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Government Agency Hides Corporate Crimes By Hiring PR Firm

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Posted by PunkJohnnyCash on Mar 24, 2011 in Corporatism, Featured, Libertarianism | 0 comments

KANSAS CITY, MO – The General Service Administration (GSA) has been closely related to the Honeywell facility in Kansas City. As stated in previous articles this is a corporation funded by tax payer dollars. Even the land is provided by the (GSA). When allegations of health risks and toxic pollution rose the (GSA) a government agency decided that instead of cleaning up their act they would spend more tax payer money to continue along business as usual.

How did they deal with the issue? They spent almost a quarter million dollars hiring a local Kansas City PR firm, Jane Mobley Associates. So when your government agency is acting irresponsible and wasting your money while putting human lives at risk the answer is to call Jane Mobley. Apparently instead of addressing the concerns you just need to convince the public that you are the good guy you want them to believe you are.

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) took a stand against the actions of the GSA. The irony of this is that Cleaver’s office seems to be looking the other way when it comes to the polluted area because of the profit.

Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo,) Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) singed a letter which:

“revealed a culture of lax oversight and inadequate environmental management on the part of the GSA and Public Building Service employees.

The congressional letter tells GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, “the report makes clear that GSA employees failed to ensure and maintain a safe working environment for employees and tenants.”

The letter demands action and calls on Administrator Johnson to “identify those responsible” and “take the appropriate steps to to hold those accountable.

Part of holding them accountable would be to stop supporting the shady practice of hiding the pollution, which Cleaver seems to have no issue with when it comes to the EPA’s Superfund.

Hearing in washington DC 2.5 hrs McCaskill grilled them. last tuesday. channel 41 did a report NBC action news.

The GSA knew about the pollutants yet did nothing. On Mobley’s website they claim “We actively seek projects that can improve the ways people work and live together.” Apparently improving the ways people work and live together is to help the corporate and state exploiters hide their actions, or at least make them look like the good guy in the face of 400 sick and dead workers. But then again you hire a Public Relations firm so you don’t have to address the issue of your 400 victims, you can just put a smiling face on the problem. There’s nothing to see here folks…

At least McCaskill has begun to ask questions about what is going on and has claimed they must be held accountable for the PR contract. My hunch is that this will amount to little change of the overall problems, but will be just a way for the ruling class to claim they opposed the corruption here as the GSA and Honeywell march along business as usual.

 

Best of contemporary Indian movies

New Straits Times August 16, 2004

New Straits Times 08-16-2004 Best of contemporary Indian movies Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Section: Entertainment

CATCH eight contemporary films from India and about India from Wednesday to Aug 25 in Singapore.

AFTER its successful debut last year, Indigo – India Film Week is back with the best of contemporary films from India and about India at Golden Village Plaza Singapura cinemas in Singapore. indianmoviesonlinenow.net indian movies online

The festival, which runs from Wednesday to Aug 25, is co- organised by Sangeetha Madhavan, Anand Rego and the Singapore Film Society.

Last year, Indigo debuted to good reviews and audience attendance figures. Many screenings were sold out and additional screenings were added.

The eight films showcased this year will span art-house and popular independent film genres and will tackle a gamut of themes, from the sociopolitical to the satirical and surreal.

The films are helmed not only by upcoming Indian directors such as Santosh Sivan and Vishal Bhardwaj, but also burgeoning talent from the Indian diaspora worldwide such as British-Asian director Asif Kapadia, whose debut feature film The Warrior, a Japanese folk tale set in Rajasthan, won raves from many quarters.

The festival opens with Bhardwaj’s Maqbool. With just one film to his credit and a superb ensemble of India’s finest actors, Bhardwaj transports Macbeth to a Muslim milieu in Mumbai, “jettisoning Bollywood conventions to make a film that has claustrophobia, menace, drama, a fresh romantic twist and that rarest of Bollywood accomplishments, genuine tragedy.”

Apart from Hindi and English movies, award-winning Tamil and Kannada movies will also be part of the line-up.

Sivan has won over critics and fans not only with his lush cinematography in other directors’ films (Mani Ratnam’s films, Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice) but also his own features (The Terrorist, Asoka). website indian movies online

His feature about a child’s awareness and connectedness to the forest is sensitively captured in the Tamil film Malli.

Kannada is the language of Bangalore and the city is shown, warts and all, through the bright-eyed Kyatha in Kavitha Lankesh’s debut feature Deveeri, which has travelled to 18 festivals worldwide.

Then of course, there’s Who Pays the Piper (Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron) which tackles a lot of issues with a barrel of laughs. Considered one of the funniest Indian films ever,the film follows the antics of two bumbling Mumbai tabloid photographers who are trying to solve a murder and uncover nepotism.

This parody of Indian film and folk traditions was made by a young bunch of film enthusiasts, several of whom like Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapoor, Satish Shah and director Kundan Shah are now established names in the Mumbai film industry.

Updated programme information will be available at www.sfs.org.sg.

Tickets are on sale and can be purchased through the GV Plaza Singapura box office, AXS stations island-wide and at the GV website at www.gv.com.sg

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