MORE SIGNS OF IMMINENT ATTACK? GENERAL ELECTRIC LEAVING IRAN

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First it was Halliburton, now General Electric. Companies are closing down business operations in Iran. “We’re seeing a turnaround by a number of U.S. companies operating in Iran,” Dan Katz, chief counsel to U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., told the Associated Press. Last year Lautenberg accused U.S. corporations of collecting “blood money” by doing business with “countries the United States says sponsors terrorism and said he would push for legislation to stop it.” Lautenberg said, “When American companies do business with Iran they are helping the Iranians create revenue that is funneled to terrorists.”

Suddenly, and remarkably, GE has grown a conscience.
General Electric is responsible for the murder of thousands, possibly millions of people, since it is “one of the world’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters,” explains CorpWatch. In fact, GE is one of the worst corporations in the world, guilty of various crimes, including: designing faulty nuclear power plants; conducting radiation experiments on humans; intentionally releasing large amounts of radiation into the air from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in order to see the distance it would travel; poisoning its workers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, New York with radiation and asbestos; attempting to overturn the US Superfund Law of 1980.
Not surprisingly, GE has paid big bucks to pocket Congress critters on both sides of the aisle. “GE spent more than $31 million in 2001 and 2002 lobbying lawmakers; in 2000 it spent $16 million. Reigning CEO Jack Welch had enormous influence and was consistently ranked CEO of the Year by the slavish business press; he was major Republican donor as well. GE director Sam Nunn was senator for Georgia for 27 years, and also sits on the boards of ChevronTexaco. GE’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary, Benjamin W. Heineman, used to work for the US government’s Department of Health, Education and Welfare. General Electric gave $221,350 to political campaigns in the 2002 election cycle, with 40 percent going to Democrats and 60 percent to Republicans.”

“Because of uncertain conditions related to Iran, including concerns about meeting future customer commitments, we will not accept any new orders for business in Iran effective Feb. 1,” said Gary Sheffer, a GE spokesman.
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