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This bold, guerrilla-style video documentary attacks the hypocrisy of General Electric by using the Corporation's own rosy TV commercials ("…we bring good things to light") in ironic juxtaposition with images of GE's nuclear weapons work and some of its consequences. Unknown to many people the monolithic corporation (owner of NBC and RCA, among other subsidiary companies) hides a few skeletons in its public relations closet, including the deliberate release in 1949 of lethal radiation from its Hartford, Washington nuclear plant, measuring 300 times more deadly than the later accident at Three Mile Island, and turning the pristine Columbia River into the most radioactive waterway in the world. It might be only left wing propaganda but, compared to the disinformation supplied by GE, the video is more accurately anti-propaganda. Seen with 'Nukie Takes a Valium', an animated short in which the technique is more successful than the message, and 'Manic Denial', a strident, self-congratulatory anti-nuke lecture in the form of a cartoon.

Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I would often hear about the Hanford Nuclear Plant contaminating the Columbia River. But I had no idea of the scope of it until I watched Debra Chasnoff's Academy Award-winning "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment". The documentary goes behind GE's happy commercials and exposes its role not only in building some of the most destructive weapons of all, but in contaminating a large portion of Washington state.

The point is, if you care about our planet, you owe it to yourself to watch this documentary (I saw it on YouTube). There's nothing innocent about what GE did. The damage that they've done to the area around Hanford will probably take decades if not centuries to clean up. As for GE's then-CEO Jack Welch - shown in a clip - he's now best known as a global warming denier (no surprise there).

Definitely see it.