million for a 125-megwatt plant and $1,100 per kilowatt to construct.

The last generation of reactors cost $3,500 per kilowatt, according to Daniele Sietz, analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.

Due to its small size, the PBMR can also be constructed in 18 to 36 months, whereas large reactors take four to six years.

Exelon hopes to score an operating and construction license for the PBMR by 2003. But those projections might be jumping the gun. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing process is typically two to three years, says Harvard's Weeks.

Here's the bottom line: Nuclear solutions must be able to be price competitive with other forms of energy, says Weeks. "Until the industry can make new plants absolutely competitive, the capital of cost building a new nuclear power plant competitive with the capital cost of building combine gas turbine plants, the issue of building new plants isn't going to come up." Weeks doesn't see that happening for about 20 years.

Bush says he sees nuclear energy as a viable energy source, but the Texas oilman is proposing cutting research and development funds in 2002. According to Weeks, Bush's budget proposal slices the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Initiative's slim $35 million budget by 48%, and radioactive waste management by 30%.

"The Bush Administration has said they want to rely on the science for a lot of their environmental decision, but they don't have very much science appointees and they're cutting science research essentially across the board, except for defense and health," says Weeks.

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General Electric
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=16

Run until 2001by “Neutron” Jack Welch, who made it a matter of principle to lay off 10% of his workers per year, the world’s biggest company churns out plastics, aircraft engines and nuclear reactors and media spin through NBC, CNBC, Telemundo, and msnbc.com.

CEO: Jeffrey R. Immelt
Military contracts 2005: $2.2 billion
Defense-related contributions in the 2004 election cycle: $220,950*

The world’s largest company by market share, General Electric’s revenues in 2003 totaled $134.2 billion. GE was run until 2001 by “Neutron” Jack Welch, who made it a matter of principle to lay off 10% of his workers per year.

General Electric makes household appliances, plastics, water treatment systems, lighting, medical equipment, and commercial financial services. It also makes aircraft engines and nuclear reactors, and keeps criticism at bay with its ownership of media giants NBC, CNBC, Telemundo, Bravo, and, in partnership with Microsoft, msnbc.com. GE’s recent partnership with Vivendi added Universal Studios, USA, Trio and Sci-fi cable channels to its $43 billion media empire.

General Electric is one of the world’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters.

The “war on terrorism” has seen GE’s military contracts rise substantially.

[T ]he company’s “defense” side has been doing well for a while. GE and other military contractors got a big boost under the Clinton administration from Presidential Directive 41 which stated that it was the job of US diplomats to promote arms sales abroad in order to safeguard American jobs; this directive tied the promotions of diplomats to how effectively they hocked US armaments.

GE has designed 91 nuclear power plants in 11 countries, yet its nuclear reactors around the world have a fatal flaw. In the event of a nuclear meltdown, there is a 90 percent chance that radiation from GE-designed reactors would be discharged directly into the atmosphere. While the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is aware of the problem, it continues to license GE nuclear reactors.

GE’s history with nuclear power is an ugly one. In the 1940s-1960s the company ran experiments on humans with radiation, including irradiating the reproductive organs of prison inmates in Walla Walla, Washington, without warning them of the risk of cancer. Other tests were run on the elderly and hospital patients. General Electric intentionally released large amounts of radiation into the air from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, in order to see the distance it would travel. These atrocities were revealed in hearings in 1986 held by Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts. The company has also been accused of knowingly poisoning its workers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, New York with radiation and asbestos.

General Electric is currently attempting to overturn the US Superfund Law of 1980, which allows the government to hold polluters responsible for cleaning up their toxic chemicals. GE argues that it is “unconstitutional” for the Environmental Protection Agency to force the company to pay $500 million for the cleanup of the Hudson River, where GE dumped carcinogenic PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, over three decades. In March 2004, a federal appeals court has revived GE’s lawsuit. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that GE is trying to change the Superfund Law: the company is responsible for 78 Superfund sites around the US.

It’s clearly not safe to be a worker for GE either. The US government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, has cited the company for 858 workplace safety violations from 1990-2001.

General Electric has been involved in so many cases of fraud that in the 1990s the Pentagon's Defense Contract Management Agency created a special investigations office specifically for the company, which indicted GE on 22 criminal counts and recovered $221.7 million. In one case, in 1992, GE entered a guilty plea to criminal and civil charges for defrauding the Pentagon in a case where money was funneled to the Israeli military. GE was fined $69 million for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

GE’s financial division has been another area ripe for fraud. GE was fined $100 million for trying to get bankrupt creditors to pay without informing the bankruptcy courts, in effect paying debts that they no longer legally owed. Not surprisingly, General Electric is the financial backer of WorldCom, the telecom company whose massive fraud and creative accounting led to the largest bankruptcy in US history.

The company has been involved in countless scandals, but strangely enough, they don’t seem to affect General Electric’s ability to win government contracts – but then, this is typical of all military contractors. According to a survey by the Center for Public Integrity, from 1990-2002, 30 of the US government’s top contractors were found guilty of fraud in 400 cases, leading to settlements and fines amounting to at least $3.4 billion. General Electric paid $982.9 million for 63 cases in this period.

Such repeated behavior and continued contracts wouldn’t be possible without friends in high places, of which General Electric. GE spent more than $31 million in 2001 and 2002 lobbying lawmakers; in 2000 it spent $16 million. Reigning CEO Jack Welch had enormous influence and was consistently ranked CEO of the Year by the slavish business press; he was major Republican donor as well. GE director Sam Nunn was senator for Georgia for 27 years, and also sits on the boards of ChevronTexaco. GE’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary, Benjamin W. Heineman, used to work for the US government’s Department of Health, Education and Welfare. General Electric's defense sector gave $221,200 to political campaigns in the 2004 election cycle, with 50 percent going to Democrats and 50 percent to Republicans.

*Source: opensecrets.org

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General Electric owns much of the the Security and medical operations equipment contracts for the over 800 US Concentration Camps and the propaganda that will be used to assist in forcing varous racial groups into these death camps. MSNBC, owned by GE who also owns a large share of The History Channel, runs 8 hours a day of programming on what life is like in prison.  The point of the multiple documentaries to be aired for 8 hours every day it to allow the viewer to assimilate with the conditions in a concentration camp.  They show the priisoners having individuality and coping successfully with prison life.  They show how they can still develop relationships, still get an education, develop cliques, etc.   The whole point of this is a contracted psyops programming so that when they throw you and your family into the concentration camps, you will feel like it is normal after watching 8 hours a day of it. Out of all the MSNBC Documentaries, Lock Up comprises of an overwhelming majority of their production costs and scheduling.

Now lockup may be an ok program, but 20 full documentaries is not meant to learn about the issues of prisons.  These psyops videos are used to condition us. GE has a direct conflict of interest to reveal the truth about continuity of government, the current recession, false flag terrorism, who are the best statesmen running for president and of course...9/11.  The recession, the devaluation of the dollar, the fake war on terrorism (most importantly the lies about 9/11), and the disinformation about who the true presidential candidates are being used to get us into martial law and GE/MSNBC owns the propaganda and many of the security contracts for that martial law. So if GE actually told the truth about 9/11, they would have most of their funds cut. It is a simple matter of fascist elitests v. the American people and the victims (which everyone now is).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036750/

Here is a sample of all the lockup shows they have (odd for a 24 hours "news" channel):
Lockup: Indiana
Lockup: Alaska
Lockup: Holman

Lockup: Rikers Island
Lockup: Miami-Dade
Lockup: The Criminal mind
Lockup: Corcoran
Lockup: Valley State
Lockup: Kentucky State
Lockup: Kern Valley

Lockup: New Mexico
Lockup: Utah State prision
Lockup: San Quentin
Lockup: Pelican Bay
Lockup: Anamosa
Lockup: Riverbend
Lockup: Brushy Mountain
Lockup: Inside Iowa State Penitentiary
Lockup: Wabash

Lockup: Folsom

Here are just some of the over 100 links to information regarding GE/FEMA Camps/Homeland Security Contracts:

0703 Market Monitor Top 25 and Rising 10 Homeland Security ...Of the five largest DHS contractors in 2006, four were FEMA contractors. ..... Under the agreement, the new joint venture, Smiths GE Protection, ...
www.hstoday.us/archive/0703_Market_Monitor_Top_25_HS_Companies.cfm?IsValid=true - 67k - Cached - Similar pages
ARES Security Lands Contract Securing FEMA Facility @ Government ...Company's contract is to provide armed security services to FEMA's National ... solution on top of mesh-based surveillance network GE Security Names New CEO ...
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GSN: Top 100 DHS ContractorsIn addition to well-known security contractors, the Top 100 list includes ..... Agbayani was awarded major construction contracts from FEMA to build trailer ...
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ProTrac Report 8/25-9/17.Department of Homeland Security. FEMA Contracts Awarded in Support of Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts. As of October 21, 2005 ...
www.taxpayer.net/budget/katrinaspending/femacontracts10-21.pdf - Similar pages
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security contracts. 44 Patrick Rhode. chief of staff, acting deputy director F.E.M.A.. Bearing Point. consultant. D.H.S. contractor. 45 Steve Parsons ...
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Update: GE Recenltly bought a railway company, what do you think they will be transporting?
Locomotive Services
Traffic Control & Dispatch Systems
Signaling & Communications Products


And if you are worried about martial law, well you should be, the last time these powers were used in an industrialized country, it was germany.  Then the trains took everyone here:

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IBM, GE lock up security partnership



http://www.news.com/IBM,-GE-lock-up-security-partnership/2100-7355_3-5079051.html
By Matt Hines  Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: September 18, 2003, 9:01 PM PDT

IBM and GE's Interlogix business unit announced a joint agreement Friday to provide integrated computer- and physical-security systems to large customers.

Under the terms of the agreement, GE Interlogix will integrate its security software with IBM's enterprise management and application server software to create systems meant to protect computer networks, buildings and employees.

An example of a possible project under the agreement would be an integrated security network in which employees' facility key cards are linked to the passwords on computer systems. Customers would benefit through increased security and lowered overhead, according to Ray Blair, vice president of business development at IBM Global Services.

"Say one person 'badges-out' of a facility and 10 minutes later someone else tries to access a computer system using that person's password. Immediately alarms would go off," Blair said. "By integrating physical security with IT security tools you get a whole new level of protection."

IBM reported that the partnership would combine human resource systems and facilities management applications with physical security assets such as badge readers and intrusion and surveillance systems. The system would also link to "logical security capabilities," including single sign-on protection through smart cards, Blair said.

Blair said IBM and GE Interlogix have been working together for years to build internal security systems for their own companies and only recently decided to market their work to users. The companies estimate they have saved as much as 80 percent of the time and money they previously spent performing now-redundant security tasks, according to Blair.

Other potential applications could include facial recognition systems that identify when someone has illegally gained access to a secure facility, or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags inserted into laptop computers to track equipment movement around facilities, he said.

IBM will be responsible for providing IT security services and application integration for customers, and it will work with network partners to help customers integrate their information technology infrastructure and back-office systems. IBM will also handle overall project management when requested, the companies said.

Blair said the partnership is non-exclusive, allowing both companies the freedom to work with other vendors on similar projects. It will also let them maintain an open-systems architecture.

Under the deal, GE Interlogix will integrate its Facility Commander security integration software with IBM's Tivoli enterprise management software--including Tivoli Risk Manager and Tivoli Enterprise Console--and its WebSphere server software. GE Interlogix will also support IBM Directory Integrator and IBM DB2 database, IBM said.

IBM reported that it also plans to incorporate its IBM Tivoli Access Manager and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager into other GE products to integrate and automate identity management businesses processes with physical security practices.

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MSNBC...A Fuller Spectrum Of Burning the First Amendment

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General Electric and the Extermination of 6 million Jews
http://www.aracnet.com/~gdy52150/1930sp3.html

...One of the necessary war materials needed that was hamstrung by these cartel agreements was carboloy or cemented tungsten carbide. Carboloy’s abrasive properties were vital in the machining of hardened steel products. Without it, parts for tanks and other instruments of war were next to impossible to machine. General Electric held the patent along with a cartel agreement with Krupp that limited the production and restricted sales.

As soon as General Electric cemented its deal with Krupp the price of tungsten carbide jumped from $48 a pound to $453 a pound. With its cartel agreement in place with Krupp, General Electric used its position  to buy out or cripple domestic competition in the abrasive market. General Electric paid royalties to Krupp on every pound of carboloy produced. Not only did this arrangement inform the Nazis of how much carboloy was being used during America's build up for war, but also the royalties, in effect ended up in Hitler's war chest.

In September 1940, the agreement came to a halt  when two federal anti-trust indictments were returned against General Electric and Krupp subsequent to a complaint by the Firth-Sterling Steel Co. The Firth-Sterling Steel Co had run afoul of General Electric's price levels as it sought to sell shell turning blanks to the U.S. Army. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs was outraged at how the cartel agreement hindered war production. The General Electric-Krupp cartel had created a bottleneck in production. There was no domestic production since General Electric had driven them out of business. Even if sufficient quantities were available more time would be lost in  retooling plants and training workmen to use the new tooling properly.

On January 26, 1947, the trial of General Electric resumed in New York City. Under indictment were GE Vice President Zay Jeffries, President W.G. Robbins of the Carboloy Co., and Walter M. Stearns, former GE trade manager and Gustav Krupp. Krupp was not present as he was  being held in Germany for war crimes. Ironically during the trial Jeffries accused union leaders as having "un-American objectives" and denounced high wages.


Throughout the trial General Electric's lawyers fought bitterly against the introduction of captured Nazi documents. In one such document Walter Stearns was quoted as telling the Germans that while GE intended to fix prices, "this must never be expressed in the contract itself or in any correspondence which might come into the files of GE." Other documents quoted Jefferies threatening the president of a competitor: "We’ll either buy you out or break you." The jury found that General Electric, its subsidiaries, and company officials were guilty on five counts of criminal conspiracy. Ironically, no further charges---such as sedition or hindering the war effort were leveled against the conspirators. Despite pleads from the Department of Justice for heavy sentences; Judge John C. Knox handed down only minor fines. Stearns and Jeffries were fined $2,500 each and Robbins $1,000. GE and Carboloy were fined $20,000 each and International General Electric only $10,000.

The fine for General Electric was particularly lax considering the firm had made millions on carboloy. In fact, in 1935 and 1936, General Electric's subsidiary that manufactured and sold carboloy made a profit of $694,000 in just those two years. The newspapers of the time failed to cover the trial and the convictions. Nevertheless, the newspapers found plenty of space on their front pages to cover General Electric's charges that UE members employed at atomic energy facilities were potential security risks. The union's UE News was the only paper to report on the trial and convictions. Once again the rich and powerful escaped from justice with a mere slap on the wrist.

The Aluminum Corporation had an agreement with I.G. Farben, which restricted production of aluminum and magnesium, which hindered the building of fighters and bombers. The record from that era makes it clear, corporate America was doing its damnest to sabotage the war effort. A recent article in the press now states that at least 300 corporations were doing business with the Nazis during the war.39

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhmBApwUoJI&feature=related

Hillary Clinton doublespeak.

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Do you think when Hillary is President, we would have wished everyone saw this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPsHPKY0y8

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Media Conglomerates, MIC, Big Government, and the descendents of Goebbels
http://911exposed.org/Media/Mediagovernment.htm



The Influence of [a Corporatistic] Government over Free Speech




"Look,
if you think...
any American official...
is going to tell you the truth,
then you're stupid.
Did you hear that?
stupid."

- Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs





Government Employees in PR Training to effectively approach and pitch the media

Government Influence on Media

(Research from Business and Society Review 111:1 55–66 Mike Sibley and Gina Nadas [pdf)

Government officials have a number of ways to influence media content :

• The media are dependent upon officials for the largest amount of source material
• The US government provides a number of subsidies to media companies
• The government protects media companies from foreign or domestic attack
• Officials woo journalists who are compliant
• Officials can withhold information
• Officials can censor—especially during wartime

Government subsidies media in many ways:

• Newspaper delivery rules
• Third class postal rates
• Special merger rules
• Public broadcasting subsidies
• Spectrum allocation
• “According to official sources . . .”
• News organizations depend on official sources for their raw materials and interpretations of events
• Must ‘fill in the white space between the ads’ Backgrounding
• Quotes
• “Exclusives”
• White papers

Government controls access:

• During war, who is in ‘embedded’?
• Army control over where they go, who they talk to, what they say, to some extent
• Press releases
• Press conferences
• Who gets called on?
• Who isn’t invited back?
• Press passes
• Official meetings
• Air Force One, etc.
• What organizations are considered the ‘press’?

President vs. Congress (the administration has much greater control over sources of information than Congress does):

• Loyalty to the president
• Hand-picked assistants
• Can remove any leak from inner circle
• President is ultimate news source
• No alternative for journalists to turn to
• Physical access of journalists controlled (White House, Pentagon, State, etc.)
• Modern focus on, fascination with, president
• Use press as a weapon against opposition
• Trial balloons “off the record”
• Exploiting Journalists with Incentives to advance Government Agenda:
• Career motivations
• Journalists get ahead by getting “scoops” and inside information
• Government officials can use this to control press behavior

Media ownership:

• Media owners tend to be more conservative than journalists
• Media owners are interested in the business climate of the country
• “longer range” view
• Have at times been called upon to keep a story out of the public eye
• National security
• Inappropriate
• Political favor

Direct Instruments used by authoritarian governments to influence the media include:
(1) Ownership of media firms by political elite,
(2) Control of resources used by the media,
(3) Taxes on circulation and value-added taxes on newsprint and advertising,
(4) Extensive government advertising,
(5) Bribes,
(6) Censorship,
(7) Intimidation, including threat of prosecution, and
(8) Volence or the threat of violence. These instruments are of two basic types:
           (a) Coercive actions designed to force compliance
           (b) Financial incentives designed to induce compliance

 
Modern U.S. Government propaganda devised from Nazi masterminds- The aim of propaganda is to influence people's opinions or behaviors actively, rather than merely to communicate the facts about something.  An appeal to one's emotions is, perhaps, the more obvious propaganda method, but there are varied other more subtle and insidious forms.  A common characteristic of propaganda is volume (in the sense of a large amount).  For example, propaganda might be used to garner either support or disapproval of a certain position, rather than to simply present the position, or to try to convince people to buy something, rather than to simply let them know there is some thing on the market. What separates propaganda from "normal" communication is in ways by which the message attempts to shape opinion or behavior, which are often subtle and insidious among other characteristics.  Individually propaganda functions as self-deception.

Propaganda is a particularly effective weapon during or leading up to war.  In this case its aim is usually to dehumanize and create hatred toward a supposed enemy, either internal or external.  The technique is to create a false image in the mind.  This can be done by using special words, special avoidance of words or by saying that the enemy is responsible for certain things he never did.  Most propaganda wars require the home population to feel the enemy has inflicted an injustice, which may be fictitious.  The object is to garner support from the population for a war effort that might normally be less enthusiastically supported.

Propaganda is also one of the methods used in psychological warfare (PSYOPS) — which also involve false flag operations. The US mass media “reports”, the style, content and especially the language, echo their Nazi predecessors of 70 years ago to an uncanny degree. Coincidence...  In both instances we have imperialist armies conquering countries, leveling cities and slaughtering civilians. Both in Nazi Germany and contemporary US, we are told by the mass media that the invading armies are “liberating the country” and "spreading democracy".  The enemy are foreigners, insurgents, or al Qaeda.  But never are we told that the Iraqis despise the U.S. invaders.  Are they not fighting to be a free people?  Almost the entire population of non-Kurdish Iraq is opposed to the US military and its puppet regime — yet the media refer to those defending their country from the imperial invaders as “insurgents”, minimizing the significance of a nationwide force of freedom fighters.  We are told that the mounting causalities are a result of civil war and sectarian violence, despite that the puppet police units are the main target of these attacks. Like the Nazi media, the major US radio and TV networks report that “freeing the city of insurgents” includes the systematic murder of friends, neighbors and relatives.  And, “securing the city for free elections” means terror bombing homes, hospitals and religious buildings by hundreds of jets, missiles, and helicopter gunships.  Why do Washington and the mass media resort to these tactics?  Answer: to galvanize support with the U.S. population in order to wage a "war of terror" on Iraqis — forcing them into submission while large energy corporation suck their country's oil supply dry. The technique perfected by Goebbels in Germany and practiced in the US is to repeat lies and euphemisms until they become accepted “truths”, and become embedded into everyday language.  Goebbels was behind the propaganda for Nazi Germany

Below are some propaganda points based upon "Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda" by Leonard W. Doob
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale
c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

[Note: An intelligent person armed with the knowledge of how propaganda works can easily pick up these techniques being used upon the masses.  Once you figure it out, you will be amazed at how often you are being attacked by it.  It's worse than you think...]

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Pimp Gate Update: Hillary’s Hypocritical Letter to NBC News Prez
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/02/10/pimp-gate-update-hillary-s-hypocritical-letter-nbc-news-prez
By Noel Sheppard | February 10, 2008 - 20:14 ET

[NOTE: Try to read through NewsBuster's Ass Licking of Chimp Puppet President Dictator Bush]

The "pimped out" controversy surrounding MSNBC's David Shuster - destined to be called "Pimp Gate" - took a turn for the bizarre when Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a letter to Steve Capus, President of NBC News.

Published for all to see at the Washington Post's "The Trail" blog Saturday, the letter demonstrated a disturbing number of hypocrisies and double standards inherent in today's liberally biased media.

See if you can find them all (emphasis added to assist your search):
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Dear Mr. Capus,

Thank you for your call yesterday. I wanted to send you this note to convey the depth of my feeling about David Shuster's comments.

I know that I am a public figure and that my daughter is playing a public role in my campaign. I am accustomed to criticism, certainly from MSNBC. I know that it goes with the territory.

However, I became Chelsea's mother long before I ran for any office and I will always be a mom first and a public official second.

Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half hearted apology is sufficient.

I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language.

There's a lot at stake for our country in this election. Surely, you can do your jobs as journalists and commentators and still keep the discourse civil and appropriate.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton


Let's begin with the first bolded sentence: "Thank you for your call yesterday."

Isn't that special? The president of NBC News called a candidate for president. Wouldn't you have liked to be a fly on the wall to hear that conversation?

Next: "Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language..."

Hey, Hillary: What about the debasing language towards America's current president that emanates from MSNBCers on a daily basis? Does anything justify that?

"I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language."

Yes, Hillary, that's what all of us at NewsBusters have been saying for years. However, as you castigate Capus, why not take the opportunity to point out ALL the degrading language so prevalent at this network, and not just the rare sexism?

After all, according to ABC's Jake Tapper, this is what you really found offensive about this episode (emphasis added):

After some conversations with folks at the Clinton campaign, I can offer some clarity -- maybe -- on what they're asking NBC/MSNBC to do.

And despite Clinton's letter, saying David Martin Shuster's apology and suspension was not sufficient, Clinton's goal is not for NBC to fire Shuster, he and his fans will be happy to hear. Until Thursday, the Clinton campaign had no issues with Shuster, I'm told.

The campaign says it has more to do with what it sees as a sexist, locker room, on-air atmosphere at MSNBC.

A look over at Clinton front-organization Media Matters confirmed sexism as Hillary's primary concern (emphasis added):

This afternoon, NBC News President Steve Capus issued a statement calling Shuster's comments "irresponsible and inappropriate" and announcing that Shuster "has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts" other than to make another apology, which aired tonight. Shuster then offered a more complete apology at the beginning of the February 8 edition of Tucker.

Capus' statement is the best sign yet that NBC News is beginning to take seriously the lengthy pattern of inappropriate comments about women made by NBC and MSNBC reporters. (NBC News did not issue a statement about Matthews, allowing Matthews' overly narrow, on-air quasi-apology to stand as the closest thing to an official statement.)

But apologies and statements and even suspensions don't mean anything unless they are followed by an actual change in behavior.

Notice how closely Media Matters's text mirrors Hillary's letter to Capus? Of course, given Media Matters's ties to the Clintons, this shouldn't come as any great surprise.

That said, the truly unfortunate revelation from this entire incident is just how beholden media in this nation are to the Clintons, which not only makes their defeat in November more difficult, but also more imperative.

After all, when the Pimp Gate dust settles, Americans truly paying attention will learn that employees of MSNBC are allowed -- nay, encouraged! -- to debase a Republican whenever the whim overcomes them.

However, if someone dares say anything negative about a Clinton, the offending party will be forced to apologize, be suspended, and the head of NBC News will personally beg the former first family for forgiveness.

Is this really the best General Electric, one of the world's largest corporations, can add to journalism in this country?

—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

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Hillary Clinton Worked For 15 Years at Rose Lawfirm...


Clients....
--------------------------------
http://www.roselawfirm.com/about/client_profiles.asp

Representative Client List

Acme Brick Company
Acxiom Corporation
Alcoa Inc.
Arkansas Business Publishing Group
Arkansas Capital Corporation
Arkansas Development Finance Authority
Arkansas Electric Energy Consumers
Arkansas Gas Consumers
Arkansas-Oklahoma Gas Corp.
Bank of America, N.A.
Bank of the Ozarks
Baptist Health Medical Center
Baxter Healthcare Corp.
Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
Bunge Corporation
Central Bank and Trust
CIGNA Companies
City of Little Rock AR Residential Housing and Public Facilities Board
Columbian Chemicals Company
Cooper Communities, Inc.
Deltic Timber Corporation
Diamond State Ventures
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
General Electric Capital Corporation
General Motors Corporation
Gulf States Toyota, Inc.
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
HEALTHSCOPE Benefits, Inc.
International Paper Co.
The Kemper Insurance Group
Lyon College
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc.
Mountaire Corporation
Murphy Oil Corporation
New York Life Insurance Co.
Nucor-Yamato Steel Company
Panhandle Eastern Corp.
Plum Creek Timber Company
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Pulaski Bank and Trust Company
J.A. Riggs Tractor Company
Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust
Pat Salmon and Sons, Inc.
Keith Smith Company, inc.
Securus Technologies
Sol Alman Company
Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee
St. Bernards Regional Medical Center
Stephens Group, Inc.
Stephens, Inc.
Stephens Media Group, Inc.
Stone Ward
Temple-Inland Forest Products
Tyson Foods, Inc.
U. S. Bank
White River Health Systems, Inc.
Wingmead, Inc.

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Missing Billing Records
http://editorials.americandaughter.info/?cat=207

Hillary Clinton’s Rose Law Firm’s “billing records, sought for two years by congressional investigators and the special prosecutor are found in the book room of the personal residence at the White House. Clinton says she has no idea how they got there…The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the specific subject of various investigative subpoenas, sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton made history. She became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury inquiry.� (Wikipedia)

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UPDATE:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/recs.html

In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from the Rose Law Finn were identified and turned over to prosecutors by Carolyn Huber, a White House assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms. Huber, herself a former Rose Law Firm employee, recognized the records and realized that they had been among papers that she had removed six months earlier from the First Lady's book room on the third floor of the White House.

The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the specific subject of various investigative subpoenas for two years, sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton made history -- she became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury inquiry.

What They Reveal

Ms. Clinton and her attorney have stated publicly that the billing records confirm that, as an attorney at the Rose Firm in the mid-80's, she was not significantly involved in the representation of Jim McDougal's savings and loan, Madison Guaranty.

According to the Rose records, Hillary Clinton billed Madison for 60 hours of work over a 15 month period. Ms. Clinton's attorney argues that this represents a de minimus amount of work and includes billings for work performed by Rose Finn lawyers working for Hillary Clinton at the time.

But Whitewater investigators believe that the billing records show significant representation. They argue that the records prove that Ms. Clinton was not only directly involved in the representation of Madison, but more specifically, in providing legal work on the fraudulent Castle Grande land deal.

In particular, investigators zeroed in on the individual billings, including a dozen calls and meetings with Seth Ward, the individual whom regulators determined was a "straw man" in the Castle Grande deal. These contacts occurred during a period of time, including early 1986, that Ward was engaged in efforts to obtain sales commissions from McDougal that would later tip regulators to illegalities at Castle Grande.


Of particular interest to investigators has been Ms. Clinton's work on an option agreement drafted to provide Seth Ward with some $300,000 in commissions on the re-sale of his holdings at Castle Grande. Regulators determined that the option agreement was principally designed to further obfuscate and hide the fraudulent nature of the underlying Castle Grande transactions.

The records also identified what investigators believe was a significant phone call on April 7, 1986 between Ms. Clinton and then-Madison loan officer Don Denton. When questioned by investigators about the call, Denton remembered speaking with Ms. Clinton about efforts to provide Ward with his commissions. According to their conversation, Denton believes that Ms.Clinton was familiar with the nature of the transaction -- again, a transaction that investigators believe was intended to deceive financial regulators.



Who Had the Records?

Investigators have examined the Rose billing records not only to determine the role Hillary Clinton may have played in the Castle Grande transactions, but more significantly to ascertain her role in their mysterious disappearance and subsquent reappearance.

If someone had knowledge or possession of the billing records and knew that they were the subject of Federal investigative subpoenas, their failure to divulge or turn over the records could be the basis for criminal charges -- the obstruction of justice.

The billing records found in Hillary Clinton's book room were a copy of an original version printed out from the Rose Firm computer in 1992, when the computer file itself was deleted. Webb Hubbell has testified that he recalls reviewing a copy of the billing records in response to press inquiries during the 1992 Presidential campaign. Hubbell says that he then passed the records on to Vince Foster who was, as far as Hubbell knows, the last person to have the records.

Investigators believe the book room copy was indeed Vince Foster's. The copy contains notations, in red ink, that are Vince Foster's handwriting. These notations appear to be directed toward Hillary Clinton, including questions about some of the individual billings. Investigators believe this suggests that, at some point, this copy was passed from Vince Foster to Hillary Clinton for her review.

In addition, investigators had the FBI conduct fingerprint analysis of the billing records. Of significance, the prints of Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton were found.

The Senate Whitewater Committee concluded that Hillary Clinton was the person most likely to have put the billing records in her book room, or know how they got there. The Independent Counsel continues to investigate Ms. Clinton's involvement in handling the records.

For her part, Hillary Clinton has said that she has no idea how the billing records came to be in her book room.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/floorplan.html

Shortly after Vince Foster's death on July 20, 1993, a group of files were moved from his office to a closet near Hillary's office in the Clintons' personal quarters on the third floor of the White House.


One item which may have been among those files were the billing records from the Rose Law Firm which documented Hillary Clinton's legal work on Jim McDougal's Castle Grande real estate deal. These records had been the subject of various investigative subpoenas but had been missing for over two years. They mysteriously resurfaced in January 1996 when Carolyn Huber, a White House aide, came upon them in her office and recognized them as the missing files. She later testified that she had moved them to her office from Hillary's book room six months earlier while straightening up, but had not realized their significance at the time.

For security reasons, an exact floorplan of the third floor of the White House is not available to the public. This reproduction is based on blueprints from the last time the third floor was renovated, during the Truman administration.

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Hillary Clinton fought for industry against electric rate cut
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Corporations.htm

Clashing interests of the well-to-do & the rest of Arkansas were in evidence in 1976 in the form of an initiative. The initiative had been launched by advocates for the poor, a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN).

With utility rates in Arkansas skyrocketing, ACORN pushed through a ballot initiative requiring utilities to lower rates for residential users in Little Rock and to increase them for business. The measure passed.

Business fought back. The engine driving the challenge was the Rose Law Firm, which enlisted Hillary to help. Hillary could hardly decline to fight her friends, especially so early in her career. This was the by-product of Hillary's choice to join Rose.

She would advocate for clients who would be on the opposite sides of the causes she had formerly championed.

The winning brief was crafted by Hillary and a colleague. The judge embraced the theory--that the ordinance amounted to an unconstitutional taking of property.

Source: Her Way, by Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta, p. 57-58 Jun 8, 2007

This was in 1976 at Rose Law.  She has been corporate owned for over 30 years.

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OMFG - Hillary Clinton Worked at Rose Law Firm...

So did...

VINCE FOSTER

WTF?

You cannot make this shit up...

Arkansas lawyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Foster
After law school Foster joined the venerable Rose Law Firm in Arkansas,[5] and within two years was made partner,[3] one of only nine in the firm at the time.[6] He was the head of the Arkansas Bar Association committee that oversaw legal aid, and as such worked with legal aid clinic worker Hillary Rodham in successfully overcoming an unreasonably measuring requirement for indigent clients.[5] Foster then initiated the hiring of Rodham at Rose Law Firm, where she became its first ever female associate[5] (and later partner); Foster and fellow partner Webster Hubbell were instrumental in overcoming the reluctance of other partners to hire a woman.[6]

Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs call Foster "one of the best lawyers I've ever known," and compared him in style and substance to Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch role in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.[5] Writer Carl Bernstein has described Foster as "tall, with impeccable manners and a formal mien...elegant in perfectly tailored suits, and soft-spoken to the point of taciturnity."[6]

Foster practiced mostly corporate law,[7] eventually earning nearly $300,000 a year.[7] By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Vince Foster was at the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment,[8] having received the Outstanding Lawyer Award from the Arkansas Bar Association,[3], while being described as the "soul" of Rose Law Firm[3] and soon being named one of "The Best Lawyers in America."[3]

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The Death of Vince Foster
What Really Happened? (1995)

1 hr 12 min - Aug 9, 2006 -  (22 ratings)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4113276458031151696
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Vince Foster was executed by Hillary Rodham Clinton on supposedly committed suicide July 20, 1993. In the spring and early summer of that year 'Travelgate' erupted. It was one of a series of problems and 'scandals' Foster was confronting - not only in his role as deputy White House counsel but - as in the case of Whitewater - in his role as personal lawyer for the Clintons. It all took a toll on Foster, and his wife and friends sensed his gathering despair.

The following brief background on Travelgate is helpful in understanding the notations in the journal entry below:

Harry Thomason, a close friend of the Clintons, and Thomason's partner Darnell Martens, had helped the Clinton campaign by providing charter air service. After the election, Harry was everywhere in and around the White House, working on improving the First Couple's image. His most disastrous meddling came when his partner Darnell told Harry he'd heard rumors that the White House Travel Office was corrupt, and worse, disloyal to the First Family. (This happened in the time frame of the leaks about marital discord in the White House and everyone was ultra sensitive.) So Harry began pressing Hillary, telling her that the travel office people were "a bunch of crooks" and that "we've got to get our people in there."

Hillary, in turn, pressed Vince Foster and David Watkins (who in her opinion were already failing her because of leaks, the secret service, etc,). Quickly, the whole messy and silly 'Travelgate' episode was in full swing.

The FBI was called in. A young cousin of Clinton's appointed herself undercover agent in the Travel Office and started sneaking memos away in the dark of night. Harry Thomason kept asking Watkins what was being done. Hillary kept asking Vince Foster what was being done. The FBI showed a disconcerting willingness to help find some evidence of wrongdoing (though none of them had any solid basis for suspicion except for those 'rumors.')

In the end, seven staffers in the Travel Office were fired. But the staffers had pals in the press who wrote their story and suddenly Congress is talking about an investigation into the firing.

Suddenly, the White House (it's now May-June-July 1993) is on the defensive, trying to explain itself. At a press conference, George Stephanoupolos says the FBI had evidence the travel office people were crooks - an assertion that the FBI disputes.

And then came the inevitable self-inquiry, led by White House lawyer John Podesta, which was aimed at pointing the finger some place besides at Hillary and her meddling friend, Harry Thomason. In the end, David Watkins and, to a degree Vince Foster got the blame.

All of this made Foster quite sick. He was integrally involved in Travelgate, having been consulted by Watkins because he was a White House lawyer. He'd overseen the 'investigation' of the seven Travel Office employees (though he'd always been cautious about acting precipitously). He'd participated in meetings with the FBI. And most importantly, he'd discussed the problem with Hillary - who had impatiently asked him "what's being done" about those crooked, disloyal Travel Office people.

Over the course of several weeks, Foster, in his careful, lawyerly, increasingly distressed fashion, laid out his case in a private chronology he kept in a spiral notebook. He'd write down his memory of events, consult his calendar, add things here and there. And then, he'd write it all down again, over and over, narrowing, broadening, editing - obsessing, in other words. He plainly feared embarrassment and public humiliation in a Congressional hearing that he believed was coming. Through it all, he was clearly motivated by his pointed intention to protect HRC - the Client.

[Dig]

Clinton Not Ready to Release Tax Returns
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-qGLDs-gAnZiUXD2NU51ry3j3dwD8UOGCP00
By BETH FOUHY – 10 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Resisting calls from Barack Obama to release her income tax returns, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she would only do so if she secures the Democratic presidential nomination and contended her rival had been less than candid about his relationship with major campaign contributors.

In a televised interview Monday with Politico.com and local television station WJLA, Sen. Clinton said her financial holdings had been disclosed in her Senate ethics filings and that she had liquidated all her assets when she became a presidential candidate so her investments would not present a conflict of interest.

After the former first lady acknowledged she had lent her campaign $5 million in personal funds, Sen. Obama suggested she release her tax records as he has done to give voters a better accounting of where her money comes from.

The Clintons have become wealthy since leaving the White House in 2001, largely through Bill Clinton's consulting and speaking fees and the couple's lucrative book deals.

The New York senator shot back at Obama's suggestion, saying such transparency should apply to other aspects of his life.

"Senator Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his biggest contributors, Exelon — apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to prevent them from full disclosure," Clinton said. "We still don't have answers about Senator Obama and his dealings with Mr. Rezko."

Obama has faced questions about his relationship with Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who raised money for past Obama political campaigns and played a role in the purchase of the Illinois senator's home. Obama has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with felony fraud charges against Rezko.

Clinton and Obama tangled over Rezko at a televised debate in South Carolina, where she referred to Rezko as a "slum landlord."

Executives and employees of Exelon Corp., a Chicago-based energy giant and nuclear plant operator, have contributed more than $200,000 to Obama's campaigns since 2004. This month, The New York Times examined whether Obama, at the behest of Exelon lobbyists, had watered down legislation aimed at tightening regulations on the nuclear industry.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton noted that Sen. Clinton had co-sponsored the nuclear regulatory legislation she now criticizes.

"Instead of playing the same Washington games that people are sick of, Senator Clinton should prove how fully vetted she is by finally releasing her tax returns so that voters can see where the millions of dollars she's dropped into her campaign are coming from," Burton said.

Clinton gave the interview on the eve of the so-called "Potomac Primary," in which Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia hold contests. She is expected to lose all three to Obama, adding to her weekend losses to him in contests in Nebraska, Washington state, Louisiana, Maine and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In the interview, Clinton also was asked whether a "business or personal scandal" involving her husband could emerge and derail her candidacy.

"That's not going to happen," she said, adding "None of us can predict the future ... I'm very confident that will not happen.

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Does it surprise you that GE, who owns NBC, does alot of business with the bin Laden family?
And that GE discouraged a reporter from "Dateline NBC" from talking to the Bin Laden family about their estranged family member. Hockenberry asked GE, which does business with the Bin Laden family company, to help him get in contact with them. GE wouldn't allow him to do the interview. The Reporter was trying to do a piece on the origins of Al Qaeda and Islamic extremism for Dateline. The Reporter was fired.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080102/tv_n...
GE also has many former Vice Presidents and CEO's working in the Bush administration on it's energy policies.
http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/cheney...
And, the bin Laden family may have claimed that they disowned Osama, but the truth is that they were still sharing swiss bank accounts:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entit...

Where this is all leading is anyone's guess. But honestly it does feel like the American people are being played big time.



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[UpsetBrit]

So long as Hillary is allowed to go verbally abusing Jews, everything is dandy.

[ekt8750]

I dunno if this was brought up or not but do you notice the hypocrisy here that it's ok for Shuster to call Ron Paul al-CIAda, but it isn't ok to call Chelsea Clinton a hooker. Now if you ask me, I think the former is a much harsher statement than the latter and Shuster didn't get any kind of retribution for it.

[Dig]

MSNBC’s David Shuster: Defender of Clinton Family Honor?
http://www.observer.com/2008/msnbc-s-david-shuster-defender-clinton-family-honor
Plus, A&E kicks a matchmaker to the curb, where Oprah Winfrey sweeps her off her feet
by Felix Gillette  |  February 13, 2008 The New York Observer.

It was a little before midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 27 that MSNBC correspondent David Shuster hit the “Send” button on a curt e-mail to Republican rabble-rouser Roger Stone.

Days earlier, Mr. Stone and others had filed papers with the I.R.S. to form a “527” organization dedicated to educating “the American Public about what Hillary Clinton really is.” The organization was called “Citizens United Not Timid,” i.e., C.U.N.T.

“Hey Roger Stone,” wrote Mr. Shuster in an e-mail to Mr. Stone’s personal Web site, the Stone Zone. “Why not put your own name on this?”

Mr. Stone was in no mood to take flack from an uptight reporter unable to take a joke. Mr. Stone felt the suggestion that he was hiding behind the site was ludicrous. After all, he had invited reporter Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard to sit in on the organization’s planning meeting.

The next afternoon, he responded. “Hey David Shuster,” Mr. Stone wrote back. “I in essence did when I let the entire planning meeting be on the record for a reporter.”

From there the confrontation fizzled, leaving Mr. Stone, weeks later, wondering what motivated Mr. Shuster to e-mail him about C.U.N.T. in the first place. Was Mr. Shuster working on a story? Or was he acting out of—irony alert!—indignation on behalf of Hillary Clinton?

It would be ironic because, two weeks later, while filling in on MSNBC’s Tucker program, Mr. Shuster himself used saucy language to refer to a lady Clinton when he suggested Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was “pimping” her 28-year-old daughter, Chelsea, who traveled extensively across the country with her mother during the early primary season.

Through an MSNBC correspondent, Mr. Shuster declined to comment for this story.

The next morning, MSNBC vice president Phil Griffin asked Mr. Shuster to apologize on “Morning Joe,” which he did. Later that day, MSNBC announced that they were suspending Mr. Shuster for an indefinite period. That evening, he offered a second on-air apology.

For the time being, Mr. Shuster remains on suspension, presumably holed up in a media-proof bunker somewhere in his native habitat of Washington, D.C. And the Clinton campaign has continued to portray Mr. Shuster and his colleagues as empirically anti-women and anti-Hillary.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that MSNBC hosts are already feeling the fallout.

To wit: On Tuesday morning, Tucker Carlson, the host of MSNBC’s talk show Tucker, was standing in line at the Palisades Recreation Center in Washington, D.C., waiting to vote in D.C.’s presidential primary. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, a middle-aged woman, standing in line in front of Mr. Carlson, recognized the on-air anchor and began berating Mr. Carlson about MSNBC’s coverage of Hillary Clinton.

According to the source, the irate Washingtonian told Mr. Carlson something to the effect that “when you pick on Hillary, you pick on all women.”

Later the uncomfortable conversation continued outside the voting hub. When reached on Tuesday afternoon at his MSNBC offices in the District, Mr. Carlson declined to comment.

Back at Citizens United central, Mr. Stone said he was united with Senator Clinton on one thing: namely, that Mr. Shuster’s comments were out of line.

“The pimp comment was something he shouldn’t have said,” Mr. Stone said. “If Chelsea Clinton is making calls to superdelegates on behalf of her mother, good for her. That’s laudable. But, on the other hand, I don’t think he should be crucified for it.”

As for Mr. Shuster’s initial motivations, Mr. Stone ventured that the MSNBC reporter was less ideologically conservative than him (a safe bet!). “Consequently he would be more sympathetic to Hillary and Obama than to a Republican prankster like myself,” said Mr. Stone. “The e-mail came late at night. I don’t know if he had a couple cocktails and got pissed off, or what.”