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September 08, 2010

Koch Brothers Trying to Buy America

Posted on September 08, 2010 at 08:05 PM in NEWS | Permalink

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Koch Brothers aggressively try to stop wind power.

Not content to just compete in their own arena, the Koch Brothers are trying to stop wind power systems on the East Coast through their front group, Americans for Prosperity. We all have to think, whose prosperity? Just the Koch family, it seems.
http://www.grist.org/wind-power/2011-07-14-koch-brothers-declare-war-on-offshore-wind

Posted by: Kathy Jana | July 20, 2011 at 08:38 PM

Koch brothers, along with The Family as it's called, have far more influence than Mr Soros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family:_The_Secret_Fundamentalism_at_the_Heart_of_American_Power

Posted by: Kathy Jana | February 16, 2011 at 12:22 AM

Koch Brothers are the Bizarro George Soros; they even each other out.

Posted by: Harry The Scam | February 15, 2011 at 10:32 AM

"Koch Brothers Trying to Buy America"

And doing a darn good job of it too!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/us/politics/15thomas.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

Posted by: Kathy Jana | February 14, 2011 at 07:24 PM

Surprisingly, lots of people do know who they are. But for most of us, it's just putting a name to what we already knew was there.

Link to the New Yorker article
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

Posted by: Kathy Jana | September 09, 2010 at 08:17 PM

The current interest in the Koch brothers was instigated by an article in the August 30, 2010 issue of the New Yorker magazine, "Covert Operations," by Jane Mayer. You can probably find it online.

Posted by: Paul Slavin | September 09, 2010 at 12:18 PM

It wouldn't be the first time that a truly evil individual made a charitable donation to a good cause. One needs to look at the aggregate effect one has on the world. I am sure every criminal and despot has engaged in positive behaviors at some time or other, possibly even concurrent with their atrocities.

Posted by: Dan B. Underhill | September 08, 2010 at 10:31 PM

I had no idea who the Koch brothers were, but when I was watching NOVA yesterday, David Koch was listed as one of the primary supporters of the program.

Posted by: Steve Sinai | September 08, 2010 at 09:51 PM

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