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Activists protest possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to the Koch brothers
Unions, activists and artists held a rally on Tuesday, to protest the possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to the Koch brothers, warning that such a sale would turn one of the US’s great newspapers into a right-wing mouthpiece. Hundreds gathered outside the downtown Los Angeles office of Oaktree…
Tea party financier David Koch: ‘I believe in gay marriage’
In a surprise revelation, billionaire industrialist and tea party financier David Koch, one half of the sometimes infamous Koch brothers, said Thursday night that he’s in favor of same sex marriage. “I believe in gay marriage,” he told Politico reporter Kenneth Vogel. And it’s not just that. The one-time Libertarian…
Live by the sword, die by the sword
I’ve been watching the blow-up over the Koch Brothers trying to buy up the Cato Institute, a libertarian institute that really falls on the intellect scale below the term “think tank”, with interest. Alex Pareene describes the battle at Salon: The Kochs have sued for the right to buy the…
Ex-skeptic tells U.S. Congress climate change is real
WASHINGTON — A prominent climate change skeptic told Congress on Monday he no longer doubts that global warming is real and caused by humans, and joined other scientists in urging action to stop it. Physicist Richard Muller, director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, whose two-year research was funded…
Bernie Sanders: GOP only represents ‘hardcore right-wing extremists’
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday said that the Republican Party did not represent the vast majority of Americans. “On issue after issue, the Republican ideology represents only a tiny faction of what the American people want,” he said during an appearance on MSNBC. “You go out on Main Street,…
Occupy The Kochs throws down the class warfare gauntlet in D.C.
WASHINGTON – Friday night, armed with popcorn, lemonade and serious signage, a few hundred activists gathered at 1075 7th Street NW to protest billionaire GOP backers the Koch Brothers as they graced the Americans for Prosperity-sponsored Defending the American Dream Conference. But this time, they were determined to do it…
Cain: ‘I’m the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother’
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain expressed his fondness for Charles and David Koch on Friday while appearing at an event partially funded by the billionaires. “There was an article in The New York Times today that has attempt to attract some more attention [to me],” Cain told a crowd at…
Romney campaign: Tea party movement fueled by Koch brothers
The Koch brothers are the “financial engine of the Tea Party” despite denying they are “directly involved” in the movement, according to a Mitt Romney campaign memo. Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who own Koch Industries, have long championed libertarian and free-market policies. They have been heavily involved…
Maddow: Herman Cain’s campaign basically is the Koch brothers
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is an avid numerologist who is obsessed with the number 45. She also pointed out numerous links between Cain and the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. For instance, before running for president, he worked for…
Immortal Technique: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ does not support Obama
Speaking to a “We Are Change” activist at “Occupy Wall Street” this week, political hip-hop artist Immortal Technique threw down the gauntlet to those in the media who characterize the anti-corruption movement as a partisan affair, suggesting that the 99 Percent are willing to “sacrifice” President Barack Obama’s second term…
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