I Get So Pissed When They See Ads For Companies With Awful Environmental

[DistressedAmerican]

records acting like they are GREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!!!

There are tons of these out there.

The oil companies love to tell us all about how they are restoring wetland habitat
(they don't tell you that they were the ones that fucked it up in the first place and are only restoring it after a lengthy court battle against doing so).

Another favorite are the Nuclear power ads talking about clean air
(they fail to mention the toxic radioactive waste that will have to be contained so far into the future that it is impossible to predict who would have the ability or who might get future access).

The one that is currently pissing me off is an ad for GE touting their great environmental record
(what they do not tell you is what those of along the Hudson River know, which is that they dumped PCB's into our water for years, forced cancer rates WAY up, killed people, fought against cleaning it up and have now been forced into a costly dredging operation to scoop out the toxic sludge that they have been killing people with for decades).

These corporate liars and in some cases killers make me ill! Have you seen this GE ad? Is it national or does it just rub salt in the wounds of us in the northeast?

Anyone else annoyed by this crap? Vent with me people!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. The airways have been flooded by GE and their "caring" about

the environment. I live 10 minutes from the Hudson, and yes for years they polluted the heck out of it.

From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901169.html
GE Determined to Show More 'Ecomagination'
Program Sets Pollution Reduction Targets

By Greg Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 10, 2005; Page E02

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GE has clashed with the Sierra Club over cleanup of the Hudson River in upstate New York, which was polluted with PCBs from two GE factories for decades until the late 1970s. The company has resisted a dredging cleanup project, arguing that it would disturb sediments and make the problem worse. But Ballantyn said the company has a pattern of resisting cleanup efforts.

"We'll feel a lot differently about this company and where they're going once they commit to cleaning up the Hudson here," Ballantyn said.

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Thanks A Lot For The Link! If You Live In The Valley You WELL KNOW

how hard they fought against this. Now they seem to be dragging along at a snail's pace. Of course nobody wanted the processing facility (dewatering I believe they call it) in their backyard. Who can blame them!

Maybe there is a GE exec that has a large enough lawn to hold such a facility!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. "Maybe there is a GE exec that has a large enough lawn to hold such

a facility!"

hehehehehehehehe

That would be the action that speaks louder than words (commercials with adorable animated wild animals).

[annabanana]

5. this IS the "dancing elephant" ad, isn't it

dancing elephants indeed..

(small animals, HEADS UP!)

[DistressedAmerican]

8. UUUUURRRRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!!

Suck up some PCB's Little Guy and see how they treat ya!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. Yes, "Singing In The Rain". There is also one with all of these

animals standing on each other, reaching up into the clouds looking at an airplane. On the very top is the cutest little creature..prairie dog, maybe?

[ken-in-seattle]

3. Could be worse...

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PAW406A.html




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IN THE UNITED STATES, World War II is generally known as "the good war." In contrast to some of America's admittedly bad wars, such as the near-genocidal Indian Wars and the vicious conflict in Vietnam, World War II is widely celebrated as a "crusade" in which the US fought unreservedly on the side of democracy, freedom, and justice against dictatorship. No wonder President George W. Bush likes to compare his ongoing "war against terrorism" with World War II, suggesting that America is once again involved on the right side in an apocalyptic conflict between good and evil. Wars, however, are never quite as black-and-white as Mr. Bush would have us believe, and this also applies to World War II. America certainly deserves credit for its important contribution to the hard-fought victory that was ultimately achieved by the Allies. But the role of corporate America in the war is hardly synthesized by President Roosevelt's claim that the US was the "arsenal of democracy." When Americans landed in Normandy in June 1944 and captured their first German trucks, they discovered that these vehicles were powered by engines produced by American firms such as Ford and General Motors. 1 Corporate America, it turned out, had also been serving as the arsenal of Nazism.

[spanone]

6. I see that every Sunday morning on the 'news' shows.

How these companies portray themselves as 'lovers' of the environment as they RAPE our lands and sell them back to us. It is a sham and shameful that the networks allow this, but hey, it's only business as usual in the good ole USA. Profits ARE everything.

[Lannes]

7. Like ExxonMobil

They are funding all these thinktanks that say that global warming isnt a problem but they advertise their corporate responsibility to the environment


http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html

[DistressedAmerican]

10. Kick!

[DistressedAmerican]

11. ...

[Selatius]

12. But, but, but! They have freedom of speech!

Surely, you're not in favor of curtailing the freedom of speech of...corporations? Are you!? You anti-American terrorist! What's good for corporate America is good for us all!

(/End sarcasm)

[annabanana]

13. General Bullmoose?. . . . . .eom

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Yeah Screw It. You Should Lose The Legal Right To Advertise Once Found

guilty of killing folks. They are not people and they have no rights in my book!

Screw them!!!

I know you were being funny but, it made me think.

Make it part of their punishment.

No more ads until you clean up your messes, pay off the victims of neglegance and pay your fines.

That would motivate them!

[DistressedAmerican]

15. Kick!