The corporate press/media is out to DISINFORM. Senate Dems play along....

As Stephen Crockett points out over at OpEdNews.com today, the corrupt "mainstream media" - the corporate press/media with their corporate tax breaks, consolidations, cheap labor, deregulation, and war-profiteering agenda - do NOT want to inform their readers or viewers of what is really happening in America and the world.

The penultimate example would be GE, General Electric corporation, one of the 10 largest corporations in the world. Besides selling industrial electrical equipment and household appliances, GE also sells jet engines for warship and planes, nuclear power plants.... and nuclear warheads, under contract to the Department of Energy. Since GE corporation owns the NBC TV network (and MSNBC and CNBC cable networks), there is not a chance in hell that GE's executives and CEOs will allow their NBC "news" subsidiary to inform viewers of ANY news that is negative to General Electric.

HOW has America come to the pass where a company that makes, literally, billions and billions of dollars selling nuclear power plants, war equipment, and nuclear warheads, owns one of the only 5 or 6 "news" organizations that inform millions of American citizens on how to vote and what to think?

Why, just a week or two, GE CEO Jeff Immelt, a major Bush administration contributor, sat down to a state dinner in India with President Bush and India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. As a result of the deal signed between Bush and India GE would resume its business in the India nuclear power market, suspended since India's 1974 nuclear test. GE stands to make $5 billion from the deal, but you have to search long and hard to find the real "news" about this deal: India gets to maintain its 'military' nuclear reactors, will probably add to its substantial nuclear arsenal, and still does not have to abide by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which it has never signed. And, oh, by the way... Bush has also "cleared the way" for Lockheed Martin corp. and Boeing corp. to compete for $9 billion selling combat planes - jet fighter aircraft - to India as well. As in "fighter-bomber" aircraft, or, potentially, nuclear-armed bombers.

That is, 3 major American corporations stand to make over $10 billion dollars selling nuclear technology and nuclear-weapons delivery systems to India, and at least one of America's "news" corporations will never say anything more revealing about his 'news' than: "Today, GE announced that its peaceful nuclear power deal with India could add $5 billion in new business." And the other American "news" networks are similarly reticent to delve deeply into the 'news,' or the consequences of President Bush all but encouraging a proliferating nuclear arsenal in a nuclear power.

The Senate Democrats are not unawares of this news- their House colleague, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, has called President Bush's deal with India the "administration's rogue, shoot-from-the-hip move" to put (corporate) profits ahead of national security.

But GE * owns * NBC 'news', the other 'news' networks are also owned by corporate interests, and with over $10 billion in sales and potential profits at stake, the corporate media will do everything in its powers to encourage and support India's NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.

- nuclear proliferation
- "privatized" voting, as with Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S Voting systems
- pollution and pollution controls
- slashings labor costs by underfunding pensions, health care, and pay

At every step of the way, the corporate media has an agenda, an agenda the senior Democratic "leadership" is willing to ignore, if not sign on to. In the case of potential VOTING FRAUD in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, and other states, the Democratic "leadership" even ignores stories that could measurably add to their own vote totals, PREFERRING SILENCE if not complicity, to INFORMING AMERICANS that all votes may not be counted accurately.


<< "This administration's rogue, shoot-from-the-hip move to launch nuclear cooperation with India puts the interests of industry ahead of our national security," said Democratic Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, an arms control advocate. >> [citation at bottom this post]

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A Few Political Tidbits Not Covered by Corporate Press

by Stephen Crockett
http://www.opednews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__060324_a_few_political_tidb.htm


Recently, there were many interesting stories that largely went uncovered by the mainstream Corporate Media. Here are a few examples that demonstrate the inadequate nature of relying on the Corporate Media as your main news source. We urge everyone to visit the many news sources on the Internet daily.

The Washington Post revealed a Right Wing bias much like their rival, The Washington Times. They did this by launching a blatantly Right Wing website called Red America while not balancing this Right Wing site with any “Blue” counterpart. Nothing could be more blatantly partisan. You can read the full story at Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/items/200603210017 .


Scoop News in New Zealand published a story from the Atlanta Progressive News organization that informed readers that 30 members of Congress now support impeachment hearing for Bush. You can read the full story at Scoop http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/hl0603/s00158.htm . The Corporate Media extensively covered the failure of Senate democrats to endorse the Feingold measure censoring Bush but completely ignored this equally big story. A truly balanced news coverage would have given each story equal time.


The growing scandal over electronic voting machine failures exploded in state after state. Voting machine failures created news from Texas to Maryland to Utah to Florida. The best place to start reading the many breaking stories is at Brad Blog. This column is simply not long enough to even begin to list the many daily breaking stories concerning the growing election voting scandal.

Maryland politicians from both major Parties are looking to scuttle the Diebold machines. A Texas primary recount was halted by court order when the voting machines were not counting properly for the recounts. Errors were reported up to 20 percent. Voting machine tests should serious errors and security weaknesses in tests in Utah and Florida. The Bush Administration and allies in Congress are pushing to make these failed voting machines the standard by the Fall elections. Growing numbers of voting rights activists are seeking emergency action to guarantee verified paper trails to prevent election fraud and other snafus this year. The Corporate Media has not given the issue significant coverage. Many citizens are unaware their votes may not get counted this election. Information on the subject is readily available on the Internet.


Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio http://www.democratictalkradio.com ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com . Phone: 443-907-2367.

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With Bush's help, GE courts Indian PM, nuke sector
Reuters July 23, 2005
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050723-ge-india-nuke.htm


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just over an hour after the White House's surprise pledge to help India develop its civilian nuclear power sector, the head of General Electric, the American company that could benefit most from the policy change, sat down for a celebratory dinner.

The host was President George W. Bush; a few feet away was India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his top aides. GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt, a contributor to Bush's presidential campaigns, had a coveted seat at the president's table.

Bush's announcement on nuclear trade with India -- followed by a formal dinner in the State dining room -- was not just a victory for Singh. For GE, the only U.S.-owned company still in the nuclear business, it marked a possible turning point in a years-long push to re-enter the Indian nuclear power market, which it was forced to leave in 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test.

"In the short term, it's really business as usual. ... But if things unfold the way it looks they may, then clearly it is a significant opportunity for us," said Peter Wells, general manager of marketing for GE Energy's nuclear business.

While the policy change may benefit GE and other companies in the long term, critics contend Bush's move closer to accepting the world's largest democracy as a nuclear weapons state could weaken decades-old prohibitions against atomic arms.

"This administration's rogue, shoot-from-the-hip move to launch nuclear cooperation with India puts the interests of industry ahead of our national security," said Democratic Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, an arms control advocate.
[cont'd at http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050723-ge-india-nuke.htm]