The epitaph for humanity will be "greed killed the human race." Having grown up around Walla Walla, Washington I knew the brother of Ralph Cordiner who was a one time President or CEO (if they called them that then) of GE. After he retired in the 1950s he was brought back in to run the company after the senior management was indicted on criminal charges (something we need to be doing more of today). Cordiner was also a relative of sorts because my great aunt's sister was married to him. I recall hearing a little inside scoop on that story.
Also I've heard the principal stockholder of GE is the Queen of England. On 03/17/2011 05:53 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > With regard to the Subject line, and to General > Electric's part in this tragedy, two references: > > 35 years ago, General Electric scientist Dale G. > Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues resigned > from their jobs in protest over what they considered > the fatally flawed design of the Mark 1 reactors and > their cooling systems. This attempt at whistleblowing > made no impression either on General Electric (manu- > facturer of the highly-profitable plants) or the > Japanese government: > http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-caused-ge-scientist/story?id=13141287 > > Also, just FYI as "back story" on General Electric, > they were for decades the largest manufacturers of > nuclear weapons on the planet. This is documented > in a little-known film called "In The King Of Prussia," > from 1983. It is about the trial of a number of peace > activists who walked into a GE plant in King of Prussia, > Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest poured vials of > their own blood onto secret missle plans, burned other > files, and whacked at nosecones of missiles in the lobby > with hammers. They were placed on trial for this, and > the film uses the *actual trial transcripts* to show > that it was one of the most disturbing travesties of > justice in US history. Martin Sheen plays the hideously > and criminally biased judge; Daniel and Philip Berrigan > and the other members of the "Plowshares Eight" play > themselves. It's worth a look if you can find it: > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084130/ > > The scariest thing in the film is dialog taken from > actual trial transcripts in which employees at the plant > claim to *not know* what it was that they were building. > They had so completely blotted out of their minds that > the things that they were working on were nuclear > weapons that they swore -- under oath -- that they > didn't know. They "didn't know" even though the lobby > they walked through every morning had missile nosecones > in it, and they were the ones who fitted the nukes > into those nosecones. Now *that* is denial. Is it > any surprise that such people, given a choice between > selling a nuclear reactor cooling system that is so > fatally flawed that some of its own scientists resign in > protest rather than continue to work on it and...uh... > continuing to make big bucks by selling it, showed > similar levels of denial? > > It's a DOS planet. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj<vajradhatu@...> wrote: >> On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Bhairitu wrote: >>> Radioactive apparently. >>> >>> Got potassium iodine? >> I keep a bottle of Lugol's solution around, really the standard >> pharmaceutical, as it's readily absorbed. But that only will >> help you for radioiodine. For the longer living isotopes, you'll >> need a chelating agent. >> > >
