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they were going to fire us

for no cause.

Well this was

a little much.

And Steve wrote a letter

to the lawyer in Atlanta

whose name is Caroline Forest

the Fox corporate lawyer.

And I said you know this isn't

about being fired for no cause.

You're firing us because we

refused to put on the air

something that we knew and

demonstrated to be false

and misleading.

That's what

this is about.

And because we

put up a fight

because we stood up

to this big corporation

and we stood up

to your editors

and we stood up

to your lawyers.

And we said to you

look there ought

to be a principle higher

than just making money.

And she wrote a

letter back and said

you are right that's

exactly what it was.

You stood up

to us on this story

and that's why

we're letting you go.

Big mistake

That says retaliation.

You cant retaliate

against employees

if they're standing

up for something

that they believe is illegal

that they don't want

to participate in.

So that gave us

the whistleblower

stats that wanted

in the state of Florida to

file a whistleblower claim

against our employer.

Two or three years

later we got the trial.

Five weeks of testimony led

to a jury verdict of $425000

in which the jury determined

that the story they

pressured us to broadcast

the story we resisted

telling was in fact false

distorted or slanted.

Fox News

appealed the verdict.

Five major news media

corporations filed briefs

with the court in support

of Fox appeal.

You may recall that Jane Akre

a former reporter here

sued Fox 13 in

a whistleblower lawsuit

claiming that

she was fired

for refusing

to distort her report;

the Appeals Court today

threw that case out

saying Ms. Akre had

no whistleblower claim

against the station

based on news distortion.

Fox 13 vice president and

general manager Bob Linger

says the station

has been completely

vindicated by the ruling...

What Fox neglected

to report is this

Jane sued Fox under Florida's

whistleblower statute

which protects those who try

to prevent others

from breaking the law.

Buther Appeal Court judges

found that falsifying news

isn't actually

against the law.

So they denied Jane her

whistleblower stats

overturned the case and

withdrew her $425000 award.

Canada and Europe have

upheld the ban on RBGH.

But it remains hidden

in the milk supply

of the United States

The prospect that two thirds

of the worlds population

will have no access to fresh

drinking water by 2025

has provoked

the initial confrontations

in a world wide battle

for control over the planets

most basic resource.

When Bolivia sought

to refinance

the public water services

of its third largest city

the World Bank

required privatization

which is how the Bechtel

Corporation of San Francisco

gained control over all

of Cochabamba's water

even that which

fell from the sky.

The price this

beleaguered country paid

for World Bank loans

was the privatization

of the state oil industry

and its airline railroad

electric and phone companies.

But the government failed

to convince Bolivians

that water is

a commodity like any other.

Bolivia was determined

to defend

the corporations right

to charge families

living on $2 a day

as much as one quarter

of their income for water.

The greater the popular

resistance

to the water

privatization scheme

the more violent

became the standoff.

Translational corporations

have a long and dark history

of condoning tyrannical

governments.

I s it narcissism that compels

them to seek their reflection

in the regimented structures

of fascist regimes?

There was

an interesting connection

between the rise

of fascism in Europe

and the consciousness

of politically radical people

about corporate power.

Because there was are cognition

that fascism rose

in Europe

with the help of

enormous corporations.

Mussolini was greatly admired

all across the spectrum

business loved him

investment shot up.

Incidentally when

Hitler came in

in Germany the same

thing happened there

investment shot

up in Germany.

He had the work

force under control.

He was getting rid of dangerous

left wing elements.

Investment opportunities

were improving.

There was no problems.

These are

wonderful countries.

I think one of the greatest

untold stories

of the twentieth century

is the collusion

between corporations

especially in America

and Nazi Germany.

First in terms of how the

corporations from America

helped to essentially

rebuild Germany

and support the early

Nazi regime.

And then when

the war broke out

figured out a way to

keep everything going.

So General Motors was

able to keep Opal going

Ford was able to keep

their thing going

and companies like Coca Cola

they couldn't keep

the Coca Cola going

so what they did was

they invented Fanta Orange

for the Germans

and that show Coke was

able to keep

their profits coming in

to Coca Cola.

So when you drink

Fanta Orange

that's the Nazi drink

that was created so that Coke

could continue making money

while millions of people died.

When Hitler came

to power in 1933

his goal was to dismantle

and destroy the

Jewish community.

This was an enterprise

so vast

that it required the resources

of a computer.

But in 1933 there

was no computer

What there was

was the IBM

punch card system

which controlled

and stored information

based upon the holes

that were punched

in various rows

and columns.

Naturally there was

no off the shelf software

as there is today.

Each applicant was custom

designed and an engineer

had to personally

configure it.

Millions of people of

all religions nationalities

and characteristics

went through

the concentration

camp system.

That's an extraordinary

traffic management program

that required

an IBM system

in every railroad

direction

and an IBM system in every

concentration camp.

Now this is a typical

prisoner card.

There are little boxes

where all the information

is to be punched in.

We compare this information

to the code sheet

for concentration camps.

And here you see

Auschwitz is one

Buchenwald is two

and Dachau is three.

Now what kinds of

prisoners were they?

They could be a Jehovah's

witness for two

a homosexual for three

a communist for six

or a Jew for eight.

Now what was their stats?

One was released

two was transferred

four was executed

five was suicide

and six.

Code six

Sonderbahandlung

special treatment

meant the gas chamber

or sometimes a bullet.

They would punch

that number in

the material was tabulated

and the machines were set.

And of course the

punch cards by the millions

had to be printed.

And they were printed

exclusively by IBM

and the profits were

recovered just after the war

I really do believe that

particular accusation

has been fairly discredited

as a serious accusation.

They used equipment

that is a fact

but how they got it

how much co operation

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