General Electric got bailed out by American taxpayers (Hides Profits Overseas) -Pays ZERO Taxes!

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General Electric got bailed out by American taxpayers.

Specifically, it was given $139 billion in FDIC guarantees and support by the Federal Reserve for it’s commercial paper (see this).

So you’d think that GE would return the favor by paying American taxes, right?

Wrong. GE paid no U.S. taxes for 2009.

As CNN points out:

***** GE had plenty of earnings last year — just not in the United States. For tax purposes, the company’s U.S. operations lost $408 million, while its international businesses netted a $10.8 billion profit.

Unfortunately, GE is not alone.

more:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/ge_7000_tax_returns/index.htm
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/04/guest-post-after-getting-bailed-out-by-american-taxpayers-general-electric-pays-zero-u-s-taxes-pretending-that-all-of-its-profits-are-overseas.html

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1. NBC Wants You to Do Good. Why? A Look Inside 'Behavior Placement'

this was on the front page of AOL yesterday...so what if they were placing fascist stuff on your TV subliminally..would you know it?? Do you really think you would?????? And do we really think anyone would tell us if they were placing "BAD stuff for us" or our country subliminally?

some in Hollywood have tried to tell people the truth, and they get their nuts cut off and get called consipracy nuts ( think Oliver Stone) think the Movie Conspiracy Theory ..will Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson that was exposing the MKULTRA program..I could give you manyexamples..but you can see it if you want to..

But the real scarey shit going on, we over look..and do not think your government doesn't know this subliminal stuff is going on..they demand it be done, to you and your kids!
GE in your living room..as NBC and MSNBC And CNBC..........

do read the whole article..

NBC Wants You to Do Good. Why? A Look Inside 'Behavior Placement'

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NBC Wants You to Do Good. Why? A Look Inside 'Behavior Placement'
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By Jason Newman Posted Apr 15th 2010 10:00AM

Think Dwight Schrute becoming a recycling-obsessed superhero on 'The Office' was the work of the show's clever writers? Think again. As an eye-opening Wall Street Journal article revealed last week, the plot line, and many others on your favorite NBC shows, was an advertising plant known as "behavior placement." As the article states: "The tactic ... is designed to sway viewers to adopt actions they see modeled in their favorite shows. And it helps sell ads to marketers who want to associate their brands with a feel-good, socially-aware show. Unlike with product placement, which can seem jarring to savvy viewers, the goal is that viewers won't really notice that Tina Fey is tossing a plastic bottle into the recycle bin, or that a minor character on 'Law and Order: SVU' has switched to energy-saving light bulbs."

The combination of NBC's ratings woes over the past decade, the steady rise of DVRs, Tivos and other commercial-bypassing machines and the general decline of the U.S. economy in recent years has led NBC to try new initiatives in an effort to lure advertisers. In today's age, buying ads may not be the sole route to get your product's message across.

"All the networks are doing things now that they never would have done 10 or 15 years ago when they were kings of the castle," says Brian Steinberg, Television Editor at Advertising Age. "They're allowing more intrusive placements and deeper connections with advertisers. We're at a point now where it's getting more egregious because the networks are economically flailing about for some new model."

With NBC already planning more green story lines and an upcoming week in June during which certain shows will emphasize healthy eating and exercise, the bigger question is not so much, "Is this good for advertisers?" but rather, "Will this actually do anything?"
"It's a totally lame approach in terms of a network or medium assuming that every viewer is a moron and that we're not going to get it," says Dr. Mary-Lou Galician, author of 'Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media' and head of Media Analysis & Criticism at Arizona State University. Galician points to a huge difference between a nerdy character like '30 Rock's' Liz Lemon or 'The Office's' Dwight Schrute recycling and the spike in library cards obtained after Henry Winkler's Fonz snagged one on 'Happy Days.'


"The placement has to be associated with a character or activity that is perceived by the viewer as positive," says Galician. "Fonzie was a hero to millions of young people. Liz Lemon is not somebody that we want to emulate. We laugh at her. The behaviors that these people do are hardly things that would incite viewers who don't already do those behaviors to do something. It's pandering and doesn't make much sense. It just rings so false."

NBC was unavailable for comment.