WHO OWNS WHAT
NBC Universal (80%-owned by GE, 20% controlled by Vivendi Universal)
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ge.aspJohn Francis "Jack" Welch Jr.
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In 1986, GE acquired NBC. During the 90s, Welch helped to modernize GE by emphasizing a shift from manufacturing to services. He also made hundreds of acquisitions and made a push to dominate markets abroad. Welch adopted the Six Sigma quality program in late 1995. MORE...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_WelchDEMOCRACY, GENERAL ELECTRIC STYLE
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To Welch, although George W. Bush might not be a genius, his policies would encourage those who were geniuses to be even more innovative and productive. Fewer government regulations and lower corporate taxes would create technological advancement, thereby benefiting society more than all of the do-gooder social programs combined ever could. The country would be run for the benefit of the "A" people who achieved great things, not the "C" people who merely existed. In such a laissez faire environment, the powerful would be unshackled to become even more powerful, and no corporation in the world was more powerful than General Electric.
By contrast, Welch viewed Al Gore as the candidate of the parasites. Gore voters were not the generators of wealth; they were the consumers of taxes. Welch privately described the typical Gore voter as "someone who needs all these goddamned social programs because she's too goddamned dumb to keep her legs crossed and too goddamned lazy to get an abortion."
This view of the world led Welch to implore associates at GE that doing whatever it took to get George W. Bush into the presidency was not only good for General Electric, it was good for America.
Having satisfied himself that his cause was just, Welch focused on putting his candidate in the White House with the tireless determination of a man whom Business Week described as having "an unbridled passion for winning".
http://www.midtod.com/exclusives/jack-welch.phtmlBill would allow GE-defined PCB dredging study
By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal
The National Academy of Sciences would investigate the effectiveness of dredging PCB-contaminated sediment under a directive written largely by General Electric Co. and attached to a House of Representatives spending bill last week.
The prospect of a potentially influential national study being defined by GE has caused a stir on the Hudson River, where the company is slated to begin one of the largest PCB dredging projects in the nation late next year. Proponents of dredging fear the study could delay or ultimately kill the cleanup.
GE, U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, R-North Carolina, and staff of a subcommittee he chairs drafted the directive at Taylor's request, according to a member of Taylor's staff and GE spokesman Mark Behan. Taylor is chairman of the subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, part of the House Appropriations Committee. When the subcommittee took over responsibility for spending on the environment, Taylor invited GE to offer its thoughts on needs related to pollution cleanups.
Taylor received $8,250 for his last campaign from groups and individuals associated with General Electric, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group based in Washington that tracks money in politics. MORE...
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/NEWS01/505170325/1006/NEWSGroups fear GE stalls cleanup
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12003063&BRD=248&PAG=461&dept_id=462341&rfi=6HUDSON DREDGING POSTPONED TO 2007
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
The start of a $500 million dredging project that will remove PCBs
from the upper Hudson River -- initially expected to start during the
summer -- has been pushed back to 2007, the second time it has been
bumped back.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has been negotiating with
General Electric to have the company dredge the chemicals that its
upstate plants dumped into the river, said yesterday that the
complicated nature of the project and continued negotiations with GE
over which "hot spots" to target were to blame for the delay.
"Ultimately, we made the decision that in order to do this project
safely and effectively, to design this project the best way possible,
we needed to add another construction season to the schedule," EPA
spokesman Leo Rosales said.
Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were used as insulation in the
manufacture of transformers at GE plants in Hudson Falls and Fort
Edward.more...
http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/2005/gs050628.6.htmlTHE MEDIA COVER-UP OF THE GORE VICTORY
PART FOUR: DEMOCRACY, GENERAL ELECTRIC STYLE
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Since the beginning of the country, it has been considered appropriate for the business community to exercise its right to aggressively support the candidate that best represented its interests. The new dimension that Welch introduced was the concept that the mainstream media should aggressively advance the political agenda of the corporations that own it. He did not see any difference between corporate journalism and corporate manufacturing or corporate service industries. Business was business, and the difference between winners and losers was profit, whether you were selling nuclear power or ads on the network news. From Welch’s perspective, it was insanity, not to mention bad business practice, for the corporate owners of the mainstream media to restrain themselves from using all of their assets to promote their financial well being.
In general, he saw corporate news organizations as untapped political resources that should be freed from the burden of objectivity.
Specifically, NBC News was an asset owned by the shareholders of General Electric. It existed to make profits and to serve the interests of those who owned GE stock. Period.
Anything else, Welch told associates, was “liberal bullshit”. more...
http://makethemaccountable.com/coverup/Part_04.htmGeneral Electric
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In 1986, GE re-acquired RCA, primarily for the NBC television network. The rest was sold to various companies, including Bertelsmann and Thomson.
In 2004, GE bought from Vivendi Universal the television and movie assets and became the third largest media conglomerate in the world. The new company was named NBC Universal. Also in 2004, GE completed the spinoff of most of its life and mortgage insurance assets into an independent company, Genworth Financial, based in Richmond, Virginia. In that same year, GE also acquired the credit card unit of the department store Dillard's for $1.25 billion. MORE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ElectricGE/NBC is a hard core, right wing tool...Timmy Taterhead doesn't dare badmouth Bushco, if he wants to keep his job. GE/NBC helped create the Monster in the White House.
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