thanks don for providing the actual facts on that - i was about to start searching cause all i could remember on my own was the plot to who framed roger rabbit to think that one of their corporate slogans was "what is good for gm is good for america" it should have been more in the words of ac/dc "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" monte
On Apr 24, 2006, at 9:26 AM, don spence wrote: "Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines, a holding company sponsored and funded by GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California, bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities (including New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, and Los Angeles) to be dismantled and replaced with GM buses... In 1949 GM and its partners were convicted in U.S.district court in Chicago of criminal conspiracy in this matter and fined $5,000." http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/19/generalmotors.html
see also http://www.bilderberg.org/ncl.htm Ironically, GM no longer makes buses. Or good cars for that matter. On 23-Apr-06, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > 6. In the 1950s (I think) the oil industry in this country took an > active > role in wiping out public transit to force people into cars. (I'm not > making that up - it's not just anti-car scuttlebutt!) This took > the form of > buying municipal bus companies and then shutting them down. This > helped get > Americans dependent on doing everything in cars, with the housing > patterns > that followed. >
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