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Koch brothers consider purchasing several major newspapers
Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch — famous for bankrolling small-government causes — are weighing a bid to buy several top US newspapers, the New York Times reported Sunday. Koch Industries, a company owned by the brothers, is mulling the purchase of several regional newspapers owned by the struggling Tribune…
Koch Industries tells employees to vote Republican to avoid higher gas prices
A Koch Industries voter guide sent encourages the company’s 50,000 employees to vote for Republican candidates, according to MSNBC. The guide was first obtained by In These Times. “If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored…
MSNBC host Martin Bashir debates Koch Industries general counsel
MSNBC host Martin Bashir grilled Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden on Thursday over the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Bashir noted that Koch Industries was a member of ALEC, a controversial organization that drafts model legislation for state lawmakers. The organization has supported so-called…
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 responds to criticism from Koch Industries
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night responded to Koch Industries after the energy giant criticized her blog on its public relations website KochFacts.com. Last week, writer Laura Conaway mocked Koch Industries for its job posting. The posting said: “For those concerned about jobs, Koch has some good news: it’s…
Film exposes cancer epidemic downstream from Koch Industries plant
Residents of a small Arkansas community say that the toxic pollutants being dumped for years by a Koch Industries plant is killing them. Only 15 families reside around Penn Road and already 11 people have died of cancer. Even more are sick. In a new documentary by Brave New Foundation,…
GOP mega-donor Koch brothers’ company tied to global criminal misdeeds
By Zeke Miller A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades. According the report, company officials have been caught paying bribes to win contracts, trading with Iran…
Flash game lets players gun down Palin, Bachmann, Fox News hosts
In a new free-to-play online game that’s sure to worry as many on the left as on the right, players are sent on a mission to kill “tea party zombies,” Fox News anchors, Republican politicians, lobbyists and even activists, using weapons like machine guns, shotguns, crowbars and machetes. Though entirely…
FBI targets 12 ‘Anonymous’ hacktivists over Koch Industries cyber attack
As part of an ongoing investigation into “coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations” by members of the hacktivist collective “Anonymous,” the FBI is investigating 12 individuals suspected of participating in cyber attacks against business websites operated by Koch Industries. Koch Industries owners Charles and David Koch were being…
Bill Maher lashes out at ‘Teabaggers’ identification with ‘Founding Fathers’
‘They were not the common man of their day’ Comedian Bill Maher took issue with the Tea party’s identification with America’s “Founding Fathers’ at the end of the season premiere of his cable show Friday night. “I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts,…
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